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Month: June 2016

  • Round 2: Protest ABQ Drops Postcards Exposing Catholic Pro-Abortion Democrat Senators

    Round 2: Protest ABQ Drops Postcards Exposing Catholic Pro-Abortion Democrat Senators

    Albuquerque, NM- Protest ABQ launched the second round of their postcard campaign today exposing religious pro-abortion Catholic Democrats. This batch of postcards have been mailed into the districts of New Mexico State Senators Jerry Ortiz y Pino and Jacob Candelaria. Round 1 focused on Catholic Senators Michael Sanchez, Bill O’ Neill and United Methodist Christian Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto. These postcards were mailed just before New Mexico’s primary election day on June 7.

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    Senators Ortiz y Pino and Candelaria have consistently opposed ALL pro-life legislation introduced into the Senate Public Affairs committee that Pino chairs. During the 2015 legislative session Senators Jerry Ortiz y Pino, Jacob Candelaria, Bill O’ Neil, and Daniel Ivey-Soto voted to kill SB 437, Physician Admitting Privileges for Abortions introduced by Sen. Craig Brandt (R). Protest ABQ was the sponsor of this bill that would have prevented abortion providers in New Mexico from ditching their patients on local emergency rooms where other physicians are left in the dark about the woman’s condition after an abortion related injury.

    During the committee hearing for SB 437 Sen. Pino, cut off the testimony of expert witness Tara Shaver, Senior Policy Advisor of Protest ABQ when she attempted to introduce 911 calls made from Albuquerque abortion facilities. Sen. Pino objected and threw a “tantrum,” claiming that the 911 calls were “too emotional” even though the calls documented facts including severe injuries sustained by women from Albuquerque abortion clinics.

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    Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino

    “Senators Jerry Ortiz y Pino and Jacob Candelaria Defy Their Catholic Faith By Supporting Murder”

    Reads the postcards mailed throughout these Senators districts.

    The citizens of New Mexico deserve to know that their elected officials are “putting politics before Jesus and his babies and this is a form of idolatry!” stated Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Priests for Life. Pre-born babies are murdered in the latest stages of pregnancy in our state and Jesus did not lay down His life so that we may ignore this reality that has so negatively impacted New Mexico.

    Also included on the postcards is the following quote by Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae 58:

    “Given such a grave situation, we need now more than ever to have the courage to look the truth in the eye and to call things by their proper name, without yielding to convenient compromises or to the temptation of self-deception.The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder…”

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

    “Since we founded Protest ABQ, we have been dedicated to ending preborn child killing. We will continue to expose the truth about why New Mexico is the abortion capital of the Southwest. It is clear that the elected Democrats here in New Mexico, including many Catholics, support preborn childkilling and far too many Republicans, including some who call themselves prolife, condone preborn childkilling.

    If we are prolife, we should be doing everything in our power to stop the slaughter of the innocent and if we are Catholic, we should obey our Catholic faith above all else. What has been happening here in New Mexico is a moral scandal that must be exposed and be brought to an end.”

    RELATED: (Round 1) Protest ABQ Drops Postcards Exposing Religious Pro-Abortion Democrat Senators

    Life Ministries U.S. introduces 5 years of investigative research: Inside New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics

  • Protest ABQ’s Response To SCOTUS Decision And Its Implications On New Mexico

    Protest ABQ’s Response To SCOTUS Decision And Its Implications On New Mexico

    “While the SCOTUS decision undermines the good work of the pro-life community in Texas; in New Mexico, the late term abortion capital of the nation, the door still remains open to pass constitutional legislation regulating third trimester abortion facility Southwestern Women’s Options. We are determined to keep pressing forward and to make every effort to protect both mom and baby.” Tara Shaver, Spokeswoman for Protest ABQ 
    Here is an analysis by Protest ABQ’s chief leading counsel on the ruling handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court:
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    By Angelo Artuso, Chief Legal Counsel for Protest ABQ 
    Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
    The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, issued yesterday, June 27, 2016, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, while disappointing is not as sweeping as the media and pro-abortion advocates would have you believe.  Significantly, the decision appears to apply only to the regulation of “pre-viability” abortions.  As the age of viability continues to move closer to conception, the legal framework put in place by Roe v. Wade and its progeny is still on a collision course with itself.

    The Hellerstedt Decision

    In Hellerstedt, the Court considered two Texas statutes enacted as House Bill 2 (H.B. 2).  The first statute required that “[a] physician performing or inducing an abortion . . . must, on the date [of service], have active admitting privileges at a hospital . . . located not further than 30 miles from the abortion facility.”  This was known the “admitting privileges requirement.”

    The second statute required that an abortion facility must meet the minimum standards for ambulatory surgical centers under Texas law.  This was known as the “surgical-center requirement.”

    The District Court held that both of these requirements “imposed” an “undue burden” on the right of women in Texas to seek “previability” abortions.

    The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the District Court and ruled that H.B. 2 was constitutional under current Supreme Court rulings regarding the regulation of abortions and abortion facilities.

    The Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-3, reversed the Fifth Circuit and held that H.B. 2 is unconstitutional.
    As always, however, the devil is in the details.  In reaching its conclusion, the Supreme Court relied on Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 878 (1992) which held that an undue burden exists on “a woman’s right to decide to have an abortion, and consequently a provision of law is constitutionally invalid “if the ‘purpose or effect’ of the provision ‘is to place a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability . . . . Casey added that ‘[u]nnecessary health regulations that have the purpose or effect of presenting a substantial obstacle to a woman seeking an abortion impose an undue burden on the right.’”  (Emphasis added).

    As part of its decision in Hellerstedt the Supreme Court noted that there were no “legislative findings” attached to H.B. 2.  The Court felt that this was a significant weakness.  “[T]he relevant statute here does not set forth any legislative findings.  Rather, one is left to infer that the legislature sought to further a constitutionally acceptable objective (namely, protecting women’s health).”  The Supreme Court further noted that in the absence of legislative findings, the District Court may give significant weight to the evidence, without usurping the function of the legislature.

    Unfortunately, the evidence produced in the District Court showed the following:

    A.     Prior to H.B. 2, there were 40 licensed abortion facilities in Texas.  That number dropped by almost half after the admitting privileges requirement went into effect.

    B.    If the surgical-center requirement were to go into effect, then only 7 or 8 facilities would exist in Texas.  Over 1,200 women per month could be seeking appointments at each remaining facility.

    C.    The requirements “erect a particularly high barrier for poor, rural, or disadvantaged women.”

    D.      Abortion as regulated by the State before H.B. 2 was passed has been shown to be much safer in terms of minor and serious complications, than many common medical procedures not subject to the regulations, such as colonoscopies, vasectomies, endometrial biopsy, and plastic surgery.

    E.     Risks are not appreciably lowered for patients who undergo abortions at ambulatory surgical centers as compared to non-surgical center facilities.

    F.     Women will not obtain better care or experience, or more frequent positive outcomes at an ambulatory surgical center as compared to a previously licensed abortion facility.

    G.    The cost of coming into compliance with the surgical-center requirement for existing clinics is approaching $1 million and most likely will exceed $1.5 million with some clinics unable to comply due to physical size limitations of their current sites.  The cost of acquiring land and constructing a new compliant clinic will likely exceed $3 million.

    Based on this evidence, the District Court concluded that H.B. 2 did not offer sufficient medical benefits to women to justify the additional restrictions on abortion providers or abortion facilities.  The Supreme Court agreed.  “We conclude that neither of these provisions offers medical benefits sufficient to justify the burdens upon access that each imposes.  Each places a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking a previability abortion, each constitutes an undue burden on abortion access … and each violates the Federal Constitution.” (Emphasis added).

    New Mexico Implications:

    As it turns out, there are some implications of the Hellerstedt decision for New Mexico.

    Most significantly, the Hellerstedt decision strongly implies that requiring ambulatory surgical center licensing and physician admitting privilege of third trimester abortions is Constitutional.  Protest ABQ currently has a complaint on file with the New Mexico Department of Health asking the Department to investigate why the late-term abortion mill in Albuquerque, Southwestern Womens Options, does not have either medical clinic or ambulatory surgical center licensing.  Fortunately, the Hellerstedt decision has done nothing to affect that Complaint.  

    In addition, the Court in  Hellerstedt noted that before H.B. 2 was passed, Texas law placed several restrictions on abortion facilities, including:

    1. Annual reporting and recordkeeping requirements;
    2. Quality assurance program requirements:
    3. Personnel policies and staffing requirements;
    4. Physical and environmental requirements;
    5. Infection control standards;
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    7. Patient-rights standards: and
    8. Medical and clinical services standards, including anesthesia standards.

    These requirements were policed by both random and announced inspections at least annually, as well as providing administrative penalties, injunctions, and civil and criminal penalties.

    Many of these requirements are not currently part of New Mexico law.  Indeed, abortion facilities in this State operate in a virtually regulatory-free environment, to the detriment of women’s health.  There may be fertile ground here, therefore, for pro-life advocates to propose similar pre-H.B. 2 regulations here in New Mexico to hold abortion providers and abortion facilities more accountable for their unseemly trade.

  • New Mexico Baby Body Parts Scandal Timeline Recap

    New Mexico Baby Body Parts Scandal Timeline Recap

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    July, 18, 2015 Protest and Press Conference sponsored by Protest ABQ
    Protest ABQ’s TIMELINE RECAP:
    July 14, 2015 – The Center for Medical Progress released the first of a series of groundbreaking undercover video exposing the illegal trafficking of human body parts.
    July 15, 2015 – Protest ABQ issued a press release calling on New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and NM Attorney General Hector Balderas to launch an investigation into SWO and UNM based on two consent forms obtained by Protest ABQ revealing the practice of baby body part harvesting in New Mexico.

    July 17, 2015 – Protest ABQ holds protest and press conference calling for an investigation by the NM Attorney General’s office and also urged Governor Susana Martinez to encourage such an investigation.

    July 28, 2015 – Protest ABQ announced that a formal criminal complaint had been filed with NM Attorney General, Hector Balderas at the #WomenBetrayed Rally hosted by Protest ABQ (sponsored nationally by Students for Life of America) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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    August 20, 2015 – Protest ABQ hosts #ProtestPP the largest protest of Planned Parenthood in New Mexico (over 600) and across the country (over 77,000). During the press conference Tara Shaver, Spokesperson for Protest ABQ spoke to the fact that, 5 state governors have de-funded Planned Parenthood and 13 states have launched criminal investigations into Planned Parenthood’s baby body part for profit scheme. All the while New Mexico fully funds abortion through state Medicaid with our tax dollars and abortion facilities are telling patients that their babies remains may be used in medical research which violates New Mexico law.

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    (Picture from the ABQ Journal)
    October, 2015 – In October Protest ABQ decided to take our Protest presence to the next level in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America by holding a weekly protest at Planned Parenthood each Saturday morning.
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    In addition, in October we stepped up our Protest presence during our weekly #ProtestPP by stepping off of the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood and into the neighborhood surrounding Planned Parenthood.
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    October 10, 2015 – #ProtestPP Round 2: ADF Attorney and local Pastor to Speak at #ProtestPP Round 2
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    January 26, 2016 – Protest ABQ under the umbrella ministry banner, Life Ministries U.S. presented 5 years of investigative research to legislators in Santa Fe New Mexico.

    February 11, 2016 – U.S. House Select Committee announces subpoenas issued to UNM and SWO.

    February 12, 2016 – Protest ABQ submitted documentation, compiled over 5 years of research, to the U.S. House Select Committee in line with their scope of authority to review, such as “medical procedures and business practices used by entities involved in fetal tissue procurement and practices of providers of second and third trimester abortions.”

    April 7, 2016 – Pro-Abortion House Democrats issued a complaint asserting that the U.S. Select Committee “Investigation Is Being Fueled By Additional ‘Documentation’ From Anti-Abortion Extremists Known As Protest ABQ.”

    April 11, 2016 – April 11, 2016 – Media Matters (which is directly funded by Democracy Alliance and organized by George Soros) lamented that, “Protest ABQ is the latest anti-choice group feeding misinformation to Republicans on the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.”

    April 23, 2016 – National Protest Continue: Protest ABQ hosts #ProtestPP in Albuquerque in conjunction with other National Organizations across the country.

    March 24, 2016 – Protest ABQ Drops Post cards exposing UNM and their complicity with SWO and the baby body parts scandal exposed by the U.S. House investigation.

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  • Reinforcements Arrive: House Panel Issues Criminal Referral to NM Attorney General

    Reinforcements Arrive: House Panel Issues Criminal Referral to NM Attorney General

    (Pictured Above- Protest and Press Conference, July 17, 2015: Demanding Answers regarding SWO consent form indicating baby body part harvesting and their ties to UNM)

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PRESS CONFERENCE

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- On June 23, 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives Select Investigative Panel issued a criminal referral to New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas with evidence that the University of New Mexico (UNM) and late term abortion facility Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) may be in violation of local and federal law. Protest ABQ would like to thank the U.S. House Select Committee for their actions to hold the out of control and unregulated abortion cartel accountable in New Mexico. This has been an accumulation of the efforts of the collective pro-life community in New Mexico including New Mexico Alliance for Life as well as national pro-life groups such as, Operation Rescue. Protest ABQ is grateful that we have been able to contribute to this effort.

    Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue issued the following statement: “This recommendation of criminal charges against UNM and Southwestern Women’s Options is the fruit of years of research and hard work done by a tenacious community of pro-life activists. Seeing the fruit of that labor makes this a great day for us. All that’s left now is for law enforcement to read them their rights and take them away!”

    This referral comes 11 months after Protest ABQ filed a formal complaint based on SWO’s 2012 and 2015 consent forms which exposed that donating fetal tissue was mandatory for all abortion patients. Documents obtained by the House Panel’s investigation reveal that in November 2015, shortly after Protest ABQ publicized that we had obtained their 2015 consent form, SWO updated the form to make fetal tissue donation optional (page 291).

    After finally obtaining numerous documents through subpoenas from the University of New Mexico and Southwestern Women’s Options, it was determined by the panel that 42 U.S.C. § 289g-2, a federal statute which forbids the transfer of fetal tissue for valuable consideration caused major concerns in light of a close symbiotic relationship between the two entities. In addition to the New Mexico statute cited in the Panel’s letter to Attorney General Balderas, Protest ABQ’s criminal complaint has asked the Attorney General to investigate whether UNM and SWO are in violation of New Mexico’s Maternal, Fetal and Infant Experimentation Act, NMSA § 24-9A-1, et seq.

    In a press release from Rep. Marsha Blackburn it was stated that, “Through its investigation, the Panel has discovered that personnel within UNM’s hospital and medical school have aggressively engaged in expanding abortion in New Mexico through the offices, personnel, and resources of UNM.” Highlighted activities by the panel include that UNM personnel, “expanded UNM”s role in training new abortion doctors” which has been ongoing since UNM’s involvement with the Ryan Residency Training Program. This program requires that residents practice performing abortions at various locations including Planned Parenthood and Southwestern Women’s Options, facts which the panel mentions in it’s plethora of findings. Members of Protest ABQ exposed this arrangement back in 2011.

    Bud Shaver, Executive Director of Protest ABQ issued the following statement,

    “Since 2011 members of Protest ABQ have worked to expose and connect the dots between Albuquerque abortion killing centers: University of New Mexico, Southwestern Women’s Options and Planned Parenthood. Findings have been submitted to the state’s highest authorities and investigations into unlawful and unethical conduct have been requested.

    Protest ABQ and the pro-life community are grateful that the U.S. House Select Panel took the initiative to delve into the New Mexico abortion cartel and has referred it’s findings to the New Mexico Attorney General, Hector Balderas. Balderas should be ahead of the curve since Protest ABQ filed a formal complaint with his office 11 months ago. He now has more information to build his case and to move forward in a timely manner and we urge him to do so.”

    Local Impact

    The citizens of New Mexico have been concerned for many years about the use of state tax dollars that pay for abortions against their will and conscience. This fact should be a driving motivation for New Mexico’s Attorney General Balderas to conduct a thorough investigation into New Mexico’s abortion industry.

    Documents obtained from the Select House Panel’s investigation further reveal that since 2010 New Mexico tax dollars have paid over 5 million dollars to Late-Term abortion killing center, Southwestern Women’s Options!  New Mexico Medicaid is directly funding the New Mexico Abortion Cartel. 

    “New Mexico Medicaid and SCI Reimbursements Received by Southwestern Women’s Options, 2010-2015” page 159

    2015- 880,782.14
    2014- 504,220.68
    2013- 799,972.28
    2012- 963,850.43
    2011- 938,635.82
    2010- 974,054.47

    Total New Mexico Tax Dollars from 2010-2015: 5,061,515.82

    Protest ABQ is encouraging New Mexico Republican Governor, Susana Martinez, Lt. Governor John Sanchez, Albuquerque Republican Mayor Richard Berry along with all of the GOP leadership of New Mexico to urge New Mexico AG Hector Balderas to act upon the U.S. Republican House Committee’s criminal referral. Protest ABQ submitted its formal complaint to Balderas almost a year ago, and it appears that the U.S. Congress is backing us up!

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

    “I have been involved in New Mexico pro-life activism for the last 6 years as Tara Shaver of Protest ABQ and more recently Elisa Martinez of New Mexico Alliance for Life has investigated and exposed the abortion cartel in our state. It is heartening to see their pro-life efforts bearing fruit. I am calling on Hector Balderas to react immediately to the Select Committee’s letter and respond to the complaint that Tara and Protest ABQ filed 11 months ago. All pro-life groups in New Mexico need to continue to work to investigate and put pressure on the New Mexico abortion cartel until it collapses under the weight of its own evil.”

    Protest ABQ  looks forward to working with the New Mexico pro-life community until the abortion cartel in our state continues to be completely exposed and also fully dismantled.

    Click here for Protest ABQ’s timeline recap: New Mexico Baby Body Parts Scandal Timeline Recap

    RELATED:

    Select Panel Refers UNM & Late-term Abortion Facility for Criminal Charges Related to Fetal Tissue Procurement

    BREAKING: Abortion clinic provided “whole brains” for youth summer camp

  • Protest ABQ Drops Postcards Exposing Religious Pro-Abortion Democrat Senators

    Protest ABQ Drops Postcards Exposing Religious Pro-Abortion Democrat Senators

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- Protest ABQ has mailed postcards into the neighborhoods of New Mexico state legislators that were delivered to hundreds of homes this week.

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    Sen. Michael Sanchez (D), Sen. Bill O’Neill (D) claim to be Catholic, yet they consistently defy their Catholic faith. O’Neill has voted against every pro-life bill that has come before him in the Senate Public Affairs Committee. Sanchez assigns senate bills to their committees, which has prevented pro-life bills from floor votes the past two years. Subsequently Sanchez has been championed by the likes of Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider.

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

    “Since we founded Protest ABQ, we have been dedicated to ending preborn child killing. We will continue to expose the truth about why New Mexico is the abortion capital of the Southwest. It is clear that the elected Democrats here in New Mexico, including many Catholics, support preborn childkilling and far too many Republicans, including some who call themselves prolife, condone preborn childkilling.

    If we are prolife, we should be doing everything in our power to stop the slaughter of the innocent and if we are Catholic, we should obey our Catholic faith above all else. What has been happening here in New Mexico is a moral scandal that must be exposed and be brought to an end.”

    The postcard mailed into their neighborhoods read, “Senators Michael Sanchez and Bill O’ Neill Defy Their Catholic Faith By Supporting Murder”

    “Given such a grave situation, we need now more than ever to have the courage to look the truth in the eye and to call things by their proper name, without yielding to convenient compromises or to the temptation of self-deception.The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder…” Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae 58

    Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto (D) claims to be a member of the United Methodist Church, yet he has consistently voted against every pro-life bill that has come before him in the Senate Public Affairs Committee. Ivey-Soto also helped Albuquerque city councilor Pat Davis with GOTV efforts when Davis was running for office.

    The postcard mailed into his neighborhood reads, “Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto Disparages His Christian Faith and Women By Supporting Abortion”

    “I know the “devastating damage” of abortion, both personally and professionally. Abortion was intended to help and free women, but it has instead brought pain and misery into the lives of many people, male and female. As followers of Jesus Christ, and as The United Methodist Church, we must offer more than a quick fix: we must love them both.” By Rev. John Bright, Virginia Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church

    The citizens of New Mexico deserve to know that their elected officials are “putting politics before Jesus and his babies and this is a form of idolatry!” stated Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Priests for Life. Pre-born babies are murdered in the latest stages of pregnancy in our state and Jesus did not lay down His life so that we may ignore this reality that has so negatively impacted New Mexico.

    Bud Shaver, Pro-Life Missionary & Executive Director of Protest ABQ, on The HUB of New Mexico internet radio station to discuss the postcard campaign that was done to expose pro-death Democrat Senate boss Michael Sanchez as well as Senator Bill O’Neil & Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto.

    RELATED:

    In Emotion-Laden Hearing, New Mexico Senate Kills Pro-Life Bills

    Catholic Senator Michael Sanchez Funded By Albuquerque’s Abortion Cartel

  • Crossing the ‘Abortion Desert’…to New Mexico

    Crossing the ‘Abortion Desert’…to New Mexico

    By Bud Shaver

    ABORTION CAPITAL…WHY ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO?
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    Crossing the ‘abortion desert’: Women increasingly travel out of their states for the procedure

    “The National Abortion Federation hotline referred 209 Texas patients to New Mexico last year, compared with 21 in 2013, said Vicki Saporta, the group’s president and chief executive. The number of Texas patients at one Albuquerque clinic alone more than tripled, jumping from 19 to 67 last year, she said.New Mexico clinics can treat more patients because the state has not passed many of the laws Texas has, including a 20-week abortion ban passed by a dozen other states.” ~LA Times

    Read the full report by the LA Times: Crossing the ‘abortion desert’: Women increasingly travel out of their states for the procedure

    For more information about New Mexico: Important Facts about Abortion in New Mexico and Abortion Abuses

    Protest ABQ Calls on New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry to Step up, Speak Out and Take Action

    New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez: What are you Doing About This? 

    Albuquerque, Mayor Richard Berry: What are you Doing About This?

    Watch Below- 5 years of investigative research into New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics.

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    THIS VIDEO PULLS BACK THE CURTIAN OF THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINICS IN NEW MEXICO. YOU WILL HEAR THEM IN THEIR OWN WORDS. YOU CAN DECIDE IF WOMEN ARE RECEIVING QUALITY HEALTH CARE…

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    INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS

    UNDERCOVER VIDEOS

  • May Newsletter 2016: New Mexico Leaders Must Stand Up For The Babies

    May Newsletter 2016: New Mexico Leaders Must Stand Up For The Babies

    Dear Pro-Life Friend,

    New Mexico doesn’t have any laws to protect the pre-born children who die daily in our midst. It is the “Abortion Capital of the Southwest” and Albuquerque is known nationally as the “Late-Term Abortion Capital of the Country.” That is why Protest ABQ has been and will continue to urge Republican leadership to speak up about this horrible tragedy and put together a strategy to pass un-compromised pro-life legislation.

    This month we spent time in protest reminding the New Mexico GOP that their constituents want them to stand up for the babies,…once they do, we will stand down.

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    (RGA Governors Summit Hosted by Susana Martinez)

    This month New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez hosted her fellow Governors for a summit just outside of ABQ, Protest ABQ was there to expose her lack of action, but we were also hopeful that the other Governors in attendance who have done so much to protect the pre-born in their states would encourage her to do the same.

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    (New Mexico Republican State Convention)

    The same week, the New Mexico GOP had their state convention and we urged them to cut ties with UNM and Paul Roth, as we have continued to do for months now.

    If we do not hold our elected officials accountable to a high standard regarding the dignity and value of human life, who will?

    Bud Shaver, executive director of Protest ABQ discusses the details and purpose of these two focuses with  The HUB of New Mexico internet radio station.

    Listen online here


    As a pro-life missionary family, doing this life saving work by the call from our Lord we thank each of you for your continued prayers and financial support.

    Albuquerque and the state of New Mexico is a mission field like no other, we couldn’t and can’t do this important work without you!

    Thank you for your prayers and if you are not already doing so please consider making a monthly or one time (tax deductible) donation online here (Just select Bud and Tara- Pro-Life Witness) to keep us going strong in such tumultuous times.

    God’s Peace Be With YOU!

    When a Protest becomes a Riot…

    Protest ABQ has always maintained peaceful protests throughout Albuquerque and beyond, this is because we are opposed to all forms of violence. In fact, our mission is to protect the most defenseless among us, children in the womb, from the ultimate act of violence: abortion.

    On Tuesday, May 24th Albuquerque experienced a protest that really became a riot because these efforts were fueled not by love but by hate and anger. This riot was one of many throughout the nation focused on opposing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rallies.

    One of the main groups organizing the anti-Trump agitation event in Albuquerque which ultimately resulted in violence against the police, property damage and even animal cruelty was ProgressNow New Mexico.

    The executive director of ProgressNow NM is Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis (District 6).

    Protest ABQ is calling on Pat Davis to step down as a city councilor. In addition, Protest ABQ is calling upon Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry to conduct an investigation into Pat Davis and ProgressNow New Mexico’s role of organizing this “StandUpToTrump Rally”.

    Read the full report by Tara Shaver connecting the dots here: Is City Councilor Pat Davis and ProgressNow NM Responsible for ABQ Riot?

    Articles from this month:

    Protest ABQ Urges GOP to Investigate UNM at Republican Convention

    New Mexico Guv #SilentSusana Hosts National GOP Governors Summit

    Catholic NM State Sen. Michael Padilla, with the Bishops or the Pro-Aborts?

    Catholic Senator Michael Sanchez Funded By Albuquerque’s Abortion Cartel

    Love in Christ,

    The Shaver Family

    Thank YOU for standing with us, for your prayers and for making our pro-life efforts in New Mexico possible!

    “Seek the well being of the city to which I have sent you. Pray for it to the Lord.  For in seeking its well being you shall find your own.“ Jeremiah 29:7