LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 12/5/12

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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Top Stories
• Poll: Americans Support Religious Exemption for HHS Mandate
• Planned Parenthood Helped Obama by Dropping Abortion for Women s Health
• Democrats Reward Committee Slot Based on Who s More Pro-Abortion
• Limbaugh: Planned Parenthood Trying to Eliminate Black Families

More Pro-Life News
• 40 Years of Abortion Has Been Harmful for Women and Girls
• Pro-Abortion Blog Delighted Eric Holder is Attacking Pro-Lifers
• Pro-Life Group to Sing Christmas Carols at Abortion Clinics
• Unborn Babies: Humans With Potential, Not Potential Humans
• Canadian MP: Parliament Must Denounce Sex-Selection Abortions
• Lawmaker Says Govt Should Guarantee Pleasurable Sex for Women
• Is ACOG Trying to Put Pro-Life Doctors Out of Business?
• American Nurses Association Should Not Support Assisted Suicide
• Appeals Court to Hear Battle Over Law Silencing Pregnancy Centers
• Patients Sedated to Death Without Permission in the UK
• Dissent Against Humanae Vitae Lacks Charity and Truth

Poll: Americans Support Religious Exemption for HHS Mandate
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Americans narrowly support allowing businesses and religious organizations to opt out of the controversial HHS mandate that compels them to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that if providing such coverage violates the deeply held beliefs of a church, religious organization or business owner, they should be allowed to opt out of providing coverage for contraceptives. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/poll-americans-support-religious-exemption-for-hhs-mandate/

Planned Parenthood Helped Obama by Dropping Abortion for Women s Health
Why did pro-abortion President Barack Obama defeat pro-life candidate Mitt Romney even after compiling a pro-abortion record that is at odds with the views of most Americans on abortion and abortion funding?

The answer appears to be because the nation s biggest abortion business ran away from the issue of abortion during the election spending millions of dollars to focus voters attention on the issue of women s health even though Romney didn t oppose legitimate women s health funding. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/planned-parenthood-helped-obama-by-dropping-abortion-for-womens-health/

Democrats Reward Committee Slot Based on Who s More Pro-Abortion
Democrats in Congress have selected one lawmakers to head up their side on an important committee based on one criteria who is more pro-abortion.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who has cast a some pro-life votes but takes a pro-abortion position, is the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee and would normally be in line to take over as the ranking Democrat of the panel. However, House Democrats passed her over because of those votes and placed a more strongly pro-abortion member as its number one Democrat on the committee because she is solidly pro-abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/democrats-reward-committee-slot-based-on-whos-more-pro-abortion/

Limbaugh: Planned Parenthood Trying to Eliminate Black Families
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, during his program earlier this week, took the Planned Parenthood abortion business to task for its racial targeting of black Americans.

Limbaugh is correct in his analysis, as new research shows the abortion business targets blacks and Hispanics by putting 79% of its abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods. New research released by Protecting Black Life (an outreach of Life Issues Institute) reveals that 79% of Planned Parenthood s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of African American and/or Hispanic/Latino communities. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/limbaugh-planned-parenthood-about-the-elimination-of-black-families/

40 Years of Abortion Has Been Harmful for Women and Girls
At a prestigious media briefing on the impact of 40 years of extreme abortion policies on American culture, Americans United for Life Vice President of External Affairs and Corporate Counsel Jeanneane Maxon noted that the people most hurt by the radical abortion policies of the United States have been women and girls who have been told that they are inadequate to handle both work and family and must act like men to make it in a man s world.

The abortion industry has allowed women to be harmed physically, mentally and socially by telling them to deny their true potential and insisting they choose either work or family, because they ll never succeed at both. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/40-years-of-abortion-has-been-harmful-for-women-and-girls/

Pro-Abortion Blog Delighted Eric Holder is Attacking Pro-Lifers
A prominent pro-abortion blog is singing Attorney General Eric Holder s praises, both inaccurately and inappropriately: Reproductive Health Reality Check (also known as RH Reality Check).

The blog is authored by Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check, Senior Legal Analyst, who identifies herself online by the handle Hegemommy, and confesses, My feminism [is] not always on target, and my politics [are] not always appropriate. I sometimes behave badly. Pieklo s November 26 opinion piece on Holder confirms the blogger s self-admitted shortcoming. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/pro-abortion-blog-delighted-eric-holder-is-attacking-pro-lifers/

Pro-Life Group to Sing Christmas Carols at Abortion Clinics
A pro-life group plans to sing Christmas carols outside an abortion clinic in Los Angeles, California. The group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust hopes its 12th annual event will help mothers heading inside for an abortion change their mind.

Join Survivors in LA, as we bring the joy of Christ s birth to the many mothers considering abortion, the group said in a memo to its members. What could be more moving than the sounds of dozens of young voices, singing the peace of Christ, God with us, hidden away in Mary s womb? What could be more touching for the many hardened clinic workers, or the poor mothers who think their child is a burden, not a gift. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/pro-life-group-to-sing-christmas-carols-at-abortion-clinics/

Unborn Babies: Humans With Potential, Not Potential Humans
My first question to the pro-abortion folks is, Just what is it that is conceived? . http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/unborn-babies-humans-with-potential-not-potential-humans/

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Canadian MP: Parliament Must Denounce Sex-Selection Abortions
A Canadian MP is pushing parliament to denounce sex-selection abortions at a time when studies show women are using ultrasounds to determine the sex of unborn children for the purposes of sex-selection abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/canadian-mp-parliament-must-denounce-sex-selection-abortions/

Lawmaker Says Govt Should Guarantee Pleasurable Sex for Women
As debate intensified over amendments to the RH Bill in the Philippines Tuesday, the principle sponsor of the bill in the Senate, Senator Pia Cayetano, said that the government has a role in ensuring pleasurable sex for women, and led an effort to strike down an amendment deleting such language from the bill. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/lawmaker-says-govt-should-guarantee-pleasurable-sex-for-women/

Is ACOG Trying to Put Pro-Life Doctors Out of Business?
Irish Need Not Apply read many storefront signs in the United States during the 19th century. Today, almost everyone disapproves of racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination. Yet important segments of our society support a different sort of discrimination which prevents conscientious objectors to abortion, including Catholics, from participating on an equal footing in the field of medicine. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/is-acog-trying-to-put-pro-life-doctors-out-of-business/

American Nurses Association Should Not Support Assisted Suicide
The National Association of Pro-life Nurses (NAPN) has responded to ANA s call for public comments on their proposed document Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. . http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/american-nurses-association-should-not-support-assisted-suicide/

Appeals Court to Hear Battle Over Law Silencing Pregnancy Centers
An Alliance Defending Freedom attorney will be presenting the case in court against a Maryland county s law designed to silence pregnancy centers. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/appeals-court-to-hear-battle-over-law-silencing-pregnancy-centers/

Patients Sedated to Death Without Permission in the UK
Patients are not individuals in centralized healthcare systems. Rather, they become members of checklist categories on bureaucratic check lists. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/patients-sedated-to-death-without-permission-in-the-uk/

Dissent Against Humanae Vitae Lacks Charity and Truth
Today we continue our reflections on how as people of true Christian hope we must have the courage to look honestly at the root of the corruption that we see around us and try to understand it so that we may respond accordingly. We must unite in charity and in truth, rather than in niceness and utility. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/05/dissent-against-humanae-vitae-lacks-charity-and-truth/

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