Heroic News: “Brave mom defies doctor's abortion advice, delivers identical triplets” plus 6 more

• Brave mom defies doctor's abortion advice, delivers identical triplets
• Ex-abortionist surrenders instruments of death to Pope
• Dad learns to love Down Syndrome daughter
• Profs lobby for abortion coverage at Loyola Marymount
• 3 Reasons Catholics should reject Obamacare
• Belgian woman euthanized by state after failed sex change op
• The Commodification of Children

Brave mom defies doctor's abortion advice, delivers identical triplets Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:03 PM PDT Karen Gilbert’s pregnancy began normally, until about eight weeks in. She started feeling pain and, thinking the worst, began fearing it was a miscarriage. But what Gilbert had originally mistaken for a failed pregnancy eventually became a wildly unlikely birth: identical triplets, the odds of which experts peg at between 60,000- and 200 million-to-one.

Ex-abortionist surrenders instruments of death to Pope Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT A former abortionist’s far-fetched dream of surrendering the medical instruments with which he had once performed abortions to Pope Francis became a reality recently, when, to his astonishment, Dr. Antonio Oriente found himself face to face with the pontiff.

Dad learns to love Down Syndrome daughter Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:40 AM PDT There was a time when Heath White chased perfection. E:60's Tom Rinaldi tells the story of a how the birth of a girl with Down Syndrome led to the re-birth of a man who thought he had

Profs lobby for abortion coverage at Loyola Marymount Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:38 AM PDT At Loyola Marymount University, numerous faculty and staff are urging the administration to continue covering abortion, even theology professors and one who has argued for the personhood of dolphins.

3 Reasons Catholics should reject Obamacare Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:37 AM PDT Basic healthcare is a human right, but the ends don't justify the means: how we get there is just as important so as to ensure other rights are also protected.

Belgian woman euthanized by state after failed sex change op Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:37 AM PDT Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of "unbearable psychological suffering" on Monday afternoon.

The Commodification of Children Posted: 01 Oct 2013 08:37 PM PDT Jennifer Lahl, president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC), is an activist who is urging us to think more deeply about issues such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and artificial reproductive technology (ART), such as sperm donation and surrogacy. Lahl recently wrote a piece for Christianity Today, urging evangelicals to start thinking about the moral ramifications of these technologies.