Thursday, February 13, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 2/13/14





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Thursday, February 13, 2014

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Top Stories
• Belgium Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children
• Woman With Stomach Pain Has 44-Year-Old Unborn Child Inside Her
Walgreens Fires Pharmacist for Refusing to Dispense Plan B Morning After Pill• Thousands of Calls Come in to Adopt Five Siblings Looking for a Home

More Pro-Life News
• CNN Endorses Right to Life…For Animals
• Gosnell Worker Who Said Baby Screamed During Live-Birth “Abortion” Gets Sentenced Next Month

• Obama Admin’s Defense of HHS Mandate Turns Religious Freedom on Its Head
• Decades After Birth, Fetal Cells Remain in Mother’s Body to Repair Injuries
• Winning Olympic Skier Alex Bilodeau of Canada Inspired by Disabled Brother
• MSNBC Blasts Wendy Davis for “Flip-Flop” on Late-Term Abortions

• Doctors Save Baby of Pregnant Woman Killed by Snowplow in Parking Lot

• NARAL Upset Obama Nominated Judge Who Once Backed Pregnancy Centers

• Mississippi House Passes Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
• South Dakota Panel Passes Bill to Ban Sex-Selection Abortions
• Should O.J. Simpson be Killed in an Assisted Suicide?
• UN Official Mocks Vatican at Abortion Conference in Philippines
• British Pregnancy Centers Aren’t the Problem, It’s Doctors Falsifying Abortion Forms
• Lawsuit Filed Against Maine Buffer Zone Prohibiting Pro-Life Free Speech


Belgium Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children The Belgian Parliament voted today to 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.
The 86-44 vote Thursday in the House of Representatives, with 12 abstentions, followed approval by the Belgian Senate in December. No age limit would be set, but the children who are euthanized would have “to possess the capacity of discernment.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/belgium-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/
Woman With Stomach Pain Has 44-Year-Old Unborn Child Inside HerAn 84-year-old woman from Brazil reported stomach pain to her physician and doctors determined she had inside of her a 44-year-old unborn child who had died internally.

40-year-oldThe woman learned the news last Friday when intense stomach pains prompted her to visit a local hospital in Tocantins state in central Brazil. Once there, x-rays revealed what is sometimes called a “stone ba. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/woman-with-stomach-pain-has-44-year-old-unborn-child-inside-her/
Walgreens Fires Pharmacist for Refusing to Dispense Plan B Morning After PillYesterday, the Thomas More Society filed a federal lawsuit in the Middle District of Tennessee on behalf of Pharmacist Dr. Philip Hall against the Walgreen Company.
The complaint alleges that, in August 2013, Walgreens wrongfully fired Hall, who had been employed for six years as a pharmacist at Walgreens’ store in Jamestown, Tennessee, in violation of his constitutionally and statutorily protected rights to freedom of religion. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/walgreens-fires-pharmacist-for-refusing-to-dispense-plan-b-morning-after-pill/

Thousands of Calls Come in to Adopt Five Siblings Looking for a Home
Last year, LifeNews profiled Davion Henry, who made national headlines when he pleaded with members of a local church he attends to be adopted into a loving family. Thousands of calls eventually came in for Davion to be adopted.
Now, thousands of calls have come in for a group of five siblings looking for a home willing to give them a shot at being adopted. Although officials are looking for a family in Oregon, they would consider one from out of state if a local family can’t be found. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/thousands-of-calls-come-in-to-adopt-five-siblings-looking-for-a-home/


CNN Endorses Right to Life…For Animals CNN’s Anderson Cooper did little to hide his outrage on his Tuesday program over a zoo in Copenhagen, Denmark killing a giraffe. Cooper confronted the zoo’s scientific director and asked, “Doesn’t the life of the animal itself have some value, rather than just it being part of your breeding program?” The host later expressed his dismay to Jack Hanna: “What he seems to be saying is that the animal itself doesn’t really have any right to live.”
Cooper later used language familiar to pro-life activists in defense of the giraffe: “At a certain point, the animals themselves should have some right to actually having a life.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/cnn-endorses-right-to-life-for-animals/
Why Did the Husband of One Brain Dead Wife Let His Baby Live and the Other Didn’t?Many in the pro-life community are reflecting on two tragic stories with very different outcomes: the Munoz situation in Texas and the Benson situation in Canada. In both, the wife and mother was declared brain dead. In the Benson story, Iver Benson, son of Dylan Benson and his now deceased wife, Robyn, has been allowed to live.
In the Munoz situation, the result was the heartbreaking loss of both mother and child. We offer our sincere condolences to both families faced with these tragic situations.

Gosnell Worker Who Said Baby Screamed During Live-Birth “Abortion” Gets Sentenced Next MonthYesterday, Steven Massof, an unlicensed doctor who worked for convicted abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, was sentenced to 6-12 years in jail. Massof previously pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder.
With his sentencing complete, there are now three former Gosnell staffers who await their own sentences, including Gosnell abortion clinic employee Sherry West, who described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/gosnell-worker-who-said-baby-screamed-during-live-birth-abortion-gets-sentenced-next-month/
Obama Admin’s Defense of HHS Mandate Turns Religious Freedom on Its Head If I demand your wallet, and you say no, have you injured me?. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/obama-admins-defense-of-hhs-mandate-turns-religious-freedom-on-its-head/
Decades After Birth, Fetal Cells Remain in Mother’s Body to Repair Injuries Although widely known in the scientific community, it’s news to most laypeople that years—even decades—after a mother delivers her baby, some of the fetal cells will remain in her body. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/decades-after-birth-fetal-cells-remain-in-mothers-body-to-repair-injuries/
Winning Olympic Skier Alex Bilodeau of Canada Inspired by Disabled Brother Canada’s Alex Bilodeau explained his motivation after becoming the first freestyle skier to repeat his gold medal win. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/winning-olympic-skier-alex-bilodeau-of-canada-inspired-by-disabled-brother/

MSNBC Blasts Wendy Davis for “Flip-Flop” on Late-Term Abortions Wendy Davis would love to be the next governor of the state of Texas. She’d also probably love to retain the unquestioned doe-eyed adoration of MSNBC. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/msnbc-blasts-wendy-davis-for-flip-flop-on-late-term-abortions/
Doctors Save Baby of Pregnant Woman Killed by Snowplow in Parking Lot A pregnant woman was killed today by a snowplow that was clearing a parking lot after the several inches of snow that fell in Brooklyn, NY. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/doctors-save-baby-of-pregnant-woman-killed-by-snowplow-in-parking-lot/
NARAL Upset Obama Nominated Judge Who Once Backed Pregnancy Centers NARAL has been flooding my Facebook feed with paid advertisements for a petition to thwart the nomination of Judge Michael Boggs to the federal bench. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/naral-upset-obama-nominated-judge-who-once-backed-pregnancy-centers/
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Mississippi House Passes Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks Mississippi is angling to become the latest state to approve a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, following several other states in doing so and coinciding with pending legislation in Congress. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/mississippi-house-passes-bill-to-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks/
South Dakota Panel Passes Bill to Ban Sex-Selection Abortions In a prelude to what is expected to be approval by the full House, South Dakota’s House Judiciary Committee today voted 9-3 to approve HB 1162 which would ban sex-selection abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/south-dakota-panel-passes-bill-to-ban-sex-selection-abortions/
Should O.J. Simpson be Killed in an Assisted Suicide? O.J. Simpson, jailed for robbery after being found not guilty of murder, says he wants to die “his way.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/should-o-j-simpson-be-killed-in-an-assisted-suicide/
UN Official Mocks Vatican at Abortion Conference in Philippines Senior UN officials disparaged the Holy See and dismissed nations as subordinate to UN bureaucrats at a controversial conference in the Philippines. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/un-official-mocks-vatican-at-abortion-conference-in-philippines/
British Pregnancy Centers Aren’t the Problem, It’s Doctors Falsifying Abortion Forms Pro-life pregnancy counsellors are “doing an heroic job”, says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) the UK’s largest pro-life organisation. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/british-pregnancy-centers-arent-the-problem-its-doctors-falsifying-abortion-forms/
Lawsuit Filed Against Maine Buffer Zone Prohibiting Pro-Life Free Speech The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm, based in Ann Arbor, MI, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday challenging Portland, Maine’s Ordinance 17-108, which creates a 39-foot “buffer zone” around Portland’s one abortion clinic, Portland Health Center which is run by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/lawsuit-filed-against-maine-buffer-zone-prohibiting-pro-life-free-speech/


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