Wednesday, November 27, 2013

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

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Top Stories
• Abortions Decline 3 Percent Nationally as Abortion Clinics Keep Closing
• Doc Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion Injures Another Woman
Belgium: Senate Panel Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children
• Unilever’s Blockbuster Pro-Life Ad: Why Bring A Child Into This World?

More Pro-Life News

• “How to Fight a Baby:” The Precious Video That’s Gone Viral
• Cosmopolitan Magazine Pushes for Abortions on Disabled Babies

• Condoms Handed Out as Prizes at Tax-Funded Event to Promote Obamacare
• Sandra Fluke: Birth Control is Just Like a Blood Transfusion
• Give Thanks for Pro-Life Victories on Abortion this Year
• Hobby Lobby’s HHS Mandate Battle is a Fight for Religious Freedom

• Pro-Abortion Wisconsin Legislator Proposes “Support Planned Parenthood” License Plates
• Chinese Lawmaker Wants Government to Give College Girls Free Abortions
• CNN Dismisses Hobby Lobby Case as “Distraction” From Fixing Obamacare
Top Activists For and Against Euthanasia Square Off in Debate
• Planned Parenthood Tries to Make Money Off News Morning-After Pill Ineffective for Heavier Women

• December 3 is “Giving Tuesday,” Pro-Lifers Need to Give to Stop Abortion


Abortions Decline 3 Percent Nationally as Abortion Clinics Keep Closing
As more and more abortion clinics continue to close nationwide, the number of abortions nationally continues to decline. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its latest national abortion statistics today and found the number and rate of reported abortions fell 3 percent in 2010, the most recent year for which the CDC has statistics.

The three percent decline in 2010 follows on the heels of a five percent decline in 2009. The CDC reported 753,000 abortions in 2010, but that includes just 45 states and the best national estimate is about 1.2 million abortions taking place annually. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/abortions-decline-3-percent-nationally-as-abortion-clinics-keep-closing/
Doc Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion Injures Another Woman
For the third time this year, one of LeRoy Carhart’s abortion patients were rushed to Shady Grove Hospital (SGH) in Maryland for emergency treatment after a late-term abortion.

On Tuesday at 11:45 a.m., an ambulance arrived at Germantown Reproductive Health Services and loaded a women for transport to the SGH emergency room. Sources inform Operation Rescue that the women underwent emergency surgery at the hospital. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/doc-who-killed-woman-in-botched-abortion-injures-another-woman-in-failed-abortion/
Belgium: Senate Panel Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children
A Belgian Senate committee voted today to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further.
The Belgian Senate committee voted 13-4 to allow minors to seek euthanasia under certain conditions and the measure also would extend the right to request euthanasia to adults with dementia. The bill still has legislative votes to clear before it becomes law and it now heads to the Senate , where it will be debated in a plenary meeting by all senators. There is still a chance to stop the bill in that chamber but, if approved, it goes to the House of Representatives. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/belgium-senate-panel-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/
Unilever’s Blockbuster Pro-Life Ad: Why Bring A Child Into This World?
Every so often a big company makes an ad that drives home the pro-life message or, at minimum, fosters a respect for life. That’s the case with industrial giant Unilever, which made a a new film encouraging expectant parents to bring their children into the world.

Calling the film the “most hopeful secular production I’ve seen in decades,” pro-life blogger and scientist Gerard Nadal has this to say. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/unilevers-blockbuster-pro-life-ad-why-bring-a-child-into-this-world/

“How to Fight a Baby:” The Precious Video That’s Gone Viral
Fighting a baby? Doesn’t that seem opposite to pro-life values or something Planned Parenthood would encourage? Well, this precious video of “fighting a baby” has gone viral on Facebook and YouTube.

So just what is it? Something that provides countless hours of amusement, brought to you by Gavin McInnes, the comedian who recently became pro-life. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/how-to-fight-a-baby-the-precious-video-thats-gone-viral/
Cosmopolitan Magazine Pushes for Abortions on Disabled Babies
Say what you want about pro-life incrementalism, but one thing about the movement to ban abortions at 20 weeks is undeniable: it has exposed just how entitled abortionistas feel to the “mainstream” mantle even as they refuse to give an inch from their extremism.
Last week, Cosmopolitan’s Liz Welch relayed the testimony of Vanessa Riley to the Texas legislature opposing the state’s new protections for pain-capable unborn children. Her “devastating” account is supposed to prove how these “harsh” laws “can prevent women from getting the care they need. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/cosmopolitan-magazine-pushes-for-abortions-on-disabled-babies/
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Condoms Handed Out as Prizes at Tax-Funded Event to Promote Obamacare
A taxpayer-funded group that hosted an event to promote signups for health insurance under Obamacare apparently handed out condoms as prizes for those who attended. With so little interested in government-run health care that pays for abortions, includes rationing and is an otherwise unsuitable replacement for good health care plans, free condoms are apparently what this Obamacare navigator needs to generate interest.
Although with millions of Americans losing their health insurance thanks to Obamacare they may just get a few takers. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/condoms-handed-out-as-prizes-at-tax-funded-event-to-promote-obamacare/
Sandra Fluke: Birth Control is Just Like a Blood Transfusion
Birth control activist Sandra Fluke has a rather odd view of the legal challenge Hobby Lobby and other plaintiffs are bringing to the Supreme Court against the Obamacare birth control mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/sandra-fluke-birth-control-is-just-like-a-blood-transfusion/
Give Thanks for Pro-Life Victories on Abortion this Year
It’s the Thanksgiving season, and now is the time to reflect on this last year, the things that we are thankful for and the ways that we have been blessed. In addition to family, friends, and the opportunity to work in the pro-life movement, we personally are thankful for the bountiful gift of pro-life laws enacted in the states. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/give-thanks-for-pro-life-victories-on-abortion-this-year/

Hobby Lobby’s HHS Mandate Battle is a Fight for Religious Freedom
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review two cases where the government is trying to force Christian-owned businesses to provide health care coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/hobby-lobbys-hhs-mandate-battle-is-a-fight-for-religious-freedom/

Pro-Abortion Wisconsin Legislator Proposes “Support Planned Parenthood” License Plates
While pro-life advocates in Wisconsin are busy trying to get the state legislature to approve Choose Life license plates to support adoption, a pro-abortion lawmaker has another idea. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/pro-abortion-wisconsin-legislator-proposes-support-planned-parenthood-license-plates/

Chinese Lawmaker Wants Government to Give College Girls Free Abortions
The world got a false alarm of sorts recently when media reports worldwide heralded the “easing” of China’s one-child policy. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/chinese-lawmaker-wants-government-to-give-college-girls-free-abortions/
CNN Dismisses Hobby Lobby Case as “Distraction” From Fixing Obamacare
On the 13th of November in the Goethe Institute in Brussels, Alex Schadenberg, chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition International, debated noted pro-euthanasia medical academic, Dr Jan Bernheim. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/cnn-dismisses-hobby-lobby-case-as-distraction-from-fixing-obamacare/

Top Activists For and Against Euthanasia Square Off in Debate
Dozens of women have been killed in Pakistan already this year — not from war, from malnutrition, lack of medical care or because they didn’t have enough food. Instead, they were killed because they gave birth to gi. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/top-activists-for-and-against-euthanasia-square-off-in-debate/


Planned Parenthood Tries to Make Money Off News Morning-After Pill Ineffective for Heavier Women
On Monday the liberal magazine Mother Jones reported. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/planned-parenthood-looks-to-make-money-off-news-morning-after-pill-ineffective-for-heavier-women/
December 3 is “Giving Tuesday,” Pro-Lifers Need to Give to Stop Abortion
The United Nations Foundation, which is strongly pro-abortion, has dubbed December 3 the first annual Giving Tuesday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/27/december-3-is-giving-tuesday-pro-lifers-need-to-give-to-stop-abortion/

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