Last week we released our video report “Hooking Kids on Sex,” which was chock full of shocking, graphic pictures from Planned Parenthood events and its sex indoctrination materials for children. After a claim by a former Planned Parenthood intern, it was removed from YouTube.

We are working hard to get the new edition on the Internet. Keep your eye on our website, www.stopp.org, and watch your inbox for our press release announcing the video’s release. In the meantime, it is absolutely critical that local people protect children by getting Planned Parenthood’s obscene, disgusting materials into the hands of parents and those who are making decisions at schools and in community settings about whether to allow Planned Parenthood presentations and curriculum.

The graphic, sexually explicit Planned Parenthood resource, It’s Perfectly Normal, is the source of the graphic drawings depicting the genitalia of children and adults, children masturbating, and adults engaged in sexual activity that were included in our video. The book is recommended for children 10 and up, and carries an endorsement from a Planned Parenthood official. You can see and share a video report we created several years ago about this outrageous Planned Parenthood resource by clicking here. Former Planned Parenthood facility director, Abby Johnson, has advised me that all of Planned Parenthood’s sex ed programs must be based on It’s Perfectly Normal—meaning that this book impacts Planned Parenthood’s plan for every community and school.

Most of the other pictures and information from last week’s video release appear on Planned Parenthood’s websites. We encourage you to search the website of Planned Parenthood for offensive materials that you can copy and distribute to concerned citizens in your community, as well as to legislators at the state and federal level. Let them know that an organization that sexually grooms children and teens should not be receiving one cent of taxpayer money and should not be allowed the opportunity to influence our children in any way! Visit our website today for more tips on how to get Planned Parenthood out of your schools and out of your community.

Every Catholic bishop in the United States has spoken out in opposition to the Planned Parenthood-orchestrated mandate that tramples on religious freedom—requiring religious institutions and people of faith to pay for insurance that provides free abortifacient birth control and sterilization.

Now 2,500 religious leaders across the faith spectrum have signed a letter echoing the bishops’ concerns. “No church should be forced to concede their faith to kneel at the altar of government. And until the administration rights this wrong, we unite with our allies in diverse faith traditions in demanding what George Washington called ‘the invaluable rights of free citizens,’” said Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, in a February 20 letter addressed to the Obama administration.

“It took just three weeks, but every single Catholic bishop in America has officially condemned the president’s mandate. Even though the media has mostly buried this fact, 100 percent of them oppose the rule that orders faith-based groups to pay for drugs that destroy pregnancies or prevent them. It’s a formidable group, and today, they do not stand alone,” Perkins said. He further stated, “Every pocket of religious America is linking arms at the front lines of this war on religious freedom.”

It is vital that all of us, regardless of our faith, link arms with these leaders and form an impenetrable barrier to the mandate that attempts to trample our religious freedom. To book one of our expert speakers, please contact us at stopp@all.org.

The Obama administration has demanded that we defy our faith in favor of its mandate so that birth control can be provided “free of charge” to all—a plan which was put together and pushed incessantly from the beginning by Planned Parenthood.

Obama’s mandate echoes the tyrant Antiochus’s attempts to force the Jewish leader Eleazar into submission in the second century B.C. Antiochus decreed that all Jews should be forced to eat pork publicly in violation of their faith. If they refused, they would be submitted to a torturous death.

As Michael Stokes Paulsen points out in a recent commentary, Obama’s mandate is strikingly similar to what Antiochus said in the book of Maccabees centuries ago, when he implored the Jewish leader “awaken from your foolish philosophy, dispel your futile reasoning . . . philosophize according to the truth of what is beneficial [in his opinion], and . . . [honor his] humane advice.”

Eleazar declined to betray his faith and was beaten nearly to death before being offered a ruse: If he would eat cooked meat and pretend it was pork so he would appear to be violating the tenets of his faith, he could preserve his own life. In the same way, after the refusal of the Catholic bishops and Catholic ministries to obey his mandate, Obama has offered a ruse: Religious groups would not be required to offer plans that pay for abortifacient contraception and sterilization. Instead, ministries could offer insurance without covering those aberrations. Then the insurance providers would be required to pay for the same abortifacient contraception and sterilization.

Eleazar declined to accept the “accommodation” of Antiochus in order to save his life. We, too, must decline to accept the “accommodation” of Obama in order to escape paying crippling fines and any other penalties that the Obama administration deems appropriate for our disobedience. We must be willing to defend our faith with our very lives, if necessary.

Contact your members of Congress today to voice your strongest objections to the Planned Parenthood-orchestrated trampling of religious rights. We are at a turning point in history. Either we stand up for our religious freedom today, or we forfeit everything. Planned Parenthood wants religion and religious principles banished from the public square so it can go forward unfettered with its evil agenda. It wants to gag and bind people of faith, and allow them to observe the tenets of their faith, if at all, only within the confines of their place of worship. This is the hour when we must plant our feet firmly and take a stand. Please act today, for the sake of everything we hold dear.

Hampton Roads pro-life activist Louantha Kerr sends the following action request from Virginia:

Planned Parenthood of Virginia Beach has requested that the Virginia Department of Health approve a Certificate of Public Need (COPN VA 7844) which would allow Planned Parenthood to expand its facility on Newtown Road in Virginia Beach, by adding two operating rooms and by upgrading to outpatient surgical hospital status.

Regardless of what Planned Parenthood states about its desire to provide benign or helpful gynecological services to poor uninsured women, we know that approval of its request would allow the organization to expand its abortion business. We here in the Hampton Roads Community are deeply concerned that this would include second trimester abortions.

The final decision on Planned Parenthood’s COPN request is to be made by Dr. Karen Remley, Virginia Health Commissioner, no later than March 7, 2012.

This is our last chance to make our voices heard.

Please take a few minutes to e-mail Dr. Remley at commissioner.remley@vdh.virginia.gov asking that Planned Parenthood's request for expansion be denied.

Dallas, Texas, pro-life groups turned out in force to oppose Planned Parenthood at a fundraiser headlined by Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards on February 16. Inside the event, Richards said that Planned Parenthood’s relationship with Komen is even stronger than it was before Komen attempted to drop Planned Parenthood funding. We describe in the February 2 Wednesday STOPP Report the mafia-style shakedown that Planned Parenthood executed against Komen because of the attempted defunding.

Protest organizer JoAnn Murray, leader of STOPP of Dallas, reports that, while Richards was gloating inside the fundraiser, there were more than 85 people praying outside the fundraiser and providing public witness to the evil agenda of Planned Parenthood. A bus carried 28 people from the northern suburbs to the protest, and along the way they prayed our Consecration of the Fight Against Planned Parenthood to Jesus through Mary prayer. The prayer can be downloaded and printed here. The protesters carried The Pill Kills signs, pictures from our campaign to Bring Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary, and many other signs exposing the evil agenda of Planned Parenthood.

JoAnn expressed delight with the outcome, citing Our Blessed Mother’s aid as key:

And did [Our Lady] ever surprise us with one good thing happening after another! Not only was the media there, but they actually interviewed at length a number of our people. We made the 4 o'clock and 9 o'clock news with Karen Garnett's statement that the pill is classified as a Group 1 carcinogen and a homemade sign stating that fact being shown. It was the last sign and statement we thought the news would put on, but then, we have a mighty God! The Dallas Morning News also ran a video clip online.

Karen Garnett, executive director of the Catholic Pro-Life Committee, was featured on the local Fox News station. She stood behind a sign that read “The Pill is a Group 1 Carcinogen” during an on-camera interview, and she is quoted on the news station website saying, “Planned Parenthood enjoys a kind of sanitized reputation and the truth needs to be exposed that the products that they have are carcinogenic. They do do abortions. They kill children, and their agenda is to hook children on sex. If you see their materials, they are graphic, vulgar, obscene and offensive.”

Andrew Smith, head of the Texas Pro-Life Action Team, was on hand and gave a great impromptu talk. You can hear Andrew’s talk and see a video of the protest here.

This is Father Loyd Morris holding the “Blessed Mother, please stop Planned Parenthood” sign. Thank you, Father Morris, for your fearless witness!

Congratulations to our Associate group STOPP of Dallas, the Catholic Pro-Life Committee, the Texas Pro-Life Action Team, and all the other groups who were present and made a huge impact at the Planned Parenthood fundraiser. It is this kind of public witness that so effectively discredits the abortion giant and lets the community know without a doubt that there is something seriously evil going on behind those Planned Parenthood doors. It is this kind of witness that erodes community support and contributes to the eventual collapse of the abortion giant’s business.