Tuesday, January 20, 2015

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 1/20/15




LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

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Top Stories
• Obama Threatens to Veto Pro-Life Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
• Pro-Abortion Group Trashes Joni Ernst as “Window Dressing:” Can’t be Pro-Woman Since She’s Pro-Life
• 89-Year-Old Grandma With Weeks to Live Filmed Begging for Food in Shocking Nursing Home Video
• Woman Arrested After Setting Her Newborn Baby on Fire and Killing Her Baby


More Pro-Life News
• Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks Would Save Babies With Down Syndrome Targeted in Abortion
• Mom Gives Birth to Daughter After Ex-Boyfriend Hired Hitmen to Kill Their Unborn Baby
• Five Facts About Norma McCorvey of Roe vs. Wade You Probably Didn’t Know
• My Sister Was Less Than 2 Pounds When She Was Born at 24 Weeks, Today It’s Legal to Abort Her
• Pro-Life Students From North Dakota Will Lead Half a Million People at the March for Life
• Baby Gammy Doing Well After Couple Wanted Him Aborted Because He Has Down Syndrome

• How Can Abortion Activists Say Pro-Lifers Don’t Care About Kids After Birth When They Kill Them Before?

• Kenya: Woman Dies After Botched Abortion, Abortionist Flees
• What Will the Legacies of Brittany Maynard and Lauren Hill Be? One Chose Death, One Chose Life
• Catholic Loyola University Invites Speaker Who Thanked God for Abortion

• New DNA Editing Technique Makes Designer Babies a Possibility

SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must Ban Abortions Because Babies Feel Intense Pain



Obama Threatens to Veto Pro-Life Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
The White House today issued a veto threat indicating that President Barack Obama would veto a bill to ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy because unborn children feel intense pain in abortions.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/obama-threatens-to-veto-pro-life-bill-to-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks/


Pro-Abortion Group Trashes Joni Ernst as “Window Dressing:” Can’t be Pro-Woman Since She’s Pro-Life
Tonight, pro-life Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa will deliver the GOP response to pro-abortion President Barack Obama’s State of the Union. She has yet to begin her speech and already pro-abortion groups are attacking her as Republican “window dressing.”

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/pro-abortion-group-trashes-joni-ernst-as-window-dressing-cant-be-pro-woman-since-shes-pro-life/



89-Year-Old Grandma With Weeks to Live Filmed Begging for Food in Shocking Nursing Home Video
In a disturbing video out of London, 89-year-old Edna Slann is seen begging for food and telling her granddaughter that the nursing home where she is staying isn’t feeding her. Slann says, “I’m hungry. Have you got anything to eat here now? I’m bloody starving. They keep you bleeding starving in here.”

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/89-year-old-grandma-with-weeks-to-live-filmed-begging-for-food-in-shocking-nursing-home-video/


Woman Arrested After Setting Her Newborn Baby on Fire and Killing Her Baby
A New Jersey woman is under arrest and charged with murder after allegedly putting her newborn baby in the middle of the road and setting the infant on fire. Witnesses tell authorities she claimed “it’s not my baby” after neighbors discovered what was happening. The baby did not survive.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/woman-arrested-after-setting-her-newborn-baby-on-fire-and-killing-her-baby/




Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks Would Save Babies With Down Syndrome Targeted in Abortion
327,653: the number of babies who did not get to experience a first Christmas last year thanks to Planned Parenthood. On average, taxpayers gave an enormous $528 million in 2013 to fund the inhumane killing of innocent babies.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/ban-on-abortions-after-20-weeks-would-save-babies-with-down-syndrome-targeted-in-abortion/


Mom Gives Birth to Daughter After Ex-Boyfriend Hired Hitmen to Kill Their Unborn Baby
A teenage mother in England has given birth to a little girl after her former boyfriend hired hitmen in an attempt to kill their unborn child. The 19-year-old has left her former boyfriend off the birth certificate now that he is in jail for his crimes.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/mom-gives-birth-to-daughter-after-ex-boyfriend-hired-hitmen-to-kill-their-unborn-baby/


Five Facts About Norma McCorvey of Roe vs. Wade You Probably Didn’t Know
This month is the forty-second anniversary of the legal decision, Roe v. Wade, in which the Supreme Court eliminated the abortion laws of all 50 states. Here are five facts about the plaintiff behind the case that transformed America.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/five-facts-about-norma-mccorvey-of-roe-vs-wade-you-probably-didnt-know/


My Sister Was Less Than 2 Pounds When She Was Born at 24 Weeks, Today It’s Legal to Abort Her
I was only two years and two months old when my sister was born. But I remember the hospital visits. The NICU nurses called her “peanut” because she was itsy bitsy – just 1 pound and 14 ounces when she was born.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/my-sister-was-less-than-2-pounds-when-she-was-born-at-24-weeks-today-its-legal-to-abort-her/


Pro-Life Students From North Dakota Will Lead Half a Million People at the March for Life Every year on the anniversary of Roe, hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers attend the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. to remember the more than 55 million lives lost from abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/pro-life-students-from-north-dakota-will-lead-half-a-million-people-at-the-march-for-life/
Baby Gammy Doing Well After Couple Wanted Him Aborted Because He Has Down Syndrome In 2014, LifeNews reported on twin baby Gammy who was abandoned by his biological parents after their surrogate refused abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/baby-gammy-doing-well-after-couple-wanted-him-aborted-because-he-has-down-syndrome/
How Can Abortion Activists Say Pro-Lifers Don’t Care About Kids After Birth When They Kill Them Before? Before I got into anti-assisted suicide work in 1993, I never hung out with pro-lifers. I only knew a few and didn’t engage the issues in which they were interested. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/how-can-abortion-activists-say-pro-lifers-dont-care-about-kids-after-birth-when-they-kill-them-before/
Kenya: Woman Dies After Botched Abortion, Abortionist Flees Abortion is legal in certain circumstances in Kenya and not only does it destroy the lives of unborn children, abortion is responsible for killing and injuring women as well. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/kenya-woman-dies-after-botched-abortion-abortionist-flees/

What Will the Legacies of Brittany Maynard and Lauren Hill Be? One Chose Death, One Chose Life I was in line at the grocery store, looked to my left, and there, on the cover of People Magazine, was Dan Diaz, the husband of Brittany Maynard, who took her own life November 1, 2014. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/what-will-the-legacies-of-brittany-maynard-and-lauren-hill-be-one-chose-death-one-chose-life/
Catholic Loyola University Invites Speaker Who Thanked God for Abortion In 2013, MSNBC host TourĂ© Neblett, garnered criticism from pro-life advocates after thanking God for abortion in what he called an “abortion rant” on his show “The Cycle.” http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/catholic-loyola-university-invites-speaker-who-thanked-god-for-abortion/
New DNA Editing Technique Makes Designer Babies a Possibility In science fiction movies, it seems like it is easy to edit the genetics of a living organism. In reality, it is very, very difficult. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/20/new-dna-editing-technique-makes-designer-babies-a-possibility/