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Friday, December 20, 2013
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Top Stories
• Grand Jury Won’t Indict Abortion Doc Who Twists Off Babies’ Heads
• Phil Robertson: I Will Not Back Down From Standing on Biblical Principles
• Doctors Give Baby Zero Chance at Survival, He Gives Parents a Christmas Miracle
• Family Fighting Hospital Not to Kill Jahi McMath Wants Second Opinion From Neurologist
More Pro-Life News
• Former Abortion Doc: “I Couldn’t Look at Those Little Bodies Again”
• Study: Mothers Often Push Their Teen Daughters to Have Abortions
• Lutheran Charity Thrivent Drops Planned Parenthood From Donation Recipients
• Fighting for Jahi McMath’s Life: “Brain Dead” Term Too Loosely Used
• Baby Born at 23 Weeks Heading Home for Christmas After Five Months in Hospital
• NPR Poll Shows Americans Don’t Want Teens Buying Morning After Poll
• My Broken Cup: Finding Hope and Healing on the Anniversary of My Abortion • Vatican Condemns Belgium Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children
• Couple Get Deaths Threats After Bear Euthanized, But Abortion is Okay? • Christmas Caroling at Abortion Clinics Draws Record Media Coverage • MSNBC Attacks Catholic Hospitals Not Doing Abortions: “Bad News for Pregnant Women” • Planned Parenthood Plagiarizes NARAL Web Site to Push Late-Term Abortions
• Spain Government Pushes Pro-Life Bill for New Abortion Limits
• European Court on Human Rights to Rule: Do Human Embryos Deserve Legal Protection
Grand
Jury Won’t Indict Abortion Doc Who Twists Off Babies’ Heads
A Houston grand jury has refused
to indict late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen after a months-long investigation
into allegations of illegal late-term abortions and the killing of babies
born alive at his two abortion clinics.
“The refusal to indict Karpen is a gross miscarriage of justice. The grand jury has essentially freed Karpen to continue to violate Texas laws and take the lives of late-term babies that the law was meant to protect,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It’s upsetting to know that the kind of brutality shown in the photos taken at his clinic will be allowed continue.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Phil Robertson: I Will Not Back Down From Standing on Biblical Principles
After the
dustup over controversial comments pro-life Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson
made that has caused him to be suspended by A&E, Robertson and his
family have released a statement saying they will not back down from Biblical
principles.
Robertson discusses in his GQ interview his religious beliefs and about sin, saying, “start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
A Houston grand jury has refused
to indict late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen after a months-long investigation
into allegations of illegal late-term abortions and the killing of babies
born alive at his two abortion clinics.“The refusal to indict Karpen is a gross miscarriage of justice. The grand jury has essentially freed Karpen to continue to violate Texas laws and take the lives of late-term babies that the law was meant to protect,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It’s upsetting to know that the kind of brutality shown in the photos taken at his clinic will be allowed continue.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Phil Robertson: I Will Not Back Down From Standing on Biblical Principles
After the
dustup over controversial comments pro-life Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson
made that has caused him to be suspended by A&E, Robertson and his
family have released a statement saying they will not back down from Biblical
principles.Robertson discusses in his GQ interview his religious beliefs and about sin, saying, “start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Doctors
Give Baby Zero Chance at Survival, He Gives Parents a Christmas Miracle
Aaron
and Amy Vawter were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their second bundle
of joy. Already parents to Micah, then 18 months, the couple went to have
the routine 20 week ultrasound done for baby number two when doctors discovered
some frightening problems with their baby’s heart. They were referred
to a specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where the prognosis
for their baby only worsened.
Aaron
and Amy Vawter were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their second bundle
of joy. Already parents to Micah, then 18 months, the couple went to have
the routine 20 week ultrasound done for baby number two when doctors discovered
some frightening problems with their baby’s heart. They were referred
to a specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where the prognosis
for their baby only worsened.
“They could
only see three chambers of his heart,” explains Amy, “three days
of testing, hours of ultrasounds head to toe with three hours spent just
on his heart. And at the end of it all they were telling us that this baby
had so many problems there was a zero percent chance of survival.”
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Family Fighting Hospital Not to Kill Jahi McMath Wants Second Opinion From Neurologist
The intensity
of the battle over a 13-year-old girl, declared “brain-dead” following
a routine tonsillectomy performed last week ratcheted up several notches
today as the attorney for the girl’s family said he would ask a judge
to bring in an outside neurologist to examine Jahi McMath.
Family Fighting Hospital Not to Kill Jahi McMath Wants Second Opinion From Neurologist
The intensity
of the battle over a 13-year-old girl, declared “brain-dead” following
a routine tonsillectomy performed last week ratcheted up several notches
today as the attorney for the girl’s family said he would ask a judge
to bring in an outside neurologist to examine Jahi McMath.
The Oakland Tribune
reported that Attorney Christopher Dolan will also “request that the
court order the hospital keep Jahi on life support, release medical records
and give her a feeding tube.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Former Abortion Doc: “I Couldn’t Look at Those Little
Bodies Again”
Eclipse of Reason is a graphic and deeply disturbing documentary put together
by the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-lifer who
also produced the movie The Silent Scream. Eclipse of Reason shows a second
trimester unborn baby being torn apart in a D&E abortion.
The movie was made some time ago, in the 1980s, and when watching it it is easy to feel sorrow at the fact that the same procedure so well documented in Eclipse of Reason is still taking place today, in many abortion clinics throughout the country. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Eclipse of Reason is a graphic and deeply disturbing documentary put together
by the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-lifer who
also produced the movie The Silent Scream. Eclipse of Reason shows a second
trimester unborn baby being torn apart in a D&E abortion.The movie was made some time ago, in the 1980s, and when watching it it is easy to feel sorrow at the fact that the same procedure so well documented in Eclipse of Reason is still taking place today, in many abortion clinics throughout the country. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Study: Mothers Often Push Their Teen Daughters to Have Abortions
While
there are some questionable assumptions, some limitations to the data, it
is hard to ignore the clear implication of a recent study of teens who abort:
that some parents, mothers in particular, are pushing their daughters to
have abortions.
The study, “The Role of
Parents and Partners in Minor’s Decisions to Have an Abortion and Anticipated
Coping After Abortion,” appeared the December 13, 2013 online edition
of the Journal of Adolescent Health (www.jahonline.org). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/While
there are some questionable assumptions, some limitations to the data, it
is hard to ignore the clear implication of a recent study of teens who abort:
that some parents, mothers in particular, are pushing their daughters to
have abortions.
Lutheran Charity Thrivent Drops Planned Parenthood From Donation
Recipients
Thrivent
has “temporarily” thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Let’s
hope it’s very “temporarily”, indeed.
The corporation has posted a statement,
responding to the controversy surrounding the inclusion of a Planned Parenthood
affiliate in their Thrivent Choice program.Thrivent
has “temporarily” thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Let’s
hope it’s very “temporarily”, indeed.
Fighting for Jahi McMath’s Life: “Brain Dead” Term
Too Loosely Used
I have been following the tragic case of Jahi McMath, who went to Oakland Children’s Hospital for a tonsillectomy and suffered a catastrophic complication, resulting in cardiac arrest. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
I have been following the tragic case of Jahi McMath, who went to Oakland Children’s Hospital for a tonsillectomy and suffered a catastrophic complication, resulting in cardiac arrest. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Baby Born at 23 Weeks Heading Home for Christmas After Five Months
in Hospital
When Rene Pacyna went into labor in July — seventeen weeks prior to her expected due date — there was no telling what the outcome would be. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
When Rene Pacyna went into labor in July — seventeen weeks prior to her expected due date — there was no telling what the outcome would be. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
NPR Poll Shows Americans Don’t Want Teens Buying Morning After
Pollx
Americans are in favor of common sense restrictions on the morning after pill, found an NPR poll, which only reinforces the undercover video work Students for Life of America released last month, showing a minor girl being able to purchase Plan B and not Sudafed as well as revealing how simple it is for an adult male, who is having relations with a minor, to cover up his crime by buying the drug. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Americans are in favor of common sense restrictions on the morning after pill, found an NPR poll, which only reinforces the undercover video work Students for Life of America released last month, showing a minor girl being able to purchase Plan B and not Sudafed as well as revealing how simple it is for an adult male, who is having relations with a minor, to cover up his crime by buying the drug. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
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My Broken Cup: Finding Hope and Healing on the Anniversary of My
Abortion
Today December 20th is the 13th anniversary of my second abortion. In January, it will be the 20th anniversary of my first abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Today December 20th is the 13th anniversary of my second abortion. In January, it will be the 20th anniversary of my first abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Vatican Condemns Belgium Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize
Children
The Catholic Church is condemning a measure pending in the Belgian Parliament that would extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
The Catholic Church is condemning a measure pending in the Belgian Parliament that would extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Couple
Get Deaths Threats After Bear Euthanized, But Abortion is Okay?
A dangerous bear was euthanized near Reno, and those who reported the problem are being threatened with death by furious bear lovers. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
A dangerous bear was euthanized near Reno, and those who reported the problem are being threatened with death by furious bear lovers. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Christmas Caroling at Abortion Clinics Draws Record Media Coverage
In addition to the media coverage we usually get for our “Empty Manger” Christmas caroling day from outlets like Christian Post, LifeNews.com, ChristianToday.com and many others, we’ve also received a lot of coverage from secular media this year. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
In addition to the media coverage we usually get for our “Empty Manger” Christmas caroling day from outlets like Christian Post, LifeNews.com, ChristianToday.com and many others, we’ve also received a lot of coverage from secular media this year. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
MSNBC Attacks Catholic Hospitals Not Doing Abortions: “Bad
News for Pregnant Women”
Tis the season for the liberal media to ramp up it’s attacks on the Catholic Church. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Tis the season for the liberal media to ramp up it’s attacks on the Catholic Church. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Planned Parenthood Plagiarizes NARAL Web Site to Push Late-Term
Abortions
In an effort to oppose Michigan’s recently passed legislation opting the state out of abortion insurance coverage, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan have created a web site entitled “Enough is Enough!”. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
In an effort to oppose Michigan’s recently passed legislation opting the state out of abortion insurance coverage, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan have created a web site entitled “Enough is Enough!”. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
Spain Government Pushes Pro-Life Bill for New Abortion Limits
The new Spanish government promised it would roll back some of the pro-abortion laws the previous government put in place and the government today made good on that promise. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
The new Spanish government promised it would roll back some of the pro-abortion laws the previous government put in place and the government today made good on that promise. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
European Court on Human Rights to Rule: Do Human Embryos Deserve
Legal Protection
In the next months, the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) will have to rule on the matter of the status of the human embryo in a case which bears some similarities to the RvR case in Ireland. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
In the next months, the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) will have to rule on the matter of the status of the human embryo in a case which bears some similarities to the RvR case in Ireland. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
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