Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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Top Stories
• House Passes Bill to Completely Ban Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
• Pro-Life Groups Tell Supreme Court: Don’t Make Hobby Lobby Obey HHS Mandate
Tax-Funded Ban Holds Obama Accountable for Funding Abortions in Obamacare• Woman Hemorrhaged Half Her Blood After Botched RU 486 Abortion

More Pro-Life News
• 19 Democrat Senators Tell Supreme Court to Force Hobby Lobby to Obey HHS Mandate
• Erick Munoz is Not a Monster, But Baby Munoz Had a Right to Live

• Abortionist Hid Ultrasound From Patient, But Her Friend Saw It And Was Haunted Forever
• ACLU Opposes Death Penalty for Rapist, Okay With Death Penalty for Unborn Baby
• Video Purportedly Shows Jahi McMath Alive, Moving Her Toes
• Senator Tom Coburn Loses His Cancer Doctor Thanks to Obamacare

• Thief Steals Bag From Train, Finds it Has Abandoned Two-Week-Old Baby

• Nurse Fired for Refusing to Participate in Abortions

• Cosmo Promotes Four Couples Who Chose Abortion: “It Was the Humane Thing”
• Perinatal Hospice: Helping Parents of Severely Disabled Unborn Babies
• Should Doctors Help Patients Starve Themselves to Death?
• Five Days at Memorial: Book Chronicles Euthanasia of Patients During Hurricane Katrina
• Former UNFPA Head Promotes Abortion With Misleading Math


House Passes Bill to Completely Ban Taxpayer Funding of Abortions The House today approved legislation that will put in place a complete ban on taxpayer funding of abortions that ensures abortions are not directly funded in any federal governmental program or department.
The legislation combines several policies that must be enacted every year in Congressional battles and puts them into law where they will not be in jeopardy of being overturned every time Congress changes hands from pro-life lawmakers to those who support abortions. The House voted 227-188 for the bill with 221 Republicans and 6 Democrats voting to ban taxpayer funding of abortions under HR7 while 187 Democrats and one Republican voted against it. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/house-passes-bill-to-completely-ban-taxpayer-funding-of-abortions/
Pro-Life Groups Tell Supreme Court: Don’t Make Hobby Lobby Obey HHS MandateLeading pro-life groups have submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court supporting Hobby Lobby in its case against the Obama administration and its HHS mandate, which forces religious groups to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
Americans United for Life’s legal team filed an amicus curiae (or “friend of the court”) brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court defending pro-life Americans from the mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/pro-life-groups-tell-supreme-court-dont-make-hobby-lobby-obey-hhs-mandate/
Tax-Funded Ban Holds Obama Accountable for Funding Abortions in ObamacareMr. Speaker, the President of the United States stood just 10 feet from where I stand in September 2009 and told a joint session of Congress that “under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion.”
On March 24, 2010, President Obama issued an executive order that said the Affordable Care Act “maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly created health insurance exchanges.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/tax-funded-ban-holds-obama-accountable-for-funding-abortions-in-obamacare/

Woman Hemorrhaged Half Her Blood After Botched RU 486 Abortion
Operation Rescue has obtained a 911 recording of a medical emergency at Family Planning Associates (FPA) abortion clinic in Downey, California, that indicated an abortion patient had suffered massive hemorrhage. The incident took place two days before Christmas.
The FPA employee who placed the call initially indicated that they simply needed to transfer a patient to the hospital. When the dispatcher questioned further, the abortion clinic employee responded, “It’s a patient who’s no longer bleeding, but her hematocrit’s off to 19. So we want to transfer her for a – to Downy Regional to get a transfusion.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/27/house-votes-this-week-on-bill-to-stop-hidden-abortion-fees-in-obamacare/
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19 Democrat Senators Tell Supreme Court to Force Hobby Lobby to Obey HHS Mandate Nineteen pro-abortion senators today banded together to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court telling it to force Hobby Lobby to obey the HHS mandate that forces religious groups and businesses to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
Fox News reported that pro-abortion Sen. Patty Murray is the ringleader of the effort to force Hobby Lobby to comply with the mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/19-democrat-senators-tell-supreme-court-to-force-hobby-lobby-to-obey-hhs-mandate/
Erick Munoz is Not a Monster, But Baby Munoz Had a Right to LiveOn Sunday, as you probably heard, Marlise Munoz was removed from life support under court order. This eliminated any chance that unborn baby Nicole, a few weeks short of viability, might survive to birth.
Secular Pro-Life issued a brief statement mourning the loss and stating our disagreement with the court’s decision. A long comment thread ensued. Pro-choice facebook followers expressed the view that Secular Pro-Life’s position is anti-woman (e.g. wanting Marlise to be an “incubator”); that the logic behind keeping Marlise on life support would also justify grave robbing; that the right to die supercedes the right to life; and that the fact that Marlise did not address the possibility of pregnancy in discussing her end-of-life wishes is irrelevant because, as one commenter put it, ”she was still a person, whether she was pregnant or not.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/erick-munoz-is-not-a-monster-but-baby-munoz-had-a-right-to-live/
Abortionist Hid Ultrasound From Patient, But Her Friend Saw It And Was Haunted ForeverOn January 9, Slate came out with an article about a study that was published in Obstetrics & Gynecology which addressed the question of whether or not women who viewed ultrasounds at abortion clinics were less likely to go through with the procedure. The study claimed that the vast majority (over 95%) of women who elected to see the sonogram (they had a choice whether or not to see it) chose to have abortions anyway.
This seems to fly in the face of everything that pro-lifers have experienced. Crisis pregnancy centers around the country have written about the difference that ultrasound makes. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/abortionist-hid-ultrasound-from-patient-but-her-friend-saw-it-and-was-haunted-forever/
ACLU Opposes Death Penalty for Rapist, Okay With Death Penalty for Unborn Baby Last week, the ACLU sent a letter to Governor John Kasich, opposing the death penalty in light of the recent execution of Dennis McGuire, a man who brutally raped and murdered a 30-weeks pregnant woman in 1989. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/aclu-opposes-death-penalty-for-rapist-okay-with-death-penalty-for-unborn-baby/
Video Purportedly Shows Jahi McMath Alive, Moving Her Toes A video released over the weekend shows Jahi McMath, who was left in a precarious medical state following a botched tonsillectomy, alive and moving her toes. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/video-purportedly-shows-jahi-mcmath-alive-moving-her-toes/
Senator Tom Coburn Loses His Cancer Doctor Thanks to Obamacare Sen. Tom Coburn is leaving the Senate later this year due to his battle with cancer. Today, in a heartbreaking interview with MSNBC, he said he is losing his cancer doctor thanks to Obamacare provisions. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/senator-tom-coburn-loses-his-cancer-doctor-thanks-to-obamacare/

Thief Steals Bag From Train, Finds it Has Abandoned Two-Week-Old Baby A thief stole a bag on a train in Mumbai only to get more than he expected. Kishnor Kale, 20, stole a backpack on a train ride hoping to find some valuables inside. Instead, he found an abandoned two-week-old baby. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/thief-steals-bag-from-train-finds-it-has-abandoned-two-week-old-baby/
Nurse Fired for Refusing to Participate in Abortions A nurse in southern Sweden has been fired for refusing to participate in an abortion and she is now claiming religious discrimination as a result. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/nurse-fired-for-refusing-to-participate-in-abortions/
Cosmo Promotes Four Couples Who Chose Abortion: “It Was the Humane Thing” Looks like Cosmo is running out of sex tips – and the end result isn’t pretty. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/cosmo-promotes-four-couples-who-chose-abortion-it-was-the-humane-thing/
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Perinatal Hospice: Helping Parents of Severely Disabled Unborn Babies It was supposed to be a happy time. The day of a 20-week ultrasound is a special opportunity for parents to see in greater detail the wonder of life carried within the mother’s womb. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/perinatal-hospice-helping-parents-of-severely-disabled-unborn-babies/
Should Doctors Help Patients Starve Themselves to Death? One of the “deliverance” methods often advocated by euthanasia/assisted suicide advocacy groups is “voluntary stop eating and drinking” (VSED). The idea is self-explanatory. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/should-doctors-help-patients-starve-themselves-to-death/
Five Days at Memorial: Book Chronicles Euthanasia of Patients During Hurricane Katrina The 558 page book, Five Days at Memorial, tells the complete story of what happened at Memorial Medical Centre in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina disaster that began on August 28, 2005. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/five-days-at-memorial-book-chronicles-euthanasia-of-patients-during-hurricane-katrina/
Former UNFPA Head Promotes Abortion With Misleading Math “Champion of Choice” and former UNFPA chief Nafis Sadik spoke at the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights this week. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/28/former-unfpa-head-promotes-abortion-with-misleading-math/


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