Tuesday, June 17, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 6/17/14



LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Justina Pelletier Will Finally be Released to Her Parents’ Custody to Go Home
• Secretary of State John Kerry Finally Speaks Up for Meriam Ibrahim
• She Managed a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic But Quit When This Happened
• Doc Who Locked Woman in His Office After Failed Abortion Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

More Pro-Life News
• Will The Supreme Court Protect Hobby Lobby From the HHS Mandate?
• Dying Girl Who Got Lung Transplant After Sebelius Denied It Now Breathing on Her Own

• Hospital Tries to Force Mom to Let It Have a Private Talk With Her Daughter About Birth Control
• Your Tax Dollars at Work: Planned Parenthood Hosts “Condom Crafting”
• Abortionist Failed to Report Rape of 13-Year-Old Girl, Now He Faces Trial
• IRS Targets Pro-Lifers, Conveniently Loses Emails to Hold It Accountable

• A Blind Four-Year-Old Boy Successfully Steps Down A Curb By Himself For The First Time

• Cuomo’s Push to Expand Abortions Hurts Measure to Punish Human Traffickers
• This Beautiful Girl is Helping End the Stigma Associated With Down Syndrome
• MSNBC Guest: We’ve Become A Country Of Have And Have-Nots When It Comes To Abortion

• Court Rules UK Patients Have a Right to be Told if They Will be Denied CPR
• Only 1% of Men Whose Partners Have Abortions Said They’d Consider Abortion Again

• Children’s Charities in Scotland Wants Law Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Sick Children
• Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Gets Support From Pro-Lifers
• Ohio Recommends Last Toledo Abortion Clinic be Shut Down for Breaking State Law


Justina Pelletier Will Finally be Released to Her Parents’ Custody to Go Home After a lengthy legal battle between her parents and the state of Massachusetts, Justina Pelletier is finally heading home.
Thanks to the help of a pro-life legal group fighting on their behalf, Judge Johnson signed an order releasing Justina Pelletier to her parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier.
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/justina-pelletier-will-finally-be-released-to-her-parents-custody-to-go-home/
Secretary of State John Kerry Finally Speaks Up for Meriam IbrahimLast week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry publicly condemned Sudan’s conviction and imprisonment of Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian woman sentenced to torture and death for her Christian faith.
Secretary Kerry’s statement comes after more than 380,000 people have signed our petition demanding that Sudan release Meriam and urging the Obama Administration’s action in her case. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/secretary-of-state-john-kerry-finally-speaks-up-for-meriam-ibrahim/
She Managed a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic But Quit When This Happened Sometimes the path God gives us to walk leads us places we never imagined we could go.
That’s exactly the kind of story you’ll hear in this talk from the Pro-Life Action League’s conference “CONVERTED: From Abortion Provider to Pro-Life Activist” featuring former Planned Parenthood health center manager Sue Thayer. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/she-managed-a-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic-but-quit-when-this-happened/
Doc Who Locked Woman in His Office After Failed Abortion Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Georgia abortionist Charles Rossman pled guilty this morning to the charge of criminal abortion. He was sentenced to a total of ten years with five to be served in prison and the remaining five to be served on probation. He was also fined $3,500.
“Another Gosnell-like abortionist has been convicted of crimes and is behind bars. This is a victory for justice, for the women Rossman preyed upon, and for the innocent babies whose deaths from which Rossman profited,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/doc-who-locked-woman-in-his-office-after-failed-abortion-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison/
Will The Supreme Court Protect Hobby Lobby From the HHS Mandate?The Supreme Court decision in the monumental Hobby Lobby case against the abortion mandate in Obamacare is expected either this week or next.
The Obama administration is attempting to make Hobby Lobby and thousands of pro-life businesses and organizations comply with the HHS mandate that compels religious companies to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for their employees. However, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a landmark case addressing the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of business owners to operate their family companies without violating their deeply held religious convictions. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/will-the-supreme-court-protect-hobby-lobby-from-the-hhs-mandate/
Dying Girl Who Got Lung Transplant After Sebelius Denied It Now Breathing on Her OwnThe dying girl who needed a lung transplant and only had weeks to live is now breathing on her own after HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius infamously denied her one. After getting the transplant she desperately needed, the little girl is doing much better.
Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl dying of cystic fibrosis, received national attention after HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius refused to help. She eventually received two double lung transplants. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/dying-girl-who-got-lung-transplant-after-sebelius-denied-it-now-breathing-on-her-own/
Hospital Tries to Force Mom to Let It Have a Private Talk With Her Daughter About Birth ControlA hospital in Michigan is coming under fire from a parents after its staff attempted to take a Mother’s daughter and give her a private talk promoting birth control and sexual relations.
The story is coming out on the same day LifeNews is reporting that Justina Pelletier is finally heading home to her parents’ custody after a lengthy headline-grabbing legal battle with the state of Massachusetts, which took their daughter away from them.
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/hospital-tries-to-force-mom-to-let-it-have-a-private-talk-with-her-daughter-about-birth-control/

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Planned Parenthood Hosts “Condom Crafting” The occasion was the opening of a new commuter rail line in Minneapolis/St. Paul, for which Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota had been “waiting excitedly… for a long, long time.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/you-tax-dollars-at-work-planned-parenthood-hosts-condom-crafting/
Abortionist Failed to Report Rape of 13-Year-Old Girl, Now He Faces Trial Famous radio announced Casey Kasem passed away Sunday after a familial battle over his medical treatment, including whether to provide him food and water. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/15/casey-kasem-dies-after-contentious-battle-over-end-of-life-medical-treatment/
IRS Targets Pro-Lifers, Conveniently Loses Emails to Hold It Accountable For the Obama administration, the Year of the Computer Glitch just produced the most convenient one of all. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/irs-targets-pro-lifers-conveniently-loses-emails-to-hold-it-accountable/
A Blind Four-Year-Old Boy Successfully Steps Down A Curb By Himself For The First Time Disabled persons can do amazing things. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/a-blind-four-year-old-boy-successfully-steps-down-a-curb-by-himself-for-the-first-time/
Cuomo’s Push to Expand Abortions Hurts Measure to Punish Human Traffickers As LifeNews reported last month, pro-abortion-choice Senators from New York are pushing the so-called “Women’s Equality Act,” which would allow late-term abortions for virtually any reason. The law would also allow non-doctors to perform abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/cuomos-push-to-expand-abortions-hurts-measure-to-punish-human-traffickers/
This Beautiful Girl is Helping End the Stigma Associated With Down Syndrome Michelle Clark will never forget the first time she took her daughter Mara out for the first time. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/this-beautiful-girl-is-helping-end-the-stigma-associated-with-down-syndrome/
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MSNBC Guest: We’ve Become A Country Of Have And Have-Nots When It Comes To Abortion MSNBC is known for its promotion of abortion and “abortion rights” and on Monday, June 16 its afternoon program The Cycle showed just how over-the-top its activism is. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/msnbc-guest-weve-become-a-country-of-have-and-have-nots-when-it-comes-to-abortion/
Court Rules UK Patients Have a Right to be Told if They Will be Denied CPR This is pretty bad when it is considered a landmark victory. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/court-rules-uk-patients-have-a-right-to-be-told-if-they-will-be-denied-cpr/
Only 1% of Men Whose Partners Have Abortions Said They’d Consider Abortion Again As I think about the wonderful fathers in my life, I am also sobered by the thought that since 1973, over 50 million in the United States are fathers to dead babies because of legal abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/only-1-of-men-whose-partners-have-abortions-said-theyd-consider-abortion-again/
Children’s Charities in Scotland Wants Law Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Sick Children The Daily Mail in Scotland has a front page article claiming that Scottish Children’s Charities have called for the inclusion of euthanasia for children to be included in the reach of the euthanasia bill under debate in Holyrood (Scottish Parliament). http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/childrens-charities-in-scotland-wants-law-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-sick-children/
Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Gets Support From Pro-Lifers Today, the National Right to Life Committee, the oldest and largest pro-life group in the nation, endorsed Iowa state Senator Joni Ernst in her campaign for U.S. Senate. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/iowa-senate-candidate-joni-ernst-gets-support-from-pro-lifers/
Ohio Recommends Last Toledo Abortion Clinic be Shut Down for Breaking State Law Yesterday, an Ohio Department of Health hearing examiner ruled that Capital Care Network of Toledo be closed because it lacks a valid, legally required transfer agreement with a “local” hospital, as required by state law. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/17/ohio-recommends-last-toledo-abortion-clinic-be-shut-down-for-breaking-state-law/