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.

Friday, January 25, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 1/25/13

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Friday, January 25, 2013

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Top Stories
• Hundreds of Thousands Gather for Record-Breaking March for Life
• Speaker Boehner Tells March for Life: We Will Stop Abortion Funding
• Chris Smith at March for Life: Abortion s Legacy is 55 Million Dead
• Pope Benedict Tweets Support for Pro-Life March for Life

More Pro-Life News
• New Bill Stops Taking Teen Girls Out of State for Secret Abortions
• Networks Censor Word Life From March for Life Coverage
• March for Life Proves the Next Generation Pro-Life on Abortion
• Republicans Re-Elect Pro-Life Reince Priebus as National Chair
• Catholic Family s Produce Business Sues Obama Admin Over HHS Mandate
• Record Number of Students From Catholic Colleges Head to March for Life
• Activists Make Plans to Push Abortion at the United Nations
• Man Stabs Girlfriend 53 Times After She Refuses Abortion
• Duggar Family Launches New Web Site to Promote Pro-Life Agenda
• Couples Are Postponing Childbirth and Suffering the Consequences
• Hungary and Poland Can Teach U.S. About Life After Roe v. Wade

Hundreds of Thousands Gather for Record-Breaking March for Life
More than 500,000 people are attending today s March for Life in a massive attendance that could be well higher than that estimate and set records for the annual pro-life event challenging the mantra of unlimited abortion.

Typically held on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions at any point in pregnancy for any reason, the march for Life typically sees anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 people lining the streets towards the Supreme Court building. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/hundreds-of-thousands-gather-for-record-breaking-march-for-life/

Speaker Boehner Tells March for Life: We Will Stop Abortion Funding
Speaker of the House John Boehner, a pro-life congressman from Ohio, released the address to LifeNews that will be played at the March for Life today.

During the speech, Boehner says the House will approve a bill to make the Hyde Amendment banning taxpayer funding of abortions permanent. Currently, the provisions of the pro-life law stopping abortion funding must be renewed every year and abortion advocates hope to stop it. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/speaker-boehner-tells-march-for-life-we-will-stop-abortion-funding/

Chris Smith at March for Life: Abortion s Legacy is 55 Million Dead
The following are remarks from pro-life Congressman Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, to the March for Life rally.

Forty years ago this past Tuesday marks the U.S. Supreme Court s infamous, reckless and inhumane abandonment of women and babies to abortionists. Forty years of victims dead babies, wounded women, shattered families. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/chris-smith-at-march-for-life-abortions-legacy-is-55-million-dead/

Pope Benedict Tweets Support for Pro-Life March for Life
Pope Benedict XVI this morning encouraged the hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates attending the March for Life by taking to Twitter to announce his support for the pro-life event.

The Pope pledged his support for the March for Life in the United States using his @pontifex Twitter handle. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/pope-benedict-tweets-support-for-pro-life-march-for-life/

New Bill Stops Taking Teen Girls Out of State for Secret Abortions
A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would stop the practice of adults other than a teenage girl s parents from taking her to another state for an abortion.

With abortion clinics arranging for other relatives or adults the clinic assigns to escort an underage girl for a secret abortion in another state without her parents knowing the new legislation from Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, would ban the practice. Teens are often whisked away to abortion clinics located in urban areas that also reach into suburbs across a state line. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/new-bill-stops-taking-teen-girls-out-of-state-for-secret-abortions/

Networks Censor Word Life From March for Life Coverage
Thinking of learning a new language? Try English broadcast media style. Specifically, try abortion-reporting speak a tongue as notable for the words it doesn t use as those it does.

This year s annual March for Life, this Friday, Jan. 25th, marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. And, though you might think it would be difficult to talk about something called the March for Life without using the word life, the broadcast networks have shown the utility of abortion-reporting speak. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/networks-censor-word-life-from-march-for-life-coverage/

March for Life Proves the Next Generation Pro-Life on Abortion
January 22, 2013 was the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, which made abortion legal throughout all 9 months of pregnancy. As we mark the rulings that have killed more than 55 million pre-born babies, it is important for us to show the world that this generation in America is pro-life. The pro-life movement has made great strides over the past few decades. So much so that even the liberal magazine Time has recognized it with their recent cover story, 40 Years Ago, Abortion-rights Activists Won an Epic Victory with Roe v. Wade. They ve Been Losing Ever Since. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/2 5/march-for-life-proves-the-next-generation-pro-life-on-abortion/

Republicans Re-Elect Pro-Life Reince Priebus as National Chair
Republicans on Friday re-elected pro-life RNC chairman Reince Priebus to another term as the national chairman of the GOP. Although Republican candidate Mitt Romney lost the presidential election in November, Priebus was credited with bringing the party back from financial ruin and making it much more competitive. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/republicans-re-elect-pro-life-reince-priebus-as-national-chair/

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Catholic Family s Produce Business Sues Obama Admin Over HHS Mandate
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a pro-life legal organization that focuses on constitutional law, today filed its fourth direct challenge to the mandate of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the basis that the mandate violates the religious beliefs of business owners. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/catholic-familys-produce-business-sues-obama-admin-over-hhs-mandate/

Record Number of Students From Catholic Colleges Head to March for Life
On tomorrow s 40th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade ruling, participation by several faithful Catholic colleges and universities in the Washington, D.C., March for Life is expected to reach an all-time high. Total student participation by schools featured in The Cardinal Newman Society s Newman Guide will surpass 2,000 this year. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/record-number-of-students-from-catholic-colleges-head-to-march-for-life/

Activists Make Plans to Push Abortion at the United Nations
Abortion advocates and others are concerned about the impending expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in two years. Some of them met last week to begin developing a manifesto to insert, among other things, universal coverage of abortion into the post-2015 development agenda. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/activists-make-plans-to-push-abortion-at-the-united-nations/

Man Stabs Girlfriend 53 Times After She Refuses Abortion
A Canadian man is on trial for killing his girlfriend in a brutal murder. Tamrat Gebere, an Ethiopian immigrant, admitted to killing Aster Kassa in July of 2010. Gebrere reportedly stabbed Kassa 53 times. He called the police and told them what he had done, as the couples one year old daughter cried in the background. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/man-stabs-girlfriend-53-times-after-she-refuses-abortion/

Duggar Family Launches New Web Site to Promote Pro-Life Agenda
Children are a blessing from the Lord is the heart cry of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of the popular TLC Channel series 19 kids and Counting. So much so that a family trip taken a couple of years ago made an unexpected yet profound impact on them. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/duggar-family-launches-new-web-site-to-promote-pro-life-agenda/

Couples Are Postponing Childbirth and Suffering the Consequences
In October, a son was born to an Indian man named Ramjeet Raghav and his wife, Shakuntala. This story made news around the world because Raghav claims to be 96, which would make him the oldest man living to have fathered a child. Lost in the questions about Raghav s age is the fact that his wife was 53 when their second child was born. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/24/couples-are-postponing-childbirth-and-suffering-the-consequences/

Between U.S. and Canada 65 Years of Unlimited Abortions
Abortion has been engrained in North American culture for decades. This week pro-choice advocates in the United States are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark, January 22, 1973 decision by the US Supreme Court. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/23/between-u-s-and-canada-65-years-of-unlimited-abortions/

Hungary and Poland Can Teach U.S. About Life After Roe v. Wade
No democratic nation has ever voted in the majority to legalize abortion as such. Not one. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/25/hungary-and-poland-can-teach-u-s-about-life-after-roe-v-wade/

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