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Thursday, January 31, 2013

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• Twitter Censors Black Pro-Lifers Blasting NAACP on Abortion
• Arkansas Senate OKs Ban on Abortions After Heartbeat Begins
• Doctor Insists Parents of Baby With Cleft Lip Starve Him to Death
• Another Plaintiff Beats Obama HHS-Abortion Mandate in Court

More Pro-Life News
• Woman: Planned Parenthood Falsified Abortion Records, Denied Me Ultrasound
• Documents Reveal Horrific Details of Botched 35-Week Abortion
• Abortion Activists Confused After Planned Parenthood Drops Pro-Choice
• Last Mississippi Abortion Clinic Painted Pink to Drum Up Business
• MPs Call for Probe as 491 Babies Left to Die After Abortions
• Cardinal Dolan: Young People Represent the Ultrasound Generation
• Parental Consent Doesn t Save Babies From Abortion if Bypasses Abused
• Man Charged Who Assaulted Pregnant Girlfriend With Baseball Bat
• Chen Guangcheng: Chinese Officials Make Big Bucks Forcing Abortions
• Belgian Twin Euthanasia Story the Tip of a Chilling Iceberg
• United Nations Engages in Major Population Control Debate
• Eugenics Compensation Bill Reintroduced in North Carolina
• Russia s Underpopulation Problems Behind Foreign Adoption Ban

Twitter Censors Black Pro-Lifers Blasting NAACP on Abortion
A coalition of African-American pro-life activists have had their Twitter account suspended after firing off Tweets challenging the NAACP over its position favoring abortion.

As LifeNews reported, the NAACP will host its 44th Image Awards Show to honor cultural and entertainment luminaries presenting the best face of black Americans. Leading black pro-life advocates will be on hand to protest the event, because the NAACP promotes abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/twitter-censors-black-pro-lifers-blasting-naacp-on-abortion/

Arkansas Senate OKs Ban on Abortions After Heartbeat Begins
The Arkansas Senate voted today for a bill that would ban virtually all abortions in the state. The measure would ban abortions at the point when a unborn child s heart starts to beat.

At 22 days into pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant, unborn children complete the development of their heart to the point that a heartbeat begins and the bill would stop abortions at that point. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/arkansas-senate-oks-ban-on-abortions-after-heartbeat-begins/

Doctor Insists Parents of Baby With Cleft Lip Starve Him to Death
I first heard about the Peterson family in what you might call a chance meeting. (Of course I don t believe in chances; I believe that there is Someone who has a plan and a purpose behind the random occurrences in our lives.) And I firmly believe that this amazing family s story needs to be told. It s scary. It s shocking. And its implications are dangerous. How many other hospitals starve babies to death, simply based on a defect ? How many other doctors instruct new parents to leave their newborns to die or wallow in an institution for the rest of their lives?http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/doctor-insists-parents-of-baby-with-cleft-lip-starve-him-to-death/

Another Plaintiff Beats Obama HHS-Abortion Mandate in Court
Another family-owned business has initially defeated the Obama mandate in court, after it sued to stop it from being compelled to pay for drugs that may cause abortions for its employees.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday that blocks enforcement of the Obama administration s abortion pill mandate against a family-run business in Grote Industries v. Sebelius. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/another-plaintiff-beats-obama-hhs-abortion-mandate-in-court/

Woman: Planned Parenthood Falsified Abortion Records, Denied Me Ultrasound
The stinging tears and palpable heartbreak of a young woman deceived by Planned Parenthood say more than a book crammed with words ever could convey about the harm done to women when they are deprived of a glimpse of the humanity of their children before aborting them.

I just got back from Planned Parenthood, a visibly distraught young lady says in a YouTube video posted on January 19. She had just picked up records from a Planned Parenthood abortion that happened six years earlier. She says Planned Parenthood falsified the records regarding her age at the time of the abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/woman-planned-parenthood-falsified-abortion-records-denied-me-ultrasound/

Documents Reveal Horrific Details of Botched 35-Week Abortion
Sometimes authors of magazines are allowed to witness abortions in the course of writing articles. Sometimes medical students who never had an opinion on abortion come to grips with the procedure after viewing one. People who observe abortion procedures or abortion remains usually come away with little doubt that abortion is killing a human being.

Author Verlyn Klinkenborg of Harper s Magazine visited an abortion clinic for a 1995 article. After viewing the remains of an abortion at ten weeks, he wrote the following http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/documents-reveal-horrific-details-of-botched-35-week-abortion/

Abortion Activists Confused After Planned Parenthood Drops Pro-Choice
It s clear by now Planned Parenthood didn t consult its friends before announcing plans to drop the term pro-choice from its lexicon.

Seems like a huge deal to me, particularly since Planned Parenthood offered no replacement. Planned Parenthood doesn t make marketing missteps, but I think it just did. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/abortion-activists-confused-after-planned-parenthood-drops-pro-choice/

Last Mississippi Abortion Clinic Painted Pink to Drum Up Business
In an effort to draw attention to itself, the Jackson Women s Health Organization, Mississippi s last abortion clinic, surprised the public with a shiny pink paint job this week. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/last-mississippi-abortion-clinic-painted-pink-to-drum-up-business/

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MPs Call for Probe as 491 Babies Left to Die After Abortions
Members of the Canadian Parliament has called for a probe into the figures from a story LifeNews broke showing 491 babies have been born alive and subsequently left to die following failed abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/mp-calls-for-probe-as-491-babies-left-to-die-after-abortions/

Cardinal Dolan: Young People Represent the Ultrasound Generation
As we mark the solemn 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, I would like to address my column this week to our teens and young adults, who I believe will ultimately prevail in restoring a sense of respect for all human life, including the innocent baby in her mother s womb. Please feel free to share this column with a young adult in your life, or ask them to look for it at www.cny.org. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/cardinal-dolan-young-people-represent-the-ultrasound-generation/

Parental Consent Doesn t Save Babies From Abortion if Bypasses Abused
Questions have arisen over whether a parental consent law with the judicial bypass (which the U. S. Supreme Court requires in the case of consent) or a parental notice law with no judicial bypass is likely to save more children. This was prompted by Texas Right to Life considering how to change Texas parental consent with bypass law so as to be more effective. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/parental-consent-doesnt-save-babies-from-abortion-if-bypasses-abused/

Man Charged Who Assaulted Pregnant Girlfriend With Baseball Bat
A 27-year-old man in Sacramento, California has been charged with attempted homicide for hitting his seven month pregnant former partner in the stomach. John Collins and the woman, whose name has not been released, had arranged to meet and discuss the custody of the couple s child. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/man-charged-who-assaulted-pregnant-girlfriend-with-baseball-bat/

Chen Guangcheng: Chinese Officials Make Big Bucks Forcing Abortions
Earlier this week, I wrote about a recent FRC event discussing China s forced population control policies This weekend, CBS s news program, Sunday Morning carried a feature on the world-famous Chinese dissident and artist Ai WeiWei. The story focused on an exhibit, running until February 24, at the Smithsonian Institution s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/chen-guangcheng-chinese-officials-make-big-bucks-forcing-abortions/

Belgian Twin Euthanasia Story the Tip of a Chilling Iceberg
The case of the twin brothers euthanised in Belgium before Christmas is just the latest step in an escalation of euthanasia which is badly out of control. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/belgian-twin-euthanasia-story-the-top-of-a-chilling-iceberg/

United Nations Engages in Major Population Control Debate
A major disagreement among demographic experts threatens to upend efforts to include population control and family planning programs in the United Nations new development agenda. Experts who view population growth as an obstacle to development are criticizing the laissez-faire attitude of developing countries toward population growth and high fertility. Yet other experts disagree, saying that population control and family planning are not essential to development strategies. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/united-nations-engages-in-major-population-control-debate/

Eugenics Compensation Bill Reintroduced in North Carolina
Wednesday marked the first working session of the North Carolina General Assembly and already a bill has been filed to compensate victims of North Carolina s infamous, state-run eugenics and forced sterilization program, a representative for House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) confirms. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/eugenics-compensation-bill-reintroduced-in-north-carolina/

Russia s Underpopulation Problems Behind Foreign Adoption Ban
Vladimir Putin has sparked international outcry by banning adoptions of Russian children by American families. His action immediately halted the departure of hundreds of Russian orphans about to board planes to journey to a new life. It was a cruel move, widely condemned as callous and vindictive. . http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/31/russias-underpopulation-problems-behind-foreign-adoption-ban/

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Heroic News: “Belgian Twin Euthanasia Story the Top of an Iceberg” plus 12 more

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• Belgian Twin Euthanasia Story the Top of an Iceberg
• Catholic University Will Keep Fighting Mandate After Defeat
• New York Senate GOP Slams Cuomo’s Third-Term Abortion Measure
• Abortion Clinic Closes in Ohio After Pledging to Stay Open
• Disabled Baby Will Walk, Talk After Parents Rejected Abortion
• Russia’s Underpopulation Problems Behind Foreign Adoption Ban
• UK bishops distribute 1 million postcards against gay ‘marriage’
• Pro-family groups applaud Supreme Court of Canada ruling in favor of marriage
• Clinger: a response to MSNBC’s Toure Neblett
• Pope says Biblical view of God can help fatherhood crisis
• Redefining marriage creates conflict, bishops warn Supreme Court
• Justice Department enjoys close relationship with anti-Christian hate group: documents
• Republican Party Backs De-Funding Planned Parenthood

Belgian Twin Euthanasia Story the Top of an Iceberg Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:00 AM PST The case of the twin brothers euthanised in Belgium before Christmas is just the latest step in an escalation of euthanasia which is badly out of control.

Catholic University Will Keep Fighting Mandate After Defeat Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:00 AM PST Catholic University says it will keep fighting the Obamcare HHS mandate that compels religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions after a court dismissed its lawsuit against the mandate.

New York Senate GOP Slams Cuomo’s Third-Term Abortion Measure Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:00 AM PST New York state Senate Republicans are slamming a proposal New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing in the New York state legislature that pro-life advocates say would promote late-term abortions.

Abortion Clinic Closes in Ohio After Pledging to Stay Open Posted: 31 Jan 2013 08:06 AM PST An abortion clinic in Columbus Ohio, Capital Care Women’s Center, has finally officially closed, after reports last year indicated it would do so and a pledge from its operators to stay open.

Disabled Baby Will Walk, Talk After Parents Rejected Abortion Posted: 31 Jan 2013 08:02 AM PST The Boston Globe has a report on an amazing story of a couple who rejected an abortion of their very disabled baby and are glad they did so.

Russia’s Underpopulation Problems Behind Foreign Adoption Ban Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:57 AM PST Vladimir Putin has sparked international outcry by banning adoptions of Russian children by American families. His action immediately halted the departure of hundreds of Russian orphans about to board planes to journey to a new life. It was a cruel move, widely condemned as “callous” and “vindictive.”

UK bishops distribute 1 million postcards against gay ‘marriage’ Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:51 AM PST According to the Catholic bishops, the UK government’s proposed gay "marriage" bill eviscerates the meaning and content of marriage, reducing it to an institution divorced from its fundamental biological and social functions.

Pro-family groups applaud Supreme Court of Canada ruling in favor of marriage Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:51 AM PST A Supreme Court of Canada decision that upheld Quebec's laws which provide rights to married couples that do not apply to couples merely living together has been applauded by pro-family organizations as a recognition of the unique and distinctive role that true marriage plays in society.

Clinger: a response to MSNBC’s Toure Neblett Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:39 AM PST I want everyone reading this to understand that I am a post-abortive dad of two children. I have found healing and pray that all those men who are suppressing their pain and guilt will come to the one true Person who can forgive their sins, even the sin of murder, Jesus Christ.

Pope says Biblical view of God can help fatherhood crisis [[posterous-content:yujgsCFFzDDFrHCfpBGw]] Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:36 AM PST Pope Benedict XVI said the Bible can help clarify the true meaning of being a father during his general audience today.

Redefining marriage creates conflict, bishops warn Supreme Court Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:33 AM PST In recent legal briefs filed with the Supreme Court, the U.S. bishops warned that a redefinition of marriage would create an “engine of conflict” that threatens freedom of religion, speech and other liberties.

Justice Department enjoys close relationship with anti-Christian hate group: documents Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:25 AM PST Documents uncovered from a Freedom of Information Act request show the Obama administration's Department of Justice enjoys a close relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that brands principled opposition to homosexuality “hate.”

Republican Party Backs De-Funding Planned Parenthood Posted: 31 Jan 2013 07:23 AM PST The Republican Party is now officially on record as supporting the de-funding of the taxpayer-supported Planned Parenthood abortion business.

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"NUMBERS DON'T LIE" by TOOMANYABORTED.COM by toomanyaborted Learn more at http://www.toomanyaborted.com relaunching on 02/01/13 Abortion is silently killing us. It outnumbers all other causes of death, combined. Using 2008 CDC stats and the latest nationwide abortion numbers (2008 survey from the Guttmacher Institute) we expose the number of killer of black Americans. Black leaders who used to call abortion, "genocide", have traded their convictions for political power.

The ultrasound generation By Cardinal Timothy Dolan

By Cardinal Timothy Dolan *

As we mark the solemn 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, I would like to address my column this week to our teens and young adults, who I believe will ultimately prevail in restoring a sense of respect for all human life, including the innocent baby in her mother’s womb. Please feel free to share this column with a young adult in your life, or ask them to look for it at www.cny.org.

For much of the 40 years since the Supreme Court’s tragic Roe v. Wade decision ushering in an era of abortion on demand, we in the pro-life community have had little to cheer about. In the battle for hearts and minds, it has at times seemed as though we were losing ground, and fast. We could preach about the sacredness of all human life, about the harm that abortion does to women who are so often coerced by others into doing the unthinkable, and the lifetime of pain and regret so many of them, and the fathers of the aborted baby, face as a result. For a long time we were overwhelmed by even louder voices proclaiming “choice” to be the ultimate right. For too many of my generation, that argument was effective and catchy, and there is no changing their minds.

This civil rights issue of our time – the right to life of the innocent baby in the womb – won’t be won by the older generation; it will be won by the young. It is to you that I address this message on this solemn anniversary.

Popular culture calls you the “Millennial Generation” because you came of age at the dawn of the Millennium. But I think of you as the “Ultrasound Generation.” You are different than any generation that came before you in that your very first baby pictures were taken not with you in your mother’s arms, but you alive in her womb.

Your generation is defined by technology. You have come to expect almost annual revolutionary technological breakthroughs that change the way we live and work. You have seen staggering medical advances that have given doctors wonderful new tools in fighting disease and injury. And you have grown up with ultrasound technology that has opened a window into the womb, allowing us to glimpse preborn babies from the earliest weeks of gestation.

You have seen your little brothers and sisters before they were born in these grainy videos and photographs pinned to the fridge. Your mom or your dad has shown you those first images of yourself. Some of you have even seen your own children for the first time with newer, clearer 3- and 4-dimensional ultrasound technology. You have gasped with wonder at the sight of little arms flailing and legs kicking, heads bobbing and hearts beating, mouths sucking thumbs.

You have seen, and you believe.

Let’s face it, you figured out a long time ago that your parents’ generation isn’t always right. So many have tried to convince you (as they have allowed themselves to be convinced) that an unborn baby is nothing more than a “clump of cells.” College professors, politicians, Hollywood glitterati, and media talking heads have hammered you with the message that the decision to abort has no more moral significance than having a wisdom tooth extracted. To be an enlightened adult, you will be told, you must support the “right to choose.” (They won’t tell you what, or who is being chosen.)

You are rightly skeptical. They may believe what they say, but in this matter they are wrong. Think of your first baby picture, the one on the flimsy paper with the dark background and the unmistakable image of you. You know better.

You have seen, and you believe.

I know it is not easy to go against the prevailing culture. But your generation has not been afraid to be countercultural. Besides, I have good news for you – you are not alone. The pro-abortion movement’s dark secret is that it has been losing the hearts and minds of young people for a number of years. And now the secret is out.

Just last month, the head of the nation’s largest abortion advocacy organization, stepped down, citing the need for someone younger to try to engage youth. Interestingly, she seemed to acknowledge that her side is losing you, the “Ultrasound Generation.”

“The intensity on that side will not go away,” she told the media. “They come to this issue as young people who want to overturn Roe v. Wade, and they’re going to do everything in their power. That view might change as they grow older and reality hits and personal experience happens, but right now the personal intensity is pretty high on that side.”

You know what? She’s right! I have seen that intensity myself in the young New Yorkers who pray at abortion clinics, lobby in Albany and climb onto buses in the pre-dawn darkness to join their fellow pro-lifers at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., as we did last Friday. When I look out into the sea of faces out on the Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument, I see you. You know who I see when I look at the rallies on the pro-abortion side? I see people my age and older.

That pro-abortion leader and others like her are counting on you having some sort of grand epiphany once you get older and, as she said, “reality hits.” But what they aren’t counting on is that when you saw yourself, your kid brother or sister, your own child, in that ultrasound photo, reality did hit. And it hit hard.

You have seen, and you believe.

But here’s the tough part: It is not enough that you believe. It is not enough that you are sympathetic to the cause. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to know that so many of you in the “Ultrasound Generation” are pro-life. But this can’t be a secret anymore. You need to proclaim it. It can’t come from me or from people my age; our time is rapidly passing. Now is your time.

My time has seen 55 million abortions in the United States since 1973. That is almost exactly the population of New York State and California combined. A number that big can seem abstract, but you know intuitively that these 55 million people were your peers, your siblings. One of them could easily have been you.

In New York City, four out of every 10 pregnancies end in abortion, double the national average, mostly poor Black and Latino women. In some parts of New York City, the number is 6 in 10. Yet some of our elected officials in Albany are pushing a bill, believe it or not, to expand abortion access even further. It’s as though, in their minds, our state motto, “Excelsior” (“Ever Upward”) applies to the abortion rate!

Sometimes, it falls to one generation to clean up another generation’s mess. And I’m afraid we have left you quite a mess. I am asking you, the “Ultrasound Generation,” to set the course right, to change hearts and minds, to change the law so that your children’s generation is given the legal protection that your generation so tragically was not. Ultimately, I am counting on you to change our culture.

My faith in you is high. For I have seen, and I believe – in you.

Reprinted with permission from the Catholic New York, official newspaper for the diocese of New York.

His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan is the Archbishop of New York City.

via catholicnewsagency.com

Black Group Twitter Account Suspended for Challenging the 44th NAACP Image Awards

via blackprolifecoalition.org

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- This Friday, February 1, 2013, a number of black groups, churches and community activists with the National Black Prolife Coalition (NBPLC) will be protesting the NAACP 44th Image Awards Show. However, their twitter account @NAACP_WATCHDOGS was suspended.

The black groups were drawing attention to what they claim is the failure of the civil rights organization to represent the best interests of the community. The issues range from abortion, traditional marriage, destruction of the black family and the extraordinarily high incarceration rate of black men. Protesters from across the nation will assemble in Los Angeles to declare that the NAACP has betrayed the black community.

"The NAACP is out of touch with the black community," said Rev. Edward Pinkney, President of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO), "...and supports population control as set forth by Planned Parenthood which has targeted black people."

The group was circulating their message via Twitter and Facebook. However, since they attacked the NAACP via the Twitter Account, the NAACP Image Awards officials complained and it was suspended. The last Tweet sent out was a quote by Dr. Johnny Hunter, National Director of Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN) who said "Racist elitists no longer need the Ku Klux Klan to control blacks; they have Planned Parenthood. And Planned Parenthood has the NAACP on a leash." Less than 5 minutes later... SUSPENDED!!!

The founder of the northeast division of LEARN, Pastor Clenard Childress stated, "The NAACP must quit endorsing destructive and unfruitful behavior."

"The NAACP's departure from the wisdom and life affirming principles of the Bible is very alarming, and must be stopped for the safety, security, and future of our children," said Dr. Alveda King, Guardian of the King Family Legacy.

The twitter account @NAACP_WATCHDOGS had also quoted Stephen Broden, a pastor in Dallas, Texas, who stated, "The only word that can define the gross negligence of the NAACP is 'betrayal.'" He had also said, "They have abandoned our community's morality, our economic and educational needs for thirty pieces of silver; they are drunk with the wine of the world and the power elite and their eugenic agenda against black folk."

For the original information on the black protest visit www.blackprolifecoalition.org

www.blackgenocide.org

and www.bondinfo.org.

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