Seattle Archdiocese to Host Pro-Abortion Rep. Jay Inslee at Cathedral; Abortion and Euthanasia Center Representative also to Speak

Updated: 4:54 Nov. 10 --
Received notice at about 3:30 today from the Archdiocese of Seattle that the "Morality of Health Care Reform" discussion has BEEN MOVED to Seattle University. Yipee! It's still too bad that our Catholic schools feel compelled to host this kind of thing but at least they won't be defiling the Cathedral.

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If you haven't heard by now, St. James Cathedral has decided to host the strangely titled forum, "The Morality of Health Care Reform: The debate's missing link".

Pro-abortion legislator Jay Inslee is one of the invited speakers. He was demoted from "keynote" speaker status to panelist late last week. Laura Rehrmann, president of the Group Health Foundation and "in-charge of patient care" at Group Health Cooperative will also be on the panel. Group Health has a reputation as an abortion center and will allow doctors to assist with suicides at their "health" centers after the passage of I-1000. Ms. Rehrmann is a parishioner at St. James Cathedral.

Why is the Cathedral allowing this event to take place?

I had about a 20 minute conversation today with Helen Oesterle director of Religious Education at St. James about this very question. Her explanation and justification for this event was a mess of contradictions and excuses combined with the usual happy talk. Words like dialogue, Catholic faith, conversation, and respect were used to defend the indefensible.

At the web site Catholics for Obama Ms. Oesterle is a signatory to the "Petition to Endorse Barak Obama." The petition includes the statements that Barack Obama is pro-life and that trying to overturn Roe v. Wade has been a ineffective strategy and that promoting health care for pregnant women and better infant care, day care and job training will help reduce abortions.

Besides the fact that this is complete hogwash I now understand why she repeated several times, "Abortion is legal" and "There are different ways to approach the issue of abortion." People who are supporters of legal abortion should not be setting the agenda for events at a Catholic Church. Maybe Ms. Oesterle believes that Jay Inslee is pro-life as well.

If rape were legal would Ms. Oesterle be promoting a "respectful" dialogue with promoters and profiteers of rape at a forum on the morality of reforming the justice system? And then refuse to discuss the problem of rape? Maybe rape isn't a problem if it's legal. It's hard to figure out how these people think.

I think it is becoming evident that this event is nothing more than an attempt by Democratic Catholics to hijack the Church and rally Catholics behind President Obama's health care bill.

That's why pro-lifers are so upset about this forum.

Trust has completely broken down between the faithful and those in the employ of the Archdiocese and other Catholic institutions. One need look no further than the Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center, which is sponsored by several communities of Catholic sisters. For the life of me I have yet to find the words "Jesus Christ" or "Catholic" on their web site or in any of their documents. However, they love to throw around the words "social justice" and "Catholic social teaching." I don't think the ladies at IPJC would recognize Catholic social teaching if it came up and bit them in their collective rear end.

Their newsletters include articles by priests bad-mouthing the Holy Father, young students promoting population control, and their latest new age "Convocation" included priestesses, (Is that Suzanne Thiel of Roman Catholic Womenpriest?!) agitators for women priests, and promoters of legal abortion.

Then there's Seattle University. Their latest slap in the face to the Church and lay faithful was this "thoughtful conversation" on "reproductive justice" that included Planned Parenthood's chaplain. Gee, why isn't he invited to the morality of health care forum!

Add your own outrage from your parish, Catholic school, seminary, or the chancery in the combox below.

No one doubts that there is a need for health care reform. The Catholic doctors know it and pro-lifers certainly know it but using our Church to push a political agenda is plain wrong. If parishes like St. James are going to sponsor forums like this they need to present the Catholic way of approaching the problem, not the Democratic party way and especially not one that promotes abortion.

Catholics are owed Catholic parishes with Catholic teaching. Is there not one soul in the Seattle area who can present a truly Catholic approach to health care reform? Do we have no expert on Pope Leo XIII's social encyclicals, which are the basis for Catholic social teaching, not the worn out "seamless garment"? Is there no one who can speak to distributive justice, catholic economics, and subsidiarity? Why are we constantly using the language of the political parties , left vs. right, conservative vs. liberal to define how Catholics are to approach health care reform? It's time to get the party politics out of Catholic discussions on health care and social justice.

Back to the phone call...

According to Ms. Oesterle, radical pro-abortion representative Jay Inslee will only be speaking on the "very narrow" aspect of how Catholics can impact the legislative process. She also described how this would be a wonderful opportunity to dialoge with Rep. Inslee on our Catholic faith and possibly evangelize him. (Notre Dame redux!) However, she also said this event "would not be about abortion." How pray tell are we to evangelize Mr. Inslee if we can't even discuss a key component of our Catholic faith?

Catholics need to ask Ms. Osterele -- Who is doing the evangelization here? Are we going to be forced to listen patiently to a radical pro-abort lecture Catholics in their own Cathedral about the morality of health care reform? The thought is almost too much to bear.

So if Inslee is simply there to give us a civics lesson, then I would argue that his participation is hardly necessary. Is there anybody left in American who doesn't know how to vote or contact their Congressman?

Going back to my point above, is it possible this event is to try and activate pro-abortion and "social justice" Catholics in order to counteract the pro-lifers and others who are fighting so valiantly against the current plan? The only people who would be in favor of Obama's health care plan are people who are indifferent to abortion or in fact pro-abortion.

Overall my conversation with her was less than productive. She certainly did most of the talking and made it very clear to me that "this is not about abortion" and they "will refuse to allow this event to be hijacked." (Look whose doing the hijacking!) Fine. Let's move on from abortion. What about contraception, euthanasia, fetal farming, IVF, human egg harvesting, and embryonic stem cell research? I admit, abortion is almost passé with the current crew running the show in Washington DC but does Ms. Osterle have any idea what the "health" experts who so desperately want socialized medicine are planning next?

Now that she and the Obama supporters at the Cathedral have truely hijacked our Church and social teachings for their own political ends what can she possibly mean by "not allowing the event to be hijacked"? I can only assume she means she'll refuse to have people asking tough questions like --

How can a practicing Catholic like Ms. Rehrmann, who is in charge of "patient care" allow abortions to be performed at her hospital?
Does she not see the unborn child as a patient entitled to care?
How does Ms. Rehrmann justify the use of assisted suicide at her hospital?
How will giving tax-payer funded abortions to illegal immigrants help advance the cause of justice for immigrants?

Add your own questions for the participants in this ridiculuous charade in the combox below.

As with the Notre Dame scandal earlier this year, it would appear that the vaunted "dialogue" is nothing but a fog, hanging silently over the participants and impossible to grasp. I have a new found respect for Hilary Clinton and her "listening tours."

The purpose in my call was to simply find out whether they would allow questions at this forum. She indicated that it is still being decided but that most likely they will take questions only in the form of written questions to be reviewed and selected by the organizers. And since the forum "isn't about abortion" and they don't want it "hijacked" by the truth we can assume that any questions pertaining to abortion will be filtered out by the organizers who don't want to embarrass the panel. What kind of a dialogue is this?

From there she launched into an attack on "all the misinformation out there" and a defence of the decision to host this event.

It's our position here at AIW from years of observation and research that the "health care" system is firmly in the hands of the culture of death. Even the Catholic health care system is tottering. Look no further than PeaceHealth, which stated in an article in the Catholic Progress of December 11, 2008 that PeaceHealth is working on identifying an organization to which staff would refer patients seeking physician-assisted suicide. They already do this in Oregon. How in the world can a Catholic hospital justify cooperating with a grave evil like euthanasia?

Catholics and Christians of all good will should be standing up to reclaim health care for the common good and a culture of life rather than finding ways to compromise and cooperate with the people responsible for the killing and gruesome experiments that are taking place.

The gate to all these immoral things is wide, and getting wider all the time. It's time those who earn their keep working in our Catholic institutions tried to narrow the gate and help save the souls of their fellow citizens.

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Pro-Life Action Item

Health care reform IS About saving lives NOT destroying them.

On Saturday evening, Nov. 7 the congress of the U.S. approved the Stupak-Pitt amendment to HB 3962 by a vote of 240-194. This amendment, a pro life Statement true and true said to government “remove abortion funding and mandates from health care reform” period.
Jay Inslee voted against this Amendment, in other words, support abortion at any cost, regardless of the consequences on the mothers and their preborn babies!

Later that evening congress voted to pass health care reform by a vote of 220-215 (not very convincing right) never the less health care reform passed in congress.

This would not have passed without the Stupak-Pitt pro life amendment to this HB3962, period.
Inslee-Pelosi and other stanch (abortion at any price) members of congress have temporary been silenced, but not Inslee who has been invited to the Cathedral to give his legislative points of view — we know his points of view, ABORTION at any cost-he just voted this way.

As a Pro Life defender of the dignity of life from conception to natural death, and the Culture of Life we are called to say no to St. James for inviting Jay Inslee and no to Jay Inslee and his 100% voting record for the culture of death-abortion rights and other issues that are contrary to our Catholic Church.

Here is what you can do to have your voice heard—1st Pray for the innocent unborn and for their Moms and Dads to choose LIFE always.

Contacts: St. James (206)-382-4514 Helen Oesterle or Fr. Mike Ryan, pastor (206) 622-3559. Email: hoesterle@stjames-cathedral.org

Archbishop Brunett, (206) 382-4886 or email: angelak@seattlearch.org

Thank you,- and hopefully we will see you at St. James, 803 Terry, Thurs. Nov.12 6:30-7:00 event @ 7:00 in Cathedral Hall.

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Only 3% of What Al-Qaeda Does is Terrorism

Suppose Al-Qaeda tried to broker sympathy by telling you that "only 3%" of what they do is terrorism. The rest is job training, running soup kitchens, community organizing, building roads, and generally trying their best to help down-trodden Muslims the world over.

Well that's exactly the same reasoning Anna Franks, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central Washington, used in talking to Pasco news reporter Hilary Whittier in response to the huge protest Sunday against her proposed abortion-referral clinic.

Ms. Franks, speaking from her palatial home, said: "only 3% of what they do nationwide" is aborting unborn babies. This is in fact a standard Planned Parenthood line, so they must think it's terribly effective.

Imagine if Charles Manson said murders were only a small fraction of what he did. If OJ said that murdering his ex-wife and her friend only occupied a tiny proportion of his time? Suppose the Klu Klux Klan said that lynchings were only 5% of the KKK's activities? Or David Koresh said that he spent less than 1% of his time having sex with 13 year-old girls?

Seriously Anna? That's your argument?

As readers of this blog know, abortion is the heart and soul of the Planned Parenthood organization. Nationally, they did 305,310 abortions in 2007. That's an increase of 5.4% from 2006's total of 289,750. They are the largest single provider of abortions in Washington, and the U.S. PP of Western Washington now does over 9,000 abortions each year, up an astonishing 50% in just three years. They open new abortion clinics whenever and wherever they can.

And all PP clinics that don't do abortions, do abortion counseling and referral -- otherwise known as "closing the abortion sale".

Former PP clients who have been rescued by pregnancy resource centers tell over and over again stories of how PP counselors tried to sell them an abortion, painting it as the answer to their problems, and withholding crucial information about the physical and emotional risks, scientific facts about their unborn baby's development, and not letting them view their ultrasound.

They happily do abortions on girls against their will, who obviously don't want the abortion.

PP of Western Washington's own annual reports show how the percentage of pregnant clients choosing abortion has shot up every year. In 2004, of 35,368 "pregnancy tests and counseling" visits, 6,291 ended up choosing abortion, or 18%.

In 2007, just three years later, of 15,621 pregnancy-related visits, 9,059 chose abortion, or 58%!

From 18% to 58% in just 3 years!

Any sales trainer who could get their client "sales conversion rates" ramped up like that would be the new Zig Ziglar.

As if this were not bad enough, the reason we have to use figures from Western Washington is that the Planned Parenthoods run by Ms. Franks, Central and Eastern Washington, have refused to disclose the number of abortions they do, including how this compares to their overall client volume.

If any of these figures supported Ms. Franks' contention that they were helping to bring down the number of abortions east of the Cascades, we think they would be more willing to share them.

We have placed repeated phone calls to Ms. Franks asking for an explanation of these facts. None of those calls have been returned.

North Seattle Late-Term 'Killing Field' Run by Dr. Charlie Browne

You might think that with Planned Parenthood having opened up almost a dozen abortion clinics in Western Washington in the last 10 years, the blood lust of the abortionist 'community' would have been sated.

But at the beginning of January, 2008, late-term Seattle abortionist Dr. Charlie M. Browne seems to have decided to stop sharing his abortion profits with clinic overlords and opened up his own shop in North Seattle, an area that has been free of a free-standing, high-volume abortion clinic for more than a decade.

Dr. Browne used to be the Medical Director for Cedar River Clinics, the largest local chain of late-term abortion clinics. Cedar River does abortions up to "viability", currently deemed to be 24 weeks, just like his new clinic. His work there was reportedly 40 hours a week (according to IRS records obtained by AIW) and earned him more then $200,000 a year, and dates at least back to 2005.

Along with Cedar River's Renton location, Browne's new clinic is now just the second in the whole state that publicly advertises the fact that they do grisly 24-week abortions.

Many of these late-term dismemberings require the use of anesthesia (for the mother; babies are never given anesthesia before they are killed). That probably explains why he took one of the Cedar River anesthetists, Douglas Raber, with him as co-owner of his new abortion business.

Dr. Browne, who is in his mid-30s, is also listed as working at Seattle Medical & Wellness Clinic (SMWC), a sunny name for a downtown abortion clinic located in a highrise office tower. SMWC, founded, owned and operated by Dr. Eileen Gibbons, does abortions up to 19 weeks of an unborn baby's life. It's not clear whether he has stopped doing abortions for Dr. Gibbons.

Browne's new business is called All Women's Health North, and is located near Northgate Mall, in the North Seattle Professional Center. This location is 'conveniently' situated next to the Northgate Transit Center.

“The news is distressing to the extreme,” said Rev. Michael Kelly, a Presbyterian pastor who lives blocks away from the clinic. Rev. Kelly added: “In the 1800s some people asserted their 'right' to consume the life and labor of another human being. Now some assert their 'right' to destroy one. It’s the same moral tragedy, lived out in 'procedure rooms' instead of plantations.”

What Do The Neighbors Say?
The building that houses Dr. Browne's new facility is run by Morris PiHa Real Estate Services, which is managed by Dean Altaras and Jay Azose. We spoke to Mr. Altaras (pictured right) and asked him if he knew he was the landlord of a late-term abortion clinic.

He seemed to indicate that he was aware of what went on at that facility, but said that he wasn't comfortable talking about his relationship with his clients.

Browne's website promotes the clinic as being “free of protestors”, which is apparently true for the time being. One wonders if the other tenants in the building, Seattle Otolaryngology and Seattle Prostate Cancer Center, are aware that they are sharing their building with an abortion clinic. They will no doubt find out out if pro-life witnesses turn up.

Monica Oberlin is the Seattle Coordinator for the 40 Days for Life Campaign, which is currently organizing 24/7 prayer vigils outside local abortion clinics, trying to help women "in the frantic state of mind a woman experiences with an unexpected pregnancy" not to make a mistake they'll regret for the rest of their life. She admitted to AIW that there were no organized pro-life witnesses outside Browne's clinic right now, but suggested that this could easily change in the near future.

She also challenged Browne's landlords.

“I would ask them if they really are comfortable with having this business on their property,” she said. She challenged them "to go inside and watch one of these 'pregnancy terminations' that are happening on a daily basis in their building.”

“They are willfully choosing to support the violent ending of a child's life by providing the place in which to do it,” added Ms. Oberlin.

She noted that other abortionist landlords have terminated their leases with the baby killing businesses once they realized what they were part of.

“If you could save some babies' lives by causing the abortionists to suspend their practice to look for a new building, right there, that's not as many deaths on your hands.”

Interestingly, another local, full-time, late-term abortionist, Deborah Oyer, complained a few years ago that she wasn't able to find a landlord willing to lease her an abortion clinic in that same complex.

Right off the bat I identified a great space in a medical building in the Northgate area. I informed them of the nature of my practice. The owner and I agreed on the price and terms of the lease. Right before signing, the questions began. "How many abortions do you perform in a year?" "How much of your practice is abortion related?" The building owner withdrew his offer.

Space in a nearby building was available. After agreeing to general terms with the owner, questions and comments arose. "How long have you served on the board of the National Abortion Federation?" "I see that you lecture on abortion at UW Medical School." "Your Web site shows you provide information for women considering abortion." ... This building owner, too, withdrew the lease.

This scene played out again and again. Owners typically wanted to meet with me to discuss their concerns. "How often have there been protesters at your clinic?" "Can you assure me there won't be any demonstrations near my premises?" Three more rejections ensued. Most of these spaces remain unoccupied today.

All Women's Health North shares a website with two other abortion clinics, one in Tacoma, Washington, and the other in Chicago, Illinois. Both these clinics are owned and operated by a radical abortionist, Dr. Mandy Gittler. They all go by the “All Women's Health” moniker, though the site admits that there is no formal business relationship between them. In fact, All Women's Health North is actually incorporated as ABBR Enterprises.


Linked to University of Washington
Most Americans are shocked and disgusted at late-term abortions. A 2003 Gallup Poll showed 68% believe abortion should be illegal in the second trimester. But there appears to be no abortion too extreme for the University of Washington Medical School. Their Family Medicine specialty at the conducts abortion training for residents at Browne's clinic. The website, which describes Browne as an “excellent provider and teacher of termination”, indicates that residents will be busy all-day Saturday.

“Expect to work through lunch,” it adds.

According to a web profile that is presumably self-authored, like so many other local abortionists, Browne learned to kill unborn babies at the University of Washington.

“'Teacher of termination' is an accurate and chilling euphemism,” Dan Kennedy, president of Human Life of Washington told us in reaction to this news. “When our history is written, future generations will be incredulous at the duplicity of important cultural institutions,” added Mr. Kennedy. “We cannot ignore the fact that today, we are the people that live in the killing fields.”

Ashamed?
Browne's Northgate clinic is right across the street from Group Health, where he has privileges, and which has a long local history of support for and practice of abortion. It wouldn't be surprising to most local abortion industry observers if he gets a lot of referral business from Group Health.

It's interesting to read his profile and notice that it doesn't make a single explicit mention of what he has dedicate his life to, abortion. It speaks of “Obstetrics and Gynecology”, “Pelvic/Gynecological surgery”, “Minimally Invasive Surgery”, being "a clinical instructor”, “ambulatory surgical centers”, “a national organization”. But nowhere does he say what he actually does. It is a stunning testimony to the fact that even after 50 million dead babies, everyone, including the abortionists themselves, know how deeply and darkly shameful abortion is.

Perhaps the most disturbing part of Browne's bio is that he indicates he is “a former member of the Advisory Group for Domestic Violence & Child Protection Services.”

Child Protection Services? Is that some sort of twisted abortionist humor?

Making a Killing?
We are still hoping Dr. Browne will agree to an interview with us in the future. We would like to ask him how much money he is now making. Was he jealous back at Cedar River because his colleague Robert Lewis Kothenbeutel was pulling in $340,000 a year while he was making just over $160,000?

For an estimate of how many high-paying, dismemberment abortions Browne might be doing at his new clinic one can look at a 2002 "study" published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine by his Cedar River colleague, Bob Koethenbeutel. Dr. Kothenbeutel reported doing just under 200 Dilation & Evacuation abortions in just a 6 week period at the Renton, Washington, facility.

That comes to about 1,700 over the course of a year. Using the published fee schedule from Dr. Gibbons' clinic, the average price for these kinds of abortions is about $750, or a total of $1.3 million in a year.

Whatever Charlie Browne's new abortion clinic haul comes to, you can be sure it's not Peanuts.

“A Little Face May Come Out & Stare Back at You”
While Browne's website claims that their surgical abortions are all done via "vacuum aspiration", the fact is that abortions of unborn babies over 12 weeks must be done via "dilation and evacuation" (D&E). Dr. Anthony Levatino, a doctor who used to perform these kinds of abortions before coming to recognize them as murder, describes the procedure:

“At 20 weeks, [a mother] has been feeling her baby kick for the last two weeks. If you could see her baby, she would be as long as your hand from the top of her head to the bottom of her rump, not counting the legs. ... [I] used a 13-inch instrument for “grasping” inside the uterus to remove the baby, piece by piece.”

By "piece", he explains that he means things like arms, legs, and ribs.

“I remember reaching in and literally ripping out an arm or a leg and looking at it in the clamp and I got sick. ... The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby’s head. If you have a really bad day, like I often did, a little face may come out and stare back at you.”

“Just like liposuction...”?
We have reported on Browne's clinic before. Below we reprint the contents of the web review of All Women's Health North, with the caveat the we have not independently authenticated this report. We can tell you that we did place repeated phone calls to the clinic asking for comment on the article. None of those calls were returned.

I am so sorry if any women have to go here for an abortion. My girlfriend and I are very sorry too. Sure, the waiting room was ok, but everyone who worked there had no idea what they were doing. The lady answering the phone did not even know the number to the office; and the doctor, I would be suprised if he was a doctor. (I only hope the stuff they use was cleaned properly!) My girlfriend told me that the doctor wasnt very gentle either (she is standing over my shoulder while I write this) and that he said "just relax girl, its just like liposuction then you will be back to beautiful." Why would a professional say that to her? Is this a joke to him? Hell, I could spend all night writing about this, and maybe I should, but I have to take care of my girl. My only hope is that if anyone is thinking about an abortion, DO NOT GO HERE!!!

Pasco Residents Show Up En Masse to Say NO to Planned Parenthood

Sunday, Oct 25, 2009 (Pasco) - Almost 700 residents of Pasco turned up this afternoon to send a strong and unequivocal message to the Pasco City Council: Say no to Planned Parenthood.

The council is deliberating an application from Planned Parenthood of Central Washington, an affiliate of the country's largest chain of abortion clinics, and central Washington's largest provider, to open up a new clinic in Pasco, next to Mark Twain Elementary School.

The Pasco Planning Commission recommended against the abortion giant's request, but our sources have told us that the city council has been intimidated by threats of lawsuits from the controversial organization if they don't get what they want.

Planned Parenthood has done television interviews in which they have indicated that they plan to bully their way into town even if nobody wants them. There is concern that a majority of councilmen may not be conservative enough nor brave enough to stand up to these threats.

But today's protest, in which local residents lined eight city blocks in downtown Pasco, was designed to give the council an idea what they can expect at the ballot box if they buckle to Big Abortion.

The event, which featured many signs in Spanish as well as English, was characterized by a seemingly constant background of car horns in support of the sign-holders by passing motorists.

One of the event organizers, Jim Toth, told us that nearly all local media outlets were notified of the event. The local TV station, KNDU, turned up and interviewed participants, including Dot Redman (shown left, talking to KNDU's Hilary Whittier), who was holding a printed sign stating "I Regret My Abortion." Ms. Redman is with the local chapter of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

Conspicuously absent was the local newspaper, the Tri-City Herald. The Herald has been derided in the past as "the publishing arm of Planned Parenthood of Central Washington".

United For Life Conference this Weekend in Vancouver, Washington

Please see the web site for full details.

Below is a list of speakers.

Father Scott Daniels has been an advocate for all human life issues since seminary days. He says, “I have become ever more deeply aware of the need for more people of good faith to come forward and dedicate their lives to saving the unborn,” and “I truly believe that priests are especially invaluable to this ministry.” Father Daniels’s experience, including years of working with high school students, will help him reach younger generations and reverse the effects of moral relativism they've received from our culture. He states, “In my discernment, there is no more important issue facing the Church and humanity today than the life issues and promoting the dignity of every human person from conception to natural death.”

Dr. Paul Byrne has testified on life issues before state legislatures and has been a guest on television programs in the U.S., Japan, and England. He is the author of many books and producer of the film Continuum of Life. His articles opposing euthanasia, abortion, and “brain death,” in which vital organs are removed from people not truly dead, have been published in medical journals and law literature. As an associate of the Life Guardian Foundation, Dr. Byrne believes that respect is owed to every human being, regardless of health, from conception until his or her natural end.

Mrs. Kathleen Sawyer. For the past two decades, Kathleen has ministered to hundreds of people at crisis pregnancy centers in Clark County. After the first ten years, she returned to school to become a Washington State registered counselor. For the past twelve years, Kathleen has maintained a professional practice and has addressed many seminars and retreats. She helps both individuals and couples in a wide range of topics, including marriage counseling, abuse, addiction recovery, and depression. A resident of Brush Prairie, WA, Kathleen leads H.E.A.R.T (Healing & Encouragement for Abortion-Related Trauma) groups. She recently authored the book The Day Sad Arrived that was published this past February.

Deleana Dey. In 2006 at a women’s retreat, God brought Deleana to her knees. She heard these words from the guest speaker: “If you have had an abortion in your past and need to talk, I’m here.” Deleana went to her, whispered through tears, and started on a path that brought her to Options 360 Pregnancy Clinic. Deleana volunteered for a year and a half and was asked to become the full-time Development Director. It is her passion that every young woman know truth and every baby have a birthday. As the Development Director at Options 360 Pregnancy Clinic, Deleana speaks at many events throughout Clark County, educating the public about options. Options 360 currently has two locations, in Battle Ground and Orchards, and a third opening November 1 in Vancouver. Deleana will continue to stand for every little life that God creates.

Sponsored by Clark County Right to Life, St. John’s Knights of Columbus, Options 360, Joner Lindberg PLLC, Attorneys at Law, Life Guardian Foundation, and Morelia Mexican Grill. Register at www.unitedforlife2009.com or call (360) 574-1569.

Conference Location: St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 8701 NE 119th St., Vancouver, WA

Monsignor Reilly of Helpers of God's Precious Infants Returns to Seattle

Sunday, October 25th and Monday, October 26th
Monsignor Philip J. Reilly

Founder of Helpers of God's Precious Infants in NYC
At St. Stephen the Martyr Catholic Church in Renton

Sunday, October 25th
6:45 PM -- Food and Fellowship, Social Hall
7:30 – 9:00 PM -- Monsignor Reilly
"In this Epic Struggle for Life, There Is Reason for Hope"

Monday, October 26th
8:00 AM -- MASS with homily by Monsignor Reilly
9:45 AM--Prayer Vigil led by Msgr. Reilly at the Renton Cedar River Abortion Clinic

carpooling available) or Pray in Adoration in St. Stephen's Chapel
11:15 AM -- Benediction at St. Stephen
11:30 AM -- "Sidewalk Counseling" by Msgr. Reilly, Light Lunch in Social Hall
1:30 PM -- Concluding Prayer

Monsignor Reilly has been involved in the Pro-life movement in America for more than 40 years. He headsthe Helpers of God's Precious Infants, an apostolate of prayer and counseling outside abortion mills, which he founded October 7, 1989. His approach has been embraced in the USA and around the world and has closed many abortion clinics and saved countless babies and is supported by Bishops and Cardinals internationally.

St. Stephen the Martyr Church, 13055 S.E. 192nd St., Renton, WA 98058, Parish Office 253.631.1940

For more information, contact Brian Scott at BDScott55@hotmail.com or 425.271.7185.
Your free-will donation will be appreciated.

Events are sponsored by Seattle Chapter Helpers of God's Precious Infants and St. Stephen Respect Life Committee

"There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a 'thump, thump' in my abdomen."

There's almost nothing that can be said to prepare you adequately to read what's on this link. I would urge you to do it anyway. I will introduce it simply by explaining that it is a blog post on a blog called "The Abortioneers". This blog is, apparently, a place where abortionists come together and chat -- rather candidly -- about what it is that they do.

This post is called "Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence and Changing the Discourse". It contains what at first seem like confessions from a late-term abortionist, with relatively graphic honesty about what happens in such abortions.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your America. Force yourself to read it. Force yourself to confront it.

(Hat tip to Jill Stanek for finding this.)

We Need a 'Pay Czar' to Cap Abortionist Salaries

With all this action these days from the White House to cap "excessive" salaries of CEOs, it's time to look at capping the salaries of abortion industry workers, like doctors, and executives.

It's time to get the money out of the abortion industry. There should never be a financial incentive to perform or sell an abortion. We have heard for years how the abortion industry is driven by profits and financial incentives. We can fix that.

Did you know that Planned Parenthood of Western Washington (PPWW) CEO Chris Charbonneau pulls down almost $260,000 a year. We've documented some of the outrageous salaries being made by abortion industry workers, especially the doctors that do the actual killing, here.

Looking at the most recent figures from Cedar River Clinics, the Western Washington abortion chain which are also the only non-hospital facilities that do horrific abortions right up to the 6th month of pregnancy, that are actually illegal in most Western European countries, we see that Dr. Charlie Browne made $217,175 in 2007.

That's a paltry sum compared to his colleague Dr. Robert Kothenbeutel, who took home almost $305,000. Amazingly, Cedar River also was employing two full-time anesthetists: Douglas L. Raber and Dennis O Johnston. Anesthesia is only used for surgical abortions, and then mostly for the grisly second trimester abortions Cedar River specializes in.

Raber managed to make $190,000, considerably higher than the average for his specialty.

One of the premises of the current obsession with scrutinizing how much money CEOs are making in this country is a recognition of how money can "incentivize" an unethical and aggressive approach to sales of things which should not be aggressively sold.

Everyone -- abortion providers conspicuously notwithstanding -- pays lip service to the idea that reducing the number of abortions is a Good Thing. From this it irresistibly follows that we should never allow there to be a financial incentive to sell abortion.

The way to do that is to cap the salaries abortion providers can make. There are numerous ways this can be done. We suggest that the Washington State Legislature pass a law that says that no doctor can make more than 10% of his income from the provision of abortion services.

The abortion industry can squawk all it wants claiming they're not in it for the money. But if you speak to those who have come out of that industry and blown the whistle, we find out the truth.

Carol Everett used to run a chain of abortion clinics in Texas. She has since gone very public about how the pursuit of profits drove them to sell as many abortions as possible.

A new movie, Blood Money, goes into great detail on this problem.

For the record, in 2007 we spoke with PPWW spokesman Brian Cutler and asked him if Planned Parenthood's doctors would be willing to back up his claim that they were not in this "for the money" by doing abortions "pro bono". Needless to say, he said they had declined.

While some in the medical profession will whine that "this is a legal medical service" and doctors "deserve to get paid for their services", the fact is that countless doctors donate their time and talents both here and abroad.

In many other Western European countries, and Canada, the notion that medicine should be "non-profit" has widespread acceptance. We are not arguing that we should adopt the same notion across all real medicine, just making the point that the government stepping in to a certain, specific area of the economy and eliminating financial incentives to sell something that should never be "sold" has plenty of precedent.

Yes, the time for abortion salary caps is now. The time for a Washington State Abortion Pay Czar is today. This cause should truly bring together Left and Right and unite us on some common ground.