Friday, August 9, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/9/13




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Friday, August 9, 2013

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Obama Gives Presidential Medal of Freedom to Abortion Activist Gloria Steinem
• Oregon Health Care Board Denies Chemotherapy, Will Push Rationing Under Obamacare

• Abortion Clinic Sends Coupons to Low-Income Women, Save $50 on Sundays
American Medical Association Wants Doctors to Ration Care Under Obamacare


More Pro-Life News

• Yes Wendy Davis, Women Do Understand Late-Term Abortion; Do You?
• The Amazing Fetal Development of Unborn Babies at 20 Weeks
• Abortion Activists Call Fetal Pain “Phony Science” Despite Considerable Evidence

• We’re Not Gonna Take It: Time to Expose the Lies of the Pro-Abortion Media

• My Unborn Baby Was a Human Being Before Birth and is a Human Being Now
• Time Magazine Asks: Who Needs Kids Anyway? Extols the Child-Free Life
• Planned Parenthood Colorado Claims No Taxpayer Funding, Got $10 Million
• Internet Sensation Noah is a Big Brother
• Abortions Kill Babies, They’re Not Just a Policy Issue

• Catholic Loyola Marymount University Drops Abortion Coverage
• Catholic University of San Diego Allows Pro-Abortion Student Group
• Pakistani TV Host Gives Abandoned Babies Left to Die to Childless Couples

• Ireland Supreme Court Judges Previously Opposed Pro-Life Amendment
• Dublin Hospital Will Refuse to Obey Irish Law Allowing Abortions


Obama Gives Presidential Medal of Freedom to Abortion Activist Gloria Steinem
President Barack Obama has named sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Abortion activist Gloria Steinem will be one of the recipients.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is “presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” and Obama apparently believes dedicating one’s life to promoting abortion is a part of that list. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/obama-gives-presidential-medal-of-freedom-to-abortion-activist-gloria-steinem/
Oregon Health Care Board Denies Chemotherapy, Will Push Rationing Under Obamacare
Oregon rations healthcare to Medicaid recipients. Terminal cancer patients are denied chemotherapy to extend life–and now the Oregon rationing board wants to go deeper into the weeds.

From Hope Landsem’s Wall Street Journal blog: Liberal states often preview health-care central planning before the same regulations go national, which ought to make an Oregon cost-control commission especially scary. On Thursday a state board could change Oregon’s Medicaid program to deny costly care to poor patients who need it most. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/oregon-health-care-board-denies-chemotherapy-will-push-rationing-under-obamacare/
Abortion Clinic Sends Coupons to Low-Income Women, Save $50 on Sundays
An abortion center that’s open seven days a week in Florida is giving away coupons to poor women in a crisis pregnancy so they can save money on their abortions!
Florida Right to Life investigated this “open on Sundays” abortion center and learned that one of the doctors at this location is the notorious Dr. James Scott Pendergraft.
American Medical Association Wants Doctors to Ration Care Under Obamacare
The medical establishment is all on board for cost cutting in health care. That’s a good goal, of course. But how that is done really matters ethically.

Here’s the danger: Imposing a dual mandate upon doctors–cost cutting and patient care–could easily place physicians in a hopeless conflict of interest situation. Spend too much and the bureaucrats will throw brickbats. Save money at the expense of patient welfare and be sued for malpractice, while losing the trust of patients. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/american-medical-association-wants-doctors-to-ration-care-under-obamacare/

Yes Wendy Davis, Women Do Understand Late-Term Abortion; Do You?
On Monday, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis made the now infamous statement that the reason why a majority of women support limits on late-term abortion is that they “don’t really understand the landscape of what’s happening in that arena today.”

Sen. Davis, allow us to share a different interpretation of the poll results. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/yes-wendy-davis-women-do-understand-late-term-abortion-do-you/


The Amazing Fetal Development of Unborn Babies at 20 Weeks
Reading some of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of posts about “late” abortions, it was not until recently that it struck me what a fundamental oversight I’d been guilty of.
The flashpoint for pro-abortionists is the law passed in ten states that says you can’t abort a child capable of feeling pain—20 weeks, as established by a large body of scientific study. Understandably, NRL News Today has written about the science establishing that threshold (by the way, it could be earlier), the politics, the pro-abortion spin, and the like.
Abortion Activists Call Fetal Pain “Phony Science” Despite Considerable Evidence
Probably because I’d already read a preposterous rewriting of the history of abortion in the United States, by the time I sat down this afternoon to peruse two diatribes against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, I was even less in a mood to suffer fools gladly than usual.
FetalPain091604aDisagree—that’s fine. But to label the assertion that the unborn child can experience pain by the 20th week a “lie” and “phony science” (the words are Katie McDonough’s but they are hardly unique to her) is simply to substitute overheated rhetoric for a dispassionate assessment of the evidence. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/abortion-activists-call-fetal-pain-phony-science-despite-considerable-evidence/
We’re Not Gonna Take It: Time to Expose the Lies of the Pro-Abortion Media
Lila Rose and Live Action are calling out the media for doing what has become a shameful daily, and even hourly, occurrence—lying. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/were-not-gonna-take-it-time-to-expose-the-lies-of-the-pro-abortion-media/

My Unborn Baby Was a Human Being Before Birth and is a Human Being Now
It was a quiet Sunday evening and my husband and I were winding down for the night to go to bed. We had contemplated going out to see a movie at the theater but decided against it. In hindsight, I am relieved we made that decision. That’s because my water broke that night. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/my-unborn-baby-was-a-human-being-before-birth-and-is-a-human-being-now/

Time Magazine Asks: Who Needs Kids Anyway? Extols the Child-Free Life
I miscarried my first child less than a month ago, so I see babies or lack of babies everywhere
. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/time-magazine-asks-who-needs-kids-anyway-extols-the-child-free-life/

Planned Parenthood Colorado Claims No Taxpayer Funding, Got $10 Million
In announcing the closure of two Colorado centers yesterday, the Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains abortion business claimed it does not receive taxpayer funds. That claim is false. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/false-planned-parenthood-colorado-claims-no-taxpayer-funding-got-10-million/
Internet Sensation Noah is a Big Brother
LifeNews has been a fan of Noah and his Dad (Rick Smith) since he first started his web site several years ago. Shortly after Noah was born with Down Syndrome Rick, an “Idea Shaper” and “Storyteller,” learned that 92% of children who are diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome are aborted. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/internet-sensation-noah-is-a-big-brother/
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Abortions Kill Babies, They’re Not Just a Policy Issue
The Daily Show’s John Oliver caught Secular Pro-Life’s attention because of an ignorant remark he made about a North Carolina Senate bill that addressed both abortion safety regulations and Sharia law. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/abortions-kill-babies-theyre-not-just-a-policy-issue/
Catholic Loyola Marymount University Drops Abortion Coverage
Loyola Marymount University (LMU) has told The Cardinal Newman Society that it will drop its employee insurance coverage of abortion but retain its coverage of contraceptives, following protests from a faithful Catholic professor and just prior to publication of a Newman Society report revealing LMU’s benefits plan. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/catholic-loyola-marymount-university-drops-abortion-coverage/
Catholic University of San Diego Allows Pro-Abortion Student Group
Hiding behind a euphemistic name, Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) is notorious for promoting the pro-abortion agenda. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/catholic-university-of-san-diego-allows-pro-abortion-student-group/
Pakistani TV Host Gives Abandoned Babies Left to Die to Childless Couples
In an alleged attempt to win the Ramadan ratings war in Pakistan, prime-time TV show host Aamir Liaquat Hussain has given away at least two abandoned children – on the air – to childless couples during Islam’s holy month. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/pakistani-tv-host-gives-abandoned-babies-left-to-die-to-childless-couples/
Ireland Supreme Court Judges Previously Opposed Pro-Life Amendment
Pro-life campaigners in Ireland aren’t holding out much hope that the bill the Irish Parliament approved to open the door to legalized abortions will be overturned at the nation’s highest court. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/ireland-supreme-court-judges-previously-opposed-pro-life-amendment/
Dublin Hospital Will Refuse to Obey Irish Law Allowing Abortions
A member of the board of the Mater Hospital in Dublin says it will not comply with the new law the Irish Parliament approved allowing abortions in rare cases. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/09/dublin-hospital-will-refuse-to-obey-irish-law-allowing-abortions/
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