Thursday, August 22, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/22/13




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Thursday, August 22, 2013

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Obamacare’s Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate Will be Headed to the Supreme Court
• Botched RU 486 Abortions Injure 42 Women in Ohio as Planned Parenthood Defies FDA
• Pro-Life People Unhappy Mark Ruffalo Backs Abortion, Defends Abortion of Sibling
Post-Abortive Mom: Abortion Will Bring About a Devastation You Never Knew Could Exist


More Pro-Life News

• Man Comes Back to Life After Doctors Prematurely Declare Him Dead
• Video: 15 and Pregnant: Why I Chose Adoption Instead of Abortion
• Video: Priest Assaulted and Sprayed With Hose by Abortion Advocate

• Washington: Catholic Hospitals May be Required to Perform Abortions

• United Nations Meeting in Latin America “Hijacked” by Abortion Proponents
• Indiana Planned Parenthood Sues to Get Out of Abortion Clinic Inspections
• If Mark Ruffalo Loves Abortion So Much, Why Doesn’t He Marry It
• Democratic Party of Slavery and Abortion Demeans MLK’s March on Washington
• Kentucky: Pro-Abortion Grimes Running Against Pro-Life Mitch McConnell

• RU 486 Abortions: When “Between a Woman and Her Doctor” Turns Out to be False
• Doctors Support Oklahoma Law Protecting Women From Dangerous Abortion Drug

• Rent-A-Womb Industry in India Continues to Exploit Women
• Biola University Apologizes for Prohibiting Pro-Life Student’s Abortion Sign


Obamacare’s Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate Will be Headed to the Supreme Court
It’s only a matter of time until the Supreme Court holds hearings on a lawsuit related to the Obamacare HHS mandate that compels religious groups and businesses to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs.

The mandate has been the subject of dozens of lawsuits and appeals and lower federal courts have already weighed in in many of the cases — with most of the plaintiffs winning their bids to halt the enforcement of the mandate against them. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/obamacares-pro-abortion-hhs-mandate-will-be-headed-to-the-supreme-court/
Botched RU 486 Abortions Injure 42 Women in Ohio as Planned Parenthood Defies FDA
Today, Ohio Right to Life urged Attorney General Mike DeWine to expedite the litigation against Planned Parenthood and its practice of off-label prescribing the abortion pill RU-486 (mifepristone) in Ohio. This request comes in light of 42 reports of failed uses of the drug in the state.

The Food and Drug Administration recommends that RU-486 (commonly referred to as a chemical abortion) be administered in two doses orally and in the presence of a physician. The FDA approved RU-486 only through 49 days of pregnancy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/botched-ru-486-abortions-injure-42-women-in-ohio-as-planned-parenthood-defies-fda/
Pro-Life People Unhappy Mark Ruffalo Backs Abortion, Defends Abortion of Sibling
Actor Mark Ruffalo has caused quite a stir with his defense of legalized abortion and his mother’s illegal abortion of his sibling.
That Ruffalo defended abortion was bad enough, but that he took up for his mother’s abortion of his sibling was beyond the pale for many pro-lifers. As LifeNews reported, Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America responded to Ruffalo and was shocked he seemingly cared so little that his brother or sister was a victim of abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/pro-life-people-unhappy-mark-ruffalo-backs-abortion-defends-abortion-of-sibling/
Post-Abortive Mom: Abortion Will Bring About a Devastation You Never Knew Could Exist
In her early twenties and just out of college Jill Marquis thought marriage seemed like the thing to do. But after a couple of years, she found herself feeling dejected. After beginning an affair, she soon discovered she was pregnant.

Jill Marquis leads a group of post-abortive women.“I wanted to get a divorce,” she says, “And in my twisted way of thinking, I could not be pregnant and get divorced. I was operating on fear and panic. […] I thought, I can’t go on with my life. I didn’t tell anybody. I didn’t tell my mother. I didn’t tell my sisters who I’m very close to. I knew I needed to live life my way.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/post-abortive-mom-abortion-will-bring-about-a-devastation-you-never-knew-could-exist/

Man Comes Back to Life After Doctors Prematurely Declare Him Dead
He wasn’t dead yet. An Ohio man came back to life less than an hour after doctors gave up attempting to revive him and just moments after his son, who was at the hospital, shouted that he wouldn’t die.

From ABC News: When 17-year-old Lawrence Yahle learned his father was dead earlier this month at Kettering Medical Center in Ohio, he ran down the hall to see nurses around his father’s body. They weren’t trying to revive him anymore. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/man-comes-back-to-life-after-doctors-prematurely-declare-him-dead/
Video: 15 and Pregnant: Why I Chose Adoption Instead of Abortion
The National Council for Adoption has released a new video series to promote adoption as an alternative, especially for teenagers who are not prepared to become parents.
“Adoption is a big decision. If you’re pregnant and unsure about your future, check out these real stories from birthmothers, adopted individuals, and adoptive parents,” the group says. “Sometimes choosing adoption is about being a good mother. Watch how one mother’s choice changed her child’s life for the better.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/video-15-and-pregnant-why-i-chose-adoption-instead-of-abortion/
Video: Priest Assaulted and Sprayed With Hose by Abortion Advocate
A pro-life priest was assaulted and sprayed with a garden hose by an abortion activist upset that he was showing graphic pictures of babies victimized by abortions.
Father Ron Meyer was the victim. He is the parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Cardiff, Ontario and the incident occurred on the last day of “Show the Truth” in Petersborough, Canada. Meyer was participating in a Show the Truth tour event sponsored by a Canadian group that uses graphic abortion images to spread the pro-life message. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/video-priest-assaulted-and-sprayed-with-hose-by-abortion-advocate/
Washington: Catholic Hospitals May be Required to Perform Abortions
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued an opinion yesterday saying that every public hospital in the state — which might include religiously-run hospitals like Catholic hospitals — must provide abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/washington-attorney-general-catholic-hospitals-must-provide-abortions/


United Nations Meeting in Latin America “Hijacked” by Abortion Proponents
The British-style phone booth labeled “Talk to God” appeared in a Plaza outside a UN meeting in Uruguay. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/united-nations-meeting-in-latin-america-hijacked-by-abortion-proponents/

Indiana Planned Parenthood Sues to Get Out of Abortion Clinic Inspections
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has filed a lawsuit to get out of inspections involving abortion clinics that only sell the abortion drug mifepristone rather than do surgical abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/indiana-planned-parenthood-sues-to-get-out-of-abortion-clinic-inspections/

If Mark Ruffalo Loves Abortion So Much, Why Doesn’t He Marry It
The other night I couldn’t sleep. I’m always a bit of an insomniac, but that night it was really bad. There was one thing going through my mind over and over, on a loop, a question I didn’t know the answer to, and it was driving me crazy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/if-mark-ruffalo-loves-abortion-so-much-why-doesnt-he-marry-it/
Democratic Party of Slavery and Abortion Demeans MLK’s March on Washington
A lot has changed in the 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite the rhetoric from many liberals mouths that “nothing has changed”, we have a president of mixed racial lineage in the White House. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/democratic-party-of-slavery-and-abortion-demeans-mlks-march-on-washington/
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Kentucky: Pro-Abortion Grimes Running Against Pro-Life Mitch McConnell
Pro-abortion Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is hoping to defeat pro-life Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Kentucky. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/kentucky-pro-abortion-grimes-running-against-pro-life-mitch-mcconnell/
RU 486 Abortions: When “Between a Woman and Her Doctor” Turns Out to be False
Specifically, the law is a Chemical abortion is the “cash cow” of the abortion industry. Contrary to pro-abortion claims that abortion should be between a woman and her physician, the reality is that there is little to no “physician-patient relationship” in the chemical abortion context. Women are given drugs and sent home to self-abort without any medical supervision. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/ru-486-abortions-when-between-a-woman-and-her-doctor-turns-out-to-be-false/
Doctors Support Oklahoma Law Protecting Women From Dangerous Abortion Drug
Alliance Defending Freedom and the Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Oklahoma Supreme Court Tuesday on behalf of doctors specializing in obstetrics and gynecology who support a state law pertaining to chemical abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/doctors-support-oklahoma-law-protecting-women-from-dangerous-abortion-drug/

Rent-A-Womb Industry in India Continues to Exploit Women
The rent-a-womb industry in India is an especially troubling form of biological colonialism. I write about it at some length in the Center for Bioethics and Culture newsletter. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/rent-a-womb-industry-in-india-continues-to-exploit-women/

Biola University Apologizes for Prohibiting Pro-Life Student’s Abortion Sign
The rent-a-womb industry in India is an especially troubling form of biological colonialism. I write about it at some length in the Center for Bioethics and Culture newsletter. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/22/biola-university-apologizes-for-prohibiting-pro-life-students-abortion-sign/

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