Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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• Actor Mark Ruffalo Proud of His Mother for Aborting His Sibling
• Neighbor Tells Mom: Kill Your Autistic Teen Because He’s Annoying Me
• Police: Letter Asking Mom to Kill Her Autistic Son Not a Hate Crime
$1 Million in Obamacare Funding to Planned Parenthood Just the Beginning


More Pro-Life News

• I Worked With Her at Planned Parenthood, Now She Yells Obscenities at Me
• More Whistleblowers Could Cost Planned Parenthood Millions by Exposing Fraud
• Why I Am a Young Woman Who Opposes Abortion and Planned Parenthood

• Cute Baby Takes on Vacuum Cleaner in New Samsung Commercial

• Late-Term Abortion Clinic Falsely Uses Kate Hudson’s Image in $100 Coupon
• How Much Does an Abortion Cost? The Lives of a Mother and Child
• Australia’s Dr. Death Launches Voluntary Euthanasia Party for Next Election
• Abortion Denies Upward Mobility to the Poor, Doesn’t Combat Poverty
• Employees Find Dead Newborn Baby Abandoned in Bathroom of Local Bar

• Push Still on to Ban Abortions in Late-Term Abortion Capital of America
• “Death Cafes” Take Off in Europe, Will They Push People Into Assisted Suicide?

• Pro-Life Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” Part 2
• Missouri State Legislator Files Suit Against Obama’s Pro-Abortion Mandate
• New Pro-Life Initiative in Mexico Draws Catholic Clergy and Laity


Actor Mark Ruffalo Proud of His Mother for Aborting His Sibling
Actor Mark Ruffalo is causing a stir with a column he wrote defending abortion. But Ruffalo goes further than merely defending legalized abortion — he apologizes for and defends his mother getting an illegal abortion of his own sibling.

Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America responds to Ruffalo and is shocked he seemingly cares so little that his brother or sister was a victim of abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/actor-mark-ruffalo-proud-of-his-mother-for-aborting-his-sibling/
Neighbor Tells Mom: Kill Your Autistic Teen Because He’s Annoying Me
A family is making international headlines this week after a neighbor, in a letter, told the mother of an autistic teenage boy that she should “do the right thing” and euthanize him to supposedly put him out of his misery.

From a local news report: Karla Begley told CityNews her son Max, 13, stays with his grandmother in the morning during the summer time. It was at that home in Newcastle where letter was delivered on Friday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/19/abortion-clinic-offering-50-off-sunday-abortions-now-offers-100-off/
Police: Letter Asking Mom to Kill Her Autistic Son Not a Hate Crime
An Oshawa Ontario family were shocked when they received a letter from a neighbour telling them that their 13-year-old autistic son was: a “nuisance” and a “wild animal” and then suggested that the family move or “euthanize” the child.
A City TV news report, which includes a video interview stated: Karla Begley (right) told CityNews her son Max, 13, stays with his grandmother in the morning during the summer time. It was at that home in Newcastle where letter was delivered on Friday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/police-letter-asking-mom-to-kill-her-autistic-son-not-a-hate-crime/
$1 Million in Obamacare Funding to Planned Parenthood Just the Beginning
Only days after Kathleen Sebelius’ HHS announced awarding Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. $375,000 to “promote” the Affordable Care Act, comes word that an additional $655,000 is going to three more branches.

But according to the Heritage Foundation, that million dollars is only the start: Planned Parenthood could also financially benefit from an Obamacare requirement that qualified insurance plans cover “essential community providers.” Those providers, according to a list released by the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year, could include over 400 local Planned Parenthood affiliates. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/1-million-in-obamacare-funding-to-planned-parenthood-just-the-beginning/

I Worked With Her at Planned Parenthood, Now She Yells Obscenities at Me
I just stood there…and cried. I closed my eyes. I could feel their breath on my neck. They were yelling inches from my ear. “Whose choice? My choice.”

I had forgotten what this darkness felt like. I opened my eyes and saw a familiar face. It was one of my former friends from Planned Parenthood. I smiled and waved when I saw her. It was as if I had forgotten that we were no longer friends…not because of who I am, but because of what I now defend. She mouthed something profane at me…very slowly so I would be sure to catch what she said. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/i-worked-with-her-at-planned-parenthood-now-she-yells-obscenities-at-me/
More Whistleblowers Could Cost Planned Parenthood Millions by Exposing Fraud
Poor Planned Parenthood, with its piddly one billion dollar annual income. It’s just no match for evil, greedy whistleblowers, at least according to pro-abort “reporter” Carolyn Jones at The Guardian:
Whistleblowers are the good guys, right? They cry foul on charlatans and overreaching governments. But what if your urge to disclose is lubricated by the promise of a whopping pile of cash? What if powerful lobby groups are standing by to give you first-rate legal representation? And what if your inside knowledge relates to one of America’s most bitter cultural conflicts? http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/more-whistleblowers-could-cost-planned-parenthood-millions-by-exposing-fraud/
Why I Am a Young Woman Who Opposes Abortion and Planned Parenthood
In my early 20’s, I was four months into a relationship and found myself pregnant. I was raised with sound values from family and church, yet felt alone as I was thousands of miles away from home while attending college. I felt incredible shame that if family and friends knew of the choices I’d made, they’d be let down.
This led me on a path of self-doubt that I did not know was possible. Fear is what it all comes down to, and I have learned that fear is distortion that masks itself in many forms more often than not.
Cute Baby Takes on Vacuum Cleaner in New Samsung Commercial
Pro-lifers: We love all things baby. Unborn babies, premature babies, full-term babies… babies who have Down syndrome or anencephaly, and big fat healthy babies. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/cute-baby-takes-on-vacuum-cleaner-in-new-samsung-commercial/

in $100 Coupon
No, actress Kate Hudson is not endorsing a late-term abortion business in Orlando, Florida. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/late-term-abortion-clinic-falsely-uses-kate-hudsons-image-in-100-coupon/

How Much Does an Abortion Cost? The Lives of a Mother and Child
Abortion advocates often use finances to explain why women need to be able to legally kill their unborn child. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/how-much-does-an-abortion-cost-the-lives-of-a-mother-and-child/

Australia’s Dr. Death Launches Voluntary Euthanasia Party for Next Election
You’ve got to give Dr Philip Nitschke some credit for telling it like it really is. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/australias-dr-death-launches-voluntary-euthanasia-party-for-next-election/
Abortion Denies Upward Mobility to the Poor, Doesn’t Combat Poverty
By cutting life short in the womb, abortion denies upward mobility to all human life, regardless of income level. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/abortion-denies-upward-mobility-to-the-poor-doesnt-combat-poverty/
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Employees Find Dead Newborn Baby Abandoned in Bathroom of Local Bar
Employees of a local bar made a gruesome discovery Monday morning when they found the dead body of a newborn baby in the bathroom. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/employees-find-dead-newborn-baby-abandoned-in-bathroom-of-local-bar/
Push Still on to Ban Abortions in Late-Term Abortion Capital of America
The Albuquerque City Clerk has announced that the Albuquerque Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance that was submitted for approval by voters via a city-wide legislative petition will not be on the October 8 ballot because the Clerk’s office has not yet had time to verify enough signatures to trigger a public vote. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/push-still-on-to-ban-abortions-in-late-term-abortion-capital-of-america/
“Death Cafes” Take Off in Europe, Will They Push People Into Assisted Suicide?
Religion has always been, in part, about preparing for death. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/death-cafes-take-off-in-europe-with-they-push-people-into-assisted-suicide/
Pro-Life Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” Part 2
In part one of this examination, I showed that the pro-life position is not logically incoherent in considering the unborn to be human beings, both in the genetic sense and the moral sense. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/pro-life-critique-of-mary-anne-warrens-on-the-moral-and-legal-status-of-abortion-part-2/
Missouri State Legislator Files Suit Against Obama’s Pro-Abortion Mandate
A Missouri state legislator has filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking to exempt his family from the federal contraceptive and abortion drug mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/missouri-state-legislator-files-suit-against-obamas-pro-abortion-mandate/

New Pro-Life Initiative in Mexico Draws Catholic Clergy and Laity
After attending Human Life International’s REDESSVIDA conference in Mexico City last June for priests and seminarians, Bishop José Maria de la Torre Martin of the Diocese of Aguascalientes in Mexico took new steps to spread the Gospel of Life in his diocese. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/20/new-pro-life-initiative-in-mexico-draws-catholic-clergy-and-laity/

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