March Newsletter: Sidewalk Conversation’s & A Glimpse Outside Two ABQ Abortion Clinics...

And Now There Are Four!

Our family would like to announce the conception or our second child! He or she is due to arrive sometime in late August. We are all so thankful for the blessing of new life!

In Everything Giving Thanks

This past month has been one of trials and also one with many reasons to rejoice. As Christians we strive to be thankful and content in every situation, however, that can be difficult at times. We thank all of you who faithfully pray for us, we know that is what keeps us going as God works out all the details of our lives. Please continue to pray for us as we move forward in this life saving work. The enemy has a small victory when we get discouraged and doing this ministry can be discouraging if we dwell on the lives lost, women injured, and families destroyed by abortion daily. Instead of the enemies lies, we must always fill our mind with God’s Word and His promises; knowing He is always at work for our good and the good of these women and families! Your prayers, however, are the most powerful way to ensure that God receives the glory and victory. Thanks again for standing with us in this spiritual battle!

“Have I not commanded you? Be Strong and Courageous. Do not be Afraid; Do not be Discouraged, for YHWH your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9

Opportunities to Share...

With 40 Days for Life beginning on February 22 this Spring, Tara had an opportunity to speak on two different radio stations to promote the event. We continue to be thankful for these opportunities to share upcoming events and ministry updates.

We are also praising God for answered prayers. One of our main prayer requests is for more workers for the harvest here in ABQ. This month we had encouraging meetings with two groups of church leaders who are eager to be involved with pro-life work in their churches.

Visit 40daysforlife.com to find out about the 40 Days for life campaign near you! Please join us in prayer for these church leaders who are taking bold steps for life in their churches and as always more workers to promote life in our community.

Sidewalk Conversation’s & A Glimpse Outside Two ABQ Abortion Clinics...

During the month of February, we spoke with women from New Mexico, Utah, California, Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Washington, Kansas and Louisiana outside of the late term clinic. I also received an e-mail this month from a woman from the United Kingdom who was planning to come here for a Late-Term abortion until she came across Lateterm.com and realized how dangerous Southwestern Women’s Option’s (SWO), is! The ironic thing is that she wanted an alternative abortion clinic to go to, so we gave her an alternative to abortion, local pregnancy resources in the UK and knowledge! We received an e-mail back from her and she told us that she decided to choose adoption instead of coming here to Albuquerque for a late-term abortion! Praise God! We also found out that she lives not too far from where Tara lived in Nottingham, England during a year of mission work! They are keeping in touch and Tara asked if we could keep her in our prayers and she would very much appreciate that.

We spoke to homeless women who still remained homeless after their abortion, women who were raped whose abortion did not heal or change that, we spoke with women who just simply did not want to have a child at this time. One woman was so proud and confident of her choice to abort her baby before her abortion but left afterward sobbing. Abortion is never the right choice and does not solve any of life’s problems! Despite all this darkness, there was a ray of light this month as a couple who had an appointment, instead left SWO before going in and chose to go to Project Defending Life where they were able to get real help! God lit up the darkness! Hope, love and life made a way and this couple chose to reach for the light!

This month out at SWO, a young woman came out of the clinic carrying a clipboard and she was filling out paperwork. I waved for her to come over and she reluctantly did. She told me she was scheduled for an abortion and she desperately needed it and that there was no hope for her or her baby! We talked for a few minutes and as I gave her Project Defending Life contact info she wiped away tears and said sorry but she was going back in and having the abortion. She walked back in and literally, in less than a minute, she came running back out, jumped in the passenger side of a car and the car sped away! We are there to bring hope where there is no hope, life where all there is, is death. We are there because Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ!

This month, a woman who drove a friend to SWO for a late-term abortion, responded as I was offering alternatives to abortion and offering hope that "It's the father's fault! If he took financial responsibility for the child, then they would not be here." I responded that the father of the child was indeed responsible for taking care of the child, but that it was the mother, who was choosing to kill the child! I told her that she was also responsible because she brought this child here to be killed. I stated that we all need to take responsibility for our part! We all have a role to play in protecting these children and serving these families...so that abortion is never an option! It starts with educating yourself about the injustice taking place in your communities. You can also support local pro-life ministries (Project Defending Life, Care Net, Birthright, or other local Pregnancy Centers in your area) so that these women have resources and can learn how to support themselves and their babies when their world falls apart around them. Also, you can support pro-life missionaries who stand for life; your support makes our work possible! By partnering with us, our voice can be Your voice!



Our Prayer Requests:

~For an end to abortion in New Mexico.
~For the conversion of every abortion doctor and clinic worker.
~For softened hearts of the women we speak to each day at abortion clinics.
~For the moms who have already chosen life and for the means to continue to serve them.
~For a continued grace filled and Christ centered ministry focus.
~For more opportunities to share the truth about abortion and it’s effects with the Christian community.
~For the Christian community to rise up out of apathy and a spiritual awakening.
~For more workers for this ripe harvest.
~For our safety in this spiritual battle.

We are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals who have a heart for our life saving work!

(Click Here) If you would like to support our life saving ministry. Your generous support makes our work possible! All donations are tax deductible. (Cornerstone is a Pro-Life alternative to Paypal.)



Here is a typical conversation with a pro-abortion person, who is upset that we are showing the truth about their choice...abortion. Lorenzo is a little on edge, because this man was abusive to him earlier in the week and knocked down some of Lorenzo's signs and other pro-life displays. Orae is the other pro-life gentleman with the cool Re-Think Pink sign! (Be warned, there is some offensive language...from the pro-abortion guy...shockingly!)[I (Bud) am filming and talking at times]

40 DAYS FOR LIFE, ALBUQUERQUE FEBRUARY 22 - APRIL 1

Please join us at our:

Kickoff Rally and Spring Campaign
Where: Project Defending Life
625 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM

Kickoff Rally Tuesday, February 21, 2012 starting with Mass at 6pm and Prayer and speakers at 7pm.

Spring 2012 campaign starting February 22, 2012 and running thru April 1, 2012.
Schedule a time from 7 am thru 7 pm or you are welcome to come out anytime.

Come out and show everyone that Albuquerque is a wonderful place to LIVE, and we support LIFE from conception. Many women are not aware their baby is already alive and developing. Spend an hour and possibly save a life -- several women change their mind every campaign because they saw somebody praying that did care about LIFE.

Thank-you for all your time and prayers.

The Spring Campaign will be starting February 22, 2012, but you are welcome to come and pray anytime in front of Planned Parenthood to help save children.

Planned Parenthood
701 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM


YOU can help save lives!

Our community will be one of more then 300 cities in America, Canada, Australia, Northern Ireland and Denmark who will conduct simultaneous 40 Days for Life campaigns.

The 40 Days for Life campaign is an effort to bring people of faith together in prayer to end the loss of pre-born human life and to pray for the healing of those affected by abortion. It is a focused pro-life effort that consists of:

40 days of prayer and fasting
40 days of peaceful vigil
40 days of public witness

We are praying that, with God's help, this groundbreaking effort will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in Albuquerque -- and throughout America.

Take a stand for life

“Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it?? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it?? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds” -Proverbs 24:11-12

While all aspects of 40 Days for Life are crucial in our effort to end abortion, the most visible component is the peaceful prayer vigil outside the local abortion facility. The vigil is peaceful; participants agree to a "Code of Conduct" with a pledge that they will conduct themselves in a Christ-like manner. All people are welcome!

You can help make a life-saving impact by signing up for at least one one-hour block of time to join our local vigil at:

Planned Parenthood
701 San Mateo Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM
Any time daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Spring Campaign starting February 22, 2012

Every week lives are saved and hearts are changed because people like you stay involved in pro-life outreach. You've made a difference in the lives of many these past 40 days, don't let it stop there. Help us maintain a constant prayerful and peaceful presence at all 3 of Albuquerque's abortion clinics. Including the late term clinic that is drawing women from all over the country and another clinic that is training University of New Mexico medical students to be abortionists. Another opportunity is to volunteer at pregnancy centers doing ultrasounds, pregnancy tests and helping mom's become responsible; mom's who have taken the first step and chosen life. To learn more you can contact Bud and Tara Shaver at bud@defendinglife.org or (505) 319-7825 or call Project Defending Life at (505) 266-4100.

Would you like to be part of the Spring 2012 40 Days for Life Please
call Al (505) 296-4214 or Liz (505) 977-6609 if you are interested.

Again, we sincerely thank you for standing with us for these babies who are created in God's image and worthy of our time! We are encouraged by your faithfulness!

Check out the website for more information:
http://40daysforlife.com/albuquerque/

February Newsletter 2012: We hit the ground running in 2012!

“Doing everything for the glory of God”

Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day (SOLAUD) 2012

Every year in the month of January Pro-Life groups host events all throughout the country. Here in New Mexico, Christians from all across the state come together to promote the sanctity of human life. This year Bud and I had the privilege of organizing a morning rally featuring praise and worship, speakers and testimonies of post abortive men and women. One of our dear friends Pastor Lamb shared his heart as one of our keynote speakers.

His message was centered around the simple injustice of abortion and the urgency to get involved to end abortion in America. After the morning rally an estimated 2500 people marched to the Santa Fe Capitol to meet Governor Martinez and other Legislators. We were very encouraged and hope that in the coming year more people will get involved and stay involved!

Here is Pastor Eric Lamb's Passionate Keynote address!


One Down...Three Left To Go!

Last month we uncovered that Bruce Ferguson was retiring at the end of December. He had been doing abortions for over 30years and his clinic was one of four Albuquerque abortion clinics. Well this month, we confirmed that he did in fact retire and shut down!

Opportunities to Share...

This month we were so blessed to have several opportunities to speak to different groups. We started the month off by speaking at the PDL Parenting Class on a Wednesday night. Then Tara was able to be on the radio to promote the Sanctity of Life event and to share about last years accomplishments. We also spoke to two separate church groups . These opportunities are so vital in getting the word out and educating the public. It is true that most people have no idea what is happening in their own backyards. Tara went up to Santa Fe with a coalition of pregnancy center volunteers to speak with legislators about the ministries of pregnancy centers as well as the parental notification bill we hope to see put into law here in NM. She also shared with legislators our latest press release. (You can read it here!)

Our Prayer Requests:

~For an end to abortion in New Mexico.
~For the conversion of every abortion doctor and clinic worker.
~For softened hearts of the women we speak to each day at abortion clinics.
~For the moms who have already chosen life and for the means to continue to serve them.
~For a continued grace filled and Christ centered ministry focus.
~For more opportunities to share the truth about abortion and it’s effects with the Christian community.
~For the Christian community to rise up out of apathy and a spiritual awakening.
~For more workers for this ripe harvest.
~For our safety in this spiritual battle.

We are full-time Pro-Life Missionaries and raise our own support from individuals who have a heart for our life saving work!

(Click Here) If you would like to support our life saving ministry. Your generous support makes our work possible! All donations are tax deductible. (Cornerstone is a Pro-Life alternative to Paypal.)

One Down...Three Left to Go In Albuquerque, NM!

Bruce Ferguson M.D.- Before Retirement, December, 2011 (1 of 4 Albuquerque abortion mills).

Bruce Ferguson M.D.- After Retirement, January, 2012. One Albuquerque abortion mill closed to start off 2012...Three left to go!

Read about our undercover investigation that exposed Bruce Ferguson's retirement and watch our undercover video here:

New Mexico Abortionist Quits For the Sake of His "Sanity" (Click Headline to go to the page)

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Injury-Prone New Mexico Abortion Clinics Operate In Shadows of Regulatory Gaps

By Cheryl Sullenger

Albuquerque, New Mexico – A shocking number of medical emergencies at two Albuquerque abortion clinics over the past few months have raised questions about clinic safety and who is responsible for oversight. After months of investigation, pro-life groups have determined that abortion clinics often operate in regulatory gaps and actively seek to “fly under the radar,” as one regulator put it. This has created a public safety crisis in New Mexico.

A total of 14 calls for emergency medical assistance were placed to 911 dispatchers by Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) and the University of New Mexico Center for Reproductive Health (UNMCRH) over a 35-month time frame between November, 2008, and September, 2011. Three were placed from the UNMCRH while, alarmingly, eleven of the calls for help originated from SWO.

Complaints were filed with the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB) against the known abortionists who work at those clinics by representatives of Project Defending Life and Operation Rescue. However, the NMMB is only responsible for oversight of licensed physicians and is not responsible for oversight of the abortion clinic itself.

“That means trash could be piled to the ceiling inside those clinics, and the NMMB would not have the authority to do anything about it,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. “The clinics themselves are never inspected or held to any standard. That creates the potential for a Gosnell-like ‘house of horrors’ to operate directly under the nose of regulators.”

Conversations with Department of Health regulators confirmed Newman’s concerns.

Doctors Office and Abortion Exemptions

Southwestern Women’s Options, an abortion clinic specializing in risky late-term procedures, is not licensed as an Ambulatory Surgical Center, which would ensure that the clinic was inspected and met the same standards that other out-patient surgical centers must maintain. Instead, it is listed as a “Doctor’s Office” under the name of the 75-year old owner of the facility, Curtis Boyd, a Texas abortionist who admits to having done illegal “back-alley” abortions prior to Roe v. Wade. This designation qualifies him for a license exemption.

Boyd’s clinic conducts a minimal amount of lab work and is licensed in New Mexico as a laboratory. The most recent inspection survey issued in 2009 for the SWO lab showed multiple violations with faulty test results detected for pregnancy and for the Rh factor that resulted in the need to contact patients with the news that they needed to have their tests redone. (Read full list of violations)

While every two years, the laboratory portion of his business is inspected by the Department of Health, the surgical side of the business has never been inspected. No one has ever checked to see if Boyd owns a crash cart, has emergency protocols in place, or even if he bothers to sterilize his surgical instruments.

According to Rick Pangborn, Medical Care Program Director with the Department of Health, clinics that must be licensed as Ambulatory Surgical Centers are those with an operating room that accommodates outpatient surgical procedures, which require post-surgical monitoring of patients in a separate recovery room.

However, Pangborn emphasized that even though Boyd’s SWO meets those criteria, abortions are among the few procedures that cannot trigger the need for an Ambulatory Surgical Center license in New Mexico.

“This clinic operates in the shadowy gap created by an extremely compartmentalized regulatory system in New Mexico,” said Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life. “Each regulatory agency is only responsible for a small portion oversight, and abortion procedures seem to give clinics special exemption from oversight. Abortion clinics can easily fly under the radar by claiming to be doctor’s offices. This designation ensures that they are never inspected or regulated. Maybe that is why we are seeing life-threatening medical emergencies at these clinics at the rate of one every couple of months.”

UNMCRH Completely “Under the Radar”

According to Pangborn, there is no record at all of any kind of license for the UNM Center for Reproductive Health, the other abortion clinic that has experienced a recent series of medical emergencies. There is no record of UNMCRH ever having been inspected by any state regulator. Pangborn told Shaver that he was under the impression that UNMCRH provided different services than Southwestern Women’s Options, when both are in fact primarily abortion clinics.

Planned Parenthood is the only clinic in Albuquerque with no record of 911 calls. It is licensed as a Diagnostic Treatment Facility, which provides for the clinic to bill insurance and Medicaid for services even though they were not supplied by a licensed physician. Planned Parenthood is not required to meet the standards that Ambulatory Surgical Centers must meet.

Lack of Oversight Creates Dangerous Climate

“If clinics are not required to meet specific health and safety standards, they usually don’t,” said Newman. “New Mexico’s lack of standards for abortion clinics has created a dangerous climate where women can be subjected to any manner of substandard or negligent practices and can never be held accountable for it. Fourteen women — that we are aware of — have paid for this lack of oversight with serious bodily injury and it is only a matter of time before one pays for it with her life.”

Tara Shaver agreed. “The fourteen 911 calls that we uncovered show that something is seriously wrong with how abortion clinics in New Mexico operate and the lack of oversight,” she said. “We now have information that the UNMCRH is no longer calling 911 for medical emergencies so that there is no public record of how many injuries are actually occurring there. This places women at additional risk. Something must change on the state level in order to protect women from these abortion clinics that have run amok outside the bounds of any kind of regulatory oversight.”

"Let My People Live!" Pastor Eric Lamb and the Lamar Brothers SOLAUD 2012 Santa Fe, NM

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




Lamar Brothers in Santa Fe, New Mexico for Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day 2012.

SOLAUD 2012 (Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day)

Please Join us in Santa Fe:

Wednesday January 18th, 2012 Santa Fe New Mexico (regardless of weather)- Plaza Park is located at 63 Lincoln Ave in Santa Fe.

8:00 am: Free Continental Breakfast sponsored by Knights of Columbus; Crispin Hall behind Cathedral till 11:00 am

10:00-11:00am: Plaza Park- music, witness, and talks.

11:00am-12:00 Noon: Plaza Park-Post Abortive Men and Women Testimonies, Praise and Worship.

12:00 Noon-1:15 pm: 3 Bishop Mass at the Cathedral- And at Plaza Park-Keynote Speakers, Pastor Eric Lamb (Calvary of Albuquerque) and Rep. Alonzo Baldonado.

1:30 pm: Procession from  Plaza Park to Roundhouse

2:30 pm: Rally at Roundhouse with bishops, pastors, and other speakers

3:00 pm: Visits to legislative offices in Roundhouse