Wednesday, June 5, 2013

National Right to Life News Today 6/5/2013




Topics for June 5, 2013
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Pro-Life Senator Ted Cruz to address NRLC Convention

Sen. Ted Cruz
By Andrew Bair It is often said that everything is bigger in Texas. Later this month when the National Right to Life Convention rolls into Dallas, it will be no exception. This year’s convention is going to be epic!
 

U.S. HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES NATIONWIDE PROTECTION FOR PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILDREN, 6 TO 4

Congressman Trent Franks (R-Az.), chairs, U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
WASHINGTON (June 4, 2013) — The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice today approved nationwide protection for unborn children who are capable of feeling pain, beginning at 20 weeks fetal age. 

There is no such thing as a “humane” late abortion…

Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D.
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research Much attention has rightly gone to the horrible practices of convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell, who aborted babies alive, stabbed them in the back of the neck with surgical scissors,
 

Florida Gov. Rick Scott Signs Infants Born Alive Act into law

Gov. Rick Scott
By Dave Andrusko In many ways all you really need to know about pro-lifers and pro-abortionists was captured in the debate over Florida’s Infants Born Alive Act (HB 1139). We have written many times about the law 

An Important first step: House Judiciary Subcommittee approves nationwide protection for pain- capable unborn children

Rep. Trent Franks
By Dave Andrusko One important step at time. As you read in the very thorough and helpful story from National Right to Life, on Tuesday the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice approved nationwide protection for unborn
 

The fetal brain and fetal pain

Prof. Maureen L. Condic
Testifying before a U.S. House subcommittee on May 23, Prof. Maureen L. Condic presented the scientific evidence concerning the development of the human brain and nervous system and the ability of unborn children to experience pain.

Pro-Life Missouri State Representative Jason Smith Wins Special Election for 8th District Congressional Seat

Jason Smith
Pro-life State Rep. Jason Smith (R) will be the new United States Representative from Missouri’s 8th congressional district after winning a special election held Tuesday. He replaces Jo Ann Emerson who resigned earlier this year
 

New Michigan law allows patients access to policies that health facilities use to deny life-saving treatment against their will

Jennifer Popik, JD
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics It is a family’s worst nightmare. A loved one is desperately ill but a health care facility or provider refuses life-saving treatment on the grounds that this care is “futile.”

The Pro-Life Movement: A Family with Many Faces

Claire and Carissa
By Jean Garton Editor’s note. The latest in our year-long “Roe at 40” series is a wonderful essay by Jean Garton (author of the classic “Who Broke the Baby?”) that appeared in our January 1998, edition.
 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Visits Historic Pro-Life Feminist Site day after releasing abortion expansion agenda

Pro-abortion New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
By Lori Kehoe, executive director, New York State Right to Life Today Governor Andrew Cuomo will visit Seneca Falls, site of the 1848 women’s rights convention, to discuss his so-called Women’s Equality Act. This is a shameless act 

Down Syndrome: Not “The Shape of the Eye,” father writes

Shapeoftheeye
By Dave Andrusko No doubt because two of my daughters work with kids with developmental needs, I am especially receptive to books about the challenges but also the rewards of rearing a child with what are commonly called “special needs.”
 

Video: Gosnell prosecutors display ‘house of horrors’ equipment to public

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BY BEN JOHNSON Editor’s note. This appeared at lifesitenews.com. PHILADELPHIA, June 5, 2013 – For weeks, jurors gazed on the filthy furniture and medical items retrieved from Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors.” Now, prosecutors have displayed the equipment 

Umbilical Stem Cells Wake Up PVS Child

EEG recording (L.B.) before transplantation. The patient (L.B.) is in a persistent vegetative state 9 weeks after the insult before transplantation of cord blood cells. Note the dilated, unresponsive pupils in spite of bright light from the ceiling. (Credit: A. Jensen, E. Hamelmann. First Autologous Cell Therapy of Cerebral Palsy Caused by Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage in a Child after Cardiac Arrest—Individual Treatment with Cord Blood. Case Reports in Transplantation, 2013; 2013: 1 DOI: 10.1155/2013/951827)
By Wesley J. Smith Wow. A child with cerebral palsy who suffered a cardiac arrest and became–they thought–permanently unconscious, appears to have been successfully treated with his own stored umbilical cord blood stem cells.
   
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