Monday, August 4, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 8/4/14




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Monday, August 4, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Judge Overturns Alabama Pro-Life Admitting Privileges Law That Closed Abortion Clinics
• Couple Takes Heartbreaking Photos With Their Stillborn Daughter to Remember Her
• Comedian Jimmy Fallon: Abortion Can Be “Lighthearted” and “Funny”
• Grandparents Adopt Baby of Disabled Mom Almost Forced to Have an Abortion


More Pro-Life News
• Abortion Activists Challenge Texas Law That Has Closed 17 Abortion Clinics
• Mother Arrested After Beating Two-Month-Old So Badly She Was Brain Dead

• Hollywood Now Considers Anyone Who Practices Abstinence a Freak
• Abortion Has Cost the U.S. $16 Trillion in Lost Revenue, The Size of the National Debt
• Guardian of the Galaxy Actor Chris Pratt: Preemie Baby “Renewed Our Faith in God”
• Doctors Said She Wouldn’t Live Long, But Her Parents Rejected Abortion and Now She’s 32

• Abortion Clinic Closes to Avoid Law Making It Tell Women Abortion Kills a Human Being

• Exposing the Hypocrisy of Opposing the Death Penalty But Supporting Abortion in 10 Seconds
• Why is Planned Parenthood Running Away From the Term “Pro-Choice?
• When Surrogacy Makes it So Babies are Purchased Like Lumber at Home Depot

• Saving Lives One Baby at a Time – The Case for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

• Police Raid Euthanasia Group’s Office After Giving Drug to Man Who Killed Himself



Judge Overturns Alabama Pro-Life Admitting Privileges Law That Closed Abortion Clinics Judge Myron Thompson issued a 172-page opinion this morning ruling that the Alabama law that requires abortionists to maintain local hospital privileges in unconstitutional.
Thompson said that the rule created an “undue burden” on women seeking abortions, because that law would force three out of five abortion facilities in that state to close because abortionists at those facilities are unqualified to receive hospital privileges. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/judge-overturns-alabama-pro-life-admitting-privileges-law-that-closed-abortion-clinics/
Couple Takes Heartbreaking Photos With Their Stillborn Daughter to Remember HerA California couple decided to remember their stillborn daughter by hiring a professional photographer to take special pictures of them with her so they would have a touching memorial to remember her by. Richard and Emily Staley wanted a way to mark their daughter Monroe’s place in their family even though she was dead at birth.
So they hired Lindsey Natzic-Villatoro, who typically takes happy photographs of weddings or family pictures. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/couple-takes-heartbreaking-photos-with-their-stillborn-daughter-to-remember-her/
Comedian Jimmy Fallon: Abortion Can Be “Lighthearted” and “Funny” Comedians can find the humor in anything, right? Or so Jimmy Fallon seems to think.
Comedian Jimmy Fallon invited the “very talented actress” Jenny Slate (“SNL,” “Parks and Recreation”) on “The Tonight Show” August 1. During her appearance, Fallon applauded Slate’s recent role in the media-dubbed “abortion romantic comedy,” “Obvious Child.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/comedian-jimmy-fallon-abortion-can-be-lighthearted-and-funny/

Grandparents Adopt Baby of Disabled Mom Almost Forced to Have an Abortion
Last year, a disabled mother who almost became a victim of forced abortion gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
LifeNews broke the storyin 2012 of a mentally disabled woman, Elisa Bauer, who was close to becoming a victim of forced abortion after a Nevada county agency went to court to request that a judge okay the abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/grandparents-adopt-baby-of-disabled-mom-almost-forced-to-have-an-abortion/
Abortion Activists Challenge Texas Law That Has Closed 17 Abortion ClinicsAbortion proponents in Texas are in court today to again challenge provisions of the state’s multi-faceted HB 2, the law that in an earlier form was temporary stymied by the June 2013 filibuster of pro-abortion “icon” State Senator Wendy Davis, now running for governor.
The part of the law that requires abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers does not go into effect until September 1. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/abortion-activists-challenge-texas-law-that-has-closed-17-abortion-clinics/
Mother Arrested After Beating Two-Month-Old So Badly She Was Brain DeadIn 2012, homicide or abuse was the leading cause of injury-related deaths among children 1 to 5 years old in Colorado, taking the life of 107 children. While abortion supporters insist that legal abortion will decrease abuse-related deaths of children, this doesn’t seem to be the case. A recent example in Denver makes this clear.
A 21-year-old mother, Kelsy-Newell Skinner, is being held at the Downtown Detention Center in Denver after reportedly beating her 2-month old daughter, Natalee Skinner-Hurst, to death. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/mother-arrested-after-beating-two-month-old-so-badly-she-was-brain-dead/
Hollywood Now Considers Anyone Who Practices Abstinence a FreakBack in the 1950s, C.S. Lewis saw chastity as under attack with “all the contemporary propaganda for lust that makes people “feel that the desires we are resisting are so ‘natural,’ so ‘healthy,’ and so reasonable, that it is almost perverse and abnormal to resist them.
You can now safely delete the word “almost.http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/hollywood-now-considers-anyone-who-practices-abstinence-a-freak/

Abortion Has Cost the U.S. $16 Trillion in Lost Revenue, The Size of the National Debt The pro-life movement often talks of the science behind life in the womb, the fact that abortion leaves emotional, psychological and physical scars on women and the inherent beauty of every life. What we don’t often talk about, though, is money. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/abortion-has-cost-the-u-s-16-trillion-in-lost-revenue-the-size-of-the-national-debt/

Guardian of the Galaxy Actor Chris Pratt: Preemie Baby “Renewed Our Faith in God” In August of 2012, Guardian of the Galaxy actor, Chris Pratt, and his wife Anna Faris welcomed their first-born son, Jack Pratt to their family. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/guardian-of-the-galaxy-actor-chris-pratt-preemie-baby-renewed-our-faith-in-god/
Doctors Said She Wouldn’t Live Long, But Her Parents Rejected Abortion and Now She’s 32 Cystic fibrosis (CF) has been in the news a lot lately, mostly because of a little girl named Sarah and her mom Janet and how they changed the transplant rules for children. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/03/doctors-said-she-wouldnt-live-long-but-her-parents-rejected-abortion-and-now-shes-32/
Abortion Clinic Closes to Avoid Law Making It Tell Women Abortion Kills a Human Being Reporters are still contacting Kansans for Life to ask what we think is the real reason the Aid for Women clinic closed abruptly last Saturday. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/abortion-clinic-closes-to-avoid-law-making-it-tell-women-abortion-kills-a-human-being/
Exposing the Hypocrisy of Opposing the Death Penalty But Supporting Abortion in 10 Seconds One of the biggest hypocrisies in the abortion debate are those abortion defenders who oppose the death penalty because it involves killing a human being but who steadfastly support legal abortion, which also involves killing human beings. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/exposing-the-hypocrisy-of-opposing-the-death-penalty-but-supporting-abortion-in-10-seconds/
Why is Planned Parenthood Running Away From the Term “Pro-Choice? In January 2013 came news that shocked both sides of the abortion debate: Planned Parenthood had determined the term “pro-choice” was no longer helpful and recommended abandoning it. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/why-is-planned-parenthood-running-away-from-the-term-pro-choice/

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When Surrogacy Makes it So Babies are Purchased Like Lumber at Home Depot The well off of the world increasing exploit the body parts and functions of the destitute–and then, call it “choice.”http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/when-surrogacy-makes-it-so-babies-are-purchased-like-lumber-at-home-depot/
Saving Lives One Baby at a Time – The Case for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Each year pro-life pregnancy centers save thousands of lives. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/saving-lives-one-baby-at-a-time-the-case-for-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-2/
Police Raid Euthanasia Group’s Office After Giving Drug to Man Who Killed Himself An hour after Philip Nitschke met today with South Australian Police over the recent nembutal death, in Adelaide, of former Voluntary Euthanasia Party Senate candidate, Max Bromson, his clinic in the Adelaide suburb of Gilberton was raided by police. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/04/police-raid-euthanasia-groups-office-after-giving-drug-to-man-who-killed-himself/