Thank you for your prayers for Marriage in Australia. I sent a prayer request for your prayer for marriage in Australia almost one month ago. At the time Katy Faust, from the USA, was visiting Australia to help us defend Marriage between a man and a woman.
Katy filed an Amicus brief in the battle for marriage in the USA and has an amazing story to tell. She was a child of divorce and her mother subsequently re-partnered with a another Lesbian. Katy was brought up by her biological mother and her mother’s lesbian partner. She is strongly against homosexual marriage because of her experiences.
WE ASKED YOU FOR PRAYERS FOR KATY FAUST AS SHE APPEARED ON Q&A AN AUSTRALIAN TV PROGRAM. – PRAISE THE LORD GOD ANSWERED YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Traditionally the Q & A TV show has been in the past heavily biased against anyone who believes in life, love, marriage and religious freedom. I asked that you pray that God will give Katy the words to say, supernatural insight and wisdom to speak up for the rights of children to a mother and a father. God did a miracle in that Katy Faust probably gave the best defense for marriage and the rights of children yet heard on Australian TV. Secondly God raised up an atheist to defend her on Australian TV. Together Brendan and Katy hit the ball out of the Ball Park. Thank you for your prayers.
1. Katy Faust articulates a strong case for the rights of Children on Q&A and then gets attacked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mBl94HwCI&safe=active
2. God raises up an atheist Brendan O’Neil to speak up for her and defend her on Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzpMKb-Wk4
Since this time we have seen a significant shift in a positive sense in the homosexual marriage debate in Australia. Yours prayers have made a difference. It would be amiss of me not to thank you for your prayers. We as a nation have prayed for America over the last few years. Most recently the seven days of prayer and fasting for the USA in early May 2015 centered around the USA National Day of Prayer. We will continue to do so. Thank you for your prayers for Australia. See full prayer report below detailing 9 Miracles. The last two were directly related to your response to our prayer request. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!! As Alfred Lord Tennyson said, “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”
Yours for the USA and Australia
Warwick Marsh
PS Sadly we recently lost our pro-marriage, pro-life and pro-faith Prime Minister Tony Abbott because of an internal coup behind the scenes. Malcom Turnbull the man who replaced him is the opposite so we greatly appreciate your continuing prayers.
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About 350,000 Syrian Christians have been forced to flee their homes. Many have been killed, sold into sex slavery, or forced into hiding. They are not going to U.N. refugee camps, where they often face further persecution, sources tell WND.
As U.S. and European leaders reach out with open arms to tens of thousands of Muslim refugees flooding into Europe, the groans of persecuted Christians in Syria, Iraq and Pakistan are increasingly drowned out.
President Obama announced Thursday that the U.S. will accept an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, on top of the 1,600 that have already arrived. The Syrian arrivals coming from United Nations refugee camps to date have been 95 percent Muslim.
When it comes to the plight of Christians, most of the voices of concern for “refugees” – whether they come from the EU, the White House, the Congress or in the media – fall silent, says a spokesman for the International Christian Concern.
The ICC posted an alert on its website Thursday that an estimated 30,000 Pakistani Christians have been forced to flee their homeland due to persecution from the Muslim majority in Pakistan. They are living in crude conditions in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Malaysia with little help from the United Nations or various international aid agencies. Christians in Pakistan are often jailed for their beliefs, their churches are bombed and their pastors killed. The president of Pakistan Christian Congress has urged the European Union, the United States, Australia, Canada and other countries to open doors to the persecuted Pakistani Christians. Nazir Bhatti, who launched the Pakistan Christian Congress in 1985 and was forced to flee Pakistan in 1998 after he challenged the nation’s Islamic blasphemy laws, has written leaders of the E.U., U.K., U.S. and other European countries asking that they receive Pakistani Christian asylum seekers, reported the website Christians in Pakistan.
Bhatti’s plea comes after the announcement from Prime Minister David Cameron that the U.K. will accept 20,000 Syrian refugees, while Germany is welcoming 800,000, Spain is taking 20,000 and France 24,000. President Obama has previously committed to taking 5,000 to 8,000 Syrians over the next year, but his administration announced today it is considering increasing that number by 10,000.
Refugees or migrants? Despite all of the attention being given to Syrians as “war refugees,” data from the United Nations refugee agency indicates that the majority may actually be economic migrants rather than true war refugees. The UNCHR data shows, for instance, that 75 percent of the so-called refugees flooding into Europe this year are men, and that only 51 percent are Syrian.
Bhatti has petitioned the leaders of U.K., Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Hungry, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other E.U. member states to give refuge to Pakistani Christian asylum seekers by allowing them easy entry into their countries.
Lord George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, in a recent op-ed in the Telegraph, urged Britain to focus on taking Syrian Christians, saying they are the most vulnerable and repeatedly targeted victims of the Syrian civil war. While Carey said he welcomes Cameron’s announcement to take in more Syrian refugees, the most targeted refugees are being left behind to face their Islamic killers. “But the frustration for those of us who have been calling for compassion for Syrian victims for many months is that the Christian community is yet again left at the bottom of the heap,” Carey wrote.
Syrian Christians flee U.N. camps
According to the Barnabas Fund, which recently resettled some 50 Syrian Christian families in Poland, “Cameron’s policy inadvertently discriminates against the very Christian communities most victimized by the inhuman butchers of the so-called Islamic State,” Carey writes. Christians are not to be found in the U.N. camps, because they have been attacked and targeted by Islamists and driven from them. They are seeking refuge in private homes, church buildings and with neighbors and family.” This confirms reports that WND has previously published about the dangers Christians face in U.N. refugee camps.
‘Openly glorifying slaughter of Christians’
Carey argues that even though 100 years have past since the Armenian and Assyrian genocide, in which 1.5 million Christians were wiped out by Ottoman Muslims, the same genocide is being carried out today in the form of an ethnic cleansing of Christians in the region. “Christians have been crucified, beheaded, raped, and subjected to forced conversion. The so-called Islamic State and other radical groups are openly glorifying the slaughter of Christians,” he said.
Lord Carey further urged that Britain should make Syrian Christians a preference, “because they are a particularly vulnerable group. Furthermore, we are a Christian nation with an established Church so Syrian Christians will find no challenge to integration. The churches are already well-prepared and eager to offer support and accommodation to those escaping the conflict.”
Bhatti said Pakistani Christians suffering in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeastern Asian countries have been waiting for years as their cases languish with the United Nations. They go “without any shelter provided by UNHCR, International Rescue Committee and other international NGOs, or any education for their children,” Bhatti said.
“Pakistani Christians are facing genocide in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” he said.
He said the notorious blasphemy law in Pakistan is used against Christians and any non-Muslim. To speak any truth from the Bible about Jesus Christ being the “Son of God,” or having “died on a cross” for mankind’s sins, is considered blasphemy by the Shariah courts. Wearing a cross around one’s neck in public can get you arrested and thrown in jail.
Congressman rebukes Obama plan to take more Syrians
Yet, among the 70,000 refugees taken by the U.S. this year, almost no Christians from Pakistan or Syria are included. Of the 1,600 brought from Syria since the start of that country’s civil war, 95 percent have been Muslim and less than 4 percent Christian. The administration, while heavily lobbied to accept more refugees, has also been warned by some in Congress that bringing in thousands of people from ISIS-controlled territory would pose a grave security risk.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee issued the following statement Thursday rebuking the Obama plan to allow a “surge” of Syrian Refugees into the U.S. “The president wants to surge thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, in spite of consistent intelligence community and federal law enforcement warnings that we do not have the intelligence needed to vet individuals from the conflict zone. We also know that ISIS wants to use refugee routes as cover to sneak operatives into the West. I implore the president to consult with Congress before taking any drastic action and to level with the American people about the very real security challenges we face. It is heart-wrenching to watch innocent Syrians fleeing the violence in their country, and we can do more to help. But the best way to solve this crisis is at the source. The president needs to develop a real strategy for victory to defeat ISIS and remove Assad from power, which is the root cause of the problem. This is the culmination of a failed foreign policy to deal with the threats and now we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands.”
From World Net Daily http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/refugee-crisis-hits-prime-time-but-christians-left-out-in-cold/
Please pray that refugees who are Christians and are languishing in camps will no longer be left out in the cold but will be welcomed into other lands. Pray for European and American authorities to have compassion mixed with real wisdom to know how to go about dealing with the refugee crisis and to keep out any ISIS terroristic elements that are trying to infiltrate this massive flow of refugees into the West.
“A little before midnight on Saturday, a crowd of around 700 gathered in an old industrial warehouse a few blocks from the Detroit River for what they’d been told was the “largest public satanic ceremony in history.” Most of them professed to be adherents of Satanism, that loosely organized squad of the occult that defines itself as a religious group. Others came simply because they were curious. After all, Satanists exist in the popular psyche as those who casually sacrifice goats and impregnate Mia Farrow with Lucifer’s child; if this ceremony was indeed unprecedentedly big, who knew what could be in store?
Read more: The Evolution of Modern Satanism in the United States
The reality of the event — and of the contemporary Satanic movement at large — was tamer, and, if the Facebook pictures speak the truth, harmlessly festive: a cross between an underground rave and a meticulously planned Halloween party. They were there to publicly unveil a colossal bronze statue of Baphomet, the goat-headed wraith who, after centuries of various appropriations, is now the totem of contemporary Satanism. The pentagram, that familiar logo of both orthodox Satanists and disaffected teens, originated as a rough outline of Baphomet’s head.
The statue itself is impressive: almost nine feet tall, and weighing in at around a ton. The horned idol sits on a throne adorned with a pentagram, but it is the idol’s wings, and not his chair, that curiously evoke the Iron Throne from a certain celebrated HBO fantasy series. He has the jarring horns of a virile ram but the biceps of a guy who lifts four or five times a week. His legs, which are crossed, end not in feet but in hooves. It might seem more menacing if not for the two bronze-statue children standing on either side of him — a girl on his left; a boy on his right; both are looking up at him earnestly.
“Baphomet contains binary elements symbolizing a reconciliation of opposites, emblematic of the willingness to embrace, and even celebrate differences,” Jex Blackmore, who organized the unveiling, told TIME late Sunday night. In a sense, the statue is a stress test of American plurality: at what point does religious freedom make the people uncomfortable?”
http://time.com/3972713/detroit-satanic-statue-baphomet/
Pray for the overthrow and discrediting of Satanism in the USA and the breaking of its influence wherever it is operating. Pray that those involved in it will wake up to the horrific delusion and danger of this negative, destructive movement, repent and be set free by the love and power of Christ.
“We received word of devastating flooding in the the northeastern region of Najin-Sonbong. Typhoon rains caused a dam to collapse and to flood the city of Sonbong. Many people have died, buildings have collapsed, bridges are out. Relief workers have to walk miles to bring in food and supplies. Fields and food supplies were destroyed. Pray for a swift recovery in the area and that food and other needed supplies get in.
We have no new information of the many people detained in both China and North Korea. Please keep praying for Canadians Kevin and Julia Garratt in China and Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim of the Light Presbyterian Church, Toronto who continues to be held in North Korea. Also remember American Peter Han in Tumen, China and South Korean pastors held in North Korea: Jong-wook Kim, Kuk-ki Kim and Chun-gil Choi.
The big news lately on relations between North and South Korea has been the tensions that escalated recently as South Korean soldiers were killed by North Korean land mines south of the border. This led to charges and counter-charges. However, we thank God for a new agreement that has resulted from the tension as both North and South seek to return to a more peaceful relationship. This agreement also includes plans for visits among separated families bringing together North and South Korean relatives. Continue to pray that the agreement not only hold but be the beginning of an ongoing improvement of relations.
Even as things seem to be cooling a bit between North and South, Kim Jong Un has been ordering increasing clamp down on the border with China to prevent defections. New border fencing is being installed all along the border and security personnel are being rotated more frequently. However, this is still not enough to prevent the truly determined from leaving as two families crossed into China from North Hamgyung Province last month.
Still, life goes on, such as it is, in much of the country. Much as in South Korea, young women in North Korea are concerned about how they look and are occupying their summer time with getting plastic surgery, often without anesthesia.
As you know, we here at The Fourth River Project are thinking a lot about the future and the special issues that make eventual reunification, really the raising up of a New Korea, particularly difficult. We are not the only ones thinking about these things. Here is a thoughtful discussion of some of these issues, especially the problem of systemic bribery throughout the North. Please continue to join us in prayer for North Korea now and for good preparation for the future.
Here is your prayer calendar for October in both Korean and English. Please click the link below.
In His Name,
Ben Torrey
Director
The Fourth River Project, Inc.
www.thefourthriver.org
Emerging Markets:
Emerging markets such as Turkey, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. have made a classic mistake of presuming the future (James 4). Assuming that China’s growth rate would remain very high (7-10% per year) these countries have borrowed enormous amounts of money and gone deeply into debt both corporately and personally. Much of this debt revolves the commodities and commodities markets, which have been necessary raw ingredients in China’s massive infrastructure build-out and urbanization (10-15 million Chinese moving from farms to the cities annually).
The dollar has been skyrocketing, especially against emerging market currencies, causing the repayment of dollar-denominated debt to be increasingly difficult as debt burdens have skyrocketed.
Prayer – 1st that the U.S. Fed will not raise interest rates, which would push the U.S. dollar even higher against emerging market currencies, and that banking and government officials in these countries will lower interest rates, and provide enormous amounts of liquidity (print money) to keep the debt contraction, which is presently underway and intense, from becoming catastrophic.
China:
Their new premier has instituted a massive crackdown on corruption, which in the long run could be quite beneficial. However, in the short run it is scaring everyone to death (at least one execution so far), which is not exactly conducive to trying to “grow the economy”. In addition, China has experienced a massive bubble in their stock market which has now burst. While their economy revolves more around infrastructure build-out (highways, airports, dams, etc.), the massive urbanization mentioned earlier, manufacturing and exports the bursting of the stock bubble will certainly not help as there has been an exponential rise in lending outside of China’s “official” banking system (50% per year increase for 5 consecutive years- clearly unsustainable), much of it revolving around the stock market.
Much of this debt will go bad and create bankruptcies or bailouts, which will hurt/slow China’s economy. China’s growth could go from the “official” 7% rate to as low as 4%, which would be great for most other countries, but such a radical slowdown (China’s economy was going at a 12% rate just 5 years ago), means that the engine of world economic growth (China) slowing so radically will cause all of the other cars on the train to crash (the other emerging markets). As the other emerging markets have become dependent on high rates of growth from China which is not happening.
My guess would be this could take 2-3 years to work out, and while I do not expect a collapse of the Chinese economy, and I do expect them to continue to grow over the long run, in the short run this is going to be tough. Bad debts will have to be cleansed (bankruptcies or bailouts) from the system before any semblance of economic growth can resume. China’s problems will literally affect everyone in the world, as they are the #2 size economy in the world after the United States. While the U.S. is bigger overall, the rest of the world (including Europe) has gotten addicted to rapid growth rates in China.
Prayer- That the Chinese officials will slowly let the air out of their debt and stock bubbles and not have a precipitous collapse.
United States:
The U.S. is best position to weather this economic storm of any of the major players. Our banking system, after the sub-prime/leverage fiasco has been healing and the economy has been growing very slowly- but at least it’s growing. As best as I can tell, the only major vulnerability is our oil industry as we could see as much as a 30% shrinkage here, as people in the oil patch borrowed way too much money assuming oil prices would stay above $100 per barrel indefinitely (James 4). A combination of a very slight increase in supply above world demand was hammered by extreme leverage (borrowed money) in the energy patch and big banks related to energy and commodities. Now the forced liquidations will begin as banks, by law, must revalue all oil related loans every 6 months, and unfortunately it is “let the bleeding begin”. In the long run, this will likely result in a healthier, more stable oil industry overall with less debt in the system, but in the short run it will be very painful.
The U.S. only recently became the largest oil producer in the world (larger than Saudi Arabia and Russia), due to new technology revolving around horizontal drilling and fracking. Unfortunately, this oil price crash will cause a major contraction in the oil drilling and service industry, which will likely take another year or two, but within 24-36 months this oversupply will disappear and oil prices will likely go back up. Sometime in the 2020’s, I expect oil prices to go well above $200 a barrel as China’s economy gets back on track and India builds infrastructure, buys cars, and starts driving. Thus, all this hype over oversupply is way overblown.
In addition, I am very concerned about geopolitical stuff in the Middle East as Iran hates Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saudi Arabia hates Iran and ISIS hates everybody. Most of these countries need in excess of $100 a barrel to float their government budgets as most of their country’s revenues come from oil. Through the straits of Hormuz pass 30% of the world’s oil (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait). I believe that major geopolitical issues and possibly major wars could breakout within the next 2-3 years.
Prayer- That America’s oil industry will not be decimated as we are the chief producer in the free world. Excess debt will have to be cleansed from the system, but again it needs to be in a systematic controlled way not a massive crash.
Europe: Still has a fragile banking system and an unstable currency. Pray that the euro as a trading union and currency will not go into a chaotic fracture.
Japan: Is a massively aging society which has way too much government debt and unsustainable social spending structure for their old people, which are starting to outnumber their young people. Pray that evangelization will wake up and change Japan as I see no possible solution on how to fix the government’s long term (10-15 year) fiscal situation and debts.
Jerry Tuma
Macro-economist
Cornerstone Financial Services
Dallas, Texas
www.cornerstonereport.com
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Recently, our leadership team met and identified the following key prayer concerns that we hope you will share in intercession:
1. The migrant crisis in which tens of thousands continue to walk from the Middle East through Turkey or come via rickety boats across the Mediterranean needs our special prayers. It could be a huge opportunity for the Church to bring Christ to these people, but there is also the possibility of great danger through the infiltration of Islamic terrorists. Pray for the EU, the church leaders and for the migrants themselves in this biggest population movement since World War II.
2. Coming out of a August global prayer strategists meeting in London one strategy was recommended for wider implementation- pray 5 mins. daily at 11:55 am to noon for our world.
3. UPrising: World Youth Prayer Assembly www.unitedprayerrising.com Please pray for Jerome Ocampo, the convener, the International Dream Team of youth ministry leaders and the Executive Team as they work together on arrangements for next July’s gathering in South Korea. Pray for the venue to be finalized and for a breakthrough in the provision of financial resources so that the WYPA can go ahead as planned.
A new video and other materials are in the works to add to the website above and help in mobilizing for the UPrising around the world. A global fast starts September 28 for an Acts 2 outpouring of the Spirit and the overthrow of any spiritual opposition to this effort on behalf of the younger generation, which we believe is so much on God’s heart.
4. Latin America- there is a heavy attack on prayer leaders with increased illness and death along with prevalent corruption and a desire to remove current political leaders. Pray for Yanira Gonzalez and her colleagues in the region for His blood covering and protection at this difficult time.
5. 24/7 Prayer Movement- Hannah McVeigh and her colleagues are busy developing and supplying new resources to students. Pray for the distribution of these resources and the large 24/7 gathering they plan Oct. 22-25 in Vienna.
6. Africa Prayer and Mission gathering in Ethiopia, Oct. 26-31- Austen Ukachi asked for prayer for this event with focus on reaching the unreached, persecuted church and the Muslim challenge.
7. Global Proclamation Congress, June 15-22, Bangkok, with up to 5000 pastoral trainers. Tom Victor is working on a strategy to develop a culture of prayer among them and the 100,000 pastors they will impact. He is looking for good resources to give them. Pray for Tom, the GPC, and his efforts. http://gprocongress.org
8. National and international security prayer initiative, October 18-20, Colorado Springs, USA- “Seeking God’s Face for the Deliverance and Destiny of America”. The IPC’s John Robb and others are seeking to bring prayer network leaders and strategic intercessors together from across the USA. Pray for prayer leaders who should come to respond and be there and for a good convergence in the unity of the Spirit. Pray too for an effective strategy for national and international spiritual preparedness in this time of great vulnerability to attack by hostile agents, whether terrorists or enemy nations.
9. Persian Gulf prayer initiative in February. Christian leaders from the guest worker community are seeking to organize a region-impacting prayer gathering. Pray for this vital initiative to come together and attract many from all nationalities around the region.
10. Prayer Hub and the IPC Website- Andy Page is working on a Prayer Hub that will connect various prayer websites. He is also upgrading the IPC website to include it and make it more “lean and mean” with resources that are even more relevant and helpful. Pray for him and his important efforts to resource the international prayer movement in this vital way.
Thank you so much for the prayer- backing during the time in Iraq. As I shared with some of you, the bomb blasts and suicide bombings in Baghdad have been reduced from 20 to 30 per day in 2014 to 3 to 5 a month now. In Erbil, there have been no reports of explosions since a long time.
The prayer initiative meetings finished well with an amazing prophetic time on the 16th morning and repentance and spiritual warfare on the 16th night. One evening a phone call came from 10 young Kurds who had an encounter with Jesus and believed in HIM. The reports from participants about the harvest that has started among internally displaced people and Muslim - IDPs as well as Syrian refugees have been amazing. A team from MHOP has gone regularly to a camp of Muslim refugees and found so many people who had a vision of Jesus. Those from Catholic / Chaldean / Syrian / Orthodox / Armenian / Assyrian background IDPs are totally open as well to the Gospel and are coming to faith. It's an ocean of people in endless refugee - camps who are just waiting for someone to bring them Jesus in the midst of their sufferings.
During a meeting of Muslim background believers, leaders came to the conclusion that there are more MBBs now in the Middle East / North Africa than all other believers together. We had to acknowledge that ISIS has driven the multitudes into the arms of Christ.
The sad part: from approximately 12 churches in Erbil there are no reports of any unity, even between two churches and extremely little prayer. In Baghdad as well, very sad to find a total lack of revelation about the need of unity and very little prayer. The good thing is that Muslim background leaders are in unity!!!!
So God's own arm is bringing Him victory! Isa. 59: 16
(From a Colleague in the prayer movement who facilitated times of prayer training for the believers in Iraq earlier this month)
Please pray for His unity among all who follow Christ in Iraq, that their hearts, especially of pastors and leaders would be softened and that they would begin to stand together in prayer for their nation and the driving out of ISIS. Pray too for those who were trained that they will put it into effect in their lives and that they will be used of the Lord to train and encourage others so that a strong, united prayer movement can arise in this much besieged and divided nation. Also, pray that these vast millions of Iraqi and Syrian refugees will be able to hear the Gospel with many of them coming to know the Lord who cares for them.
Videos discussing use of fetal tissue in research stir antiabortion activists' hopes of ban on federal funding for organization
Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2015
"Videos of Planned Parenthood staffers discussing how they gather fetal tissue during abortions for use in medical research are stirring antiabortion activists' hopes of converting the controversy into a ban on federal funding for the organization. Cutting off federal funds for Planned Parenthood has emerged as one of the short-term moves that activists believe is most achievable in the wake of the release of two videos in the past two weeks.
Some lawmakers preparing to debate appropriations bills cite the videos as a reason to cut off the approximately $500 million a year in federal funds Planned Parenthood gets for providing care to Medicaid beneficiaries, contraception through family planning programs and for helping people sign up for insurance under the 2010 federal health law. Long-standing restrictions bar the federal government from paying for abortions in most cases.
A new surreptitiously recorded video released by activists this week shows a Planned Parenthood official bluntly describing abortion procedures, and whether they could be adapted to preserve tissue that could be provided to researchers...
Kristan Hawkins, president of the Students for Life of America antiabortion group, said younger activists began In Planned Parenthood's most recent annual report covering the 12 months through June 30, 2014, federal and state grants and reimbursements of around $528.4 million were the organization's single largest source of income, totaling 41% of its revenue.The majority of its funds came from a combination of other payments for services, along with private contributions and bequests.
Ten states have barred state funding of Planned Parenthood clinics for family planning services, including Texas while GOP presidential contender Rick Perry was governor and Wisconsin under rival GOP contender and current Gov. Scott Walker.
In its annual report, Planned Parenthood said its affiliates performed 327,653 abortions. In recent years, about one million abortions have been carried out annually in the U.S.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton defended Planned Parenthood on Thursday, saying that the organization had apologized for one employee's "insensitivity," and that its work is important...
"Listen, I've seen these two videos. They're gruesome and I think they're awful," Mr. Boehner told reporters. "That's why the Energy and Commerce Committee and Judiciary Committee are doing an investigation. I expect that we will have hearings, and the more we learn, the more it will educate our decisions in the future."
Planned Parenthood also reported providing 4,470,597 tests for sexually transmitted diseases, 3,577,348 appointments to provide contraception, including emergency contraception, and 935,573 appointments for cancer screening including pap tests, HPV vaccinations and breast exams.
Bans on taxpayer funding for abortion enjoy widespread support from voters, even among some of those who believe abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances. But lawmakers have had limited success in previous efforts to curb funds to Planned Parenthood for other services.
In 2011, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives wanted to disqualify Planned Parenthood affiliates from receiving any federal funds for family planning or as Medicaid reimbursements. A face-off with the then-Democratic-controlled Senate and White House nearly shut down the government, but ended with the House trimming funds for family planning and allowing Planned Parenthood to remain a participant in Medicaid.
Pray for a cut-off of government funding for Planned Parenthood which exists mainly to abort children and seeks to profit from selling their body parts. This is Nazi-like behavior that is being sanitized with the rationale that it is "for the benefit of medical science". May this cause a great outrage across the USA. Please pray also for the shutting down of this corrupt and deceitful organization that trafficks in the death of precious human beings God has knit together in their mother's womb.