LOLP is a public interest legal organization dedicated to legally defending the right to life and dig Oppose “forced abortion” in all of its forms.
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The Law of Life Project sees twelve major goals within the scope of our mission:
1. Establishing through lawful process the juridical existence of the human person from conception to natural death in all relevant jurisdictions
2. Advance, through legislative, administrative and legal case advocacy, the elements of social policy designed to constrain human subject experimentation within universal
ly accepted principles governing experiments on human subjects – principles reflected in the Hippocratic Tradition (first, “do no harm”), the Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, and many other statements. Accordingly, members of the human species who cannot give informed consent for research should not be the subjects of an experiment unless they personally may benefit from it or the experiment carries no significant risk of harming them.
3. Using state “informed consent” and ultimately “prohibition” legislation, when prudent, to better regulate and ultimately end legal protection for so-called “elective abortion”, always excepting “medical abortions to save the life of the mother or where abortion can mitigate a serious risk of a substantial and irreversible impairment of the functioning of a major bodily organ or system of the pregnant woman should the pregnancy be continued and also excepting, only where politically necessary as an incremental step, abortions in the extremely rare cases (less than 2%) of reported r**e or in**st.
5. Regulate through False Claim Act investigation and litigation and ultimate end direct or indirect governmental funding of abortion.
6. Provide the legal and legislative advocacy support needed to defend the health care right of conscience in court and also enact model Health Care Right of Conscience legislation at both the federal and state levels as a necessary "opt-out" of mandated health care laws and treatment or research protocols for health care providers, with a private right of action for violations of such legislation.
7. Provide the legal and legislative advocacy support needed to defend the rights of biological mothers involved in surrogacy arrangements, including the state law enactment of model statute prohibiting surrogate mother contracts, prohibit enforcement of and establishing standards to award custody of children born as a result of such arrangements.
8. Provide legal support needed to defend pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) from false and politically-motivated private or governmental claims alleging the unauthorized practice of medicine, false advertising, or unfair business practices.
9. Provide legal support needed to assure that patient's right to receive care and compassion is not replaced by a doctor's right to prescribe poison or administer a lethal injection and to mobilize and guide the volunteer attorneys needed to defend disabled persons who lack the legal advocacy they need to protect their constitutional right to life, including nutrition and water, particularly in jurisdictions where “futility of care” laws or practices are denying patient’s life without due process of law.
10. Provide legal and public education support, in collaboration with other sponsoring organizations, for the International Tribunal on the Law of Life’s “Life on Trial” global communications project commencing in 2011-2012.
11. Develop an “Arm the Advocates for Life” training program that annually provides up to two “fellowships” for young attorneys to work at the LOLP supervising the training of up to two eight law students under the overall supervision of the LOLP’s Managing Director and General Counsel. The AAL in the 2012-2013 timeframe, will also include a continuing legal education (CLE) program for state and federal prosecutors to educate them on the laws and regulations protective of life that they have an obligation to investigate and enforce (e.g. medical clinic licensing laws and regulations covering out-patient surgical abortion).
12. Develop and maintain a LoLP website designed to provide public education and distribute legal resources through its Law of Life Project.
Thanks to The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Signal for this powerful piece featuring the important work of JC-LOLP's colleague and co-counsel, with whom we have worked for years to stop forced abortion and gendercide in China.
Reggie Littlejohn is the president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, an organization dedicated to ending forced abortions in China.
JC-LOLP's General Counsel, Samuel B. Casey, served as lead trial counsel for its client in this case, Austin LifeCare. When court costs are added to the attorneys fees, the City of Austin agreed to pay a total of $480,000. Hopefully, these fees will deter other municipalities, like the City of Austin, from violating the constituttional rights of pregnancy resource centers.
In Texas, the city of Austin will pay $461,000 in attorney fees after trying to force five pregnancy resource centers to place signs up indicating their clinics are not legitimate. The plaintiffs co-council from the Liberty Institute, Jeff Mateer, said, “They are all ministries. They are all religio…
The Center for Medical Progress just released the third video further exposing Planned Parenthood's business of selling aborted baby's organs to the highest bidder.
Anyone with eyes to see—at least with eyes willing to see—can recognize the tiny hand and forearm, the tiny leg, picked at in a glass pie plate. You can see the neural tissue—what should have finished becoming a child’s brain and spinal cord—as a Planned Parenthood abortionist dismisses the idea of a flat fee and suggests a “per-item thing is a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.”
Be warned—this video isn’t well-dressed people sipping wine and discussing “specimens” over lunch. This is right inside a Planned Parenthood facility.
You may be tempted to turn away, thinking how much will decent people be able to stomach as this exposé of Planned Parenthood unfolds? But don’t turn away.
Our attorneys here at JC-LOLP have previously described the deep cuts in Planned Parenthood's non-abortion services and prenatal care and its ethodical push to build abortion mega-centers measuring tens of thousands of square feet, particularly in low income neighborhoods. Abortion, focusing on minority populations, and the sale of body parts is the business of Planned Parenthood.
What you can do . . .
Contact your legislators, state and national. Write letters to the editor of your local paper. Call in to your local radio station. Demand your local media cover this story. Join a march. Start a march. Forward and share this email. Share it and the video on social media, and when you do, ask your friends to share it too.
Like we do here at JC-LOLP, you’ll no doubt want to weep for the 57 million babies slaughtered since 1973. Weep also for what this nation has done under the cover of its laws and the culture of death it continues to support.
But don't turn away. Look this evil squarely in the eye and call it out, once and for all.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EX-CLINIC WORKER REVEALS PROFIT MOTIVE IN PLANNED PARENTHOOD BABY PARTS SALES, VP MEDICAL DIRECTOR PRICES BODY PARTS ...
JC-LOLP's attorneys have long explained why you can't trust what Planned Parenthood says. Here's some more reasons:
I have a list of reasons why you can trust Planned Parenthood.
It's time to stop giving the abortion industry's leading abortion provider, Plannned Parenthod, any more federal taxpayer dollars. Call your representatives in Congress and tell them to sponsor and vote for Congresswoman Diane Black's bill,
H.R. 217, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act. This much-needed legislation would withhold Title X grants from Planned Parenthood and any other “health care” provider that performs abortions or that provides funds to organizations that do. The legislation, which Congresswoman Black first introduced in 2013, has the support of 151 cosponsors in Congress and would effectively defund America’s largest abortion mill once and for all. For the reasons set forth in Congressswoman Black's article below, JC-LOLP's attorneys are personally Congress to immediately act on the measure in light of these latest news developments.
Over the last week, Planned Parenthoods slogan Care no matter what has become even more of a cruel irony after an undercover video exposed one of the organizations senior doctors callously describing the process by which she harvests aborted babies tissue and organs.
What has America become? Our President to advance his ill--gotten political fortunes says: "God bless Planned Parenthood" who we now learn as a matter of regular business practice to defray their "business" (abortion) expenses plan their late-term abortions to insure while they are destroying the baby they can harvest the marketable organs to "donate" to stem cell research firms who then pay them a "fee" per organ. Planned Parenthood's response that it is all for a "humanitarian cause" (pluripotent stem cell research) reminds us of the German residents of Auschwitz who the allies found wearing the shoes and jewels of Jews who had been incinerated at the nearby concentration camp who gave this excuse: "we didn't kill the Jews we are just using their shoes!" But PP is worse because they are doing the killing and they are being paid for both the killing and the "donating" of the organs. Whether this is or is not currently illegal will be the subject of Congressional and state investigations. But it should be illegal. While they are at it, Congress should amend the language of the Dicker-Wicker Amendment to make it clear that federal taxpayer money should not be used directly or indirectly to pay for destructive human embryo research that necessarily requires the destruction of embryonic human beings -- something that the Obama Administration currently funds everyday.
"We were at one, blood to blood, as no other kind of union could make us," the English essayist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote, recalling giving his wife his own blood during a critical medical moment.
Here's one of the many reasons that JC-LOLP's attorneys are seeking all ways and means to end the mroe than $500,000,000 per year the federal government under the Obama Administration has been sending to Planned Parenthood.
JC-LOLP has long argued that Planned Parenthood (PP), the abortion industry's largest provider, should not be supported by the American taxpayer. Here's yet another reason: they are getting rich off the taxpayers. American Life League just released their report on the salaries of PP’s top headquarters personnel as well as all the CEOs of PP’s 62 affiliates. You can see the complete report here with CEO salaries listed by name and by affiliate:http://www.stopp.org/pdfs/2015/STOPP_AffiliatesCEOs2015.pdf
PP's National President, Cecile Richards, made $590,928 in 2014.
The top 12 people at PPFA headquarters made an average of $345,338 in 2014. The average CEO of a PP affiliate made $186,071 in 2013. Thirteen percent of the CEOs made over $300,000 that year.
This is crony capitalism at its worst. Let's stop taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
To help mitigate the world-wide problem of people abandoning their infant children or dropping them on the door-steps of churches, most of the states in America have "Baby Moses" of so-called "Safe Haven" laws where a parent who cannot care for their child can without identification or liability simply drop their child off at a hospital or firehouse. Here's a story....
Glad you asked. Twelve years ago, then-engineer Tom O’Neill answered a knock on the door of a Westminster fire station which is located in Denver. It was February 15, 2003, early in the morning.
As we celebrate Father's Day, let's not forget the post-abortive Dads and the kids they lost when they agreed to or even coerced the abortion of their child(ren).
Walking into his office, this sharp and confident man greeted me with enthusiasm and topnotch hospitality. />
Sadly, ignoring JC-LOLP's "friend of the court" brief, a copy of which is here:
http://www.lawoflifeproject.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2015/JC_LOLP_Walker_McGill_USSC_amicus_brief_No_14_1172.pdf,
the U.S. Supreme Court today again refused to resolve a conflict among the U.S. Courts of Appeals and left standing a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that told North Carolina that they could not require an abortion doctor to require a mother to have an opportunity to see her ulltrasound and have what it depicted explained to her before she could give her voluntary, fully-informed consent to the abortion of her unborn child.
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal from the state of North Carolina to uphold a pro-life law allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby before an abortion. Ultrasounds are routinely performed before an abortion but abortion clinics often don’t let women see the ul…
Call your U.S. Senators and urge them to follow the House and enact the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, as introduced yesterday in the Senate by its sponsor, Senator Lindsey Graham.
In 2013, a congressional report found that some 11,000 abortions take place each year at 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Despite there being no national law banning the procedure, a number of states have taken it upon themselves to limit women’s access to late-term abortions, at least after 20-weeks when there is no doubt the unborn child feels the excruciating pain of the abortion and the risks of abortion at that time are greater than the maternal risks of carrying the child to term
Here's the current state-level score-card:
Call your U.S. Senators and urge them to follow the House and enact the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Getting one step closer to what could be the most significant pro-life victory since the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, Sen. Lindsey Graham today introduced a measure in the U.S. Senate that would drastically limit women’s ability to access abortions past a certain point in their pregnancy.
The legislation, called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, passed the House in May by a 242-to-184 vote and would ban abortions after 20 weeks (approximately halfway through a pregnancy).
The bill is based on a broad consensus of research that shows unborn infants are able to feel pain 20 weeks after fertilization, and at this point, children’s hospitals throughout the U.S. “routinely” administer fetal anesthesia when performing surgery.
The measure includes exceptions for cases of r**e, in**st or to save the life of the mother. According to public opinion polls, the majority of Americans support limits on late-term abortions.
For that reason, Graham and leaders of the pro-life community hope to rally bipartisan support for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced a measure that would drastically limit women’s ability to access abortions past a certain point in their pregnancy.
JC-LOLP's attorneys have filed a "friend of the court" brief, a copy of which can be found here:
http://www.lawoflifeproject.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2015/JC_LOLP_Walker_McGill_USSC_amicus_brief_No_14_1172.pdf
The brief asks the United States Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Walker-McGill v. Stuart holding that the State of North Carolina may not constitutionally require a doctor to fully inform a pregnant mother about what her ultrasound shows prior to her consenting to an abortion. The 4th Circuit's Walker-McGill decision directly conflicts with the United State Supreme Court's Casey, Whalen and Zauderer decisions, as well as the 5th Circuit's Lakey decision, and the 8th Circuit's Rounds decision.
Rebekah Nancarrow had an ultrasound at Planned Parenthood (for which she paid $80), but wasn’t allowed to see the image. She was told by a Planned Parenthood worker that seeing the fetus on the screen “will only make it harder on you.”
All of us here at JC-LOLP applaud the 5th Circuit's decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Cole upholding the Texas law (HB 2) regulating abortion clinics, holding them to the same standards as other out-patient surgical facilities.
The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole has Big Abortion reeling. For years, the abortion lobby has used the false argument of “access” to put its business interests ahead of women’s health and safety, and has consistently opposed any and all commonsense health and safety measur…
While much work is left to be done, the abortion rate continues to fall and America's young people are more pro-life than their parents. Let's be the pro-life generation!
A GALLUP POLL last month found that 50 percent of Americans identified themselves as "pro-choice" on abortion, surpassing the 44% who called themselves "pro-life."
Another big court victory for the free speech rights of pro-life advocates. Congratulations to the Radiance Foundation, their counsel Charles Allen and the national legal advocacy organization, Alliance Defending Freedom
The NAACP has lost its legal battle to silence a black pro-life writer who parodied its pro-abortion stance by referring to the NAACP as the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.”ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT After LifeNews.com blogger Ryan Bomberger published his article at LifeNe…
Good news! On the 2nd anniversary of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell's convictions for infanticide, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday finally passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, in line with the laws of most nations.
The bill now moves to the Senate. President Obama, who voted in favor of infanticide when he was in the Illinois legislature, has threatened to veto the bill. Call your U.S. Senators and urge them to pass the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Polls show most Americans support a ban of elective abortions after 20 weeks. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 abortions occur in the USA after the 20th week of pregnancy. 42 states bar abortions after certain points in pregnancies, including 10 with bans after 20 weeks.
The bill passed by a vote of 242-184. Four Democrats voted in favor of the bill and four Republicans voted against it. The measure now heads to the Senate.
Despite President Obama's promise to the American people that Obamacare would not mandate the payment for abortion, the Obama Administration is in fact compelling the health coverage of abortifacient drugs.
Abortion-inducing drugs, free of charge.
All of us here at JC-LOLP, thank every mother who, with the courage and loving patience with herself and others, bring the world's children into the world. We are grateful for everyone, despite the hardships and difficulties raising our children bring.
Bolstered by our fear of one another, particularly those we don't yet know, most particularly our own unborn children that become wrapped up in our fears for our own futures, we can fall prey to the "population controllers" who convince us to kill our own or even pay for others to kill their own. When we do so we become our most inhuman selves and we "kill" the world mistakenly thinking we are saving it.
Population control is the most inhumane way to fight poverty because it diminishes the value of human life and limits human creativity.
While the abortion industry is opening "Abortion Spas" to celebrate the adult "comforts" abortion can afford their perpetrators (http://wapo.st/1DW61OF) and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (http://bit.ly/1FxAUOZ) recently "preached" that "... deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases [against abortion] have to be changed", let's honestly listen to what our children say when asked about the reality of abortion. As always, the future is with the children.
What do you think children would say when asked about the reality of abortion? We asked, they responded. To learn more about Deliver Us from Abortion or to g...
Justices say pregnant workers can seek accommodations
Pregnant workers deserve accommodations that are similar to at least some similarly situated non-pregnant workers, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
JC-LOLP's attorneys, who wrote a "friend of the Court" brief on behalf of the pro-life community in America supporting the victorious pregnant UPS worker in this case, applauds the decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that under the circumstances of this case the pregnant woman was entitled to receive an accomodation in her job duties due to her pregnancy. We also applaud the victorious workers entire legal team, particularly Sharon Gustafson (pictureed below on the far right) for her tireless and enduring advocacy in support of the employment rights of pregnant women. Bravo!
Pregnant workers deserve accommodations that are similar to at least some similarly situated non-pregnant workers, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Tell Sen. Harry Reid (D. NV) and the rest of his pro-abortion industry colleagues to stop filibustering and permit an up or down vote on a anti-sex trafficking bill that will help women and their children.
Extreme.
Human life begins at conception is an undisputed medical fact.
Here is a list of 41 quotes from medical experts and medical textbooks that prove human life begins at conception/fertilization. “The life cycle of mammals b
JC-LOLP's attorneys have long-supported and defended non-violence against unborn children laws that protect unborn children from homicides when the pregnancy mother is trying to keep her child. Here's what happens when the voters of a state, beguiled by the lies of the abortion industry, refuses to demand such laws.
I have to say that I am very angry as I write this.
JC-LOLP's lawyers have long partnered with Women's Womens Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) in the global campaign to end state-coerced abortion in places like the Peoples Republic of China. Here's WRWF's sobering update on what amounts to the greatest human rights violation in human history:
http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=1924
Senate Democrats, bought and paid for by Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, filibustered a bi-partisan anti-human trafficking bill thereby preventing its passage this past week. Why? Because the bill does not contain federal funding for abortion. Read more of this sad tale about people who covet taxpayer funding of abortion more than reducing human trafficking and the harm it does to women and children. Outrageous.
Planned Parenthood’s lobbyists are making their rounds in Washington this week, discussing a bill that addresses the needs of victims of human trafficking. You might assume that they are advocating
The abortion industry also employs younger folks, like shock jock Michael Voris, to spread their misinformation and propaganda. Below are the inconvenient "facts" Mr. Voris is so intent upon ignoring.
This week shock-jock Michael Voris posted an apocalyptic video questioning the entire pro-life movement based upon supposed evidence that abortion numbers aren’t declining. Not citing any sources, he proclaimed that chemical abortions aren’t tracked and comprise a quarter of all abortions.
As again described in the article below, congressional Democrats, supported by the abortion industry, will betray anyone, even victims of human trafficking, to try to get federal funding of abortion, a policy that the federal government has never adopted since it enacted the Hyde Amendment barring federal funding of abortion in the 1970s.
Senate Democrats are threatening to pull their support from a bipartisan anti-trafficking bill set for Senate action this week. They are infuriated over an abortion-related provision that Democrats say was slipped in without their knowledge.The legislation passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in la…
Even abortion proponent and New York Times columnist, Linda Greenhouse, has many complimentrary things to say about the recently deceased, Dr. John Willke, M.D., an early pioneer and leaders of the pro-life movement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/opinion/linda-greenhouse-where-credit-is-due.html?_r=1
China run's the largest state-sponsored mandatory abortion industry in the world. In China, abortion is not a choice it's compelled on force of severe financial fines, impirsonment, and loss of social benefits. It constitutes a "crime against humanity" that has already led to the genocide of over 400 million Chinese children,
Congressman Chris Smith, Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers President Reggie Littlejohn spoke out against coercive family planning in China at The Heritage Foundation in October 2014.
Given the fact that Planned Parenthood's mission hasn't materially changed sinces its founding, here seven more reasons Planned Parenthood doesn't deserve another taxpayer's dollar.
As the founder of America's largest abortion chain, Margaret Sanger's ideology for Planned Parenthood was cemented in eugenics, the belief and practice that aims to eliminate certain groups of people.
Here's a good question. Why give Planned Parenthood another taxpayer dollar?
As debate heats up in Washington over the federal budget, new research shines light on the growth in taxpayers’ funding for Planned Parenthood — the largest
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