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Year: 2017

  • Aug 2017 Newsletter: Pressure Mounting for Southwestern Women’s Options

    Aug 2017 Newsletter: Pressure Mounting for Southwestern Women’s Options

    Dear Friends,

    This month, we released a new undercover recording with Priests for Life that exposed an unholy alliance between Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) late term abortion mill and local clergy. The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is the organization that is responsible for facilitating contact between clergy and abortion patients…

    “These are false prophets,” said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and President of the National Pro-life Religious Council, which commissioned a book about the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. “Any religion that justifies the killing of a baby is not a religion worthy of belief. Those who pretend it is are using the Lord’s name in vain.”

    Read the full report here: Unholy Alliance: Clergy Conspires with Late term Abortion Clinic to Sell Abortions 

    Latest Undercover Recording

    Pressure Mounting for Southwestern Women’s Options

    Two liberal pro-abortion news outlets, The Santa Fe Reporter and The New Mexico Political Report worked together to do a profile piece on late-term abortionist and owner of SWO, Curtis Boyd, with the twist of highlighting his religious convictions titled: A Moral Choice: As pressure mounts, faith sustains veteran ABQ doctor who performs third-trimester abortions

    We were interviewed and our work over the past 7 years was featured in the article as the “mounting pressure” opposing him,

    “Bud and Tara Shaver, a Christian couple who describe their strong-willed advocacy against abortion as a calling from God, represent the face of Boyd’s opposition, an ever-present foil…the Shavers came to New Mexico with the goal of shutting down Boyd’s newly expanded practice. The couple allied with Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, a priest and then-director of Project Defending Life, and have since pushed a variety of anti-abortion efforts and causes.”

    The timing of the article was perfect as we had just released our undercover report highlighting the “Unholy Alliance” being utilized at SWO and it confirmed the religious component being used to market late-term abortions. It was also an opportunity to look into the psyche of Boyd who rarely does public interviews. The article mentioned that he is 80 years old and nearing the end of his career…

    Bud got a great quote in the article that sum’s it all up perfectly,

    “Shaver describes Boyd bringing his religious beliefs into his practice as ‘an emotional manipulation of spirituality.’”

    Read the full report here: A Moral Choice: As pressure mounts, faith sustains veteran ABQ doctor who performs third-trimester abortions

    20th Annual Survivors Camp San Francisco, California

    (Ten years after attending our first Survivors camp we returned as trainers)

    The article mentioned above that profiled Curtis Boyd included the pivotal role that Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust had on us early on in shaping our, “strong willed advocacy against abortion.” The article was published on July 19th the same day we were flying out to San Francisco, CA for the Survivors 20th annual pro-life training camp! Ten years after attending our first Survivors camp we returned as trainers.

    It was a blessing to be in the company of seasoned pro-life veterans and to be a part of how God is moving in California and through the young people who are the future of the pro-life movement. We shared our own story of how we became pro-life missionaries and how to create an abortion free community.

    A common theme that Survivors leaders, Jeff White and Cheryl Conrad imparted to the campers was that the work we are doing to close down abortion mills is absolutely vital to ending abortion once and for all. That was very encouraging to hear and affirms the work we are doing with your help to make New Mexico abortion free.

    We spent 6 days in the trenches with passionate young people visiting UC Berkeley, the San Francisco commissioner meeting to oppose the opening of a mega Planned Parenthood and even helped to save a life outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion mill.

    #SurvivorsCamp20 Slideshow

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    We look forward to implementing some new ideas and strategies we picked up along the way. Thank you for standing with us for the lives of pre-born babies and their mothers in the late term abortion capital of the nation.

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    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    • Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.
    • Give a one-time financial gift.
    • Host an Abortion Free New Mexico Strategy Seminar for your Church, Home Group or Organization.

    “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

  • Unholy Alliance: Clergy Conspires with Late term Abortion Clinic to Sell Abortions 

    Unholy Alliance: Clergy Conspires with Late term Abortion Clinic to Sell Abortions 

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- A new undercover recording released by Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life exposes an unholy alliance between Southwestern Women’s Options late term abortion mill and local clergy. The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is the organization that is responsible for facilitating contact between clergy and abortion patients.

    In this latest recording, an undercover caller states that she is 29 weeks pregnant with a baby that has a fetal anomaly. She exhibits being a little apprehensive about the late term abortion due to her Catholic faith, but is reassured by clinic staff, “believe it or not“ there is a priest that will come to the clinic before, after and even during her procedure.

    Watch the latest recording here

    The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is deceptively using religion to justify and promote abortion (the act of killing another human being) and recently they have published a list of over 70 local clergy that are being used to ease the consciences of women seeking late term abortions. This list includes well known liberal denominations like Unitarian Universalists and also pseudo-Catholic parishes that are not recognized by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

    “These are false prophets,” said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and President of the National Pro-life Religious Council, which commissioned a book about the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. “Any religion that justifies the killing of a baby is not a religion worthy of belief. Those who pretend it is are using the Lord’s name in vain.”

    Curtis Boyd, the owner of Southwestern Women’s Options, has been vocal in the past about his religious background as an ordained Baptist minister and has confessed to praying over the children he readily admits that he knows he’s killing, “I’ll ask that the spirit of this pregnancy be returned to God with love, with understanding.”

    Listen to him in his own words here

    Early on when Boyd betrayed true medicine and started providing abortions he knew then that having clergy behind him was important. He still sees the value in this today and is greatly benefiting from his collaboration with the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

    Boyd has conspired with the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice to, “meet whatever religious criteria” these women need to keep them in the clinic and ensure that they follow through with lucrative late term abortions.The abortion clinic staff even admits that, “We don’t know how we’d do [late term abortions] without them.” At 29 weeks of pregnancy SWO charges $11,500 and an additional $1,000 each week after that.

    “It seems to be the trend now in the pro-abortion community to try and harness a religious undertone to justify abortion and use misguided clergy to reassure women in their decision to kill their children,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico. “It used to be that signs reading, ‘Keep your rosaries off my ovaries’ were a common theme to separate religion and abortion, but now late term abortionists are dependent upon groups like the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice to accommodate abortion patients and give them a false sense of hope that they are making the right decision, when they in fact are not. Clergy who participate in abortion are complicit in the deaths of these children. These are not true of leaders of the faith, but they have denied the truth and are leading others astray.”

    No Gestational Limits

    Many in this country do not want to believe that abortions are done up to the day of birth, however, in her own words, abortion clinic worker Susan Duda tells the undercover caller that “There are no gestational limits for aborting babies with fetal anomalies,” which means that they will provide an abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

    Duda even sympathisizes with the caller who says she doesn’t want to think about having to deal with raising a disabled child by stating, “That’s a lifetime of commitment.”

    Having children is a lifetime commitment but it’s better than living with a lifetime of regret or worse. Operation Rescue reported that a Kansas woman committed suicide last month on the very same day that she had her abortion.

    Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion and have released eight undercover recordings:

    Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

  • July 2017 Newsletter: #NewMexicoTrue Campaign is Having an Impact

    July 2017 Newsletter: #NewMexicoTrue Campaign is Having an Impact

    Dear Friends,

    This month we continued to press forward with our focus of exposing the Abortion Landscape in New Mexico by releasing Parts 3 and 4 of our 6 part series, #NewMexicoTrue Campaign. Our previous reports revealed that New Mexico is the land of unrestricted abortion lacking any oversight or accountability. Fr. Stephen Imbarrato was quoted in a Washington Times article covering our reports,

    “There are no restrictions, no oversight, nothing going on with regard to abortion in New Mexico other than that the Democratic Party totally supports it, and the Republican Party, for the most part, is condoning it,” Father Imbarrato said. “So we have been doing everything necessary to try to bring this to the national spotlight.”

    Read the article by the Washington Times: Recordings back Trump assertions on late-term abortions

    Our prayer is that as we continue peeling away the layers of the New Mexico abortion cartel that our leaders will take heed of the information and act boldly on behalf of the babies.

    We continue to have opportunities to share with Bible study groups to educate and spread the truth about abortion in New Mexico. The Lord is moving here and we are humbled to be a part of all that He is doing.

    Thank you for standing with us, your prayers, support and encouragement are invaluable to us. May God receive all of the glory!

    #NewMexicoTrue Campaign

    This month in our #NewMexicoTrue Campaign reports, we looked at the Santa Theresa, New Mexico abortion clinic, Hill Top Reproductive Clinic.

    In part 3 we exposed Franz Theard a Texas abortionist who has set up his abortion mill 11 miles across the Texas border in Santa Teresa, NM. He is using his mill to evade Texas laws regarding waiting periods and minor access to abortion.

    Theard is another example of abortion providers in New Mexico who ignore the best interests of minors who seek out an abortion. Minors are vulnerable and often the victims of sexual abuse, Franz Theard is enabling sexual predators when he purposefully takes advantage of New Mexico’s lack of common sense laws and circumvents the reasonable limitations of Texas.

    We also cited violations that Theard was found to have at his abortion mill that included doing pregnancy tests and RH blood tests without proper licensure and failing to follow the manufacturer’s instructions when using these tests. Theard is also a practicing OB/GYN in the state of Texas, where he delivers babies on the days he’s not aborting them.

    (In response to our report Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa has updated their website and removed language advertising their intention to evade Texas laws.)

    Read the full report: Part 3- Santa Teresa, NM: No Parent, No Problem 15 y/o TX Minor Obtains Abortion

    Late Term Abortion Exposed 

    Our work with Priests for Life continued this month to bring national awareness to late term abortion. In part 4 we looked deeper at Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO), the nations largest late term abortion facility, and exposed just how arbitrary the standard is for determining which baby lives or dies.

    This call combines two earlier calls and adds new details, including that mothers so far advanced in their pregnancies should not be aborted in stand-alone clinics like SWO – although they are – and that the availability of third-trimester abortions depends on the “comfort” level of the abortionist.

    “The bottom line is that SWO is willing to terminate a disabled child in spite of their own admission that late- term abortions shouldn’t be done in an outpatient clinic because they pose significant risks to mothers,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.“The ‘comfort’ zone of the abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options, which appears to be based on an arbitrary eugenic standard, is ultimately allowing them to decide which babies should live or die.

    Read the full report: Part 4: Late Term Abortionists Arbitrarily Choose Who Lives and Dies in New Mexico

    Baby or Biohazard Waste?

    In this undercover recording we exposed how the late term abortion facility Southwestern Women’s Options arbitrarily differentiates between a baby and biohazard waste when discussing the disposal of the remains of the babies terminated at their facility.

    Southwestern Women’s Options tells a woman posing as 33 weeks pregnant, that they have a working relationship with Riverside Funeral Home, which will come to the abortion facility and collect the baby remains for cremation after the abortion. Staffers at both the funeral home and the abortion facility refer to the dead unborn children as “babies.”

    However, the option to cremate the remains only applies to disabled babies. When another woman, 25 weeks pregnant, inquires about what happens to her healthy baby after her abortion, she is told that the remains are considered biohazard waste and that the whole baby is incinerated.

    “To think that Southwestern Women’s Options is pitching cremation to women seeking late-term abortions in order to somehow buffer killing disabled babies while the other babies are incinerated as biohazard waste is schizophrenic,” said Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico. “Cremation, by definition, refers to what is done to a dead person’s body. It’s imperative that we, our leaders and every sane person speak out and act on behalf of these human babies who are being brutally killed each day in New Mexico.”

    “Anyone with a conscience will be horrified by these recordings,” added Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. “They speak of fingerprints, toe-prints, baby clothes, photos, and funeral homes. These are things associated with human beings, and children who — once they’re born — we all agree should be protected. What is revealed here is an ongoing prejudice, discrimination, and oppression towards the children in the womb, and it must end.”

    Abortion Free New Mexico Strategy session with Albuquerque Mayoral candidate Michelle Garcia Holmes. As mayor, Michelle has committed to work to end late term abortion in Albuquerque!

    Please pray for Michelle Garcia Holmes and her campaign. 

    For more information visit: Michelle4Mayor.org

    Triggering the pro aborts…

    (Picture from Media Matters)

    Our #NewMexicoTrue Campaign is already having an impact! The radical leftist organization Media Matters published a hit piece on our efforts.

    Here is an excerpt,

    “In a June 20 article, The Washington Times gave an uncritical platform to a newly re-formed New Mexico anti-abortion group, Abortion Free New Mexico (AFNM). This group is the latest venture of longtime anti-choice extremists Bud and Tara Shaver.”

    Read their hit piece here: Anti-abortion extremist group resurfaces to promote anti-choice misinformation in Wash. Times

    (WOW, What a headline! They are really upset…)

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    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    • Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.
    • Give a one-time financial gift.
    • Host an Abortion Free New Mexico Strategy Seminar for your Church, Home Group or Organization.

    “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

  • Baby or Biohazard Waste?

    Baby or Biohazard Waste?

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life have compiled another video in their ongoing series to expose late term abortion in America. This latest undercover recording exposes how the late term abortion facility Southwestern Women’s Options arbitrarily differentiates between a baby and biohazard waste when discussing the disposal of the remains of the babies terminated at their facility.

    Listen to the latest undercover recording here

    New Mexico is the land of unrestricted abortion, there are no limitations on how late abortions can be performed. In addition, there is no fixed standard of determining which babies live or die, there are no abortion clinic safety standards and now Southwestern Women’s Options late term abortion facility has been found making a bizarre distinction between babies who are healthy and those with a fetal anomaly. This latest recording begs the question as to what the result of an abortion is, a dead baby or biohazard waste? …and who decides?

    Southwestern Women’s Options tells a woman posing as 33 weeks pregnant, that they have a working relationship with Riverside Funeral Home, which will come to the abortion facility and collect the baby remains for cremation after the abortion. Staffers at both the funeral home and the abortion facility refer to the dead unborn children as “babies.”

    However, the option to cremate the remains only applies to disabled babies. When another woman, 25 weeks pregnant, inquires about what happens to her healthy baby after her abortion, she is told that the remains are considered biohazard waste and that the whole baby is incinerated.

    Cremation: the disposal of a dead person’s body by burning it to ashes.

    Incineration: the destruction of something, especially waste material, by burning.

    “To think that Southwestern Women’s Options is pitching cremation to women seeking late-term abortions in order to somehow buffer killing disabled babies while the other babies are incinerated as biohazard waste is schizophrenic,” said Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico. “Cremation, by definition, refers to what is done to a dead person’s body. It’s imperative that we, our leaders and every sane person speak out and act on behalf of these human babies who are being brutally killed each day in New Mexico.”

    According to a quote attributed to Nazi propagandists during a regime that killed over 12 million people, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

    For more than 44 years in America, abortion profiteers and their supporters in politics and the media have insisted that abortion does not kill babies. This has resulted in over 60 million lives being terminated in American abortion businesses.

    But as the abortionists themselves at Southwestern Women’s Options admit, they are killing babies even in the latest stages of pregnancy.

    “Anyone with a conscience will be horrified by these recordings,” added Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. “They speak of fingerprints, toe-prints, baby clothes, photos, and funeral homes. These are things associated with human beings, and children who — once they’re born — we all agree should be protected. What is revealed here is an ongoing prejudice, discrimination, and oppression towards the children in the womb, and it must end.”

    Listen to notorious late term abortionist and owner of Southwestern Women’s Options, Curtis Boyd’s, candid admission with reporters:

    Abortion doctor: ‘Am I killing? Yes, I am’

    Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion and have released eight undercover recordings:

    Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

  • Part 4: Late Term Abortionists Arbitrarily Choose Who Lives and Dies in New Mexico

    Part 4: Late Term Abortionists Arbitrarily Choose Who Lives and Dies in New Mexico

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- In part 4 of a 6 part series documenting the New Mexico Abortion Cartel, Abortion Free New Mexico (AFNM) takes a look at Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO), the nations largest late term abortion facility.

    Southwestern Women’s Options advertises on it’s website, “Elective Abortions through 28 weeks… Later Abortion for Maternal and Fetal Indications.”

    (Screenshot from SWO website)

    Previous reports by AFNM have revealed that SWO is drawing women from all across the world for barbaric full term abortions, thus making Albuquerque known nationally as the Late Term Abortion Capital.

    This report pulls back the curtain on the abortion cartel in New Mexico that is self regulating with arbitrary standards because of the absence of any common sense legislation which would provide oversight and accountability that is so desperately needed.

    The latest undercover recording released by Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life reveals just how arbitrary the standard is for determining which baby lives or dies at Southwestern Women’s Options.

    Listen to the undercover recording here.

     

    Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life issued the following statement,

    “Once again, this undercover call reveals that abortions are taking place legally in our country even in the third trimester of pregnancy. We will continue to expose this evil in the weeks and months to come. We call on all Americans, including those who identify themselves as “prochoice,” to communicate to their legislators their opposition to these late term procedures, so that we can begin restoring protection to these children.”

    In the first call to Southwestern, a caller posed as a woman who was pregnant with a baby who had been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Without hesitation she was given an abortion appointment, despite being 33 weeks pregnant.

    In a second call, an undercover caller posed as a healthy woman pregnant with a 30-week healthy pre-born baby whom she has decided to abort because her husband lost his job.

    The third calling, a minor posing as the victim of incest by an older family member is seeking a late-term abortion at 26 weeks of pregnancy. Instead of urging the sexual assault victim to contact the authorities – as required by law — the abortion clinic staff gives the young girl a phone number to the New Mexico Medicaid office so that she can obtain the $7,500 procedure for free.

    The fourth call combines two earlier calls and adds new details, including that mothers so far advanced in their pregnancies should not be aborted in stand-alone clinics like Southwestern – although they are – and that the availability of third-trimester abortions depends on the “comfort” level of the abortionist.

    “The bottom line is that SWO is willing to terminate a disabled child in spite of their own admission that late- term abortions shouldn’t be done in an outpatient clinic because they pose significant risks to mothers,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.

    “The ‘comfort’ zone of the abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options, which appear to be based on an arbitrary eugenic standard, have ultimately led them to decide which babies should live or die. Barbaric late- term abortions are rejected by the majority of the American people because viable babies are being killed, and in our latest undercover recording, the abortion workers themselves admit that late-term abortions shouldn’t be performed because they are too dangerous for the women seeking them. New Mexico abortion facilities need oversight and accountability that comes from common-sense regulations,” Mrs. Shaver said.

    Since 2010, Tara Shaver of AFNM with the help of Operation Rescue has documented at least 17 abortion related injuries inflicted upon women at Southwestern Women’s Options. At least one of these horrific injuries was the result of a late term abortion performed by abortionist Shelley Sella at 35 weeks of pregnancy. The pregnant woman from New York came to Albuquerque to have her baby killed because of a diagnosed fetal anomaly. Sella ignored the risks and committed four acts of gross negligence during the abortion that caused a ruptured uterus and required medical transport to a nearby hospital.

    “The ‘comfort’ zone of the abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options, that appear to be based on an arbitrary eugenic standard, have ultimately led them to decide which babies should live or die. Barbaric late term abortions are rejected by the majority of the American people because viable babies are being killed, and in our latest undercover recording, the abortion workers themselves admit that late term abortions shouldn’t be performed because they are too dangerous for the women seeking them. New Mexico abortion facilities need oversight and accountability that comes from common sense regulations,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.

    Facts Uncovered about Southwestern Women’s Options since 2010

    • Southwestern Women’s Option is drawing women from all across the country and the world for late-term abortions making Albuquerque, New Mexico known as the Late Term Abortion Capital.
    • Abortions have been performed at Southwestern Women’s Options up to 35 weeks gestation. Beyond 28 weeks of pregnancy terminations are arbitrarily decided on a “case by case basis.”
    • New Mexico law [NM Stat § 30-5-1] criminalizes the practice of late term abortions that are performed outside of hospitals. However, this law is not being enforced, leaving women to suffer at the hands of unregulated abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options.
    • Every Tuesday late term abortions are started at Southwestern Women’s Options and take 3-4 days to complete.
    • Abortionist Curtis Boyd owns and runs Southwestern Women’s Options located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
    • The Sandia Foundation owns the land on which his building sits.
    • Current abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options are Shelley Sella, who resides in California and Carmen Landau, who lives in Albuquerque.
    • Shelley Sella has a Notice of Contemplated Action on her New Mexico medical license for the botched 35 week abortion she performed in 2011. Tara Shaver and Operation Rescue filed the complaint which prompted the New Mexico Medical Board investigation.
    • Southwestern Women’s Options is the sole provider of fetal remains to the University of New Mexico.
    • Southwestern Women’s Options is currently under investigation by the New Mexico Attorney General prompted by a complaint filed in July 2015 by Tara Shaver on the basis of potential violations of two state statutes regarding the illegal use of aborted fetal remains for medical research at the University of New Mexico.

    UPDATED: Reports released by Abortion Free New Mexico in a 6 Part Series exposing the New Mexico Abortion Cartel:

    UPDATED: Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion and have released 19 undercover recordings:

    Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

  • Part 3- Santa Teresa, NM: No Parent, No Problem 15 y/o TX Minor Obtains Abortion

    Part 3- Santa Teresa, NM: No Parent, No Problem 15 y/o TX Minor Obtains Abortion

    Abortion Free New Mexico introduces Part 3 of a 6 Part Series exposing the New Mexico Abortion Cartel

    By Bud Shaver

    Santa Teresa, NM- In an undercover call placed on May 17, 2017 to Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic in El Paso, TX the caller posing as a 15 year old minor inquires about obtaining an abortion without her parents involvement.

    Without hesitation the abortion facility worker refers the young girl to their “other clinic location in Santa Teresa.” Located according to Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic’s website, “Only 11 minutes from Downtown El Paso.” It’s as if this is one of the main reasons the Santa Teresa abortion facility located a few miles across the border in New Mexico exists.

    An abortion appointment is secured for the following Saturday and all the minor is required to bring is $430.00 and her identification card.

    Listen to the undercover call here

    New Mexico has become the place where abortionist Franz Theard, who owns two abortion facilities, one in El Paso, TX and the other in Santa Teresa, NM is circumventing reasonable Texas laws that were enacted to protect minors from sexual abuse.

    (Abortionist Franz Theard)

    At Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa abortions are performed up to 10 weeks of pregnancy by administering RU486 to starve pre-born babies of the essential nutrient progesterone. These procedures are performed weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays according to clinic staff.

    “Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic is yet another example of abortion providers in New Mexico who ignore the best interests of minors who seek out an abortion. Minors are vulnerable and often the victims of sexual abuse, Franz Theard is enabling sexual predators when he purposefully takes advantage of New Mexico’s lack of common sense laws and circumvents the reasonable limitations of Texas,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.

    History of Violations in New Mexico and Texas

    On July, 11 2013, Julie Aragon, the New Mexico Health Facility Compliance Officer with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program emailed Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa because she noticed that their website stated that they offered lab services but the required CLIA certificate was not on file.

    This email was not answered by Theard or his staff. On September 10, 2014, Julie Aragon visited the Santa Teresa location unannounced to investigate unauthorized testing. The official CLIA report noted the following violations and discrepancies:

    • Urine pregnancy tests and RH blood tests were being performed without required CLIA certification.
    • An open urine pregnancy test cassette was on the break room counter next to a small refrigerator. Blood reagents were also found in the refrigerator.
    • Failure to follow manufacturer’s instructions when checking Rh blood status in patients.
    • Failure to perform quality control measures daily.
    • Failure to maintain a log of patients tested onsite.
    • Failure to maintain copies of training, highest level of education, or competency assessments for testing personnel.
    • Failure to monitor refrigerator temperature where testing agents were kept.
    • Failure to maintain documentation of the lot numbers and expiration dates of pregnancy tests and blood reagents.

    The CLIA program only ensures and monitors laboratory testing and has no jurisdiction over the surgical portion of abortion facilities. However, when a laboratory isn’t being run properly it begs the question, what other discrepancies the facility may have?

    Since this location was not properly CLIA certified, all testing was halted until the certification was obtained.

    In a 2015 a CLIA survey of Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic in El Paso, Texas, documentation on AbortionDocs.org showed multiple violations including, a violation of the judicial bypass requirement for minors having an abortion as well as violating the requirement to verbally explain sonogram images to minors before they have an abortion.

    Other violations included disregarding the 2 hour waiting period, failure to provide patients with local hospital information and failure to ensure that their equipment was properly sterilized.

    Taking Life or Giving Life?

    Franz Theard does abortions on certain days of the week and then delivers babies at local Texas hospitals on other days. He seems to be caught in between two worlds, and tries to keep them separate. Abortion Free New Mexico found a website for Theard’s OB/GYN practice that does not mention abortion at all. There is also an unofficial Facebook page where women often check in for prenatal appointments and ultrasounds.

    On the other hand Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic’s website boasts abortion services with the ability to bypass the Texas 24 hour waiting period.

    “This report by Abortion Free New Mexico is only a glimpse inside of Franz Theard’s shoddy abortion operation that has creeped into New Mexico. Abortionist Franz Theard has a sordid history of abortion violations and our latest undercover recording reveals that Theard’s El Paso clinic is instructing minors how to obtain abortions in New Mexico in violation of Texas law. Franz Theard is living a double life in his practice by working in Texas hospitals delivering babies while simultaneously killing babies in both Texas and New Mexico. Theard has betrayed true medicine and is currently capitalizing on New Mexico’s lack of the most basic laws regulating abortion,” stated Tara Shaver.

    Read Parts 1 and 2 of Abortion Free New Mexico’s series exposing the New Mexico abortion cartel:

  • June 2017 Newsletter: Abortion Free New Mexico Partners with Priests for Life to Expose Late Term Abortion

    June 2017 Newsletter: Abortion Free New Mexico Partners with Priests for Life to Expose Late Term Abortion

    Dear Friends,

    We are excited to be working together with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion. This month we released two undercover recordings which reveal that late term abortions are easy to obtain in New Mexico… for any reason and that the abortion cartel is more concerned about the profits they can make off of lucrative late term abortions than minors being exploited by sexual predators.

    Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated, “This latest undercover call continues to rip the veil off the abortion industry and show our nation what even most ‘prochoice’ people oppose: late term abortion of healthy babies, paid for by taxpayers, and conducted by an industry which provides cover for sexual predators. What we need to know to end abortion is found in the abortion industry itself. We just need to continue exposing it, and we will.”

    (Video #1)

    Read our full report here: #NewMexicoTrue: Land Of Unrestricted Abortion

    RELATED: 

    (Video #2)

    Read our full report here: NM Late-Term Abortion Clinic Staff to Minor Incest Victim, “Contact Medicaid” NOT Authorities

    New Mexico is the land of unrestricted abortion but with your help, prayers and support we are working toward an Abortion Free New Mexico. Thank you for standing with us for the babies.

    Abortion Free New Mexico Going Through the Manual

    This month we held two meetings to discuss the first half of the Abortion Free book that is the manual we are using to guide us in our efforts to make New Mexico abortion free.

    We are going to need as many people involved as possible to accomplish all that we have planned to bring accountability and exposure to the New Mexico abortion cartel.

    These meetings serve as a place of concentrated prayer, brainstorming and community as we begin to implement this strategy. If you would like to be involved in these meetings and need a book please contact us at our address below.

    We are looking for opportunities to introduce this manual and vision to others. Please let us know if you’d like us to come to your church, Bible study or home group to share and let others know how they can be a part of making your community abortion free.

    Bud also had the opportunity to speak at the annual CSA National Day of Prayer week. He shared one of our latest undercover videos and the vision of Abortion Free New Mexico with those in attendance.

    Abortion Landscape Shift in New Mexico since 2010

    Abortion Free New Mexico introduces a 6 Part Series exposing the NM Abortion Cartel…

    Part 1: In 2010 when we were invited to New Mexico as pro-life missionaries by Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, the abortion landscape was a lot different than what it is today. The three of us in conjunction with Operation Rescue quickly coined the title “Late Term Abortion Capital” to describe Albuquerque and designated New Mexico as the “Abortion Capital of the Southwest.”

    An article in the Albuquerque Journal quoted radical pro-abortion activists who, “[Ranked] New Mexico No. 1 in the nation for providing equal access to sexual and reproductive health services.” We, however, were determined to push back against the New Mexico abortion cartel that was eager to expand it’s killing business even deeper into New Mexico.

    In no time at all we began to put the pieces together and uncovered the corruption that has permeated the state and kept abortion unrestricted for so long. We outed abortionists and made sure everyone knew who is willing to kill pre-born children for a profit. We began to expose horrific abortion injuries at Southwestern Women’s Options late term abortion center and at the University of New Mexico.

    Since 2010 three abortion centers have closed!

    Now only five abortion centers remain in the state and Albuquerque alone is home to the state’s three last remaining surgical abortion killing centers.

    “Since the Shavers have been working to end abortion in New Mexico, they have made great strides in exposing rampant abortion abuses, helping to close abortion businesses, and saving lives. To achieve the goal of an abortion-free state, it takes the wisdom that comes from experience and gritty determination. The Shavers are certainly up to the task of building an Abortion Free New Mexico.” Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President of Operation Rescue

    Read the full report: Part 1: Abortion Landscape Shift in New Mexico Since 2010

    Part 2: Planned Parenthood of New Mexico is on Life Support

    In addition to the revelation that Planned Parenthood (PP) NM will be closing 3 referral clinics at the end of September 2017, we uncovered that the only PP in the state providing surgical abortions is currently without an abortionist! This is possibly due to our complaint filed against a PP nurse practitioner who was performing abortions in violation of New Mexico law…

    Read Part 2: Planned Parenthood of New Mexico is on Life Support

    Here is a quote from the Albuquerque Journal:

    Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico, said that she feels the national funding conversation could be contributing to the closures.“It all kind of makes sense to us when we look at the climate change … under President Trump,” she said. “This is a step in the right direction for building a culture of life in New Mexico.”

    Read the full report from the Albuquerque Journal: Planned Parenthood to close 3 clinics in northern NM

    Contact us if you would like a copy of Abortion Free: shavermissions@gmail.com (suggested donation $20.00)

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    -Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.

    -Give a one-time financial gift.

    –Host an Abortion Free New Mexico Strategy Seminar for your Church, Home Group or Organization.

    “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

     

  • NM Late-Term Abortion Clinic Staff to Minor Incest Victim, “Contact Medicaid” NOT Authorities

    NM Late-Term Abortion Clinic Staff to Minor Incest Victim, “Contact Medicaid” NOT Authorities

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- In a new undercover video by Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life, the caller posing as a minor and victim of incest by an older family member is seeking a late-term abortion at 26 weeks of pregnancy. Instead of urging the minor to contact the authorities, the abortion clinic staff gives the young girl a phone number to the New Mexico Medicaid office so that she can obtain the $7,500 procedure for free.

    New Mexico Statute Section 30-10-3 provides that “Incest consists of knowingly intermarrying or having sexual intercourse with persons within the following degrees of consanguinity: parents and children including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree, brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews. Whoever commits incest is guilty of a third-degree felony.

    The New Mexico basic sentencing guidelines in Section 31-18-15 provides “for a third degree felony for a sexual offense against a child, six years imprisonment.”

    Listen the undercover recording here

     

    Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated, “This latest undercover call continues to rip the veil off the abortion industry and show our nation what even most ‘prochoice’ people oppose: late term abortion of healthy babies, paid for by taxpayers, and conducted by an industry which provides cover for sexual predators. What we need to know to end abortion is found in the abortion industry itself. We just need to continue exposing it, and we will.”

    In our previous undercover video Abortion Free New Mexico and Priests for Life exposed that New Mexico is the land of unrestricted abortion where any woman (or even a young girl) can obtain a late term abortion into the third trimester of pregnancy for any reason. Minors who seek abortions are often being sexually abused by an older male, as is in the case of this latest undercover video, even a family member can be the perpetrator. Providing these young girls with abortions does not stop the abuse they face, it merely covers it up and allows it to continue.

    Currently New Mexico does not require parental involvement when their minor child seeks an abortion. There are, however, laws to protect minors that require mandatory reporting to authorities if there is even the suspicion of sexual abuse.

    Angelo Artuso, Senior Legal Counsel for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement, “Southwestern Women’s Options (and any other abortion provider) has a duty to report possible incest regarding a 16-year old minor seeking an abortion. Under the mandatory reporting law (Section 32A-4-3A), physicians and nurses have a duty to report suspected child abuse. The law (Section 32A-4-2 I) provides that child abuse includes criminal sexual penetration, incest, OR criminal sexual contact. Because incest is included as a separate category of sexual abuse, the “age of consent” and the “Romeo and Juliet” exceptions to “statutory rape” do NOT apply. Failure to report suspected incest of a minor is a misdemeanor (Section 32A-4-3F) punishable by up to 364 days in the county jail or up to a $1,000 fine, or both.”

    Mandatory reporting is set forth in Section 32A-4-3 A which provides:

    Every person, including a licensed physician; a resident or intern examining, attending or treating a child; a law enforcement officer; a judge presiding during a proceeding; a registered nurse; a visiting nurse; a schoolteacher; a school official; a social worker acting in an official capacity; or a member of the clergy who has information that is not privileged as a matter of law, who knows or has a reasonable suspicion that a child is an abused or neglected child shall report the matter immediately to:

    Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion and have released eight undercover recordings:

    As part of this effort, the organizations are conducting a survey looking for people who identify themselves as “prochoice” but who nevertheless support the protection of children in the womb in the later stages of pregnancy.

    Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

  • Part 2: Planned Parenthood of New Mexico is on Life Support

    Part 2: Planned Parenthood of New Mexico is on Life Support

    Abortion Free New Mexico introduces Part 2 of a 6 Part Series exposing the NM Abortion Cartel

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- In Part 1 of Abortion Free New Mexico’s series documenting the Abortion Landscape Shift in New Mexico, the report highlighted how the abortion cartel is in full retreat and that their plans of expansion have been stifled. In part 2 of this series AFNM will reveal how Planned Parenthood is facing a crisis of their own in New Mexico.

    Planned Parenthood NM Closing Three Referral Clinics

    According to a breaking report by KOAT,

    “Three out of New Mexico’s six clinic locations will close in September, according to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Chief Experience Officer Adrienne Mansanares. ‘We are making some difficult decisions about the best way to stay in New Mexico into the future,’ Mansanares said.The clinics in Farmington, Rio Rancho, and Nob Hill in Albuquerque will close.”

    These three Planned Parenthood locations are referral centers that provide contraceptives, the morning after pill and abortion referrals.

    UPDATED: Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico, said Thursday that she feels the national funding conversation could be contributing to the closures.

    “It all kind of makes sense to us when we look at the climate change … under President Trump,” she said. “This is a step in the right direction for building a culture of life in New Mexico.” Read the full report from the Albuquerque Journal: Planned Parenthood to close 3 clinics in northern NM

    Related: Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Statement on Health Center Closures

    Planned Parenthood of New Mexico Has No Legitimate Abortionist on Staff

    In an undercover call placed to the last remaining Planned Parenthood in New Mexico providing surgical abortions which is located in Albuquerque, the caller was informed that typically this location does provide abortions up to 18 weeks but that they are currently not offering surgical abortions since they are struggling to keep an abortionist on staff.

    Their lack of an abortion provider could be the result of a New Mexico Nursing Board complaint filed in 2016 by Abortion Free New Mexico’s Tara Shaver based on state medicaid data showing that Nurse Practitioner Vivianne Clark was paid by New Mexico medicaid for performing abortions between 17-24 weeks, which is illegal for a non-physician to do in New Mexico. The second part of the undercover video reveals that Clark continues to provide medical RU486 abortions in Santa Fe despite being under investigation.

    AFNM has long suspected that Santa Fe Planned Parenthood Nurse Practitioner, Vivianne Clark, is the primary abortionist in Albuquerque. While we wait for the result from the New Mexico Nursing Board investigation, we are hopeful that in the meantime this complaint has halted Clark’s potential illegal activity.

    Listen to the undercover call: Planned Parenthood of New Mexico is on Life Support

    Another key factor that is possibly hampering Planned Parenthood’s ability to keep an abortionist on staff is directly linked to the Center for Medical Progress’s (CMP) videos that exposed the true nature of Planned Parenthood’s abortion business. Legitimate physicians simply aren’t willing to work for Planned Parenthood.

    An additional result of the CMP videos was local and national protests calling for the defunding of the abortion giant. This has ultimately been the catalyst for the momentum we are now witnessing and has culminated with President Donald J. Trump recently signing an executive order giving states the ability to defund Planned Parenthood locally.

    According to Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President of Operation Rescue, “Planned Parenthood is in a panic to reorganize as their federal funding dries up. They must jettison their centers that aren’t making money. For Planned Parenthood, abortion, and the money it produces, is their number-one priority.”

    While much of what we see regarding the shift in New Mexico’s abortion landscape is good news, we must remain vigilant. Fr. Stephen Imbarrato reflects upon a national trend that he has witnessed in his national ministry with Priests for Life, “It is important to understand that Planned Parenthood’s operational strategy all over the country has been to consolidate its operations and build state or regional megacenters. We will be researching and monitoring what next step Planned Parenthood is planning here in New Mexico.”

    RELATED: Part 1: Abortion Landscape Shift in New Mexico Since 2010

  • Part 1: Abortion Landscape Shift in New Mexico Since 2010

    Part 1: Abortion Landscape Shift in New Mexico Since 2010

    Abortion Free New Mexico introduces Part 1 of a 6 Part Series exposing the NM Abortion Cartel

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- In 2010 when we were invited to New Mexico as pro-life missionaries by Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, the abortion landscape was a lot different than what it is today. The three of us in conjunction with Operation Rescue quickly coined the title “Late Term Abortion Capital” to describe Albuquerque and designated New Mexico as the “Abortion Capital of the Southwest.”  An article in the Albuquerque Journal quoted radical pro-abortion activists who, “[Ranked] New Mexico No. 1 in the nation for providing equal access to sexual and reproductive health services.” We, however, were determined to push back against the New Mexico abortion cartel that was eager to expand it’s killing business even deeper into New Mexico.

    At that time Albuquerque was home to four surgical abortion killing centers. Santa Fe was home to two abortion facilities one of which performed surgical abortions and Southern New Mexico was home to Santa Teresa based abortionist Franz Theard.

    Due to New Mexico’s lack of common sense abortion restrictions, notorious late term abortionist Curtis Boyd, who owns Southwestern Women’s Options, had effectively expanded his child killing empire into New Mexico and abortionist Franz Theard had expanded his abortion business across the border into New Mexico to evade Texas abortion laws. The University of New Mexico, which we have since identified as, “The Heart of the New Mexico Abortion Cartel” was aggressively expanding its radical abortion agenda and Whole Woman’s Health opened and set up shop in Las Cruces, NM in 2014.

    In no time at all we began to put the pieces together and uncovered the corruption that has permeated the state and kept abortion unrestricted for so long. We outed abortionists and made sure everyone knew who is willing to kill pre-born children for a profit. We began to expose horrific abortion injuries at Southwestern Women’s Options late term abortion center and at the University of New Mexico. As a result we saw the  New Mexico Medical board hold a disciplinary hearing against late term abortionist Shelley Sella for a botched 35 week abortion. The layers of the cartel began to peel away so that we could see things more clearly.

    Since 2010 three abortion centers have closed!

    Now only five abortion centers remain in the state and Albuquerque alone is home to the state’s three last remaining surgical abortion killing centers.

    1. Planned Parenthood (Albuquerque, NM)- Offering surgical abortions through 19 weeks gestation.
    2. UNM Center for Reproductive Health (Albuquerque, NM)- Offering surgical abortions through 24 weeks gestation.
    3. Southwestern Women’s Options (Albuquerque, NM)- Offering third trimester surgical abortions through all 9 months of pregnancy.
    4. Planned Parenthood (Santa Fe, NM)- Only offering RU-486 medical abortions.
    5. Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic (Santa Theresa, NM)- Only offering RU-486 medical abortions.

    The New Mexico abortion cartel is facing immense pressure. Southwestern Women’s Options and The University of New Mexico are currently under investigation by the New Mexico Attorney General. They have, in the past year, been under scrutiny by the congressional Select Panel on Infant Lives. In addition, we have an active complaint with the New Mexico Nursing board regarding what we believe to be illegal abortions performed by a Planned Parenthood abortionist.

    Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,

    “Over the past seven years, new pro-life organizations have begun and there has been a dramatic reversal and public policy shift in New Mexico. Great strides have been made and now we see the New Mexico abortion cartel being stifled instead of continuing their expansion throughout New Mexico. The abortion industry is in full retreat!”

    During the coming weeks Abortion Free New Mexico will be releasing in-depth reports on the New Mexico abortion cartel.

    “Since the Shavers have been working to end abortion in New Mexico, they have made great strides in exposing rampant abortion abuses, helping to close abortion businesses, and saving lives. To achieve the goal of an abortion-free state, it takes the wisdom that comes from experience and gritty determination. The Shavers are certainly up to the task of building an Abortion Free New Mexico.” Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President of Operation Rescue

    In addition to Operation Rescue, Abortion Free New Mexico is also working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion:

     

  • (VIDEO) #NewMexicoTrue: Land Of Unrestricted Abortion

    (VIDEO) #NewMexicoTrue: Land Of Unrestricted Abortion

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- New Mexico is one of the poorest states in the country and is consistently ranked lowest in education, child well being while also having one of the highest crime rates in the nation. The state is currently facing a budget crisis and is struggling to keep the government running.

    According to a recent article by the Associated Press,

    “Cash reserves are dwindling, which will soon leave state finance officials unable to cut checks. The governor warned that will affect the state’s ability to make payroll and pay contracts.”

    However, if you need a late term abortion, New Mexico is the go to place. New Mexico may not be able to pay its state workers, but New Mexico Medicaid will pay over $15,000 to local abortionists to kill a child in the womb.

    New Mexico is the land of unrestricted abortion. There are no limitations on when abortions may be performed and late term abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options have capitalized on the state’s lack of protection for human life.

    In a recorded phone call to Southwestern Women’s Options on May 2, 2017, Abortion Free New Mexico confirmed that a late term abortion at 30 weeks of pregnancy was simple to obtain on the basis of a lost job and the prospect of another child adding more stress to the family unit. The life of the mother was not in danger and the baby was perfectly healthy.

    Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement:

    “The myth that late term abortions only occur when a woman’s life is at risk or when the baby has been diagnosed with an anomaly could not be further from the truth. Our latest video dispels this myth with proof that in New Mexico late term abortions are easy to come by.

    New Mexicans deserve to hear the truth about the evil that is occurring in our state and our leaders must work to change the fact that New Mexico is the late-term abortion capital of the country.”

    Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion.

    Father Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life noted that the majority of Americans do not support late-term abortion and do not want taxpayer money funding used to kill fully developed, well past viability children.

    “Every abortion is an outrage, and we need to protect every baby. To educate our fellow citizens, let’s start with the most obvious and outrageous part of the story: taxpayer-funded third-trimester abortions of healthy babies carried by healthy mothers.”

    Watch the video, inform yourself and others: #NewMexicoTrue: Land of Unrestricted Abortion

    Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion and have released eight undercover recordings:

    Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

  • May Newsletter: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit…

    May Newsletter: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit…

    Dear Friends,

    When  Fr. Stephen Imbarrato invited us to come to New Mexico in 2010, our goal was to lay a foundation that would ultimately lead to New Mexico becoming abortion free. Fr. Imbarrato asked us to come and expose those who are perpetuating pre-born child killing in this state. Over the past 7 years, we have done just that! In addition, we have accomplished many other things that have laid a foundation for our latest initiative and our ultimate goal, Abortion Free New Mexico!

    In 2014, four years into our ministry here, the Abortion Free manual was published. It is written by Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue. Our work is even mentioned in it. Here we are with Cheryl at a church in Albuquerque this month introducing other Christians to a concept that is attainable with the proper tools and a never give up mindset!

    Zechariah 4:6 is the perfect declaration for what the Lord wants to accomplish here: An Abortion Free New Mexico.

    “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.”

    We have the tools and the Spirit of the living God that goes before us in this spiritual battle. Thank you for standing with us, for your prayers and for believing with us that evil does not have the final say here but the Lord does.

    National Leaders Join us For Launch of Abortion Free New Mexico

    On April 18th, we were blessed to have some of our closest friends and mentors join us to share about our pro-life journey and how God has blessed many of our efforts over the years.

    We began our pro-life journey with a pro-life youth organization, Survivors. If it had not been for the training we received under the leadership of Jeff White and Cheryl Conrad we probably would not still be doing pro-life work. Being immersed into the fire from the beginning has instilled in us a passion and perseverance to continue on in the face of any opposition. We are forever thankful for Survivors and it was great having them share about our journey with them at our launch this month.

    Cheryl Sullenger with Operation Rescue, was our keynote speaker and she shared with our audience the fruit of some of the projects we worked on while in Wichita. She also cast the vision for the model we will use to close down New Mexico’s abortion facilities through investigative research and more. We value her wisdom and all the work she does on a daily basis.

    Our good friends and local Pastors The Lardizabal’s and Clarence Washington also shared as those who have stood with us from the time we moved here. They have seen us at highs and lows and always encouraged us to keep doing what God has called us to do.

    Please pray that individuals, churches and others will catch this vision and become more involved in this effort.

    BREAKING: NM AG “Aggressively” Investigating UNM & SWO

    Excerpt from an article by Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President of Operation Rescue

    Albuquerque, NM – In a new, encouraging development, the office of New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has confirmed to a group of pro-life leaders that an investigation of a complaint filed by Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico against the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) is being “aggressively” pursued.

    “We are aggressively working on gathering further information that will assist in our ongoing review of this matter,” stated James Hallinan, Communications Director for the Office of Attorney General Hector Balderas, in a written statement requested by Operation Rescue.

    Maestas informed the group of leaders that the Attorney General’s office has sent “inquiry letters” to UNM and SWO requiring a “large amount of information to be produced” as part of the inquiry into alleged criminal conduct…

    Continue reading here: New Mexico AG “Aggressively” Seeking Documents from UNM and Late-term Abortion Business in Criminal Investigation

    Exposed: 33 Week Late Term Abortion In New Mexico

    Albuquerque, NM- In January of 2015 a 20 year old woman from Great Britain sought a destination willing to perform an abortion for her at 30 weeks of pregnancy… so that she could continue going to college. Did she have to go to Vietnam, China, or North Korea? No, she traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to have her baby killed.

    Why didn’t she have her late-term abortion in Great Britain? Because the international community has rightfully rejected barbaric late term abortions. Only 7 nations including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, Netherlands and the United States of America still allow them.

    Most Americans refuse to accept the assertion that late term abortions are performed here. Interestingly, late-term abortion is overwhelmingly rejected by 80% of American women! Even a majority of the “pro-choice” community is uneasy declaring their support for such a barbaric procedure.

    Unfortunately, the majority opinion hasn’t translated into public policy…

    Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to the nation’s largest late term abortion killing center, Southwestern Women’s Options and is considered the late term abortion capital of America, actually of the world. Late term abortions occur so regularly at Southwestern Women’s Options that late term abortionist Susan Robinson, who recently retired from SWO emphatically stated in an interview in 2014,

    ‘[Women] come from all over the United States and Canada and all over the world too; I mean you have patients who come to us from Europe, we have patients from Australia, we have patients from Afghanistan[.]”

    But don’t just take our word for it that late term abortions actually occur here or even the word of a former late term abortionist…

    Watch our latest undercover video for yourself: Exposed: 33 Week Late Term Abortion In New Mexico

    RELATED: Nine Things You Should Know About Late-Term Abortions

    #ProtestPP

    #DefundPP Protest in Albuquerque, New Mexico sponsored by Abortion Free New Mexico and Fr. Stephen Imbarrato: The Protest Priest of Priests for Life.

    Over 150 locations all across the country stood in solidarity for prayer and protest!

    For more information visit: protestpp.com

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    -Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.

    -Give a one-time financial gift from your income tax return.

    –Host an Abortion Free New Mexico Strategy Seminar for your Church, Home Group or Organization.

    “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

  • Join us for three upcoming events in Albuquerque…

    Join us for three upcoming events in Albuquerque…

    Defund Planned Parenthood Protest

    Saturday, April 29th: 11am-12pm Defund Planned Parenthood Protest, Sponsored by Abortion Free New Mexico. Click here for more information.
    Location: 701 San Mateo Blvd. NE. Albuquerque, NM 87108
    Use street parking.

    National Day of Prayer

    Thursday, May 4th: 12pm-1pm National Day of Prayer, Sponsored by New Mexico Prays with special guests: Lt. Governor John Sanchez, Pastor Skip Heitzig, Archbishop John Wester, City Councilor Dan Lewis, Chief of Police Gorden Eden
    Location: Civic Plaza, 1 Civic Plaza NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
    Parking is available at Civic Plaza underground parking, Convention Center parking garage, and various paid parking lots in downtown. Please see attached parking map.

    National Day of Prayer Week

    Friday, May 5th: 11:30am, National Day of Prayer Week, Sponsored by CSA. Bud will be speaking Friday, May 5th at 11:30am on the topic of Making New Mexico Abortion Free during National Day of Prayer week at Glory Christian Fellowship in Albuquerque. For the full week of speakers, times and locations please visit the CSA website here.
    Location: Glory Christian Fellowship, 2417 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Albuquerque,  87112

  • Exposed: 33 Week Late Term Abortion In New Mexico

    Exposed: 33 Week Late Term Abortion In New Mexico

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- In January of 2015 a 20 year old woman from Great Britain sought a destination willing to perform an abortion for her at 30 weeks of pregnancy… so that she could continue going to college. Did she have to go to Vietnam, China, or North Korea? No, she traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to have her baby killed.

    Why didn’t she have her late-term abortion in Great Britain? Because the international community has rightfully rejected barbaric late term abortions. Only 7 nations including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, Netherlands and the United States of America still allow them.

    Most Americans refuse to accept the assertion that late term abortions are performed here. Interestingly, late-term abortion is overwhelmingly rejected by 80% of American women! Even a majority of the “pro-choice” community is uneasy declaring their support for such a barbaric procedure.

    Unfortunately, the majority opinion hasn’t translated into public policy…

    Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to the nation’s largest late term abortion killing center, Southwestern Women’s Options and is considered the late term abortion capital of America, actually of the world. Late term abortions occur so regularly at Southwestern Women’s Options that late term abortionist Susan Robinson, who recently retired from SWO emphatically stated in an interview in 2014,

    [Women] come from all over the United States and Canada and all over the world too; I mean you have patients who come to us from Europe, we have patients from Australia, we have patients from Afghanistan[.]

    But don’t just take our word for it that late term abortions actually occur here or even the word of a former late term abortionist…

    Listen to our latest undercover video for yourself: Exposed: 33 Week Late Term Abortion In New Mexico 

     

    “Americans must wake up and realize that bottom of the barrel states like New Mexico still allow late term abortions without restriction. This, in addition to the fact that through New Mexico Medicaid tax payers are funding these unconscionable procedures that at 33 weeks of pregnancy cost $15,500 should be enough for reasonable people to be pro-active in bringing late term abortions to an end. Late term abortions are a grisly trade and America must join the rest of civilized society and reject this inhumane treatment of pre-born babies,” stated Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.

    Abortion Free New Mexico is working with Priests for Life to raise national awareness about late term abortion and have released eight undercover recordings:

    Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

  • One Week Until Launch…

    One Week Until Launch…

    By Bud and Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- Please join us on April 18th from 6-8pm for our official launch of Abortion Free New Mexico joined by local and national leaders. The Christian community is vital to making New Mexico abortion free, come find out how you can be an integral part of this new effort.

    When: Tuesday, April 18th from 6:00-8:00pm
    Where: 3200 Vista Grande NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120
    Why: For a special evening dedicated to making New Mexico abortion free.

    Mark your calendars to come support local Pro-Life Missionaries Bud & Tara Shaver. Hear about their pro-life journey and the strategy they are implementing to make New Mexico abortion free.

    Speakers Include:

    To RSVP contact Tara Shaver: tara@abortionfreenm.com

    Abortion Free NM (AFNM) is a systematic approach to closing the states abortion facilities. AFNM utilizes an innovative model for equipping Churches, Home/Bible study groups or Organizations in developing their own unique role in making New Mexico Abortion Free.

    “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
  • April 2017 Newsletter: Spirit Led Roller Coaster of a Month in New Mexico…

    April 2017 Newsletter: Spirit Led Roller Coaster of a Month in New Mexico…

    By Bud and Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- When God is in control, you simply have to hold on and enjoy the ride! March was a Holy Spirit led roller coaster of a month, beginning on March 6th when Tara and our attorney had a meeting with the New Mexico Attorney General’s office. We wrapped up the month by ENDING the Protest ABQ campaign after 3 years of productive non-stop activism.

    We are ready to launch the next phase of our ministry: Abortion Free New Mexico, and realize that God is the one in control and guiding our efforts!

    Please join us on April 18th for our official launch joined by local and national leaders. The Christian community is vital to making New Mexico abortion free, come find out how you can be an integral part of this new effort.

    Click Here for a PDF version of this month’s Newsletter

    Read about our meeting with the New Mexico Attorney General’s office: Confirmed: UNM and Nation’s Largest Late-Term Abortion Center are Under Criminal Investigation for Body Parts Scheme

    Read more about why we wrapped up our Protest ABQ campaign: Protest ABQ Campaign Comes to an End

    Read more about the next phase of our ministry efforts in New Mexico: Official Launch of Abortion Free New Mexico on April 18th

    More from this past month: 

    Catholics Expanding Abortion in New Mexico

    Archbishop Wester Rebukes Pro-Abortion Democrats Attempt to Invoke Their Catholic Faith

    NMCCB Releases Official Statement on the Dignity of Human Life

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    -Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.

    -Give a one-time financial gift from your income tax return.

    –Host an Abortion Free New Mexico Strategy Seminar for your Church, Home Group or Organization.

    “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
  • Official Launch of Abortion Free New Mexico on April 18th

    Official Launch of Abortion Free New Mexico on April 18th

    By Tara Shaver

    Protest ABQ was a campaign that was intended to only last a season, until the fruit of our protest efforts produced an environment where we can accomplish our ultimate goal: Abortion Free: New Mexico…

    Albuquerque, NM —Now that the Protest ABQ campaign has concluded, this does not mean that we are folding or backing down in ANY way. The protest efforts over the past 3 years have helped to produce a dramatic reversal and promising public policy shift in New Mexico. Now is the season for implementing proven strategies that will result in New Mexico becoming, Abortion Free.

    As Pro-Life Missionaries, serving in New Mexico since 2010 our research and public awareness efforts have helped to expose that New Mexico is drawing women from all across the world and America to obtain barbaric late-term abortions that are illegal in their own hometowns. New Mexico is now known nationally as the late-term abortion capital. In addition, we have uncovered horrific conditions inside New Mexico abortion facilities, tax funded atrocities, and an unregulated out-of control abortion cartel that is operating without oversight or common sense regulations.

    While God has accomplished so much through the prayers and support of so many, there is still more work to be done. We are now moving into the next phase to build upon the foundation that has been laid over the past 7 years…

    Bud and Tara Shaver will host a special evening dedicated to making New Mexico abortion free on April 18th and will be the official launch of Abortion Free New Mexico.

    For more information contact: Tara@AbortionFreeNM.com

    Speakers Include:
    -Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue Leaders
    -Pastor Clarence Washington, Abundant Life Church
    -Pastors Manny and Grace Lardizabal
    and more…

    Abortion Free is a proven strategy fine tuned over the past two decades by Operation Rescue leaders Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger. When abortion facilities close utilizing peaceful tactics and the abortion industry is exposed and convicted of the plethora of crimes that they are committing behind closed doors, lives are saved and communities become, Abortion Free!

  • Protest ABQ Campaign Comes An End

    Protest ABQ Campaign Comes An End

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM —Protest ABQ was officially launched in 2014 with the goals of educating the public to the fact that New Mexico had become the late-term abortion capital of the country and that the University of New Mexico (UNM) was the heart of the abortion cartel in the state. In addition, we wanted to expose and hold accountable those who either condone abortion outright or silently consent to it by refusing to take a bold public stand for protecting human life in the womb.
    ​
    Our call was simple and concise…

    “Stand Up For The Babies
    And We Will Stand Down”
    (Picture cropped and “orange-screen” added by New Mexico Political Report) Read their article: Activists plan to push lawmakers for abortion restrictions

    Bud Shaver, executive director of Protest ABQ issued the following statement,

    “Protest ABQ’s tireless efforts over the past three years have helped to produce a dramatic reversal and promising public policy shift in New Mexico. Now in 2017 we are grateful that political leaders have stepped up with solid pro-life bills over the past two legislative sessions and have committed to carrying pro-life legislation until abortion is completely eradicated in the state. The University of New Mexico has been exposed nationally as one of the most abortion friendly universities in the entire country and UNM’s collusion with the nations largest late-term abortion killing center is now under criminal investigation. In addition, we appreciate the religious leaders both Evangelical and Catholic who have recently demonstrated a willingness to publicly stand up for the babies, so we are standing down.”

    Protest ABQ was a campaign that was intended to only last a season, until the fruit of our protest efforts produced an environment where we can accomplish our ultimate goal:

    Abortion Free: New Mexico. 

    Stay tuned…

      
    Visit ProtestABQ.com to read about our protest focuses and efforts over the past three years.
  • Confirmed: UNM and Nation’s Largest Late-Term Abortion Center are Under Criminal Investigation for Body Parts Scheme

    Confirmed: UNM and Nation’s Largest Late-Term Abortion Center are Under Criminal Investigation for Body Parts Scheme

    By Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue

    Albuquerque, NM — During a meeting with pro-life activists on Monday, March 6, 2017, representatives from the New Mexico Attorney General’s office confirmed that the University of New Mexico and Southwestern Women’s Options, the largest late-term abortion facility in the United States, are under investigation for violations of state law.

    Tania Maestas, Deputy Attorney General, informed Tara Shaver, Senior Policy Advisor for ProtestABQ, and ProtestABQ’s senior attorney, Angelo Artuso, that a complaint filed by Shaver in 2015, is under investigation by the criminal division of the New Mexico Attorney General’s office.

    Shaver’s complaint involved Southwestern Women’s Options consent forms from 2012 and 2015, which women are obligated to sign prior to abortions. Those forms state that the remains of babies aborted at Southwestern Women’s Options may be used in medical research.

    View here: SWO Consent Form 2015

    SWO Consent Form 2015 by Bud Shaver on Scribd

    Southwestern Women’s Options is the sole supplier of aborted baby tissue to the publicly-funded University of New Mexico.

    Potential state law violations in the complaint included the Jonathan Spradling Anatomical Gift Act and the Maternal and Fetal Experimentation Act.

    In addition, Maestas informed Shaver and Artuso that the criminal referrals of UNM and Southwestern Women’s Options made by the U.S. House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives to New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas last year, are also under investigation.

    The House Select Investigative Panel presented Balderas with evidence to back up their findings, which included several key points. (Read more about this.)

    1. Taxpayers partially fund both UNM and the Southwestern Women’s Options late-term abortion business.
    2. Two UNM abortionists created a radically pro-abortion climate at the “resistant” university and created a cultural shift that now aggressively promotes abortion.
    3. The primary goal of UNM’s partnership with Southwestern Women’s Options was to increase the volume of second trimester abortions, in order to provide the UNM Health Sciences Center with an ample supply of aborted infant remains for “research” and other purposes.
    4. Southwestern Women’s Options is the sole provider of “aborted infant tissue” to the UNM Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC).
    5. Whole brains from aborted babies were admittedly used for dissection by “summer camp” students.
    6. UNM’s training agreement with Southwestern Women’s Options violated UNM’s own policies and procedures on such contracts.
    7. UNM granted faculty status to Southwestern Women’s Options abortionists that included employee benefits that provided professional and financial benefit. These benefits may qualify as “valuable consideration,” which would put them in violation of State and Federal law.
    8. The Select Investigative Panel agreed with Shaver’s conclusions that New Mexico’s Spradling Act was violated.

    “This is a matter of urgency as aborted baby remains are still being harvested and transferred between the facilities for experimental research. Each day that passes poses a risk to the public and sends the message to the New Mexico abortion cartel that they have free reign to do as they please,” said Shaver. “We are grateful for the confirmation from the New Mexico Attorney General’s office that the complaint and referral before them is being taken seriously and we urge them to work quickly to resolve this very important matter.”

    “We urge the New Mexico Attorney General’s office to move with all possible speed to bring those involved in criminal conduct at UNM and Southwestern Women’s Options to justice,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who also provided information during the Select Panel’s Investigation. “The longer the investigation drags on, the more UNM and the Southwestern Women’s Options abortion business will continue to break the law and exploit women, all at taxpayers’ expense.”

    Report by Operation Rescue: Confirmed: UNM and Nation’s Largest Late-Term Abortion Center are Under Criminal Investigation for Body Parts Scheme

  • March 2017 Newsletter: Protest ABQ Triggers New Season With New Campaign…

    March 2017 Newsletter: Protest ABQ Triggers New Season With New Campaign…

    By Bud and Tara Shaver

    The abortion cartel in New Mexico has been operating by it’s own standards for far too long, and now the state’s publicly funded university, UNM is involved in an unspeakable scandal of using aborted baby remains, for experimental research, from one of the most notorious late term abortion facilities in the nation. This requires immediate action and without peaceful and prayerful pressure there may never be any progress in this matter of life and death that weighs heavily on the state.

    Protest ABQ sponsored a press conference and peaceful protest at the state capital building in Santa Fe this month for our official launch of “Investigate and Prosecute” the New Mexico Abortion Cartel campaign. This campaign is aimed at urging New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas to investigate complaints and referrals submitted to him regarding the out of control abortion cartel in the state. New Mexico politicians have forgotten that they work for us and have been entrusted with the task of enacting and enforcing laws that bring justice to the oppressed. Our leaders will continue to turn a blind eye unless we show them that this is unacceptable in New Mexico.

    Highlights  (Pictures and Video): ‘Investigate & Prosecute’ Protest and Press Conference

    (Santa Fe, NM- Protest and Press Conference “Investigate and Prosecute” Campaign Launch)

    (Prayer and Protest outside NM Attorney General’s Santa Fe Office)

    #DefundPP Protest Planned Parenthood Albuquerque, NM

    The national #DefundPP protest in Albuquerque, was a huge success. The event was sponsored locally by Protest ABQ. Close to 300 turned out to protest Planned Parenthood!

    Full recap with pictures and video: #DefundPP Protest Planned Parenthood Albuquerque, NM 

    (Albuquerque, NM- #DefundPP Protest Planned Parenthood)

    (Albuquerque, NM- #DefundPP Protest Planned Parenthood)

    “Investigate and Prosecute”

    Several other protests were held throughout the month as we debuted new signs on the truth truck. We lit up the darkness in Albuquerque neighborhoods, overpasses and thousands saw the truth about what abortion does to children and who is perpetuating this injustice in NM.

    Highlights from this past month: 

    On the Streets With Protest ABQ

    AG Campaign Triggers Catholic Democrats…

    (Refitted Truth Truck)

    Protest ABQ Is Impacting New Mexico Policy…

    (Angelo Artuso, Tara Shaver, and Fr. Stephen Imbarrato)

    In addition to visiting New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas’s office during our “Investigate and Prosecute” the New Mexico Abortion Cartel Campaign Launch, Protest ABQ’s Senior Attorney, Angelo Artuso, (Pictured- above- with Tara and Fr. Imbarrato) testified in Santa Fe during a House Education Committee hearing.

    HB 267 is a bill that we’re keeping an eye on. If passed without further amendments it would make public university research records unattainable by the public. This bill is a dangerous overreach of the legislature and needed to be exposed, so we asked our pro-life friends to contact the republican sponsor of the bill…

    Apparently the GOP in New Mexico doesn’t like being held accountable, our “tactics” (of simply urging the public to call the bill’s sponsor to amend the wording) was deemed to be an attack against this representative. Where is the transparency in government that is so needed? Where is the humility of leaders to admit their mistakes and work to correct them in public service to those who elected them? Both are surely needed here. Please pray for our leaders.

    Excerpt from NM Political Report regarding HB 267 Committee Hearing

    “Angelo Artuso warns that a move by lawmakers to shield some university research from the public eye could lead to harrowing consequences. At a Wednesday morning House committee hearing, Artuso invoked some of history’s darkest state-sanctioned university research projects. For decades, researchers at Tuskegee University studied the effects of syphilis by pretending to offer infected Black men free health care. And several colleges and universities from the early 1950s until 1973 were involved in Project MKUltra, a CIA program that used drugs like LSD unknowingly on human subjects to experiment with mind control.

    Programs like those, involving government-funded atrocities at institutions of higher learning,  Artuso maintained, would remain hidden at New Mexico public higher education institutions under a bill sponsored by state Reps. Jason Harper, R-Rio Rancho, and Carl Trujillo, D-Santa Fe. The bill, now stalled in the committee, seeks to make ‘proprietary information and research data’ held by public colleges and universities not public.​‘This bill erects a pretty strong wall of secrecy on any records deemed research by universities,’ Artuso told lawmakers at Wednesday’s hearing.”

    Read the full coverage from New Mexico Political Report: Effort to make college research secret stalls over fears it goes too far

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    -Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.

    -Give a one-time financial gift from your income tax return.

    -Host us for a “Missionary Meet and Greet” in your home by inviting friends to learn about our family and our work here in New Mexico.

    “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

  • URGENT ACTION: Radical Suicide Bill Advances Through NM Roundhouse

    By Fr. Stephen Imbarrato: The Protest Priest

    NEW MEXICO!
    We have some serious problems. The most liberal assisted suicide bill in the nation has been proposed here in NM and is moving through the NM Roundhouse. This bill would pretty much allow anyone help anyone else commit suicide for any reason and then cover up the fact that it was an assisted suicide. Catholic democrats are supporting this and even some republicans!

    House Bill https://www.nmlegis.gov/…/17%20Regul…/bills/house/HB0171.pdf
    Senate Bill  https://www.nmlegis.gov/…/17%20Regu…/bills/senate/SB0252.pdf

    Here is a Patient’s Rights (pro-life) Analysis of this legislation http://www.patientsrightscouncil.org/…/new-mexico-end-of-l…/

    I checked the NMCCB website as well as the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and Diocese of Gallup website and I found nothing about these bills.

    However the Diocese of Las Cruces has this link which seems quite thorough… http://www.dioceseoflascruces.org/physician-assisted-suicide
    ​
    Here is the link to contact legislators.
    http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/

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    (Proud Catholic for Choice, Sen.  Gerald Ortiz y Pino)

    Of course Ortiz y Pino is a radical democrat Catholic pro-abort who is a proud member of ABQ Catholics for Choice! There is a bill in this years legislative session that few people have noticed and I know you will take action when you see it. It is SB282 sponsored by Senator Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque. This bill forces ALL hospitals in New Mexico to perform abortions and has penalties for those who refuse.

    Legislation!  https://legiscan.com/NM/bill/SB282/2017
    Contact legislators http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/
    ​
    Thank you for taking a few minutes and following up on this.

    RELATED: New Mexico Assisted Suicide Bill Moves Toward Death on Demand

  • URGENT ACTION ITEM: Oppose HB 267

    URGENT ACTION ITEM: Oppose HB 267

    Action Needed to prevent bill that will hinder transparency at UNM and other research Universities.

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- One of the many obstacles we face here in New Mexico is the lack of transparency. The University of New Mexico (UNM), in particular, is notorious for keeping things they don’t want brought to light, hidden from members of the public that fund them with their tax dollars. Rep. Jason Harper (R) from Rio Rancho is sponsoring a bill that will further protect UNM and other research Universities from being transparent and held accountable by public citizens.

    “Instead of demanding more accountability and being more vocal about the University of New Mexico’s radical abortion agenda that is being funded by taxpayers, it is disconcerting that some Republicans are attempting introduce legislation that will provide more cover and less transparency. With this latest development coming to light, it is becoming more apparent that the Abortion Cartel in New Mexico is being given aid and cover by both the Republicans and Democrats,” stated Bud Shaver, executive director of Protest ABQ.

    HB 267 the Exempt College Certain Proprietary Info Act seeks to prevent citizens from obtaining certain “proprietary” information through inspection of public records requests (IPRA). The language used in this bill is so broad that UNM and others could shut down IPRA requests by claiming that the information being sought fits the following criteria when in fact it does not.

    “data, records or information of a proprietary nature produced or collected by or for faculty or staff of a public post-secondary educational institution in the conduct of or as a result of study or research on medical, scientific, technical or scholarly issues where such data, records or information has not been publicly released, published, copyrighted or patented;

    In a free and open society, it is a fundamental right of every citizen to obtain and inspect public records especially from publicly funded institutions, like UNM. However, HB 267 will hinder that process and ultimately protect UNM and their radically pro-abortion agenda from public accountability that is already unchecked at every turn.

    Angelo Artuso, attorney for Protest ABQ issued the following statement:

    “HB 267 contains a dangerous amendment that will, in all likelihood, prevent the sort of public information that has been obtained over the years by local activists, showing UNM’s relationship with Southwestern Women’s Options and their collaboration in harvesting and utilizing aborted baby remains in research. On its face, the statute is too broad. Who will decide if the information obtained from a private party or entity is “proprietary?”  What does that mean?  Who decides whether information produced or collected by the University is properly considered “proprietary?”  ​

    There are too many questions surrounding this bill and too much at stake should it pass. For these reasons we ask you to contact Rep. Harper and ask him to withdraw this bill until he can work with someone who can amend it properly so that it doesn’t infringe upon a citizens right to have access to and inspect public records.

    Rep. Jason Harper
    505-986-4227       JasonHarperNM@gmail.com

    HB 267 is set to be heard in the House Education Committee on Friday, February 17, 2017. In addition, please contact these committee members and ask them to oppose HB267.

    House Education Committee Members: 

    Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard
    505-986-4846   stephanie.garciarichard@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. G. Andrés Romero
    505- 986-4433  andres.romero@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Alonzo Baldonado
    505-986-4226  alonzo.baldonado@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Jim Dines
    505-986-4242   jim.dines@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Jimmie C. Hall
    505-986-4215    jimmie.hall@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Rick Little
    505-986-4220  Ricklittleforrep@gmail.com

    Rep. Dennis J. Roch
    505-986-4227   denroch@hotmail.com

    Rep. Tomás E. Salazar
    505-986-4436   tomas.salazar@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Debra M. Sariñana
    505-986-4464   debbie.sarinana@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. James E. Smith
    505-986-4233   jim@jimsmithnm.com

    Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton
    505-986-4780   sheryl.stapleton@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Christine Trujillo
    505-986-4249   christine.trujillo@nmlegis.gov

    Rep. Linda M. Trujillo
    505-986-4255   linda.trujillo@nmlegis.gov

    Sample Wording and Email Addresses to simply Copy/Paste:

    In a free and open society, it is a fundamental right of every citizen to obtain and inspect public records especially from publicly funded institutions, like UNM. However, HB 267 will hinder that process and ultimately protect UNM and other universities from providing transparency regarding experimental research that is important for the public to know about.

    In the interest of public accountability and oversight, please oppose HB 267.

    JasonHarperNM@gmail.com
    stephanie.garciarichard@nmlegis.gov
    andres.romero@nmlegis.gov
    alonzo.baldonado@nmlegis.gov
    jim.dines@nmlegis.gov
    jimmie.hall@nmlegis.gov
    Ricklittleforrep@gmail.com
    denroch@hotmail.com
    tomas.salazar@nmlegis.gov
    debbie.sarinana@nmlegis.gov
    jim@jimsmithnm.com
    sheryl.stapleton@nmlegis.gov
    christine.trujillo@nmlegis.gov
    linda.trujillo@nmlegis.gov

  • New Mexico Legislative Update

    New Mexico Legislative Update

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- The legislative session is well under way here in New Mexico. Today is the last day for legislators to submit their bills to be voted upon during this 60 day session. Both Republicans and Democrats have a slew of bills that represent where they stand on some very important issues facing our state and our nation.

    Republicans have sponsored legislation to protect babies born alive during abortions as well as late term abortion victims who have high probabilities of living outside the womb if given the chance.

    Democrats have sponsored bills to expand birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act and to penalize doctors who refuse to do abortions based on their religious convictions.

    “It is encouraging to see pro-life state legislators sponsor solid no exceptions legislation that will protect pre-born babies in the womb. Both Senator Bill Sharer (R) from Farmington and Rep. Yvette Herrell (R) from Alamogordo have tightened up their late term abortion ban bills that DO NOT contain exceptions for rape and incest nor the subjective psychological “health” exception in them. Rep. Rod Montoya (R) from Farmington is sponsoring the Infant Born Alive Protection Act.  We fully support these pieces of legislation and encourage other legislators to support these bills that will save the lives of viable babies in our state,” stated Bud Shaver.

    Bills to support:

    HB 37 Born Alive Infant ProtectionBorn Alive Infant Protection

    HB 220 Partial and Late Term Abortion
    ​
    SB 183 Partial and Late Term Abortion

    Bills to oppose:

    HB 284 Health Coverage for Contraception

    SB 282 Hospital Patient Protections (No religious objection to performing abortions allowed)

    HB 171 End of Life Options Act (Assisted Suicide)

    SB 252 End of Life Options Act (Assisted Suicide)

    SB 120 Vital Record Sex Designation (This bill allows a person to change their gender on their birth certificate)

    SB 121 No Conversion Therapy (This bill prohibits counselors and clergy from providing therapy asserting that the homosexual lifestyle is contrary to biblical teaching)

    Please contact your Senator and Representative by phone and email to tell them where you stand on these various bills. 

  • #DefundPP Protest Planned Parenthood Albuquerque, NM

    #DefundPP Protest Planned Parenthood Albuquerque, NM

    By Tara Shaver
    ​
    Albuquerque, NM- The national #DefundPP protest in Albuquerque, New Mexico was a huge success. The event was sponsored locally by Protest ABQ. Close to 300 turned out to protest Planned Parenthood!

    Video footage captured  on location  filmed the protest for over 14 minutes which kept… going and going!

    There was a diverse representation of the pro-life community who peacefully and prayerfully came together with a unified voice demanding that Planned Parenthood be defunded and closed down!

    Including New Mexico, pro-life activists in 45 states and over 200 locations all across America protested Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider on February 11, 2017 and called upon Congress and the 45th president, Donald J. Trump to defund the abortion giant. While a majority of Americans are fed up with their hard earned tax dollars being used to prop up an abortion industry that is killing children, as of publishing time I have heard NO reports of pro-lifers rioting, looting, smashing windows, destroying property, setting fires, attacking anyone, or being arrested in ANY of the 200 locations nationwide…

    That’s because the pro-life movement is a peaceful and prayerful protest movement! 

    Most locations reported pro-abortion counter protestors that showed up in support of Planned Parenthood who were vulgar and aggressive. In fact, in Washington D.C. Father Stephen Imbarrato: The Protest Priest reported that the pro-abortion mobs linked arms and attempted to block their pro-life procession at every intersection on their route from the U.S. Supreme Court to a mega Planned Parenthood in D.C. The belligerent pro-aborts pushed and shoved the peaceful pro-lifers but fortunately they had a police escort to keep their procession clear of obstruction!

    Reverend Patrick Mahoney published a video capturing the rowdy agitators, “Pro choice demonstrators Blocking our pro-life march and prayer service.”

    In stark contrast to violent pro-abortion counter protestors, USA Today reported from the #DefundPP protest in Tempe Arizona,

    Lisa Blevins, who organized the anti-Planned Parenthood protesters, said she has protested at the Planned Parenthood Tempe location every weekend for more than a year.
    ​
    “We’re peaceful, prayful people. We are based on prayer. We respond to them (the other protesters) by praying for and blessing them,” she said. “We listen to them and we stay in peaceful prayer.”

    Here are some pictures from #DefundPP in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thanks to everyone who came out to stand in solidarity with one another for life!
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  • Protest Planned Parenthood Albuquerque, NM (Sat.) February 11th

    Protest Planned Parenthood Albuquerque, NM (Sat.) February 11th

    ​Protest Rally in Albuquerque one of over 200 nationwide calling for the defunding of abortion giant Planned Parenthood
    Albuquerque, NM-  On February 11, a protest rally will be held at the Planned Parenthood facility at 701 San Mateo Blvd. NE in Albuquerque, from 10-11am. This event is one of over 200 being coordinated nationwide by the #ProtestPP Coalition, calling for Planned Parenthood to be stripped of all federal funding, and for all such funding to be redirected to Federally Qualified Health Centers that do not perform abortions. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, receives over $420 million from the federal government every year.

    Congressional leaders are working to cut funding for the controversial organization as part of the budget reconciliation process, while preserving the assistance this funding is meant to provide for to poor women. Protest Rallies will be held nationwide on February 11 in over 200 cities from coast to coast, supporting the defunding effort and educating the public about Planned Parenthood’s central role in the abortion industry and their long record of unethical activity.

    “Planned Parenthood claims that American women rely on them for healthcare, but in fact four out of five women will never set foot in a Planned Parenthood facility,” said Tara Shaver Spokeswoman for Protest ABQ. “Planned Parenthood provides less than 1% of annual pap tests and zero mammograms, but performs 34% of annual abortions in the U.S. They’ve been caught shielding child predators, defrauding Medicaid, and harvesting fetal tissue for profit. This controversial organization does not deserve our tax dollars, it deserves to be closed down.”

    Shaver emphasizes that no funding would be taken away from programs that help poor women and families. Every dollar taken from Planned Parenthood would be redirected to Federally Qualified Health Centers that provide a wider range of services and higher standard of care than Planned Parenthood, without doing abortions. “The effort to defund Planned Parenthood has nothing to with taking healthcare away from women. It’s about taking tax dollars away from the nation’s largest abortion chain,” she explained.

    #ProtestPP is a coalition of state and national pro-life groups, headed by three national pro-life activist organizations: Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Created Equal, and the Pro-Life Action League. For the February 11 rally, 40 Days for Life is also serving as a major partner.

    For more information please contact: Tara Shaver, shavermissions@gmail.com.

    Share and join our Facebook Event Page
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    See also Why Defund Planned Parenthood? at ProtestPP.com.

  • February Newsletter 2017: New Opportunity For Hope

    February Newsletter 2017: New Opportunity For Hope

    New Opportunity for Hope

    Dear Friends,

    This January we reflected on the fact that we began our pro-life ministry efforts a decade ago. (2007-2017) From Friendship Evangelists living in Flagstaff, AZ to Notorious Pro-Life Activists: Our battle in the trenches began a decade ago and we’ve never been the same. God moved in our hearts those many years ago and enabled us to make the commitment to seek justice for pre-born children, which we are still striving to do today.

    By 2009 we were serving in Los Angeles, CA alongside a passionate team of young people with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. One of our first stops in our cross country tour was Obama’s inauguration. Our pro-life group was the very first presence allowed onto the inauguration route that day.

    We weren’t violent or hateful though, in fact, we came in just the opposite spirit, we came peacefully and prayerfully to our nation’s capital. Obama’s inauguration ushered in the most radical pro-abortion administration in the history of America. So, for the majority of our ministry we have been at war and under oppression like never before in our nation.

    However, this month Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and what a difference 8 years makes. With a brand new administration comes a new opportunity for hope!

    Even in his first week, President Trump has done so much good and w e hope that there is more to come. Our prayer is that our new president, will usher in a new season not just for our family, who is weary from battle, but also usher in a new season for our country.

    CLICK HERE TO SEE A TIMELINE RECAP OF OUR PRO-LIFE JOURNEY

    (VIDEO) SURVIVORS INTERVIEW: “Our Ultimate Hope…” Flashback to 2008 with Bud and Tara Shaver

    One Less Abortion Facility in New Mexico!

    Coalition For Life of Las Cruces announced this month that Whole Woman’s Health abortion facility has closed its doors! One less abortion facility in New Mexico is a huge victory for the pro-life community and the result of the hard work of many activists who labored to expose this place of death over the past two years.

    In 2014 when this facility was making plans to open, we helped expose it’s beginning of shady practices such as operating without a business license and utilizing an out of state abortionist. Our good friends Manny and Grace also took a team down for prayer covering in the border area of New Mexico (Nehemiah 4:7-8).

    This is the third abortion clinic to close in New Mexico over the past six years… When they do, lives are saved and communities are blessed.

    More here: Third Abortion Clinic to Close in New Mexico Since 2011

    Operation Rescue: NM Abortion Facility that Hoped to Evade TX Law Shuts Down, Moves Out

    Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day Santa Fe, NM

    January 18, 2017- We traveled up to Santa Fe this month to participate in the annual pro-life procession and rally.

    March for Life Albuquerque

    We were also blessed to participate in a grassroots protest held in Albuquerque to stand in solidarity with those marching for Life in Washington D.C. It was a beautiful display of how true unity is possible in New Mexico.

    RECAP: March For Life Albuquerque, New Mexico January 27, 2017

    Abortion Holocaust Museum


    (Sunday January 22, 2017: San Clemente Parish Los Lunas, NM)

    This month a parish located south of Albuquerque recreated a holocaust museum in their church using some of our educational and abortion victim image signs and their youth presented a 45 min presentation tilted, “The Silent Holocaust”. During Sanctity of Life month, most Christians expect to at least hear abortion mentioned in a sermon but this church raised the bar… by hosting Protest ABQ!

    We were very encouraged by this pro-life church and by the zeal of the young people who are passionately pursuing a culture of life. Pray that more will rise up!

    FULL RECAP: San Clemente Parish Raised the Pro-Life Church Bar for 2017

    National Defund Planned Parenthood- Albuquerque, NM

    For those in the Albuquerque area, please join us at a Protest Rally to Defund Planned Parenthood on Saturday, February 11th, 10-11am. PP Location: 701 San Mateo Blvd. NE. Sponsored by Protest ABQ

    Love and Blessings, Bud and Tara

    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.

    Ways to be a blessing for life in the new year:

    -Become a monthly financial partner securely online here.

    -Give a one-time financial gift from your income tax return.

    -Host us for a “Missionary Meet and Greet” in your home by inviting friends to learn about our family and our work here in New Mexico.

    “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
  • “Our Ultimate Hope…” Flashback to 2008 with Bud and Tara Shaver

    “Our Ultimate Hope…” Flashback to 2008 with Bud and Tara Shaver

    (Survivors Campus Life Tour Bud and Tara Interview)

    Flashback to 2008 with Bud and Tara Shaver and witness our heart and hear our ultimate hope…

    Bud and Tara Shaver conduct an interview back in 2008 while on the Campus Life Tour with the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, “Our ultimate hope…” During our time with on tour with Survivors we visited over 180 college and high school campuses all across the country educating our peers with the truth about abortion. We were invading Liberal “Safe-Spaces” before it was cool!

    For more information about Survivors visit: www.survivors.la

    RELATED: Praying for Peace After a Decade of War: What this Inauguration Means to Us…

  • Defund Planned Parenthood NOW — Protest Rally in Albuquerque Saturday 2/11

    Defund Planned Parenthood NOW — Protest Rally in Albuquerque Saturday 2/11

    Sponsored By Protest ABQ & Fr. Stephen Imbarrato: The Protest Priest

    The battle to defund the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, has turned RED HOT.

    Pro-life leaders in Washington are calling for Planned Parenthood to be defunded RIGHT NOW, as the 115th Congress takes office.

    But to do it, they need pro-lifers like YOU to show strong grassroots support, all across the country, for stripping Planned Parenthood of their massive taxpayer subsidy.

    That’s why Albuquerque is joining the National Protest Rally to Defund Planned Parenthood, taking place at PP centers all over the United States on February 11.

    Join tens of thousands of pro-lifers nationwide in building a groundswell of support for the immediate defunding of Planned Parenthood.

    Here are all the details:

    EVENT: National Defund PP Protest Rally in Albuquerque
    WHEN: Saturday, February 11, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
    WHERE: Planned Parenthood, 701 San Mateo Blvd. NE
    Facebook Event Page (Please Join and Share) 

    Come out February 11, and bring your friends — we need all hands on deck if we’re going to win this historic pro-life battle.

    Defunding Planned Parenthood would be the greatest pro-life victory in a generation. Within months, they could be shutting down centers all over the country!

    Do your part to win this victory by spreading the word about the big nationwide Defund PP rally and joining your fellow pro-lifers in Albuquerque on February 11!

  • March For Life Albuquerque, New Mexico January 27, 2017

    March For Life Albuquerque, New Mexico January 27, 2017

    By Tara Shaver,

    Albuquerque, NM- Today over 100 people gathered in front of Albuquerque’s Planned Parenthood to stand in solidarity with those marching for life in Washington D.C. This was completely grassroots. It was sponsored by all of us who want to stand up and give a voice to the voiceless. 

    Many woman today told us that those who vulgarly and hatefully raged against President Trump last week did not represent them. We also heard that many people feel a sense of hope for true and positive change with the new administration that is heeding the voice of “We the people.”

    It is a beautiful thing when people spontaneously desire to come together in unity and stand for life, today was just another example of how that is possible in New Mexico.

    The next major protest at Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque will be a nationwide call to #DefundPP. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

    #DefundPP Protest Albuquerque: Sponsored by ProtestABQ.com

    When: Saturday, February 11th
    Where: 701 San Mateo Blvd. NE
    Time: 10:00-11:00am
    ​Contact: Tara, shavermissions@gmail.com

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    BREAKING: One Less Abortion Facility in New Mexico…

    RELATED: VP Mike Pence to March for Life: After Defunding Intl Planned Parenthood, “Life is Winning Again in America!”

  • One Less Abortion Facility in New Mexico…

    One Less Abortion Facility in New Mexico…

    (Pictured: Pastor Manny’s team- Las Cruces, NM 2014)

    By Tara Shaver

    Las Cruces, NM- Coalition For Life of Las Cruces announced that Whole Woman’s Health abortion facility has closed its doors! One less abortion facility in New Mexico is a huge victory for the pro-life community and the result of hard work of many activists who worked to expose this place of death over the past two years. Coalition For Life of Las Cruces has done terrific work keeping the pressure on this facility and are witnessing the fruit of their labor.

    When Protest ABQ learned that the opening of this facility had been scheduled back in 2014, our friends Pastor Manny and Grace Lardizabal took a team of prayer warriors to Southern New Mexico to cover the city of Las Cruces in prayer. Their team also conducted public outreach in the neighborhoods of Las Cruces and surrounding communities, including Dona Ana, St. Theresa then across the state border to Anthony and El Paso, Texas. Referencing Nehemiah 4:7-8, Grace stated,

    “We covered the borders in prayer. Because of them, we made our prayers to our God and set a watch against them day and night.”

    The facility took an extra month to get it together and open up shop. Once Whole Woman’s Health did finally open we did an undercover investigation and found them to be operating without a proper city required permit. Like other abortion facilities in this nation, Whole Woman’s Health didn’t think that laws applied to them which raised many red flags very early on. We also uncovered their abortionist was a circuit rider who traveled to Las Cruces from Arizona each week to perform the abortions.

    “With all of the mismanagement and an out of state abortionist, in addition to a well mobilized pro-life community, it is no surprise that this facility failed. Ultimately we know that lives will be saved due to this abortion clinic closing and it’s our prayer that we will continue to see more New Mexico abortion facilities close in the future,” stated Bud Shaver.

    This is the third abortion clinic to close in New Mexico over the past six years. In 2011 Bruce Ferguson closed his abortion clinic located in Albuquerque, New Mexico according to him for his own…”sanity.”

    Also, in 2011, Santa Fe abortionist Lucia Cies retired and closed down the only clinic in Santa Fe offering abortions. Santa Fe remained abortion free until we uncovered that nurse practitioner, Vivianne Clark working for Planned Parenthood of Santa Fe was being reimbursed for abortions that she was doing illegally. Protest ABQ filed a complaint with the New Mexico nursing board, that compliant is still pending.

    In 2014, the University of New Mexico relocated their free-standing abortion clinic, according to them, “Because we are being protested!” Peaceful protests and having an active presence at abortion killing centers does close them down  and when abortion facilities do close, lives are saved.

    RELATED: One Man’s Continued Presence Closes Abortion Facility!

  • San Clemente Parish Raised the Pro-Life Church Bar for 2017

    San Clemente Parish Raised the Pro-Life Church Bar for 2017

    …by hosting Protest ABQ

    By Tara Shaver

    Los Lunas, NM- San Clemente Parish in Los Lunas, New Mexico raised the pro-life bar for churches on this Sunday anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, January 22, 2017… by hosting Protest ABQ. They didn’t just mention abortion from the pulpit or simply preach a pro-life sermon… They set up an Abortion Holocaust Museum in their church and had a 45 minute presentation led by their youth group titled, “The Silent Holocaust”. That’s how you reset the pro-life church bar for 2017!

    Our family was very encouraged by this special presentation and by the zeal of the young people who are passionately pursuing a culture of life. Please join us in praying that our youth will continue to rise up and be a voice for the voiceless in this nation.

    Read Operation Rescue’s encouraging latest report: Roe v. Wade Fade: Six States Have Only One Remaining Abortion Facility

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  • Praying for Peace After a Decade of War: What this Inauguration Means to Us…

    By Bud Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- Eight years ago Tara and I joined a group of peaceful pro-life protesters in Washington D.C. at the crack of dawn onto the inauguration route of newly elected President, Barack Obama. In fact we (pro-lifers) were the very first presence allowed onto his inauguration route that day. Reverend Patrick Mahoney led the way through the check points with his secret service contacts amidst “boo’s” from the massive crowds. We were protesting at an inauguration before it was a trendy thing to do but what did our banners say?

    “Mr. President, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

    We weren’t violent or hateful though, in fact, we came in just the opposite spirit, we came peacefully and prayerfully to our nation’s capital.

    That inauguration ushered in the most radical pro-abortion administration in the history of America. We also had signs and trucks driving around the city stating and protesting,

    “Obama, the Abortion President!”

    Since then, Tara and I have traveled all across this great country starting with first moving from Flagstaff, Arizona to Los Angeles, California to work with the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. After working with Survivors, we moved from California to Wichita, Kansas to work as interns for Operation Rescue. After our internship with Operation Rescue, we moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the past decade we have moved a total of 8 times! Between Tara and I, we have been unlawfully arrested over 14 times! We have been hacked, bombed, assaulted, death threatened, almost run over twice, slandered, designated as domestic terrorists, called extremists, cursed out by New Mexico GOP leadership, shunned, ostracized, fired from our Christian ministry, asked to leave churches we were attending and forced out of our home twice! (As Fr. Stephen Imbarrato always reminds us, Matthew 5:10-12)

     (2007 – Bud being illegally arrested in Los Angeles, CA)

    Today, January 20, 2017,  Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and what a difference 8 years makes. With a brand new administration comes a new opportunity for hope! As Christians we are called to pray for our leaders. While we have offered countless prayers for our former president, Barack Obama, we have a glimpse at our prayers now being answered. Most Christians fail to realize that we are told what to specifically pray for regarding our leaders. Let’s look at 1 Timothy 2: 1-2 …

    “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people, for kings and all those in authority…

    We are told specifically what to pray for…

    “That we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”

    While we will continue to hold our leaders, including Donald J. Trump and his administration accountable, our prayer is that our new president, will usher in a new season not just for our family, who is weary from battle, but also usher in a new season for our country. Vice President Mike Pence took his oath of office and placed his hand upon this verse in 2 Chronicles:

    “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

    We are weary from a decade of being at war, our prayer is that God hears Vice President, Mike Pence’s prayer and our prayer, that he will heal our land and that we can all live quietly and at peace, in all godliness and holiness.

    (2007-2017) From Friendship Evangelists to Notorious Pro-Life Activists: Our battle in the trenches began a decade ago back in 2007…

    Three Major Articles Documenting our pro-life efforts:

    -VICE:  The New Face of the Anti-Abortion Movement
    -New York Times: Albuquerque Becomes Latest Focal Point in Abortion Wars
    -Albuquerque Journal: Albuquerque’s anti-abortion crusaders: Bud and Tara Shaver take no prisoners in their ‘culture of life’ campaign

    2007- 2008: From Friendship Evangelists to Notorious Pro-Life Activists-  Waking up Flagstaff Arizona

    2008- 2009: Full-time Anti-Abortion Activists with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust Los Angeles California

    Starting in Washington D.C. at George Mason University after Barack Obama’s Inauguration, we visited over 180 college and high school campuses all across the country educating our peers with the truth about abortion. We were invading Liberal “Safe-Spaces” before it was cool!

     

    2009-2010: Interns With Operation Rescue In Wichita, Kansas

    2010-Present (2017): Pro-Life Missionaries to Albuquerque, New Mexico

     

    June 2010: Operation Rescue Sends Pro-life Missionaries To Albuquerque

    August 2010: Protesters make a stand against anti-abortion group Operation Rescue

    July 2011: Abortion Supporter Bloodies Peaceful Pro-Life Activist in Violent Beating

    August 2012: Pro-Life Advocates in New Mexico Keep Fighting Abortion Industry

    January 2013: New docs reveal horrific details of botched 35-Week abortion in New Mexico disciplinary case

    February 2013: Late-Term Abortion Debate Turns to ABQ

    September 2013: Albuquerque Becomes Latest Focal Point in Abortion Wars

    November 2013: The right’s scary new test lab: Antiabortion activists take over a major city- How one little-known couple helped turn Albuquerque into a petri dish for a new, national strategy to ban abortion

    November 2013: Albuquerque Pro-Life Campaign Site Hacked, E-Mail Redirected to Pro-Abortion Campaign

    January 2014: Did late term abortion campaign trigger pipe bomb attack by pro-choicers?

    CNN, Albuquerque: New path for abortion opponents

    MSNBC, The new frontier of the abortion wars 

    New York Times: Albuquerque Becomes Latest Focal Point in Abortion Wars

    The Washington Times, Abortion battle goes local in New Mexico as Albuquerque votes on 20-week ban

    Los Angeles Times, Albuquerque becomes latest abortion battlefield

    TIME, Albuquerque Abortion Battle Gains National Attention

    Bloomberg, Abortion Battle Goes Local From Fairfax to Albuquerque

    The Associated Press (AP), Albuquerque vote targets late-term abortion clinic

    The Associated Press (AP), Anti-abortion groups to fight on after NM defeat

    Talking Points Memo, Albuquerque’s Anti-Abortion Activists Unfazed After 20-Week Ban Defeat

    The Wall Street Journal, Albuquerque Voters Reject Bid to Ban Late-Term Abortions

    December 2013: Bud and Tara Shaver 2013 pro-life persons of the year

    December 2014: Documented At Least 17 Known Abortion Related Injuries At ABQ Abortion Clinics

    2014- Present (2017): Protest ABQ Full-Time Protest Campaign With Fr. Stephen Imbarrato: The Protest Priest

    Media Matters: What Media Should Know About The Anti-Choice Group Protest ABQ

    October 2014: Are Anti-Abortion Activists Determined to Topple Their Pro-Life Governor?

    March 2014: Abortion opponents picket UNMH boss’s neighborhood

    March 2014: Pro-Life Protests Force University of New Mexico Abortion Clinic to Relocate

    September 2015: ABQ mayor denounces tactics from anti-abortion group

    March 2015: “Crazy” Antics and Dirty Tricks Kill Hospital Admitting Privileges Bill in New Mexico

    December 2015: Breaking: UNM Halts Abortion Rotation at Late-Term Abortion Facility But Continues to Break the Law

    (Part 1) Exposé: Tax Funded Abortion Training and the Betrayal of True Medicine at UNM

    (Part 2) Lobos of Death: A Look at the Radical Abortion Agenda at the University of New Mexico

    January 2016: Albuquerque’s anti-abortion crusaders

    January 2016: Presentation to New Mexico Legislators “Inside NM Reproductive Health Clinics”

    June 2016: Pro-lifers’ discovery leads to exposure of baby parts trade in New Mexico

    September 2016: Congressional Investigation Documents University of New Mexico’s Use of Aborted Fetal Tissue

    December 2016: New Mexico Baby Body Parts Scandal Timeline Recap

    Bud and Tara Shaver’s Highlights of 6 Years of Ministry in New Mexico:

    2016 Year In Review: Top 5 Highlights 

    2015 Bud and Tara Shaver’s Year In Review

    2014 Year In Review: Top 5 Highlights

    2013 Year In Review (5 post highlights)

    2013 The Year of Public Awareness- ABQ Year In Review Highlight #1
    2013 The Year of Public Awareness- ABQ Year In Review Highlight #2
    2013 The Year of Public Awareness- ABQ Year In Review Highlight #3
    2013 The Year of Public Awareness- ABQ Year In Review Highlight #4
    2013 The Year of Public Awareness- ABQ Year In Review Highlight #5

    2012 Year in Review: Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness
    2011 Year In Review: Prayer and a Pro-Life Witness

    For more information visit our websites:

    ProLifeWitness.org

    ProtestABQ.com

    Also visit:

    OperationRescue.org

    Survivors.la

    PriestsForLife.org

  • SOLAUD and the Start of the 2017 Legislative Session in Santa Fe

    SOLAUD and the Start of the 2017 Legislative Session in Santa Fe

    By Tara Shaver

    Albuquerque, NM- This week thousands will gather in Santa Fe to attend a pro-life Mass celebrated by the three bishops of New Mexico followed by a procession to the Roundhouse where a rally will be held to mourn another year of legalized pre-born child killing in this country.

    This annual event is sponsored by the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

    While New Mexico faces many obstacles in the overall effort to protect human life, a major concern this 2017 session is the potential introduction of a physician assisted death bill into the legislature. State Representative Bill McCamley (D-Las Cruces) told the Albuquerque Journal that he plans to introduce such a bill this session.

    In June of last year the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld New Mexico’s Assisted Suicide Act, which prohibits deliberately helping another person take his or her own life and is considered a fourth degree felony.

    This law was challenged in 2014 by none other than two physicians at… the University of New Mexico Hospital. These two physicians, in addition to a cancer patient in Santa Fe (whose cancer is now in remission as of June 2016) had apparently challenged the law in order to allow physicians the ability to kill their patients but evade being held responsible under New Mexico law.

    Earlier this month in “The Great Gift of Life” written by New Mexico Archbishop John C. Wester he states, “those that support doctor-assisted suicide use names like ‘death with dignity,’ ‘aid in dying,’ or ‘compassion in choices,’ because they mistakenly believe that allowing someone to end their life on their own is a dignified action. However, there is no dignity or compassion in assisted suicide.”

    In addition the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement regarding the New Mexico Supreme Courts decision stating in part, “In the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis calls us to be deliberate in our acts of kindness and love. One of the greatest ways to love is to journey with another’s suffering and pain. Here, we make a call for a consistent ethic of life.”

    Protest ABQ stands with the Bishops of New Mexico in affirming life from conception until natural death and oppose any effort by New Mexico legislators to further push this agenda of physician assisted suicide.

    “It has always been discouraging to see so many Catholic legislators vote for death and against their faith. If an assisted suicide bill is proposed this session, it is an opportunity for Catholic legislators to show the faithful that they truly respect life and Catholic teaching more than their political agendas,” stated Fr. Imbarrato: The Protest Priest, Priests for Life. ​

    During this session it will be interesting to see if radically pro-abortion Catholic legislators like Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, Sen. Michael Padilla, Sen. Bill O’Neill, and Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, will continue to defy their faith and the bishops of New Mexico by going a step further in their rebellion and support physician assisted suicide legislation in 2017.

    SOLAUD Event Details:

    Noon Mass at The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
    231 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, NM 87501
    1:30pm: Procession from Basilica to Roundhouse
    2:00pm: Rally at Roundhouse and Visiting Legislators