Wednesday, August 6, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/6/14



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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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Top Stories
• Couple Who Wanted Surrogate to Abort Baby With Down Syndrome Now Missing
• Father of Twin Baby With Down Syndrome Couple Wanted Surrogate to Abort is a Sex Offender
• Amazing New “Pea Pod” Invention Helps Premature Babies Survive
• Woman Gives Birth to Baby Boy and Dumps Him in the Trash, Miraculously He Survives


More Pro-Life News
• Ben Carson: We Called Ancient Civilizations Heathens Because They Sacrificed Babies, But We Abort Them
• NAACP Leader: Right to Abortion Same as Right to Eat at Lunch Counter

• You’ll be Amazed at How This Couple Announces Their New Baby in this Coke Ad
• They Thought She Would Die After She Gave Birth to Her 5th Child, Then This Happened
• Why are Pro-Abortion Groups Rebranding? They’re Losing With Young People
• Los Angeles Times: No Difference Between Yanking a Tooth and Yanking Off Baby’s Arm in Abortion

• Planned Parenthood Does Abortions and Wastes $115 Million of Your Tax Dollars

• Mary Landrieu: ‘Life is a Gift From God,” But Abortion’s Okay
• EEOC Reaffirms That Employers Can’t Pressure Employees to Have Abortions
• Pennsylvania: Pro-Life Gov. Tom Corbett Gaining on Pro-Abortion Tom Wolf

• Irish Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald is Determined to Push Abortion

• Abortion Clinic Caught Dumping Bodies of Aborted Babies in Trash Sues to Stop Pro-Life Law



Couple Who Wanted Surrogate to Abort Baby With Down Syndrome Now Missing The surrogate involved with the case of Gammy, the baby at the center of an international controversy of a couple from Australia who wanted their surrogate to abort a baby who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, is now talking to the press.
Meanwhile, David and Wendy Farnell (pictured right) have not been seen since it emerged they abandoned Gammy in Thailand and returned to Australia with his healthy twin sister. Meanwhile, Thai police raided the surrogacy clinic linked to the baby Gammy ordeal. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/mother-who-wanted-to-abort-baby-with-down-syndrome-told-surrogacy-agent-ill-take-the-dumb-baby/
Father of Twin Baby With Down Syndrome Couple Wanted Surrogate to Abort is a Sex OffenderMore information is surfacing about the father of the baby of a couple who paid a surrogate to carry their twin babies to term and who wanted him to be aborted after they found out he had Down Syndrome.
LifeNews.com reported on the tragic story last week about the Australian couple who was paying a woman from Thailand to carry their twin unborn babies as a surrogate and who asked the woman to abort one of the babies because testing had revealed one of the babies has Down Syndrome. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/father-of-twin-baby-with-down-syndrome-couple-wanted-surrogate-to-abortion-is-a-sex-offender/
Amazing New “Pea Pod” Invention Helps Premature Babies Survive Barbara Kozol, a Medford pediatric therapist, has invented a “pea pod” for preemie babies to assist them during the first month after their arrival. Most premature infants struggle through a unique set of challenges before leaving the hospital and require constant monitoring.
One of obstacles they may face is the inability to experience healthy and complete bone growth. Sarah Lemon, a freelance writer, said the following in The Mail Tribune about bone growth and preemie babies:http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/amazing-new-pea-pod-invention-helps-premature-babies-survive/

Woman Gives Birth to Baby Boy and Dumps Him in the Trash, Miraculously He Survives
A 22-year-old Indianapolis woman, accused of giving birth last Friday to a baby boy in the restroom of her job and then dumping him in the trash before going back to work, was formally charged today.
Briana Holland is being held on $50,000 bond. The baby, miraculously, is alive and doing well at Riley Hospital, according to The Department of Child Services. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/woman-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-and-dumps-him-in-the-trash-miraculously-he-survives/
Ben Carson: We Called Ancient Civilizations Heathens Because They Sacrificed Babies, But We Abort ThemDr. Ben Carson has a way of putting things in perspective that endears him to pro-life activists. The neurosurgeon and the author of six best-selling books makes another compelling point about the issue of abortion that is sure to have everyone who opposes abortion concurring.
He pointed out how ancient civilizations have been criticized for the brutal practices of human sacrifice and child sacrifice — but he wonders if modern society isn’t “guilty of the same thing” because we have legalized abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/ben-carson-we-called-ancient-civilizations-heathens-because-they-sacrificed-babies-but-we-abort-them/
NAACP Leader: Right to Abortion Same as Right to Eat at Lunch CounterNAACP board member Julian Bond is heard in this video saying that the right to abortion is the same as the right to eat at a lunch counter.
Note: Reproductive freedom = abortion rights!
You’ll be Amazed at How This Couple Announces Their New Baby in this Coke AdAs many of you may know, Coke’s summer marketing campaign, launched in June, has people searching the soda displays at stores for their own personalized Coke bottles. According to a press release from the company, Coke bottles around the world have the 250 most popular names among teens and millennials.
One couple used these Coke bottles to make a very cute and clever video to announce their pregnancy. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/youll-be-amazed-at-how-this-couple-announces-their-new-baby-in-this-coke-ad/

They Thought She Would Die After She Gave Birth to Her 5th Child, Then This Happened The August 5th airing of the Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast featured author and speaker Lindsey O’Connor, who survived severe complications after the birth of her fifth child.
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/they-thought-she-would-die-after-she-gave-birth-to-her-5th-child-then-this-happened/

Why are Pro-Abortion Groups Rebranding? They’re Losing With Young People The New York Times ran an interesting article last week about how supporters of legal abortion are backing away from the label “pro-choice.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/why-are-pro-abortion-groups-rebranding-theyre-losing-with-young-people/
Los Angeles Times: No Difference Between Yanking a Tooth and Yanking Off Baby’s Arm in Abortion Interesting pair of commentaries in the Los Angeles Times tell us a lot about the state of the abortion battle and the disarray within the pro-abortion community. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/los-angeles-times-no-difference-between-yanking-a-tooth-and-yanking-off-babys-arm-in-abortion/
Planned Parenthood Does Abortions and Wastes $115 Million of Your Tax Dollars You work hard for your money, and as a good, upstanding citizen, you pay your taxes, trusting that those dollars will be used to benefit the greater community. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/planned-parenthood-does-abortions-and-wastes-115-million-of-your-tax-dollars/
Mary Landrieu: ‘Life is a Gift From God,” But Abortion’s Okay Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, claims she respect the dignity of human life and she reportedly holds strong Catholic views. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/mary-landrieu-life-is-a-gift-from-god-but-abortions-okay/
EEOC Reaffirms That Employers Can’t Pressure Employees to Have Abortions Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), responsible for enforcing federal laws related to workplace discrimination, issued new enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/eeoc-reaffirms-that-employers-cant-pressure-employees-to-have-abortions/

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Pennsylvania: Pro-Life Gov. Tom Corbett Gaining on Pro-Abortion Tom Wolf Pro-life Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who has frequently been cited as one of the most vulnerable incumbent governors in the 2014 election cycle, is gaining ground, according to new polling. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/pennsylvania-pro-life-gov-tom-corbett-gaining-on-pro-abortion-tom-wolf/
Irish Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald is Determined to Push Abortion Fresh from her failure to defend Ireland’s pro-life record in Geneva, the Irish Minister for Justice has once again shown how determined she is to support the new abortion law, no matter what. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/irish-minister-for-justice-frances-fitzgerald-is-determined-to-push-abortion/
Abortion Clinic Caught Dumping Bodies of Aborted Babies in Trash Sues to Stop Pro-Life Law Texas abortion businesses that are in court this week challenging the constitutionality of a regulation that requires abortion facilities to meet Ambulatory Surgical Center standards, are complaining loudly about the hurdles they face in acquiring new offices that comply with the higher medical safety standards. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/06/abortion-clinic-caught-dumping-bodies-of-aborted-babies-in-dumpster-sues-to-stop-pro-life-law/