Friday, March 7, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 3/7/14





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Friday, March 7, 2014

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Top Stories
• New Abortion Clinic Closures Means More Babies Will be Saved From Abortions
• MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s Show Calls Abortion Practitioners Heroes
Doctors Didn’t Think Baby Born at 25 Weeks Would Survive, God Had Other Plans• NARAL President Says “Anti-Abortion Is Anti-American”

More Pro-Life News
• Why are Abortion Activists So Driven to Censor Pro-Lifers?
• MSNBC Blasts Paralyzed Pro-Lifer Greg Abbott’s “Matchstick-Thin Legs”

• Abortion’s Forgotten Victims: Siblings of Brothers and Sisters Killed in Abortion
• I Am Afraid of This Indisputable Pro-Abortion Argument
• Tinkering With Frankenstein: Obama Admin Considers Three-Parent Embryos
• Students for Life President: Ignoring Abortion Like Ignoring Holocaust

• Pro-Lifers Need to Be Consistent When It Comes to Miscarriage

• New Study Destroys Pro-Abortion Arguments Against Parental Notification
• Federal Court Stops Effort to Shut Down Maryland Pregnancy Centers
• Republican Party Chair: We Need to Do More to Reach Out to Pro-Life Voters

• McAuliffe Dealt Setback as Senate Upholds Conscience Protection
• Enda Kenny Won’t Win Irish Pro-Lifers Just by Re-Opening Vatican Embassy
• New Hampshire Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide Overwhelmingly Defeated


New Abortion Clinic Closures Means More Babies Will be Saved From Abortions The ever-decreasing number of abortion clinics continues its decline with the announcement of the closing of abortion clinics in Texas, Florida, and California.
Whole Women’s Health announced this week that its surgical abortion clinics in McAllen and Beaumont have permanently closed due to the new law passed last year that requires abortion facilities to meet minimum safety requirements, including hiring only abortionists that maintain local hospital privileges. The McAllen location had “temporarily” closed in January.
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/new-abortion-clinic-closures-means-more-babies-will-be-saved-from-abortions/
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s Show Calls Abortion Practitioners HeroesAbortion practitioners across the country are responsible for nearly 57 million abortions. They kill unborn babies on a daily basis, kill and injure women in failed abortions, and leave women, men, and families dealing with devastating mental health and spiritual issues as a result.

While a majority of Americans oppose abortion and believe abortions ought to be illegal, MSNBC held a segment calling abortion practitioners heroes. The Maddow show story focused on the anger abortion advocates have over pro-life laws in Texas and other states resulting in closing abortion businesses because they can’t seem to follow the law. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/msnbcs-rachel-maddows-show-calls-abortion-practitioners-heroes/
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Doctors Didn’t Think Baby Born at 25 Weeks Would Survive, God Had Other PlansA one-pound baby shocked doctors, who didn’t think the premature infant would survive. But God had other plans for little Ezekiel Cal Lugo. here is his story.
As his parents Rudy and Nellie tell it (video follows): On September 1st, 2011 our son Ezekiel Cal Lugo was born 4 months too early. He was born at 25 weeks weighing 1 lb 2 oz. Doctors didn’t expect him to live. If he did live, we were told he would have multiple health issues. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/doctors-didnt-think-baby-born-at-25-weeks-would-survive-god-had-other-plans/

NARAL President Says “Anti-Abortion Is Anti-American”
Everybody says something stupid and offensive at one time or another. But it takes a special kind of ideologue to turn it into a speech repeated over and over. And that ideologue is NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue.
We missed it the first time she told a crowd that pro-lifers are “un-American.” That was at a Feb. 4 event in Washington, D.C. marking the pro-abortion group’s 45th anniversary (see video below). But Hogue liked it so much she said it again in San Francisco on March 4, at an event featuring Sandra Fluke, America’s most famous birth control user. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/naral-president-says-anti-abortion-is-anti-american/


MSNBC Blasts Paralyzed Pro-Lifer Greg Abbott’s “Matchstick-Thin Legs” Fresh from his becoming the republican nominee for governor in the Lone Star State, Greg Abbott is now the subject of attack by left-wing cable television station MSNBC. The liberal “news network” is following friends of Wendy Davis in going after the pro-life Texas gubernatorial candidate over his physical disability.
The Truth Revolt web site reports on MSNBC’s horrible comment. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/msnbc-blasts-paralyzed-pro-lifer-greg-abbotts-matchstick-thin-legs/
Abortion’s Forgotten Victims: Siblings of Brothers and Sisters Killed in AbortionThrow a stone into a pond and the waters don’t remain still. At the point it breaks the surface, the water is disrupted by a small wave that continues rising ring after ring, expanding ever outward. While the point of impact may seem relatively small, the ensuing waves reach out in greater size, disturbing previously peaceful waters. This illustration reminds me of abortion’s effect.
The point of impact may start small. We’re told it’s just a choice between a woman and her doctor. Yet, the consequences spread to the baby’s father, other family members and potentially siblings—both older and younger.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/abortions-forgotten-victims-siblings-of-brothers-and-sisters-killed-in-abortion/

I Am Afraid of This Indisputable Pro-Abortion ArgumentI took the bait. I couldn’t help but open an email with the subject line: “You’re afraid of this pro-choice argument”
Afraid? I’m afraid of a lot of things. Actually, five things: spiders, asteroids, ghosts, head lice, and malaria. But arguments? Especially pro-abortion arguments? Definitely not on the list.
Tinkering With Frankenstein: Obama Admin Considers Three-Parent Embryos Some things are better left untried. Like trying to create children with three genetic parents. I’ll explain. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/tinkering-with-frankenstein-obama-admin-considers-three-parent-embryos/
Students for Life President: Ignoring Abortion Like Ignoring Holocaust Here’s a message the media won’t want to hear: the dangers of ignoring the devastation of abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/students-for-life-president-ignoring-abortion-like-ignoring-holocaust/
Pro-Lifers Need to Be Consistent When It Comes to Miscarriage A friend who recently experienced a miscarriage shared this powerful blog post with me (it’s received over 1,100 comments, so obviously it resonated with many). http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/pro-lifers-need-to-be-consistent-when-it-comes-to-miscarriage/

New Study Destroys Pro-Abortion Arguments Against Parental Notification For decades, pro-choice lobbyists have fought any legislation that puts parents between minors and the so-called reproductive healthcare services sold by chains like Planned Parenthood. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/new-study-destroys-pro-abortion-arguments-against-parental-notification/
Federal Court Stops Effort to Shut Down Maryland Pregnancy Centers A federal court issued a ruling Friday that strikes down the entirety of a Maryland county’s law that forced pro-life pregnancy counselors to advise women against using their services. The court’s permanent injunction prohibits the Montgomery County law from being enforced effective immediately. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/federal-court-stops-effort-to-shut-down-maryland-pregnancy-centers/
Republican Party Chair: We Need to Do More to Reach Out to Pro-Life Voters RNC chair Reince Priebus met with bloggers today at CPAC and said he was pleased by the reaction the GOP received from the pro-life movement about his decision to postpone January’s RNC meeting in favor of attending the March for Life. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/republican-party-chair-we-need-to-do-more-to-reach-out-to-pro-life-voters/
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McAuliffe Dealt Setback as Senate Upholds Conscience Protection Yesterday, the Senate defeated Governor Terry McAuliffe’s amendment to SB 330, an amendment that would have seriously weakened conscience protections included in a bill providing for the licensing of genetic counselors. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/mcauliffe-dealt-setback-as-senate-upholds-conscience-protection/
Enda Kenny Won’t Win Irish Pro-Lifers Just by Re-Opening Vatican Embassy Last weekend, Fine Gael, the majority Party in Ireland’s coalition government held it’s annual meeting in central Dublin. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/irish-pro-lifers-wont-trust-enda-kenny-just-by-re-opening-vatican-embassy/
New Hampshire Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide Overwhelmingly Defeated Nancy Elliott, a Euthanasia Prevention Coalition International board member and a former three term New Hampshire state representative led the charge to defeat assisted suicide bill HB 1325 in New Hampshire. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/03/07/new-hampshire-bill-to-legalize-assisted-suicide-overwhelmingly-defeated/