Tuesday, December 31, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 12/31/13





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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Pediatrician: Jahi McMath is Not “Brain Dead,” Can Recover With Proper Care
• MSNBC Host Apologizes for Mocking Mitt Romney’s Family for Adopting Black Baby
Terri Schiavo’s Family Helping Jahi McMath’s Family Secure Transfer to New Hospital
• Court: Obama Admin Can’t Make Pro-Life Group Pay Fines for Not Obeying HHS Mandate

More Pro-Life News

• NYC Mayor: Horse-Drawn Carriages in Central Park “Inhumane,” Abortions Okay
• “I Had an Abortion But Am Still Pregnant Three Months Later,” Couple Keeps Baby This Time

• Former Abortion Clinic Staffer: “When I Saw the Baby’s Face I Knew We Killed a Human Being”
• More People Have Lost Insurance Under Obamacare Than Signed Up for It
• This School Kicked Out Planned Parenthood, Is it Active in Your Child’s?
• Barbara Walters and Patti Stanger Have It All, But Regret Not Having More Children

• The Big Three Obamacare Abortion Lies of the Year
• China’s Little Flower Projects Saves Abandoned and Disabled Babies From Infanticide
• Chinese Doctor Admits Stealing and Selling Newborn Babies
• Jahi McMath Case Shows Black Americans Don’t Want Doctors Rationing Health Care

Pediatrician: Jahi McMath is Not “Brain Dead,” Can Recover With Proper Care
A leading pediatrician says that Jahi McMath, who is at the center of a national debate about whether she should remain on life support, is not “brain dead” and can recover with proper care and nutrition. Late Monday afternoon, the judge in the case granted an extension for life support after a legal request from her family’s attorney.

Dr. Paul A. Byrne, a Neonatologist who is the Director of Neonatology and Director of Pediatrics at St. Charles Mercy Hospital in Oregon, Ohio, has given a new interview to a local NBC television station. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/leading-pediatrician-jahi-mcmath-is-not-brain-dead-can-recover-with-proper-care/
MSNBC Host Apologizes for Mocking Mitt Romney’s Family for Adopting Black Baby
A pro-abortion MSNBC host apologized today for mocking the family of Mitt Romney for adopting a baby who is black.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry, who wore tampon earrings during a July broadcast, mocked the Romney family.She sent out the following tweets this morning:
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/msnbc-host-apologizes-for-mocking-mitt-romneys-family-for-adopting-black-baby/
Terri Schiavo’s Family Helping Jahi McMath’s Family Secure Transfer to New Hospital
The family of Terri Schiavo, who made international headlines when he husband starved and dehydrated her to death over the course of two weeks, has been quietly helping the family of Jahi McMath find a new hospital or medical facility that will provide her care.
News that Terri Schiavo’s brother Bobby Schindler, also a LifeNews guest blogger, is assisting the McMath family, follows on a judge’s decision allowing the McMath family more time to secure transfer for Jahi to a facility. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/terri-schiavos-family-helping-jahi-mcmaths-family-secure-transfer-to-new-hospital/

Court: Obama Admin Can’t Make Pro-Life Group Pay Fines for Not Obeying HHS Mandate
In a huge victory for Priests for Life, a pro-life organization, a federal appeals court has issued a ruling saying it doesn’t have to pay massive fines to the federal government for not obeying the HHS mandate, which forces religious groups and companies to pay for birth control or abortion-causing drugs for their employees.
An emergency injunction granted late this afternoon in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit means that Priests for Life will not have to obey the contraception mandate contained in the Affordable Care Act as its appeal is being heard. It also means that, tomorrow, Priests for Life will not have to cancel health insurance for its employees. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/court-obama-admin-cant-make-pro-life-group-pay-fines-for-not-obeying-hhs-mandate/

NYC Mayor: Horse-Drawn Carriages in Central Park “Inhumane,” Abortions Okay
Bill de Blasio, New York’s incoming mayor, apparently loves animals more than people. He thinks horse-drawn carriages in Central Park are “inhumane.” But abortions in New York City, which is the abortion capital of America given its ridiculously high abortion rates? No problem.

Fox News reports on de Blasio’s concern about horse-drawn carriages: New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has vowed to move quickly to outlaw the horse-drawn carriages that pull tourists around the city’s famous Central Park. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/nyc-mayor-horse-drawn-carriages-in-central-park-inhumane-abortions-okay/
“I Had an Abortion But Am Still Pregnant Three Months Later,” Couple Keeps Baby This Time
Shannon Skinner had an abortion when she was eight weeks pregnant, or so she thought. She already had a four-month-old baby and she and partner Anthony were “having problems” so they decided abortion was the best answer as opposed to a second baby.
But after the abortion, Skinner continued to have morning sickness and to feel the unborn baby’s movements. After consulting a physician, she received word that the movements were just an after-effect of the abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/i-had-an-abortion-but-am-still-pregnant-three-months-later-couple-keeps-baby-this-time/
Former Abortion Clinic Staffer: “When I Saw the Baby’s Face I Knew We Killed a Human Being”
In 2008 The Population Research Institute published a testimony from the former medical director of an abortion clinic whose name was given as Zlata. Although she had been so committed to abortion that she worked in the clinic for six years, Zlata now considers herself pro-life. She tells her story:
“I remember assisting, once in particular, in the operating room at the clinic where I had been a medical assistant for six years. I was standing behind the doctor and could see everything as he was performing an abortion on a woman who was 20 – 22 weeks pregnant.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/former-abortion-clinic-staffer-when-i-saw-the-babys-face-i-knew-we-killed-a-human-being/

More People Have Lost Insurance Under Obamacare Than Signed Up for It
A few thoughts today and a few more tomorrow as we are just hours away from when the impact of ObamaCare really hits the American populous—January 1, 2014. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/more-people-have-lost-insurance-under-obamacare-than-signed-up-for-it/
This School Kicked Out Planned Parenthood, Is it Active in Your Child’s?
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest is more active in our local schools than many of us realize. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/this-school-kicked-out-planned-parenthood-is-it-active-in-your-childs/

Barbara Walters and Patti Stanger Have It All, But Regret Not Having More Children
December is a month when people often take the opportunity to reflect on their year, and consider what they would like to do differently in the approaching new year. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/barbara-walters-and-patti-stanger-have-it-all-but-regret-not-having-children/
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The Big Three Obamacare Abortion Lies of the Year
Even as President Obama’s now infamous claim, “[i]f you like your plan you can keep it,” is being recognized as the “Lie of the Year”. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/the-big-three-obamacare-abortion-lies-of-the-year/

China’s Little Flower Projects Saves Abandoned and Disabled Babies From Infanticide
How can you say there are too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/chinas-little-flower-projects-saves-abandoned-and-disabled-babies-from-infanticide/

Chinese Doctor Admits Stealing and Selling Newborn Babies
One of the terrible consequences of the one-child, forced-abortion policy in China is a lack of babies. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/chinese-doctor-admits-stealing-and-selling-newborn-babies/
Jahi McMath Case Shows Black Americans Don’t Want Doctors Rationing Health Care
The Jahi McMath ”brain death” tragedy continues to unfold from awful to awful, with the family now requesting to have breathing and feeding tubes placed in the girl’s body so that she can be transferred to a continuing care facility. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/jahi-mcmath-case-shows-black-americans-dont-want-doctors-rationing-health-care/


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