Wednesday, August 13, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/13/14




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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

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Top Stories
• Planned Parenthood Tells Teen to Let Her Boyfriend Beat Her With a Horse Whip
• Passion of the Christ Actor Jim Caviezel Calls Abortion America’s “Great Sin”
• Woman Arrested After Putting Newborn Baby in Trash, Taking the Trash to the Curb
• Sign Language Interpreter at Planned Parenthood Shares Heartbreaking Story of Having to Interpret Abortion


More Pro-Life News
• Man Hired Thugs to Kill His Girlfriend Because She Refused an Abortion
• Grandmother Sparks Outrage After Posting Photo of Infant With Pacifier Duct Taped to Her Face

• False! No, 1 in 3 Women Will NOT Have an Abortion in Her Lifetime
• Remembering the Times When Abortion Activists Invaded Christian Church Services
• Former Abortion Clinic Worker Admits: We Rushed Women Into Abortions With No Counseling
• Huffington Post Blasted for Falsely Telling Women Abortion is Not Linked to Breast Cancer

• Why Are Women Over 40 Having More Abortions Than Ever Before?

• Late-Term Abortionist Sues to Break Law to Avoid Closing His Abortion Clinic
• New Russian Bill Would Allow Forced Abortions Up to Birth
• Colorado Pro-Life Group Endorses Pro-Life Cory Gardner Over Pro-Abortion Mark Udall

• Pro-Abortion Author of New Book “Dirty Work” Admits Abortions Make Her Uncomfortable




Planned Parenthood Tells Teen to Let Her Boyfriend Beat Her With a Horse Whip Yet another Planned Parenthood abortion business has been caught telling a teenage girl to subject herself to violent sex at the hand of her partner. This time, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minneapolis told an undercover investigator posing as a young teen to allow her partner to abuse her with “rope burns” and “markings” from “clamps.
In Minnesota, the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic counselor tells the Live Action investigator, posing as a 15-year-old girl, that “anything within the sexual world is normal as long as it’s consensual.” That includes going to sex shops, two of which the counselor recommends specifically. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/planned-parenthood-tells-teen-to-let-her-boyfriend-beat-her-with-a-horse-whip/
Passion of the Christ Actor Jim Caviezel Calls Abortion America’s “Great Sin”Jim Caviezel, famed for his role as Christ in The Passion of the Christ, and currently starring as the leading man in TV’s Person of Interest, is frequently outspoken on the issue of abortion. With his publicly Catholic faith to his committed pro-life views, Jim and his wife Kerri have adopted two children from China, both of whom had special needs.
Earlier this year, Caviezel had a message about God’s mercy and grace — especially for women who have had abortions. Now he has a message for Americans in general: calling abortion America’s “great sin.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/passion-of-the-christ-actor-jim-caviezel-calls-abortion-americas-great-sin/
Woman Arrested After Putting Newborn Baby in Trash, Taking the Trash to the Curb A 22-year-old Pennsylvania woman has been charged with concealing the death of a child after an infant girl was found dead early Tuesday morning in a trash bag at 189 Winfield Drive in Middleport.
The woman reportedly gave birth to the newborn baby, though the infant was dead, placed the baby in a trash bag and then placing the bag in the trash can at the curb. Neighbors eventually found the dead infant when they noticed a foul odor emanating from the trash can. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/mother-arrested-after-putting-newborn-baby-in-trash-taking-the-trash-to-the-curb/

Sign Language Interpreter at Planned Parenthood Shares Heartbreaking Story of Having to Interpret Abortion
I was eighteen when I took a job as a sign language interpreter at Planned Parenthood. I was raised Roman Catholic, but I was Catholic in the same way that Olive Garden is an authentic Italian restaurant: just because you throw some fancy words on the menu doesn’t make it genuine.
For me, abortion was not a choice that I would make personally, but the way I saw it, who was I to judge another woman for having one? I didn’t know her life. I didn’t know her circumstances, and I had prided myself my whole life on not judging people without knowing their full story. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/sign-language-interpreter-at-planned-parenthood-shares-heartbreaking-story-of-having-to-interpret-abortion/
Man Hired Thugs to Kill His Girlfriend Because She Refused an AbortionA British man has been jailed after a plot was discovered in which he planned to hire thugs to beat and kill his pregnant girlfriend after she refused his request to abort his baby.
Jamie Smith, 23, plotted to have his girlfriend Jessica Santos, 18, attacked. Smith came up with scheme after Miss Santos refused to abort his baby and he paid teven Blades, 23, and a third man to attack her in a remote park. The assault was planned to make Santos miscarry or kill her and, ultimately, kill the unborn child. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/man-hired-thugs-to-kill-his-girlfriend-because-she-refused-an-abortion/
Grandmother Sparks Outrage After Posting Photo of Infant With Pacifier Duct Taped to Her FaceA mother from Columbus, Ohio has sparked outrage across the Internet after posting photos of her infant daughter in odd positions and situations, including one photo that shows her with her pacifier duct-tapped in her mouth.
Whilenot directly abortion related, this outrageous stunt shows how some people sadly view unborn children and infants as objects of their pleasure rather than people who deserve their own right to life and whose lives ought to be respected. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/grandmother-sparks-outrage-after-posting-photos-of-infant-with-pacifier-duct-taped-to-her-face/

False! No, 1 in 3 Women Will NOT Have an Abortion in Her LifetimeA reader emailed me asking if we could do a piece on the oft-touted statistic that “1 in 3 women will have an abortion in her lifetime” (or “by age 45?). Happy to oblige. By the way, suggestions for blog topics are always welcome.
The pro-choice movement loves to use the 1-in-3 statistic, arguing that it “humanize[s] the issue.” (The irony of that statement does not escape me.) Of course, from a pro-life perspective, it matters little how many people have had an abortion; we know from history that large masses of people are capable of being very, tragically wrong. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/false-no-1-in-3-women-will-not-have-an-abortion-in-her-lifetime/

Remembering the Times When Abortion Activists Invaded Christian Church Services Imagine coming to church for worship, and then having your silent prayer interrupted with “Abomination! You’re going to hell! Synagogue of Satan!http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/remembering-the-times-when-abortion-activists-invaded-christian-church-services/

Former Abortion Clinic Worker Admits: We Rushed Women Into Abortions With No Counseling In the book Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice, which was released in 2006, pro-choice writer Jenny Higgins says some disturbing things about an abortion clinic where she had once worked. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/former-abortion-clinic-worker-admits-we-rushed-women-into-abortions-with-no-counseling/
Huffington Post Blasted for Falsely Telling Women Abortion is Not Linked to Breast Cancer The Huffington Post published an outrageous attack on the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/huffington-post-blasted-for-falsely-telling-women-abortion-is-not-linked-to-brest-cancer/
Why Are Women Over 40 Having More Abortions Than Ever Before? According to the Office of National Statistics, the abortion rate among women over 35 is at an all time high in the U.K. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/why-are-women-over-40-having-more-abortions-than-ever-before/
Late-Term Abortionist Sues to Break Law to Avoid Closing His Abortion Clinic Martin Haskell, a nationally-known late-term abortionist who helped develop the now outlawed Partial-Birth Abortion procedure, has sued the Ohio Department of Health this week for ordering his Sharonville abortion facility to close because it does not meet the minimum medical safety standards in Ohio law. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/late-term-abortionist-sues-to-break-law-to-avoid-closing-his-abortion-clinic/
New Russian Bill Would Allow Forced Abortions Up to Birth This is a letter to the editor from Russian pro-life group Warriors for Life. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/new-russian-bill-would-allow-forced-abortions-up-to-birth/

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Colorado Pro-Life Group Endorses Pro-Life Cory Gardner Over Pro-Abortion Mark Udall Colorado Citizens for Life, the statewide pro-life group that represents more than 37,000 pro-life families across the state, is announcing today its endorsement of pro-life Congressman Cory Gardner for the U.S. Senate. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/colorado-pro-life-group-endorses-pro-life-cory-gardner-over-pro-abortion-mark-udall/
Pro-Abortion Author of New Book “Dirty Work” Admits Abortions Make Her Uncomfortable Over the weekend my wife mentioned a book she’d heard discussed on NPR. As is often the case, I forgot. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/13/pro-abortion-author-of-new-book-dirty-work-admits-abortions-make-her-uncomfortable/