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.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 4/21/13

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

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• Obama s Position on Infants Born Alive Mirrors Kermit Gosnell s
• Planned Parenthood Knew of Kermit Gosnell s Abortion Horrors
• Abortion Backers Hope No Media Coverage Will Make Gosnell Go Away
• If Society Can t See Gosnell s Horrors as Repugnant, Morality is Dead

More Pro-Life News
• Obama Admin Allows Company to Use Aborted Baby Cells for Research
• Honor the Babies Gosnell Butchered by Working to End Abortion
• Kermit Gosnell s Horrors Prove Legalizing Abortion Didn t Make it Safe
• Pennsylvania Officials Knew of Gosnell Abortion Horrors, Did Nothing
• Babies Born Alive After Abortions: First-Hand Accounts
• New iPhone App iIncarnate Shows Magnificence of Unborn Babies
• Gosnell Comics Blame Pro-Lifers for Abortions, Media for No Coverage
• Planned Parenthood Opens New Texas Abortion Referral Center
• Ireland: Pro-Life Group Criticizes Parties on Abortion-Suicide
• We Must Help Stop Child Malnutrition Before and After Birth
• Pro-Abortion Fallacy of the Day: Frozen Embryos in a Burning Building
• Why The Pregnancy From a Woman s Uterus Transplant Causes Concern

Obama s Position on Infants Born Alive Mirrors Kermit Gosnell s
This past week, after the U.S. Senate failed to pass the bill on universal background checks for gun purchases, President Obama gave a speech in the Rose Garden. Reports have claimed that he was angry, that he lashed out, and that the loss was an emotional blow to the president.

Indeed, President Obama has spent many hours for months campaigning for gun restrictions. And it seems that sensible people could reach a compromise to protect the innocent among us, while still preserving our constitutional rights.http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/obamas-position-on-infants-born-alive-mirrors-kermit-gosnells/

Planned Parenthood Knew of Kermit Gosnell s Abortion Horrors
Planned Parenthood has already been connected to Kermit Gosnell in one way via a grisly abortion experiment he conducted on women back in the 1970s.

But Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania president and CEO Dayle Steinberg admitted this week at a fundraiser that the abortion business knew of the problems at Gosnell s Philadelphia abortion facility. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/planned-parenthood-knew-of-kermit-gosnells-abortion-horrors/

Abortion Backers Hope No Media Coverage Will Make Gosnell Go Away
If you are the usual run-of-the-mill pro-abortion apologist, you are counting on media indifference, a cloud of smoke, and time to dull the impact of the sensational murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. After all, if the trial is very much under-covered and the edge is take off by fobbing the blame off on pro-lifers [!], then given enough time, it will all go away or so they hope.

There are a couple of problems with that optimistic assessment. For starters, there are so many incredibly violent to the point of nausea statement from the Grand Jury s report that a considerable number of people will hear references to at least one or two. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/abortion-backers-hope-no-media-coverage-will-make-gosnell-go-away/

If Society Can t See Gosnell s Horrors as Repugnant, Morality is Dead
One of the perks of what I do is becoming friends with some of the great thinkers of our time, and one of those is Leon Kass.

Kass is the reigning intellectual champion for upholding intrinsic human dignity. He also served splendidly for about six years as the chairman of the President s Council on Bioethics receiving undeserved brickbats from the bioethical Left despite, or perhaps better stated, because of the Council s incredibly good analytical work about the vexing bioethical issues of our time, including cloning, the definition of death, and the transhumanist impulse, among other issues. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/if-society-cant-see-gosnells-horrors-as-repugnant-morality-is-dead/

Obama Admin Allows Company to Use Aborted Baby Cells for Research
Michigan is in the national news because of a disturbing development in human fetal stem cell experimentation.

Neuralstem, Inc. announced that it has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to expand an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig s disease) Phase II study to the University of Michigan. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/obama-admin-allows-company-to-use-aborted-baby-cells-for-research/

Honor the Babies Gosnell Butchered by Working to End Abortion
Abortion champion Andrew Rosenthal, who happens to be editorial page editor of what historically has been the nation s flagship daily, The New York Times, has written a peevish, how dare you question the Great Oz -type op-ed defending his paper s insubstantial coverage of the Kermit Gosnell trial.

About his piece is the air of a young child, his hand stuck firmly in the cookie jar, who rather than regretting his error is infuriated at being caught. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/honor-the-babies-gosnell-butchered-by-working-to-end-abortion/

Kermit Gosnell s Horrors Prove Legalizing Abortion Didn t Make it Safe
A couple weeks ago, I published a blog post discussing the reality of back-alley abortions 40 years after the legalization of abortion.

The fact that abortion clinics are allowed to operate virtually unregulated in most states (either as a result of a lack of regulations or lack of enforcement) puts the health and lives of Americans in danger. In light of their demands that abortion be legalized for safety reasons, it is the ultimate form of hypocrisy that abortion advocates refuse to support regulations that would make facilities safer for women. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/kermit-gosnells-horrors-prove-legalizing-abortion-didnt-make-it-safe/

Pennsylvania Officials Knew of Gosnell Abortion Horrors, Did Nothing
Everyone in the country wants to know how it is that Kermit Gosnell was able to practice under such abhorrent conditions without anyone noticing. Pro-aborts blame pro-lifers. There have also been a lot of questions about how Gosnell was able to practice for 17 years without being inspected. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/pennsylvania-officials-knew-of-gosnell-abortion-horrors-did-nothing/

Babies Born Alive After Abortions: First-Hand Accounts
On April 12, Live Action posted an article on nurses in neonatal care units who were forced to stand helplessly by and watch while babies born alive after abortions died without medical care. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/babies-born-alive-after-abortions-first-hand-accounts/

New iPhone App iIncarnate Shows Magnificence of Unborn Babies
Apps and programs that track fetal development are popular among pregnant women. Many enjoy being able to visualize and understand what is going on in the secrecy of their wombs during their children s gestational periods. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/new-iphone-app-iincarnate-shows-magnificence-of-unborn-babies/

Gosnell Comics Blame Pro-Lifers for Abortions, Media for No Coverage
It is hard to imagine how the Kermit Gosnell late-term abortion and infanticide horrors could be turned into a comic strip, but two cartoonists have done just that. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/gosnell-comics-blame-pro-lifers-for-abortions-media-for-no-coverage/

Planned Parenthood Opens New Texas Abortion Referral Center
Planned Parenthood perhaps now accustomed to Texas fierce efforts against their bloody business crept under the public radar and made arrangements to open up shop in a new location in the Greater Houston area. On Monday, April 22, the organization is slated to open up a new office that will give abortion referrals and provide birth control pills and emergency contraception (aka the morning after pill ) to Houston-area women. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/planned-parenthood-opens-new-texas-abortion-referral-center/

Ireland: Pro-Life Group Criticizes Parties on Abortion-Suicide
The Pro Life Campaign has strongly criticized both parties in Government for engaging in face-saving wrangling on the abortion issue. This is in response to newspaper reports today about the number of doctors that would sit on the panel to adjudicate on when an abortion can be carried out on grounds of threatened suicide. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/ireland-pro-life-group-criticizes-parties-on-abortion-suicide/

We Must Help Stop Child Malnutrition Before and After Birth
World attention is increasingly focused on the most critical period in the life experienced by everyone on earth-the first 1,000 days of life from conception to the second birthday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/we-must-help-stop-child-malnutrition-before-and-after-birth/

Pro-Abortion Fallacy of the Day: Frozen Embryos in a Burning Building
Argue with enough pro-aborts, and you ll get the distinct impression that (ideologically, at least) they lead fairly sheltered lives. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/pro-abortion-fallacy-of-the-day-frozen-embryos-in-a-burning-building/

Why The Pregnancy From a Woman s Uterus Transplant Causes Concern
Part of being a blogger is learning that people, even ones on your side, will misread, misunderstand, and misrepresent what you are saying. Being human, many of us only read headlines, or skim through a piece missing the major points, or infer things that simply are not implied. Knowing this, I try not to let reactions to my posts get under my skin. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/21/why-the-pregnancy-from-a-womans-uterus-transplant-causes-concern/

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