Sunday, August 31, 2014

Heroic News: “World's oldest woman has 73 grandchildren” plus 4 more

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Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was reportedly born in the year Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee and has 73 great-grandchildren
Five years after it exploded into a political conflagration over “death panels,” the issue of paying doctors to talk to patients about end-of-life care is making a comeback, and such sessions may be covered for the 50 million Americans on Medicare as early as next year.
After decades of ignoring the issue, Nature, the world’s leading science journal, has finally acknowledged that creating life-saving vaccines from tissue from aborted human fetuses is a deeply controversial ethical issue.
"To the one, a Down syndrome child (for instance) is a genetic scandal, one who should probably be destroyed in the womb as a kind of oblation offered up to the social good and, of course, to some immeasurably remote future; to the other, that same child is potentially (and thus far already) a being so resplendent in his majesty, so mighty, so beautiful that we could scarcely hope to look upon him with the sinful eyes of this life and not be consumed."
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias will be on ABC’s “This Week” tomorrow morning (Sunday, August 31)

MEDIA APPEARANCE ALERT
National Right to Life President Carol Tobias will be on ABC’s “This Week” tomorrow morning (Sunday, August 31)
to discuss the successes the right-to-life movement has experienced passing protective, life-affirming legislation at the state level.
“This Week” airs Sunday mornings on ABC stations nationwide. Please check your local listings for airings in your community.
Follow the NRLC Communications Department: @nrlcomm
Visit National Right to Life’s Online Press Room

Friday, August 29, 2014

Pro-Family Group, a Recipient of International Peace Award, Targeted by Sexual Extremists



World Congress of Families Announces Postponement of Regional Event in Melbourne Amid Threats of Violence and Vandalism
 
Pro-Family Group, a Recipient of International Peace Award, Targeted by Sexual Extremists

Contact: World Congress of Families815-222-2490media@worldcongress.org; Communications Director, 508-405-1337dfeder@worldcongress.org

ROCKFORD, Ill., Aug. 29, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs announced the postponement of the WCF regional event in Melbourne.  Endeavour Forum will be the convener of the "Life, Family, and Freedom Conference" on Saturday, August 30 at the CTFM Auditorium.

"Radical threats of violence to speakers, participants, and organizers at three prior locations have now created a security risk for high-profile speakers such as Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke where it would be inappropriate to continue to the World Congress of Families event at a fourth venue," said Larry Jacobs.

Jacobs added: "Attacks on proponents of the natural family and marriage are part of a cynical campaign by sexual extremists to avoid an honest discussion by labelling those who disagree with them as 'hateful.'"

Unlike the protest groups targeting the World Congress of Families with threats and violence, the World Congress of Families is a recipient of an international peace award, "The Pax Urbis Award" given to institutions and cities in their work in promoting peace.  100 Cities for Peace presented this Peace Award to World Congress of Families in Madrid (2012).  100 Cities for Peace is an international movement that identifies and disseminates the practices of cities and social institutions around the world that are committed to promoting a culture of peace. The movement supports the values behind the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  

Jacobs continued, "Much of the commentary about the Melbourne WCF Conference has been grossly misleading as sexual extremists have launched a smear campaign alleging that the WCF's goals to affirm the dignity of human life, the sanctity of human life and the importance of the natural family as the fundamental unit of society (from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN in 1948) is hateful and bigoted towards LGBTIQ individuals and mothers."

WCF is a positive group and always welcomes a civilized public debate and discussion on key life and family issues that help increase the health and welfare of women and children, such as:
Jacobs concluded, "The World Congress of Families looks forward to being part of a future event in Australia.  Australia has always been known as the land of the fair go. The lack of tolerance towards views that are not in line with elite opinion is deeply concerning."

For more information of the accusations of hate against WCF click here:worldcongress.org/files/5414/0659/3671/Is_WCF_Hateful__-_Questions_and_Answers_on_World_Congress_of_Families.pdf

Click here:  (worldcongress.org/files/9914/0873/5451/Melbourne_Pro-Family_Conference_Leadership_Petition_2014.pdf) for the International Pro-Family Leadership Open Letter to the People of Australia, including a list of signers and their affiliations.

To schedule an interview with Larry Jacobs, contact World Congress of Families at +1-815-222-2490 or media@worldcongress.org

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/29/14






LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Friday, August 29, 2014

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.
Top Stories
• Texas Judge Strikes Down Pro-Life Law That Closed Abortion Clinics
• Mother of Abortion Activist Who Attacked Pro-Lifers Sues Pro-Life Group for “Emotional Distress”
• Mother Wants $6 Million in Wrongful Life Suit, She Wishes Her Baby Was Never Born?
• Planned Parenthood Raising $16 Million to Keep the Senate in Pro-Abortion Hands


More Pro-Life News
• Hey PBS, There is No “Compassionate” Way to Kill Babies in Abortion
• Pro-Abortion Activist’s Play Glorifies Do-It-Yourself Abortions
• My Teen Mom Was a Convicted Drug User, Should I Have Been Aborted?
• Three of Her Siblings Were Killed in Abortions: “My Grief is Real”
• Do All Human Beings at All Stages of Life Have Rights, or Just Some?
• Planned Parenthood Calling Abortion a “Voluntary Miscarriage” is Patently Offensive

• 1,000 Babies are Killed in Abortions in Germany and Austria Daily

• 32 Women Have Died From Legal Abortions at Hospitals in India Since 2008
• Pro-Life People Need to Support Tennessee’s Amendment 1
• $28 Million Planned Parenthood Medicaid Fraud Case Can Move Ahead

• Tireless Pro-Life Advocate Cookie Harris, Wife of Pro-Life Congressman Andy Harris, Passes Away



Texas Judge Strikes Down Pro-Life Law That Closed Abortion Clinics
A Texas judge has blocked a pro-life law credited with closing multiple abortion clinics and cutting abortions 13 percent, saving an estimated 9,900 babies from abortion. The admitting privileges portion of the law was the portion responsible for closing abortion clinics.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/texas-judge-blocks-texas-pro-life-law-that-closed-abortion-clinics-cut-abortions-13/



Mother of Abortion Activist Who Attacked Pro-Lifers Sues Pro-Life Group for “Emotional Distress”
An abortion supporter attacks a group of pro-life advocates in Columbus, Ohio and was recently ordered to pay restitution in the case. Now, in a strange twist, the abortion backer’s mother has filed suit against the pro-life group claiming “emotional distress” from the publicity surrounding her daughter’s assault of their members.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/mother-of-abortion-activist-who-attacked-pro-lifers-sues-pro-life-group-for-emotional-distress/
Mother Wants $6 Million in Wrongful Life Suit, She Wishes Her Baby Was Never Born?
More details are coming in about an outrageous lawsuit in South Africa that has the mother of a child with Down syndrome suing on her 6-year-old son’s behalf for damages because she would have had an abortion had she known her son had Down syndrome.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/mother-wants-6-million-in-wrongful-life-suit-she-wishes-her-baby-was-never-born/



Planned Parenthood Raising $16 Million to Keep the Senate in Pro-Abortion Hands
Faced with clinic closings and legislative defeats, Planned Parenthood’s political arm (Planned Parenthood Action Fund) is in the process of spending $16 million in this fall’s races. To gin up contributions, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has sent out a fiery but fact-challenged appeal fundraising letter to would-be supporters.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/planned-parenthood-raising-16-million-to-keep-the-senate-in-pro-abortion-hands/



Hey PBS, There is No “Compassionate” Way to Kill Babies in Abortion
The pro-life community is up in arms about taxpayer-funded PBS’ plans to televise a movie on Labor Day glorifying late-term abortions. As LifeNews.com has reported, “After Tiller” profiles and promotes Warren Hern, Shelley Sella, LeRoy Carhart, and Susan Robinson, some of the last third-trimester abortionists left in the United States.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/hey-pbs-there-is-no-compassionate-way-to-kill-babies-in-abortion/



Pro-Abortion Activist’s Play Glorifies Do-It-Yourself Abortions
So the headline in the New York Times reads “Young, Fearless and Not Into Dragons: Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Play ‘Dry Land’ Confronts Abortion.” You know the Times would drool over any play about abortion (unless, of course, the mother chooses not to abort).

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/pro-abortion-activists-play-glorifies-do-it-yourself-abortions/

 
My Teen Mom Was a Convicted Drug User, Should I Have Been Aborted?
What exceptions do you make? What about a teenaged girl whose been testing positive for heroine and has been in and out of jail? Should she have had the choice to abort me?

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/my-teen-mom-was-a-convicted-drug-user-should-i-have-been-aborted/



Three of Her Siblings Were Killed in Abortions: “My Grief is Real”
Sara is one of many siblings of aborted babies who has struggled with the loss of their family members. She is different from Renee and Donna in that the babies she mourns were her father’s.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/three-of-her-siblings-were-killed-in-abortions-my-grief-is-real/

Do All Human Beings at All Stages of Life Have Rights, or Just Some?Is there no scientific answer to when life begins? That depends, of course, on what one means by “life.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/do-all-human-beings-at-all-stages-of-life-have-rights-or-just-some/
Planned Parenthood Calling Abortion a “Voluntary Miscarriage” is Patently OffensiveMoral theologian William Smith once commented that “all social engineering is preceded by verbal engineering.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/planned-parenthood-calling-abortion-a-voluntary-miscarriage-is-patently-offensive/

1,000 Babies are Killed in Abortions in Germany and Austria DailyFlanked by 120 law enforcement officers, 300 pro-life demonstrators marched the streets of Salzburg, Austria in peaceful solidarity. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/1000-babies-are-killed-in-abortions-in-germany-and-austria-daily/
32 Women Have Died From Legal Abortions at Hospitals in India Since 2008The Hindu has written that the city of New Delhi, India is reporting that 32 women have died since 2008 from abortions performed at government hospitals. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/32-women-have-died-from-legal-abortions-at-hospitals-in-india-since-2008/
Pro-Life People Need to Support Tennessee’s Amendment 1Of the 144 different measures so far on election ballots this November across the country, one of the most important is Tennessee’s Amendment 1. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/pro-life-people-need-to-support-tennessees-amendment-1/
Looking for an inspiring and motivating speaker for your pro-life event in 2014? Don't have much to spend on a high-priced speaker costing several thousand dollars? Contact LifeNews at news@lifenews.com about having LifeNews Editor Steven Ertelt speak at your event.

$28 Million Planned Parenthood Medicaid Fraud Case Can Move AheadThe lawsuit from a former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic manager who sued the abortion giant accusing it of engaging in massive fraudulent activities can move forward. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/28-million-planned-parenthood-medicaid-fraud-case-can-move-ahead/
Tireless Pro-Life Advocate Cookie Harris, Wife of Pro-Life Congressman Andy Harris, Passes AwayCookie Harris was a native of Puerto Rico and attended Notre Dame of Maryland University. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/29/tireless-pro-life-advocate-cookie-harris-wife-of-pro-life-congressman-andy-harris-passes-away/


Heroic News: “Being open to life, whatever it looks like” plus 3 more

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"Perhaps you know what that wait is like; that indefinite wait for the rest of your family to start being. Maybe you’ve watched the months pass on the calendar as you tried for a first or second child, measuring your life in nine month increments that always plan for the possibility, but haven’t reached the reality of that little one in your arms. Five years, I waited for something to happen. "
The couple, who were married on June 21 this year, shared adorable pictures from their recent pregnancy photo shoot about their baby announcement through Instagram.
Pornographers in California's nefarious billion dollar smut industry are taking a cold shower. The "Free Speech Coalition," the porn industry's trade group, has called for a halt to all to productions after one performer tested positive for HIV.
"I could have entitled this blog post “The Day My 7-Year-Old Discovered Porn on His iPod” but it might look like I’m trying to one-up that other Mom. Which I’m not. Because, trust me, this is one Mom competition I’d rather lose."

Thursday, August 28, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/28/14




LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Thursday, August 28, 2014

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.
Top Stories
• Woman Kills Pregnant Mom With Knife, Tries to Cut Her Baby Out of Her Womb
• Mom Files Wrongful Life Lawsuit Because She Couldn’t Abort Her Baby With Down Syndrome
• Doctors Told My Parents Three Times to Abort My Sister Just Because She Has Trisomy 18
• You Won’t Believe What This Little Boy Said When He Found Out His Mom is Pregnant


More Pro-Life News
• Woman Beats Toddler Son to Death, Hides His Body in a Suitcase, Dumps it in Woods
• Obama Administration Shell Game on Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate Continues
• After Battling Leukemia, He Wrote This Beautiful Song That Gives God Glory
• Benham Brothers: Pro-Life People are Not Anti-Women, We Lay Our Lives Down for Them
• Why Do We Tell Pregnant Women Not to Hurt Their Baby by Drinking But Ignore Abortion?
• Father-Son Abortionists Stop Performing Abortions at Columbus, Ohio Clinic

• Adult Stem Cells Help Totally Paralyzed Patient Walk, Embryonic Stem Cells? Zilch

• Respectable Barbarism: We Condemn Terrorism Outside the Womb, Ignore Violence Inside
• PBS Attacks Philippines for Protecting Its Pro-Life Values
• Poll Shows Most British Doctors Oppose Assisted Suicide




Woman Kills Pregnant Mom With Knife, Tries to Cut Her Baby Out of Her Womb
Several years ago a few cases cropped up in the United States of women who befriended pregnant mothers only to subject them to horrific violence resulting in their murders and the assailant attempting to cut their unborn baby out of their womb. Now, a new case has surfaced in Mexico.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/woman-kills-pregnant-mom-with-knife-tries-to-cut-her-baby-out-of-her-womb/



Mom Files Wrongful Life Lawsuit Because She Couldn’t Abort Her Baby With Down Syndrome
Atheist writer Richard Dawkins created a firestorm of controversy last week with his comments justifying the abortion of babies with Down syndrome. Now, out of South Africa, comes a story of a woman who is suing because she was unable to abort her baby.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/mom-files-wrongful-life-lawsuit-because-she-couldnt-abort-her-baby-with-down-syndrome/
Doctors Told My Parents Three Times to Abort My Sister Just Because She Has Trisomy 18
“How is Faith doing?” That is probably the question I have heard the most in the last five years. Every time I get asked that question, I have the same general answer: “She is doing okay, but the doctors still have not figured out _____.”

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/doctors-told-my-parents-three-times-to-abort-my-sister-just-because-she-has-trisomy-18/



You Won’t Believe What This Little Boy Said When He Found Out His Mom is Pregnant
A mother of two decided to announce to her kids that she was expecting another baby, but her son’s response wasn’t what she anticipated. Little Andre starts by asking, “What were you thinking? Why you have to um..just get another baby?"

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/you-wont-believe-what-this-little-boy-said-when-he-found-out-his-mom-is-pregnant/



Woman Beats Toddler Son to Death, Hides His Body in a Suitcase, Dumps it in Woods
In January, Rosdeep Adekoya beat her 3-year-old son to death and then buried his body in the woods. Now, the citizens of Edinburgh are upset because Adekoya was not tried for murder. Instead, she was tried for culpable homicide and will likely spend only seven years in prison.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/woman-beats-toddler-son-to-death-hides-his-body-in-a-suitcase-dumps-it-in-woods/



Obama Administration Shell Game on Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate Continues
After losing in the Hobby Lobby v Burwell Supreme Court case earlier this summer, the Obama administration has just issued new rules for the notorious “HHS Mandate,” the Obamacare provision that requires all employee health plans to include free contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/obama-administration-shell-game-on-pro-abortion-hhs-mandate-continues/

 
After Battling Leukemia, He Wrote This Beautiful Song That Gives God Glory
In 2004, Doran Robin was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) at age 10. ALL is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that progresses rapidly and creates immature blood cells rather than mature ones.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/after-battling-leukemia-he-wrote-this-beautiful-song-that-gives-god-glory/



Benham Brothers: Pro-Life People are Not Anti-Women, We Lay Our Lives Down for Them
Remember the Benham brothers? They were the Christian identical twin brothers set to host a new program called Flip It Forward, the show HGTV cancelled because the hosts of the program are pro-life.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/benham-brothers-pro-life-people-are-not-anti-women-we-lay-our-lives-down-for-them/

Why Do We Tell Pregnant Women Not to Hurt Their Baby by Drinking But Ignore Abortion?If you live in Ontario and enjoy a bottle of wine with dinner or a couple beers after getting the yard work finished, you will be exposed to an aggressive marketing campaign the next time you hit the local LCBO to purchase your booze. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/why-do-we-tell-pregnant-women-not-to-hurt-their-baby-by-drinking-but-ignore-abortion/
Father-Son Abortionists Stop Performing Abortions at Columbus, Ohio ClinicThere is more good news out of Ohio when it comes to stopping abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/father-son-abortionists-stop-performing-abortions-at-columbus-ohio-clinic/

Adult Stem Cells Help Totally Paralyzed Patient Walk, Embryonic Stem Cells? ZilchI predicted in 2013 that the company which bought Geron would restart its embryonic stem cell product human trial. Indeed, it is. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/adult-stem-cells-help-totally-paralyzed-patient-walk-embryonic-stem-cells-zilch/
Respectable Barbarism: We Condemn Terrorism Outside the Womb, Ignore Violence InsideWe’ve all been shocked by the barbarism we’ve seen committed in the name of Islam. But what about the respectable barbarism we see around us every day? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/respectable-barbarism-we-condemn-terrorism-outside-the-womb-ignore-violence-inside/
Dutch Woman Euthanized Who Feared Going to Nursing HomeIt’s official. Like Belgium, The Netherlands has completely lost any sense of respect for the law and has leapt, lemming like off the moral cliff. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/27/dutch-woman-euthanized-who-feared-going-to-nursing-home/
Looking for an inspiring and motivating speaker for your pro-life event in 2014? Don't have much to spend on a high-priced speaker costing several thousand dollars? Contact LifeNews at news@lifenews.com about having LifeNews Editor Steven Ertelt speak at your event.

PBS Attacks Philippines for Protecting Its Pro-Life ValuesMark Litke hyped the “population explosion – what some are calling a crisis” in the Philippines on Sunday’s PBS NewsHour Weekend. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/pbs-attacks-philippines-for-rejecting-population-control-law-protecting-its-pro-life-values/
Poll Shows Most British Doctors Oppose Assisted SuicideA survey of 600 physicians in Britain found that 60% opposed a change in the law to legalize physician-assisted suicide while 19% indicated that they would be willing euthanize or assist the suicide of a patient. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/28/poll-shows-most-british-doctors-oppose-assisted-suicide/


SPECIAL REPORT-Abortion Licensing Fiasco: No Ohio Abortion Facility is in Legal Compliance

 
 
Abortion Licensing Fiasco: No Ohio Abortion Facility is in Legal Compliance

A special investigative report from Operation Rescue

August 28, 2014

By Cheryl Sullenger

Columbus, OH - What would you think if you were told that no abortion facility in your home state held a current facility license as required by law, yet all of them continued to do abortions that were technically illegal - with full knowledge of state authorities?

That is not simply a hypothetical situation in Ohio. It is the scandalous reality.

Operation Rescue confirmed this week that out of eleven abortion facilities in that state, none hold current, active Ambulatory Surgical Facility licenses. While applications for licensure or license renewal have been made by all but one abortion facility, the Ohio Department of Health has not approved or denied their licensing applications. Some have been pending for over a year - one facility has been waiting since 2012 for licensing renewal - even though the law requires that ASF licenses be renewed annually.