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• President Obama to Keynote Pro-Abortion Group's Weekend Fundraising Dinner
• Barack Obama Names Pro-Abortion ACLU Lawyer Chai Feldblum to EEOC Panel
• Catholic Cardinal Asks Supreme Court to Reject Abortion During Red Mass
• Poor Weather Doesn't Stop LifeChain From Telling America Abortion Kills Children
• Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling in Illinois Choose Life License Plate Case
• Prison Officials in Kansas Take Raped Inmate to Planned Parenthood for Abortion
• YWCA Misinforms Raped Inmate About Adoption, Pays for Coerced Abortion
• Abortion Advocates Attack Crisis Pregnancy Centers After New Report Released
• Terri Schiavo's Brother Bobby Schindler to Speak at University of Notre Dame
• Chicago Pro-Life Advocates Oppose Proposed Abortion Protest Bubble Zone
• Australia Poll Finds Majority of Australians Pro-Abortion, Change From 20 Years Ago
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President Obama to Keynote Pro-Abortion Group's Weekend Fundraising Dinner
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama will keynote a dinner for an organization known for its pro-gay activities but which has also promoted abortion. In addressing the Human Rights Campaign, Obama is making the second overture to the pro-abortion group after putting a top HRC official on his faith task force. Obama will address the Saturday fundraising gala for the Human Rights Campaign on a night when it plans to honor another abortion advocate. "It is fitting that (Obama) will speak to our community on the night that we pay tribute to his friend and mentor Sen. Edward Kennedy," HRC president Joe Solmonese said. While much of the focus on his attendance at the HRC dinner will be placed on its advocacy of the homosexual agenda, HRC has a long history of advocating abortion. As recently as February, HRC endorsed Obama's move to rescind conscience protections for medical professionals who don't want to be forced to perform or refer for abortions. The group "commended the Obama administration for beginning the process to repeal the Department of Health and Human Services regulations regarding 'provider conscience' and urges the Administration to repeal the regulations in their entirety." "We commend the Obama administration for acting quickly to review these regulations and urge the Administration to repeal them in their entirety," Solmonese said at the time. Full story at LifeNews.com
Barack Obama Names Pro-Abortion ACLU Lawyer Chai Feldblum to EEOC Panel
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama is racking up another pro-abortion appointment and, this time, the appointee would serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Obama has selected pro-abortion lawyer and Georgetown University law professor Chai Feldblum for the EEOC. If confirmed by the Senate, Feldblum would serve on the EEOC for five years and could decide cases that related to pressuring women employees to have abortions or pressuring pro-life advocates to allow abortions in insurance policies. Feldblum isn't known by most Americans, but she has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Human Rights Campaign Fund, another group that promotes abortion. From 1986-1987, Feldblum clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the notorious judge who handed down the Roe v. Wade decision that has allowed more than 51 million abortions. Feldblum praised him to the New York Times as someone who had the "ability and desire to look behind the law and see the people is not the classic way to do law." Full story at LifeNews.com
Catholic Cardinal Asks Supreme Court to Reject Abortion During Red Mass
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Top government officials were exposed to a call from a Catholic cardinal to reject abortions and uphold the sanctity of life during the Red Mass on Sunday. The mass is a traditional event that takes place before the Supreme Court starts the first day of its next term, which takes place the first Monday in October. Six Supreme Court justices, Vice President Joe Biden, and two members of pro-abortion President Barack Obama's administration were present for the event. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston, Texas gave a homily and presented the pro-life message to the top officials. He calls on attorneys to be a voice for all clients, including those who have not been born. "They are poor and wealthy, confused and lucid, polite and impolited," he said. "In some cases, the clients are voiceless, for they lack influence; in others they are literally voiceless, not yet with tongues and even without names, and require our most careful attention and radical support." Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attended the event along with the high court's newest member, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is expected to uphold abortion. Ironically, the cardinals who participate wear red because the color represents a willingness to shed blood in the defense of their faith. In this case, the red could easily have stood for the bloodshed at the hands of the Supreme Court, Biden, and the Obama administration. Full story at LifeNews.com
Poor Weather Doesn't Stop LifeChain From Telling America Abortion Kills Children
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Rainy weather throughout much of the nation yesterday didn't stop likely more than 200,000 Americans from gathering in cities and towns across the country to proclaim the message that "Abortion Kills Children" and "Abortion Hurts Women." Groups large and small held pro-life signs and received responses ranging from honking horns to thumbs up, to profane gestures. Thousand of people participated in the Life Chains in Indianapolis while two people braved the cold in Estes Park, Colorado. Dozens of pro-life advocates in Wichita, Kansas took to the streets to share the pro-life message in the LifeChain. "We're out here today to make a statement that we support life and also to encourage others to support life from womb to tomb," said Fr. Jerome Spexarth of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Wichita. The LifeChain saw pro-life advocates gather in places around the world as well -- with 200 participating in one in Cape Town, South Africa. "It is time that the lies of abortionists are exposed," says international coordinator of the Christian Action Network, Taryn Hodgson. Her group has organized the event in South Africa since 1992. Full story at LifeNews.com
Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling in Illinois Choose Life License Plate Case
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Supreme Court today let stand a ruling in a case involving Choose Life license plates in Illinois. The decision means that the Illinois officials who declined to issue the license plates in Illinois have won a legal victory against the pro-life advocates who wanted the plates to raise funds for adoptions. Despite the refusal to hear the case, motorists in 24 states can buy Choose Life license plates and 14 more states are working on them. An appeals court ruled last November that Illinois officials who don't want to issue Choose Life license plates for state motorists don't have to do so. The appeals court overturned a ruling issued by a federal judge who denied a request by Secretary of State Jesse White to stall on producing the plates. The appellate court said state officials are within their rights to keep the abortion debate off Illinois license plates, even though other states have approved the plates. Full story at LifeNews.com
Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Prison officials in Kansas are coming under fire from a state pro-life group after an expose' showing how they took a raped inmate to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. The woman, housed at the Topeka Correctional Facility, became pregnant after engaged in a sexual arrangement with a prison staffer. According to an investigative piece in the Topeka Capital Journal, 30-year old Tracy Keith was raped in prison by a prison instructor, Ted Gallardo, in October 2007. She was eventually coerced into an abortion that she says still haunts her. When she discovered she was pregnant, Keith's reaction was to have the child but was told she was ineligible for an open adoption by a social worker working with the YWCA Battered Women's Task Force. Eventually, prison staff took her to the Planned Parenthood center in Overland Park, outside Kansas City, that has been accused by state officials of doing illegal abortions. Keith claimed to the newspaper that there were hints that if she ended her pregnancy, the other inmates in a contraband racket Gallardo was running would not be prosecuted. Full story at LifeNews.com| It's for young women and them only. |
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YWCA Misinforms Raped Inmate About Adoption, Pays for Coerced Abortion
Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- The case of a raped inmate in Kansas who was coerced into an abortion and taken to a Planned Parenthood center is generating criticism of Kansas corrections officials. But it is also implicating the YWCA, which appears to have misled the woman and arranged her abortion. As LifeNews.com reported, a Topeka newspaper has featured an expose' today focusing on Tracy Keith. She is a 30-year-old inmate who got involved in a racketeering scheme with a corrections official that eventually led to her rape at the hand of a prison instructor, Ted Gallardo. According to the Topeka Capital Journal, YWCA domestic abuse advocates misinformed her about open adoption law in Kansas. Instead, they purchased the abortion and accompanied her to the Planned Parenthood for it. "The abortion was paid for by a group of committed women in this community," said Sherry Baer, who works for the Battered Women Task Force, claimed. "There were no resources to help this woman in her terrible plight, so some of us put in our chips for that." The YWCA told Keith that, with two years left on her sentence, and no solid family support network on the outside, the state would sever her parental rights if the baby was born. A Topeka woman who learned of Keith's pregnancy made inquiries about adopting the child, but Keith said she wasn't informed. Full story at LifeNews.com
Abortion Advocates Attack Crisis Pregnancy Centers After New Report Released
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Not able to stand the competition that pregnancy resource centers provide by helping women find tangible help and support during an unplanned pregnancy, abortion advocates are attacking pregnancy centers and using a new report highlighting their history and service to do so. LifeNews.com noted the new report, produced by the Family Research Council in conjunction with Care Net, Heartbeat International and NIFLA. The report gives a historical overview of the pregnancy center movement and highlights case studies and interviews with staff and former clients to demonstrate how pregnancy centers have helped millions of women during their time of need. Last Thursday, Wendy Norris, a blogger at the pro-abortion RH Reality Check blog fired back. Norris contends the centers "push wildly inaccurate, non-scientific and biased information on pregnancy and contraception in schools and at facilities staffed almost exclusively by volunteers." Full story at LifeNews.com
Terri Schiavo's Brother Bobby Schindler to Speak at University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN (LifeNews.com) -- On the heels of pro-abortion President Barack Obama speaking at the University of Notre Dame and getting an honorary degree, a noted pro-life advocate will give a speech at its law school. Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, whose husband subjected her to a painful euthanasia death, will speak. Schindler has been invited to speak today at The University of Notre Dame Law School as part of the Jus Vitae speaker's series. Jus Vitae is committed to the principle that the right to life is inherent and inalienable in every human being and cannot be abridged by any action of government or any group of citizens. That is a far cry from the principles of Obama, the pro-abortion president who moved immediately to make taxpayers fund abortions, but who received a platform and award from the prominent Catholic educational institution. Full story at LifeNews.com
Chicago Pro-Life Advocates Oppose Proposed Abortion Protest Bubble Zone
Chicago, IL (LifeNews.com) -- Chicago is the latest city to target pro-life advocates with a proposal that would limit their free speech rights and prevent them from helping women going to area abortion centers. The Chicago City Council proposed an 8-foot bubble zone around abortion centers last Thursday. The proposed ordinance would prohibit pro-life people from coming within eight feet of any person approaching an abortion business in the city. It imposes a $500 fine for simply trying to talk to a woman about abortion as she walks to the entrance of the abortion facility. Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League tells LifeNews.com that the measure would be "devastating to our pro-life efforts, including sidewalk counseling." "Chicago abortionists -- led by Planned Parenthood -- are pushing the Chicago City Council to adopt," the ordinance, he said. "The bubble zone would make sidewalk counseling nearly impossible within the city limits. Such a chilling attack on free speech could even halt the 40 Days for Life campaign going on right now." Full story at LifeNews.com
 Medical professionals are on the frontlines of battle in life issues. From abortion to assisted suicide and euthanasia and all issues in between we are challenged in the workplace to defend our beliefs and risk our employment. The National Association of Pro-life Nurses has been here for nurses since the beginning of this battle. Join with us in our efforts to protect those voices at www.nursesforlife.org |
Australia Poll Finds Majority of Australians Pro-Abortion, Change From 20 Years Ago
Canberra, Australia (LifeNews.com) -- The results of a poll taken during the 2007 elections in Australia have been released and they show that a majority of Australians support abortion. The findings, from the Australian Election Study, are based on polling 1873 voters during the elections two years ago. According to the Brisbane Times newspaper, 57 percent support legal abortions while 33 percent take a pro-life position by opposing virtually all abortions except those in "special circumstances" like rape and incest. Another 4 percent of Australians want all abortions made illegal. That 57-37 percent split is a significant change from 20 years ago when a similar poll found just 38 percent agreed with legal abortions. The study shows a lower level of support for abortion among Catholics, with just 45 percent saying they back legal abortions. Members of conservative evangelical denominations like the Baptist Church and Pentecostal Church are even more likely to oppose abortion. Full story at LifeNews.com
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