Thursday, June 20, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 6/20/13




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Thursday, June 20, 2013

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Priests Demand Pelosi Renounce Catholicism After Abortion is “Sacred Ground” Comment
• Obamacare’s Death Panels Will be Implemented in Two Years Unless We Act Now

• “This Baby is Not Going to Survive,” Mom Rejects Pressure for Abortion
Chelsea Clinton Laments: My Grandmother Did Not Have Access to Planned Parenthood

More Pro-Life News
• Deaf Boy Shocked After Brain Implant Helps Him Hear Dad For the First Time
• High School Bars Student With Down Syndrome From Cheerleading Squad

• Nancy Pelosi Shuts Down Reporter’s Question on Abortion

• New York Assembly Approves Andrew Cuomo’s Radical Abortion Bill
• New York Times, Mainstream Media Botch Coverage of Late-Term Abortion Ban
• Abortion Practitioner Caught Evading Maryland Law, Running Unlicensed Clinic
• Pro-Abortion Howard Dean Says He’s Open to 2016 Presidential Bid
• Appeals Court Allows Texas to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
• Huffington Post: Religion to Blame for “Overpopulation,” Environmental Ruin
• Siri Won’t Help People Commit Suicide, Assisted Suicide Another Question

• Planned Parenthood Opens Bay Area Clinic With $250K in Taxpayer Funds
• Texas Governor Rick Perry to Address National Right to Life Convention

• Paper Shows Ireland’s Maternal Morality Half of England’s Without Abortion
• Vermont and Maryland Have Legalized DNR Orders Without Consent

• Allyson Schwartz Still Silent on if She Referred Women to Kermit Gosnell



Priests Demand Pelosi Renounce Catholicism After Abortion is “Sacred Ground” Comment
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s comments that defending late-term abortions is “sacred ground” to her was apparently the last straw for a national organization of Catholic priests active in pro-life work.

“As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this. I don’t think it should have anything to do with politics,” she continued saying about the bill to ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/priests-demand-pelosi-renounce-catholicism-after-abortion-is-sacred-ground-comment/
Obamacare’s Death Panels Will be Implemented in Two Years Unless We Act Now
The Independent Payment Advisory Board is set to go into action later this year. The IPAB is a Medicare cost-cutting board of “experts” legally possessing the power to impose its advise, even over the desires of Congress or the president.

It has been derisively referred to as a death panel because so many have called for it to have health care rationing powers and because its decisions could result in cost-cutting measures that deny lifesaving medical treatment. The Independent Payment Advisory Board was one of the most controversial parts of the Obamacare legislation — mainly because it puts 15 unelected strangers in charge of health decisions for most Americans. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/obamacares-death-panels-will-be-implemented-in-two-years-unless-we-act-now/
“This Baby is Not Going to Survive,” Mom Rejects Pressure for Abortion
A mother in New Zealand has rejected calls from her doctor and medical professionals to have an abortion of her disabled baby.
At 16 weeks of pregnancy, the young woman was told by doctors that her unborn baby would only live for a short time after she was born.
Chelsea Clinton Laments: My Grandmother Did Not Have Access to Planned Parenthood
From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.”

Chelsea’s grandmother was born of an unintended pregnancy. And new research shows that her family is not alone in treasuring a person who – if Planned Parenthood had been successful – would not have been born. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/chelsea-clinton-laments-my-grandmother-did-not-have-access-to-planned-parenthood/


Deaf Boy Shocked After Brain Implant Helps Him Hear Dad For the First Time
Children’s physical disabilities are all too often a reason for parents to decide to have an abortion, but sometimes parents choose life and then the miracle of modern technology takes over.

That is the case for a three-year-old boy who is now hearing the world — and his father — for the first time thanks to an auditory brain stem implant. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/deaf-boy-stunned-after-brain-implant-helps-him-hear-dad-for-the-first-time/
High School Bars Student With Down Syndrome From Cheerleading Squad
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
This inspirational statement has been taken to heart by many in disabled communities for its uplifting and liberating spirit. Unfortunately, Marion County’s Elgin High School is not taking it to heart.
Nancy Pelosi Shuts Down Reporter’s Question on Abortion
After her Thursday afternoon press conference, pro-abortion Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi shut down a reporter’s question on abortion.
Pelosi, who is under fire for her comment saying defending late-term abortions is “sacred ground” for her, could have been asked about that or about the late-term abortion ban the House approved Tuesday without her support or that of virtually all of the Democratic caucus. The ban would prevent abortions after 20 weeks and up to the day of birth. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/nancy-pelosi-shuts-down-reporters-question-on-abortion/
New York Assembly Approves Andrew Cuomo’s Radical Abortion Bill
This afternoon, the New York State Assembly passed the pro-abortion Women’s Equality Act by a margin of 97 to 47. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/new-york-assembly-approves-andrew-cuomos-radical-abortion-bill/

New York Times, Mainstream Media Botch Coverage of Late-Term Abortion Ban
The mainstream media once again botched its coverage of abortion — this time the ban on late-term abortions. While most Americans support banning abortions from 20 weeks up to birth, media outlets make it appear as if Republicans and pro-lifers are the extremists rather than Democrats. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/new-york-times-mainstream-media-botch-coverage-of-late-term-abortion-ban/

Abortion Practitioner Caught Evading Maryland Law, Running Unlicensed Clinic
Operation Rescue has learned that troubled abortionist Harold O. Alexander is operating an unlicensed abortion business in Maryland in violation of licensing requirement regulations passed last year. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/abortion-practitioner-caught-evading-maryland-law-running-unlicensed-clinic/
Pro-Abortion Howard Dean Says He’s Open to 2016 Presidential Bid
Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who came very close to capturing the Democratic nomination in 2004 instead of John Kerry, says he is open to another try in 2016. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/pro-abortion-howard-dean-says-hes-open-to-2016-presidential-bid/
Appeals Court Allows Texas to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
The U.S Fifth Circuit Court (in New Orleans) has once again overturned a block from a liberal judicial activist that was keeping Texas from enforcing a Pro-Life rule disqualifying abortion providers and affiliates from the state-run Women’s Health Program (WHP). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/appeals-court-allows-texas-to-de-fund-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/
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Huffington Post: Religion to Blame for “Overpopulation,” Environmental Ruin
A Muslim, a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew walk into a bar … this could be the set-up for a good joke, but you better not tell it at the Huffington Post. Those four thirsty monotheists and others like them are destroying the human race by fostering overpopulation according to HuffPo, and there’s nothing funny about that. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/huffington-post-religion-to-blame-for-overpopulation-environmental-ruin/
Siri Won’t Help People Commit Suicide, Assisted Suicide Another Question
So Apple is putting a suicide prevention function into Siri, the ”personal assistant” installed in the i-phone. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/siri-wont-help-people-commit-suicide-assisted-suicide-another-question/
Planned Parenthood Opens Bay Area Clinic With $250K in Taxpayer Funds
Local pro-life advocates in the Bay Area of California are stepping up and protesting the fact that the Marin County Board of Supervisors put $250,000 in taxpayer funds behind a new Planned Parenthood clinic. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/planned-parenthood-opens-bay-area-clinic-with-250k-in-taxpayer-funds/
Texas Governor Rick Perry to Address National Right to Life Convention
Texas Governor Rick Perry will address the opening general session of the 43rd annual National Right to Life Convention on Thursday. The convention is an event where thousands of pro-life advocates come together to hear top pro-life speakers on a variety of abortion, bioethics and end of life issues. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/texas-governor-rick-perry-to-address-national-right-to-life-convention/
Paper Shows Ireland’s Maternal Morality Half of England’s Without Abortion
A new paper published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons contrasts maternal and neonatal health in Great Britain, which has legal elective abortion, with Ireland, which prohibits abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/paper-shows-irelands-maternal-morality-half-of-englands-without-abortion/
Vermont and Maryland Have Legalized DNR Orders Without Consent
Patient autonomy is fast becoming a one-way street. Choose to die by refusing life-sustaining treatment–sacrosanct! Want to live with life-sustaining treatmen. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/vermont-and-maryland-have-legalized-dnr-orders-without-consent/
Allyson Schwartz Still Silent on if She Referred Women to Kermit Gosnell
Pennsylvania voters still want to know: Did Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Allyson Schwartz, when she ran an abortion business in the state, refer women to Kermit Gosnell’s infamous abortion facility. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/allyson-schwartz-still-silent-on-if-she-referred-women-to-kermit-gosnell/


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