Monday, July 8, 2013

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Top Stories
• Governor Perry Vows Texas Will Pass Ban on Late-Term Abortions
• Ireland Sees Largest-Ever Pro-Life Rally, 60,000 Protest Abortion

• A Letter to My Aborted Sibling: I’m Sorry You Were Never Loved
Mike Huckabee, Duggar Family Head Monday Pro-Life Rally in Texas

More Pro-Life News
• USA Today: How Will We Kill Babies With Down Sydrome if We Ban Late-Term Abortions?
• Dozens Attend Memorial Service for Geese, Babies Gosnell Killed Get No Burial

• Michigan College Student Wins National Pro-Life Video Contest

• Abortion Activists Hail Satan and Exploit Children, What Will You Do?
• Delaware Gov Gets Abortion Bill Sparked by Unsafe Conditions at Planned Parenthood
• Bobby Schindler: Never Forget Terri Schiavo’s Death, Help Patients Like Her
• Scientists Use Ethical Stem Cells Grow Human Liver Tissue
• Quebec Bill 52 for Euthanasia and “Aid in Dying” Would Result in Abuses

• British Mom Can’t Get Funeral Costs for Premature Baby Born Before Abortion Limit
• Mexico City Priests Learn to Expose the Horror of Abortion

• How Can Pro-Lifers Encourage People to Sidewalk Counsel at Abortion Clinics?
• Presumed Consent is a Bad Idea When it Comes to Organ Donation



Governor Perry Vows Texas Will Pass Ban on Late-Term Abortions
Governor Rick Perry appeared on a Sunday current events television show and pledged that the Texas legislature will pass and he will sign the bill that bans late-term abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

A Texas state House committee approved the bill last week and more legislative action is expected on Monday and Tuesday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/governor-perry-vows-texas-will-pass-ban-on-late-term-abortions/
Ireland Sees Largest-Ever Pro-Life Rally, 60,000 Protest Abortion
More than 60,000 pro-life people gathered for what sponsors are calling the largest-ever pro-life rally against abortion that Ireland has ever seen.

With a vote looming in the Irish Parliament to legalize abortions, pro-life advocates are pulling out all the stops to rally public opinion against the bill before a final vote is taken on Wednesday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/ireland-sees-largest-ever-pro-life-rally-60000-protest-abortion/
A Letter to My Aborted Sibling: I’m Sorry You Were Never Loved
The following was sent earlier this week to National Right to Life. It speaks volumes about a part of the abortion battle that is rarely discussed: its impact on siblings.
About a week ago my mother told me that she had an abortion before I was born. It devastated me. Mourning someone I have never met seems bizarre to me, yet I am so sad. To help me find closure I wrote my half sibling, that I will never meet, a letter. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/a-letter-to-my-aborted-sibling-im-sorry-you-were-never-loved/
Mike Huckabee, Duggar Family Head Monday Pro-Life Rally in Texas
Embroiled in an intense battle for Life, pro-life Texans will pause to rally the troops Monday night, as they head into a week filled with floor debates and final votes over the historic omnibus pro-life bill.

In the wake of shocking and brutal conditions in clinics run by Kermit Gosnell and Houston’s Douglas Karpen, national leaders are eager to encourage Texans in their fight to restrict abortion after five months and better protect women by improving clinic standards. They will lead the rally on the South Steps of the Capitol this evening, Monday, July 8th, beginning at 7 p.m. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/mike-huckabee-duggar-family-head-monday-pro-life-rally-in-texas/

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USA Today: How Will We Kill Babies With Down Sydrome if We Ban Late-Term Abortions?
Polling by Gallup and others has shown that most Americans oppose late-term abortion and support the banning of it in the 2nd and 3rd trimester. Texas’s SB2 20 week abortion ban has brought the issue of banning late-term abortions back into the national spotlight and now, pro-aborts are scrambling to find a way to make the abhorrent practice palatable to the public, with the media being more than complicit.

The latest example is in USA Today, where the official editorial board ran a piece justifying why women need late-term abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/usa-today-how-will-we-kill-babies-with-down-sydrome-if-we-ban-late-term-abortions/
Dozens Attend Memorial Service for Geese, Babies Gosnell Killed Get No Burial
Dozens of people attended a memorial service for 144 geese who officials in North Carolina euthanized. But the babies abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell killed are not getting a proper funeral because local officials in Philadelphia refuse to release their bodies to a Catholic priest who wants to bury them properly.
From the story: Dozens of people have gathered in a Gaston County park for a memorial service for 144 Canadian geese that were euthanized by county workers worried they had become a health hazard. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/dozens-attend-memorial-service-for-geese-babies-gosnell-killed-get-no-burial/
Michigan College Student Wins National Pro-Life Video Contest
Joshua Rapavi, a student at Northern Michigan University and a native of Marquette, won the 2013 National Right to Life Video Contest with his submission entitled, “A Mother’s Dream.”
“We hope you find it as powerful as we did,” says NRL News editor Dave Andrusko.
Abortion Activists Hail Satan and Exploit Children, What Will You Do?
First the pro-abortion mob flooded the Texas state Senate and shut down the legislature to the point that the ban on late-term abortions couldn’t be approved on time. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/abortion-activists-hail-satan-and-exploit-children-what-will-you-do/

Delaware Gov Gets Abortion Bill Sparked by Unsafe Conditions at Planned Parenthood
When you are dealing with hard-core pro-abortion states, even a small step in the right direction is important. Especially so when the reason the law is passed is because of Planned Parenthood’s misconduct. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/delaware-gov-gets-abortion-bill-sparked-by-unsafe-conditions-at-planned-parenthood/

Bobby Schindler: Never Forget Terri Schiavo’s Death, Help Patients Like Her
At a moving talk at the National Right to Life Convention in Dallas, Br. Paul O’Donnell and Bobby Schindler (brother of Terri Schiavo) shared their testimonies of losing those close to them. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/bobby-schindler-never-forget-terri-schiavos-death-help-patients-like-her/

Scientists Use Ethical Stem Cells Grow Human Liver Tissue
Japanese scientists have succeeded in growing chunks of functional human liver tissue in mice. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/scientists-use-ethical-stem-cells-grow-human-liver-tissue/
Quebec Bill 52 for Euthanasia and “Aid in Dying” Would Result in Abuses
The following letter was written by Margaret Somerville and published in The Montreal Gazette on July 3, 2013. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/quebec-bill-52-for-euthanasia-and-aid-in-dying-would-result-in-abuses/
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British Mom Can’t Get Funeral Costs for Premature Baby Born Before Abortion Limit
An unemployed mum was denied a grant to cover funeral costs for her premature baby girl, because she was born before the abortion limit. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/british-mom-cant-get-funeral-costs-for-premature-baby-born-before-abortion-limit/

Mexico City Priests Learn to Expose the Horror of Abortion
Earlier this month, Human Life International sponsored a pro-life conference for clergy in Mexico City where some of my brother priests were confronted with the true horror of abortion for the first time in their lives. In many parts of Latin America unborn life is protected, so the daily struggle to expose abortion we face here in the United States just isn’t the same. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/mexico-city-priests-learn-to-expose-the-horror-of-abortion/
How Can Pro-Lifers Encourage People to Sidewalk Counsel at Abortion Clinics?
This is a clip from an episode of Life Report called “Shawn Carney on the State of the Pro-Life Movement.”. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/how-can-pro-lifers-encourage-people-to-sidewalk-counsel-at-abortion-clinics/

Presumed Consent is a Bad Idea When it Comes to Organ Donation
The NHS is melting down. Patient care is in an abysmal state. And what does the Senedd of Wales do in this distrustful and dangerous atmosphere. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/07/presumed-consent-is-a-bad-idea-when-it-comes-to-organ-donation/



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