Thursday, September 5, 2013

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

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Top Stories
• Pro-Life Group Takes Battle to Overturn HHS Mandate to the Supreme Court
• Doctors Tell Mom to Abort “Brain Dead” Baby, Mom Sues After Delivering Healthy Child
• NAACP Fights for Abortion in North Carolina, Defends Planned Parenthood
Chinese Government Collected $2 Billion in One-Child Policy Fines in 2012

More Pro-Life News

• Abandoned Newborn Baby Found Alive in a Trash Bag, Umbilical Cord Still Attached
• 336 Million Abortions Have Taken Place in China Under the One-Child Policy
• ObamaCare Takes Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz to a Whole New Level

• The Latest Pop Culture Defense of Abortion: Everybody’s Doing It

• Liberal Writer Proves Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Need Taxpayer Funding
• Top Scientists, Doctors Confirm Unborn Children Feel Pain
• “The Bet:” A Book That Eviscerates the “Population Bomb” Overpopulation Myth
• Pro-Life Groups Upset UK Docs Doing Illegal Sex-Selection Abortions Won’t be Charged

• Washington Post Falsely Claims Ken Cuccinelli Wants to Ban Birth Control
• Mercy or Murder: A Case Against Assisted Suicide

• New Jersey, Vermont Preparing for Major Battles on Assisted Suicide
• Canadian Pro-Life Group Urges Day of Prayer to Oppose Euthanasia Bill
• Members of Finland’s Parliament Hear Pro-Life Message Against Abortion



Pro-Life Group Takes Battle to Overturn HHS Mandate to the Supreme Court
A pro-life legal group today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision in a case seeking to overturn the pro-abortion HHS mandate that is a part of the Obamacare law.

Liberty Counsel filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in its case for Liberty University against the abortion mandate. Liberty Counsel’s challenge to ObamaCare argues the contraception-abortifacient mandate forcing employers to provide free abortion-inducing drugs or devices violates the Federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion Clause. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/pro-life-group-takes-battle-to-overturn-hhs-mandate-to-the-supreme-court/
Doctors Tell Mom to Abort “Brain Dead” Baby, Mom Sues After Delivering Healthy Child
A mother in England is filing suit against a hospital where doctors told her she should have an abortion of her supposedly “brain dead” unborn baby. Sarah Hagan is now suing City Hospitals Sunderland after giving birth to a healthy child.

Hagan says that, after a 24-week ultrasound scan of her unborn baby, doctors told her that her son Aaron was “brain dead,” had just one eye and no chance of survival. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/doctors-tell-mom-to-abort-brain-dead-baby-mom-sues-after-delivering-healthy-child/
NAACP Fights for Abortion in North Carolina, Defends Planned Parenthood
It’s easier to ignore an epidemic if you pretend it doesn’t exist. Human history is full of examples of people looking away as atrocities were carried out all around them. One of the most invisible injustices today is abortion. We don’t see the carnage on violence-soaked TV.
We don’t see the mutilated bodies on local newscasts that regularly swoop in like vultures at any sign of blood. We don’t see the obvious aftermath that a culture of abortion and abandonment has inflicted on our most vulnerable communities. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/naacp-fights-for-abortion-in-north-carolina-defends-planned-parenthood/
Chinese Government Collected $2 Billion in One-Child Policy Fines in 2012
Fifteen provinces in China collected a total of $2 billion (12.8 billion Chinese yuan) in fines last year for violations of the One-Child Policy, according to a study by 21st Century Business Herald, as reported by state-controlled outlet China Daily.

China contains a total of 23 provinces, 4 municipality-provinces and 5 autonomous regions, so the total number of fines collected by the Ministry of Health and Family Planning is likely to have collected far more than the reported $2 billion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/chinese-government-collected-2-billion-in-one-child-policy-fines-in-2012/


Abandoned Newborn Baby Found Alive in a Trash Bag, Umbilical Cord Still Attached
Teenagers playing outside an apartment complex made a horrifying discovery: they found a newborn child still alive abandoned in a trash can. The infant is lucky to be alive and is now receiving medical care as authorities search for answers.

A local news report has more information: Police were dispatched to a 5-story apartment building on Kensington Avenue around 3 p.m. to a report of an abandoned baby boy who was found in a garbage container, Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino said. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/abandoned-newborn-baby-found-alive-in-a-trash-bag-umbilical-cord-still-attached/
336 Million Abortions Have Taken Place in China Under the One-Child Policy
With its announcement of possible reforms, China has implicitly admitted its forty year-old one child per-family policy has been a failure.
The rules led to draconian abuses. There were an estimated 336 million abortions, including forced abortions and sterilizations at the hands of a powerful and intrusive family planning establishment controlling the most intimate aspects of Chinese life. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/336-million-abortions-have-taken-place-in-china-under-the-one-child-policy/

ObamaCare Takes Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz to a Whole New Level
President Obama’s health care law, ObamaCare, takes the federal government’s relationship with Planned Parenthood to a whole new level. On August 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana, and New Hampshire will be funded to serve as ObamaCare “Navigators.” Their combined funding will total over $655,000.
By choosing these Planned Parenthood affiliates to be Navigators in the federally facilitated Exchanges, these Planned Parenthood affiliates will now have the seal of approval of the federal government as an entity that consumers can contact for help in applying for coverage. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/obamacare-takes-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-to-a-whole-new-level/
The Latest Pop Culture Defense of Abortion: Everybody’s Doing It
By now, you’ve all heard about Udonis Haslem and Faith Rein’s wedding announcement in the New York Times, which included the fact that they’d had an abortion many years ago. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/the-latest-pop-culture-defense-of-abortion-everybodys-doing-it/


Liberal Writer Proves Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Need Taxpayer Funding
She probably doesn’t realize it, but Michelle Goldberg just proved conservatives’ point about Planned Parenthood: Donors from the private sector are more than capable to finance the abortion-providing non-profit group. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/liberal-writer-proves-planned-parenthood-doesnt-need-taxpayer-funding/

Top Scientists, Doctors Confirm Unborn Children Feel Pain
Over the past decade NRL News and NRL News Today have collectively carried dozens and dozens and DOZENS of articles about the topic of the capacity of the unborn child to feel pain. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/top-scientists-doctors-confirm-unborn-children-feel-pain/

“The Bet:” A Book That Eviscerates the “Population Bomb” Overpopulation Myth
I mentioned in passing on Tuesday that I had read a book review in the Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition that was exquisitely written—and that although the book’s subject matter begins in the 1960s, its message is (unfortunately) very relevant today. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/the-bet-a-book-that-eviscerates-the-population-bomb-overpopulation-myth/
Pro-Life Groups Upset UK Docs Doing Illegal Sex-Selection Abortions Won’t be Charged
British doctors found to be doing illegal sex-selection abortions will not face criminal charges and that is not going over well with pro-life groups in the United Kingdom. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/pro-life-groups-upset-uk-docs-doing-illegal-sex-selection-abortions-wont-be-charged/
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Washington Post Falsely Claims Ken Cuccinelli Wants to Ban Birth Control
The liberal Washington Post newspaper is out with a new attack on pro-life Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/washington-post-falsely-claims-ken-cuccinelli-wants-to-ban-birth-control/
Mercy or Murder: A Case Against Assisted Suicide
A Kentucky man is now facing murder charges after he admitted to shooting his wife in what he claims was “mercy killing.” His wife was fighting an aggressive battle with breast cancer and she reportedly suffered from immense pain. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/mercy-or-murder-a-case-against-assisted-suicide/
New Jersey, Vermont Preparing for Major Battles on Assisted Suicide
Although assisting suicide is only legal for a small fraction of the world’s population, advocates remain focused on promoting this dangerous legislation. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/euthanasia-activists-pushing-assisted-suicide-in-new-jersey-vermont/
Canadian Pro-Life Group Urges Day of Prayer to Oppose Euthanasia Bill
When the Quebec National Assembly opens this fall, one of the most important issues it will be voting on is Bill 52, a bill to legalize euthanasia. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/canadian-pro-life-group-urges-day-of-prayer-to-oppose-euthanasia-bill/
Members of Finland’s Parliament Hear Pro-Life Message Against Abortion
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach Director Scott Fischbach and Finland’s Interior Minister Dr. Paivi Rasanen met today in the Finnish Parliament House. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/05/members-of-finlands-parliament-hear-pro-life-message-against-abortion/

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