[slideshow_deploy id=’1413′] RAW Footage of Tara Shaver’s interview with Local ABC News Channel 7 announcing a historic effort here in the Late-Term abortion Capital of the Nation for “the peoples” voice to be heard and allow the residents of Albuquerque the opportunity to rise up and ban Late-Term abortions in our city! This is a petition for direct legislation, ironically the “Democratically” controlled legislature up in Santa Fe is preventing the will of the people to be accomplished in this state…so “We the People” are taking direct steps to side-step Santa Fe and allow the democratic process to truly take place here in ABQ! Below is another of the many…

By Tara Shaver (Here is the undercover call) Albuquerque, NM — An undercover investigation of the Southwest’s largest so-called “women’s clinic” has revealed that the purpose of this clinic is not to provide women’s healthcare at all, but to sell women one product – abortion. In fact, the only option given to women at the misnamed Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is abortion. Period. So many times people criticize pro-life activists for focusing attention on local abortion clinics, citing the many other services such clinics provide. However, at Southwestern Women’s Options, a clinic that specializes in lucrative third trimester abortions, there are no other services. Here in Albuquerque,…

By, Operation Rescue  November 12, 2012 Albuquerque, NM – Acting on complaints filed by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life, the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB) has filed a Notice of Contemplated Action alleging gross negligence against late-term abortionist Shelley Sella during a 35-week abortion that landed the woman in the hospital with a ruptured uterus. “Shelley Sella has a long and sordid history. We have been looking forward to the day when she would be held accountable for her abortion abuses. That day has finally arrived,” said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue. The abortion took place on May 12, 2011. Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life…

By, Cheryl Sullenger- Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue Bud and Tara Shaver need our support to continue their life-saving work in the Late Term Abortion Capital of the Southwest Albuquerque, NM — Bud and Tara Shaver are full time pro-life missionaries in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their ministry encompasses its name, “Prayer and a Pro-life Witness.” As former Operation Rescue interns they have learned proven strategies to close down abortion clinics. Since arriving in Albuquerque in July 2010 they have begun to implement those strategies by stripping away the layers of the abortion industry and by educating the public with the truth about abortion. When the Shaver’s arrived in New…

  Graphic anti-abortion billboard drives around town. Report originally appeared at koat.com (Complete report including video footage!) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Report by By Anna Velasquez koat.com An anti-abortion activist has taken his message to the streets and highways of Albuquerque with a rolling billboard that displays graphic pictures. Bud Shaver drives around a truck with huge, larger-than-life pictures of dead fetuses from what he said are late-term abortions. “This just shows what abortion is,” Shaver said. “It shows the reality of what abortion is. It also restores meaning to the word abortion.” The billboard also declares Albuquerque as the nation’s late-term abortion capital. “As far as late-term abortion is concerned, Albuquerque…

By Tara Shaver, Project Defending Life The State of New Mexico has one of the highest poverty rates. Money that could go to alleviate poverty has instead been dished out to abortion providers to the tune of over 1.1 million state tax dollars in 2011 to fund abortions through Medicaid. Medicaid first began to cover abortion services in 1976, but only for cases when the life of the mother was endangered, as per the Federal Hyde Amendment. In 1977, the Hyde Amendment wording was changed to allow federal funding for abortions to also include cases of rape or incest in addition to life endangerment of the mother. In New Mexico,…

By Tara Shaver, Project Defending Life Albuquerque, NM — In light of the recent revocation of abortionist Ann Kristin Neuhaus’s medical license by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA), Project Defending Life is renewing its request for the New Mexico Medical Board to investigate recent botched abortions in Albuquerque. Neuhaus’ medical license revocation was the direct result of a complaint first filed by Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger in 2006, alleging violations of the standards of patient care and a Kansas law that allowed only narrow exceptions to a ban on post-viability abortions. In Kansas, Neuhaus provided the required second consenting opinion that the continuation of a…

Please join us at our: Kickoff Rally and Spring Campaign Where: Project Defending Life 625 San Mateo Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM Kickoff Rally Tuesday, February 21, 2012 starting with Mass at 6pm and Prayer and speakers at 7pm. Spring 2012 campaign starting February 22, 2012 and running thru April 1, 2012. Schedule a time from 7 am thru 7 pm or you are welcome to come out anytime. Come out and show everyone that Albuquerque is a wonderful place to LIVE, and we support LIFE from conception. Many women are not aware their baby is already alive and developing. Spend an hour and possibly save a life — several women…

Bruce Ferguson M.D.- Before Retirement, December, 2011 (1 of 4 Albuquerque abortion mills). Bruce Ferguson M.D.- After Retirement, January, 2012. One Albuquerque abortion mill closed to start off 2012…Three left to go! Read about our undercover investigation that exposed Bruce Ferguson’s retirement and watch our undercover video here: New Mexico Abortionist Quits For the Sake of His “Sanity” (Click Headline to go to the page)

By Cheryl Sullenger Albuquerque, New Mexico – A shocking number of medical emergencies at two Albuquerque abortion clinics over the past few months have raised questions about clinic safety and who is responsible for oversight. After months of investigation, pro-life groups have determined that abortion clinics often operate in regulatory gaps and actively seek to “fly under the radar,” as one regulator put it. This has created a public safety crisis in New Mexico. A total of 14 calls for emergency medical assistance were placed to 911 dispatchers by Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) and the University of New Mexico Center for Reproductive Health (UNMCRH) over a 35-month time frame between…

“Let My People Live!” Pastor Eric Lamb, Keynote Speaker for Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Also a short summary of our ministry and introduction by Tara Shaver. Lamar Brothers in Santa Fe, New Mexico for Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day 2012.  

Albuquerque, NM- Project Defending Life has confirmed that abortionist Bruce Ferguson is retiring on December 30th, 2011, and will no longer be performing abortions.  His Albuquerque abortion clinic will also close.  According to his website, he has been performing abortions for 30 years. In a phone call, Ferguson told an undercover investigator that he was retiring due to his health, his family, and his own “sanity.” He stated, “Someone else needs to carry the burden now.” Ferguson also mentioned as a reason for his retirement a steady decline in abortion patients each year, which is a trend that is being seen nationally. Project Defending Life and Operation Rescue have been…

On December 13, 2011 Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Director of Project Defending Life and Tara Shaver, also with Project Defending Life along with several other concerned citizens spoke before the UNM Board of Regents. “Our main goal was to educate and inform the Regents about how women’s lives are being placed in danger as a result of the tax funded UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion clinic,” stated Tara Shaver. Others shared their disdain regarding UNM’s current participation in providing abortions as well as the fact that the majority of abortions done in New Mexico are performed on Hispanic women. Earlier this year Project Defending Life obtained three 911 recordings documenting…

By Tara Shaver, Project Defending Life Albuquerque, NM- A recent investigation conducted by Project Defending Life with the help of Operation Rescue has revealed that tax money received by the University of New Mexico (UNM) flows freely to the university-run UNM Center for Reproductive Health (UNMCRH) abortion clinic in Albuquerque. This money is used for the following purposes: Finance the UNMCRH abortion clinic. Train UNM medical residents in abortions techniques, particularly late-term abortions. Conduct experimental research on patients with regard to abortion, contraception and sterilization. The University of New Mexico prides itself on being a public research university. It is the largest post-secondary institution in the state as well as…

Written by Operation Rescue Albuquerque, New Mexico – As Down Syndrome Awareness month concludes, Operation Rescue has released a video containing excerpts from an undercover call to a late-term abortion clinic that assured the caller that Medicaid would pay the total costs of an abortion at 30 weeks gestation on a pre-born baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Estimated cost of the abortion was between $10,000 and $16,000. “We know that 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome end up aborting their babies. Now we know that it is done at great expense to the taxpayer, who foots the bill for outrageously expensive abortions,” said…

Written by Operation Rescue Albuquerque, New Mexico – As debate over tax-funding of abortions in Obamacare is scheduled in Washington, D.C. for Thursday, an investigation conducted by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life shows millions of tax dollars are already paying for abortions each year. Operation Rescue has released a short video containing excerpts from an undercover recording showing that Medicaid pays not only for abortions, but completely covers third-trimester abortions for no medical reason whatsoever. The caller identified herself as having a healthy pregnancy in the 26th week of gestation to a Southwestern Women’s Options employee named Sue. She told Sue that the reason she wanted an abortion was…

Written by Operation Rescue Listen and watch video here: 11th 911 Abortion Emergency Call from SWO Albuquerque, NM – Another woman has suffered complications from a botched abortion at Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term abortion mill in Albuquerque, New Mexico, owned and operated by Curtis Boyd. The latest 911 call obtained by Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life and released to Operation Rescue shows a 31-year old woman who is suffering uncontrolled bleeding after an abortion. The abortion clinic worker who placed the call requested that the patient be transported to the hospital. This is the eleventh such abortion-related medical emergency at Southwestern Women’s Options in less than two years, and…

Written by Bud & Tara Shaver Albuquerque, NM- September 19, 2011–On Wednesday September 14,  Father Stephen Imbarrato, Director of Project Defending Life as well as Bud and Tara Shaver, also with Project Defending Life, met with Governor Susana Martinez to discuss the urgent abortion crisis in New Mexico. Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life recently obtained 13 911 calls, ten of which, came from the notorious Late-Term abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options.These ten calls were placed over a 30 month time span and reveal a troubling pattern of life threatening abortion complications. “The reality is that on average every 10 weeks a woman is being rushed to the hospital as…