Monday, January 6, 2014

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Monday, January 6, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Hospital Releases Jahi McMath to Family After Threatening to Remove Her Life Support
• Pregnant Mom Shot in the Head Gives Birth Four Months Later While in Coma
Obama Admin Told Catholic Nuns They Must Offer Free Abortion Drugs
• Planned Parenthood Representative Says Christianity is “Going Down”

More Pro-Life News

• Jahi McMath Will Get Feeding and Breathing Tubes at New Medical Care Facility
• Planned Parenthood Tries to Stop Texas Law Closing Abortion Clinics

• Patient Leaves Hospital After Doctors Said He Would Die, Tried to Yank Life Support
• Baby Boy in Serious Condition After Mom Gives Birth, Dumps Him in Toilet
• Student With Down Syndrome Hangs Out at Bowl Game With Clemson Football Players
• Tears of Joy as Couple Sees Their Adopted Child for the First Time

• Planned Parenthood Arizona Wants to Push Abortion, Sex Ed on Kids
• 911 Call: Woman’s Lips Were Blue, Barely Breathing After Botched Abortion
• Komen for the Cure Donations Drop 22% After it Funds Planned Parenthood
• Supreme Court to Determine if Pro-Lifers Have Free Speech Outside Abortion Clinics • Facinating Video Shows Conception to Birth Visualized • House Will Hold Hearing on Bill for Complete Ban on Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
• Republican Party Chair Putting Off Annual Meeting to Join March for Life
• After Attacking Pro-Lifers, MSNBC Appoints Executive to Review Scripts Before Airtime
• New Zealand Abortions Drop 20% in Five Years to Lowest Level in 20 Years


Hospital Releases Jahi McMath to Family After Threatening to Remove Her Life Support
Late Sunday night, Children’s Hospital Oakland released Jahi Mcmath to her family after a protracted legal battle over whether the hospital had the right to remove her from life support.

On Friday, the hospital reached an agreement with McMath’s family to allow a medical team to enter the hospital to perform the procedures necessary to move her to a medical facility that will continue her care and treatment. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/hospital-releases-jahi-mcmath-to-family-after-threatening-to-remove-her-life-support/
Pregnant Mom Shot in the Head Gives Birth Four Months Later While in Coma
Carolina Sepe was ten weeks pregnant when she was shot in the head by a neighbor in her Italian hometown. She was left in a coma but, four months later, doctors performed a Caesarean to save the baby.

Sadly, Sepe (left) died on Saturday, 16 days after Maria Liliana was born. The baby weighed 1.1kg and is being kept on life support, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. The mayor of Lauro, Antonio Bossone, said the town will support the child, named Maria Liliana, ‘to help her grow and to guarantee a serene future’, the paper reported. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/pregnant-mom-shot-in-the-head-gives-birth-four-months-later-while-in-coma/
Obama Admin Told Catholic Nuns They Must Offer Free Abortion Drugs
The Obama administration told the Supreme Court that nuns running an elder-care facility should have to provide “free” abortion drugs through their health-insurance plan. Witness your tax dollars at work.
There is hope, though, that your hard-earned pay won’t be wasted on absurdities like this much longer. Religious freedom is so embedded in American law that Obamacare has suffered court orders against its mandate in 53 of 60 rulings so far. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/obama-admin-tells-catholic-nuns-they-must-offer-free-abortion-drugs/

Planned Parenthood Representative Says Christianity is “Going Down”
For those of us so very blessed to have raised our personal white flag in mankind’s inherently fruitless struggle against the Creator, there can be no joy in watching God-deniers continue to labor under the grandest of all deceptions. Regardless of how nasty they may be as individuals, there can be only sadness, genuine pity and prayer.

Jahi McMath Will Get Feeding and Breathing Tubes at New Medical Care Facility
Having reached an accommodation with Children’s Hospital Oakland, the family of Jahi McMath on Sunday moved the teenager, diagnosed as brain dead, to an as yet unnamed New York facility where the 13 year old has been accepted as a patient. There were numerous reports last week that New Beginnings Center in Medford, New York had agreed to take Jahi in and care for her around the clock.

The family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, said Jahi will be hooked up to a feeding tube and a tracheotomy tube by this morning. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/jahi-mcmath-will-get-feeding-and-breathing-tubes-at-new-medical-care-facility/
Planned Parenthood Tries to Stop Texas Law Closing Abortion Clinics
This morning, a three-judge panel in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard arguments in Planned Parenthood v. Abbott, the case over the constitutionality of Texas’ most recent Pro-Life law, HB2. During the lively hearing that examined the existence of any undue burden, all three justices staunchly sought to review and analyze the law that raises standards on abortionists and the administration of the drugs used in chemical abortions.
The panelists were former Chief Justice Edith Jones, Justices Jennifer Elrod, and Catharina Haynes. Justice Elrod and Justice Haynes served on the three-judge panel that temporarily green-lighted the law to take effect in October, reversing the injunction issued by Judge Lee Yeakel. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/planned-parenthood-tries-to-stop-texas-law-closing-its-abortion-clinics/
Patient Leaves Hospital After Doctors Said He Would Die, Tried to Yank Life Support
Hassan Rasouli, a man who is in a minimally conscious state, will be transferred from the hospital that wanted him to die.
As readers may recall, Rasouli suffered complications after brain surgery. Doctors swore he would remain forever unconscious and wanted to force him off life support. Wrong!
Baby Boy in Serious Condition After Mom Gives Birth, Dumps Him in Toilet
A newborn baby boy is in serious condition after his mother gave birth and dumped him in a toilet in a sporting goods store. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/baby-boy-in-serious-condition-after-mom-gives-birth-dumps-him-in-toilet/
Student With Down Syndrome Hangs Out at Bowl Game With Clemson Football Players
Remember the YouTube video of Rion Holcombe, the remarkable young man with Down syndrome who melted our hearts when he received his acceptance letter from Clemson University. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/student-with-down-syndrome-hangs-out-at-bowl-game-with-clemson-football-players/

Tears of Joy as Couple Sees Their Adopted Child for the First Time
Faithit.com highlighted the story of Mr. and Mrs. Chen, a couple that had been trying for nine years to have children of their own but were not able to. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/tears-of-joy-as-couple-sees-their-adopted-child-for-the-first-time/
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Planned Parenthood Arizona Wants to Push Abortion, Sex Ed on Kids
Alliance Defending Freedom Attorney Natalie Decker is concerned about a Tempe Union High School District’s Sex Education Curriculum Committee meeting Tuesday. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/planned-parenthood-arizona-wants-to-push-abortion-sex-ed-on-kids/

911 Call: Woman’s Lips Were Blue, Barely Breathing After Botched Abortion
Operation Rescue has just obtained a 911 recording of an emergency call placed from the Cleveland Surgi-Center last September that details horrific abortion complications suffered by a woman who was said to be only sporadically breathing and whose lips were turning blue. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/911-call-womans-lips-were-blue-barely-breathing-after-botched-abortion/

Komen for the Cure Donations Drop 22% After it Funds Planned Parenthood
The Race for the Cure has hit a wall. Breast Cancer giant Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been embroiled in funding controversies, and a new report shows that its revenue are plummeting, not only for its once-popular race, but also for its organization at large. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/komen-for-the-cure-donations-drop-22-after-it-funds-planned-parenthood/
Supreme Court to Determine if Pro-Lifers Have Free Speech Outside Abortion Clinics
The Pro-Life Action League is calling on all pro-life Christians to pray the Lord’s Prayer each day from January 7 through 15, for the intention that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down all of the restrictive “Bubble Zone” laws that have been enacted to muzzle sidewalk counselors. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/supreme-court-to-determine-if-pro-lifers-have-free-speech-outside-abortion-clinics/

Facinating Video Shows Conception to Birth Visualized
Did you know a baby develops hands and arms just 32 days after conception? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/top-ted-talk-of-2013-will-make-you-marvel-conception-to-birth-visualized/

House Will Hold Hearing on Bill for Complete Ban on Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
The House of Representatives will hold a hearing this week on legislation that will put in place a complete ban on taxpayer funding of abortions that ensures abortions are not directly funded in any federal governmental program or department. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/house-will-hold-hearing-bill-for-complete-ban-on-taxpayer-funding-of-abortions/

Republican Party Chair Putting Off Annual Meeting to Join March for Life
Ralph Z. Hallow of The Washington Times reports on the “unprecedented” move. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/republican-party-chair-putting-off-annual-meeting-to-join-march-for-life/

After Attacking Pro-Lifers, MSNBC Appoints Executive to Review Scripts Before Airtime
After a string of high-profile embarrassments, MSNBC appears to have decided that perhaps letting the inmates run the asylum is not the best of ideas. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/after-attacking-pro-lifers-msnbc-appoints-executive-to-review-scripts-before-airtime/

New Zealand Abortions Drop 20% in Five Years to Lowest Level in 20 Years
The number of abortions in New Zealand have fallen to their lowest levels in 20 years as fewer doctors want to do them. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/06/new-zealand-abortions-drop-20-in-five-years-to-lowest-level-in-20-years/


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