DENVER, CO, July 4, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) —Days after Personhood USA president Keith Mason’s home was attacked in the night leaving his wife and children traumatized, a Personhood volunteer, 69-year-old Everett Stadig, was assaulted, sustaining a broken hip.

On Saturday, Stadig – a soft-spoken and slender gentleman - was thrown off his bicycle while peacefully gathering signatures for the Personhood amendment in Colorado, and as a result has had to undergo surgery to replace part of his hip.

Stadig stopped outside a grocery store to invite people to sign the Personhood petition. One woman expressed interest in signing, but had to return temporarily into the store. While Stadig waited, a man came by whom he also invited to sign the petition.

In a telephone interview from his hospital bed, Stadig told LifeSiteNews that the man was “in his mid thirties and looked about six foot tall.” He refused to sign, and began to swear and shout at Stadig.

“He was yelling ‘I’m pro-choice!’”  Stadig recalled, adding that he used “most foul language.”

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Stadig explained that being ‘pro-choice’ meant pro-abortion, and again urged him to sign. At first the man walked away, but returned half a minute later, still swearing and yelling.

“He said ‘you don’t have a right to be here!’” Stadig related, “and I said ‘I do have a right to be here, this is a Colorado Petition Drive’. Then he grabbed my petition pad, and with the same movement threw me to ground, and I was hurt so bad I couldn’t get up.”

Stadig was on a bicycle. He struck the ground hard on his hip and was in too much pain to rise. Stadig said that there were between 10 and 20 people present, and at least seven witnessed the assault, but no one had tried to stop the man. “It happened so fast, and they were too far away,” he explained.

The man who had attacked him did not stop to see if Stadig was injured. “After he threw me off the bicycle, he proceeded to leave,” Stadig said, “and I was trying to get people to call the police… to get that man’s license number, because I couldn’t do it.” Eventually a woman came forward, took the man’s license plate, and wrote a report.

Stadig learned later that his hip had been broken.

He remained on the ground for several minutes. “There were people around,” he said, “but no one offered to help me up.”

Eventually security personnel came out of the store and got Stadig off the ground and into a chair to wait for the ambulance.

Stadig was bruised and his hip badly injured: “I found out that it was separated, and I must get a replacement ball socket.”

While recovering from surgery, Stadig has still been gathering petitions in the hospital among the nurses and therapists.

Personhood USA President Keith Mason commented to LifeSiteNews, “There he is chillin in the hospital bed with his clipboard getting signatures of the hospital staff… he’s a great guy, an inspiration to us.”

Stadig is pressing charges, but does not yet know the name of his assailant and has still heard nothing from the police. “It’s unbelievable what happens in this country,” he said. “There’s so much violence.”

Stadig - tall, bearded and thin - bears a resemblance to Abraham Lincoln.  He has made use of these traits to attract young people to his pro-life appeals. His signature Abe Lincoln tux and top hat have brought smiles and photo ops to many a family.

Stadig’s pastor Bob Enyart of Denver Bible Church, visited with Stadig in hospital.  Pastor Enyart told LifeSiteNews, “Everett is so soft spoken, if he yelled you might hear him ten feet away. He’s a gentle giant who has the boldness of a lion when it comes to protecting an innocent child. Here in Denver, Everett is a local hero. As Jesus said, love God, and love your neighbor! That’s what Everett’s all about.”

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - For the first time in its history, Planned Parenthood has endorsed a presidential candidate during a primary. And the winner is? Hillary Clinton.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced that it plans to spend $20 million in the next year to help elect the Democratic candidate president, and focus on embattled battleground states with a U.S. Senate race in 2016.

NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC has already endorsed the former first lady, who is facing a surprisingly close Democratic presidential primary race against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist.

Both support taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, the official position of the most recent Democratic Party platform.

Hillary Clinton said it is vital that she be elected president, because any of her Republican opponents would defund Planned Parenthood, which received $553 million in 2014-2015. She tweeted today about the passage of a reconciliation bill that would cut those funds off:

Yesterday was a preview of what would happen under a Republican president. Every single GOP candidate would defund Planned Parenthood. -H

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 7, 2016

“Everything Planned Parenthood has believed in and fought for over the past 100 years is on the ballot," Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards told the New York Times.

Clinton added that she is "proud" to have Planned Parenthood's endorsement, despite footage showing its officials cavalierly discussing harvesting and selling aborted babies' body parts.

Just days after she called the undercover footage "disturbing" last summer, Hillary Clinton said she is "proud to stand with Planned Parenthood."

She has long been an outspoken and extreme supporter of abortion, to the point that she would apparently be willing to undermine the First Amendment's freedom of religion.

Mrs. Clinton told the Women in the World Summit last April that "religious beliefs" that oppose abortion "have to be changed." She had previously likened moral beliefs rejecting homosexuality to “the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation.” 

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Last night's vote to send a Planned Parenthood defunding measure to President Obama's desk was hailed as a victory by pro-life leaders inside and outside of Congress.

The bill's passage "established an important precedent for the next administration," said SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser. "If Americans elect a pro-life president this year, and safeguard our pro-life majorities in Congress, this bill – and many others – could be law by 2017.”

Dannenfelser and others called for Obama to sign the legislation, even though he has already declared his intention to use his veto pen. Center for Medical Progress president David Daleiden, whose videos last summer were responsible for a renewed push to defund America's largest abortion company, said in a statement that "Congress is listening to the will of the American people to hold Planned Parenthood accountable under the law for their barbaric abortion and baby parts business."

"[On Tuesday], President Obama wiped tears from his eyes saying: 'Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.' Mr. President, show the same outrage and compassion for the kids who are killed and harvested for body parts at Planned Parenthood, and parted out and sold across the country like used cars," urged Daleiden. "The hypocrisy and callousness of this out-of-touch administration will be on full display if after today, President Obama refuses to listen to the will of the American people and reassign taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood’s barbaric abortion and baby parts business to mainstream, full-spectrum health care providers."

Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins was likewise praised Congress for its passage of the bill, saying that "While Planned Parenthood deserves to be permanently defunded following revelations that they likely made a profit off of selling the body parts of aborted babies, any bill that halts a significant portion of their funding should be commended."

“It is unconscionable that government funds continue to flood an organization like Planned Parenthood when there are thousands of other women’s health organizations that do not commit abortions," continued Hawkins. "Planned Parenthood should be forced to raise their funds entirely through private donations like any other non-profit and not rely on taxpayers for the majority of their revenue – President Obama’s schedule will be free soon enough to help his favorite organization raise money privately. By then, hopefully Americans will have voted in a pro-life president who will immediately defund Planned Parenthood.”

"With this vote, we are keeping a promise and putting a bill that repeals Obamacare and defunds Planned Parenthood on the president’s desk," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI. "This budget reconciliation bill, which would reduce the federal deficit by a half trillion dollars, forces the president to confront the failures of Obamacare head on. But most importantly, it clears the path to repealing this law with a Republican president in 2017 and replacing it with a truly patient-centered health care system. We will not back down from this fight to defend the sanctity of life and make quality health care coverage achievable for all Americans.”

Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D., of The Catholic Association, said that "It is encouraging that the US House of Representatives has begun the year by passing a bill that prioritizes the well being of the most vulnerable.”

"If [President] Obama cares about women and children, [he] should sign this bill that reallocates public funds instead to facilities providing authentic healthcare for women," said Christie.

Leading pro-life Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas said that "It is time to hold this President responsible not only for his failed, unpopular D.C. takeover of Americans’ health care system, but also gruesome Planned Parenthood. An organization that is plagued with scandal and profits from the barbaric harvesting and sale of baby body parts should not receive a dime in federal funding."

“For the first time since America’s largest abortion business began receiving public funding – nearly five decades ago – the president will have to decide up or down on legislation to defund Planned Parenthood. It is the first bill ever to get to the president’s desk that would achieve this longtime pro-life goal, and reallocate taxpayer funding to comprehensive health care centers,” said Dannenfelser.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that "Congress sent a clear message today to the President on behalf of unborn children, their mothers, and for taxpayers. Never before has Congress been able to send a bill to President Obama's desk ending the forced partnership between taxpayers and Planned Parenthood."

Republican Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, a top pro-life leader in Congress' upper chamber, said in response to the vote that “I realize that our nation remains divided on the issue of abortion, but surely we are not divided on the procurement and sale of human organs. Planned Parenthood’s harvesting operation is a callous disregard for human dignity, and we should stop providing taxpayer support for them. Funding for organizations that abort children or engage in the harvesting of body parts should be redirected to women’s health at community health centers.”

BLOOMINGTON, IN, January 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A massive analysis spanning seven countries has found that people who view pornography are more likely to be physically or verbally aggressive than those who do not.

Those who report that they watch porn are more likely to rape, sexually harass, or use threats and intimidation to "obtain sex" than those who do not, the study found.

"Consumption of pornography was associated with an increased likelihood of committing actual acts of sexual aggression," according to the report, which was published in the Journal of Communication on December 29.

Researchers from Indiana University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa performed a meta-analysis of 22 studies from around the globe.

“The accumulated data leave little doubt that, on the average, individuals who consume pornography more frequently are more likely to hold attitudes conducive to sexual aggression and engage in actual acts of sexual aggression than individuals who do not consume pornography or who consume pornography less frequently," they wrote.

Significantly, they found that it made no difference whether the porn consumer was male or female - and whether the content was viewed on the internet or another medium.

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They found that, while "associations were stronger for verbal than physical sexual aggression," both "were significant."

While studies have linked pornography consumption to sexual violence since the 1980s, the terabytes of pornography pouring through laptops, tablets, and iPhones multiply every year.

“We cannot ignore the growing body of research revealing how pornography is significantly correlated to increases in sexual violence and aggression,” said Dawn Hawkins, the executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “Regularly or intentionally consuming any substance so strongly linked to increases in sexual aggression is not only harmful to the individual user, but also poses the serious risk of violence and abuse to those in intimate relationships with them.”

"From seatbelts to drunk driving laws, our society works to reduce the harmful impact of risky behaviors," she said. "But when it comes to pornography many people refuse to look at the facts."

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