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• New Audio Surfaces of Obama Defending Infanticide in Illinois
• Forget Akin, Obama Ignored Planned Parenthood Sex Trafficking Videos
• Paul Ryan: I m Proud of My Pro-Life Record on Abortion
• Poll: Obama Losing More Support Among Catholic Voters
More Pro-Life News
• Full Text of Strongly Pro-Life GOP Abortion Platform Released
• Sandra Fluke Exploits Akin Dustup to Raise Money for Obama
• Botched Abortion 911 Call: She s Bleeding Quite Badly
• Prayer Saved Me From Abortion, Three Days Beforehand
• Fox News Under Fire, Says Planned Parenthood Doesn t Do Abortions
• Cardinal Dolan to Deliver Closing Prayer at GOP Convention
• Video Shows Attack on Pro-Life Activist in Rockford, Illinois
• Evangelical Colleges File New Lawsuits Against HHS-Abortion Mandate
• South Carolina: Gov. Nikki Haley Signs Key Pro-Life Bills
• Pro-Lifers Outnumber Abortion Activist at Planned Parenthood Bus Tour
• Drug Wrongly Used to Do Abortions Worldwide Should be Removed WHO List
• Philippines: Senator Denounces Global Abortion Lobby
• Fine Gael Must Continue Resisting Ireland s Abortion Regime
New Audio Surfaces of Obama Defending Infanticide in Illinois
That President Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois legislature to not support a bill to provide medical care for newborns who survived failed late-term abortions is one of the key reasons pro-life voters will never support him.
Now, Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack has uncovered new audio of Obama, as a state legislator in Illinois in 2003, defending his position. Obama essentially argues that there is no need for the law because he trusts abortion practitioners to provide medical care for the baby they unsuccessfully tried to kill in an abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/new-audio-surfaces-of-obama-defending-infanticide-in-illinois/
Forget Akin, Obama Ignored Planned Parenthood Sex Trafficking Videos
While the media and abortion advocates use controversial comments from Todd Akin for political gain, pro-life advocates say the Obama administration is where fingers should be pointed when it comes to women and rape.
They are bringing up the fact that the Obama administration, last year, ignored the potential crimes shown in videos showing Planned Parenthood centers helping undercover investigators posing as sex traffickers. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/forget-akin-obama-ignored-planned-parenthood-sex-trafficking-videos/
Paul Ryan: I m Proud of My Pro-Life Record on Abortion
Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is not backing down on his pro-life position in face of attacks from the media and abortion activists who want to tie him to the controversial remarks made by Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin.
Media outlets have been attempting to paint Ryan and presidential candidate Mitt Romney as extremists on the issue of abortion because of the remarks Akin made about women, rape and abortion. But Ryan is standing his ground on his pro-life position. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/paul-ryan-im-proud-of-my-pro-life-record-on-abortion/
Poll: Obama Losing More Support Among Catholic Voters
Obama has already turned off Catholic voters with his HHS mandate forcing Catholic employers to pay for or refer women for drugs that can cause abortions and for contraception and sterilizations. Now, a new poll released today by a pro-life group shows what support Obama has left is eroding further.
American Life League commissioned a nationwide telephone survey of 900 self-identified Catholic registered voters an August 15-19 poll conducted by ccAdvertising, a polling firm based in Centreville, Virginia. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/poll-obama-losing-more-support-among-catholic-voters/
Full Text of Strongly Pro-Life GOP Abortion Platform Released
The full text of the draft of the Republican Party platform on abortion has been released and the plank shows the Republican Party has retained its strongly pro-woman, pro-life position. CNN obtained the full text from its sources:
THE SANCTITY AND DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE: Faithful to the self-evident truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/full-text-of-strongly-pro-life-gop-abortion-platform-released/
Sandra Fluke Exploits Akin Dustup to Raise Money for Obama
Pro-abortion activist Sandra Fluke is apparently on the Obama payroll now, as the president s re-election campaign has called on her to en a fundraising email exploiting the controversy over Todd Akin s abortion-rape comments to raise money.
Fluke gained national attention when she argued that the federal government should force Catholic organizations and others to pay for abortion-causing drugs and contraception against their religious beliefs. Fluke is now warming up for her primetime speaking slot at the Democratic convention in early September by sending out the fundraising email and referencing Akin s comments about legitimate rape. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/sandra-fluke-exploits-akin-dustup-to-raise-money-for-obama/
Botched Abortion 911 Call: She s Bleeding Quite Badly
The recording of the 911 call from an apparently badly botched abortion last week at an abortion clinic is Dayton has been made public and the details are shocking for a woman who was victimized.
A woman was rushed to the hospital in Dayton, Ohio following a botched late-term abortion that took place at the Women s Med Center abortion clinic in Dayton. Martin Haskell, who is credit with making the partial-birth abortion procedure a household name, runs the abortion facility that injured the woman. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/botched-abortion-911-call-shes-bleeding-quite-badly/
Prayer Saved Me From Abortion, Three Days Beforehand
My birth-mother, Alisha, was 16 and afraid. She discovered she was pregnant in December 1991 and the most terrifying thing to her at that moment was telling her father. He immediately scheduled an abortion for her and later she told me she thought he felt the situation was a reflection of his parenting. I, who I was a fetus at that moment, had just a few days to live. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/prayer-saved-from-from-abortion-three-days-beforehand/
Fox News Under Fire, Says Planned Parenthood Doesn t Do Abortions
A Fox news anchor is drawing criticism from pro-life advocates for saying in a news report that Planned Parenthood doesn t do abortions. Moreover, former Judge Andrew Napolitano agreed with the anchor that that was the case. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/fox-news-under-fire-says-planned-parenthood-doesnt-do-abortions/
Cardinal Dolan to Deliver Closing Prayer at GOP Convention
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, a strong pro-life advocate who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will deliver the benediction at the Republican National Convention on the night Mitt Romney accepts the GOP nomination. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/cardinal-dolan-to-deliver-closing-prayer-at-gop-convention/
Video Shows Attack on Pro-Life Activist in Rockford, Illinois
A new video released by the Pro-Life Action League shows a pro-life activist attacked during a recent event the organization held in Rockford, Illinois. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/video-shows-attack-on-pro-life-activist-in-rockford-illinois/
Evangelical Colleges File New Lawsuits Against HHS-Abortion Mandate
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration Thursday on behalf of two evangelical Christian colleges: Grace College and Seminary in Indiana and Biola University in California. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/evangelical-colleges-file-new-lawsuits-against-hhs-abortion-mandate/
South Carolina: Gov. Nikki Haley Signs Key Pro-Life Bills
Gov. Nikki Haley signed two key pro-life bills today on abortion and she was joined in doing so by pro-life advocates who were elated by her leadership in protecting unborn children and stopping abortions in South Carolina. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-signs-key-pro-life-bills/
Pro-Lifers Outnumber Abortion Activist at Planned Parenthood Bus Tour
Pro-life advocates in Illinois vastly outnumbered abortion supporters at one of the bus stops of the Planned Parenthood bus currently on tour promoting abortion and pro-abortion President Barack Obama. John Jansen of the Pro-Life Action League provides more details. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/pro-lifers-outnumber-abortion-activist-at-planned-parenthood-bus-tour/
Drug Wrongly Used to Do Abortions Worldwide Should be Removed WHO List
A group of researchers led by Professor Allyson Pollock from the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Barts and the London School of Medicine concluded that there is insufficient evidence that Misoprostol also know as Cytotec, can effectively treat women for postpartum bleeding. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/drug-wrongly-used-to-do-abortions-worldwide-should-be-removed-who-list/
Philippines: Senator Denounces Global Abortion Lobby
Senator Vicente C. Sotto III, one of the most popular and beloved politicians in the Philippines, is using all his clout to fight the latest attempt of the global abortion lobby to change his countries laws to open the door for unfettered abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/philippines-senator-denounces-global-abortion-lobby/
Fine Gael Must Continue Resisting Ireland s Abortion Regime
We ve come to expect a certain level of divisiveness in the abortion debate. It s an emotive subject simply because it concerns the most fundamental right of all the right to life. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/23/fine-gael-must-continue-resisting-irelands-abortion-regime/
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