Monday, May 12, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 5/12/14





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Monday, May 12, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Mom Gives Birth to Conjoined Twins, “Baby With Two Faces,” After Refusing Abortion
• Inspiration Network May Pick Up Show HGTV Cancelled Because Hosts are Pro-Life
“Best Mother’s Day Present:” Rare Mono Mono Twins Born Holding Hands• Woman Only Gets Three Years After Drowning Newborn in Toilet

More Pro-Life News
• Did The Woman Who Videotaped Her Abortion Not Actually Have an Abortion?
• Brave Mom Jumps From Burning Building to Save Her Baby

• Woman Takes Drugs to Cause Abortion at 30 Weeks, Dumps Baby’s Body Behind Restaurant
• County Cuts Ties With Company Shipping Aborted Babies to Incinerate for Energy
• Senate Committee Will Consider Pro-Abortion HHS Secretary Nominee Sylvia Burwell Wednesday
• Congresswoman Refuses to Denounce Abortion of Babies Just Because They Have Down Syndrome

• Gosnell Movie Filmmakers Need Your Help One More Time to Expose Abortion

• DCF Refuses to Let Justina Pelletier be With Her Mother on Mother’s Day
• Death Panels: Massachusetts Hospital Imposing DNR Orders on Patients Without Consent
• How Do Atheist Pro-Lifers Feel About Being Involved in a Largely Christian Pro-Life Movement?

• 64-Year-Old Woman in China Uses IVF to Give Birth to Twins
• Football Player Was Almost a Victim of Abortion: “I’m Not Supposed to be Here”

• Kansas Wins Court Battle to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Business
• Late-Term Abortion Clinic Used Mother’s Day to Push for Donations


Mom Gives Birth to Conjoined Twins, “Baby With Two Faces,” After Refusing Abortion A mother in Australia who LifeNews previously profiled as preparing to give birth to conjoined twins — who share one body but have two faces — has finally given birth after refusing to have an abortion.
Renee Young and Simon Howie of Sydney said that a routine ultrasound found problems with their baby’s development and that the twins they were expecting were actually conjoined twins with a rare medical condition. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/mom-gives-birth-to-conjoined-twins-baby-with-two-faces-after-refusing-abortion/
Inspiration Network May Pick Up Show HGTV Cancelled Because Hosts are Pro-LifeThe Inspiration Network may pick up Flip It Forward, the show HGTV cancelled because the hosts of the program are pro-life, or it may work with the brother behind the show on another program.
The pro-life brothers who were set to be the stars of the next HGTV reality television show “Flip It Forward” have had a refreshing response to the cable network cancelling the program because of their pro-life beliefs. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/inspiration-network-may-pick-up-show-hgtv-cancelled-because-hosts-are-pro-life/
“Best Mother’s Day Present:” Rare Mono Mono Twins Born Holding HandsJust in time for Mother’s Day, one Mom delivers rare set of mono mono identical twin girls in Akron, Ohio. The babies were breathing on their own and their mom said she and her husband were able to hold them on Mother’s Day.
Sarah Thistlewaite’s identical twin daughters, Jenna and Jillian, shared an amniotic sack and placenta in their mother’s womb. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/best-mothers-day-present-rare-mono-mono-twins-born-holding-hands/
Woman Only Gets Three Years After Drowning Newborn in Toilet
Last week a Virginia woman who gave birth to a baby whom paramedics found drown in the toilet still attached to the mother, was given a three-year suspended jail term.
“The prosecution and defense, in an agreement reached weeks ago, have concluded that Devin Monique Small, 22, did not kill her newborn child with premeditation or malice, the elements required for a finding of first-degree murder,” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Mark Bowles. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/woman-only-gets-three-years-after-drowning-newborn-in-toilet/
Did The Woman Who Videotaped Her Abortion Not Actually Have an Abortion?Emily Letts’ now infamous abortion video shocked people on both sides of the abortion debate, with even some pro-abortion advocates arguing that this video went too far over the line. But now, questions are starting to surface about the entire situation: was the video, in fact, faked?
Kristen Iglesias at Clash Daily brings up a number of puzzling questions which casts doubt onto Letts’ story. The inconsistencies and strange coincidences keep adding up, so could it be possible that Letts, with the help of her employers at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center, fabricated the video? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/did-the-woman-who-videotaped-her-abortion-not-actually-have-an-abortion/
Brave Mom Jumps From Burning Building to Save Her BabyYesterday, LifeNews celebrated moms for Mother’s Day on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. We spotlighted moms who rejected abortion to save their babies or went to great lengths to protect their unborn or recently-born children.
Then today, we unfortunately had to profile a woman from Virginia who received only a three-year suspended sentence for drowning her newborn baby in the toilet. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/brave-mom-jumps-from-burning-building-to-save-her-baby/

Woman Takes Drugs to Cause Abortion at 30 Weeks, Dumps Baby’s Body Behind RestaurantAn Indiana woman who allegedly took abortion pills to give herself a late term abortion has been charged with neglect of a dependent. The 32 year old Purvi Patel, was arrested last July after she took abortion pills to end her 28-30 weeks pregnancy.
Patel later admitted to police that she had placed the newborn in a dumpster behind a local restaurant, which her family owns. The infant was dead at the time the baby was found. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/woman-takes-drugs-to-cause-abortion-at-30-weeks-dumps-babys-body-behind-restaurant/
County Cuts Ties With Company Shipping Aborted Babies to Incinerate for Energy When last we posted on allegations that the remains of aborted and miscarried babies were being burned to generate electricity in Oregon, a vice president for the company that owns and operates the Marion County Waste-to-Energy Facility plant in Brooks, Oregon categorically denied the charge. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/county-cuts-ties-with-company-shipping-aborted-babies-to-incinerate-for-energy/
Senate Committee Will Consider Pro-Abortion HHS Secretary Nominee Sylvia Burwell Wednesday President Barack Obama has nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to replace pro-abortion HSH Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who resigned as the head of the agency charged with implementing Obamacare. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/senate-committee-will-consider-pro-abortion-hhs-secretary-nominee-sylvia-burwell-wednesday/
Congresswoman Refuses to Denounce Abortion of Babies Just Because They Have Down Syndrome British pop star Leona Lewis was the entertainment at Thursday’s Global Down Syndrome Foundation gala in Washington. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/congresswoman-refuses-to-denounce-abortion-of-babies-just-because-they-have-down-syndrome/
Gosnell Movie Filmmakers Need Your Help One More Time to Expose Abortion Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, the filmmakers behind Gosnell Movie, succeeded in raising $2.1 million in their campaign to make a film about late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/gosnell-movie-filmmakers-need-your-help-one-more-time-to-expose-abortion/
DCF Refuses to Let Justina Pelletier be With Her Mother on Mother’s Day Department of Children and Families (DCF) denied the meeting for Linda Pelletier to be with Justina after a request was submitted by the Pelletier’s attorneys. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/11/dcf-refuses-to-let-justina-pelletier-be-with-her-mother-on-mothers-day/
Death Panels: Massachusetts Hospital Imposing DNR Orders on Patients Without Consent Can this have something to do with Romney/Obamacare? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/death-panels-massachusetts-hospital-imposing-dnr-orders-on-patients-without-consent/
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How Do Atheist Pro-Lifers Feel About Being Involved in a Largely Christian Pro-Life Movement? Secular Pro-Life West Coast Representatives Monica and Ellen join Josh to discuss the Justice For All seminar they attended, and how they felt as atheists among Christians. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/how-do-atheist-pro-lifers-feel-about-being-involved-in-a-largely-christian-pro-life-movement/
64-Year-Old Woman in China Uses IVF to Give Birth to Twins There is a pretty incredible story out of China today. A 64-year-old woman has used in-vitro fertilization to conceive and give birth to twins. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/64-year-old-woman-in-china-uses-ivf-to-give-birth-to-twins/
Football Player Was Almost a Victim of Abortion: “I’m Not Supposed to be Here” Khalif Herbin is football player for the Temple University football team, but he almost never had a chance to play football.. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/star-football-player-was-almost-a-victim-of-abortion-im-not-supposed-to-be-here/
Kansas Wins Court Battle to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Several states in the last couple of years have taken steps to yank taxpayer funding from the Planned Parenthood abortion business. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/court-allows-kansas-to-de-fund-planned-parenthood-abortion-business/
Late-Term Abortion Clinic Used Mother’s Day to Push for Donations Abortion kills children – so why would abortion advocates claim to celebrate Mother’s Day? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/12/late-term-abortion-clinic-used-mothers-day-to-push-for-donations/