DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 7/26/12

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

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Top Stories
• Planned Parenthood Waited Five Hours Before Sending Abortion Victim to ER
• Planned Parenthood May Face Family s Lawsuit Over Abortion Death
• Obama Criticized for Using Daughters to Promote Abortion
• Pro-Life Democrats to Tell Party to Moderate Abortion Stances

More Pro-Life News
• FBI Told to Quit Harassing Pro-Life Advocate Over Free Speech
• Billy Graham: Abortion Has Taken America s Morality Downhill
• Pro-Life Encyclical Humanae Vitae Celebrates Its 44th Birthday
• Like Sanger, Obama More Interested in Abortion Than Women s Lives
• Company Wants Trial for Alzheimer s Using Aborted Fetal Cells
• Russians Find 248 Aborted Babies Abandoned in Mountains
• Euthanasia Backers Now Want Assisted Suicide Without Doctors
• Families of Kids With Disabilities; Our Lives Are Enriched
• Michigan Senate Committee Approves Key Pro-Life Abortion Bill
• Spain Will End Abortions Targeting Disabled Babies
• Moms At Risk for Abortion Tell Congress Pregnancy Centers Helped
• Tennessee Pro-Life Group Endorses Rep. Diane Black

---> Planned Parenthood: 51% of Its Clinic Income Comes From Abortions

Planned Parenthood Waited Five Hours Before Sending Abortion Victim to ER
New documents a local CBS television station obtained in the case of a young African-American woman killed in a fatal botched legal abortion show Planned Parenthood waited over five hours before sending the woman to a local hospital for emergency care.

Steve Miller of the CBS news affiliate WBBM has released a new report showing documents released in the botched abortion death of Tonya Reaves that alarmingly shows Planned Parenthood delayed summoning emergency care for the dying woman for five and a half hours after the abortion failed. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/planned-parenthood-waited-five-hours-before-sending-abortion-victim-to-er/

Planned Parenthood May Face Family s Lawsuit Over Abortion Death
The family of the woman Planned Parenthood killed in a botched legal abortion last week has retained an attorney in preparation for a civil lawsuit against the abortion business.

According to ABC News, the family of Tonya Reaves, the 24-year-old mother of one who died following a second trimester abortion, have sought legal counsel. Reaves died after hemorrhaging late Friday night and was taken by ambulance from the Chicago-area Planned Parenthood clinic to Northwestern Memorial Hospital at about 11:00 a.m. Friday and was pronounced dead about twelve hours later. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/planned-parenthood-may-face-familys-lawsuit-over-abortion-death/

Obama Criticized for Using Daughters to Promote Abortion
President Barack Obama is coming under criticism for invoking the names of his daughters to promote federal taxpayer funding for the Planned parenthood abortion business.

As LifeNews reported this week, Obama once again called for more taxpayer funding of the abortion business during a campaign speech in Portland.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/obama-criticized-for-using-daughters-to-promote-abortion/

Pro-Life Democrats to Tell Party to Moderate Abortion Stance
For the first time in two decades, the Democratic National Committee s platform committee will hear from pro-life advocates wanting the party to moderate its pro-abortion platform that also calls for taxpayer funding of abortions.

Last Friday, Democrats For Life of America submitted written testimony to suggest language for the Democratic platform. The Democratic platform drafting committee, who will hear testimony on July 27-29, has asked Democrats For Life to provide oral testimony. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/pro-life-democrats-to-tell-party-to-moderate-abortion-stances/

FBI Told to Quit Harassing Pro-Life Advocate Over Free Speech
A pro-life legal group has issued a letter to the FBI asking officials to quit harassing a peaceful pro-life advocate who is only expressing his First Amendment free speech rights by protesting outside abortion facilities.

The Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) because they threatened and questioned pro-life advocate Andrew Moore at his home in Dallas, Texas on July 13. The FBI agents talked to Moore for over an hour about his peaceful free speech activities that take place on public sidewalks outside of Southwestern Abortion Clinic in Dallas. The letter demands that the FBI stop the harassment. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/fbi-told-to-quit-harassing-pro-life-advocate-over-free-speech/

Billy Graham: Abortion Has Taken America s Morality Downhill
Evangelist Bill Graham says abortion has taken America s morality downhill so frat that the nation is on par with cities in the Old testament that God destroyed because of their lack of sexual morality.

Graham s comments com in the form of a new open letter titled My Heart Aches for America that addresses concerns about moral issues. In a new prayer letter Billy Graham writes: My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/billy-graham-abortion-has-taken-americas-morality-downhill/

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Pro-Life Encyclical Humanae Vitae Celebrates Its 44th Birthday
You may be forgiven for not knowing that July 25 is the 44th anniversary of encyclical Humanae Vitae.

Who, after all, is going to remind you? Not the secular media, which scoffs at the idea that men and women can practice self-control in matters of sex. No, they will not breathe a word about Pope Paul VI s courageous rejection of sterilization and contraception as contravening God s loving design for marriage and the Natural Law.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/pro-life-encyclical-humanae-vitae-celebrates-its-44th-birthday/

Like Sanger, Obama More Interested in Abortion Than Women s Lives
It is in our nature to mourn the loss of life. How much more tragic when the life of a mother is taken at the same time her child is ripped from her womb. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/like-sanger-obama-more-interested-in-abortion-than-womens-lives/

Company Wants Trial for Alzheimer s Using Aborted Fetal Cells
As a proud American, my knee-jerk response was to be defensive and wonder where in the U.S. are the aborted unborn routinely found discarded by the side of the road. Nowhere, of course. So why, in the United States, would we be expected to have such a gruesome find. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/company-wants-trial-of-alzheimers-drug-using-aborted-fetal-cells/

Russians Find 248 Aborted Babies Abandoned in Mountains
If there were not gruesome pictures that go along with this story, I may have doubted its veracity. It is just too horrible. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/25/obamas-abortion-hhs-mandate-is-both-unjust-and-illegal/

Euthanasia Backers Now Want Assisted Suicide Without Doctors
I often say that if you want to see where and how society will next go wrong, just look at the articles on ethics and culture currently being published in the world s top medical and bioethics journals. Latest case in point, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine urging that doctors be taken out of assisted suicide because too many refuse to participate. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/euthanasia-backers-now-want-assisted-suicide-without-doctors/

Families of Kids With Disabilities; Our Lives Are Enriched
A research study that was published in the current edition of the Journal Pediatrics found that parents of children with Trisomy 13/18, conditions whereby the child has an extra 13 or 18 chromosome, indicated that the parents considered the child to be happy and found that their lives were enriched by the child. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/families-of-kids-with-disabilities-our-lives-are-enriched/

Michigan Senate Committee Approves Key Pro-Life Abortion Bill
A Michigan state Senate committee has approved a package of pro-fie bills intended to protect women and unborn children and further drive down the number of abortions in the state. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/michigan-senate-committee-approves-key-pro-life-abortion-bill/

Spain Will End Abortions Targeting Disabled Babies
Spain s justice minister, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, says upcoming legislation reforming the nation s laws on abortions will eliminate fetal deformity as a basis for killing the unborn. That will end abortions targeting disabled children. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/spain-will-end-abortions-targeting-disabled-babies/

Moms At Risk for Abortion Tell Congress Pregnancy Centers Helped
As the federal government mandates insurance coverage for contraceptives, including abortion-causing drugs, and promulgates additional rules for implementing Obamacare, Americans may be forced to pay for the heinous practice of abortion. Heartbeat International was on Capitol Hill recently leading moms who want to advance pro-child policies at the national leve. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/moms-at-risk-for-abortion-tell-congress-pregnancy-centers-helped/

Tennessee Pro-Life Group Endorses Rep. Diane Black
One week before election day, the state s oldest and largest pro-life organization held a capitol hill press conference Thursday praising Diane Black s pro-life record at the state Legislature and in the Congress. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/26/tennessee-pro-life-group-endorses-rep-diane-black/

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