Thursday, June 12, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 6/12/14





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Thursday, June 12, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Planned Parenthood Lies About Firing Staffer Who Told 15-Year-Old to Engage in S&M Sex
• Ted Cruz and Pro-Life Groups Lead White House Rally to Save Meriam Ibrahim
• Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Signs Pro-Life Bill That Could Close Three Abortion Clinics
• The Sad Fate of Casey Kasem: Death by Dehydration

More Pro-Life News
• Beautiful Pictures Show First Moments for New Dads After Their Baby’s Birth
• Will You Pray for Meriam Ibrahim?

• Chinese Woman Shares Her Awful Story of Being Victimized by Three Forced Abortions
• Cosmo Magazine Complains States are Passing Pro-Life Laws to Stop Abortions
• Abortions on Irish Women Heading to England Drop Again, Down 44% Since 2001
• Euthanasia Activists Want to Harvest Organs From Conscious ICU Patients

• Why Did Assisted Suicides in Washington Go Up a Shocking 43 Percent?

• Pro-Abortion Guttmacher Institute Falsely Claims Contraception is Lowering Teen Abortions
• Abortionist Who Has Lost His License in Six States Looks to Set Up Shop in Virginia
• United Nations Tells Pro-Life Nation El Salvador to Drop Its Abortion Ban



Planned Parenthood Lies About Firing Staffer Who Told 15-Year-Old to Engage in S&M Sex A Planned Parenthood abortion business has lied about being forced to fire a staffer who told a 15-year-old in an undercover video that she should engage in sadomasochistic sexual relations.
As the abortion corporation told the Indianapolis Star newspaper, the employee in question is reportedly no longer working for the abortion giant. But officials with Live Action confirmed Thursday afternoon that the employee is still working at the Planned Parenthood facility. It’s undercover investigators called and confirmed an appointment with the staffer. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/planned-parenthood-lies-about-firing-staffer-who-told-15-year-old-to-engage-in-sm-sex/
Ted Cruz and Pro-Life Groups Lead White House Rally to Save Meriam IbrahimWith some news reports indicating Meriam Inbrahim may be days or weeks away from a brutal pre-execution flogging because of her refusal to backtrack on her Christian faith, pro-life Sen. Ted Cruz and leading pro-life groups staged a rally outside the White House today on her behalf.
Meriam Ibrahim is not sentenced to die for her Christian faith for two years, until such a time as her newborn baby girl Maya is weaned, but she could be flogged within days if her appeal of her death sentence is thrown out. LifeNews recently covered the terrible nature of the flogging she will have to endure and how it will literally take her skin off of her body. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/ted-cruz-and-pro-life-groups-lead-white-house-rally-to-save-meriam-ibrahim/
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Signs Pro-Life Bill That Could Close Three Abortion Clinics Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal today signed pro-life bills that could close three of the state’s five abortion clinics. Jindal has been a staunchly pro-life governor and he is putting into law more pieces of pro-life legislation that has, under his administration, made Louisiana one of the most pro-life states in the nation.
The Louisiana state legislature sent to Jindal HB 388, the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, that the Planned Parenthood abortion business says could close three of the five abortion clinics in the state. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-signs-pro-life-bill-that-could-close-three-abortion-clinics/

The Sad Fate of Casey Kasem: Death by Dehydration
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge reversed his own ruling, permitting Casey Kasem’s daughter, Kerri Kasem, to remove her father’s food and hydration (via feeding tube), which will result in his death by starvation and dehydration. Kasem’s wife of 33 years, Jean Kasem, is fighting for the life of her husband, with her attorney, Steve Haney, calling the judge’s decision, “the functional equivalent of a death sentence.”
Growing up in the 70’s, I was introduced to Casey Kasem’s easy to recognize voice as each week he counted down “American Top 40? hits for almost four decades on a radio show heard around the world. Kasem was also the voice of the character Shaggy on “Scooby-Doo” cartoons for 40 years. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/the-sad-fate-of-casey-kasem-death-by-dehydration/
Beautiful Pictures Show First Moments for New Dads After Their Baby’s BirthIn many of life’s important moments – moments that are special for both men and women – it’s the women that tend to steal the limelight. A wedding is one (yes, I am one of those people that watch the groom as the bride walks down the aisle), and another would be the birth of a new child.
That’s why I think that these photos, of men photographed minutes after the birth of their child, are so unique. They manage to capture a side of things that we might not usually notice. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/beautiful-pictures-show-first-moments-for-new-dads-after-thier-babys-birth/
Will You Pray for Meriam Ibrahim?A Sudanese Christian mother has been sentenced to death for apostasy. And yes, there is something you can do about it.
Imagine you’re a woman in Sudan. Your Muslim father abandoned the family home when you were young. Your Christian mother raised you. Eventually you married a Christian man and gave birth to a boy. Then, two years later, while you were pregnant with your second child, you get thrown into prison. A Muslim judge convicts you of apostasy—or, leaving Islam, which carries a death sentence—and adultery—for marrying a Christian. You also face a punishment of 100 lashes on the adultery conviction. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/will-you-pray-for-meriam-ibrahim/
Chinese Woman Shares Her Awful Story of Being Victimized by Three Forced AbortionsThe following is a post by Jinghong Cai of China, edited by the Human Rights group China Aid, on whose blog it originally appeared.

It was almost midnight. We were awakened by the noise of someone frantically knocking on the door. My aunt, my mother’s younger sister, was being carried by her husband; pale, visibly weak to the point of fainting, and seriously sick. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/chinese-woman-shares-her-awful-story-of-being-victimized-by-three-forced-abortions/

Cosmo Magazine Complains States are Passing Pro-Life Laws to Stop Abortions Ohio Right to Life’s done it again–we’ve provoked the ire of the national pro-choice media. Because of the effectiveness of our strategies and techniques, the nation is watching Ohio. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/cosmo-magazine-complains-states-are-passing-pro-life-laws-to-stop-abortions/

Abortions on Irish Women Heading to England Drop Again, Down 44% Since 2001 The Pro Life Campaign his welcoming the latest Irish abortion figures released today by the British Department of Health,* which show that the number of Irish women travelling to Britain for abortions has decreased for the twelfth consecutive year. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/abortions-on-irish-women-heading-to-england-drop-again-down-44-since-2001/
Euthanasia Activists Want to Harvest Organs From Conscious ICU Patients Pick your cliche: Give them an inch and they will take a mile; in for a penny in for a pound, etc. In bioethics, there is never a permanent boundary beyond which the utilitarian impulse will not take them. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/euthanasia-activists-want-to-harvest-organs-from-conscious-icu-patients/
Why Did Assisted Suicides in Washington Go Up a Shocking 43 Percent? A 43 percent rise in doctor-prescribed suicides in Washington State in 2013 was motivated not by pain, but by feared loss of autonomy and “dignity,” according to the official state government report. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/why-did-assisted-suicides-in-washington-go-up-a-shocking-43-percent/
Pro-Abortion Guttmacher Institute Falsely Claims Contraception is Lowering Teen Abortions Last month, the Guttmacher Institute released a study on teen pregnancy rates. The news is good. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/pro-abortion-guttmacher-institute-falsely-claims-contracption-is-lowering-teen-abortions/
Abortionist Who Has Lost His License in Six States Looks to Set Up Shop in Virginia As Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe engages in an effort to scrap abortion clinic safety standards, two abortion facilities owned by the notorious New Jersey abortionist Steven Chase Brigham are seeking variances that would exempt them from complying with much of the law. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/abortionist-who-has-lost-his-license-in-six-states-looks-to-set-up-shop-in-virginia/
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United Nations Tells Pro-Life Nation El Salvador to Drop Its Abortion Ban The latest attack on a country’s protection of preborn children from the violence of abortion comes from the 52nd session of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) during review of El Salvador’s report. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/12/united-tells-pro-life-nation-el-salvador-to-drop-its-abortion-ban/