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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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• NAACP Threatens to Sue LifeNews, Black Pro-Life Leader
• Obama Tells NARAL: We Celebrate Roe, 55 Million Abortions
• Archbishop Bashes HHS Mandate Revisions, A Phony Compromise
• Mother Teresa: Abortion is the Greatest Threat to Peace
More Pro-Life News
• Shooter at Pro-Life Office Pleads Guilty, Used Liberal Site to Target
• Marco Rubio to Deliver Republican State of the Union Response
• Abortion Clinics Close Down in Minnesota, Michigan
• Doctor-Rating Web Site Listed Abortionist Gosnell as #1
• NARAL Dinner Promotes Abortion, Abortion and More Abortion
• Pro-Life Video of the Day: Baby Saved by Prenatal Heart Surgery
• Pro-Life Advocates Take Over Pro-Abortion Twitter Hashtag
• Beyonce: Unborn Child s Heartbeat the Most Beautiful Music
• People Behind After-Birth Abortions Now Push Moral Enhancement
• Paul Krugman Calls for Death Panels to Cut Health-Care Costs
• Celebrating Black Pro-Life History: Fannie Lou Hamer
NAACP Threatens to Sue LifeNews, Black Pro-Life Leader
The NAACP has threatened to sue LifeNews.com and black pro-life leader Ryan Bomberger, a LifeNews blogger, for a recent column that took the civil rights organization to task over its abortion position.
The NAACP is upset about a column Bomberger wrote at LifeNews titled, NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People, which notes the organization s 44th Annual Image Awards. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/naacp-threatens-to-sue-lifenews-black-pro-life-leade/
Obama Tells NARAL: We Celebrate Roe, 55 Million Abortions
In a videotaped address to the NARAL pro-abortion group last night, President Barack Obama told the organization that he celebrates the Roe v. Wade decision, that has resulted in well over 55 million abortions.
Tonight we celebrate the historic Roe v. Wade decision handed down 40 years ago, but we also gather to recommit ourselves to the decision s guiding principle: that women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care, Obama said in the videotaped message. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/obama-tells-group-we-celebrate-roe-55-million-abortions/
Archbishop Bashes HHS Mandate Revisions, A Phony Compromise
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is taking to task the proposed revisions the Obama administration put forward concerning the controversial HHS mandate that forces religious groups to pay for drugs that may cause abortions.
The Catholic leader says he is trying to help Catholics makes sense of another ambiguous compromise. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/archbishop-bashes-hhs-mandate-revisions-a-phony-compromise/
Mother Teresa: Abortion is the Greatest Threat to Peace
The famous Mother Teresa interview in which the revered Catholic nun maintained that abortion is the greatest threat to peace in the world has finally been uploaded to YouTube for people to appreciate.
Mother Teresa gave the interview to Thom O Connor in 1985 and, though her words are well known, the footage of the interview has rarely been seen until now. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/mother-teresa-abortion-is-the-greatest-threat-to-peace/
Shooter at Pro-Life Office Pleads Guilty, Used Liberal Site to Target
In a Washington, D.C. courtroom today, Floyd Lee Corkins, II, pleaded guilty to three charges associated with his shooting a security guard at the national headquarters of a pro-life group. The guilty plea included a District of Columbia charge of committing an act of terrorism.
The charges stem from the August 15, 2012 shooting at the Family Research Council s headquarters. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/shooter-at-pro-life-office-pleads-guilty-used-liberal-site-to-target/Marco Rubio to Deliver Republican State of the Union Response
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today that they have selected U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to deliver the Republican Address to the Nation following the President s State of the Union address on February 12, 2013. Sen. Rubio, now in his third year in the U.S. Senate, has been a champion of growing the American middle class through limited government and free enterprise policies, making him a natural choice to outline why the Republican vision can help Americans rise above their current circumstances in the Obama economy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/marco-rubio-to-deliver-republican-state-of-the-union-response/
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Abortion Clinics Close Down in Minnesota, Michigan
Abortion clinics have closed down in Minnesota and Michigan, the third and fourth abortion centers to close up shop this year, so far.
Womancare in Livonia, Michigan, and Whole Women s Health on Fifth Street in Minneapolis, have closed, according to reports Operation rescue gave LifeNews this morning. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/abortion-clinics-close-down-in-minnesota-michigan/
Doctor-Rating Web Site Listed Abortionist Gosnell as #1
As a blog for Philadelphia Magazine pointed out last week. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/doctor-rating-web-site-listed-abortionist-gosnell-as-1/
NARAL Dinner Promotes Abortion, Abortion and More Abortion
On Tuesday, NARAL Pro-Choice America held its annual dinner celebrating the Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. After leading the organization for eight years, Nancy Keenan turned the reins of the organization over to liberal activist Ilyse Hogue who will serve as its new president. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/naral-dinner-promotes-abortion-abortion-and-more-abortion/
Pro-Life Video of the Day: Baby Saved by Prenatal Heart Surgery
Josh Andrew Frydlewicz s heart had an underdeveloped left side, so doctors at The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia operated months before he was born. They placed a stent by way of a needle through his mother s abdomen. No child had made it to his or her first birthday after such a procedure. Until Josh Andrew did so with parents Katrina and Tony. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/pro-life-video-of-the-day-baby-saved-by-prenatal-heart-surgery/
Pro-Life Advocates Take Over Pro-Abortion Twitter Hashtag
Yesterday in a Twitter chat with two pro-abortion Texas state legislators, Planned Parenthood attempted to once again play the victim and redefine state defunding efforts against the abortion giant as an attack on women s health. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/pro-life-advocates-take-over-pro-abortion-twitter-hashtag/
Beyonce: Unborn Child s Heartbeat the Most Beautiful Music
Beyoncé Knowles, whose career is at a climax, recently opened up about the loss she experienced following a miscarriage before conceiving her daughter, Blue Ivy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/beyonce-unborn-childs-heartbeat-the-most-beautiful-music/
People Behind After-Birth Abortions Now Push Moral Enhancement
The Gray Matter Brigade is at it again pushing artificial means of moral enhancement to improve the behavior of the human race. Part of the meme is to become extraordinary without having to earn it through discipline and hard wor. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/people-behind-after-birth-abortions-now-push-moral-enhancement/
Paul Krugman Calls for Death Panels to Cut Health-Care Costs
Last week New York Times economics columnist and liberal hero Paul Krugman actually said death panels, the critique of Obama-care popularized by Sarah Palin and universally mocked by liberals, while discussing the necessity of cutting health care costs. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/paul-krugman-calls-for-death-panels-to-cut-health-care-costs/
Celebrating Black Pro-Life History: Fannie Lou Hamer
Black History Month should be a time of celebration of achievement as well as an honest reflection on the impediments to freedom for all. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/06/celebrating-black-pro-life-history-fannie-lou-hamer/
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