Friday, July 19, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 7/19/13





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Top Stories
• Hobby Lobby Wins Injunction Stopping Enforcement of HHS Mandate
• Did Local Official Help Planned Parenthood Hide Botched Abortion Killing Woman?

• Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Closing Clinic in New Jersey
Medical Examiner’s Office Locks Out Pro-Lifers Demanding Info on Gosnell Babies

More Pro-Life News
• Chinese Woman Dying From Forced Abortion at 18 Weeks
• Did Planned Parenthood Close Texas Abortion Centers to Hide Its Medicaid Fraud?

• Wendy Davis and the Failed Reinvention of the Pro-Abortion Movement

• Pro-Abortion NAACP Rejects Black Conservatives From National Conference
• Pro-Life Men Reject BroChoice “More Abortions for More Sex” Argument
• Effort to Ban Abortions in the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America Getting Close
• United Methodist Officials: “Clearly More to Be Done” to Promote Abortion
• Why Do We Kill the Handicapped? Out of Selfishness, Not Compassion

• Ethan Saylor’s Story Shows Why Babies With Down Syndrome are Aborted
• Shock: Almost 2,700 Abortions on Down Syndrome Babies in England, 99 After 26 Weeks

• Do We Really Need to “Fix” People Who Have Down Syndrome?
• From “Choice” to “Not in Her Shoes:” Planned Parenthood Sidesteps Abortion

• Your Unwilling Contribution to the UNFPA Supports Chinese Population Control
• Facing Life Head On: Brad Mattes Talks About His Pro-Life Work



Hobby Lobby Wins Injunction Stopping Enforcement of HHS Mandate
Today, a federal court granted Hobby Lobby a preliminary injunction against the HHS abortion-drug mandate. The injunction prevents the Obama administration from enforcing the mandate against the Christian company, which does not want to be compelled to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions.

This victory comes less than a month after a landmark decision by the full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled 5-3 that Hobby Lobby can exercise religion under the First Amendment and is likely to win its case against the mandate. That decision helped the Christian craft store not be force to pay fines while its lawsuit continues. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/hobby-lobby-wins-injunction-stopping-enforcement-of-hhs-mandate/
Did Local Official Help Planned Parenthood Hide Botched Abortion Killing Woman?
After Tonya Reaves died from complications during a botched second-trimester abortion suffered at a Chicago area Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on July 20, 2012 it took months for the medical examiner to release a report on her death.

Once a copy of Tonya Reaves’ autopsy report was made public, it showed the 24-year old woman died from the abortion she obtained at Planned Parenthood. The report indicated Reaves’ injuries were survivable if she had received proper emergency care in a timely manner. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/did-local-official-help-planned-parenthood-hide-botched-abortion-killing-woman/
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Closing Clinic in New Jersey
The Planned Parenthood abortion business is closing yet another location — this time in New Jersey. The abortion giant will close the facility it operates in Somerset County within the next month.
From a local news report: A woman who answered the phone at the Manville Planned Parenthood Thursday afternoon confirmed the location will be closing within the next month, although she said no particular closing date has been set yet. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-closing-clinic-in-new-jersey/
Medical Examiner’s Office Locks Out Pro-Lifers Demanding Info on Gosnell Babies
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office locked out a group of prominent pro-life leaders who went there to demand information about what has happened to the bodies of the babies Kermit Gosnell killed in abortions and infanticides.

As LifeNews has reported, the ME’s office has refused information about whether the babies have been buried or cremated and will not released their bodies to pro-life activist Father Frank Pavone, who wants to give them a proper burial. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/medical-examiners-office-locks-out-pro-lifers-demanding-info-on-gosnell-babies/


Chinese Woman Dying From Forced Abortion at 18 Weeks
Woman in China’s Guizhou province is in critical condition after family planning officials beat her and forced her to submit to an abortion. The woman, named Li Fengfei, was 18 weeks pregnant at the time of the abortion.

According to information provided to LifeNews by All Girls Allowed, a humanitarian group that supports victims of the one child policy in China, local Family Planning Officials dragged Li on July 9 to their office and beat her, knocking out one of her front teeth. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/chinese-woman-dying-from-forced-abortion-at-18-weeks/
Did Planned Parenthood Close Texas Abortion Centers to Hide Its Medicaid Fraud?
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast took the occasion of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s signing of a new omnibus pro-life law today to announce it was closing three of its 12 clinics. The reason, per Huffington Post:
The three clinics are located in Bryan, Huntsville and Lufkin, Texas. They are closing in response to a new package of a new package of abortion restrictions signed into law on Thursday and funding cuts to Texas’ Women’s Health Program that were passed by the Texas state legislature in 2011. Out of the three Planned Parenthood clinics that are closing, only the Bryan clinic performs abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/did-planned-parenthood-close-texas-abortion-centers-to-hide-its-medicaid-fraud/
Wendy Davis and the Failed Reinvention of the Pro-Abortion Movement
I’m a native Pennsylvanian who was working in the pro-life movement in that state when the news first broke of the atrocities that had taken place at Kermit Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Center abortion clinic in West Philadelphia.
The details of the case sounded like something out of a horror movie. Yet it took the national media almost two years to cover it. Thanks to the persistence of pro-life advocates, the story finally made it into the living rooms of at least some of the American people in April 2013. America was horrified and disgusted. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/wendy-davis-and-the-failed-reinvention-of-the-pro-abortion-movement/
Pro-Abortion NAACP Rejects Black Conservatives From National Conference
The NAACP has picked up the welcome mat when it comes to black conservatives attending the national conference of the civil rights group, which has consistently supported abortion in recent years. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/pro-abortion-naacp-rejects-black-conservatives-from-national-conference/

Pro-Life Men Reject BroChoice “More Abortions for More Sex” Argument
Pro-abortion men, aided by top pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL, are pushing the BroChoice notion that abortion should remain legal so they can have as much consequence-free sex as they’d like. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/pro-life-men-reject-brochoice-more-abortions-for-more-sex-argument/

Effort to Ban Abortions in the Late-Term Abortion Capital of America Getting Close
A unique attempt at banning late-term abortions through the petition process at the city level is close to reaching its goal of 12,000 signatures in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city that is now known as the Late-term Abortion Capital of the U.S. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/effort-to-ban-abortions-in-the-late-term-abortion-capital-of-america-getting-close/

United Methodist Officials: “Clearly More to Be Done” to Promote Abortion
Ms. Julie Taylor works in the office of Children, Youth and Family Advocacy of the United Methodist Women, and Ms. Amee Paparella is the new Director and Organizer for Women’s Advocacy at the General Board of church and Society of The United Methodist Church. On January 18, they posted their article, “Clearly More to Be Done,” on the General Board of Church and Society website. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/united-methodist-officials-clearly-more-to-be-done-to-promote-abortion/
Why Do We Kill the Handicapped? Out of Selfishness, Not Compassion
I have a friend with Down syndrome. I will call him Tim. Tim probably does not know how unusual his birth was. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/why-do-we-kill-the-handicapped-out-of-selfishness-not-compassion/
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Ethan Saylor’s Story Shows Why Babies With Down Syndrome are Aborted
Earlier this year, a young man with Down syndrome named Robert Ethan Saylor was killed. . http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/ethan-saylors-story-shows-why-babies-with-down-syndrome-are-aborted/
Shock: Almost 2,700 Abortions on Down Syndrome Babies in England, 99 After 26 Weeks
The number of abortions on babies in England with Down Syndrome or other congenital abnormalities is on the rise. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/shock-almost-2700-abortions-on-down-syndrome-babies-in-england-99-after-26-weeks/
Do We Really Need to “Fix” People Who Have Down Syndrome?
Amazing news was announced in the field of gene therapy this week. Scientists in Massachusetts have taken the cells of a person with Down Syndrome and have silenced the extra 21st chromosome in those cells. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/do-we-really-need-to-fix-people-who-have-down-syndrome/
From “Choice” to “Not in Her Shoes:” Planned Parenthood Sidesteps Abortion
The use of “choice” in the abortion debate was never substantive. Everyone understands that some choices are morally unproblematic (choosing to exercise, to eat ice cream, to talk with friends) and other choices are not (choosing to rape, to steal, to abuse children). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/from-choice-to-not-in-her-shoes-planned-parenthood-sidesteps-abortion/
Your Unwilling Contribution to the UNFPA Supports Chinese Population Control
You probably didn’t know it, but some of the money extracted from your paycheck by the IRS winds up in China, where it is used to fund that country’s population control programs. Here’s how it works. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/your-unwilling-contribution-to-the-unfpa-supports-chinese-population-control/
Facing Life Head On: Brad Mattes Talks About His Pro-Life Work
I interview Brad Mattes, CEO of Life Issues Institute and host of the Emmy award-winning television show, “Facing Life Head-On.” . http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/facing-life-head-on-brad-mattes-talks-about-his-pro-life-work/


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