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Month: November 2017

  • WASHINGTON D.C. – EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    WASHINGTON D.C. – EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    Priests for Life and Abortion Free New Mexico Continue Educational Campaign on Late Term Abortion

    In Our Nation’s Capital, 26-Week Abortion Scheduled
    No Medical Emergency or Fetal Anomaly

    • Released by Priests for Life, the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia.

    Washington, DC – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, released the following statement today from his Washington, DC office:

    “Here in our nation’s Capital, as in cities from coast to coast, healthy babies of healthy mothers are being killed at stages where they can survive outside the womb, as our 12th undercover phone call, released today, reveals.

    CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE UNDERCOVER CALL

    “With the collaboration of our colleagues at Abortion Free New Mexico, these phone calls show that someone can easily make an appointment to have an abortion late in pregnancy. This particular call resulted in an appointment for an abortion at over 26 weeks, and the clinic personnel treated it in a routine way.

    “Even people who identify as pro-choice reject abortion at these late stages of pregnancy. As a Knights of Columbus/Marist poll last year revealed, almost six in ten Americans support the protection of babies in the womb after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This includes 56 percent of people who identify themselves as ‘pro-choice,’ and 49 percent of those who identify as Democrats.”

    Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico added, “In our nation’s capital, late term abortions are being performed on viable babies through 26 weeks of pregnancy. Washington Surgi-Clinic is performing these abortions on healthy women carrying healthy babies with no questions asked. Now is the time for Congress to act swiftly to end this scourge of late term abortion.”

    This and the previous eleven undercover calls, which show abortion appointments being made even at 32 weeks of pregnancy, can be heard atwww.PriestsForLife.org/LateTermAbortion. Citizens are urged to take action in two ways, first by spreading the links to these phone calls on social media, and second by contacting their US Senators and urging them to vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, S. 1922, which would protect children in the womb who can feel pain, hence preventing the abortions of those who are at 20 weeks of development or more. Guidance on these action steps, and the opportunity to sign up for action alerts, is at www.StopAbortionNow.org.

    Church Militant (CM) released two excellent interviews, one with Tara Shaver and the other with Fr. Frank Pavone regarding our exposure of late term abortion across America campaign… 
  • SEATTLE, WA: EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    SEATTLE, WA: EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    Priests for Life and Abortion Free NM Release 10th and 11th Undercover Calls

    Fr. Pavone: Time for the Myths to Stop About Late Term Abortion

    • Report by Priests for Life, the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia.

    In the 10th and 11th of the ongoing series of undercover phone calls that Priests for Life has commissioned to abortion clinics across America, the evidence continues to pile up that healthy babies of healthy mothers are being aborted legally in the later stages of pregnancy.

    Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated, “This educational project, carried out in partnership with Abortion Free New Mexico, is meant to break through the ignorance and denial that is so prevalent among our fellow citizens. When you tell people that a mother can legally abort her baby at, for instance, 24 weeks of pregnancy – as the calls released today demonstrate – they will look at you in disbelief. Some will say we are making it up. Others will say it happens only if the mother is going to die or the baby is deformed. But it’s time for those myths to stop.”

    Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico explained, “The Cedar River Clinic and All Women’s Care in Washington state are performing abortions well after babies have been known to survive outside of the womb. These abortions are being done electively up to 26 weeks of pregnancy on healthy moms carrying healthy babies; fully funded at taxpayer’s expense. Late term post viability abortions are not as rare as one may think, they are occurring all across America.”

    In the two phone calls released today, the caller successfully books an abortion appointment, having explained that she is 24 weeks along in her pregnancy, and that both she and the baby are healthy. These calls as well as the nine previous calls, which cover three other states, can be heard at www.PriestsForLife.org/LateTermAbortion.

    Fr. Pavone stated, “People have a right to their own opinions, but they don’t have a right to their own facts. If we’re going to debate abortion in this country, rather than pretending to debate abortion, then we’re going to start with acknowledging that healthy babies of healthy mothers are being killed even at 24 weeks and beyond. On our other calls you can hear such appointments being set up for 26, 30 and 32 weeks into pregnancy.

    “We urge people to take the links to these calls and spread them everywhere they can, on websites, via email, and on social media. Bring this information also to your pastors and urge them to inform their congregations,” Fr. Pavone added.

    “Most Americans, including those who call themselves pro-choice, oppose late-term abortion. And now, we have an opportunity to protect babies in the womb from 20 weeks forward. We urge citizens to contact their US Senators to pass the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1922), which has already been passed by the House and which President Trump has promised to sign. Go to www.StopAbortionNow.org for more details.”

  • BETHESDA, MD: EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    BETHESDA, MD: EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    Priests for Life and Abortion Free New Mexico Continue Educational Campaign on Late Term Abortion

    Phone Call Reveals Abortionist Carhart’s Willingness to Kill Healthy Babies of Healthy Mothers up to 28 Weeks into Pregnancy and Beyond

    • Report by Priests for Life, the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia.

    In the ninth of its undercover phone calls to legal abortion clinics in America, Priests for Life today released the audio of a call to the office of abortionist Leroy Carhart in Bethesda, MD, showing more evidence that late term abortions are performed on healthy babies of healthy mothers.

    This educational project (www.priestsforlife.org/LateTermAbortion) is being carried out with the partnership of Abortion Free New Mexico (www.AbortionFreeNM).

    “Once again, our undercover phone calls reveal yet another abortion clinic who was willing to schedule an abortion for a  healthy mother carrying a healthy baby in the later stages of pregnancy, in this case, at 26 weeks,” said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director.

    Here is the relevant part of the phone call to the abortion business of abortionist Leroy Carhart in Bethesda, MD:

    Clinic: “Do you have any major medical problems at all?” Caller: “No”

    Clinic: “Is there anything wrong with you or your pregnancy?” Caller: “No”

    Clinic: “At 26 weeks it’s $7000… We can see you up until 28 weeks; if there’s no medical reason after 28 weeks it’s a case by case basis.”

    Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico stated, “This latest undercover call reveals that Abortionist Leroy Carhart in Bethesda, MD is performing late term abortions on healthy women carrying healthy babies through 28 weeks of pregnancy. He is not, however, inclined to offer in office consultations for his patients who have questions before the 3-4 day abortion procedure. The abortion industry is not concerned with giving women information and choices; these profiteers are merely killers for hire who don’t want to answer any questions, they just want to get paid.”

    The audio of this call can be heard at www.priestsforlife.org/LateTermAbortion. In previous taped calls, also available on that page, abortion appointments were made at two other legal abortion clinics for healthy moms carrying healthy babies at 25, 30 and 32 weeks.

    At the present time, there is a legislative opportunity to end late term abortion, a goal supported by most Americans, including those who identify themselves as “pro-choice.”

    “In the light of these facts, we are urging all US Senators to vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1622), to protect these children starting at 20 weeks of their development,” Fr. Pavone concluded.

    For more information on the pending legislation, see www.StopAbortionNow.org. To learn more about Priests for Life, the largest anti-abortion ministry in the Catholic Church, visit www.ProLifeCentral.com.

  • BOULDER, CO: EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    BOULDER, CO: EXPOSING LATE TERM ABORTION ACROSS AMERICA

    • Priests for Life undercover calls continue to reveal what most Americans reject

    Abortion Clinic Schedules Appointment for Healthy Mother to Abort Healthy Baby at 32 weeks

    • Report released by Priests for Life, the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia.

    As part of its late-term abortion education project, Priests for Life today released another undercover phone call showing that healthy mothers of healthy children can obtain a legal abortion in the United States even at 32 weeks of pregnancy.


    (This call is to the abortion clinic of Abortionist Warren Hern. Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion.)

    “Our goal here is very simple: to reveal to the American people that healthy mothers are aborting healthy babies even in the final months of pregnancy, and that this is legal activity,” explained National Director Fr. Frank Pavone. “We are revealing this because many of our fellow citizens simply do not know or do not believe that this is happening. We show them the evidence. Knowing that it is happening is the first step towards stopping it.”

    The call released today was made last week to the clinic of abortionist Warren Hern in Boulder, Colorado. Hern is the author of the medical textbook Abortion Practice, which uses the words “decapitate” and “dismember” to describe the abortion procedure. The caller, posing as a woman at around 30 weeks of pregnancy, made no reference to any fetal anomalies or maternal health problems.

    She simply stated,

    “My husband and I just split up and I just don’t want to continue the pregnancy.”

    The four-day abortion procedure was scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 28, at which point the clinic pointed out she would be at 32 weeks of pregnancy.

    The undercover call was carried out with the assistance of Abortion Free New Mexico. Tara Shaver, who represents that organization, stated,

    “This undercover investigation reveals that Abortionist Warren Hern in Boulder, Colorado is willing to perform an abortion at 32 weeks of pregnancy for $25,000 with virtually no questions asked. Late term abortions have no place in a civilized society, yet in America they are performed on healthy women carrying healthy babies all across this nation. This should be a wake up call for Americans who refuse to believe that this is happening.”

    The call was the eighth in a series of calls that Priests for Life will continue to commission across the nation. The previous calls so far were made to the Southwestern Women’s Options clinic in Albuquerque, NM, where our callers successfully made abortion appointments at 25, 30, and even 33 weeks.

    “Even people who identify as pro-choice reject abortion at these late stages of pregnancy,” Fr. Pavone explained. “As a Marist poll earlier this year reveals, almost six in ten Americans support the protection of babies in the womb after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This includes 56% of people who identify themselves as ‘pro-choice,’ and 49% of those who identify as Democrats.”

    “In the light of these facts, we are urging all US Senators to vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1622), to protect these children starting at 20 weeks of their development,” Fr. Pavone concluded.

  • She Hitchhiked…?

    She Hitchhiked…?

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- This week we were reminded of what our ministry is all about when God brought two mothers that we have helped over the years back into our lives. Pro-Life ministry is about saving babies lives by revealing the light and love of Christ to their mothers in their darkest hour, when it seems to them that an abortion is their only option.

    There are many ways to save the lives of pre-born children, and for four years of our ministry here in Albuquerque we ministered to women seeking abortions at local abortion centers. Only the Lord knows just how many lives are saved when Christians are faithfully present at these places of death but there is nothing more beautiful than to see the fruit of your labor when visited by the moms who chose life because of your presence.

    We continue to be blessed by still receiving phone calls and emails from mothers in need and also encouraging thank you’s from moms that we have had the privilege of ministering to over the past 7 years.

    She Hitchhiked to an Abortion Center…

    Mom “A” came right up to me [Tara] at a prayer service and even though we’d only met over the phone she said,

    “I just want to say thank you for being there for me that day, if your husband hadn’t been there at the clinic, I would have done something bad, because he was there I didn’t.”

    In tears I embraced her and was reminded that this is what our ministry is all about, helping moms choose life for their babies.

    (Mom “A” and her son spared from abortion. She now wants to share the good news about what Christ has done in her life by sidewalk counseling out at local abortion centers and use her testimony to help other women!)

    Mom “A” hitchhiked to an abortion center in 2013 and approached Bud. Bud ministered to her, showed her what an abortion would do to her baby, assessed her situation and ultimately drove her to Project Defending Life. We put her in touch with a local family who took her and her daughter into their home until she left for Teen Challenge.

    FLASHBACK to November 2013…

    Here is her story:

    “My name is Andrea. I am currently working with “A”. She is 11 weeks pregnant. Her story is nothing short of amazing.

    Here is a single mother who after finding out she was pregnant for the second time was excited until her boyfriend began to pressure her to have an abortion.

    She fought it till finally she gave in and went to the clinic. Inside she hoped and prayed that someone would stop her before she went in.

    Upon arrival, she met Bud Shaver, God’s messenger. He had her talk to his wife Tara Shaver and Tara asked her if she would go to Project Defending Life (PDL). She agreed to go. She was relieved and she kept her baby!!

    She attended parenting classes at PDL for two weeks and on the third week I met her.

    I was there to support a mom and a daughter who were intercepted at the late-term clinic on Lomas. “A” needed a ride home. I offered and she accepted. On our ride home she told me the whole story-meeting Bud, her trip to PDL. But the battle for her baby was not over yet.

    She told me about her substance abuse. It broke my heart. She told me she was two weeks clean. But many nights there in the war zone at her apartment, “friends” would come over. They would invite their friends and it would be one big drug party.

    She tried to be strong and tell them to leave but they wouldn’t. People would stay all hours of the night and on to the next morning. Some she didn’t even know.

    I told her that her and her 3-year old daughter cannot stay one more day in her apartment. My mom lovingly took her in. I also told her about Teen Challenge. She was thrilled to hear about it and said she was ready to go. She told me that she wants to start a new life for her and her daughter.

    That night before I left she prayed to give her life to Christ.

    Since she made that decision to go to Teen Challenge she has had no end of criticism from her family but I did expect that.

    We are almost to the finish line! After one tiring week of tests and Dr. appointments, lawyers and errands we have a move date-November 19th 2013. Teen Challenge has accepted her and her daughter into the program. It is the only Teen Challenge that will let her take her child into the program as well.”


    (November 18, 2013, the day before she left for Teen Challenge. We had the privilege to take a photo with “A”: pictured in the middle [pregnant with her son], her daughter and the pro-life warriors who took care of her.)

    Homeless and Alone…

    Mom “B”, who we also reconnected with and were able to give follow up support and prayers to this week was initially given our phone number while she was staying at the Albuquerque, “Safe House” which is a safe haven for victims of domestic violence. She received our number from another woman that we had helped when she was pregnant…years ago!

    When we met “B”, she was in fear for her life because of the baby’s father. She had no one to help her and wasn’t sure how she was going to make it, homeless with a new baby on the way. Over the course of several weeks of ministering to her, we were able to pray with her, help her secure housing, and bring her to the CareNet in Rio Rancho where she received maternity and baby items.

    Here is a picture of her precious baby girl born in August 2017:

    Through your prayers and support of our pro-life ministry here in New Mexico these babies are alive today.

    Please consider making a one time or monthly recurring tax deductible donation to our ministry so that we can continue to do our life saving work carrying the gospel of life to those who so desperately need it.

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara Shaver

    As full time Pro-Life Missionaries we are funded by everyday people like you. Help us continue to stand for life and expose the abortion industry in New Mexico by donating securely online or by sending a tax-deductible check made out to: “Life Ministries U.S.” P.O. Box 50351, Albuquerque, NM 87181

    You may also schedule a convenient monthly donation here.

    Thank you for your prayers and support on behalf of our ministry and our family. We love you all and keep you in our prayers.

  • Innovative Giving ? ?

    Innovative Giving ? ?

    You can now support our ministry through AmazonSmile and more…

    Dear Friends,

    We are pleased to announce that we have signed up Life Ministries U.S., which is the umbrella 501c3 nonprofit organization of Abortion Free New Mexico and Pro-Life Witness ministries, on Amazon Smile.

    Life Ministries U.S. is a consortium of ministries dedicated to obtaining constitutional protection (personhood) for unborn children from the moment of conception. Visit LifeMinistriesUS.org

    AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to Life Ministries U.S.

    Every item available for purchase on www.amazon.com is also available on AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com) at the same price.

    So, if you do any shopping on Amazon, please click here on our unique link or on the picture below to select Life Ministries U.S. as the charitable organization that a percentage of your purchases will automatically be given to.

    Follow these instructions to get started:

    1. Click the link above and you will be directed to smile.amazon.com, where you will either sign in to your amazon account or click underneath to create an account.

    2. Once you are logged in take look under the search bar and notice where it says “Supporting: Life Ministries U.S.” This is what you should see each time you make a purchase through AmazonSmile.

    3. When shopping, in order for Life Ministries US to obtain a percentage of your purchase, you must shop through smile.amazon.com.

    Another fantastic way to support our work as Pro-lIfe Missionaries is through Real Estate for Life. Like AmazonSmile this costs you nothing but blesses our ministry efforts…

    Are you or someone you know in the market to buy or sell a home or commercial property?

    You can support our pro-life ministry at no cost to you by taking advantage of the Real Estate for Life program.

    Call 1.877.543.3871 or email proliferealestate@yahoo.com for more information Visit www.realestateforlife.org to find a Pro-life Realtor!

    Click here for more information: Real Estate For Life

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    We’ve been working hard to expose the New Mexico abortion cartel… Prayerfully consider a one-time year end tax deductible donation so we can finish 2017 strong!

    As full time Pro-Life Missionaries we are funded by everyday people like you. Help us continue to stand for life and expose the abortion industry in New Mexico by donating securely online at ProLifeWitness.org or by sending a tax-deductible check made out to: “Life Ministries U.S.” P.O. Box 50351, Albuquerque, NM 87181

    You may also schedule a convenient monthly donation here.

    Thank you for your prayers and support on behalf of our ministry and our family. We love you all and keep you in our prayers.

  • (VIDEO) COHORTS OF DEATH: UNDERCOVER AT 37 WEEKS EXPOSES UNM LATE TERM ABORTION COLLUSION

    (VIDEO) COHORTS OF DEATH: UNDERCOVER AT 37 WEEKS EXPOSES UNM LATE TERM ABORTION COLLUSION

    Abortion Free New Mexico introduces Part 5 of a 6 Part Series exposing the New Mexico Abortion Cartel

    By Bud Shaver, Abortion Free New Mexico

    Albuquerque, NM– This is the latest installment documenting the abortion landscape in New Mexico and a continuation of Abortion Free New Mexico’s exposure of the radical abortion agenda at the University of New Mexico.

    (VIDEO) WATCH THE LATEST SHOCKING REVELATION: COHORTS OF DEATH: UNDERCOVER AT 37 WEEKS EXPOSES UNM LATE TERM ABORTION COLLUSION

    In Abortion Free New Mexico’s latest undercover project that has taken viewers inside the notorious Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) late term abortion facility, the investigation has also uncovered that the University of New Mexico (UNM), a publicly funded institution, is willing to collude with late term abortionists to deliver dead babies at UNM Hospital once a deadly injection is administered by abortionists at SWO.

    The price tag of a late term abortion at Southwestern Women’s Options is a staggering $17,000, but in a SHOCKING revelation, SWO employee Susana Estorga, states that for $5,000 they would be willing to offer the fetal injection ALONE and then send the woman away to deliver the baby 2-3 days later elsewhere.

    • The fetal injection administered by SWO abortionists kills the baby in the womb by slowly stopping their heart over 4-6 grueling hours.

    If a woman opts to obtain the fetal injection at Southwestern Women’s Options, SWO has an expectation that other OB-GYN’s will oversee the completion of the labor and delivery of the stillborn child. However, most OB-GYN’s will not participate in abortions, especially at religious hospitals, like Presbyterian in Albuquerque, so SWO is apparently relying upon the University of New Mexico’s entrenched abortion agenda and utilizes an arrangement to ensure that “injection only” patients can labor and deliver their dead babies at UNM Hospital.

    In an undercover phone call placed to the Women’s and Children’s Health Care Clinic at UNM Hospital, Tara Shaver with Abortion Free New Mexico also confirmed the fact that, Lily Bayat a UNM Fellow at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center would deliver the dead baby at UNM Hospital after Southwestern Women’s Options administered the lethal injection.

    Lily Bayat holds positions at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences center in the Divisions of Family Planning and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynocology. In addition, Bayat receives an annual salary by the University New Mexico of $57,747 as a, “Visiting Instructor”.

    (Second year Fellow- UNM Abortionist Lily  Bayat, MD)

    “Abortion Free New Mexico has exposed just how deep the collusion is between the University of New Mexico and Southwestern Women’s Options to ensure that late term abortions continue up to the day of birth. Hospitals are meant to be places where the sick go for healing, but the abortion industry is utilizing them for their own sordid death agenda.” Tara Shaver, Spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.

    GLARING CONTRADICTIONS

    The Albuquerque Journal published an article on December 20, 2015 titled, UNMHSC halts training at private abortion clinic in it the ABQ Journal reported that, “UNMHSC officials said last week that they will no longer send medical fellows or residents to Boyd’s clinic, which is located in Downtown Albuquerque.”

    However, UNM’s website contradicts that report and still clearly states, as of publishing time of this article, October 31, 2017…

    “Fellows are trained in abortion and contraception care, using evidence-based medical and surgical methods. Training occurs primarily at the UNM Center for Reproductive Health, the Albuquerque Planned Parenthood Surgical Center, and Southwestern Women’s Options (Dr. Curtis Boyd). Later second and third trimester abortions are performed at UNM Hospital and at SWO.”

    In addition, Southwestern Women’s Options is currently listed as a UNM Clinical Training Site.

    Despite these glaring contradictions that show a continued relationship between UNM and SWO, Abortion Free New Mexico has conclusively confirmed that a current Fellow at the University of New Mexico, Lily Bayak, is willing to work with Southwestern Women’s Options patients to complete a late term abortion at UNM Hospital once the fetal injection is administered to kill the pre-born baby.

    Abortion Free New Mexico’s Tara Shaver, uncovered the collusion via the Ryan Residency Training Program initiated by the University of New Mexico between Planned Parenthood of New Mexico, and Southwestern Women’s Options to train UNM residents to perform abortions in the first, second, and even third trimesters in 2011 with her first installment: Exposé: Tax Funded Abortion Training and the Betrayal of True Medicine at UNM.

    Fr. Stephen Imbarrato: The Protest Priest with Priests for Life issued the following statement,

    “The collaboration between Southwestern Women’s Options, UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility, and UNM Hospital shows that UNMHSC headed by Dr Paul Roth is the heart of the New Mexico Abortion Industry.

    As a taxpayer, I am appalled that tax money pays for this unnecessary bloodshed! What is worse is the knowledge that Dr. Paul Roth’s right hand man, Ryan Cangiolosi is the head of the New Mexico Republican Party! This is the “statewide conspiracy of complacency and complicity” that we have been speaking about for a decade now!”

    ACTION ITEM: Abortion Free New Mexico is asking that you contact the University of New Mexico Regents and respectfully ask them to STOP ALLOWING ABORTIONISTS AT UNM HOSPITAL TO PROMOTE AND PERFORM LATE TERM ABORTIONS AT THE EXPENSE OF NEW MEXICO TAX DOLLARS. In addition, respectfully ask them to PERMENANTLY cut all ties with Planned Parenthood of New Mexico and Southwestern Women’s Options.

    PLEASE Contact the UNM Board of Regents:

    Phone: (505) 277 7639
    regents@unm.edu

    This is the third installment in a series of exposés highlighting the University of New Mexico’s involvement in the Abortion Cartel.