Friday, January 17, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 1/17/14





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Friday, January 17, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Abortion Practitioner Charged for Not Reporting Rape of 13-Year-Old Girl
• Mother Pregnant With Twins Schedules Abortion, Changes Mind at the Last Minute
Andrew Cuomo: Pro-Life People “Have No Place in the State of New York”• Bishop Who Escaped Abortion After Doctors Said He’d Be a “Freak” Will Lead March for Life

More Pro-Life News
• Judge Strikes North Carolina Law Letting Women See Ultrasound of Baby Before Abortion
• Judge in Case of Father Trying to Kill His Unborn Child Recuses Herself

• Media Goes Crazy After Pregnant Woman’s Killer Executed, Ignores Abortion
• Viral Video Marks 41 Years of Abortions in 5 Minutes: “My Generation Will End Abortion”
• Study Shows Women Considering Abortion Choose Life After Seeing Ultrasound
• Liberal Writer Stands Up for Pro-Lifers’ Free Speech on Abortion

• Couple Pregnant With Triplets Guilt-Stricken Over Aborting One of the Babies

• Terri Schiavo’s Brother: Jahi McMath’s Case is Also About Parental Rights
• Vulnerable Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor Refuses to Say if He’d Back Late-Term Abortion Ban

• Why We Will March for Life: Because It’s Time to End Abortion
• Families of Children With Down Syndrome to Join March for Life
• Kenya Pro-Lifers Defeat Western Effort to Expand Abortion
• Court Strikes Down New York City Law Targeting Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
• Will The High Court Impose Assisted Suicide on Canada?



Abortion Practitioner Charged for Not Reporting Rape of 13-Year-Old Girl Abortionist Ulrich Georg Klopfer has been criminally charged in Lake County, Indiana, with failing to file a timely report, a Class B Misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The charge is related to an incident of statutory rape on a 13-year-old girl. Klopfer, who gave the girl an abortion at his Gary, Indiana, abortion clinic in September, 2012, filed the report nearly four months later than state statute requires, leaving the girl at risk of further sexual abuse. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/abortion-practitioner-charged-for-not-reporting-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/
Mother Pregnant With Twins Schedules Abortion, Changes Mind at the Last MinuteAs Americans mark the 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision next week that allowed virtually unlimited abortions, they have good reason to mourn the more than 56 million unborn babies who have been killed in abortion. But Rebecca Rizzi’s twins will not be among those casualties.
At fives weeks into her pregnancy, Rizzi contemplated an abortion and went as far as making an appointment at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. It wasn’t until she was driving to the abortion business that she changed her mind. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/mother-pregnant-with-twins-schedules-abortion-changes-mind-at-the-last-minute/
Andrew Cuomo: Pro-Life People “Have No Place in the State of New York”Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has already proven himself to be one of the most pro-abortion politicians in the country. He’s repeatedly pushed a bill that would make the state that has some of the highest abortion rates in the nation further down the road of unlimited abortions.
Now, Cuomo has said that pro-life people have no business living in the state. If the governor has any interest in pursuing national office with a potential Democratic presidential campaign, he’s definitely lost the majority of the country that appreciates the right to life of unborn babies. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/andrew-cuomo-pro-life-people-have-no-place-in-the-state-of-new-york/

Bishop Who Escaped Abortion After Doctors Said He’d Be a “Freak” Will Lead March for Life
There are thousands, perhaps millions of people who could have become abortion victims because their parents were informed by their doctors that they would have physical or mental health issues after birth. Bravely, those parents decided not to have an abortion and, in many cases, those unborn babies before perfectly healthy people.
Bishop Andrew Cozzens is one such person. LifeNews has profiled this bishop who escaped abortion and now he’s given an interview to CatholicVote to share the rest of the story. Next week, he will lead students from Benedictine College at the March for Life. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/bishop-who-escaped-abortion-after-doctors-said-hed-be-a-freak-will-lead-march-for-life/

Judge Strikes North Carolina Law Letting Women See Ultrasound of Baby Before Abortion A federal judge Friday afternoon struck down a pro-life law in North Carolina allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby before considering an abortion. The law faced a lawsuit from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.
The law also requires the abortion practitioner to allow a woman considering an abortion to hear the heartbeat of her baby and to describe what the ultrasound shows. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/judge-strikes-north-carolina-law-letting-women-see-ultrasound-of-baby-before-abortion/
Judge in Case of Father Trying to Kill His Unborn Child Recuses HerselfThe judge in the controversial case of a father who is attempting to end his pregnant wife’s life support, which would kill his unborn child, has recused herself.
Marlise Munoz collapsed in her home last November from an apparent blood clot in her lungs when she was 14 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her husband and other family members have asked the John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth to remove Marlise from life support after they were told she was “brain dead.” Ending life support would also end her unborn baby’s life. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/judge-in-case-of-father-trying-to-kill-his-unborn-child-recuses-herself/
Media Goes Crazy After Pregnant Woman’s Killer Executed, Ignores AbortionLast night by lethal injection of “untested drugs”, Ohio executed the brutal thug who, in 1989, raped and stabbed to death expectant mother Joy Stewart.
Naturally, the left wing advocacy media wants to let people know inhumane and cruel they believe it was by giving a play by play of what the killer went through in his final moments. Examples of headlines, along with excerpts (bolded emphasis added by me): http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/media-goes-crazy-after-pregnant-womans-killer-executed-ignores-abortion/

Viral Video Marks 41 Years of Abortions in 5 Minutes: “My Generation Will End Abortion” The pro-life group Texas Alliance for Life has released an inspiring video that tallies 41 years of legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade in just five minutes. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/viral-video-marks-41-years-of-abortions-in-5-minutes-my-generation-will-end-abortion/
Study Shows Women Considering Abortion Choose Life After Seeing Ultrasound Earlier this month, the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology published a study which has the media swooning. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/study-shows-women-considering-abortion-choose-life-after-seeing-ultrasound/
Liberal Writer Stands Up for Pro-Lifers’ Free Speech on Abortion Yesterday the Supreme Court heard a case, McCullen v. Coakley, which calls into question a Massachusetts law which establishes a speech-free-zone extending 35 feet from the entrance to an abortion clinic . http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/liberal-writer-stands-up-for-pro-lifers-free-speech-on-abortion/

Couple Pregnant With Triplets Guilt-Stricken Over Aborting One of the Babies Using in-vitro fertilization or surrogacy to get pregnant has always been a source of controversy within the pro-life movement. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/couple-pregnant-with-triplets-guilt-stricken-over-aborting-one-of-the-babies/
Terri Schiavo’s Brother: Jahi McMath’s Case is Also About Parental Rights Much has been written about Jahi McMath in recent days. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/terri-schiavos-brother-jahi-mcmaths-case-is-also-about-parental-rights/
Vulnerable Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor Refuses to Say if He’d Back Late-Term Abortion Ban Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor is perhaps the most vulnerable member of the Senate and will be targeted by pro-life advocates in his state because he will be facing a pro-life challenger in November. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/vulnerable-arkansas-senator-mark-pryor-refuses-to-say-if-hed-back-late-term-abortion-ban/
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Why We Will March for Life: Because It’s Time to End Abortion January brings several key pro-life events to Washington D.C, but the largest is the March for Life. Beginning at the National Mall and ending at the Supreme Court, the March remains the largest Civil Rights event in the world, with millions of attendees over its four decades. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/why-we-will-march-for-life-because-its-time-to-end-abortion/
Families of Children With Down Syndrome to Join March for Life For the sixth year in a row, Keep Infants with Down Syndrome (KIDS) will be meeting prior to the January 22 March for Life in Washington, D.C. at the headquarters of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) at 512 10th Street, N.W. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/families-of-children-with-down-syndrome-to-join-march-for-life/
Kenya Pro-Lifers Defeat Western Effort to Expand Abortion When Kenyans voted on a new constitution in 2010, a massive publicity campaign – heavily funded by the Obama administration – assured voters it would not legalize abortion. In fact, “Life begins at conception” is in the constitution. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/kenya-pro-lifers-defeat-western-effort-to-expand-abortion/
Court Strikes Down New York City Law Targeting Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Friday affirmed most of a district court’s order striking down a New York City anti-pregnancy center ordinance, which one of the judges called “a bureaucrat’s dream.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/court-strikes-down-new-york-city-law-targeting-pro-life-pregnancy-centers/
Will The High Court Impose Assisted Suicide on Canada? This doesn’t bode well. Back in 1993, the Canada Supreme Court ruled in the Rodriguez case that there was no constitutional right in Canada to assisted suicide. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/17/will-the-high-court-impose-assisted-suicide-on-canada/


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