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(Read more about UNMCRH & Tax Funded Abortions  HERE )

​We are Proud to join Created Equal In This National Effort

Bud Shaver, Executive Director of Protest ABQ issued the following statement, “Now is the opportune time for all of the pro-life organizations across the country to be more strategic and unify our efforts in opposition to Planned Parenthood and the rest of the Abortion Cartel nationwide. Protest ABQ is proud to join Created Equal in exposing the abortion industry’s weak link…With every serial murderer, their biggest problem becomes, ‘What do I do with all of the dead bodies?’”

​Created Equal Announces- #ProjectWeakLink:

In December, videos of the 2013 National Abortion Federation conference were released by GotNews showing abortionist Renee Chelian saying, “We are all one incineration company away from being closed.”
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Her admission shed light on the weak link of the abortion industry and specifically Planned Parenthood (i.e. medical waste companies). Abortionists depend on them to dispose of their victims’ bodies.

In undercover videos leaked by GotNews of a 2013 National Abortion Federation conference, Abortionist Renee Chelian discusses the problem of disposing of aborted babies. While proposing solutions she comments, “I had five months’ worth of fetal tissue in my freezers.”

The Ohio Attorney General reported in Planned Parenthood Investigation Summary Regarding Disposal of Aborted Fetuses that Stericycle disposes of fetal remains for Planned Parenthood facilities in Ohio.  Stericycle is Planned Parenthood’s main medical waste service provider in America.

Stericycle’s collaboration with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry through its collection, transportation, and disposal of aborted children and the instruments used to kill them is well documented (see Evidence). Providing this service enables the killing of preborn children. Planned Parenthood depends upon medical waste companies to dispose of dead babies.

Question: What if Stericycle were to stop doing the dirty work of Planned Parenthood?

Answer: Planned Parenthood would be unable to dispose of the babies they kill, and the murder of millions of innocent children by Planned Parenthood would likely halt.

Take Action:

1. Contact Stericycle CEO Charles Alutto at 847-607-2004 or calutto@stericycle.com (sample script for calls and emails: view) and respectfully request Stericycle discontinue providing Planned Parenthood their services to dispose of aborted children and the instruments used to kill them (see important note below).
2. Sign the petition to stop Stericycle from collaborating in the deaths of millions of babies by abortion.
3. Donate to Created Equal, PO Box 360502, Columbus, OH 43236 or click HERE to give electronically.  Your gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Last summer and fall, Created Equal helped lead 100,000 activists to protest at over 600 Planned Parenthood clinics in each of the fifty states.  This coalition is capable of mounting serious opposition to Stericycle (See ProtestPP.com).

If we don’t act NOW to pressure these medical waste companies to sever agreements with Planned Parenthood, we will have missed a historic opportunity to stop the killing.

Important note:
Despite being caught red-handed by the Ohio Attorney General, Selin Hoboy, Vice-President of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, has said that Stericycle “does not accept fetuses” in accordance to their Regulated Medical Waste Acceptance Policy. This is merely a semantic ploy.

According to the policy, Stericycle will not accept “complete human remains,” which includes fetuses. However, babies are not “complete” after being dismembered, decapitated, and disemboweled in standard abortion methods. Their broken parts and torn tissue are categorized by Stericycle as “pathological waste”—defined as “human or animal parts, organs, tissues, and surgical specimens”—which they do accept. So while they may not be picking up intact fetuses, they do accept aborted babies’ fragmented body parts. Stericycle uses this technical exemption to justify their continued collaboration in child-killing.

Don’t allow Stericycle to get away with the lie that they don’t dispose of aborted babies for Planned Parenthood or other abortion providers.

RELATED:

“Death, Dead Bodies and Tissue” A Look Into America’s Abortion Industry

Largest Protest Of Planned Parenthood EVER in New Mexico and Across USA

(Photo credit: Operation Rescue)

By Tara Shaver

Albuquerque, NM- On the verge of subpoena’s for records related to fetal tissue research, Southwestern Women’s Options and UNM scramble to comply with U.S. Panel inquiry.

The New Mexico Political Report obtained a statement, shortly after our initial report, from an attorney representing Southwestern Women’s Options stating that, “We have formally responded this afternoon to its [the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives] information request, as we previously arranged.” “We will continue to be responsive to the panel’s inquiries and will do so in a manner that protects individuals’ safety and privacy.”

The University of New Mexico, however, has not issued a public statement but behind the scenes emailed it’s employees today. This email was leaked by an internal source to Fr. Stephen Imbarrato of Priests for Life and Director of Life Ministries US this evening.

In the email it is clear that the UNM Health Sciences Center is doing damage control in light of the ABQ Journal article released yesterday.

The email reads, “This is the Health Sciences Center’s Response: The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center is, has been and will continue to cooperate voluntarily with the United States House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.  We received a letter signed by Committee Chairwoman Representative Marsha Blackburn on January 6, 2016.  Today we will be releasing our correspondence with the Panel staff to set the record straight, verifying our cooperation. This initial letter included 19 individual areas, each encompassing a wide range of issues and documents related to our life-saving research.  This critical research has already resulted in dramatic improvements in the health of extremely premature babies, including reducing brain damage and blindness.  Research using fetal tissue has allowed for discoveries that have led to extremely premature babies now having a greater chance of survival and an improved quality of life at younger and younger ages.  This is an historic accomplishment. We submitted an initial response on January 29, 2016, as per our agreement with Panel staff. We were granted an extension to respond with further documents by February 15, 2016 by Special Counsel to the Committee, Frank Scaturro.  Our staff has been diligently working to gather responsive documents and we intend to honor our agreement.

We are disappointed that the majority would issue a precipitous press release prior to the February 15 deadline stating that we are not cooperating and are unwilling to submit the documents requested.  In light of the documents we are releasing today, this statement is not supported by the actual interactions and agreements with the Panel staff.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center respects both the Committee and the United States House of Representatives. We remain committed to our mission to save lives, reduce suffering and to provide the best quality of care for our patients.“

It seems strange though that if UNM has indeed been voluntarily cooperating that Rep. Blackburn would feel the need to issue a subpoena next week.

UNM Leadership 

For a little background to who is calling the shots at UNM Health Sciences Center, for years Protest ABQ has been bringing awareness to the fact that UNM is the heart of the abortion industry in New Mexico and Dr. Paul Roth, Chancellor for Health Sciences, CEO UNM Health System and Dean of UNM School of Medicine is the driving force behind the scenes.

Dr. Paul Roth

Protest ABQ has been so vocal about this reality that Dr. Roth wrote a letter almost 18 months ago to Archbishop Michael Sheehan complaining about Fr Stephen Imbarrato. The letter was full of false accusations and untruths. The fact that Dr. Roth wrote the letter validates UNM’s concerns about the exposure that Protest ABQ has exposed about UNM’s radical abortion agenda.

As Chancellor of Health Sciences and CEO of UNM Health System Roth is responsible for the following:

-UNM Hospital- Performs late term abortions.

-School Based Health Centers- In Albuquerque High Schools and Middle Schools as a means of promoting abortion to NM youth.

-UNM Center for Reproductive Health- Performing abortions up to 22wks. Managed by abortionist Eve Espey, 2014 Margaret Sanger award recipient and mentioned in recent CMP videos as UNM’s abortion asset.

-UNM Young Women’s Clinic- Also managed by Eve Espey who has worked since last summer with Albuquerque Mayor RJ Berry on a initiative to reduce teen pregnancies through contraception and other reproductive health initiatives such as abortion. ​

Politically Motivated

Dr. Roth, in the past over a 2-3 year period, worked with the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce and State Legislators including Republican Senators John Ryan and Rod Adair to try and legalize embryonic stem cell tissue research in New Mexico.

Dr. Roth recently donated $500 to New Mexico Speaker of the House, Republican Donald Tripp. The Republicans recently hosted Dr. Roth at the opening of the 2016 Legislative Session.

Dr. Roth has been a consistent donor to State Democrats who have squashed every pro-life legislation put forth in New Mexico in the last 2 years.

Dr. Roth’s long term relationship with notorious late term abortionist Dr Curtis Boyd is well known.

Is Dr. Roth the one who is behind the initial failure to comply with IPRA’s by NMAFL, Protest ABQ and now the failure to comply with the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives document requests?

Fr. Imbarrato issued the following statement:

“The proof of Dr. Roth’s lack of integrity and mindset can be seen in the email released today to Health and Science Center employees when he states, “We remain committed to our mission to save lives, reduce suffering, and to provide the best quality of care for our patients.”

Dr Roth, what about the unborn babies, some viable, that die each and every day under your supervision? How about the mothers who have been documented as wounded in your clinics including the poor mother who is believed to have died in your UNMCRH abortion clinic in July 2011 which I am still investigating?

There have been calls for the termination of abortionist Eve Espey and rightfully so, but it is Dr. Paul Roth who should resign or be terminated by the UNM Board of Regents.”

The UNM Board of Regents, Governor Martinez, and AG Hector Balderas, as Protest ABQ has consistently demanded, should begin conducting their own investigation of Dr. Paul Roth’s Health and Sciences Center and his control over the New Mexico abortion industry.

RELATED: Southwestern Women’s Options and UNM Refuse to Comply With U.S. House Investigation

Protest ABQ and other pro-life groups were told that there were no responsive documents to an Inspection of Public Records Request in 2015, regarding UNM’s use of fetal tissue. Months after this request the Albuquerque Journal reported that Southwestern Women’s Options was, in fact, the sole provider of fetal tissue to the University of New Mexico.

Fr. Stephen Imbarrato with Priests for Life and Director of Life Ministries U.S., issued the following statement: “UNM is the heart of the abortion industry in NM and hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of their abortion cartel! I am convinced that Dr. Paul Roth is behind the entire cartel and also this coverup. UNM has tried to hide their dealings from NMAFL, Protest ABQ and now the Federal Government.

It is time for the Attorney General, Hector Balderas, to stop campaigning for Hillary Clinton and do a statewide investigation of the New Mexico abortion cartel. It is also time for Gov. Susana Martinez to put pressure on the UNM Board of Regents as well as use her agencies and executive powers to provide oversight to the New Mexico abortion cartel in the Late Term Abortion Capital of the Country.”

Protest ABQ filed a formal complaint in July 2015 with New Mexico AG Hector Balderas, asking for an investigation of Southwestern Women’s Options based on their consent form that states “pregnancy tissue may be used in medical research.”

“It is clear that both UNM and Southwestern Women’s Options believe that they are accountable to no one. This investigation by the U.S. House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives couldn’t be more timely as New Mexicans are consistently left with more questions than answers.

It is long overdue that UNM, a publicly funded institution and Southwestern Women’s Options, the notorious late term abortion facility, are forced to provide transparency about their involvement in using aborted baby body parts.

New Mexicans deserve to know just how deeply entrenched these two are in this further degradation of human life,” stated Bud Shaver, Executive Director of Protest ABQ.

For years it has been evident that fetal tissue was being harvested in New Mexico. Protest ABQ continues to urge Governor Martinez and AG Hector Balderas to investigate at the local level.

Please be in prayer for this panel investigation, that it will shed light on the use of aborted baby body parts in Albuquerque.

RELATED:

Operation Rescue: Congressional Subpoenas Go Out to Uncooperative Abortion Providers, Profiteers

By Tara Shaver

Life Ministries NM introduces 5 years of investigative research into New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics. Part 2

Part 2 of 3 of this video series that was presented to New Mexico legislators by Fr. Stephen Imbarrato on January 26, 2016 gives a glimpse into the dangers posed to young women obtaining abortions in New Mexico. It is commonplace in New Mexico to talk with minors who come to Albuquerque for abortions because their state requires either parental notification or consent. In fact, as you will hear New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics pose a serious danger to ALL of the unsuspecting women who walk through their doors.

New Mexico is currently one of 17 states that has medicaid funded abortions using state tax dollars. Part 2 delves into tax funding of abortions in New Mexico and the shocking revelation of how much Late-Term abortions cost the taxpayers…$8,000-$16,000 the price for a baby’s life!

This segment wraps up with a brief look into the reality that the University of New Mexico, a publicly funded institution, is deeply entrenched in the abortion industry and their Center for Reproductive Health equally poses a danger to the general public. You will hear a horrifying recording of a woman who at one point during her abortion stopped breathing and is unresponsive, and in the next minute is moaning and seemingly fighting for her life. Did this woman whose skin tone was gray during the 911 call die?

This 3 part series pulls back the curtain and allows you to hear these workers in their own words without us interjecting our opinions. The videos speak for themselves. You can decide for yourself about the legitimacy of New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics.

Life Ministries NM lead by Fr. Stephen Imbarrato with Protest Child Killing debuted this presentation at the State Capital in Santa Fe, New Mexico to legislators with the hope that principled politicians will sponsor and pass uncompromised legislation.

Click here to contact your representative. Call them and also be sure to email them a link to this video for them to see and hear the truth about New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics for themselves. 

Watch Part 1 of 3- Inside NM Reproductive Health Clinics:

(Life Ministries NM would like to thank: Operation Rescue, Live Action and Pro-Life Witness)

For more documented abuses and investigations of New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics visit our Reports

• RELATED: Video: Part 1 of 3- “Inside NM Reproductive Health Clinics”
• Final Video (Part 3)- Inside New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics

By Tara Shaver

As the first legislative session of 2016 kicked off here in New Mexico, Fr. Stephen Imbarrato felt the need to hand deliver the compilation of over 5 years of research into New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics to New Mexico legislators.

We are told that if we want our representatives to introduce and pass uncompromising legislation that we need to go to them, so that’s what Life Ministries NM did yesterday. A good crowd joined us and filled the Rotunda of the State Capital, Tuesday January 26th as we released the entire 45 minute investigative video exposing the abortion industry in NM. We are breaking it up into a 3 Part Series.

Watch Part 1 of 3- Inside NM Reproductive Health Clinics:

This segment of videos blows the lid off of Albuquerque’s late term abortion facility, Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO). The fact that it is considered by the abortion lobby to be a Reproductive Health Clinic is disturbing since as you will see, they only provide abortions. They don’t do well women exams, STD testing or even have the ability to detect a potentially life threatening ectopic pregnancy.

SWO is also caught showing how professional their health services are to women in footage obtained by Live Action when they send late term abortion patients to local hotels. Does healthcare really consist of instructing women to unlock their hotel door until the abortionist arrives and in the meantime push your dead baby into the toilet?

New Mexico is one of very few places in the world that allows abortions after 24 weeks, SWO abortionist Carmen Landau is caught on video bragging “women come from all across the country and the world to this clinic” to obtain late-term abortions.

The segment ends with (only a few of the) 911 calls we obtained documenting women being transported to local hospitals after suffering horrific injuries from SWO.

After viewing Part 1 of this series how can we not expect and demand that New Mexico legislators pass laws that would protect the women and children of New Mexico…and those coming from all across the world?

(Life Ministries NM would like to thank: Operation Rescue, Live Action and Pro-Life Witness)

Click here to contact your representative. Call them and also be sure to email them a link to this video for them to see and hear the truth about New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics for themselves. 

Fr. Stephen Imbarrato the Protest Priest with Protest Child Killing launches Life Ministries NM at the New Mexico State Roundhouse in Santa Fe! Good crowd (around 100) to watch the 45 minute investigative video exposing the abortion industry in NM.

Fr. Stephen Imbarrato and Tara Shaver Senior Policy Advisor for Protest ABQ and Life Ministries NM introduce our 5 years of investigative research into New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics.

State Senator Craig Brandt addressing the crowd at the Roundhouse. The good Senator is a pastor and closed our presentation in prayer.

• Video Part 2: Inside NM Reproductive Health Clinics
• Final Video (Part 3)- Inside New Mexico Reproductive Health Clinics

By Tara Shaver

Santa Fe, NM- Join Fr. Stephen Imbarrato as he unveils his new ministry, Life Ministries NM, Tuesday January, 26th at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We will release 5 years of investigative research into New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics. Also the debut of our CHASTITY AND ABSTINENCE initiative, TRUE LOVE, featuring UNM students Colt Bilok and Jolene Bullock.

Nine years ago, the 3 Catholic bishops of New Mexico and Fr. Imbarrato founded the Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day. However, “unity and awareness” of how “life is unique, precious and unrepeatable” is an ongoing, continuous endeavor especially here in New Mexico. As a followup to the Sanctity of life Awareness and Unity Day, Fr. Imbarrato of Priests for Life, Protest Child Killing, Protest ABQ, Pro-Life Witness, and True Love will sponsor a morning at the Roundhouse up in Santa Fe on January 26th.

We invite you to join us from 8:30-10:30am in the Rotunda for breakfast and coffee while we share 5 years of investigative research into our local reproductive health care clinics.

Tuesday’s Itinerary:

8:30-9:00am Coffee and Breakfast

9:00-9:30am Press Conference with Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Senator Craig Brandt, Representative Yvette Herrell (tentative), the “Abstinence Couple” Colt and Jolene of True Love and Tara Shaver – Senior Policy Advisor for Protest ABQ and Life Ministries NM

9:30-10:30am Presentation of investigative research

Father Stephen is a priest with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, ordained 10 years as a late life vocation. Fr Stephen has been given permission to do full-time national pro-life ministry and is currently a member of the Pastoral Staff of Priests for Life. Fr Stephen is the founder of several pro-life ministries including St Gerard’s CPC in Connecticut and Project Defending Life also Protest ABQ in New Mexico.

SPECIAL REPORT:

Operation Rescue released a report highlighting the six most dangerous abortion businesses in America since 1973…Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico has been exposed as one of the most dangerous facilities in the country!

Read the full report here: Six Abortion Businesses that Prove “Roe” Didn’t Make Abortion Safe

By Tara Shaver

Santa Fe, NM- Join Fr. Stephen Imbarrato as he unveils his new ministry, Life Ministries NM, Tuesday January, 26th at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We will release 5 years of investigative research into New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics.

Nine years ago, the 3 Catholic bishops of New Mexico and Fr. Imbarrato founded the Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day. However, “unity and awareness” of how “life is unique, precious and unrepeatable” is an ongoing, continuous endeavor especially here in New Mexico. As a followup to the Sanctity of life Awareness and Unity Day, Fr. Imbarrato of Priests for Life, Protest Child Killing, Protest ABQ and Pro-Life Witness will sponsor a morning at the Roundhouse up in Santa Fe on January 26th.

We invite you to join us from 8:30-10:30am in the Rotunda for breakfast and coffee while we share 5 years of investigative research into our local reproductive health care clinics.

Tuesday’s Itinerary:

8:30-9:00am Coffee and Breakfast

9:00-9:30am Press Conference with Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Senator Craig Brandt, and Tara Shaver – Senior Policy Advisor for Protest ABQ

9:30-10:30am Presentation of investigative research

Father Stephen is a priest with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, ordained 10 years as a late life vocation. Fr Stephen has been given permission to do full-time national pro-life ministry and is currently a member of the Pastoral Staff of Priests for Life. Fr Stephen is the founder of several pro-life ministries including St Gerard’s CPC in Connecticut and Project Defending Life also Protest ABQ in New Mexico.

By Bud Shaver, Executive Director of Protest ABQ

Fr. Stephen Imbarrato with Priests for Life and founder of several pro-life ministries in New Mexico including: Life Ministries NM, Protest ABQ, and Project Defending Life  released the following statement:

“I am very excited about the plan laid out by the [Senate-NM] to get a late term abortion ban passed in New Mexico. It is my hope that it is a bill that has no exceptions. I made it clear last year and again this year to the sponsors of the bill that I cannot support a bill with exceptions. Rape, incest, and health of the mother exceptions are not tolerable in pro life legislation. It is important that our Catholic leadership insist that our Catholic legislators support a late term ban with no exceptions. I recently submitted a ban bill to appropriate parties without exceptions that is law in 20 states. Let us unite around a late term ban with no exceptions.”

Father Stephen is a priest with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, ordained 10 years as a late life vocation. Fr Stephen has been given permission to do full-time national pro-life ministry and is currently a member of the Pastoral Staff of Priests for Life. Fr Stephen is the founder of several pro-life ministries including St Gerard’s CPC in Connecticut and Project Defending Life also Protest ABQ  in New Mexico.

Video: Why New Mexico Needs A Late-Term Abortion Bill With NO Exceptions

(Picture by Orae Dominguez)

Before Operation Rescue sent us as Pro-Life Missionaries to New Mexico back in 2010, Operation Rescue released a five part series: “Abortion Capital” which delves into the business of lucrative late-term abortions in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In case you missed this 5 part series back in 2010, here is an in depth look into the late-term abortion business and the key players at Southwestern Women’s Options late term abortion facility in Albuquerque:

Abortion Capital, Pt. 1: The Wild, Wild West

Abortion Capital, Pt. 2: “Am I Killing? Yes, I am. I know that”

Abortion Capital, Pt. 3: “A baby came out and it was moving”

Abortion Capital, Pt. 4: The Dancing Dog

Abortion Capital, Pt. 5: “We think the process is safe. Nothing is perfect”

This quote by Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue is the final paragraph of “Abortion Capital” revealing Operation Rescues purpose in releasing this extensive 5 part series and goal in sending us to Albuquerque:

 “We plan to use every legal option available to us to make sure the killing stops, from First Amendment street activism, to political lobbying, to options that may be available through the legal system. But the first step is to raise public awareness and warn others of the dangers so they don’t fall victim to this predatory late-term abortion mill. We pray that this series of investigative reports will help do that.”

With God’s favor, Operation Rescue’s continued help and the resolved commitment of local Albuquerque Protest Priest Fr. Stephen Imbarrato…a unified collaborative effort has produced great fruit in raising national and local awareness about the New Mexico abortion cartel and has also laid a foundation for the great things that continue to bring us closer to seeing abortion end in the state.

Operation Rescue just released a report highlighting the six most dangerous abortion businesses in America since 1973…Southwestern Women’s Options has been exposed as one of the most dangerous facilities in the country! 

Read the full report here: Six Abortion Businesses that Prove “Roe” Didn’t Make Abortion Safe

For more information about our ministry efforts in New Mexico visit:

ProLifeWitness.org

ProtestABQ.com

By Tara Shaver

Upcoming Sanctity of Life Events in New Mexico

We hope that you have been able to promote the sanctity of human life this month, whether it be in your church or among friends.

There are THREE special events in New Mexico that we’d like to encourage you to attend.

Sanctity of Life Awareness & Unity Day Mass/March/Rally Wed Jan 20 in Santa Fe 

Join us as the three dioceses of New Mexico prayerfully mark the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion with a Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day on January 20, 2016.  The day includes a noon Mass with the three bishops of New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester (Archdiocese of Santa Fe), Bishop Oscar Cantú (Diocese of Las Cruces) and Bishop James S. Wall (Diocese of Gallup) at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis in Santa Fe, a prayer procession and rally with Allen Sánchez at the Roundhouse.

Participants are asked to bring baby items like diapers, blankets, bottles, etc. and/or socks and toiletries for the elderly to be collected at the Mass and distributed to organizations that provide support to expectant mothers in need or nursing homes.

Sponsored by the NM Conference of Catholic Bishops. For more information please click here.

Details:
Mass begins at Noon

Procession after Mass proceeds from the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis Assisi with Rally to follow at about 1:00pm

Memorial To The Pre-Born: Friday January 22nd Sponsored by Right to Life of New Mexico

Life Ministries NM Releasing 5 years of Investigative Research into New Mexico’s Reproductive Health Clinics

By Fr. Stephen Imbarrato 

Protest ABQ and I began protesting Mayor Berry, who professes to be pro-life, in 2015 after his repeated refusals to meet with us about our concerns regarding the nature of the abortion industry in Albuquerque as well as the difficulty we were having obtaining information about 911 emergency calls coming from city abortion facilities. We also had concerns about abortion clinic zoning and other issues. Not only has the Mayor ignored our pleas to meet, but now it appears as if he is working with the abortion industry in Albuquerque.

“Pregnant” is a teen pregnancy documentary that debuted August 15th, 2015 at the Kimo theater. Led by the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, the 30 minute film was a combined effort of the City of Albuquerque, the NM Dept of Health, multiple pro-abortion organizations including Planned Parenthood, and University of New Mexico (UNM) abortionist Eve Espey.

Dr. Eve Espey is the Chair of the UNM Dept of OB-GYN and oversees UNM’s large, multifaceted abortion business under the direction of Dr Paul Roth, who is the CEO of the entire UNM Health System. Espey directs the UNM Center for Reproductive Health (abortion facility) and the UNM Young Women’s Health Clinic (which provides abortion related services for teens as young as 14 years old). Espey’s involvement in the NM abortion industry has been well documented over the years. Most recently she was the focus of an investigation by the New Mexico Alliance for Life who exposed that Espey entered into a number of dubious contracts with late term abortion doctor Curtis Boyd. NMAFL properly is calling for Espey’s termination.  I, as well as others, have called for the UNM Regents to do a full investigation of the UNM abortion business and to also terminate Dr. Paul Roth. Espey works directly for him and it is Roth who oversees every aspect of the abortion industry at UNM.

It is very telling that the self proclaimed pro-life mayor chose to work with the abortion industry in his teen initiatives; not the clergy or church, but those who profit from killing unborn children. ‘Pregnant’ detailed various sex education initiatives available to students through their school and the Department of Health. The documentary encourages parents to become comfortable enough with their children having sex to help them obtain contraception. Both kids and parents receive a brief lesson on new birth control methods besides the pill.  Espey is even given a segment to push her favorite method, the IUD.

Also featured in the film, pro-abortion doctor for the NM Dept of Health, Carletta Bullock, was given a special thanks and acknowledgement along with Espey immediately following Mayor Berry’s introduction at the Kimo screening. Also mentioned was, Lalita Russ of Planned Parenthood who appears to be involved in Planned Parenthood’s school based sex education programs. Both Bullock and Russ testified for the NM abortion industry against pro-life legislation at the Roundhouse during the 2015 legislative session. At the premier, Mayor Berry thanked Nirvana Mañana Institute for their contribution to the making of the documentary. Nirvana Mañana Institute partially funded “Pregnant” as well as the “After Tiller”  abortion documentary that glorified two of New Mexico’s third trimester abortion doctors employed at Curtis Boyd’s late term clinic.

More recently while Protest ABQ was protesting a radically pro-abortion Democrat Pat Davis, Mayor Berry made a video criticizing Protest ABQ’s 1st amendment tactics of showing the truth about the abortion industry.  In essence Berry was doing nothing more than endorsing Davis. I as well as others immediately pointed out that Berry should be as upset about the pre-born babies that are dying in his city because of people like Davis as he is about the use of images of these innocent aborted babies. In answer to criticism against him, the Mayor said he desired to meet with us. Our repeated requests for a meeting have always been met with silence.

Is Mayor Berry so entrenched in the NM abortion industry that he will continue to refuse to act on behalf of the babies dying in his city? ABQ will keep it’s reputation as the late term abortion capital of the nation so long as leaders like Mayor Berry refuse to act.

Please call the following with your concerns:
Mayor Berry: (505) 768-3000  mayorberry@cabq.gov
Dr Paul Roth: (505) 272-5849
Jack Fortner (UNM Regents’ President) (505) 326-1817

Listen to ABQ Mayor Richard Berry in his own words about how he helped work to get the Pregnant documentary made and thank Nirvana Mañana Institute here: ABQ Mayor RJ Berry Collaborates with and Endorses – Pregnant

Father Stephen is a priest with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, ordained 10 years as a late life vocation. Fr Stephen has been given permission to do full-time national pro-life ministry and is currently a member of the Pastoral Staff of Priests for Life. Fr Stephen is the founder of several pro-life ministries including St Gerard’s CPC in Connecticut and Project Defending Life also Protest ABQ  in New Mexico.

(Photo credit: wtvm.com)

By Bud Shaver

Birmingham, AL- Who would have ever foreseen that the unlawful arrest of a peaceful team of pro-life youth activists with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust at Parker High School located in Birmingham Alabama would culminate seven years later with the demolishing of an abortion killing center New Woman All Women?

Well that’s how our great God works!

Watch the unlawful arrests at Parker High School (See if you can spot Bud and Tara Shaver in this footage):

Read the shocking press release detailing the entire ordeal here: Outrageous Civil Rights Violations in Birmingham Against Pro-Life Youth Activists

Fast forward to 2010, due to the unlawful arrest of the team of Survivors at Parker High School and the unwillingness of the City of Birmingham to drop the charges…Survivors law team at Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) obtained a restraining order preventing law enforcement officers from illegally arresting those (including Bud Shaver) and/or from being ill treated during their return participation in the Pro-Life Freedom Ride:

“Because the Survivors planned to travel to Birmingham this month to participate in various pro-life activities scheduled for late July, they asked LLDF to obtain a preliminary injunction to ensure that they would not suffer the same treatment from police as they had last year. In the course of seeking that injunction, LLDF lawyers learned that the city had a “demonstration” ordinance that required groups as small as two persons to obtain permits before engaging in various free speech activity.

“What started as a lawsuit to get fair treatment for the Survivors has evolved into a broader challenge to the city’s unconstitutional permit scheme,” said Katie Short, legal director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation. “We have learned from local pro-lifers that this law has been a thorn in their side for years. We are hopeful that when this suit is over, we will have not only vindicated the Survivors’ rights, but also have relieved the local pro-life community of the burden of this onerous law.”

Read the full statement from LLDF here: LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION GAINS VICTORY FOR PRO-LIFE DEMONSTRATORS

(Pro-Life Freedom Ride: Bud and Dr. Alveda King of Priests for Life)

(Pro-Life Freedom Ride Birmingham, AL: Bud, Fr. Terry Gensemer, and Kristina Garza)

This national event culminated in the freeing of the sidewalk in front of New Woman All Women abortion killing center! 

“The Birmingham Letter Project, a four day event, began Wednesday morning with a small group of prayerful pro-lifers crossing a street. It probably looked like a small act to any uninvolved bystander, but, to the people of the Birmingham pro-life community, it was an act of immense courage, a miracle of God, and a moment of brilliantly shining hope.

The street that was crossed lies directly in front of the New Woman All Women abortion clinic. For thirteen years there has been a sign posted in front of that building which states that any pro-life person stepping within 20 ft of the property will be arrested and prosecuted by a federal court. This means that anyone in the pro-life community who has come to that abortion clinic to pray for the preborn, to peacefully protest against the lawful killing of children, or to sidewalk counsel women who have been told that their only option is abortion, has been forced to do so from a distance. For thirteen long years, not one group advocating for Life has planted their feet on the concrete and grass beside that clinic and made a stand for the babies being murdered behind closed doors. Until Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, around nine o’clock, the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (a youth-based pro-life group from California) led by Jeff White, and accompanied by Rev. Pat Mahoney, Bud Shaver, Pastor Walter Hoye, and long-time local pro-life advocate Fr. Terry Gensemer boldly crossed the street to the clinic to pray a liturgy for the preborn…”

Read the full report here: The Birmingham Letter Project

(Through the power of Jesus…Pastor Walter Hoye and Bud Shaver standing on reclaimed territory!)

Read Pastor Walter Hoye’s amazing testimony here: Appeals Court Upholds Pro-Life Pastor’s Free Speech Rights

Fast Forward to 2012…

Since the sidewalk was freed up, sidewalk counselors are able to document horrific abortion related injures taking place at New Woman All Women: 39 Years After Roe V. Wade, No Gurney Access Endangers Two Injured Abortion Patients in Alabama

(Photo and caption credit: Operation Rescue)

This lead to an investigation by the Alabama Department of Health which issued a scathing 76 page deficiency report. Read the full report here: Massive Deficiency Report Reveals Dangerous Abuses at AL Abortion Clinic

On April 6, 2012 just 24 hours after several pro-life groups called for the closing of New Women All Women…Alabama Abortion Clinic Ordered Closed By State

But according to Operation Rescue, “Over the next two years, NWAW [New Woman All Women] attempted to reopen under one deceptive scheme after another. Each time the coalition of pro-life groups jumped in to expose the deception and each time, NWAW was blocked from continuing abortions.”

Until finally in March, 2014, owners of New Woman All Women finally gave up and placed the clinic property up for sale.

“In the end, for the Birmingham and Selma clinics, the Abortion Cartel’s own illegal activity and arrogance brought them down, but it took pro-life groups working within the system to point that out to state regulators.”

“When pro-life groups work peacefully within the law in unity toward a common goal, we can accomplish almost anything,” said Troy Newman. “The demolished rubble that was once Alabama’s abortion stronghold is a public testimony to that fact.”

Read the full report here: Post Script: Former Illegal Birmingham Abortion Clinic Demolished

Fast Forward to 2016…

Lessons From Birmingham: Unity, Prayer and Protest NOT Violence Demolishes Strongholds

By Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Local and National Pro-Life Activist on staff with Priests For Life

Isn’t it time for New Mexican conservatives especially the Prolife community to unite and demand Susana Martinez’s resignation. It is time to let John Sanchez restore integrity and true family and life values to our state. Will the Prolife community remain as silent about Martinez as she has been about the out of control abortion industry in our state?

PLEASE SHARE THIS!!!! We need to let the entire country know how horrible our Governor is. This news report is only part of her terrible tenure here in NM. She is the worst PLINO (pro-life in name only) politician in the country.

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How is Susana Martinez not the Hillary Clinton of the Republican Party? Anyone listening to this news report [Here] can clearly see she is dodging, weaving, and lying just like Hillary does. Has anyone asked who else was at the party? Time to go, Susana! John Sanchez would be a much more respectable Governor and leader of the Republican Party. Please resign so the Republican Party can regroup from your embarrassing tenure as Governor.

“Audio files and [all of] the fallout from the infamous 2015 holiday party and post-party in a hotel room that caused hotel to call the police on a loud room—one that happened to include Gov. Susana Martinez. Martinez also spoke to police and security” Compiled by New Mexico Political Report here.

“In new audio [below], officer, security guard say Gov. Martinez appears ‘inebriated’” (Audio files released by New Mexico Political Report)

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“Audio below: The first clip is the front desk calling police. The second clip has the woman at the front desk saying Martinez is there to speak to police and Martinez speaks to a dispatcher. The third clip features Martinez speaking to a dispatcher and police.” (Audio files released by New Mexico Political Report)

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Protest ABQ has been sounding the alarm about Governor Susana Martinez and her administration. Find out why here: Silent Susana

New Mexico is currently ranked the worst state in the nation in almost all the polls…and Albuquerque is known nationally as the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America.

–Albuquerque is the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America

–New Mexico ranks as the worst-run state in the nation! 

–NM has nation’s highest unemployment

–New Mexico ranks worst in U.S. for poverty

–Report: NM ranks 2nd in nation for violent crime

–NM still ranks 49th in child well-being

–New Mexico ranks near the bottom in yet another national report on educational achievement.

–Albuquerque ranks near bottom in list of best, worst cities for families

–Fortune: ABQ rock bottom for home ownership

–New Mexico drivers rank second-worst in U.S.

Related: Two Leading Voices in New Mexico Call On Gov. Susana Martinez to Resign

NM Gov. Martinez Tells Santa Fe Police Dispatch: “Call Off Your Officers” Who Respond to Party Complaint

NM Taxpayers Paid For Guv’s Booze and Pizza Party, Police Sgt. Says Guv Was ‘Inebriated’

Audio and More Here

Governor Parties While State Burns

By Tara Shaver

UNM has severed an agreement with SWO to provide abortion training for UNM medical students. However, it says it will continue to accept harvested aborted baby parts from this facility. Before UNM’s move to cut formal ties with SWO, it appeared that the university was providing staffing to the abortion facility in exchange for the fetal remains that it says it uses for “research.”

The problem with this body parts arrangement is that it is in violation of New Mexico law.

Protest ABQ obtained Curtis Boyd’s consent forms from 2012 and 2015 that states: “pregnancy tissue may be used in medical research.”

This clearly violates NM Statute Chapter 24 Section 6b, which states:

THE JONATHAN SPRADLING REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT. THIS STATUTE FORBIDS THE USE OF ABORTED BABIES IN MEDICAL RESEARCH AND GOES FURTHER TO EXCLUDE ABORTED BABIES AS DECEDENTS (SECTION D.) WHO ARE INCAPABLE OF MAKING AN ANATOMICAL GIFT WHO CAN DONATE THEIR ORGANS AND TISSUES FOR “TRANSPLANTATION, THERAPY, OR EDUCATION.”

For this reason, Protest ABQ filed a formal complaint in July 2015, with the New Mexico Attorney General seeking an investigation into the illegal use of aborted baby remains for research since the baby cannot consent to the donation. That complaint is still pending.

UNM Abortion Ties

For the past five years members of Protest ABQ have been exposing and protesting the University of New Mexico’s abortion agenda. The pro-life group exposed the fact that SWO is training UNM medical students through the Ryan Residency Abortion Training Program. In addition, UNM runs a free-standing abortion facility through the illegal use of taxpayer funds. Her work at the UNM-operated abortion facility has led to the promotion of UNM staff physician and abortionist Eve Espey to the position as Chair of the OBGYN Department.

“UNM is the heart of the abortion industry in the state, but perhaps that is beginning to change,” said Bud Shaver, Executive Director of Protest ABQ. “But UNM’s continued harvesting of aborted baby organs at Southwestern Women’s Options remains a huge issue since the law prohibits the use of aborted baby remains for research purposes.”

The University of New Mexico had been utilizing Curtis Boyd and other late-term abortionists to train residents and fellows in second trimester procedures. Through an on-site clinical rotation these procedures required students to dismember pre-born children in the womb and then extract their tiny bodies in pieces through the 25th week of pregnancy. UNM has had training agreements with Curtis Boyd going back at least to the 2011-2012 school year.

No Transparency or Accountability

On November 2, 2015, Protest ABQ submitted an Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) request in reference to fetal tissue contracts and agreements between UNM and Curtis Boyd’s abortion business. UNM responded with a letter informing Protest ABQ that no such documents were found.

This withholding of information from a legally submitted IPRA request is in violation of New Mexico’s public information laws.

“UNM is a publicly funded state institution, but like other leaders in the state, they feel no need to obey the laws and provide transparency about the abortion agenda they embrace and promote. This is a disgrace that will require legal action on our part,” stated Bud Shaver.

According to a 2015 training agreement between Curtis Boyd and UNM, Boyd describes abortion procedures beyond 20 weeks as causing “feticide” using a drug called digoxin. He specifies that after the procedure, the fetal tissue will then be given to UNM.

However, digoxin, a drug that essentially causes the baby in the womb to die from a heart attack, contaminates the tissue, making it unusable for medical research. This fact was publicized widely over the summer as the Center for Medical Progress released several videos that showed Planned Parenthood abortionists and representatives from biotech companies clearly discussing the topic of digoxin and how it taints the fetal tissue.

This has led to suspicions that Boyd may have lied about using digoxin and is instead using the now illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to obtain body parts that are suitable for medical research.

UPDATE: We have learned that the documents showing the relationship between UNM and Boyd were actually obtained through the efforts of the New Mexico Alliance for Life and their legal counsel. The Journal article was unclear as to how the documents were obtained. We apologize for any misunderstanding and congratulate NMAFL on providing this information to the public.

Procedures used by Curtis Boyd during the late-term abortion procedures that have resulted in the use of human remains for research must be investigated.

Rampant Complicity

“Members of Protest ABQ met with Martinez four years ago and laid out the case against UNM and Paul Roth, CEO of UNM Health Sciences Center, who heavily promotes abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Roth has been highly instrumental in pushing a pro-abortion agenda at UNM,” stated Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Founder of Protest ABQ. “Earlier this year we exposed an uncharacteristic donation made by Roth to New Mexico GOP Speaker of the House Don Tripp, which suspiciously occurred shortly after a closed door meeting between legislators and UNM officials about fetal tissue research and disposal.”

Protest ABQ leaders have met with the UNM Board of Regents President Jack Fortnerabout the UNM abortion agenda. Both Gov. Martinez and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry are well aware of the tentacles of the abortion industry in New Mexico that extend from UNM. Nevertheless, Mayor Berry recently teamed up with abortionist Eve Espey on an initiative targeting high school teens for sex education and abortion.

“The Republican leadership in this state have done nothing but cooperate with and shelter UNM and the late-term abortion industry in New Mexico. Under Martinez and Berry’s watch, with their full knowledge, Roth and Espey have built up and expanded the abortion industry in the state through UNM,” stated Bud Shaver.

The bottom line is that while UNM is cutting ties with the local late-term abortion business, UNM still is in violation of the ban on aborted baby tissue use in research. In addition, any affiliation or use of University resources to promote abortion is strictly forbidden under Federal Law that bars tax money from funding abortion services.

The ban on using tax money for abortions is being blatantly violated at the UNM Center for Reproductive Health (UNMCRH), which is an abortion facility operated with the help of tax funds by UNM.
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Protest ABQ calls on UNM to stop violating the law by halting the practice of harvesting aborted baby remains and closing down the UNMCRH abortion facility. This will restore the rule of law and do great good for the community of Albuquerque and for the lives of children who will be saved in the womb as a result.

By Bud Shaver

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez was caught partying while New Mexico burns! Be sure to listen to the 911 calls here: New Mexico Political Report

Pastor Dewey Moede, News Director at For God’s Glory Alone Ministries issued the following statement, “Sadly the Governor’s true colors come out through the audio! Martinez is unfit for office. I am getting really tired of having to report on misbehaving politicians who think they are more mightier than God!”

KRQE TV REPORTS: “The Office of Governor Susana Martinez is refusing to comment on a late-night phone call made by the governor to Santa Fe police following a noise complaint involving a party for the governor’s staff held at a posh Santa Fe hotel.”

Protest ABQ has been sounding the alarm about Governor Susana Martinez and her administration. Find out why here: Silent Susana

New Mexico is currently ranked the worst state in the nation in almost all the polls…and Albuquerque is known nationally as the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America. 

Governor Martinez, when will you start addressing the real issues facing our state? We are very disappointed in you.

–Albuquerque is the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America

–New Mexico ranks as the worst-run state in the nation! 

–NM has nation’s highest unemployment

–New Mexico ranks worst in U.S. for poverty

–Report: NM ranks 2nd in nation for violent crime

–NM still ranks 49th in child well-being

–New Mexico ranks near the bottom in yet another national report on educational achievement.

–Albuquerque ranks near bottom in list of best, worst cities for families

–Fortune: ABQ rock bottom for home ownership

–New Mexico drivers rank second-worst in U.S.

RELATED: NM Gov. Martinez Tells Santa Fe Police Dispatch: “Call Off Your Officers” Who Respond to Party Complaint