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Friday, January 14, 2011
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Current Headlines Top Stories
• Pro-Abortion President Obama Experiencing Polling Comeback
• Iowa Medical Board Won't Punish Doctor in Telemed Abortions
• Boycott Urged of Hotels at March for Life Backing Planned Parenthood
• Unborn Twins Interact in the Womb at 14 weeks Into Pregnancy More Pro-Life News
• No Reason to Oppose Bill to Get Abortion Out of Obamacare
• British Activists Sue to Weaken Abortion Drug Safety Laws
• Texas Senator Hutchison Won't Run Again, Pro-Life Opportunity
• Washington: Gregoire Funds Planned Parenthood, Cuts Kids Health Care
• Iowa Planned Parenthood Backs Off Telemed Abortion Lawsuit
• Profit Shows Pro-Choice Means Pro-Abortion for Planned Parenthood
• Pro-Life News: Santorum, Brownback, Abortion, South Carolina, Nevada
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Pro-Abortion President Obama Experiencing Polling Comeback
President Barack Obama is experiencing a comeback in the polls following what he termed a "shellacking" at the ballot box in November as Americans expressed their opposition to his pro-abortion agenda and health care takeover. However, since voters had a chance to vent in November, Obama has moved to a stronger position in polling data and a new survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports finds the percentage of people who strongly disagree with how he has performed as president at its lowest point in 15 months.
Likely aided by the way in which Americans come together behind their political leaders in the aftermath of a national incident such as the Arizona shooting, Rasmussen Reports indicates 25% of the nation's voters strongly approve of the way Obama is performing compared with 36 percent who strongly disapprove.
"That is the lowest level of Strong Disapproval recorded in more than fifteen months, since October 10, 2009. Over the past three weeks, the number expressing Strong Disapproval has remained below 40%. Prior to that, for almost all of 2010, Strong Disapproval had consistently been above the 40% level," Rasmussen notes. Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance while 50 percent disapprove — keeping Obama in negative territory but not in as bad of a shape as he was in November.
Another new poll out today, conducted by Quinnipiac University, shows voters believe Obama is a better president than pro-life President George W. Bush and a better president than Sen. John McCain, who opposes abortion, would have been. Full story at LfeNews.com Iowa Medical Board Won't Punish Doctor in Telemed Abortions
The Iowa Board of Medicine has decided not to punish an Iowa physician for engaging in a controversial practice known as telemed abortions, which prevents women from seeing a doctor in person before using the abortion drug. Iowa and national pro-life groups have complained about the process because they say it puts women's health at risk by not allowing them an in-person examination before taking a drug that has killed more than a dozen women, seven in the United States, and injured more than 1,100 alone in the U.S., according to 2006 FDA figures.
Susan Haskell, an osteopath, is involved in the controversial telemed abortion process where women are only allowed to visit with a physician via a Skype video connection before getting the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug. Afterwards, she presses a remote-controlled button that opens a box containing the abortion drug and the woman is given the drugs by an abortion center staffer, who may not be a licensed medical professional. Full story at LifeNews.com
Boycott Urged of Hotels at March for Life Backing Planned Parenthood
A pro-life group that monitors corporate donations to Planned Parenthood is urging pro-life people attending the March for Life to not make reservations at hotels that support the abortion business.
Life Decisions International says several hotels and restaurants are boycott targets due to financial support of the organization that did more than 320,000 abortions last year — more than any other abortion company.
"We are asking pro-life people who will be participating in the March for Life to boycott the hotel chains and restaurants that have refused to end corporate funding to Planned Parenthood," said Kenneth Garvey, the director of communications for LDI.
For those who may have already made plans weeks or months ago and can't change them, he adds: "If you plan to stay in a boycotted hotel and it is impossible to change your plans, let the company know you will not be back unless it agrees to stop donating to Planned Parenthood." Full story at LifeNews.com
Unborn Twins Interact in the Womb at 14 weeks Into Pregnancy
An Italian researcher is gaining more attention into his research published last October on twins and the relationships they develop — starting in the womb.
Umberto Castiello of the University of Padova, Italy published a report in the online journal Public Library of Science One (PLoS One) in October showing unborn babies have the ability to interact as early as 14 weeks into the pregnancy.
"We conclude that performance of movements towards the co-twin is not accidental: already starting from the 14th week of gestation twin fetuses execute movements specifically aimed at the co-twin," Castiello's team wrote.
They discovered unborn children have the ability to make directed contact with other human beings beginning before birth and they measured the movements of the babies towards each other and found the actions differed from incidental contact with each other or the uterine wall of their mother. Full story at LifeNews.com
No Reason to Oppose Bill to Get Abortion Out of Obamacare
by Luis Zaffirini
In a 2009 article regarding abortion coverage in Obama's health care legislation, Ken Blackwell used a Sherlock Homes reference about a deduction the famed detective had made in a case of a nighttime robbery.
Holmes reasoned that since the dogs had not barked, they must have known the robber. The same, Blackwell argued, was true for abortion coverage in ObamaCare: if it didn't seem to bother the pro-aborts, you could be sure they were pleased.
Fast forward to today. The same types of groups who feigned upset at Obama's meaningless 2010 executive order which was supposed to appease pro-lifers are now infuriated at the prospect that Obama's empty promise be given the full force of law through actual pro-life legislation. Full story at LifeNews.com
British Activists Sue to Weaken Abortion Drug Safety Laws
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, an abortion business has filed a lawsuit to weaken the safety laws surrounding the usage of the dangerous abortion drug RU 486. BPAS had hoped to lobby the Department of Health to change the legal interpretation of laws on the drugs from saying all abortion drugs must be taken at the abortion center to saying they only need to be presented at the center. Although the drug is responsible for killing more than 13 women worldwide, including in England, BPAS wants to prevent women from taking both parts of the two-part drug at a hospital or medical center even though they may face significant medical complications.
Because the British government wouldn't budge, BPAS is taking its case to the British High Court. Ann Furedi, chief executive of abortion business, told the London Telegraph the opposition to the plan to change the protocols from the British government isn't about protecting women's health but "largely about whether this was politically expedient at this time." Full story at LifeNews.com
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Texas Senator Hutchison Won't Run Again, Pro-Life Opportunity
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican, announced today in a letter to her supporters she will not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. This decision will provide Texas pro-life advocates the opportunity to elect an authentically pro-life senator to represent them in 2012. Hutchison's record on abortion is mixed. Throughout her political career, Hutchison has muddled the waters on her stance. In the same breath, Hutchison would affirm the Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion-on-demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy, and claim she supported protection for unborn children past six months. Senator Hutchison also has a dismal record on embryonic stem cell research, voting to mandate federal funding for the destruction of human embryos. Full story at LifeNews.com
Washington: Gregoire Funds Planned Parenthood, Cuts Kids Health Care
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire has decided to re-affirm taxpayer funding for the "Take Charge" free birth control program that sends taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood.
State tax dollars flow to the abortion giant despite previous information showing it engaging in fraudulent actions by overcharging the state government.
The Abortion in Washington blog reported yesterday that Gregoire has decided to continue funding the program, in a move that it says confirms again "that the Washington State Governor's Mansion is little more than the Olympia office of Planned Parenthood." Full story at LifeNews.com
Iowa Planned Parenthood Backs Off Telemed Abortion Lawsuit
An Iowa Planned Parenthood affiliate is backing off a lawsuit it filed against officials with the pro-life group Operation Rescue concerning telemed abortions in the state.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has filed a motion to dismiss its own lawsuit filed against OR staffer Cheryl Sullenger that was an attempt to block the Iowa Board of Medicine from releasing public information about four of their employees. In August, the affiliate, that has the nation's first abortion practitioner overseeing the new telemed abortion concept, filed suit against Operation Rescue to block a request for papers on the abortion practitioner's medical license. Full story at LifeNews.com
Profit Shows Pro-Choice Means Pro-Abortion for Planned Parenthood
by Laura Echevarria
I want to know, where is the outrage? New York City's abortion rate is a whopping 39 percent and those who are speaking out are the religious leaders. Where are the NOW spokespersons or the Planned Parenthood (PPFA) leaders who claim to be "pro-choice" not pro-abortion? When the abortion rates are astronomical, when Black Americans are being aborted in numbers that could be considered almost genocidal—where are they? They—the starry-eyed abortion zealots who talk about abortion with a religious-like fervor—are nowhere to be found. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life News: Santorum, Brownback, Abortion, South Carolina, Nevada
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