Celebrate Life and Support Mothers

The day before Mother's Day, abortion clinics are still open and thousands of women across the country will enter an abortion clinic a mother and then walk away as the mother of a child who will never live to talk, sing, dance, play sports or enjoy life. As Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust we know that these innocent children deserve life and that mothers deserve better than abortion! Mother's Day is a beautiful holiday, celebrating the blessing of motherhood and honoring all mothers. This Mother's Day join Survivors in our annual Mother's Day Outreach to celebrate and encourage life and motherhood!

Unplanned Chapter 10, 'The Hurricane'

This chapter was pretty short, but the two points that stand are:

1. Abortions are extremely profitable, especially later in the pregnancy.


2. Abby is horrified by late term abortions after the point of viability, around 21 weeks.


As I read further into this chapter, Planned Parenthood affiliate of Louisiana and Texas (totalling 12 clinics) were facing serious financial hardships in 2008 and they did all they could to cut costs.  Abby’s Planned Parenthood clinic ended up being the only profitable clinic in the affiliate due to the fact they were the only clinic that performed abortions.  An abortion procedure is extremely profitable and most abortions, earlier in the pregnancy, cost around $300-500. 

Site of Planned Parenthood Super Clinic

As the financial difficulties continued in 2008 leading into 2009, plans for the largest abortion clinic in the nation began (read more about this clinic).  This Houston abortion clinic would be seven stories tall and 78,000 square-feet.  An entire floor would be dedicated to abortion!  Plans to obtain a late term abortion license were put into place so that babies as late as 24 weeks in the womb could be aborted at this super clinic . . .  Abby explains her shock and uneasiness at the idea of late term abortions within her Planned Parenthood affiliate, especially knowing the beneficial income of each later term abortion, which range between $3,000 and $4,000 dollars.  Abby questioned if the new idea of performing late term abortions was to help make up for their financial loss.  


At this point, Abby’s pro-life view after age of viability and her desire to reduce the numbers of abortions was considerably shaken, and I think this was only the beginning of an even more serious struggle within Abby...

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If you’re reading Unplanned, and following along in  my blog, I encourage you to leave a comment sharing your thoughts or lessons learned thus far into the book.  What has stood out to you?

Order Abby’s book and join this discussion: http://www.unplannedthebook.com/

Checkout my reflectione from:

Chapter 1, ‘The Ultrasound’

Chapter 2, 'The Volunteer Fair'

Chapter 3, 'The Power of a Secret'

Chapter 4, 'The Cause'
Chapter 5, 'The Bond of Compassion'
Chapter 6, '40 Days and 40 Nights' 
Chapter 7, 'The Code of Conduct'
Chapter 8, 'My Enemy, My Friend'

Chapter 9, 'Irreconcilable Difference'

Standing In Defence of the Voiceless,

Timmerie Millington

TAKE ACTION: Call to De-Fund Planned Parenthood

Pro-life organizations across the country, are pushing a grassroots effort to de-fund Planned Parenthood of their more than $363 million in annual funding with our tax dollars!

Beginning today until March 25, 2011 we are flooding congressional members with phone calls at their district offices.  All it takes is one voice of concern to change a mind, but we can reach our Unites States leaders with far more phone calls than that and ultimately de-fund Planned Parenthood!

See below for an update of what has happened thus far in the fight to de-fund Planned Parenthood.

We can make a difference!  

Here is what YOU need to do:

1.  Call your House and Senate officials at their district office and tell them you stand with millions of Americans across the country in asking them to de-fund Planned Parenthood in the continuing resolution budget.  Find your representative here.

2.  Forward this email and post on social networking sites multiple times throughout the week.

3.  Don’t stop after one call.  Continue calling and spreading the word!

Update:

A temporary budget was passed to give our Unites States leaders more time to settle on a new budget that will consist of serious budget cuts.  This temporary, three-week budget did not de-fund Planned Parenthood, but this isn’t the end.  When our officials come back together in the coming weeks they will pass a new budget.  We MUST tell our elected officials to cut all federal funding of Planned Parenthood through Title X because Planned Parenthood has illegally aided the sex-trafficking of girls as young as 14, covered up rape and statutory rape of young girls, and much more which you can learn about from these links:



Illegal late term abortions
Donations Accepted to Perform Abortions on Black Babies
Gives False Medical Information--Rosa Acuna Project
Mona Lisa Project
Sex Trafficking
Protecting Pedophiles
Racist Agenda
Infanticide

Standing In Defence of the Voiceless,

Timmerie Millington

Surrounded By Abortion Day to Day

Abortion is hardly a speck on most people’s radar. It’s no big deal and not my business, right?   But abortion is constantly surrounding us in our every day life: through our conversations, where we are at a given moment, and who we are with.  So here is an example of two consecutive days where my life was surrounded by abortion that was outside of my work and blog.

Sunday night I sat in the car with my mom on our way to El Torito for dinner when I looked to my right and saw Family Planning Associates (FPA) abortion clinic. As we drove by I thought about times when I’ve sidewalk counseled there and once saw a police officer bring an inmate from the local jail to the clinic for an abortion.

As we continued down this beautiful street with pretty green trees covered in lights, I commented to my mom about how sad it is to be so close in proximity to where we live our daily lives and there’s an abortion clinic right next to us. Just a block down the way from FPA my mom mentioned that there’s a Planned Parenthood on the corner next door to a strip club, and she recalled a time when she prayed outside of that Planned Parenthood with Father Pavone when one of my siblings was just a baby in a pack on her back...  Moments later we pulled up to El Torito and walked in to have dinner.

As I looked at this beautiful little area that was masked by pretty trees, clean cut buildings, and bright lights I felt uncomfortable knowing what takes place in those buildings within eye site. I could have sat there during my entire dinner heartbroken just thinking about it all, but if I did what good would that have done?

Southern California Surrounded by abortion clinics.

The next morning I was hurrying to finish some work before going to Disneyland with my family when it was brought to my attention that a friend on Facebook had checked in at Planned Parenthood and said “accidents happen”.   I was so angry but continued to read the comment where people said things like “You’re not keeping it!” or called the baby “cheese”.   Oh, I was so upset I didn’t know if I should scream or cry.   After a moment I understood it was a joke.   For the next couple hours I was highly disturbed by the “joke” and recalled all those times over the years when I would walk up on a group of friends who quickly quieted when spotting me.   Later when I inquired I’m told someone made an abortion joke and didn't want to offend me ‘cause I’m pro-life'.

Hours later I was in the car on my way to Disneyland and heard a song called Lucy by SKILLET and some of the main words of the song were "hey Lucy I remember your name".  When the song ended the radio host said the song was about a young man and his girlfriend in high school who got pregnant and made a choice to abort.  In the song the vocalist sings about how he would do things differently if he had the chance.   My heart ached for this couple and their regret in the name of ‘choice’.   Moments later I looked to my left and there was a Planned Parenthood clinic off the freeway where in 2009, within ten days of each other, two women were taken from the clinic by ambulance after an abortion.

Abortion surrounds our every day life whether we know it or not. There are abortions within our own families that we are surprised to find out about or will never know of, friends you never thought would have abortions. All of us are missing people from our lives in the name of ‘choice’.

Now I ask you, what kind of impact does abortion have on you and your every day life?

Standing In Defence of the Voiceless,

Timmerie Millington