Tuesday, August 13, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/13/13




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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Planned Parenthood Tweets Article Supporting Using Women for Sex
• Gianna’s Story: Abortion Survivor Was Told She Would “Never Be Anything”
• Obamacare Death Panels Come to Oregon: Committee May Deny Cancer Treatment
Obama Admin Won’t Enforce HHS Mandate Against Christian-Owned Rifle Scope Company


More Pro-Life News

• Study Shows People in “Vegetative” State Were Incorrectly Diagnosed
• 3-D Plastic Models Let You See Face of Unborn Baby Before Birth
• “Back Alley” Arguments for Legalizing Abortion Disrespect Women’s Intelligence

• New iPhone App “Glow” Helps Couples Overcome Infertility Naturally

• Tell New US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power Not to Push Abortion
• Planned Parenthood Praised Sexual Harasser Bob Filner for “Defending Women”
• Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Attacks Pro-Life Ken Cuccinelli
• ABC Sends Cameraman to Pro-Life “March on Media” Event, Then Fails to Cover It
• Alabama Abortion Biz Fights Order From Judge, Health Dept to Shut Down

• Abortion Activists Upset University of Texas Med School Partners With Catholic Group
• New Zealand Bill Would Legalize Euthanasia, Pressure Disabled to Die

• Remembering March for Life Founder Nellie Gray One Year After Her Death
• Kansas Abortion Clinic Workers Harass People Giving Women Alternatives
• What are the Rights of Sperm-Donor or Egg-Donor-Conceived People?



Planned Parenthood Tweets Article Supporting Using Women for Sex
The Planned Parenthood abortion business supports the so-called “BroChoice” campaign and its notion that supporting abortion is a good thing for men to do because it allows them to get out of the responsibility of becoming a parent by pressuring their partner to have an abortion.

The campaign essentially says it’s alright to use women for sex because they can always get an abortion if they get knocked up. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/planned-parenthood-tweets-article-supporting-using-women-for-sex/
Gianna’s Story: Abortion Survivor Was Told She Would “Never Be Anything”
To those who follow abortion issues closely, the name Gianna Jessen is familiar. Over the years she has been a tremendous speaker about the value of life.

As a survivor of abortion, Gianna knows what she is talking about — and her personal story is one that has inspired countless people and opened the eyes of many to how abortion involves the destruction of human life and isn’t something that just happens to a bunch of cells. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/giannas-story-abortion-survivor-was-told-she-would-never-be-anything/
Obamacare Death Panels Come to Oregon: Committee May Deny Cancer Treatment
Even though it was 85 degrees outside today, a snowball was made. It is a small snowball, but it is not going to melt. In fact it is going to grow and before long, it will be so big that no one will be able to move it.
I attended a little-noticed meeting this afternoon of the “Health Evidence Review Commission”, a committee which is part of the Oregon Health Authority and is bringing Oregon’s health plan in line with Obamacare. It is a committee that no one knows or cares about, except it is one that will soon rule, and perhaps ruin, your life. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/obamacare-death-panels-come-to-oregon-committee-may-deny-cancer-treatment/
Obama Admin Won’t Enforce HHS Mandate Against Christian-Owned Rifle Scope Company
The HHS mandate is losing again — this time against a Christian-owner rifle scope company that doesn’t want to be forced to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions for its employees.

The Obama administration has lost so many HHS mandate cases in court that it didn’t even put up a challenge in response to the company’s lawsuit, according to news reports . http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/obama-admin-wont-enforce-hhs-mandate-against-christian-owned-rifle-scope-company/

Study Shows People in “Vegetative” State Were Incorrectly Diagnosed
There is more encouraging news coming out of Canada regarding the very unscientific persistent vegetative state (PVS) diagnosis. Once again there has been a study regarding three people who were incorrectly thought to be in a PVS.

Why is this so important? One reason is that the PVS diagnosis can be used as a motive to kill a person with a brain injury, as it was in my sister, Terri Schiavo’s case. This is not the first time this type of testing has taken place with similar types of results. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/study-shows-people-in-vegetative-state-were-incorrectly-diagnosed/

3-D Plastic Models Let You See Face of Unborn Baby Before Birth
Fasotec, a medical engineering firm based in Tokyo, Japan provides expectant parents 3D plastic models of the face of their baby taken from 3D ultrasounds.
The process costs about $500.
“Back Alley” Arguments for Legalizing Abortion Disrespect Women’s Intelligence
We’ve all heard the pro-choice argument that if abortion is made illegal again, women will be forced to go to dangerous back-alley abortionists, and women will die as a result.
There are many pro-life responses to this. You can explain that maternal deaths from abortion actually decreased before Roe v. Wade, due to advances in emergency medicine and antibiotics. You can point out that legal providers are frequently unsafe anyway. You can bring up all the international research showing that it is possible for a country to have pro-life policies and good maternal health outcomes. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/back-alley-arguments-for-legalizing-abortion-disrespect-womens-intelligence/
New iPhone App “Glow” Helps Couples Overcome Infertility Naturally
In an effort to help couples facing infertility problems achieve pregnancy, the co-founder of PayPal has developed an iPhone app to monitor fertility and track baby-making data. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/new-iphone-app-glow-helps-couples-overcome-infertility-naturally/


Tell New US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power Not to Push Abortion
Samantha Power, the new U.S. ambassador to the UN, wants to know: how can she best promote American values and human dignity? What should the U.S. stand for in the world. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/tell-new-us-ambassador-to-the-un-samantha-power-not-to-push-abortion/

Planned Parenthood Praised Sexual Harasser Bob Filner for “Defending Women”
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has been the subject of national news for months in the wake of sexual harassment allegations from several women
. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/planned-parenthood-praised-sexual-harasser-bob-filner-for-defending-women/

Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Attacks Pro-Life Ken Cuccinelli
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has mailed its supporters across the state of Virginia to urge them to oppose pro-life gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-attacks-pro-life-ken-cuccinelli/
ABC Sends Cameraman to Pro-Life “March on Media” Event, Then Fails to Cover It
Our March on Media rally took place this past Thursday.We had upwards of a hundred and fifty people gathered outside ABC, including a you-can’t-miss-’em crowd of yellow shirts from the ever-awesome Crossroads USA. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/abc-sends-cameraman-to-pro-life-march-on-media-event-then-fails-to-cover-it/
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Alabama Abortion Biz Fights Order From Judge, Health Dept to Shut Down
There are a couple types of people who won’t take no for an answer — 2-year-olds, for example. They don’t always understand mommy’s “no.” Sometimes really aggressive dates fall in that category, too. And then there are abortionists. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/alabama-abortion-biz-fights-order-from-judge-health-dept-to-shut-down/
Abortion Activists Upset University of Texas Med School Partners With Catholic Group
The University of Texas at Austin’s new Dell Medical School, which is slated to open in 2016, finally bringing a medical school to the Austin campus, is a subject of renewed controversy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/abortion-activists-upset-university-of-texas-med-school-partners-with-catholic-group/
New Zealand Bill Would Legalize Euthanasia, Pressure Disabled to Die
Stuff media in New Zealand reported today on a talk given in New Plymouth by Maryan Street, the New Zealand MP who has sponsored a bill to legalize euthanasia in New Zealand. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/new-zealand-bill-would-legalize-euthanasia-pressure-disabled-to-die/
Remembering March for Life Founder Nellie Gray One Year After Her Death
Michael New, a political science professor and researcher who is an expert on abortion and pro-life issues, has a nice piece that recalls march for Life founder Nellie Gray one year after her passing. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/remembering-march-for-life-founder-nellie-gray-one-year-after-her-death/
Kansas Abortion Clinic Workers Harass People Giving Women Alternatives
Representatives from Operation Rescue, Kansas Coalition for Life, Kansans for Life, and a local church asked the Wichita City Council this morning to re-zone property where a the South Wind Women’s Center abortion clinic currently operates due to an increased safety hazard created by the clinic. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/kansas-abortion-clinic-workers-harass-people-giving-women-alternatives/
What are the Rights of Sperm-Donor or Egg-Donor-Conceived People?
What are the rights of donor-conceived people? To ask this question is to suggest that we have different rights from everyone else—and so we do, because we’ve allowed it. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/13/what-are-the-rights-of-sperm-donor-or-egg-donor-conceived-people/
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