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18,986 abortions in 34 years

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Today’s Wisconsin State Journal features a follow-up article focusing on the Women’s Fund. Read it here.

The sole purpose of the Women’s Fund is to pay for poor women’s abortions. At the time of the August 22 printing, the Women’s Fund had paid for 18,986 abortions in 34 years. Read the original article here.

Anne Nicol Gaylor, administrator of the Women’s Fund, claimed in today’s article the fund has taken in $50,000 in the past six weeks.

Last Thanksgiving, Gaylor wrote a fundraising letter to donors stating, “Of the 632 women the fund has helped so far this year, 147 were teenagers. Of these, nine were only 13 years old, and one, not yet a teen, was just 12!”

There is something wrong with this world when an article about a abortion-funding charity inspires a donor to write a check for $10,000.  How exactly does a 12-year-old child’s abortion cause someone to whip out their checkbook?

What Gaylor fails to grasp is how far-reaching her actions are. Does Gaylor also provide for post-abortion counseling? Does Gaylor work to ensure that 12-year-olds are removed from the situation that resulted in their underage pregnancy?

What happens in the world when a life is ended before it has begun outside the womb? A gap exists forever, in more ways than we know.

Elizabeth Garibaldi, head of the La Crosse 40 Days for Life, has spoken openly about learning she was adopted as she was caring for her dying mother. Her birth mother was 14 when she had Elizabeth.

Pro-Life Wisconsin encountered a similar situation last February. The best friend of a 15-year-old girl called our office in a panic looking for pro-life crisis pregnancy counseling. The teen’s mother was pushing her daughter to have an abortion. Having been pregnant herself at 16, the mother said she did not want her daughter to wind up with the same mistake – as a teenage mom. Thanks to the efforts of a pro-life pregnancy counselor and the courage of the baby’s paternal grandparents, a little boy celebrated his one-year birthday this summer with his adoptive family.

This May, Pro-Life Wisconsin and 40 Days for Life of Madison held a pro-life baby shower for a family who chose life for their baby, after a sidewalk counselor intervened outside Planned Parenthood.

There are stories like this all around the country.

If Elizabeth Garibaldi’s mother had contacted the Women’s Fund for money to pay for an abortion, where would 40 Days for Life in La Crosse be today? These and so many more are the faces Anne Nicol Gaylor is intent on exterminating – people that have an opportunity to do something, be someone, have children, live life. Why is Anne Nicol Gaylor so intent on ridding the world of poor women’s babies?

The follow-up article also references legal action taken against the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel due to a pro-life opinion column the paper printed. Not surprisingly, the Women’s Fund, like most pro-abortion activists, is also in favor of stifling debate. As does NARAL, the Women’s Fund is only in favor of “choice” when it comes to killing babies. Read more about NARAL’s attempt to censor the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel here.

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Why is NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin outraged with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Lisa Subeck, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, is “outraged” with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, according to a NARAL email sent this morning. View the entire email here.

But why, exactly, did NARAL state the organization is enraged with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a mere week after the newspaper’s editorial board wished Planned Parenthood a public “Happy 75th Birthday”? Why is NARAL asking its members to demand higher journalism standards?

On Sunday, August 22, the Wisconsin State Journal printed a high-profile article about the Women’s Fund, an organization that exists solely to pay for poor women to have abortions. You can read that article here.

What prompted NARAL’s rage?

On August 24, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an opinion column about the Women’s Fund by columnist Patrick McIlheran. In the column, McIlheran refers to Anne Gaylor, founder of the Women’s Fund, as “Sweet little old Granny Blood-Money.”

It took NARAL more than a week – from the publishing of McIlheran’s column on August 24 to today, September 1 – to collect their thoughts and get a handle on their rage. Or did it take a week for NARAL to realize the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wouldn’t budge?

NARAL’s attempts to manhandle the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel failed, as the email indicates the newspaper refused to issue a retraction for an opinion column. NARAL didn’t protest the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s birthday wish to Planned Parenthood, so is it only pro-life opinion columns that fill Lisa Subeck full of rage?

Subeck’s demands for higher standards in the abortion debate are laughable, considering NARAL awarded a “George Tiller Memorial Award” at its recent Milwaukee and Madison “Wine and Choice” fundraiser events. An award in the name of Tiller’s trust in women is a disrespect to the thousands of baby girls Tiller killed via grisly late-term abortions. Subeck’s editorial on the George Tiller Memorial Award can be found here.

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Two UW-Madison professors on the board of the abortion-financing Women’s Fund

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

An article in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal focused on the Madison-based Women’s Fund. The sole purpose of the Women’s Fund is to pay for poor women to have abortions. The fund has paid for 18,986 abortions at the time the article was written.

The Women’s Fund 2008 tax forms (click here to view the PDF) reveal there are two UW-Madison professors on the board of the Women’s Fund – Prof. Robert West and Prof. Robert Kimbrough.

UW-Madison’s entanglement with the abortion industry should come as a surprise to no one.

Just how linked to the abortion industry is UW-Madison, the “flagship” of the UW System?
- UW promotes Planned Parenthood (including abortion services);
- Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the UW Law and Medical Schools, is on the Planned Parenthood Federation of America board and the Alan Guttmacher board;
- Doug Laube, professor and former chair of the UW Ob/Gyn Medical School, is openly “working in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin;”
- Faye Wattleton, former director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will be a guest panelist for a UW School of Business summit;
- Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is paying UW School of Medicine faculty to perform abortions. UW doctors Laurel Rice, Sabine Droste, Barbara O’Connell, Maria Sandgren and Doug Laube are also employed by Planned Parenthood. Caryn Dutton, another UW abortionist who has now fled to ply her trade at Harvard, previously performed abortions at PPWI as well.

The Wisconsin State Journal article covered many horrific aspects of the  Women’s Fund – how women just want help; how abortions performed on teenagers are celebrated and used as a means of fundraising; and how parents coerce their teenage daughters into abortions.

For those who like to connect the dots, many interesting aspects of the Women’s Fund were found in its 2008 tax forms.

The tax forms show the Women’s Fund provides “loans” for women to obtain abortions. Women then have to repay the loan. From 2004-2008, a total of $12,925 was repaid by these women.

The mission statement of the Women’s Fund is to, “Assist poor women in paying for abortions.” And apparently hound them for blood money afterwards. The Women’s Fund merely provides a funnel for rich donors to finance the abortions of poor women.

Read below for excerpts from the Wisconsin State Journal or click here to read the article in its entirety.

From the Wisconsin State Journal [emphasis added]:
At all hours, strangers phone Anne Nicol Gaylor’s Madison home, always desperate.

The caller one recent morning was a middle-aged woman with a 14-year-old pregnant daughter.

After the call, Gaylor opened a checkbook for the Women’s Medical Fund, a Madison nonprofit that has helped pay for abortions for 34 years. Gaylor has written every check for every abortion.

This was No. 18,986.

The fund’s sole purpose is to pay for abortions. Last year, it paid out $162,202, about 75 percent of which came from individual donors, the rest from foundations.

“Of the 632 women the fund has helped so far this year, 147 were teenagers,” Gaylor wrote to donors last Thanksgiving. “Of these, nine were only 13 years old, and one, not yet a teen, was just 12!”

“It’s a stark example of misguided compassion that serves as discrimination of the worst kind,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. “To finance extermination of pre-born children because those children would have been brought up poor is deplorable.”

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