Monday, December 9, 2013

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Monday, December 9, 2013

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• Catholic Bishop Slams Nelson Mandela’s Legalizing Unlimited Abortion as “Shameful”
• Planned Parenthood Uses Celebrities, Paid Canvassers in Massive Push to Save Obamacare
Teacher Refuses Paper on Abortion, “You Can Do Abortion if You Write FOR It”
• Pope Francis: “Throwaway Culture” Causes Abortions of Millions of Babies

More Pro-Life News

• Family of Daughter Requiring 86 Brain Tumor Surgeries Loses Insurance Under Obamacare
• “He Killed My Baby!” The Day I Lost My Daughter to the Culture of Death

• Medical Board Demands Abortion Doc Appear Who Failed to Report Rapes of Teen Girls
• European Parliament Votes Tuesday on Declaring Abortion a Human Right
• 3-D Virtual Birth Simulator Could Help Doctors During Delivery
• Obamacare Hits Multiple Sclerosis Patients Hard: Losing Insurance, Higher Drug Costs

• Judge Protects Free Speech of Pro-Lifers Outside Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic
• Battle Against Obama’s HHS Mandate is a True Battle for Religious Liberty
• 17-Year-Old Takes Euthanasia to Task: Kill the Pain Not the Patient
Charity Paying for Free Abortions Targets Teen Girls
• Abortion Has Empowered Men to Try to Force Their Partners to Have Abortions • Activist Likes Assisted Suicide So She Won’t Have to Care for Her Aging Parents • Man Not Going to Prison for Trying to Trick Pregnant Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Drug • Study: Abortion Issue Almost Helped Ken Cuccinelli Beat Terry McAuliffe

Catholic Bishop Slams Nelson Mandela’s Legalizing Unlimited Abortion as “Shameful”
A Catholic bishop in the United States is taking exception to the unrestricted praise the world is heaping on deceased South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela, calling his signing a bill to legalize unlimited abortions “shameful.”

The bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop Thomas Tobin, criticized “Mandela’s “shameful promotion of abortion in South Africa.”
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/catholic-bishop-slams-nelson-mandelas-legalizing-unlimited-abortion-as-shameful/
Planned Parenthood Uses Celebrities, Paid Canvassers in Massive Push to Save Obamacare
The Planned Parenthood abortion business stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries financially from the success of Obamacare, which funds abortions and is funding the abortion giant directly.

With millions of Americans losing health insurance under Obamacare and support for its repeal at an all-time high, Planned Parenthood is relying on a campaign including top celebrities and a massive public relations push to “save” Obamacare. Meanwhile, the abortion company is taking to Craig’s List to hire canvassers to go door-to-door to promote Obamacare. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/planned-parenthood-uses-celebrities-paid-canvassers-in-massive-push-to-save-obamacare/
Teacher Refuses Paper on Abortion, “You Can Do Abortion if You Write FOR It”
Abigail Cornejo is a Sophomore at Palatine High School in a small town in Illinois who merely wanted to write a paper on the controversial topic of abortion. But her English teacher had something else in mind and told Conejo she couldn’t write on the topic — and if she did, she would have to write from the pro-abortion perspective.
“My English class is doing a controversial issue research paper,” Abigail told LifeNews. “My English teacher, Mr. David Valentino originally told the class we may not do abortion, euthanasia, or legalization or marijuana. I asked why we couldn’t do infanticide, abortion and he replied with, ‘I’ve read too many papers on it. I don’t care anymore.’” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/teacher-refuses-paper-on-abortion-you-can-do-abortion-if-you-write-for-it/

Pope Francis: “Throwaway Culture” Causes Abortions of Millions of Babies
Pope Francis told a pro-life group in Rome, over the weekend, that a “throwaway culture” is responsible for abortion that results in the destruction of unborn children. The head of the Catholic Church spoke to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, a pro-life group based in Rome that helps shape and formulate pro-life principles.

Lamenting the “throwaway culture” the world lives in now, Pope Francis said, “The victims of such a culture are precisely the weakest and most fragile human beings – the unborn, the poorest people, sick elderly people, gravely disabled people… who are in danger of being ‘thrown out,’ expelled from a machine that must be efficient at all costs.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/pope-francis-throwaway-culture-causes-abortions-of-millions-of-babies/

Family of Daughter Requiring 86 Brain Tumor Surgeries Loses Insurance Under Obamacare
Eileen Benthal isn’t sure what to do. The health insurance coverage she and her family had been relying on for years has been canceled thanks to Obamacare provisions that will force her to have to find new insurance.

Unfortunately, Benthal is one of many families whose experience with Obamacare is the opposite of what President Barack Obama and Democrat lawmakers voting for it promised would happen. Story after compelling story has surfaced of the families and people who ave lost insurance under Obamacare — with as many as 5.5 million people victimized by one of the many kinds of health care rationing pro-life groups opposing Obamacare predicted. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/family-of-daughter-requiring-86-brain-tumor-surgeries-loses-insurance-under-obamacare/
“He Killed My Baby!” The Day I Lost My Daughter to the Culture of Death
It was two days before my seventeenth birthday, a Saturday morning, the day after a football game in which I’d played. So I was tired and sore, but I could smell breakfast coming from downstairs and somebody was walking up the stairs. I was half asleep. The door opened: it was my girlfriend, I smiled, of course—but from the look on her face I could see that this wasn’t called for. This was a serious moment. I steeled myself.
After a few long seconds, she looked up at me and said, “I’m pregnant.” That woke me up quick. We sat there in my bedroom, two young teenagers. My room was still a boy’s place, hung with football posters, sneakers, and baseball gloves strewn across the floor. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/he-killed-my-baby-the-day-i-lost-my-daughter-to-the-culture-of-death/
Medical Board Demands Abortion Doc Appear Who Failed to Report Rapes of Teen Girls
The Indiana state medical board is demanding that an abortion practitioner who ailed to file timely reports on the abortions he did on a teen girl who were victimized by statutory rape appear before them.
Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer was one of four Indiana abortion practitioners who waited weeks of even months to report abortions they did on girls under the age of 14, who are victims of rape. State law requires such reports three days following the abortion to protect girls from sexual abuse and victimization, but a recent report by the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel newspaper makes it clear there is a massive abuse of the system taking place as abortion clinics cover up rape to make money from abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/medical-board-demands-abortion-doc-appear-who-failed-to-report-rapes-of-teen-girls/
European Parliament Votes Tuesday on Declaring Abortion a Human Right
On Tuesday 10 December the European Parliament will meet in plenary to vote on a new version of the “Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” put forward by Edite Estrela, the radically pro-abortion MEP. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/european-parliament-votes-tuesday-on-declaring-abortion-a-human-right/
3-D Virtual Birth Simulator Could Help Doctors During Delivery
New technology, presented last month at a conference on E-Health and Bioengineering, is being developed to simulate what goes on inside a woman’s body during childbirth. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/3-d-virtual-birth-simulator-could-help-doctors-during-delivery/

Obamacare Hits Multiple Sclerosis Patients Hard: Losing Insurance, Higher Drug Costs
Obamacare was always expected to result in some “winners” and some “losers.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/obamacare-hits-multiple-sclerosis-patients-hard-losing-insurance-higher-drug-costs/
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Judge Protects Free Speech of Pro-Lifers Outside Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic
On Friday in St. Louis Circuit Court, Associate Circuit Judge Michael Noble dismissed charges against pro-life activists, Brian Westbrook, executive director of Coalition for Life St. Louis, and Rita Sparrow, veteran sidewalk counselor, after testimony and arguments. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/judge-protects-free-speech-of-pro-lifers-outside-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic/

Battle Against Obama’s HHS Mandate is a True Battle for Religious Liberty
I’m grateful that Kathryn Lopez of National Review keeps highlighting the principled plaintiffs challenging the HHS abortion-pill mandate before the Supreme Court. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/battle-against-obamas-hhs-mandate-is-a-true-battle-for-religious-liberty/
17-Year-Old Takes Euthanasia to Task: Kill the Pain Not the Patient
I first heard the slogan “Death with Dignity” when I was 13. Even in my youth, the phrase didn’t sit well with me. And, as I researched it, I came to a solid conclusion: euthanasia was wrong. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/17-year-old-takes-euthanasia-to-task-kill-the-pain-not-the-patient/
Charity Paying for Free Abortions Targets Teen Girls
NARAL and Planned Parenthood are exploiting the Christmas season in a most sickening way. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/charity-paying-for-free-abortions-targets-teen-girls/


Abortion Has Empowered Men to Try to Force Their Partners to Have Abortions
Two stories in the news today highlight the disturbing trend of men attempting, sometimes successfully, to trick their wives or girlfriends into taking abortion pills . http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/abortion-has-empowered-men-to-try-to-force-their-partners-to-have-abortions/

Activist Likes Assisted Suicide So She Won’t Have to Care for Her Aging Parents
I am not one who makes religious arguments in the public square, nor do I think that our laws should be based on holy books or dogmatic faith precepts. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/activist-likes-assisted-suicide-so-she-wont-have-to-care-for-her-aging-parents/
Man Not Going to Prison for Trying to Trick Pregnant Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Drug
When Helen Dean was only five weeks pregnant, her boyfriend, Karim Habibi, attempted to force her to abort their son. His means? Trickery, lies, and a poisonous pill.http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/08/man-not-going-to-prison-for-trying-to-trick-pregnant-girlfriend-into-taking-abortion-drug/

Study: Abortion Issue Almost Helped Ken Cuccinelli Beat Terry McAuliffe
When pro-life Republican Ken Cuccinelli lost a narrow election to pro-abortion candidate Terry McAuliffe in the race for governor in Virginia, some political pundits and pro-abortion Republicans suggested the abortion issue hurt the Republican candidate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/09/study-abortion-issue-almost-helped-ken-cuccinelli-beat-terry-mcauliffe/
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