Friday, August 29, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/29/14






LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Friday, August 29, 2014

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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/
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$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/