Archive for August, 2009

Awesome New Book - To Be A Mother: Adopting God’s Heart, By Deanna Jones

Submitted by Stand for Life Blog

Deanna Jones tells her poignant story of abortion, redemption, and adoption in her new book, To Be A Mother: Adopting God’s Heart. It can be ordered only online at tobeamother.com and Amazon.com
“To Be a Mother truly highlights the healing presence of Christ in Deanna’s life. She eloquently travels from her [...]

Planned Parenthood of Spokane Appeals Audit

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
Planned Parenthood of Spokane has decided to appeal the audit which found it overbilled Medicaid over a period of at least three years, rather than pay the $629,000 which DSHS says it owes taxpayers.
Neither Planned Parenthood nor its attorney responded to inquiries, but DSHS spokesman Jim Stevenson told AIW late [...]

PP Silent on Plans to Repay Medicaid on Eve of Deadline

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
Today is the day that Planned Parenthood of Spokane either has to send a check for $629,000 to the Department of Social and Health Services for the overbillings found in the recent audit, or file an appeal.
Repeated inquiries to both Planned Parenthood and the group’s attorney, David B. Robbins, have [...]

Blog Mentioned in Wash. Times, PP Spokane Overbilling Gets National Attention

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The Washington Times yesterday published a story on the DSHS audit of Planned Parenthood of Spokane, including the requirement to repay $629,000 by today. The story appeared in Amanda Carpenter’s daily Hot Button, and cited this blog as the original source.
Perceptively, the Times linked the Spokane audit with the massive [...]

Will Planned Parenthood Financial Scandal Put “Take Charge” Renewal At Risk?

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
This is the year that the state Medicaid program which has been called Planned Parenthood’s private slush fund comes up for renewal again. While many critics consider the review of any program that supplies half of that controversial organization’s revenue little more than a formality, the recent financial audit finding [...]

Will Planned Parenthood Financial Scandal Put “Take Charge” Renewal At Risk?

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
This is the year that the state Medicaid program which has been called Planned Parenthood’s private slush fund comes up for renewal again. While many critics consider the review of any program that supplies half of that controversial organization’s revenue little more than a formality, the recent financial audit finding [...]

Spokesman-Review Publishes Misleading Story on Spokane Planned Parenthood Audit

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
Last Thursday, the Spokane Spokesman-Review published a report on the finalized audit of Planned Parenthood of Spokane (PPS) by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). The audit was first publicized on this blog. As we reported, the audit included a repayment bill of $629,000 plus interest.
John [...]

Observations Of The World We Live In, August 2009

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1. If Obama doesn’t care about the life of the unborn (and born baby), why should anyone think he would have a problem pulling the plug on grandma?
2. The backbone of the health care legislation is not health care, but control over people. What is abortion but total control over [...]

Voice of the seed

VOICE OF THE SEED
In the beginning
I am
Small, unseen by the naked eye
But like my Creator
Full of life
And pregnant
With the meaning of life
Wanting for nothing,
No man’s affirmation,
To make me viable,
Even though
Vulgar vernacular vilifies
My being,
Making of me a non-entity.
Life lives within me
And I live like you
One inestimably treasured day
Each day
Cradled in the womb of life.
We, you and [...]

Planned Parenthood Responds to Audit … Sort Of

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
Acting President of Planned Parenthood of Spokane, Anna Franks (pictured right with husband), today finally responded to the news, first published on this blog, that her organization was found guilty of 5 separate categories of overbilling Medicaid, and was ordered to repay at least $630,000. The statement was released through [...]

Victim of Planned Parenthood of Central Washington’s Abortion Mill Shares Her Story

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
A brave Pasco woman has spoken out and shared the story of how Planned Parenthood of Central Washington’s Kennewick clinic engaged in horribly unethical, perhaps illegal, medical practices in carrying out an abortion on her that they knew she didn’t want, when she was just 16. Read all about it [...]

The Difference Between Killing A Wanted Fetus And An Unwanted Fetus

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Planned Parenthood Spokane Slapped with $700,000 Bill from Audit

Submitted by Abortion in Washington Blog
This is an AIW Exclusive.
Planned Parenthood of Spokane (PPS) has been caught overbilling Medicaid for condoms, charging for contraceptives without a prescription, “unbundling” abortion claims, and claiming patients were having doctor visits when they were just picking up a prescription.
All of this is in an audit of the organization just [...]

Pro-Lifers Need To Oppose The Entire Health Care Bill

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President Obama’s health care bill must be stopped before being enacted into law. But the method many are using to fight this bill will ensure that it will become law. How are pro-lifers contesting it? Most want specific wording stating that abortion will not be funded. Since abortion is one [...]

Seattle Area Late-Term Abortion Clinic in Financial Scandal?

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This blog has spent a long time investigating the finances of Cedar River Clinics, which runs three late-term abortion clinics in Western Washington. Cedar River runs clinics which do abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy — and those are just the ones they admit to! — in Renton, Yakima, [...]