Sunday, May 24, 2015

Grieving mother shares photos of son miscarried at 17 weeks to show his humanity


Grieving mother shares photos of son miscarried at 17 weeks to show his humanity

 
Being vulnerable about such a personal loss is not an easy thing. Yet Natasha wanted to not only share her story, but to also share pictures of Isaiah. When I asked her why she wanted to share something so private, she said, “I want to share Isaiah’s pictures because people need to see the humanity in the preborn. He was perfect and loved.”

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Father with facial deformity says of his daughter with the same condition: ‘She’s beautiful’

Simon Moore, 30, has Treacher Collins syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects facial structure and hearing. Individuals with TC are born with craniofacial disfigurements, including the absence of cheekbones and eyes that droop.

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These babies could have been aborted after 20 weeks, but their parents chose life

Life is a gift!

Abortion proponents say a ban on late-term abortions is "cruel" and "disgusting," but nothing is more cruel than killing a helpless preborn child. These special children prove that life, regardless of physical disability, is precious and worth protecting.

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Raped at 16, mother reunites 77 years later with the baby she placed for adoption

It was 1928 and 16-year-old Minka Disbrow was picnicking in the woods with a friend when three men approached. One of the men acted as the lookout. The other two men raped them.  A few months later, Disbrow, described as an innocent farm girl, discovered she was pregnant.

She gave birth to a baby girl, whom she named Betty Jane.

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Wendy Davis at Planned Parenthood fundraiser: Abortion of 7-pound babies ‘never happens’

Everyone’s favorite late-term abortion crusader has popped up again. Wendy Davis has been laying low after her humiliating defeat in the Texas gubernatorial race, but she made time for her favorite cause: abortion. Davis served as the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood’s annual fundraising luncheon in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Is the life of a baby conceived in rape worth protecting?

H.R. 36, a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks, except in cases of rape or incest, has passed the U.S. House, and many pro-lifers are applauding. However, there are two groups of pro-lifers who are definitely not applauding: those conceived in rape and those who gave birth to a child that was conceived in rape.

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Former Planned Parenthood manager: Abortion stops a beating heart

In April of 1991, Sue Thayer took a job with Planned Parenthood in the small community of Storm Lake, Iowa. She was against abortion, but she didn’t know Planned Parenthood was anything more than a health care facility. She was unaware of their focus on abortion.

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Raped by her brother at 11, courageous girl rejected abortion

Tressa Middleton didn’t grow up in a stable home. Her mother was homeless, and because of that, Middleton and her brother, Jason, were split up into foster care.  After a year, the family was reunited; however, Middleton began drinking around age eight, and spent time with people in their 20s.

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Planned Parenthood clinic worker tells of teen forced into abortion

Lavonne Wilenken worked as a nurse practitioner at a Planned Parenthood clinic. She shares some anecdotes about her time at Planned Parenthood in the book Bad Choices: A Look inside Planned Parenthood by Douglas R Scott.

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Hungarian court condemns black market sales of aborted fetal parts for cosmetic use

ADF reports that “The City Court of Budapest has found eight people guilty of illegally harvesting embryonic stem cells and tissue from aborted babies and using them for profit in cosmetic procedures.”

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Post-abortive father reveals his pain in Esquire article

He says: “I’ve had a hell of a time dealing with it, actually. To this day I still think about it. I’ll go to bed, and I’ll think about it and say to myself, ‘Man, what a terrible thing to do. What a copout. You don’t trade human life for material niceties.’

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Pro-abortion writer: There should be more abortions

Claiming that abortion should be rare allows pro-choicers to appeal to those who are ambivalent, or on the fence about abortion. Many pro-abortion writers, activists and politicians have clung to the “abortion should be rare” rhetoric. But not RH Reality Check’s Aimée Thorne-Thomsen.

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Incredible display of miscarried babies shows the humanity of preborn children

Last year during my first speaking trip in Portland somebody told me that I couldn’t leave without seeing the Prenatal Exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, or OMSI.

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