It was another record year for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood – killing more babies in abortions than ever before. Although Planned Parenthood bills itself as a woman’s health organization, in reality, it is little more than an abortion business.

Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report, released today, shows the abortion business killed a record 402,230 babies in abortions in the past year, while generating over $2 billion in revenue.

That’s a 2.42% increase in the number of babies Planned Parenthood killed in 2023-2024 than it did the prior year, when it killed 392,715 babies in abortions.

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That’s over 1,102 babies killed in abortions every single day of the year or 46 dead babies every single hour. That’s in insane figure for Planned Parenthood, a company that claims its main focus is merely women’s health care. It’s a horrific number that is almost difficult to comprehend and far surpasses any genocide in human history.

The figure is also higher than its previous annual report from two years ago, where it indicated it killed 374,155 babies in abortions. In 2019 the abortion giant killed 354,871 babies in abortions, showing that Planned Parenthood continues to kill more and more babies even as it does less and less legitimate health care.

The report, labeled “disingenuous” by the watchdog group American Life League, fails to disclose data on abortion pill distribution, which may account for up to 80% of abortions in some states. The group argues the abortion numbers may be higher.

Katie Brown Xavios, director of American Life League, criticized the report’s release just after Mother’s Day weekend, calling it “horrifically inappropriate.”

She pointed to Planned Parenthood’s $792.2 million in federal funding as a reason to defund the organization.

“Taxpayers are funding the lavish salaries of Planned Parenthood’s elite, with CEOs earning an average of $317,000 annually, in the 98th percentile of American wage earners,” Xavios said.

Researcher Katherine Van Dyke emphasized the report’s omission of abortion pill numbers.

“This hides the true extent of abortions, likely far exceeding the reported 402,230,” she said.

Planned Parenthood’s reported $1.286 billion in “medical services” spending, nearly half funded by taxpayers, supported abortions, pushing sex education on children, and hormone distribution, according to American Life League. The group argues this justifies ending public funding for the organization.

The abortion giant is also now in the hormone selling business, exploiting children to push deadly and improper drugs on them.

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Attend the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Euthanasia Resistance BC event - May 26 @ 6:30 pm

Opposing Euthanasia in Canada: Looking to the Future with Hope featuring key note speaker: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

This event is open to the public but requires a free eventbrite registration (Registration Link)

The event is at the: Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Junior Ballroom - 1000 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC on May 26 at 6:30 pm.

He will refine Pope Francis manner of synodality not cancel it.

He will refine Pope Francis TC to make it a refined SP, not cancel it.

He will refine all the charitable works of the Holy See and praise Pope Francis outreach and welcome of the poor and marginalized, not cancel it.

He will refine Pope Francis migrant outreach with nuance about the right to legal migration and not cancel it.

He will refine the new Mass, not cancel it.

In one of the worst wrongful birth lawsuits in history, the parents of a daughter with cystic fibrosis have won $2 million in a lawsuit against their OBGYN, claiming their daughter’s disability prevents them from enjoying their lives.

A Connecticut couple won a $2 million settlement in the lawsuit, a case that pro-life advocates say devalues the inherent worth of every human being.

Elizabeth and Eric Trotter filed the suit in 2020, alleging that medical negligence prevented them from making an informed decision about their daughter Madelyn’s conception or birth.

Madelyn, now 6, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis shortly after her 2018 birth. The genetic disorder, caused by a mutation inherited from both parents, leads to thick mucus buildup in the lungs and other organs, requiring extensive medical care. The Trotters argued that their doctor failed to test Elizabeth for the cystic fibrosis gene during her pregnancies, depriving them of the chance to avoid conceiving Madelyn or potentially killing her in an abortion.

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They claimed their daughter’s condition has caused them emotional distress and limited their personal and professional lives, a stance that pro-life groups argue reduces a child’s value to a consumerist standard of “perfection.”

From a pro-life perspective, the lawsuit raises profound ethical concerns, suggesting that a child’s life can be deemed a harm if it comes with challenges.

Framing a child’s existence as a loss undermines the dignity of all individuals, especially those with disabilities. Madelyn is a beautiful, valuable human being, and her life is a gift, not a burden.

The Trotters’ legal victory highlights the growing prevalence of “wrongful birth” lawsuits, which pro-life advocates criticize as promoting a culture that views disabled children as undesirable. In this case, the couple claimed Madelyn’s medical needs, including twice-daily respiratory therapy and frequent hospitalizations, have forced them to prioritize her care over their own aspirations.

Yet, pro-life commentators point to stories like that of Carsten Manring, a teenager with cystic fibrosis who attended a similar trial to demonstrate that the condition does not preclude a fulfilling life. Manring, an avid hunter and skier, told a Montana courtroom, “CF doesn’t hold me back.”

Pro-life groups hope Madelyn’s story will inspire a reevaluation of such lawsuits, emphasizing that every life has intrinsic worth. They argue that instead of seeking damages for a child’s existence, society should focus on supporting families with resources and medical advancements, which have extended cystic fibrosis life expectancy to around 50 years.

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President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to  the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality.

Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the “war on terror.” Violence against religious and ethnic minorities has, predictably, exploded under the “rule” of a self-proclaimed Syrian president who until very recently was on the US “most wanted” terrorist list.

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas raid, Gaza has been reduced to rubble and turned into a humanitarian catastrophe. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and perhaps another million face starvation. US bombs and financial aid have facilitated the utter destruction of Gaza.

Iran has made peace with Saudi Arabia thanks to Chinese mediation and is deepening its ties with the Kingdom. Thus, the US has little leverage in talks with the two former enemies.

Israel is conducting military operations against several countries in the region simultaneously as the world increasingly condemns its aggression against its neighbors.

After tearing up the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran in his first term, President Trump is pushing for a new deal with Iran while threatening to attack if negotiations do not produce the results he demands.

Massively increased US military action against the Houthis in Yemen starting in March did not result in their capitulation to US demands. Despite attempting to put the best spin on things, it is clear that the US retreated from the region in the face of a series of successful Yemeni actions in defense of their homeland.

Biden and then Trump launched attacks against Yemen on behalf of Israel, but in the end the US president wisely removed US military assets from the area and called off the bombing.

In short, President Trump will be wading into a minefield this week, but it is a peril that the US government has largely brought upon itself. Decades of US interventionism, from at least the 2003 Iraq war, have not produced the peaceful transformation of the region, as promised by the neocons and their mentor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From the unnecessary Iraq war – based on lies – to the destruction of Libya and Syria and countless other interventions, the Middle East is a basket case. And it turns out none of it actually helped Israel at all!

Having ignited the tinder box of the region with US backing, Israel has now found itself friendless in a region increasingly hostile to its policies and even its very existence. Now there are indications that the Trump Administration is tiring of this entangling alliance as the MAGA base looks more warily on foreign interventionism.

The lesson that President Trump should take with him is that to a large degree it has been US interventionism in the Middle East that has produced these poisoned fruits. His wise military disengagement from the Houthis in Yemen should serve as a US model for the region. Ties forged by trade and friendship produce peace and prosperity and are far preferable to endless neocon war cries.

The story of a woman who drove over 700 miles to Albuquerque, New Mexico, intending to obtain an abortion but ultimately choosing life for her unborn child is a powerful testament to the sanctity of life and the impact of compassionate pro-life outreach.

The woman, whose identity remains private, embarked on this long journey from another state, likely from Texas and driven the easy accessibility of abortion in New Mexico, where abortions are legal up to birth. This story highlights the importance of offering support and alternatives to abortion.

Upon arriving in Albuquerque, the woman encountered a group of peaceful, faith-based pro-life advocates outside the abortion facility. These sidewalk counselors, committed to protecting unborn lives, engaged with her in a non-confrontational manner, offering prayers, information about fetal development, and resources for pregnancy support.

Their presence and gentle approach provided a critical moment of reflection for the woman, allowing her to reconsider her initial decision. This interaction exemplifies the pro-life movement’s emphasis on love and dialogue, aiming to inform rather than condemn, and demonstrates how personal connections can influence life-affirming choices.

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According to a statement from the Cherub Initiative, a local pro-life organization, the woman, identified as “Mama M,” arrived at SWO with her aunt after renting a car to make the long journey from Texas. The woman, who was six weeks pregnant, had initially intended to terminate her pregnancy at the facility, one of the few clinics in the nation that performs the latest-term abortions.

“Praise the Lord! Mama M chose life for both herself and her unborn baby because of both teams—the LIFE Runners Albuquerque Chapter and the Cherub Initiative Sidewalk Guardians For Life team!” the organization announced in an email celebrating the news.

Members of the pro-life groups gathered outside SWO for their monthly huddle and prayer outreach. “We began by putting on the full armor of God, being in prayer, public witness, peaceful, law-abiding presence, and doing outreach,” the email explained. When Mama M and her aunt arrived, the teams immediately began reaching out with words of encouragement and offered a “Mommy Hope Bag” filled with gifts and resources to support women choosing life.

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But fresh air through open windows is blowing like a gentle breeze, this breeze is reaching all the clergy and laity of the world, especially we young Catholics!

From Silere non Possum:

Vatican City - Without clamor, without triumphant announcements or leaked communiqués to journalists, this morning Pope Leo XIV held his first private audience as the new Bishop of Rome. The recipient of the meeting was not a head of state or a high diplomatic representative, but Cardinal Baldassare Reina, Vicar General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome.

Leo XIV chose to begin his ministry as Pontiff in this way, marking in practice and not in words, his connection with the Urbe. No public emphasis on the meaning of the meeting, but a clear message: the Pope intends to be, first of all, the Bishop of Rome, for his priests and take care of them.

Behind the sobriety of gestures there is a deep awareness. Leo XIV knows well what happens inside the Vicariate and in the Diocese of Rome: the power games, the intrigues, the questionable choices that, over the years, have favored some to the detriment of others. A reality documented and denounced for a long time by rumors like Silere non possum. Yet, more than struggling with the shadows of the past, the new Pontiff seems to want to look forward, with lucidity, mildness, listening and a decisive step. His first concern is clear: the priests and the people of God of his diocese. It is to them that he wants to turn his energy and his care. And for this reason, on his first official day of meetings he chose to meet his vicar to whom he has already expressed the desire to meet the priests.

A symbolic and concrete gesture together marks the beginning of the journey that Leo XIV wishes to undertake as a pastor, close to his priests and his people. The attention that Pope Leone has immediately reserved for priestly vocations will also mean that the Pontiff will return to visit his seminary and dialogue with the trainers and future priests of his diocese. On May 31, 2025, Pope Prevost has already decided to preside over the presbytery ordinations in St. Peter's Basilica.

Thus begins, without clamor, a pontificate that announces itself sober, attentive to the real life of the Church and oriented to rediscover the authentic roots of Peter's ministry. Rome, once again, is in the center: unlike what has happened in recent times, the Pope does not exalt the title of Bishop of Rome to belittle that of Supreme Pontiff. On the contrary, he takes care with awareness and depth of his being Bishop of this Church, from which derives - by grace and by mission - also his universal responsibility as Pontiff of the Catholic Church.

Can the Annual Theft of $521,000,000,000 from the Federal Budget Be Stopped?

Paul Craig Roberts

Democrat politicians led a break-in at a New Jersey ICE facility.  In Worcester, Massachusetts, Democrat city council member Etel Haxhiaj led an assault on local police and federal officers in an effort to prevent apprehension by ICE of a violent immigrant-invader that the Biden scum permitted to illegally enter America in August, 2022.  Local police demand action agains Etel Haxhiaj for assaulting police officers, but of course the Democrats support Etel Haxhiaj’s violence against the police, and nothing will happen to her unless the feds step in.  https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/chaotic-video-shows-massachusetts-ice-arrest-being-disrupted-by-unruly-crowd-leading-to-2-arrests/ 

The fact that the Democrats and their judges are so determined to keep  immigrant-invaders from being deported should tell us something.  We should also learn something from all the foreign names of Democrat politicians and judges.  The Camp of the Saints has deeply advanced into America.  The Democrats have made it clear that they intend to rule us in behalf of the millions of immigrant-invaders the Democrats have intentionally brought into our country.

Democrat presstitutes such as Politico are attempting to generate fear of Trump by alleging that ICE will soon be picking up and deporting American citizens.  And Trump is going to take away Social Security and destroy education, and so on.  The fantasies multiply as the presstitutes stoke the flames of fear of Trump’s efforts to protect America.  They don’t want America.  They want a Tower of Babel.  

And people fall for the fear-mongering. ICE doesn’t help by picking up foreign students for deportation because they protested Israel’s destruction of Palestine, or by staging daylight raids in an immigrant-invader’s neighborhood. There’s no way we are going to rid ourselves of millions of illegals one by one.  Once a country is overrun, as America has been, it is for keeps.  Is America any longer America, or has America transitioned into a Tower of Babel?   The Democrat judges and the whore media are enforcing on us America as a Tower of Babel devoid of unity.

I think we are going to find out also that the organizations benefitting from what the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concludes is $521,000,000,000 worth of larceny annually in the federal budget have squatters’ rights in the larceny.  The theft has gone on for so long and is so institutionalized that the beneficiaries of the fraud regard it as a property right.  In effect, those who have been defrauding us now have squatters’ rights in the fraud.

Two articles in the current issue of the City Journal address this serious matter. Steven Malanga brings to our attention that the federal budget funds anti-poverty, community building, social welfare, anti-crime and other such programs that never produce any results but continue to run for decades.  Congress funds these programs without even requiring that criteria be established for assessing their success. It seems the money mainly goes for building political machines and the wealth of local politicians primarily for the Democrats who control the inner cities.

Heather Mac Donald exposes the facts of the National Institutes of Health’s funding of medical research.  The NIH has been paying the universities where the research is conducted a cover charge equal to 69% of the grant to reimburse the universities for the cost of their infrastructure that supports the research. Universities are each receiving hundreds of million of dollars in “indirect funding” to pay for the university’s infrastructure used in the research.

But what does the cover charge really pay for?  It seems it pays for the extraordinary expansion of the size and scope of the administrative bureaucracy. There seem to be endless vice presidents, assistant and vice provosts, and associate deans whose jobs are to police language, thought, speech, political correctness and provide emotional comfort to those in need. 

For example, the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania has an an associate vice provost for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, a vice dean for Inclusion and Diversity and an Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion (the same function three times), offices for Inclusion Initiatives and Social Justice Education, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Black Cultural Center, Penn Women’s Center, a vice dean for Transgender Patient Advocate Program and the LGBT Student-Trainee-Faculty Mentorship Program.  

And these listings are just the tip of the iceberg.

The effort of the Trump administration to cut back on the grant overhead charges that fund six figure administration salaries and administrators that apparently in some universities outnumber the faculties is being presented by the universities as “the death of science from lack of funding.”  Of course the whore media beats the drums loudly. The totally corrupt Democrat judges will jump in as they have in deportation and all other issues and rule that all of these claims on the taxpayers’ money are valid.

The position of the universities as I read it is that the Trump administration is attempting to take away their entitlement.  They are asserting squatters’ rights to their theft from the American people, and the Democrat judges will rule in their favor.

Indeed, so might the Republican ones as the judiciary sees in the situation the opportunity to seize power from the executive.

Americans need to understand that if Trump fails, tyranny is their future.

We often hear U.S. and NATO spokesmen claim that they believe in a rules-based international order. They don’t.

The United States and its NATO allies have stressed repeatedly that Russia’s use of force to seize portions of Ukraine is reprehensible. They were emphatic on that point in 2014 when the Kremlin responded to the West’s role in overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected, pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovych, by taking control of the Crimean Peninsula and then annexing it after a rigged referendum.  The furious NATO powers imposed a variety of economic sanctions against Russia.  Secretary of State John Kerry and other Western officials stated explicitly that such behavior was utterly unacceptable in a “rules-based” international system.

U.S. and European leaders took an even more hardline stance in February 2022 when Russia escalated the confrontation with Kyiv by launching a full-scale invasion and occupying major portions of Ukraine’s Donbass region. Washington and its allies promptly imposed a new array of even harsher economic sanctions on Russia.  They also deepened their involvement in the dispute by providing weapons sales and other military aid to Kyiv, transforming the fight between Ukraine and Russia into a de facto NATO proxy war against Russia.

NATO’s hypocrisy on the issue of one country seizing another country’s territory by force is breathtaking.  NATO as an entity committed the same offense when it bombed Serbia to compel Belgrade to relinquish control of its province of Kosovo in 1999.  Moreover, a NATO member, Turkey, has committed blatant acts of aggression against three neighbors, Cyprus, Iraq, and Syria, to secure illicit territorial gains.  NATO as an alliance, and the United States as NATO’s leading power, have tolerated Ankara’s rogue behavior, even as they express utter indignation at Moscow’s similar conduct.

Turkish troops moved into Cyprus in the summer of 1974, ostensibly to protect Turkish Cypriots, who made up a little less than 20 percent of the island’s population and were repeatedly involved in violent confrontations with the larger Greek Cypriot community. On this occasion, after the initial intervention, Turkish forces expanded outward from the predominantly Turkish areas in the north and promptly occupied ethnic Greek portions of the island, creating thousands of refugees.

Turkey’s aggression against Cyprus was more brazen and extensive than Russia’s absorption of Crimea or even the takeover of oblasts in the Donbass following the Kremlin’s larger 2022 incursion.  Moscow now controls approximately 20 percent of Ukraine.  By the time Turkish forces in Cyprus finished their offensive, they occupied nearly 40 percent of the country.

Washington’s reaction to Ankara’s aggression was tepid at best.  Indeed, critics contend that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quietly supportive of Turkey’s actions.  Members of Washington’s military elite definitely did not wish to antagonize their Turkish counterparts.  Widespread anger in Congress about a NATO member committing such a blatant act of aggression led to the imposition of some sanctions against Turkey, but Ankara’s supporters in the executive branch and the defense industry worked to dilute those sanctions from the outset.  Within a few years, the punitive measures faded away, and military cooperation between Washington and Ankara returned to normal. Congress lifted the embargo on sales of arms to Turkey in 1978.

U.S. policymakers soon were content to see the Cyprus situation become a frozen conflict.  Year after year, Washington’s supposed mediation efforts to produce political reunification of Cyprus led to little progress.  More than a half century after Turkey’s invasion and occupation of its neighbor, Ankara effectively controls northern Cyprus through a puppet client state that it created.  Over 100,000 settlers from mainland Turkey were brought in, from 1974 to 2005, to replace Greek Cypriot residents who were expelled during the 1974 war.

Cyprus has been the most prominent victim of Ankara’s use of military force to gain control of additional territory, but it is not the only one.  After the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime and the establishment of the self-governing Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Turkish military forces conducted dozens of incursions.  During Donald Trump’s first administration, Ankara took even more extensive action against Kurdish-controlled regions in northern Syria.  Turkey’s government has not made a formal claim to land in either country, but Ankara effectively controls a significant swath of territory beyond its border with both neighbors.

Washington’s alleged commitment to a rules-based international order is phony.  That is especially the case with respect to the use of force for territorial conquest.  U.S. leaders stood by with scarcely a murmur of protest as Israel seized and ultimately annexed Syria’s Golan Heights following the 1967 war.  Nor did U.S. policymakers say much when Israeli governments moved settlers into the West Bank, forcibly displacing Palestinian residents.  More recently, Washington has actively collaborated with Israel’s efforts to dominate Gaza and expel its Palestinian inhabitants.

Such Israeli actions are at least finally getting extensive attention and growing condemnation around the world.  The territorial depredations of another rogue U.S. ally, Turkey, have gone largely unnoticed for decades.  That attitude needs to change.  U.S. leaders should hold a fellow NATO member to an even higher standard than they do other countries with respect to military aggression and the illicit seizure of territory.  The contrast between Washington’s vehement condemnation of Russia’s actions in Ukraine and its tolerance of Turkey’s even more egregious actions in Syria, Iraq, and especially Cyprus is both striking and sickening.

Reprinted with permission from Antiwar.com.

Cops enforce laws. On first impression that may seem a good thing as one considers long in place laws, such as against assault, murder, and theft, that can help protect individuals’ ability to live in peace. But, laws have proliferated over time in America so that cops are spending a significant portion of their effort enforcing laws against things like drugs and even speech — acting to restrain instead of protect the exercise of individual rights.

Coming with the expansion of laws has been the conversion, continuing during the Donald Trump administration, of police departments largely into effectively military forces with military-style practices and weapons more suited for fighting against an opposing military force than for serving and protecting the people in a community.

A demonstration of the extent of this conversion of police forces came up in recent oral argument at the United States Supreme Court for the case of Martin v. United States. There a lawyer for the US government argued, in the case concerning a wrong house being hit by a brutal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) no-knock SWAT raid, that it is acceptable for police not to even check the house number out front before detonating an explosive in a house, knocking down a door, and rushing in guns drawn. Crazy but true. Read here a Friday Reason article by Billy Binion that includes an excerpt from the oral argument and some background details.

 Please note that Pope Leo’s cassock maintains that short sleeves  that goes over the long sleeves of the cassock. Francis abandoned that look, which Benedict had recovered. His Holiness takes possession of the Apostolic Palace and apartment showing its wonderful papal chapel so unlike the Vatican Motel VI’s chapel.

The second video is the audience Pope Leo had with journalists.