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Top Stories
• Gosnell Worker: Baby “Jumped” When I Snipped Her Neck in Abortion
• Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” Abortion Clinic is Not an Exception

• Planned Parenthood Has Opposed Anti-Infanticide Legislation Before
 Abortion Staffer Who Helped Gosnell Kill Woman Recants Guilty Plea
More Pro-Life News• Obama Admin Will Force HHS Mandate Compliance on August 1
• Pro-Life Groups Demand Obama Admin Halt HHS Abortion Mandate

• Carhart Getting Away With Killing Woman in Botched 33-Week Abortion

• Woman Sues Doc After Suction Tube Breaks Off During Abortion• Doctors Save Unborn Baby’s Life by Operating on Her Lung
• Christian Painter Was Saved Form Abortion Minutes Before Death
• Activist Chen Guangcheng to Testify in Congress for First Time
• Arkansas Senate OKs Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
• California Committee OKs Nurses, Midwives Doing Abortions

• Alabama Gov. Signs Bill That Could Close Abortion Clinics

• Pro-Lifers Could Retake Political Ground in 2014 Elections
• Shocking 4,620% Increase in Belgium Euthanasia Cases Since Legalization

• Worldwide Suicide Tourism Continues to Flourish in Switzerland

• ACLU Upset Catholic Boston College Won’t Allow Group to Hand Out Condoms

Gosnell Worker: Baby “Jumped” When I Snipped Her Neck in AbortionOne day after a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion, another worker at the Kermit Gosnell “House of Horrors’ abortion clinic testified today she saw a baby “jump” when she snipped her neck in an abortion.
Abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell faces 43 criminal counts, including eight counts of murder in the death of one patient, Karnamaya Monger, and seven newborn infants. Additional charges include conspiracy, drug delivery resulting in death, infanticide, corruption of minors, evidence tampering, theft by deception, abuse of corpse, and corruption. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/gosnell-worker-baby-jumped-when-i-snipped-her-neck-in-abortion/
Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” Abortion Clinic is Not an ExceptionPhiladelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s capital murder trial continues this week in a courtroom packed with worn, bloody furniture and outdated equipment seized from his dilapidated abortion clinic, which has come to be known as the “House of Horrors.” Gosnell is charged with seven counts of first degree murder for killing newborn babies born alive after abortions by snipping their spinal cords with scissors. He also faces one count of third degree murder in the overdose death of a patient, Karnamaya Monger.
But are the conditions described last week by two clinic workers and a Crime Scene Unit Officer really so different that what can be found at abortion clinics across America? http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/gosnells-house-of-horrors-abortion-clinic-is-not-an-exception/
Planned Parenthood Has Opposed Anti-Infanticide Legislation BeforePlanned Parenthood’s recent opposition to Florida legislation seeking to protect abortion survivors sent shock waves around the country.
But this wasn’t the first time Planned Parenthood had opposed such legislation. Planned Parenthood also actively fought Illinois’ Born Alive Infants Protection Act in the early 2000s, along with then state Senator Barack Obama. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/planned-parenthood-has-opposed-anti-infanticide-legislation-before/
Abortion Staffer Who Helped Gosnell Kill Woman Recants Guilty PleaA former employee of Kermit Gosnell who has a history of anxiety and depression broke down on the stand yesterday and tearfully recanted her guilty plea as she was testifying against her former boss.
West had told prosecutor Joanne Pescatore that she had administered some of the sedative that later killed Karnamaya Mongar, an immigrant who came to Gosnell for an abortion in her 19th week of pregnancy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/abortion-staffer-who-helped-gosnell-kill-woman-recants-guilty-plea/

Obama Admin Will Force HHS Mandate Compliance on August 1The head of the Department of Health and Human Services has an odd way of looking at the controversial Obamacare mandate that compels religious employers to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
“We think [the proposal] upholds the religious beliefs of some, but does not impose religious views on an employee who may or may not share those religious beliefs,” Sebelius said yesterday. “Having said that, we’re being sued.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/obama-admin-will-force-hhs-mandate-compliance-on-august-1/
Pro-Life Groups Demand Obama Admin Halt HHS Abortion MandateYesterday was the last day for official comments to be sent to the HHS Department to oppose the controversial contraception-birth control mandate that forces employers to pay for drugs that may cause abortions.
Several pro-life groups urged the Obama administration to scrap the mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/pro-life-groups-demand-obama-admin-halt-hhs-abortion-mandate/
Carhart Getting Away With Killing Woman in Botched 33-Week AbortionOn February 7, 29-yr-old Jennifer Morbelli, pictured right, died at a Maryland hospital the morning after LeRoy Carhart completed the abortion of her 33-wk-old baby in the Germantown, Maryland, mill at which he worked.
Ironically, the day before Morbelli died the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued licenses to all 17 abortion clinics in the state without ever having inspected them, even though abortion clinic regulations had been enacted in November 2012. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/carhart-getting-away-with-killing-woman-in-botched-33-week-abortion/
Woman Sues Doc After Suction Tube Breaks Off During AbortionThey say abortion is safe for women and abortions are a matter of the bests interests regarding women’s health, but another abortion malpractice lawsuit puts those claims to rest again. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/woman-sues-doc-after-suction-tube-breaks-off-during-abortion/
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Doctors Save Unborn Baby’s Life by Operating on Her Lung
A precious baby named Lake Annabelle Hall would not be alive today had her parents not had physicians given her an operation in the womb. The little girl is now 5 months old but she may not have made it that far had it not bee for an operation at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, here doctors operated on a cyst on her left lung before she was born. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/doctors-save-unborn-babys-life-by-operating-on-her-lung/

Christian Painter Was Saved Form Abortion Minutes Before DeathNationally known artist Ron DiCianni was saved from abortion minutes before he was scheduled to die. Sixty years ago, his mother walked out of an abortion clinic after a last-minute change of heart. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/christian-painter-was-saved-form-abortion-minutes-before-death/
Activist Chen Guangcheng to Testify in Congress for First TimeChen Guangcheng, the activist who exposed massive forced abortion campaigns carried out by Chinese family planning officials, will testify today in front of Congress for the first time. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/activist-chen-guangcheng-to-testify-in-congress-for-first-time/
Arkansas Senate OKs Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion BizThe Arkansas Senate passes a bill today that would defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the Natural State. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/arkansas-senate-oks-bill-to-defund-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/

California Committee OKs Nurses, Midwives Doing AbortionsA California committee today approved legislation that would allow nurses and midwives to perform abortions. The bill will next be heard in the Health committee following today’s 9-4 vote. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/california-committee-oks-nurses-midwives-doing-abortions/
Alabama Gov. Signs Bill That Could Close Abortion ClinicsThe governor of Alabama has signed a bill that could close abortion clinics that fail to follow the same health and safety standards expected of legitimate medical centers. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/alabama-gov-signs-bill-that-could-close-abortion-clinics/
Pro-Lifers Could Retake Political Ground in 2014 ElectionsEveryone who’s been involved in the political process for any length of time knows this, but it bears repeating both for us who have been active as well as for those who may not have dipped their toe into politics: Whatever the current political situation may appear to be, it will be substantially, if not radically, different in no time flat. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/pro-lifers-could-retake-political-ground-in-2014-elections/
Shocking 4,620% Increase in Belgium Euthanasia Cases Since LegalizationI have previously highlighted the rapid escalation of euthanasia and assisted suicide cases in the Netherlands, Oregon and Switzerland in recent years but Belgium is eclipsing all of these countries in the race to become the ‘world leader’. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/shocking-4620-increase-in-belgium-euthanasia-cases-since-legalization/

Worldwide Suicide Tourism Continues to Flourish in SwitzerlandSwitzerland is Jack Kevorkian as a country. Just as suicidal people used to fly to Michigan to be made dead by him, they now fly to Switzerland to be made dead at Swiss suicide clinics. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/worldwide-suicide-tourism-continues-to-flourish-in-switzerland/
ACLU Upset Catholic Boston College Won’t Allow Group to Hand Out CondomsIt seems freedom of association and religious doctrine, and the juxtaposition thereof, are concepts destined to elude liberals’ grasp. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/09/aclu-upset-catholic-boston-college-wont-allow-group-to-hand-out-condoms/

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