Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.
Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Catholic Bishops: We Will Not Comply With the HHS Abortion Mandate
• Obama Drops to His Lowest Approval Rating Ever as Obamacare Scandal Explodes
Obamacare Failure: Few Americans Sign Up for Pro-Abortion, Pro-Rationing Care
• After His Amazing Birth in the Philippines, Tim Tebow is Helping Typhoon Victims

More Pro-Life News

• Obama Falsely Claims Cancellations Will Mean Better Insurance Under Obamacare
• Baby Boy Born After Brain-Dead Mother Kept Alive Three Months

• Thousands of Obamacare Plans Will Pay for Abortions, Here are Some That Don’t
• Obama Admin Helped Abortionist Try to Shut Down Pro-Life Blog
• Baby Born With Spinal Meningitis Into Abusive Home, Should He Have Been Aborted?
• New Pro-Abortion Bill Would Make it Easier to Overturn Pro-Life State Laws

• Democratic Senator: Obamacare’s IPAB Death Panels Must be Revisited
• Teacher’s Career Could be Over Because He Dared to Challenge Planned Parenthood
• Mother: My Baby Only Lived for 17 Minutes But I’ll Remember Him Forever
• Planned Parenthood Charges Patients $20 to Watch Video Before Abortion
• Baby 8-9-10-11-12-13 Celebrates His 8-Pound Birth at 9:10 on 11/12/13
Abortion Activists Spray Pro-Lifers With Water Guns, Throw Fake Blood at Them
• Franchising Abortion and Sterilization: Population Control Activists Descend on India
• Michigan Pro-Life Group Starts Phase Two of Campaign to Stop Tax-Funded Abortions
• New European Group Launched to Combat Growing Threat of Euthanasia
Forced Abortion Opponent: China Has No Business on the UN Human Rights Council
Suspension of Telemed Abortion Ban Puts Iowa Women at Risk

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The National Association of Pro-life Nurses announces its 2013-2014 scholarship for nursing students! Any pro-life nursing student currently enrolled in a nursing program is eligible to apply. For further details, go to nursesforlife.org “Take my hand, not my life.”

Catholic Bishops: We Will Not Comply With the HHS Abortion Mandate
The nation’s Catholic bishops have a message for President Barack Obama: They would rather pay fines, no matter how much they would be, before they comply with the HHS mandate that compels groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops today issued a “Special Message” at the conclusion of their fall General Assembly, November 13, in Baltimore. They unanimously passed the special message, which can only be issued as such meetings and strongly condemned the HHS mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/catholic-bishops-we-will-not-comply-with-the-hhs-abortion-mandate/
Obama Drops to His Lowest Approval Rating Ever as Obamacare Scandal Explodes
With millions of Americans losing their health insurance thanks to the Obamacare health care law that pro-life groups warned would ration care, President Barack Obama is now at his lowest approval rating ever of his presidency.

American voters disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing by a 54-39 percentage point margin, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll that has him at his lowest marks ever. Even women disapprove 51 – 40 percent, according to the survey released today. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obama-drops-to-his-lowest-approval-rating-ever-as-obamacare-scandal-explodes/
Obamacare Failure: Few Americans Sign Up for Pro-Abortion, Pro-Rationing Care
Only 106,185 Americans signed up for an insurance plan through the Obamacare health care law through November 2, according to numbers released today from the HHS Department. That is a far cry from the number of people the Obama administration expected to sign up by this point for health care that likely pays for abortions and may be rationed.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that at least 500,000 Americans would enroll in October and the Congressional Budget Office estimated that seven million Americans would get insurance via Obamacare by March 31, but the numbers are way behind. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obamacare-failure-few-americans-sign-up-for-pro-abortion-pro-rationing-care/
After His Amazing Birth in the Philippines, Tim Tebow is Helping Typhoon Victims
In 1985, the family of Tim Tebow , with four children, was living in the Philippines as missionaries. Pam Tebow contracted amoebic dysentery, likely from contaminated drinking water. She fell into a coma and received strong drugs to combat the infection.

It turned out she was pregnant with her fifth child. Those drugs caused the placenta to detach from the uterine wall, depriving the unborn baby, Tim Tebow, of oxygen. When she realized she was pregnant, doctors stopped the drugs they had given Pam but said that the high doses of medicine had already damaged Tim. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/after-his-amazing-birth-in-the-philippines-tim-tebow-is-helping-typhoon-victims/
Finally... moral, pro-life fiction that opens hearts and minds! “This is what I was hoping would begin to spring from the Indie World. No way would NYC Corporate Publishing ever allow something with this worldview through.” - a reader.

Obama Falsely Claims Cancellations Will Mean Better Insurance Under Obamacare
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946

File 2330 - This was going to be a post about the importance of clarity in language and freedom of expression, full of all sorts of quotes from George Orwell, whose writing very effectively highlights the dangers of censorship and the ugliness of using euphemism to defend the indefensible. Just to be sure, I googled “George Orwell abortion”, in case he had made some wildly pro-abortion statement that I hadn’t heard of, but that could undermine the point of what I was writing. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obama-falsely-claims-forced-cancellations-will-mean-better-insurance-plans-under-obamacare/
Baby Boy Born After Brain-Dead Mother Kept Alive Three Months
A baby has been born in Hungary after a very rare circumstance in which his brain-dead mother was kept alive for three months so he could be born. As LifeNews has previously reported, in a case out of the United States from 2005, this kind of situation has occurred previously but is far from common.
In the Hungarian case, the baby boy’s mother, who is anonymous, was also an organ donor and gave her heart, pancreas, liver and two kidneys to patients who needed them. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/baby-boy-born-after-brain-dead-mother-kept-alive-three-months/
Thousands of Obamacare Plans Will Pay for Abortions, Here are Some That Don’t
As LifeNews has reported, it’s virtually impossible to find out if any of the health care plans offered in the Obamacare exchanges pay for abortions with your tax dollars or premiums. In the 27 states that allow plans to cover elective abortion on the exchanges, most conusmers will have to spent countless hours of searching to determine which plans are abortion-free.
Today, Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, released information about abortion coverage in a small subset of plans called Multi-State Plans (MSPs), which are unique because their contracts are negotiated with the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/thousands-of-obamacare-plans-will-pay-for-abortions-here-are-some-that-dont/
Obama Admin Helped Abortionist Try to Shut Down Pro-Life Blog
It’s time to write about the rest of the story when putative late-term abortionist Julie Komarow, M.D., sought a restraining order on your humble correspondent, one of the writers for this blog. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obama-admin-helped-abortionist-try-to-shut-down-pro-life-blog/
Baby Born With Spinal Meningitis Into Abusive Home, Should He Have Been Aborted?
What if you knew the baby would be born with a horrible disease or handicap? http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/baby-born-with-spinal-meningitis-into-abusive-home-should-he-have-been-aborted/

New Pro-Abortion Bill Would Make it Easier to Overturn Pro-Life State Laws
The pro-life movement has brought abortions to record lows in many states by passing a record number of pro-life laws. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/new-pro-abortion-bill-would-make-it-easier-to-overturn-pro-life-state-laws/
Looking for an inspiring and motivating speaker for your pro-life event in 2014? Don't have much to spend on a high-priced speaker costing thousands of dollars? Contact LifeNews at news@lifenews.com about having LifeNews Editor Steven Ertelt speak at your event.

Teacher’s Career Could be Over Because He Dared to Challenge Planned Parenthood
The Washington Times recently reported on a teacher who is currently being lambasted by Planned Parenthood and the Portland School District. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/teachers-career-could-be-over-because-he-dared-to-challenge-planned-parenthood/

Mother: My Baby Only Lived for 17 Minutes But I’ll Remember Him Forever
Parents who are members of the group One Day More are meeting with politicians in Dáíl Éireann in Dublin, Ireland today letting them know they don’t regret not having an abortion even though their children lived only a short time after birth or may not have been born at all. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/mother-my-baby-only-lived-for-17-minutes-but-ill-remember-him-forever/

Planned Parenthood Charges Patients $20 to Watch Video Before Abortion
Planned Parenthood Keystone is the gift that just keeps giving, although I’m sure any closely scrutinized Planned Parenthood would render equally appalling information. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/planned-parenthood-charges-patients-20-to-watch-a-propaganda-video-before-an-abortion/

Baby 8-9-10-11-12-13 Celebrates His 8-Pound Birth at 9:10 on 11/12/13
All over the Internet yesterday, from Facebook to Twitter, people around the world had fun with a special time that doesn’t happen too often. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/baby-8-9-10-11-12-13-celebrates-his-8-pound-birth-at-910-on-111213/
Abortion Activists Spray Pro-Lifers With Water Guns, Throw Fake Blood at Them
Next week, residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico will vote on a measure that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/abortion-activists-spray-pro-lifers-with-water-guns-throw-fake-blood-at-them/

Franchising Abortion and Sterilization: Population Control Activists Descend on India
Think of franchises, and McDonald’s or Starbucks springs to mind. But how about franchising clinics that do abortions and sterilizations?http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/franchising-abortion-and-sterilization-population-control-activists-descend-on-india/
Michigan Pro-Life Group Starts Phase Two of Campaign to Stop Tax-Funded Abortions
Last month, pro-life advocates in Michigan submitted more than 315,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office to keep their tax dollars and insurance premiums from paying for the destruction of innocent human life. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/michigan-pro-life-group-starts-phase-two-of-campaign-to-stop-tax-funded-abortions/
New European Group Launched to Combat Growing Threat of Euthanasia
A new coalition is being launched in Brussels on Wednesday 13 November 2013 to combat the growing threat of euthanasia across Europe. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/new-european-group-launched-to-combat-growing-threat-of-euthanasia/
Forced Abortion Opponent: China Has No Business on the UN Human Rights Council
A leading campaigner against forced abortions and the one-child policy in China says the Asian nation has no business getting a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/forced-abortion-opponent-china-has-no-business-on-the-un-human-rights-council/
Suspension of Telemed Abortion Ban Puts Iowa Women at Risk
A leading campaigner against forced abortions and the one-child policy in China says the Asian nation has no business getting a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/suspension-of-telemed-abortion-ban-puts-iowa-women-at-risk/

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.
Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Catholic Bishops: We Will Not Comply With the HHS Abortion Mandate
• Obama Drops to His Lowest Approval Rating Ever as Obamacare Scandal Explodes
Obamacare Failure: Few Americans Sign Up for Pro-Abortion, Pro-Rationing Care
• After His Amazing Birth in the Philippines, Tim Tebow is Helping Typhoon Victims

More Pro-Life News

• Obama Falsely Claims Cancellations Will Mean Better Insurance Under Obamacare
• Baby Boy Born After Brain-Dead Mother Kept Alive Three Months

• Thousands of Obamacare Plans Will Pay for Abortions, Here are Some That Don’t
• Obama Admin Helped Abortionist Try to Shut Down Pro-Life Blog
• Baby Born With Spinal Meningitis Into Abusive Home, Should He Have Been Aborted?
• New Pro-Abortion Bill Would Make it Easier to Overturn Pro-Life State Laws

• Democratic Senator: Obamacare’s IPAB Death Panels Must be Revisited
• Teacher’s Career Could be Over Because He Dared to Challenge Planned Parenthood
• Mother: My Baby Only Lived for 17 Minutes But I’ll Remember Him Forever
• Planned Parenthood Charges Patients $20 to Watch Video Before Abortion
• Baby 8-9-10-11-12-13 Celebrates His 8-Pound Birth at 9:10 on 11/12/13
Abortion Activists Spray Pro-Lifers With Water Guns, Throw Fake Blood at Them
• Franchising Abortion and Sterilization: Population Control Activists Descend on India
• Michigan Pro-Life Group Starts Phase Two of Campaign to Stop Tax-Funded Abortions
• New European Group Launched to Combat Growing Threat of Euthanasia
Forced Abortion Opponent: China Has No Business on the UN Human Rights Council
Suspension of Telemed Abortion Ban Puts Iowa Women at Risk

HELP LIFE NEWS: We're 69% of the way to our $25,000 November fundraising goal. Please help us with a donation.
The National Association of Pro-life Nurses announces its 2013-2014 scholarship for nursing students! Any pro-life nursing student currently enrolled in a nursing program is eligible to apply. For further details, go to nursesforlife.org “Take my hand, not my life.”

Catholic Bishops: We Will Not Comply With the HHS Abortion Mandate
The nation’s Catholic bishops have a message for President Barack Obama: They would rather pay fines, no matter how much they would be, before they comply with the HHS mandate that compels groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops today issued a “Special Message” at the conclusion of their fall General Assembly, November 13, in Baltimore. They unanimously passed the special message, which can only be issued as such meetings and strongly condemned the HHS mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/catholic-bishops-we-will-not-comply-with-the-hhs-abortion-mandate/
Obama Drops to His Lowest Approval Rating Ever as Obamacare Scandal Explodes
With millions of Americans losing their health insurance thanks to the Obamacare health care law that pro-life groups warned would ration care, President Barack Obama is now at his lowest approval rating ever of his presidency.

American voters disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing by a 54-39 percentage point margin, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll that has him at his lowest marks ever. Even women disapprove 51 – 40 percent, according to the survey released today. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obama-drops-to-his-lowest-approval-rating-ever-as-obamacare-scandal-explodes/
Obamacare Failure: Few Americans Sign Up for Pro-Abortion, Pro-Rationing Care
Only 106,185 Americans signed up for an insurance plan through the Obamacare health care law through November 2, according to numbers released today from the HHS Department. That is a far cry from the number of people the Obama administration expected to sign up by this point for health care that likely pays for abortions and may be rationed.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that at least 500,000 Americans would enroll in October and the Congressional Budget Office estimated that seven million Americans would get insurance via Obamacare by March 31, but the numbers are way behind. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obamacare-failure-few-americans-sign-up-for-pro-abortion-pro-rationing-care/
After His Amazing Birth in the Philippines, Tim Tebow is Helping Typhoon Victims
In 1985, the family of Tim Tebow , with four children, was living in the Philippines as missionaries. Pam Tebow contracted amoebic dysentery, likely from contaminated drinking water. She fell into a coma and received strong drugs to combat the infection.

It turned out she was pregnant with her fifth child. Those drugs caused the placenta to detach from the uterine wall, depriving the unborn baby, Tim Tebow, of oxygen. When she realized she was pregnant, doctors stopped the drugs they had given Pam but said that the high doses of medicine had already damaged Tim. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/after-his-amazing-birth-in-the-philippines-tim-tebow-is-helping-typhoon-victims/
Finally... moral, pro-life fiction that opens hearts and minds! “This is what I was hoping would begin to spring from the Indie World. No way would NYC Corporate Publishing ever allow something with this worldview through.” - a reader.

Obama Falsely Claims Cancellations Will Mean Better Insurance Under Obamacare
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946

File 2330 - This was going to be a post about the importance of clarity in language and freedom of expression, full of all sorts of quotes from George Orwell, whose writing very effectively highlights the dangers of censorship and the ugliness of using euphemism to defend the indefensible. Just to be sure, I googled “George Orwell abortion”, in case he had made some wildly pro-abortion statement that I hadn’t heard of, but that could undermine the point of what I was writing. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obama-falsely-claims-forced-cancellations-will-mean-better-insurance-plans-under-obamacare/
Baby Boy Born After Brain-Dead Mother Kept Alive Three Months
A baby has been born in Hungary after a very rare circumstance in which his brain-dead mother was kept alive for three months so he could be born. As LifeNews has previously reported, in a case out of the United States from 2005, this kind of situation has occurred previously but is far from common.
In the Hungarian case, the baby boy’s mother, who is anonymous, was also an organ donor and gave her heart, pancreas, liver and two kidneys to patients who needed them. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/baby-boy-born-after-brain-dead-mother-kept-alive-three-months/
Thousands of Obamacare Plans Will Pay for Abortions, Here are Some That Don’t
As LifeNews has reported, it’s virtually impossible to find out if any of the health care plans offered in the Obamacare exchanges pay for abortions with your tax dollars or premiums. In the 27 states that allow plans to cover elective abortion on the exchanges, most conusmers will have to spent countless hours of searching to determine which plans are abortion-free.
Today, Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, released information about abortion coverage in a small subset of plans called Multi-State Plans (MSPs), which are unique because their contracts are negotiated with the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/thousands-of-obamacare-plans-will-pay-for-abortions-here-are-some-that-dont/
Obama Admin Helped Abortionist Try to Shut Down Pro-Life Blog
It’s time to write about the rest of the story when putative late-term abortionist Julie Komarow, M.D., sought a restraining order on your humble correspondent, one of the writers for this blog. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/obama-admin-helped-abortionist-try-to-shut-down-pro-life-blog/
Baby Born With Spinal Meningitis Into Abusive Home, Should He Have Been Aborted?
What if you knew the baby would be born with a horrible disease or handicap? http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/baby-born-with-spinal-meningitis-into-abusive-home-should-he-have-been-aborted/

New Pro-Abortion Bill Would Make it Easier to Overturn Pro-Life State Laws
The pro-life movement has brought abortions to record lows in many states by passing a record number of pro-life laws. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/new-pro-abortion-bill-would-make-it-easier-to-overturn-pro-life-state-laws/
Looking for an inspiring and motivating speaker for your pro-life event in 2014? Don't have much to spend on a high-priced speaker costing thousands of dollars? Contact LifeNews at news@lifenews.com about having LifeNews Editor Steven Ertelt speak at your event.

Teacher’s Career Could be Over Because He Dared to Challenge Planned Parenthood
The Washington Times recently reported on a teacher who is currently being lambasted by Planned Parenthood and the Portland School District. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/teachers-career-could-be-over-because-he-dared-to-challenge-planned-parenthood/

Mother: My Baby Only Lived for 17 Minutes But I’ll Remember Him Forever
Parents who are members of the group One Day More are meeting with politicians in Dáíl Éireann in Dublin, Ireland today letting them know they don’t regret not having an abortion even though their children lived only a short time after birth or may not have been born at all. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/mother-my-baby-only-lived-for-17-minutes-but-ill-remember-him-forever/

Planned Parenthood Charges Patients $20 to Watch Video Before Abortion
Planned Parenthood Keystone is the gift that just keeps giving, although I’m sure any closely scrutinized Planned Parenthood would render equally appalling information. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/planned-parenthood-charges-patients-20-to-watch-a-propaganda-video-before-an-abortion/

Baby 8-9-10-11-12-13 Celebrates His 8-Pound Birth at 9:10 on 11/12/13
All over the Internet yesterday, from Facebook to Twitter, people around the world had fun with a special time that doesn’t happen too often. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/baby-8-9-10-11-12-13-celebrates-his-8-pound-birth-at-910-on-111213/
Abortion Activists Spray Pro-Lifers With Water Guns, Throw Fake Blood at Them
Next week, residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico will vote on a measure that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/abortion-activists-spray-pro-lifers-with-water-guns-throw-fake-blood-at-them/

Franchising Abortion and Sterilization: Population Control Activists Descend on India
Think of franchises, and McDonald’s or Starbucks springs to mind. But how about franchising clinics that do abortions and sterilizations?http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/franchising-abortion-and-sterilization-population-control-activists-descend-on-india/
Michigan Pro-Life Group Starts Phase Two of Campaign to Stop Tax-Funded Abortions
Last month, pro-life advocates in Michigan submitted more than 315,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office to keep their tax dollars and insurance premiums from paying for the destruction of innocent human life. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/michigan-pro-life-group-starts-phase-two-of-campaign-to-stop-tax-funded-abortions/
New European Group Launched to Combat Growing Threat of Euthanasia
A new coalition is being launched in Brussels on Wednesday 13 November 2013 to combat the growing threat of euthanasia across Europe. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/new-european-group-launched-to-combat-growing-threat-of-euthanasia/
Forced Abortion Opponent: China Has No Business on the UN Human Rights Council
A leading campaigner against forced abortions and the one-child policy in China says the Asian nation has no business getting a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/forced-abortion-opponent-china-has-no-business-on-the-un-human-rights-council/
Suspension of Telemed Abortion Ban Puts Iowa Women at Risk
A leading campaigner against forced abortions and the one-child policy in China says the Asian nation has no business getting a spot on the United Nations Human Rights Council. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/13/suspension-of-telemed-abortion-ban-puts-iowa-women-at-risk/

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