Sunday, February 10, 2013

National Right to Life News Week-in-Review

 

Week-in-Review Topics for February 4-9, 2013

 

"If It Walks Like a Duck…" Lessons in Parenthood

Ducky

By Dave Andrusko We first started our online publication over 12 years ago. We've had some tremendous response to posts, but none has ever exceeded—in volume or delight—this from June 2001. 

 

National Right to Life Convention 2013: Plan Now to Attend!

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Number of abortions for fetal "abnormality" vastly underreported in England and Wales

Stephen Adams, medical correspondent, Daily Telegraph

By Dave Andrusko About four paragraphs into the opening page of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," there are these never to be forgotten lines: "There is no doubt that Marley was dead. 

 

Doc: We inject late-term fetus with potassium chloride to avoid problem of live, aborted infant

Patrick B. Craine

Editor's note. This first appeared atlifesitenews.com By Patrick B. Craine A pro-abortion doctor is insisting there are strict protocols in place to avoid the awkward problem of having "to deal with a live, aborted infant." 

Baby crushed by car containing China family planning team that had come to fine parents for having second child

Feng Jianmei, lying in bed after her forced abortion at seven months

By Dave Andrusko In the middle of the story from NBC News Produced Ed Flanagan about a terrible tragedy, there is this very telling sentence: "For many in China, the story brings back uncomfortable memories

 

"Honey… we're pregnant"

By Dave Andrusko The woman is looking expectantly at the pregnancy test kit and, wham, her eyes light up and she shouts out the window to her husband in the back yard, "Honey… we're pregnant."

Meet abortion backer Ilyse Hogue, NARAL's incoming president

Ilyse Hogue, who is now the new president of NARAL

By Lauren Enriquez "There are so many of them, and they are so young." – Nancy Keenan, in a 2010  interview with Newsweek magazine. NARAL Pro-Choice America's outgoing president, Nancy Keenan, aptly summarized the abortion movement's greatest fear:

 

Her Abortion Story…

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By Dave Andrusko "My abortion story," which appeared yesterday on Salon.com, will rend your heart. And that will hold true regardless of where your opinion lies on the spectrum of abortion opinion. The sub-headline to Jacqui Morton's remembrance criticizes legislation

What the President said at the National Prayer Breakfast and what his remarks say to pro-lifers

President Obama, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast

By Dave Andrusko A word of explanation. These comments, based on President Obama's remarks at Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast, are intended to highlight where (if they were understood in a deeper sense) the President's remarks might lead him.

 

An Acute Appreciation of the "Fragility of Life"

PoliticsofMotherhood

By Dave Andrusko Last week NRL News carried an analysis of a fascinating column by Ross Douthat of the New York Times. He built his analysis around a critique of the powerfully influential work of Kristin Luker 

USCCB says revised HHS proposal "falls short"

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB

Editor's note. Last Friday the Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services  offered another patently insincere "accommodation" that, in fact, continues to compel countless employers to purchase health plans that will pay for drugs and procedures

 

Thousands Die Needlessly in NHS Hospitals!

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By Wesley J. Smith The implosion of the NHS [the British National Health Service]–caused by sclerotic centralized control–continues. Perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of the service has shaken the UK, with thousands allegedly dead due to poor hospital

     

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