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• Kermit Gosnell Murder Trial Jury Now Considering Murder Charges
• Why is the Kermit Gosnell Murder Trial Jury Taking So Long?
• Gosnell Murder Trial Jury Wants More Info on Babies He Killed
• Kermit Gosnell Price Sheet Shows $1,850 for 23-24 Week Abortion
More Pro-Life News
• Delaware Now First State Since Roe With No Surgical Abortions
• Why is Kermit Gosnell Smiling During His Murder Trial?
• Gosnell s Fate is in the Jury s Hands, Abortion s Fate is in Ours
• Planned Parenthood Abortion Practitioner Ogled, Slapped Patients
• Eight Pro-Life People Planned Parenthood Hates the Most
• Kermit Gosnell Who? Video Shows Americans Don t Know Shock Abortion Doc
• Teen Who Tried to Flush Baby in Toilet Could Have Used Safe Haven Law
• Bioethicist Upset by Public Criticism of After-Birth Abortion Idea
• Kermit Gosnell is Not an Aberration, He s Like Other Abortionists
• Woman Who Left Dead Newborn in Her Apartment to Decompose Faces Trial
• Ireland s Catholic Bishops Strongly Oppose Government s Abortion Bill
• Pro-Choice People Don t Get Pro-Lifers, and Who Can Blame Them?
• Oklahoma Gov. Falin Signs Bill to Protect Patients From Treatment Denial
Kermit Gosnell Murder Trial Jury Now Considering Murder Charges
The Common Pleas Court jury of seven women and five men have finished their deliberations for the week in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
They will return on Monday, but not before having apparently moved on from considering charges against Gosnell s co-defendant (according to multiple news sources including the Philadelphia Inquirer and CNN) and on to the 72-year-old abortionist charged with five counts of murder. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/kermit-gosnell-murder-trial-jury-now-considering-murder-charges/
Why is the Kermit Gosnell Murder Trial Jury Taking So Long?
To hear it from pro-life advocates watching the Kermit Gosnell murder trial, it should take the jury all of five minutes to return a guilty verdict on the first degree murder charges he faces for killing four babies.
But the just has now spent four days deliberating and concluded today without a verdict in the case. It will resume on Monday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/why-is-the-kermit-gosnell-murder-trial-jury-taking-so-long/
Gosnell Murder Trial Jury Wants More Info on Babies He Killed
Today, jury in the Kermit Gosnell murder trial asked the first questions of the judge, seeking additional information about the hundreds of charges Gosnell faces and wanting more information on each of the babies in the four first-degree murder charges.
The jury previously has spent three days focused on a Gosnell staffer who is a co-defendant in the trial. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/gosnell-murder-trial-jury-wants-more-info-on-babies-he-killed/
Kermit Gosnell Price Sheet Shows $1,850 for 23-24 Week Abortion
As the jury weighs the hundreds of charges abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell faces, including four for killing babies in gruesome abortion-infanticide procedures, a shocking new image has emerged.
A pro-life activist has sent LifeNews a copy of an image showing the prices Gosnell s House of Horrors abortion clinic charged women for abortions at varying stages of pregnancy. Women would pay as much as $1,850 for an abortion done at 23-24 weeks of pregnancy, a stage at which unborn children have shown the ability to survive outside his or her mother s womb. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/02/what-i-saw-at-the-kermit-gosnell-trial-moved-me-to-tears/
Delaware Now First State Since Roe With No Surgical Abortions
Planned Parenthood of Delaware has temporarily halted surgical abortion services. This action makes Delaware the first state to be free from surgical abortions for any significant period of time since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision decriminalized abortion.
The Planned Parenthood clinic in Dover has temporarily suspended surgical abortions while the Wilmington affiliate has closed completely for cleaning and re-staffing, according to Planned Parenthood statements to the media and on their website. At least three employees, one thought to be troubled abortionist Eric Schaff, have quit or been fired since dangerous conditions at the facilities were exposed. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/delaware-now-first-state-since-roe-with-no-surgical-abortions/
Why is Kermit Gosnell Smiling During His Murder Trial?
Of the many lessons to be learned from the Kermit Gosnell trial, which I have watched in the courtroom, one is that abortion not only destroys babies and their mothers; it destroys the doctors who perform them.
Many observers of Dr. Gosnell have marveled at his composure in the courtroom, and commented on his apparently gentle demeanor and smile. How can this be the same man, they wonder, who is accused of cutting the spinal cords of living children and running an operation that has killed women? http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/why-is-kermit-gosnell-smiling-during-his-muder-trial/
Gosnell s Fate is in the Jury s Hands, Abortion s Fate is in Ours
On Tuesday morning, I listened intently to the judge in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, as he charged the Jury ahead of their deliberations. This jury had been given the facts about the babies and the mother who lost their lives in Gosnell s house of horrors abortion mill, and now they hold his fate in their hands.
I have heard so many people including the attorneys on both sides in this case talk about how this trial had nothing to do with abortion; it was about the murder of actual, living human beings. The Defense attorney wanted to make this distinction very clear as he tried to prove that nothing more than non-human fetuses were killed. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/gosnells-fate-is-in-the-jurys-hands-abortions-fate-is-in-ours/
Planned Parenthood Abortion Practitioner Ogled, Slapped Patients
And that s not the worst of it. I didn t have room in my title for the hymn abortionist Timothy Liveright sang to one patient during her abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/planned-parenthood-abortion-practitioner-ogled-slapped-patients/
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Eight Pro-Life People Planned Parenthood Hates the Most
Planned Parenthood is much in the news lately. And they can t be happy about it. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/eight-pro-life-people-planned-parenthood-hates-the-most/
Kermit Gosnell Who? Video Shows Americans Don t Know Shock Abortion Doc
A new video that shows the pitifully poor job the mainstream media is doing covering the Kermit Gosnell murder trial has conservative activist Steven Crowder interviewing Americans on the street. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/kermit-gosnell-who-video-shows-americans-dont-know-shock-abortion-doc/
Teen Who Tried to Flush Baby in Toilet Could Have Used Safe Haven Law
A teenager who has been arrested for attempting to flush the body of her newborn baby down the toilet and later abandoning the child in a trash can could have given her baby to authorities under the Pennsylvania safe haven law. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/teen-who-tried-to-flush-baby-in-toilet-could-have-used-safe-haven-law/
Bioethicist Upset by Public Criticism of After-Birth Abortion Idea
Last year, the Journal of Medical Ethics a reliable fount of radicalism published an article promoting after-birth abortion, e.g., infanticide as an ethical action. It sparked a firestorm, and I was one of the match lighters, along with the clearing house of bioethical articles and news, Bioedge. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/bioethicist-upset-by-public-criticism-of-after-birth-abortion-idea/
Kermit Gosnell is Not an Aberration, He s Like Other Abortionists
To The Source asked me to reflect on the Kermit Gosnell abomination. I note that there have been other examples of babies born alive from an abortion and killed or allowed to die. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/kermit-gosnell-is-not-an-aberration-hes-like-other-abortionists/
Woman Who Left Dead Newborn in Her Apartment to Decompose Faces Trial
In a judgement released this morning, Canada s top court dismissed an appeal from Ivana Levkovic and ordered a new trial. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/woman-who-left-dead-newborn-in-her-apartment-to-decompose-faces-trial/
Ireland s Catholic Bishops Strongly Oppose Government s Abortion Bill
The Catholic bishops of Ireland have just published a strong preliminary response to the Irish government s abortion bill see full text below. Pat Buckley, who represents SPUC in Ireland, commented on the bill on Wednesday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/irelands-catholic-bishops-strongly-oppose-governments-abortion-bill/
Pro-Choice People Don t Get Pro-Lifers, and Who Can Blame Them?
Tim and Gabi and I spend the next two episodes responding to fair questions that pro-choice people ask that we think pro-life people should be willing to answer. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/pro-choice-people-dont-get-pro-lifers-and-who-can-blame-them/
Oklahoma Gov. Falin Signs Bill to Protect Patients From Treatment Denial
Governor Mary Falin has signed a bill pro-life advocates supported that would protect patients from being denied lifesaving medical treatment. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/oklahoma-gov-falin-signs-bill-to-protect-patients-from-treatment-denial/
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