LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 12/30/15

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

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Top Stories
• Founder of Feminist Group That Goes Topless to Protest Abortion Becomes Pro-Life, Apologizes
• Historic Selma, Alabama Now Abortion Free as Local Abortion Clinic Closes Down
• One of the Smallest Surviving Babies in the World Has Been Born, Meet 10 Ounce E’layah Faith
• 13 Pro-Abortion Celebrities Who Pro-Life People Should Boycott

More Pro-Life News• Six Celebrities Who are Pro-Life on Abortion
• Doctors Were Ready to Take His Son Off Life Support and Harvest His Organs Until He Pulled a Gun• Doctors Offered to Abort Quinn, Who Has Two Rare Diseases. Parents Said “Give Him a Chance at Life”
• Speaker Paul Ryan: We’re Sending Obama a Bill Next Week That De-Funds Planned Parenthood
• Spokeswoman for Donald Trump: We Need to “Bring Awareness to the 50 Million Aborted People”
• Mei Survived Three Abortions as Chinese Population Control Officials Tried Repeatedly to Kill Her
• Abortion Activists Blast Bill to Stop Planned Parenthood From Dumping Aborted Babies in Landfills
• She Was Considering Abortion Until She Read Something That Completely Changed Her Mind
• Activist Says Assisted Suicide Should be a “Fundamental Right” for People Not Wanting to Grow Old
• Kermit Gosnell Wants His Sentence Overturned for Running a Pill Mill Out of His Gory Abortion Clinic
• Illinois Law for Parental Notification on Abortion Saves Over 500 Unborn Babies From Abortion
• 40,000 Abortions Take Place Every Year in Israel, This Group is Doing Something to Stop It


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Founder of Feminist Group That Goes Topless to Protest Abortion Becomes Pro-Life, Apologizes
Chances are you’ve heard of the pro-abortion feminists who protest topless for abortion at The Vatican or infiltrate Catholic Churches to push their radical abortion agenda. In Spain, once time, as the Spanish government pushes a pro-life proposal to roll back some of Europe’s most pro-abortion laws, extreme feminists from Femen showed their anger by hurling objects at Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela as he attempted to enter a local Catholic Church before Mass.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/founder-of-feminist-group-that-goes-topless-to-protest-abortion-becomes-pro-life-apologizes/

Historic Selma, Alabama Now Abortion Free as Local Abortion Clinic Closes Down
An Alabama-based abortion clinic that local pro-life advocates said was operating illegally, without a proper state license, has closed down. That makes the historic town of Selma, Alabama — home of the venerable civil rights activists –abortion free.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/historic-selma-alabama-now-abortion-free-as-local-abortion-clinic-closes-down/

One of the Smallest Surviving Babies in the World Has Been Born, Meet 10 Ounce E’layah Faith
Second-trimester and late-term abortions are legal in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other nations around the world. So when a very premature baby is born, it’s a clear indication of what a baby at that gestational age looks like when he or she is subjected to an abortion.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/one-of-the-smallest-surviving-babies-in-the-world-has-been-born-meet-10-ounce-elayah-faith/

13 Pro-Abortion Celebrities Who Pro-Life People Should Boycott
2015 revealed a lot about the abortion industry and its supporters. The 11 videos released by the Center for Medical Progress uncovered shocking details about the abortion industry and prompted numerous investigations and efforts to de-fund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/13-pro-abortion-celebrities-who-pro-life-people-should-boycott/

Six Celebrities Who are Pro-Life on Abortion
2015 will go down as monumental year for pro-life movement after a series of undercover videos exposed the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, selling aborted babies’ body parts.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/six-celebrities-who-are-pro-life-on-abortion/
Doctors Were Ready to Take His Son Off Life Support and Harvest His Organs Until He Pulled a Gun
Nearly a year ago, George Pickering III was lying in a hospital bed on life support. He had suffered a massive stroke after a history of seizures, and had been declared brain-dead. Doctors determined that care was futile and ordered a “terminal wean,” which means they planned to gradually remove George’s life support.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/doctors-were-ready-to-take-his-son-off-life-support-and-harvest-his-organs-until-he-pulled-a-gun/

Doctors Offered to Abort Quinn, Who Has Two Rare Diseases. Parents Said “Give Him a Chance at Life”
Quinn Avis is lucky to be alive. This little fighter has two of the rarest diseases on Earth — ones that normally claim the lives of children younger than him. But Quinn was lucky to just be here in the first place. Doctors said those two disease were so horrific that Quinn’s parents should consider aborting him.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/doctors-offered-to-abort-quinn-who-has-two-rare-diseases-parents-said-give-him-a-chance-at-life/

Speaker Paul Ryan: We’re Sending Obama a Bill Next Week That De-Funds Planned Parenthood
The House of Representatives will vote in a matter of days to confirm the changes the Senate made to the reconciliation bill that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which was caught selling the body parts of aborted babies. Hearings have exposed how the abortion company likely violated federal laws to sell the body parts.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/speaker-paul-ryan-were-sending-obama-a-bill-next-week-that-de-funds-planned-parenthood/

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Spokeswoman for Donald Trump: We Need to “Bring Awareness to the 50 Million Aborted People” http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/spokeswoman-for-donald-trump-we-need-to-bring-awareness-to-the-50-million-aborted-people/

Mei Survived Three Abortions as Chinese Population Control Officials Tried Repeatedly to Kill Her http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/mei-survived-three-abortions-as-chinese-population-control-officials-tried-repeatedly-to-kill-her/

Abortion Activists Blast Bill to Stop Planned Parenthood From Dumping Aborted Babies in Landfills http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/abortion-activists-blast-bill-to-stop-planned-parenthood-from-dumping-aborted-babies-in-landfills/

She Was Considering Abortion Until She Read Something That Completely Changed Her Mind http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/she-was-considering-abortion-until-she-read-something-that-completely-changed-her-mind/

Activist Says Assisted Suicide Should be a “Fundamental Right” for People Not Wanting to Grow Old http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/activist-says-assisted-suicide-should-be-a-fundamental-right-for-people-not-wanting-to-grow-old/

Kermit Gosnell Wants His Sentence Overturned for Running a Pill Mill Out of His Gory Abortion Clinic http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/kermit-gosnell-wants-his-sentenced-overturned-for-running-a-pill-mill-out-of-his-gory-abortion-clinic/

Illinois Law for Parental Notification on Abortion Saves Over 500 Unborn Babies From Abortion http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/illinois-law-for-parental-notification-on-abortion-saves-over-500-unborn-babies-from-abortion/

40,000 Abortions Take Place Every Year in Israel, This Group is Doing Something to Stop It http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/30/activist-says-assisted-suicide-should-be-a-fundamental-right-for-people-not-wanting-to-grow-old/

Spirit & Life - The Attack on Africa Continues

Your Support Helps HLI Defend Life & Family Around the World!  Dear Friends I wonder how many have heard about the strange "condom controversy" underway in Kenya. It began when Doctor Nelson Muiru of the National AIDS Control Council made a strange series of claims. He admits that his organization is in possession of a banner that was stolen from Human Life International's Kenyan affiliate, adding that the NACC will remove any other such banners placed in public places. Yet, NACC Regional Director Muiru also tells reporters "I heard they are saying we confiscated their banner, that is not the case we are just holding it." We had hoped that the journalists of Kenya would have a field day with this, yet it has only been challenged by our affiliate. When an official like Dr. Muiru feels free to openly contradict himself in public, he expects some help from the media in covering it up. Nor is this the NACC's only contradiction. The more serious one has to do with Dr. Muiru's odd statement: "We have made a great step towards achieving 'Zero Infection' but the church seems to be pulling us back to 1980s. We won't allow this to happen anywhere in this country." The message on the stolen banner is completely factual, a graphic representation of the condom producers' own admission and other researchers' well known claim that, on average, one in twelve condoms fails. There is little factual debate over this, as Dr. Muiru and every knowledgeable public health journalist know. And if one in twelve condoms is likely to fail, how safe will you feel using one if you are with a person who has Aids? Should you feel safe? Would you eat at a restaurant if every twelfth customer was poisoned? Dr. Muiru's continued employment with the NACC depends on you answering "yes" to these questions. A large part of his job is to get as many Kenyans as possible to feel "safe" using a product with a one-in-twelve failure rate, even when the failure of the product can lead to death. His agency, as every knowledgeable public health journalist in Kenya knows but has yet to report, receives a great deal of its funding from Western sources - the exact same groups who think that there are too many Africans and that "overpopulation" threatens the lifestyle of "elites" in the West. Dr. Muiru knows that the HIV/Aids pandemic began not because people followed the ancient and very well-known position of the Catholic Church: that sex should occur only within the exclusive, lifelong, sacramental union of marriage between one man and one woman. Indeed, if men and women only had sexual relations with one person their entire life, every scientist knows that the disease would never have been able to spread. The disease was spread by those who clearly rejected this teaching and chose multiple sexual partners. Every epidemiologist knows this is true, yet they continue to blame the Church for the actions of those who reject Church teaching. So Dr. Muiru's most serious contradiction is not his nonsensical claim that his organization did not confiscate the banner that it now possesses and will not return. His most serious contradiction is in his propaganda that would have Kenyans feel "safe" using a product that fails, on average, with every twelfth use. Further, his attempt to blame the Church for the actions of those who obviously rejected Church teaching is common but flagrantly dishonest. Like his Western funders, he needs a "bad guy" to campaign against, even if he has to grossly misrepresent the facts. If he fails, he may well lose his job, and his sponsors will find someone who is better at getting Kenyans to feel safe as they engage in risky behavior with inadequate protection. Our affiliate has gladly offered to hold a debate with Dr. Muiru and see if he can publicly address why he is telling Kenyans that they should feel safe using a product that fails as often as condoms do. They also hope to discuss the sources of funding, which are not listed on the NACC's web site, but are easy enough to find with a basic web search. Let us discuss the incredible reversal of HIV infection rate in Uganda in the 1990s as the emphasis was shifted from a condoms-first policy to one of abstinence and fidelity, and why, as condoms are again being given priority in Uganda, their HIV infection rate is again on the rise. By all means, let us have this conversation, even if the journalists of Kenya will not cover both sides of this very strange story. Our affiliate, their perspective mostly ignored in the press, has taken to the streets with their message of responsibility and chastity as the best way forward for a nation that wants to flourish. Let us also further discuss all that the Catholic Church has done for Aids victims all over Africa, with corporal works of mercy performed by those whose love for Jesus Christ moves them naturally and joyfully to serve those most in need. These heroes see the on-the-ground truth of what sadly happens when the Church's prophetic moral and social doctrines are ignored and hidden,  even as the Church is blamed for not accommodating the pathologies of the mainstream culture. We must be unafraid to proclaim that sin - including sexual sin - has eternal consequences for those who do not repent and turn back toward God. That these same sins have destructive earthly consequences will not surprise anyone who knows that we were made by the same loving Creator who created all of nature, who Himself continues to call us to accept his mercy and forgiveness if we will only seek it out and act accordingly, in truth. (Link to article here) Sincerely yours in Christ,   Father Shenan J. Boquet President, Human Life International  PS. - You did it! We have surpassed our fundraising goal for December, with a total thus far of $363,955! This will help us start 2016 on full steam, and we could not do this without your support and prayers! For the missionaries and staff of Human Life International, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Now let's get to work! You can still support our missionaries by clicking here, as any amount we make only strengthens the fight for life and family in the upcoming year.     Send a reminder: Catholic=Pro-Life! Christmas: The Coming of Light to Overcome the Darkness God speaks to man's reason as well as his heart and conscience by depositing His truth or logos in the Church and providing a Magisterium -- the teaching authority of the Pope -- always to proclaim the eternal truths that Christ said would never "pass away." Christ called this great light "the Way, the Truth, and the Life"-God's all-wise plan for human and eternal happiness that depends on revealed knowledge as clear as sunlight and on the light of man's intelligence to see self evident truths that shine like stars and suns. Just as sight is impossible without a source of light and the power of eyesight, the discovery of truth never occurs without God's logos creating an intelligible world and man's mind exercising its desire to know.  - continue -   Send a reminder: Catholic=Pro-Life! Get the latest fact-based brochure, Does Legal Abortion Save Lives, exposing the myth that abortion is healthy. Bulk discounts available. $0.20 |   Buy Now! Share this must-read brochure, Depo-Provera, and educate others about Depo's sixty-plus unhealthy side effects. Bulk discounts available. $0.20 |    Buy Now! In Negative Effects of the Pill, learn the truth about how contraception is not only dangerous to the human body - but to the environment too! 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Judie Brown: "One of these things is not like the other!"

 

 

Judie Brown

One of these things is not like the other!

Judie Brown
December 30, 2015

As both the new year and the March for Life approach, we reprint a popular commentary that reminds us not only of the atrocities of Planned Parenthood, but also of the destruction caused by abortion.

The 1970's Sesame Street jingle "One of these things is not like the other" seems appropriate to the current situation in Washington, D.C.

To read the article, click here:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/brown/151230

 

 

 

 

 

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