Boise's Channel 7 ran a story on Planned Parenthood's outrage over being dropped by the Komen Foundation. The impression they convey is that all of the Treasure Valley is up in arms because the local abortion clinic will no longer receive money raised under the auspices of "fighting breast cancer". Perhaps local donors will no longer be interested in finding a cure.

It has long been a curiosity that Komen got involved with the Abortion Industry in the first place. Setting aside the growing body of research which shows a linkage between abortion and increased risk of breast cancer - the simple truth is that Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms. The money they've been getting from Komen is in the form of "pass-through grants", whatever that is. (There is an informative article on this point now up on LifeNews.Com). The local news "reporter" failed to ask anything about Planned Parenthood's ability to actually screen for breast cancer. They simply gave Planned Parenthood staff the chance to publicly chastise and threaten Komen.

Channel 7 also failed to contact this organization for a fuller explanation of the upside for Komen. While there may be abortion zealots who are offended about not simultaneously helping kill babies while supporting cancer research - many in the pro-Life movement are energized. In fact, Komen is reporting that its donations have doubled since the announcement. That was, apparently, too much information to share with viewers in Idaho.

In truth, Channel 7 - the "Idaho News Leader" - rarely covers the pro-Life movement, despite the views and values of an overwhelming majority of its audience. How sad.

 

The pro-Life community is buzzing with the tremendous news that Planned Parenthood has lost the legitimizing cover of the breast cancer lobby. The Komen Foundation's decision to end its partnership with the Abortion Industry is a huge blessing - on many levels.

There is the money which Komen has transferred from life-loving citizens to those promoting the death of women and babies. Seeing Planned Parenthood lose several millions in charitable support is certainly encouraging.

And we are all excited by the fact that pro-Lifers will no longer have to argue or wince or boycott fundraising efforts designed to end the scourge of breast cancer. In fact, we encourage our readers to at least send the Komen Foundation an email to express our gratitude; a donation in the name of innocent children would be better. Komen deserves sincere praise for protecting the integrity of the effort to treat and cure breast cancer.

But in the long term, the best aspect of this development is that Planned Parenthood can no longer hide its evil behind the skirt of "fighting breast cancer" - as if it were principally concerned about the health or lives of women. Whenever their killing operations have been exposed, they seek to change the subject by pointing to their work with Komen.

That ruse just got a lot harder.

 

 

The Board of Idaho Chooses Life has voted to oppose the creation of a state insurance exchange because of the myriad dangers it poses to Idahoans. Implementing ObamaCare, even as we challenge it before the U.S. Supreme Court, just doesn't make sense. The pending lawsuit provides with a great exit ramp. 

But the nation's best hope is a rejection of Barack Obama at the polls this fall.

We have distributed a "Policy Statement" on the idea of a state exchange to key members of the Legislature and are now meeting to reinforce our message. Rather than voluntarily submit to the edicts of Obama and Secretary Sebelius, Idaho must offer national leadership by choosing a private-sector path to better, cheaper health care.

 

President Obama issued a public statement this past Sunday honoring the Supreme Court for its heinous act 39 years ago this week:

"We must remember that [Roe v. Wade] not only protects a woman's health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters."

That is special. As the present leader of a movement to strip Americans of privacy and their right to pursue happiness and retain the fruits of their labor - the one area Obama would acknowledge "privacy" is in the matter of destroying an innocent life. In his view, the destruction of a defenseless human being should remain a "personal" matter between a mother and her abortionist.

How truly sad it is that the "leader" of the free world has nothing more to offer than legitimizing moral chaos in the name of "freedom".

We ask that you join us in praying to the Lord Almighty that He would raise up a righteous man to help restore America's moral grounding by tearing down the high altars of libertinism.

Americans United for Life has released its pro-Life rankings of the states for 2012. They rank Idaho as the 19th "safest" place for preborn children in the country - at least in terms of the legal protections afforded our preborn brothers and sisters. That is an improvement of four spots from the year before, reflecting our strong 2011 legislative session. In 2009, AUL ranked us at 26 among the states.

Leading the list for the past several years has been Louisiana, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.

A deeper look at the rankings shows that, generally speaking, the states governed by the ultra-liberal 9th

Circuit are the deadliest. California and Washington have been fighting over dead-last for several years. The average ranking for states in the 9th Circuit - without Idaho and Arizona - is an appalling 45th. Part of that phenomenon reflects the Abortion Lobby's death grip on the political culture in states like Montana, Washington, Oregon and California. But one cannot discount the deleterious impact of 9th Circuit judges on the pro-Life movements operating within their political orbit.

The rankings from AUL are by no means the last word on the subject, as the organization does come at the question with certain biases. However, it does give us a feel for state of the nation and the great disparity between the states.

It also reminds us of the work we have left to do.