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• Senate Omnibus Bill Has Abortion Concerns, Approval Tanks
• Senate GOP Opposes Votes on Obama s Pro-Abortion Judges
• Pro-Abortion Poll Presents Bad News for Obama in 2012
• Carhart Misleads Maryland Medical Board on Late Abortions
More Pro-Life News
• Senate Panel OKs Intl Violence Against Women Act Amid Abortion Concerns
• National Pro-Life Youth Rally to Complement March for Life
• Canadian MPs, Prime Minister, Defeat Bill to Stop Coerced Abortions
• Court Decides Roe v. Wade of Europe Abortion Case Thursday
• Kansas Doctors Want to Bring Abortions Back to Wichita
• Minnesota Taxpayers Have Spent $15M for 50,000 Abortions
• Bishop: Arizona Hospital May Lose Catholic Standing Over Abortion
• Wisconsin Billboard Effort With Halo Ultrasound Pic Expands
• Judge Wrong to Eviscerate Alaska Parental Notification Law
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Senate Omnibus Bill Has Abortion Concerns, Approval Tanks
Senate Democrats introduced an omnibus spending bill yesterday to keep the federal government running into the next fiscal year and the measure contains abortion concerns.
The introduction of the bill, which Republicans and pro-life advocates are already opposing, comes as new polling data shows Congress approval rating continues at rock bottom.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, a pro-abortion Hawaii lawmaker, introduced the bill 1,924-page mammoth which come in just 125 pages shy of the ObamaCare measure.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says pro-life advocates should be worried about what the bill contains.
The omnibus contains more than $1 billion in funding for programs initiated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as the ObamaCare law that allows for abortion funding. It allocates $750 million from the Prevention and Public Health Fund slush fund for a variety of programs that could lead to abortion funding.
It also includes a $175.9 million adjustment in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Program Management account to implement the massive Medicaid expansion and cuts to Medicare Advantage that could lead to rationing of health care.
Perkins explains, Among other concerns, taxpayer funds could be used for abortions in D.C., $740 million would go toward international population control, and Title X funds would get a multi-million dollar boost. Full story at LifeNews.com
Senate GOP Opposes Votes on Obama s Pro-Abortion Judges
Senate Democrats want to confirm a slate of supposedly noncontroversial lower court judicial nominees President Barack Obama put forward but Republicans appear to be objecting.
Senate GOP lawmakers have said pro-abortion nominees like Goodwin Liu and others are not ones who should receive a vote and they appear ready to make good again past filibuster threats.
Republicans oppose Liu and three other nominees Edward Chen, Louis Butler and John McConnell with Chen and Butler also having particular problems for the pro-life community.
But left-wing groups are pressing Obama and Senate Democrats to fight GOP lawmakers on the nominations.
Caroline Frederickson, executive director of the American Constitution Society, complained to Politico today that Republicans are really flexing their muscles by insisting on no votes for the four liberal activist nominees, saying they are trying to show the president that they re in control. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Abortion Poll Presents Bad News for Obama in 2012
The pro-abortion group Emily s List has released a new poll conducted by a Democratic polling firm that presents bad news for its friend in the White House concerning his re-election bid.
Conducted by the Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group, the new national survey found that, among women who voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 but who shifted to support Republican candidates last month, Obama trails 45-40 percent against a generic Republican presidential candidate.
The numbers for the pro-abortion group were better when they combined women who stayed home in the November elections with those who voted for Republicans.
Then, Emily s List saw a 62 percent level of support for Obama compared with 23 percent who favor a Republican alternative, according to a Politico report on the poll.
That nearly one quarter of Obama s 2008 base among women now favors a Republican candidate in 2012 and either stayed home or voted for pro-life Republicans last month shows a significant erosion of support among those voters who he needs to be elected to another four year term. Full story at LifeNews.com
Carhart Misleads Maryland Medical Board on Late Abortions
When LeRoy Carhart relocated much of his abortion business from Nebraska to Maryland, he apparently didn t tell the state medical board the truth about the abortions he would do in Germantown.
Carhart, the infamous late-term abortion practitioner who twice went before the Supreme Court to keep partial-birth abortions legal, started working for an abortion business outside the nation s capital when Nebraska passed a fetal pain law banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
He applied for a license to practice medicine in Maryland in September and the pro-life group Operation Rescue alleges he intentionally concealed the true nature of his risky late-term abortion practice from the Maryland Board of Physicians. The group recently received a redacted copy of Carhart s application for Maryland licensure, obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act request.
On page two of the application, Carhart lists his current position as Medical Director and Staff Physician of Bellevue Health/Emergency Clinic, Inc. located at 1002 West Mission Avenue in Bellevue, Nebraska. That s the address of his abortion business, the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska. Full story at LifeNews.com
Senate Panel OKs Intl Violence Against Women Act Amid Abortion Concerns
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed yesterday the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) that presents concerns over activists using it to promote abortion.
Pro-abortion committee Chairman John Kerry of Massachusetts is the lead sponsor of the bill and he previously scrapped one hearing and vote on the measure because opponents believed he lacked the votes to pass it.
However, the pro-abortion feminist wire web site indicates the bill finally emerged from the panel without any amendment neutralizing abortion concerns but also with amendments that essentially stripped funding and kept funding to existing resources.
The legislation is not expected to pass the House or Senate during the lame duck session and, with pro-life advocates running the House next year and increasing their numbers in the Senate, the bill is not expected to go far next session either. Full story at LifeNews.com
National Pro-Life Youth Rally to Complement March for Life
Four organizations that focus on bringing the pro-life perspective to youth and young adults are joining together for a historic national rally for young Americans in conjunction with the March for Life against abortion.
Students for Life of America along with Rock for Life, 40 Days for Life, and the Human Life Alliance, announced that it will host the first-ever National Pro-Life Youth Rally to complement the March on Monday, January 24. That s the date of the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions that, combined, allowed virtually unlimited abortions.in all nine months of pregnancy.
The pro-life organizations believe the rally is an opportunity for pro-life youth to gather with other young people from across America, stand up for unborn children, and learn how to save lives in their schools and communities. Full story at LifeNews.com
Canadian MPs, Prime Minister, Defeat Bill to Stop Coerced Abortions
Members of the Canadian Parliament, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, voted against a bill today that would have help stop coerced and pressured abortions women sometimes face.
Bill C-510, proposed by Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, would have made it illegal for anyone to coerce a woman into an abortion through threats of violence, withdrawal of financial resources or denial of a place to live.
Bruinooge acknowledges there are already general laws against coercion and making threats, but he believes a specific prohibition against coercing pregnant women into abortion needs to be spelled out as a message to potential offenders and to society at large.
Bruinooge says the bill, also known as Roxanne s Law, is a response to the murder of Winnipeg constituent Roxanne Fernando, who was beaten to death by three men because she refused to have an abortion. Her body was found in a frozen ditch outside the city a few days after she vanished.
But, the House of Commons killed his private member s bill by a vote of 178 to 97. Full story at LifeNews.com
Court Decides Roe v. Wade of Europe Abortion Case Thursday
Tomorrow, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is expected to announce its ruling in the case ABC v. Ireland.
The plaintiffs, three anonymous women A., B., and C., are asking that the Court create a right to abortion in the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) to trump the right to life Ireland guarantees the unborn in its Constitution. It seems ironic that the Convention designed to protect against injustice may be used to stomp out a nation s right to legally protect its smallest and most vulnerable members. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Kansas Doctors Want to Bring Abortions Back to Wichita
A Kansas physician plans to open an abortion center in Wichita, the location of the late-term abortion facility George Tiller ran before he was killed recently. The city has been abortion free since then.
Mila Means has reportedly purchased abortion equipment from the now-closed Women s Health Care Services formerly operated by Tiller and plans to begin doing abortions on Saturdays at her medical office near East Harry and Webb Road in Wichita.
The pro-life group Operation Rescue says pro-life people saw her at the Aid For Women clinic in Kansas City, Kansas where she is reportedly training to learn how to d surgical abortions. Means is a family practice physician who is not certified as an obstetrician or gynecologist, Troy Newman, the president of the group, told LifeNews.com this afternoon. Full story at LifeNews.com
Minnesota Taxpayers Have Spent $15M for 50,000 Abortions
Thanks to a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling in December 1995, requiring taxpayers to fund abortions, the state health department reveals Minnesotans have paid $15 million for 50,000 abortions in the years since.
From June 1994 through 2008, state taxpayers paid more than $15.6 million for 50,869 abortions, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services. In 2008 alone (the most recent statistics available), state taxpayers paid $1.5 million for 3,754 abortions. Full story at LifeNews.com
Bishop: Arizona Hospital May Lose Catholic Standing Over Abortion
Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix plans to declare on Friday that St. Joseph s Hospital is not longer a Catholic one unless its parent organization changes its stance on abortion.
The hospital has been facing questions for the better part of a year over a 2009 abortion which the hospital s ethics committee deemed necessary to save the life of the mother.
Olmsted sent a letter November 22 to Lloyd H. Dean, president of Catholic Healthcare West about the abortion after CHW relied on the analysis of . Therese Lysaught, an associate professor of theology and director of graduate studies at Marquette University, to justify the abortion. Olmsted said it is his job, not the hospital s to interpret and explain Catholic moral teachings on abortion and enforce them within the diocese. Full story at LifeNews.com.
Wisconsin Billboard Effort With Halo Ultrasound Pic Expands
Due to the overwhelming popularity of the Mary s ultrasound billboards in La Crosse and attention they have received across the Internet, Pro-Life Wisconsin has expanded the effort to include two billboards in the city of Milwaukee and one on Highway 41 in Green Bay with the identical image.
The billboards feature an ultrasound image of Baby Jesus, with a halo and the words He s on His way Christmas starts with Christ. Full story at LifeNews.com.
Judge Wrong to Eviscerate Alaska Parental Notification Law
Anchorage Superior Court Judge John Suddock acted more like a dentist than a judge by effectively removing the teeth from the parental notice law Alaskans voted for in August.
In his ruling, Judge Suddock took out the criminal and civil penalties for physicians who knowingly violate the law by performing an abortion on a minor without notifying parents beforehand. Full story at LifeNews.com.
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