Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Top Stories
• Doctors Operate on 25-Week-Old Unborn Baby’s Heart After Practicing on a Grape
• “Pro-Choice” Medical Student Witnesses Abortion, Becomes Pro-Life
Death Panels in Action: Hospitals Suffer Massive Layoffs Thanks to Obamacare
• Auburn University Homecoming Queen’s Mom Was Raped, But Spared Her From Abortion

More Pro-Life News

• Campaign to Fire Katheleen Sebelius Intensifies as Obamacare Unravels
• Abortion Clinic Worker Quits: “No Two Week Notice,” “I’ll Never Set Foot in There Again”
Five Questions Planned Parenthood Refuses to Answer on Sex-Selection Abortions
• Botched Abortions Injure Women in California, Missouri; Both Rushed to Hospital
• 17,983 Abortions of Disabled, Down Syndrome Babies in UK, Parents Face Psychological Fallout
• She Wanted Her Baby But Her Mother Forced Her to Have an Abortion
• Member of Parliament: Police Did Nothing As Abortion Activists Violently Assaulted Us

• Powerful Video Shows Terrible Consequences of Abortion on Demand in Ireland
• Debating Abortion: Should You Use Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion?
• Several Thousand Line the Streets for Poland March for Life

• Ireland: Politician Told Not to Help With Communion After Voting for Abortion Bill
• What if There Were 1,000 Fewer Abortions in Your City? That Happened in Jacksonville, Florida

• EU Petition to Stop Funding of Killing Embryos Gets 1.3 Million Signatures
Abortion Activists Mock 40 Days for Life With Sacrilegious Prayers, Fake Website
• Abortion Clinic Fundraising Off Of Pro-Lifers Praying to End Abortion




Doctors Operate on 25-Week-Old Unborn Baby’s Heart After Practicing on a Grape
A team of doctors at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center successfully widened a tiny aortic valve using a hair-fine wire, an 11-centimeter needle a tiny balloon and catheter. The baby in question would otherwise have been born with a life-threatening condition.

The unborn baby’s heart was developing with one valve too narrow, a condition known as severe aortic stenosis. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/14/abortion-activists-violently-assault-pro-lifers-in-mob-at-australia-march-for-life/
“Pro-Choice” Medical Student Witnesses Abortion, Becomes Pro-Life
Some time ago, I was sent this testimony from a medical student who preferred not to leave a name. He had just witnessed an abortion as part of his training. Deeply troubled, he wanted to tell someone. He was haunted by what he had seen.

The student starts out by saying that he was firmly in the pro-choice camp before witnessing the abortion: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/pro-choice-medical-student-witnesses-abortion-becomes-pro-life/
Death Panels in Action: Hospitals Suffer Massive Layoffs Thanks to Obamacare
Doctor shortages, medical-school dropouts, skyrocketing premiums, no money for pre-existing conditions, trillions more than promised, forced taxpayer funding of abortion, critical health-care rationing and a bankrupt nation — those were some of the dire predictions of those who opposed Obamacare.
Now that the government-run health care system is here, many of those are coming to pass — including doctor shortages. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/death-panels-in-action-hospitals-suffer-massive-layoffs-thanks-to-obamacare/
Auburn University Homecoming Queen’s Mom Was Raped, But Spared Her From Abortion
Auburn University selected its 100th Miss Homecoming in Molly Anne Dutton this weekend but she almost didn’t win — not because she isn’t an attractive or capable college student but because her mother was raped and she could have been a victim of abortion.

Dutton’s mother, after she was victimized by sexual assault, was given an ultimatum from her husband — have an abortion or face divorce. She chose to keep the baby, leading to a “ridiculously inspirational life story” that many media outlets are noting this week about Dutton. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/auburn-university-homecoming-queens-mom-was-raped-but-spared-her-from-abortion/

Campaign to Fire Katheleen Sebelius Intensifies as Obamacare Unravels
With Obamacare leading to taxpayer funding of abortions, massive layoffs at hospitals and medical centers and a botched system few seem to be able to sign up on, calls to fire pro-abortion HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are growing.

“Senate Republicans are already calling for Kathleen Sebelius to resign her post. And these voices of public disapproval will only grow louder in the days ahead, I can assure you,” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/campaign-to-fire-katheleen-sebelius-intensifies-as-obamacare-unravels/
Abortion Clinic Worker Quits: “No Two Week Notice,” “I’ll Never Set Foot in There Again”
We got this message from woman who is now part of our ministry: “I quit this morning. Effective immediately…no two week stuff. I’m done. Never to step foot in there again.”
You have helped us make this happen. In fact, 84 workers have come through our ministry, thanks to all of you and your support! Below are some of the updates from our ministry!

Five Questions Planned Parenthood Refuses to Answer on Sex-Selection Abortions
One month ago my wife and I did something that would be illegal in some parts of the world. We had our third child and for the third time we had a girl. It was one of the most joy-filled moments of our lives but for millions of parents having even a second or sometimes first daughter is an impossibility.

In China, India, and other parts of the world girls are unwanted. They are viewed as having no value to the government and little value in society or even to their own families, and the result has been widespread gendercide, the systematic and deliberate destruction of girls typically through abortion though sometimes through infanticide.http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/five-questions-planned-parenthood-refuses-to-answer-on-sex-selection-abortions/
Botched Abortions Injure Women in California, Missouri; Both Rushed to Hospital
Ambulances were photographed at abortion clinics in St. Louis, Missouri, and Montclair, California, on Friday October 11, 2013, by quick-thinking pro-life supporters. These incidents reinforce the safety crisis that exists at abortion clinics across America. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/botched-abortions-injure-women-in-california-missouri-both-rushed-to-hospital/
17,983 Abortions of Disabled, Down Syndrome Babies in UK, Parents Face Psychological Fallout
The belief that parents and families will be damaged by having a disabled child, and that this damage can be limited through abortion, is almost unquestioned today. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/17983-abortions-of-disabled-down-syndrome-babies-in-uk-parents-face-psychological-fallout/

She Wanted Her Baby But Her Mother Forced Her to Have an Abortion
I will never forget a young woman I will refer to as “Erin.” She walked up to the abortion facility, then fell down on her knees in fervent prayer. She later told me that someone she knew had been hurt inside. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/she-wanted-her-baby-but-her-mother-forced-her-to-have-an-abortion/

Member of Parliament: Police Did Nothing As Abortion Activists Violently Assaulted Us
A Liberal MP from Australia who was one of the victims of a pro-abortion mob that assaulted pro-life advocates at the March for Babies over the weekend says police stood by and did nothing as they were victimized. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/member-of-parliament-police-did-nothing-as-abortion-activists-violently-assaulted-us/
Powerful Video Shows Terrible Consequences of Abortion on Demand in Ireland
The Pro Life Campaign’s National Conference took place last Saturday. Over 600 members of the Pro Life Campaign attended the conference along with two Oireachtas Members who lost the party whip for voting against the abortion legislation. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/powerful-video-shows-terrible-consequences-of-abortion-on-demand-in-ireland/
Debating Abortion: Should You Use Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion?
Steve Wagner from Justice For All joins Gabi Vehrs and me for a two-episode discussion about common terms and labels used in the abortion debate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/debating-abortion-should-you-use-pro-choice-or-pro-abortion/
Several Thousand Line the Streets for Poland March for Life
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 in Gdansk, Poland, birthplace of Poland’s famous “Solidarity” union, several thousand people gathered for the fourth March for Life and Family. Poland March for Life 2013-1Each year the march is co-organized by Human Life International Poland. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/several-thousand-line-the-streets-for-poland-march-for-life/
Ireland: Politician Told Not to Help With Communion After Voting for Abortion Bill
When members of the Dáil voted earlier this year to legalize abortions for the first time for women who claim the need an abortion because they are considering suicide. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/ireland-politician-told-not-to-help-with-communion-after-voting-for-abortion-bill/
What if There Were 1,000 Fewer Abortions in Your City? That Happened in Jacksonville, Florida
The second half of this 40 Days for Life campaign starts today. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/what-if-there-were-1000-fewer-abortions-in-your-city-that-happened-in-jacksonville-florida/
EU Petition to Stop Funding of Killing Embryos Gets 1.3 Million Signatures
There are still more than two weeks to go, but the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” has already collected 1.3 million signatures, which places it comfortably above the 1-million-signatures threshold that decides on success or failure of such petitions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/eu-petition-to-stop-funding-of-killing-embryos-gets-1-3-million-signatures/
Abortion Activists Mock 40 Days for Life With Sacrilegious Prayers, Fake Website
Imitation continues to the be the sincerest form of flattery. Unable to cope with the positive effects of the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign — the closing of abortion centers, conversion of abortion clinic staff to the pro-life perspective, and reduction in abortions — they’re using sacrilegious prayers and fake websites to mock the campaign. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/abortion-activists-mock-40-days-for-life-with-sacrilegious-prayers-fake-website/
Abortion Clinic Fundraising Off Of Pro-Lifers Praying to End Abortion
It is not unheard of to symbolically “adopt” something to raise money. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/15/abortion-clinic-fundraising-off-of-pro-lifers-praying-to-end-abortion/

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