739 - Peace & Life: Nuke Anniversary/Planned Parenthood Malpractice - August 15, 2025
- Bill Samuel
- Aug 15
- 2 min read
Witnessing for Peace on Nagasaki Anniversary
We gathered with an array of other peace groups outside the White House on August 9th for our quarterly vigil against nuclear weapons. The vigil fell on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and so was also an occasion to remember and mourn those killed by the United States’ use of nuclear weapons against Japan. Many people spoke, with the program including a reading from the testimony of bombing survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Setsuko Thurlow.
The vigil was very well attended and received many positive responses from passers-by. A display of photos taken of bombing survivors and the destruction wrought by the bombs attracted significant attention.
Medical Malpractice at Planned Parenthood
The committee that runs the Problems at Planned Parenthood website has in the past few months found over a hundred more lawsuits against Planned Parenthood in the U.S., mostly dealing with malpractice and labor problems, with a handful dealing with major data breaches. You can see the list of all specific documented problems here.
While pro-lifers have mainly gathered malpractice suits having to do with abortion, there are far more topics:
Not Diagnosed: Ectopic Pregnancy, Cervical Cancer. Fibroids/Polyps, Actual Age of Pregnancy
Complications, IUD, Implant, Tubal Ligation, from a Diagnostic Test
Uterine and/or Bowel Perforation
Other Surgery Problems
Non-Consent: Needed Information not Given for Truly Informed Consent, Outright Coercion
Others include toxins in the vicinity of a toddler, causing a miscarriage, and administering Depo Provera without testing for pregnancy.
The Latest on the Blog
Both of the latest posts deal with the recent 80th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski, and were written by John Whitehead:
Quote of the Week
From the novel In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (pages 319-320) [The princess, remembering taking food to a street beggar]:
We are all beggars, my father said. It doesn't matter what we wear--rags, a saffron robe, or silk. We each ask the same of life. I may have been born a princess, but that beggar, that blind man, who was probably born poor and no doubt had suffered greatly, discerned enough beauty to want to continue living. He deserved our highest respect. His life had as much nobility as ours, as anyone's, and we ought to accord it dignity.
