Posted By cmbuuck on March 14, 2012

Date: March 15, 2012

Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Place: Allen County Library Meeting Room “C”

Workshop Leader:  Leslie Haines, Executive Director and Founder of Lutheran Military Veterans and Families Ministries Inc.  (LMVFM)

Haines served as a helicopter crew chief from 1983 until 1988 when she graduated from Officer Candidate School.  Now she is retiring as a Major, US Army Military Police (MP).   She served in Guantanamo Bay Detainee Operations and in Kirkuk, Iraq, until she was injured and medivac’d to the United States for surgeries and treatment.  Haines has an AA in music, a BA in criminal justice, an MA in theology (Concordia Seminary), and a CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The workshop will provide information to help pastors, Stephens Ministers, counselors, caregivers, families, friends, etc. prepare for and deal with the death of military personnel and veterans.  It will explore differing end of life issues experienced by many soldiers and veterans, as related to their experiences such as:  combat or non-combat experience, duration of war, POW captivity, exposure to mutilated bodies, post traumatic stress, guilt, sexual trauma, exposure to illegal acts, branch of service and rank, and whether they enlisted or were drafted.

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Indiana Right to Life statement on Komen Foundation decision to resume funding for abortion business Planned Parenthood -February 3, 2012: Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter issued this statement today regarding the Komen Foundation’s decision to continue funding for current Planned Parenthood grants: “We are profoundly disappointed at the Komen decision to continue funding for the nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood. We do not believe it is in the best interest of the Komen Foundation, breast cancer research, and the lives of women to engage in partnership with an organization that has abortion at the core of its business, and that refuses to inform women of the numerous studies showing an elevated risk of breast cancer as a result of induced abortion. It is our understanding that Komen events in Evansville, Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne have not provided any local funding to Planned Parenthood over the last several years. We will work with these Komen affiliates to assure that this will continue to be the case, and that they will encourage the national Komen Foundation to deny any future grant applications from Planned Parenthood on the national level.”

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Fred Barnes on the pro-life movement: “That the pro-life movement is bigger is a given. It’s also younger, increasingly entrepreneurial, more strategic in its thinking, better organized, tougher in dealing with allies and enemies alike, almost wildly ambitious, and more relentless than ever.

All that is dwarfed by an even bigger change. Pro-lifers have captured the high moral ground, chiefly thanks to advances in the quality of sonograms. Once  fuzzy, sonograms now provide a high-resolution picture of the unborn child in the womb. Fetuses have become babies.”

 “Hidden Persuaders: The Unheralded Gains of the Pro-Life Movement” The Weekly Standard – November 7, 2011.

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Feb 24, 2012 . . .  The state of Texas is defying attacks from the Obama administration in the form of threats to revoke federal funding if the state cuts off its funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business . . .

To read entire article go to:  www.lifenews.com/…/texas-defunds-planned-parenthood-despite-obama

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Posted By cmbuuck on March 14, 2012

A bill that defines infants who survive abortion attempts as people was passed unanimously Thursday by a South Carolina Senate Judiciary subcommittee.  Read more

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DAY 12: Planned Parenthood — things to know

March 4, 2012 5:00 AM

FROM: Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life

TO: Carolyn Beitz

 

Dear Carolyn,

I just returned from events celebrating the closure of two Planned Parenthood abortion centers in Iowa — praise God!

Since this spring’s campaign features peaceful vigils at 121 Planned Parenthood facilities — almost half of the total number of sites — there are few things you probably should know.

For starters, Planned Parenthood is the leading abortion chain in the United States, doing around 330,000 abortions EVERY year. They do this with while taking in upwards of $400 million in YOUR tax money.

But Planned Parenthood is worried. Last year, for the first time in 16 years, their abortion numbers went DOWN. Fewer abortions equal fewer dollars. And Planned Parenthood is a business.

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PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK

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For one thing, Planned Parenthood doesn’t want you to know that it runs abortion centers. Their PR campaigns focus on “women’s health.” That’s a reference to abortion — but they avoid the actual word.

Nancy tells a typical story. A man approached her at the 40 Days for Life vigil and asked what the prayer volunteers were doing.

“He was shocked,” she said. “He didn’t know they did abortions at Planned Parenthood.” The man then said he would invite his pastor to come pray. Once he knew what Planned Parenthood was really all about, it made quite an impression.

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