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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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• Pro-Abortion Democrats Sing 2010 Election Blues, May Abandon Some Members
• Democrats Run Away From Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill As Election Hopes Fade
• Scientists Behind Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding Lawsuit Oppose Appeal
• Abortion Practitioners Storing Dead Babies in Jars Shows Fascination With Death
• Post Office Issues Mother Teresa Stamp, Will Buyers Remember Pro-Life View?
• Louisiana Health Department Closes Abortion Center for Health, Safety Problems
• Ohio Pro-Life Candidates Portman, Kasich Lead Democrats Fisher, Strickland
• Oklahoma Abortion Center Director Charged With Lying About Bomb Threat
• Kenya Minister Presses Forward With Push to Remove Pro-Abortion Provisions
• Kentucky Poll Has Pro-Life Senate Candidate Rand Paul Leading Jack Conway
• Pro-Life News: Judges, Texas, South Korea, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Malta
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Pro-Abortion Democrats Sing 2010 Election Blues, May Abandon Some Members
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With Labor Day marking the traditional "official" start to the campaign season, the pro-abortion Democrats who control Congress are seeing any hope of preventing a landslide in favor of pro-life candidates fading away.
They are reportedly beginning to abandon candidates who seemingly are unable to keep their seats and running away from pro-abortion President Barack Obama.
The New York Times, over the weekend, indicates top Democratic party brass "are preparing a brutal triage" to determine which members can be helped with an infusion of party cash and which can't.
"We are going to have to win these races one by one," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the organization that oversees re-electing Democrats to the House.
He conceded to the Times that the party would ultimately cut loose some members who have little chance of winning and that the DCCC will focus on a couple of dozen members whose seats it believes can be salvaged.
Some members of the Times indicated Democrats believe to be too far gone include Reps. Betsy Markey of Colorado, Tom Perriello of Virginia, Mary Jo Kilroy of Ohio and Frank Kratovil Jr. of Maryland -- all abortion advocates who won their seats in 2008 in a strongly Democratic election cycle. Budget Chairman John Spratt and 10-term incumbent Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota were also mentioned as pro-abortion Democrats party leaders may leave behind.
On Monday, perhaps realizing he was too pessimistic in his interview with the Times, Van Hollen sought to paint a rosier picture in an interview with The Hill. Full story at LifeNews.com
Democrats Run Away From Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill As Election Hopes Fade
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With the national fortunes of Democrats fading in the November elections thanks to President Barack Obama's poor performance and an American public opposed to the pro-abortion, government-run health care bill Congress approved, some of the 34 who voted against the measure are running from it.
The group also includes one prominent pro-abortion lawmaker who supported the measure backing away from it.
A new Politico story today indicates five of the 34 Democrats are running ads highlighting their no vote and no member of the House appears to be running an ad talking about their support for the controversial legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is in the race of his life for his Nevada Senate seat against pro-life candidate Sharron Angle, is the last Democrat to have run a pro-health care bill ad and that came back in April.
Rep. Glenn Nye, an abortion advocate from Virginia, is running an ad talking about how he voted against the bill because it cost too much.
And pro-abortion Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota, says in her own commercial she voted against all the bailouts and the trillion dollar health care plan because it wasn't right for South Dakota," according to Politico. Full story at LifeNews.com
Scientists Behind Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding Lawsuit Oppose Appeal
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The two adult stem cell researchers behind the lawsuit against the executive order President Barack Obama issued to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research are blasting his administration's decision to appeal a judge's order stopping the funding.
U.S. district court Judge Royce Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction against the funding.
It came in response to a lawsuit filed by stem cell researchers who said the Obama executive order and subsequent funding from the National Institutes of Health violated the Dickey amendment, the federal law prohibiting funding the destruction of human embryos via research.
Obama officials appealed Judge Lamberth's decision and asked to put the injunction on hold so taxpayer dollars can continue to flow to embryonic stem cell research projects while the lawsuit against the order moves ahead.
Dr. James L. Sherley, a former member of the MIT faculty now currently working as a senior scientist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute and Dr. Theresa Deisher, the founder of AVM Biotechnology were the two scientists behind the lawsuit.
Speaking through their attorney, Samuel B. Casey, the general counsel of the pro-life legal group, Advocates International, the pair filed their opposing memorandum of law and evidentiary declarations against the appeal and the request for the injunction to be lifted. Full story at LifeNews.com
Abortion Practitioners Storing Dead Babies in Jars Shows Fascination With Death
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion practitioners who have recently come under fire from state health departments for violating health and safety codes have an odd similarity. They both were found, after investigations of their abortion centers, to have kept the bodies of dead babies from abortions stored in jars.
As LifeNews.com reported last week, the Maryland medical licenses of George Shepard, Jr., of Delaware and Nicola I. Riley of Utah, were suspended.
They worked for abortion business owner Steven Chase Brigham who runs abortion centers in four states -- including Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Maryland Board of Physicians and Elkton, Maryland police compiled documents unveiling numerous problems and conducted a raid of his Maryland abortion facility. Authorities who raided Brigham's abortion center discovered the remains of 35 late-term aborted babies in jars.
As Matt Archbold, a National Catholic Register columnist, noted in a post today, "This would be a strange and horrible story if it had never happened before. But, just a few months ago, another abortionist, this one in Philadelphia, was discovered to be keeping aborted babies in jars."
In that case, officials investigating an abortion business in Philadelphia after a woman died from a botched legal abortion last November made a grisly discovery. They found dozens of apparently late-term unborn children who were killed in abortions as long as 30 years ago.
The " Shop of Horrors" case involves the West Philadelphia abortion center Women's Medical Society run by Kermit Gosnell.
State Licensing officials and DEA agents who searched the Women's Medical Society found the dozens of unborn children killed in abortions who were frozen for decades. CBS 3 indicates they are now determining whether or not they may have been victims of illegal late-term abortions. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Post Office Issues Mother Teresa Stamp, Will Buyers Remember Pro-Life View?
by Maria Vitale
The U.S. Postal Service's issuance of a stamp in honor of the late Mother Teresa shows just how monumental a figure the diminutive sister was in 20th century life. Mother Teresa embodied Christianity in action -- preferential treatment for the poor, tireless self-giving, a beacon of joy in the midst of the world's darkness.
But I just wonder how many people who purchase a Mother Teresa stamp will reflect upon her courageous pro-life stand?
The saint of Calcutta rejected the notion that abortion was a rational response to poverty. She saw abortion as completely irrational a barbaric answer to passing problems. In the new book Where There is Love, There is God, editor Brian Kolodiejchuk weaves together a number of Mother Teresa s most profound statements. A number of these concern the sanctity of human life.
Take this example: The other day, I read something that the unborn child is not a child until it is born. I don't know, I don't know how anybody could say a thing like that. For there is life, the life of God in the child, and that child has been created for greater things, to love and to be loved.
In fact, Mother Teresa saw abortion as a sign of immense poverty spiritual poverty: Great poverty! There is the child the unborn child, a little child in the womb of the mother. And she doesn't want the child. She s afraid of the child. If I have to feed one more child, if I have to educate one more child, I cannot buy another car, I cannot have a color television; therefore I must kill the child. Full story at LifeNews.com
Louisiana Health Department Closes Abortion Center for Health, Safety Problems
Baton Rouge, LA (LifeNews.com) -- The Louisiana health department has closed the Hope Medical Group for Women abortion business in Shreveport. The Department of Health and Hospitals released a statement late Friday saying it issued an order for Hope to cease and desist doing abortions because it was putting women's health at risk.
The health department noted after an investigation of the abortion facility that it found violations posing "significant health and safety risks to clients."
The suspension of the abortion center's license to operate came under a new abortion regulation bill pro-life Governor Bobby Jindal signed giving the state health department more authority to suspend licenses when abortion centers run afoul of state health laws.
"When we see this level of egregious conduct at a facility, it is incumbent on us to take steps necessary to protect our residents," DHH Interim Secretary Anthony Keck said in the statement. "The Legislature gave us this authority because they recognized we must have the ability to stop unsafe practices that place these already vulnerable women in danger."
The health department said it found the Hope Medical Group for Women abortion center failed to ensure a physician performed a physical exam of the mother prior to the abortion and failed to properly monitor vital signs of patients under anesthesia. Full story at LifeNews.com
Ohio Pro-Life Candidates Portman, Kasich Lead Democrats Fisher, Strickland
Columbus, OH (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll released today by the Columbus Dispatch newspaper funds two pro-life candidates now holding sizable leads. GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich leads pro-abortion Gov. Ted Strickland by 12 percent while Senate hopeful Rob Portman tops Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher by 13 percent.
The newspaper conducted a survey of 1,622 registered voters by mail.
It found Kasich, a former congressman and presidential candidate who compiled a strong pro-life voting record, leading Strickland 49-37 percent with 4 percent backing another candidate and 10 percent undecided.
In the Senate race, Portman, also a congressman with a strong pro-life voting record, leads Fisher 50-37 percent with 3 percent who support a minor candidate and 9 percent undecided.
Strickland won by more than 20 percent over pro-life Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell four years ago but the poll found less than two-thirds of those who voted for him before are backing him now.
The newspaper poll also found voter enthusiasm running nearly three times higher among Republicans than Democrats pointing to a larger turnout of Republican voters than Democrats. Full story at LifeNews.com
Oklahoma Abortion Center Director Charged With Lying About Bomb Threat
Tulsa, OK (LifeNews.com) -- The former director of the Reproductive Services abortion center in Tulsa, Oklahoma has been charged with making false or misleading statements after telling police she supposedly found a bomb at the abortion center. Linda Meek reported on August 13 a bomb had been placed in a trash receptacle.
Documents filed with the U.S. District Court in Tulsa determined that a "suspicious" box found in the trash was harmless.
Tulsa Police Officer Leland Ashley told the Tulsa World, "She told us that the box in the trash can didn't look like trash the clinic usually throws away in that trash can," but would not confirm reports that Meek told officials she heard the package "ticking."
Meek left her position with the abortion business after the false report and she is slated to make an appearance in federal court on Thursday, according to the Associated Press. She faces up to 5 years in prison if convicted.
AP interviewed pro-life advocates who said they believe Meek was trying to make it appear they were responsible in order to get the pro-life side bad press in the media and have authorities focus on them. Full story at LifeNews.com
Kenya Minister Presses Forward With Push to Remove Pro-Abortion Provisions
Nairobi, Kenya (LifeNews.com) -- A top government official who was the de facto leader of the No campaign against the draft constitution in Kenya is pressing forward with a push to get the government of the African nation to remove the provisions allowing abortions from the document Kenyans approved in August. Kenya has long protected women and unborn children but the zeal for a new constitution overtook concerns about preventing abortions.
The Yes campaign, spearheaded by government officials, prevailed on a 69 to 31 percentage point margin over the No campaign, which Higher Education Minister William Ruto, Catholic churches and the Kenya Christian Church supported.
Now, Ruto is pressing for the government officials who promised minority views would be included with potential amendments, such as removing the language allowing abortions, to allow votes on them.
Speaking at a Pentecostal church, Ruto said he and other No campaigners support the implementation of the constitution but the amendments are needed, according to Capital News.
"We are one people it is now our collective responsibility and business to implement the new Constitution and as we do so through legislation remove the contentious areas, and ambiguous areas so that we can have a new Constitution that is improved and serves the collective interests of the people of Kenya and we can do this together as a nation" he said. Full story at LifeNews.com
Kentucky Poll Has Pro-Life Senate Candidate Rand Paul Leading Jack Conway
Frankfort, KY (LifeNews.com) -- If a new Louisville Courier-Journal and WHAS-TV poll conducted by Survey USA is any indication, pro-life Senate candidate Rand Paul will hold on to the seat currently held by pro-life Sen. Jim Bunning. Paul leads Democratic rival Jack Conway by 15 points the new survey reveals.
According to the poll, Paul is ahead of Conway 55% to 40% to claim the seat of Bunning, a former Hall of Fame pitched who is not running for re-election.
Paul wins 82% of Republicans, 32% of Democrats, and 56% of Independents, according to SurveyUSA.
The poll finds 54 percent of Kentucky residents say they are pro-life while just 42 percent call themselves "pro-choice" on abortion. Of the pro-life residents, 74 percent back Paul while 22 percent support Conway and 32 percent of those who back abortion support Paul while 63 percent favor Conway.
Neil Stevens of the conservative blog Red State said the results show Republicans are making inroads with Democratic voters.
"Barack Obama s professional left just isn't showing up this year, according to SurveyUSA s projection," he said.
"It also doesn't help Conway that the Tea Party activists are so important this year," Stevens added. "Those people who favor it (40%) back Paul 87-10. Neutrals (26%) also favor Paul 60-35. Those people with no opinion of the movement (9%) also support Paul 45-37." Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life News: Judges, Texas, South Korea, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Malta
Americans Say Judges Too Liberal Versus Too Conservative More Than 2-1
Washington, DC -- Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters say that most judges in the country are too liberal. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 18% believe most judges are too conservative and 31% say the judges are about right ideologically.
Malta Representatives on Council of Europe Urged to Promote Pro-Life Ethic
Vallarta, Malta -- The pro-life group Gift of Life is urging Maltese members of the Council of Europe to stand up for the pro-life perspective on abortion, according to the Times of Malta.
Austin, Texas Catholic Diocese Urges Action Against County Abortion Funding
Austin, TX -- The Austin, Texas Catholic Diocese is urging pro-life advocates to take action against a recent decision by the county to fund abortions.
Planned Parenthood of North Texas PAC Fined $3,000 for Campaign Violations
Austin, TX -- The Texas Ethics Commission has fined Cary Jennings, the campaign treasurer for Planned Parenthood of North Texas' political action committee, $3,000 for failing to disclose spending $26,695 to support four political candidates in the November, 2008 state elections, according to the Texas Watchdog blog.
Korean Singer Hee-jin Claims Pop Singer Eru Pressured her to get Abortion
Seoul, South Korea -- Controvery is escalating over the relationship between pop song lyricist Choi Hee-jin and K-pop singer Eru, as she claimed that she had an abortion after getting pregnant, according to the Korean Herald.
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