NEW LIVE ACTION VIDEO: THE SICK "HUMOROUS" SIDE OF ABORTION COUNSELING AT SOUTHWESTERN WOMEN'S OPTIONS, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

Southwestern Women’s Options 

http://www.southwesternwomens.com/

Albuquerque, New Mexico 

• Elective Abortion through 28 weeks

Curtis Boyd, M.D. has been providing pregnancy termination services in New Mexico since June 1972, shortly after abortion services were legalized in New Mexico. Dr. Boyd worked closely with Clergy Consultation for Problem Pregnancies, a national organization dedicated to providing safe abortions and he was one of the first physicians to provide high quality, low cost outpatient procedures in the southwest. We are honored to have Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella, both of whom worked with Dr. Tiller, join our staff in 2010 to perform abortions in all trimesters. Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella are Board-Certified Ob/Gyns who specialize in third trimester abortion care. New to our staff is Dr. Carmen Landau. She is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a specialist in abortion procedures.
NOTE: For Dr. George Tiller, late term abortionist, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Tiller.

Live Action has just released a new video filmed undercover in New Mexico,
Seen here: http://www.liveaction.org/inhuman/what-is-human-video/.
YouTube Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04-l2cm1oQ.
Press Release from Live Action: http://www.liveaction.org/inhuman/new-mexico-abortionist-compares-injection-that-ends-a-babys-life-to-a-flu-shot/:
New Mexico Abortionist Compares Injection that Ends a Baby’s Life to a “Flu Shot”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 13, 2013
CONTACT: DREW BELSKY, MEDIA@LIVEACTION.ORG, 856-535-1635

New Investigative Video Shows New Mexico Abortionist Comparing Injection that Ends a Baby’s Life to a “Flu Shot”

Nationwide Undercover Investigation Reveals Abortionists Repeatedly Distorting, Misrepresenting, and Lying about the Development and Humanity of Children in the Womb

Arlington, VA – Live Action has unveiled the fifth video in its new investigative series, Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Abortion Industry. The video, found at www.liveaction.org/inhuman, exposes a host of abortion doctors nationwide equivocating on the humanity of the child in the womb, and then describing in graphic detail the late-term abortion procedure that would end these children’s lives.

The video features newly released recordings from Dr. Carmen Landau, of Southwest Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a counselor employed at the same facility.

When asked by the Live Action investigator, “Is it a baby?,” the counselor answers:

Well what – how – what do you consider a baby?  It’s definitely a fetus. … Um, it depends what the term “baby” means to you, and how you perceive it.

When asked if the possibility of the pre-born baby feeling pain bothers her, the New Mexico counselor replies:

I feel that it’s, um, necessary for the procedure to happen and, ultimately, um, safest, and kind of the most, kinda, humane way to do it, you know?

Abortion doctor Carmen Landau tells the investigator that the injection that will kill her baby is “like any shot, you know, like a flu shot, or a vaccine, really.” Contrary to a large body of evidence, she alleges that babies in the womb do not feel pain or anguish from a poisonous injection, claiming that “it’s not like you and I [sic] where when we get a flu shot, we’re kind of, ‘Ugh!’ – not – that – that – that experience of anxiety and suffering is not – it [the baby]‘s not capable of.”

Lila Rose, President of Live Action, says she hopes to educate the nation on the true nature of abortion.

“These babies,” said Rose, “whom Carmen Landau calls ‘not a thinking being,’ are unique and precious human persons. They feel, they dream, they grow…and when an abortionist tries to kill them with a needle or with forceps, they react. They fight for their lives, just as any of us would.

“Our investigation has exposed the disturbing willingness of abortionists to engage in illegal and inhuman acts,” Rose said, “including misleading pregnant women, pushing them into abortion, and even infanticide. This is horrible, but Americans should know just as well the horrifying practices that are still legal, that we allow to happen every day.”

The first half of Live Action’s latest video details abortionists’ estimation of the humanity of the unborn child. Abortionist Laura Mercer assures the investigator that her 24-week baby “doesn’t even look like a baby yet.” Live Action provides several images of premature babies born as early as 23 weeks.

LeRoy Carhart, the subject of Live Action’s previous Inhuman video, is quoted as follows:

Well, in my heart and my mind, you know, life begins when the mother thinks it begins, not when anybody else thinks it begins. For some women, it’s before they conceive; for some women, it’s never. Even after they deliver, it’s still a problem, not a baby.

The Live Action video chronicles the story of Toby, a baby born prematurely at 24 weeks – the gestational age of the organization’s pregnant investigators’ babies at the time of many of the undercover investigations. “Toby puts a name and a face to the atrocious murders occurring in these facilities,” Rose said. “Every day, abortionists are brutally killing children just like him. Whether they’re called ‘fetuses’ or ‘babies,’ this fact doesn’t change, and it’s time for Americans to come to terms with it.”

Over the past two months, Live Action has held rallies in several of the cities in which the Inhuman footage (http://www.liveaction.org/inhuman/) was captured. The most recent rally, in Phoenix, Arizona, brought forth upwards of 400 people, not counting over a dozen legislators and over a score of media outlets, in one-hundred-plus-degree weather.

“What our video investigation is uncovering,” Rose said, “along with what we have learned from the trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell and from the whistle-blowers from Douglas Karpen’s facility, is that this is abuse. Abortion doctors, counselors, and other staff describe ‘stop[ping] the fetal heart,’ a needle being inserted through the baby’s head, an ‘intrauterine demise.’  They describe babies becoming ‘mushy,’ and how they ‘literally go in and grab and pull pieces out.’ They refer to these babies as human beings, and carry out these inhuman practices on them anyway.”

“Every human being is unique and precious from the moment of conception. But abortionists will not give even these babies – 24 weeks, 27 weeks, viable, capable of surviving outside the womb – the dignity of humanity. So we want to put the question in every American’s head: if not even these babies are worthy of humanity in the abortionist’s eyes, then what is human? What does ‘human’ even mean?”

Live Action is a youth-led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending the human rights abuse of abortion. The group uses new media to educate the public about the humanity of the unborn and investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and defenseless. More information at LiveAction.org.

U.S. AIR FORCE DIRECTIVE NOT TO WATCH OR FOLLOW NEWS ABOUT DATA MINING BY NSA

NSA WHISTLEBLOWER EDWARD SNOWDEN SPEAKS TO ITN NEWS

IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT KEEPS GRANTING THEMSELVES GREATER AND GREATER POWERS UNILATERALLY, THERE WILL EVENTUALLY BE "TURNKEY TYRANNY":

Published on Jun 10, 2013 on YouTube video above.

Monday, June 10, 2013
Former CIA employee Edward Snowden has come forward as the whistleblower behind the explosive revelations about the National Security Agency and the U.S. surveillance state. Three weeks ago the 29-year-old left his job inside the NSA's office in Hawaii where he worked for the private intelligence firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Today he is in Hong Kong--not sure if he will ever see his home again. In a video interview with the Guardian of London, Snowden says he exposed top secret NSA surveillance programs to alert Americans of expansive government spying on innocents. "Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded," Snowden says. "And the storage capability of these systems increases every year, consistently, by orders of magnitude, to where it's getting to the point you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer... The public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong."

BIOLA UNIVERSITY THREATENS PRO LIFE NURSING STUDENT WITH ARREST, EXPULSION FROM CAMPUS, PREVENTING HER FROM RE-ENTERING CAMPUS, AND GRADUATING FOR DISPLAYING ABORTION PICTURES

TWO PART STORY:
PART 1 OF 2:
BIOLA UNIVERSITY EXPOSED FOR ABUSE OF STUDENT, DIANA JIMENEZ, EXERCISING RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH:

Jill Stanek reports here: http://www.jillstanek.com/2013/06/christian-university-retaliates-against-pro-life-student-for-showing-graphic-reality-of-abortion/.
Pictures in question displayed at Biola:

Biola President Barry Corey, et al:

John Ojeisekhoba, campus chief of security made the various threats in the above video, was carrying a concealed weapon, and threatened legal action if his face was shown in video.

On May 22, Dr. Susan Elliott wrote a letter to all nursing faculty barring them from writing a letter of employment reference for Diana Jimenez, nursing student. See above article. 

Dean of Students Matthew Hooper:

Biola University Response to Recent YouTube Video of Student Demonstration

Jun. 5, 2013 By University Communications & Marketing

"Biola University is aware of a recent video posted online showing a student attempting to display inappropriate, graphic images on campus.

Biola abhors the destruction of innocent life through the brutal practice of abortion on demand, and we support student efforts to raise awareness and advocate for biblical convictions. However, there are numerous ways to go about activism on this issue, especially on our pro-life campus. The public displaying of very graphic, disturbing images — for whatever purpose, even one so in line with Biola’s heart — is not an appropriate venue of student expression on our campus.

At issue in this situation is not Biola's commitment to biblical fidelity and the pro-life cause, which we steadfastly uphold. Biola has always been and will always be committed to supporting the pro-life movement and accommodating campus dialogue on the subject, and this has been communicated to students. (For more information, please read this overview of some of the ways in which the university advocates for the sanctity of life.)

This issue is about the appropriate free expression of views on these issues on our campus. As outlined in our Student Handbook, all student assemblies and forums are subject to approval by the office of the Dean of Students. In this instance, the student sought approval to display graphic imagery on campus and she was denied. Student Development communicated clearly with the student on the matter, explaining that the photos were not allowed because they would be disruptive to campus activity. Student Development expressed to her that she would be free to share information on this issue on campus through other methods (a table with handouts, a panel discussion, etc.). Even after multiple discussions with Student Development personnel, the student continued to disregard these discussions, chose to violate peaceful assembly policies, baited our Campus Safety officers, filmed when asked to stop, and continued her attempt to display these images on campus. Because she violated our policies and ignored our concerns, Campus Safety intervened. It is unfortunate that the situation has been misrepresented.

We are continually in prayer for our community: faculty, staff and students who care deeply for the needs of our society and who seek earnestly, with respect and integrity, to serve our Lord Jesus with conviction and courage. Thank you for your continued understanding and prayer on this matter."

_______________________________________________________________

PART 2 OF 2:

Biola University's drift toward Catholic "contemplative mysticism":

See: http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/evangelicals_turning_to_roman_catholic_spirituality.html;

Quote from this article about Biola adopting Catholic contemplative mysticism and recommending Catholic retreat centers. Scroll down to Biola heading:

"J.P. Moreland and Klaus Issler, professors at Biola, have coauthored The Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life (NavPress, 2006). Consider the following quotes:

“‘Go to a retreat center that has one of its purposes the provision of a place for individual sojourners. Try to find a center that has gardens, fountains, statues, and other forms of beautiful artwork. In our experience, Catholic retreat centers are usually ideal for solitude retreats. … We also recommend that you bring photos of your loved ones and a picture of Jesus… Or gaze at a statue of Jesus. Or let some thought, feeling, or memory run through your mind over and over again” (The Lost Virtue of Happiness, pp. 54-55).

“We recommend that you begin by saying the Jesus Prayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Prayer), about three hundred times a day. ... 

When you first awaken, say the Jesus Prayer twenty to thirty times. As you do, something will begin to happen to you. God will begin to slowly occupy the center of your attention” (The Lost Virtue of Happiness, pp. 90, 92)."

See: http://lightingtheway.blogspot.com/2006/09/biola-embraces-contemplative.html.
See: http://apprising.org/2008/10/20/biola-university-now-drifting-from-evangelical-protestant-roots/.

See: http://apprising.org/2008/10/21/biola-university-contacts-lighthouse-trails-accuses-of-libel/.

See: http://apprising.org/2008/10/27/managing-editor-for-biola-magazine-confirms-contemplative-spiritualitymysticism-at-biola/.

See: http://apprising.org/2012/07/10/j-p-moreland-of-biola-university-on-god-as-a-chatty-cathy/.

See: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/Colleges.htm#B. Biola/Talbot School of Theology listed.

See: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/search/search.php?zoom_sort=0&zoom_query=biola&zoom_per_page=10&zoom_and=0.

See: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=1436.
See: http://cct.biola.edu/about/news/article/2013/mar/31/announcing-2013-2014-cct-award-recipients/,
which is Biola's Center for Christian Thought's "Psychology and Spiritual Formation" research theme:

Spiritual Formation (Institute) - Talbot School of Theology,
with list of courses and requirements for students:
http://biola.catalog.acalog.com/preview_entity.php?catoid=8&ent_oid=382&returnto=209&print; and
http://www.biola.edu/spiritualformation/programs/courses/.

Spiritual Formation Under Attack at Biola

October 27, 2008, 11:30 am » Brett McCracken

Last week, a long-running smear campaign against "spiritual formation" at Biola University kicked it up a notch. An organization called Lighthouse Trails teamed up with Apprising Ministries to unleash a torrent of criticism and insults about Biola, claiming that Biola is drifting from its strong biblical roots and embracing "apostate Roman Catholic mystical spiritual formation"… I haven't the energy to summarize the smears, but if you want to follow it thus far, read the following posts: Biola University Now Drifting from Evangelical Protestant Roots? (Oct 20) Biola University Student Reports on Contemplative Chapel Services - Warns Parents to Avoid Biola (Oct 20) Biola University Contacts Lighthouse Trails – Accuses of Libel (Oct 21) You'll be shocked when you find out just what it is that these people are up in arms about… Contemplative prayer! That's right, they are worried about Biola possibly being apostate because in chapel we dare to introduce students to ancient methods of contemplative, meditative prayer. We dare to engage the students in Lectio Divina, an ancient method inherited from the Desert Fathers of deeply reading and meditating upon a scripture. It's not new-agey or mystical; it's simple, quiet, and meaningful. The bible takes center stage. What is wrong with that?  Evidently these critics of Biola are worried that by having an entire chapel service of silent meditation, there is somehow a movement of apostasy being birthed in the students' minds. It's wrong, they suggest, to have a scripture read without a pastor or speaker there to unpack it and give it some context.  Todd Pickett, Associate Dean of Spiritual Development at Biola, has a different opinion. He believes that students today are "over-messaged" and need more time to just contemplate what they've already been hearing, learning, experiencing in Christ. "I hear from students that they need more time for processing and reflection," he told The Chimes, Biola's student newspaper. "They feel overwhelmed sometimes by the amount of information that comes at them. That makes sense to me, [and] at the very least, we need to allow a little time and a little room to listen to what God is doing. [We need to] take some of the things we hear and talk to God about them. I am trying to build that into the rhythm of chapel."  As someone who was a busy college student myself not too long ago, I resonate with every word of what Pickett is saying. Time for reflection is the number one need of students today.  Apparently the folks at Lighthouse Trails and Apprising Ministries don't agree, however. To them, Pickett, along with people like Richard Foster (who they label "neo-Gnostic"), Henri Nouwen, and Dallas Willard (who, for the record, gave a very philosophical and helpful lecture at Biola's Torrey Conference last Wednesday), represent an unbiblical mysticism that masquerades as "spiritual formation."  It baffles me that "spiritual formation," which to me looks like a positive, healthy thing from every angle, is being so aggressively criticized. Even more baffled that Biola is being singled out and smeared for their commitment to it. But then again, Christians tend to be the most critical of all people, unfortunately. So I guess it shouldn't surprise me. _____________________________________________________________ Biola's Gay and Lesbian Student group called "The Biola Queer Underground": See: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=9686. Biola Queer Underground Resurfaces: After months of silence, the Biola Queer Underground resurfaced Friday morning to advertise a panel on identity, sexuality, and gender. The panel will be held at La Mirada City Council on November 16th at 6:00pm. The BQU will be joined by Soulforce, an organization that "is committed to relentless nonviolent resistance to bring freedom to lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender, and queer people from religious & political oppression." EagleVision got an EXCLUSIVE interview with Soulforce's Director of Development, Haven Herrin. YouTube video of above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9318DZ0TUY. Biola Queer Underground Welcome Letter at Public Panel:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_r4ac3w2AE. EV Special: Packed house at Queer Underground's first public event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xAi12vGw3Y. President Barry H. Corey: "Family Talk" on Sexual Identity:

OPTIC IRIS SCANS ON CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT AT FLORIDA SCHOOLS

Michelle Malkin interviewed by Megan Kelly of Fox News about invasion of privacy being unconstitutional at minimum:

See Fox News Insider: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/03/michelle-malkin-eye-scans-fl-schools-%E2%80%98disturbing%E2%80%99-sign-larger-trend.
Michelle Malkin reports on her website: http://michellemalkin.com/2013/05/31/whos-tracking-your-children/.

ONLY "SIFTING THROUGH METADATA"-NSA MINING DATA OF NINE INTERNET COMPANIES USING SECRET PROGRAM CALLED "PRISM"

OBAMA: TRADING FREEDOM & PRIVACY FOR SECURITY, 

BUT "NOT SUSPICIOUS":

                                      

OBAMA: "NOBODY IS LISTENING TO YOUR TELEPHONE CALLS (OR CONTENTS), 

JUST "SIFTING THROUGH 'METADATA'":

                                      

The New American reports that the Washington Post learned of "Prism" one day after the UK Guardian released their story about Verizon handing over millions of telephone records to the National Security Agency (NSA). 
See: http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15643-nsa-mining-data-of-nine-internet-companies-post-reports,
Quote: "The secret program, called PRISM, has been in operation since 2007, but has not been disclosed publicly before, the Post said. A career intelligence officer provided PowerPoint slides and supporting materials to the paper to expose the massive invasion of privacy. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type," the officer said.

The companies participating in the program include most of the big names in the telecommunications industry — Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. The program has grown out of a history of alliances between U.S. intelligence agencies and as many as 100 U.S. companies since the 1970s, the Post reports. PRISM works in conjunction with another top-secret program, called BLARNEY, which, according to the program's summary, "leverages IC [intelligence community] and commercial partnerships to gain access and exploit foreign intelligence obtained from global networks."

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html.

SENATOR RAND PAUL OF KENTUCKY INTRODUCES FOURTH AMENDMENT PRESERVATION & PROTECTION ACT BILL

Sen. Paul Introduces Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013

See: http://www.paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=821:

"In today's high-tech world, we must ensure that all forms of communication are protected. Yet government has eroded protecting the Fourth Amendment over the past few decades, especially when applied to electronic communications and third party providers," Sen. Paul said. "Congress has passed a variety of laws that decimate our Fourth Amendment protections. In effect, it means that Americans can only count on Fourth Amendment protections if they don't use e-mail, cell phones, the Internet, credit cards, libraries, banks, or other forms of modern finance and communications. Basic constitutional rights should not be invalidated by carrying out basic, day-to-day functions in a technologically advanced world and this bill will provide much needed clarity and reassert Fourth Amendment protections for records held by third parties."

See: http://www.paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=837:

"The National Security Agency's seizure and surveillance of virtually all of Verizon's phone customers is an astounding assault on the Constitution. After revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted political dissidents and the Department of Justice seized reporters' phone records, it would appear that this Administration has now sunk to a new low.

When Sen. Mike Lee and I offered an amendment that would attach Fourth Amendment protections to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act last year, it was defeated, and FISA was passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate. At the time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid remarked that FISA was "necessary to protect us from the evil in this world." 

The Bill of Rights was designed to protect us from evil, too, particularly that which always correlates with concentrated government power, and particularly Executive power. If the President and Congress would obey the Fourth Amendment we all swore to uphold, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened."

See: http://www.paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=838:

Jun 6, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today announced he will introduce the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013, which ensures the Constitutional protections of the Fourth Amendment are not violated by any government entity.

"The revelation that the NSA has secretly seized the call records of millions of Americans, without probable cause, represents an outrageous abuse of power and a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. I have long argued that Congress must do more to restrict the Executive's expansive law enforcement powers to seize private records of law-abiding Americans that are held by a third-party," Sen. Paul said. "When the Senate rushed through a last-minute extension of the FISA Amendments Act late last year, I insisted on a vote on my amendment (SA 3436) to require stronger protections on business records and prohibiting the kind of data-mining this case has revealed. Just last month, I introduced S.1037, the Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act, which would provide exactly the kind of protections that, if enacted, could have prevented these abuses and stopped these increasingly frequent violations of every American's constitutional rights.

"The bill restores our Constitutional rights and declares that the Fourth Amendment shall not be construed to allow any agency of the United States government to search the phone records of Americans without a warrant based on probable cause."

 Click HERE to view the text of this legislation. 

See: http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/EAS13699.pdf.

Text of bill:

"Whereas the Bill of Rights says in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Whereas media reports indicate that the National Security Agency is currently collecting the phone records of American citizens.

Whereas media reports indicate that the National Security Agency has secured a top secret court order in April from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) for the telephone records of millions of American citizens.

Whereas media reports indicate that President Barack Obama’s administration has been collecting information about millions of citizens within the borders of the United States and between the United States and other countries; and,

Whereas the collection of citizens’ phone records is a violation of the natural rights of every man and woman in the United States and a clear violation of the explicit language of the highest law of the land."

GOVERNOR CUOMO WANTS TO UPDATE ABORTION LAW IN NEW YORK STATE TO ALLOW UNLICENSED PERSONS TO PERFORM THEM LATE TERM

A number of sources are reporting that there is sizable opposition to Governor Cuomo's plan to expand late term abortion availability and making just about anyone able to perform them legally and unrestricted.
Note the determination of Cuomo to ram this into law, whether you like it or not, in total disregard for moral law and the Bible, and despite his nominal Catholicism. Political expediency trumps all:

New York City's Abortion Ratios by Neighborhood:

Cuomo proposes to expand legalization of late-term abortions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBWQI4chDs.

Culture News: http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-yorkers-could-become-extinct-due-to.html. Quote from this article:
“If Cuomo’s legislation succeeds, New York will be sanctioning unrestricted, virtually unregulated, and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, making it the most radically pro-abortion state in the nation.”
-- Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life
World Mag: http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/relaxing_restrictions. Quote from this article:
"Despite the horrors revealed during the Gosnell trial, Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks to expand access to late-term abortions in New York. Cuomo hasn’t introduced his promised legislation yet, but in his January State of the State address he named the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) as one point in the Women’s Equality Act agenda."
Archdiocese of New York: http://blog.archny.org/index.php/statement-of-the-bishops-of-new-york-state-on-abortion-bill/. Text in full below from the Catholic bishops:

Statement of the Bishops of New York State on Abortion Bill

Today I joined my brother bishops of New York State in releasing a statement to the press regarding the New York State abortion bill.
Here is the press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 4, 2013
STATEMENT OF THE BISHOPS OF NEW YORK STATE ON ABORTION BILL

The following is a statement of Timothy Cardinal Dolan and the Bishops of New York State:

We are profoundly distressed by the introduction of a bill in New York State today that would ease restrictions in state law on late-term abortion and runs the serious risk of broadly expanding abortion access at all stages of gestation. This legislation would add a broad and undefined “health” exception for late-term abortion and would repeal the portion of the penal law that governs abortion policy, opening the door for non-doctors to perform abortions and potentially decriminalizing even forced or coerced abortions. In addition, we find the conscience protection in the bill to be vague and insufficient, and we are concerned about the religious liberty of our health facilities. While the bill’s proponents say it will simply “codify” federal law, it is selective in its codification. Nowhere does it address the portions of federal laws that limit abortion, such as the ban on taxpayer funding, the ban on partial birth abortion or protections for unborn victims of violence.

As the pastors of more than 7.2 million Catholic New Yorkers, we fully oppose this measure, and urge all our faithful people to do the same, vigorously and unapologetically. We invite all women and men of good will to join in this effort and defeat this serious attempt to expand abortion availability in our state and to codify the most radical abortion proposals of any state in the nation.

We support the first nine points in the Governor’s agenda that enhance the true dignity of women. We commit ourselves to examining those proposals and working with the legislature on any and all efforts that help guarantee real equity for all women and men.  Our position on these issues will be consistent with all the efforts of the Catholic Church throughout the world to enhance the dignity of women. The direct taking of the life of a child in the womb in no way enhances a woman’s dignity.

Instead of expanding abortion and making abortions even more prevalent, we would like to protect both the woman and the child in the womb. In New York, where one in every three pregnancies ends in abortion (and upwards of 6 in 10 in certain communities), it is clear that we as a state have lost sight of that child’s dignity. We pledge all our efforts to defeat this proposal. We call on all pro-life New Yorkers to stand together with us and with all the leadership in Albany who share our conviction that we have no need for such a bill to become law. We need instead to enhance and promote the life and dignity of all human beings from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

________________________________________________________________ 

Cuomo Introduces Controversial New Abortion Bill: 

"Women's 'Equality' Act": 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wshzn-neRc.

Cuomo: "Her Body, Her Choice":

New Yorkers for Life: http://newyorkersforlife.org/,

Can't We Love Them Both?:

Oppose non-doctors performing abortions and protect our daughters!: