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Monday, December 3, 2012
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LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 12/3/12
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Monday, December 3, 2012
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• Pro-Lifers Optimistic They Can Defeat Pro-Abortion CRPD Treaty
• Pope Benedict Joins Twitter; Greeted by Profane, Hateful Tweets
• Liberal Web Site Calls Prince William and Kate Middleton s Baby a Baby
• Amazing Video Shows Unborn Twins Fighting in the Womb
More Pro-Life News
• Planned Parenthood Opposes Bill to Ban Sex-Selection Abortions
• Ireland: Pro-Life Vigil Outside Dáil Planned for Tuesday
• Ireland: Reporter Admits Savita May Not Have Wanted Abortion
• Canadians Flood MPs, Upset 491 Babies Left to Die After Abortions
• Pope: Catholic Groups Can t Support Pro-Abortion Efforts
• Three Popular Movies With Accidental Pro-Life Messages
• Chen Guangcheng: Forced Abortions Still Rampant in China
• The 12 Best Pro-Life Statements From 2012
• Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Can be Patented
• Does Legalized Abortion Reduce Welfare Costs for Poor Women?
• Assisted Suicide Makes it Easy to Hide Elder Abuse
• Young People Don t Know Even the Basics About Abortion
• Germany: Courts Limit Embryonic Stem Cell Patents
Pro-Lifers Optimistic They Can Defeat Pro-Abortion CRPD Treaty
The final vote on whether or not to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is scheduled for noon on Tuesday, December 4, says J. Michael Smith of HSLDA. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/pro-lifers-optimistic-they-can-defeat-pro-abortion-crpd-treaty/
Pope Benedict Joins Twitter; Greeted by Profane, Hateful Tweets
The Vatican revealed the new personal Twitter account for Pope Benedict XVI, and said the leader of the Catholic Church would answer one question about his faith every week with the first coming next Wednesday. Users of Twitter can send questions using the hashtag #askpontifex or #B16 and church officials said the first tweets from the account would come this week. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/pope-benedict-joins-twitter-greeted-by-profane-hateful-tweets/
Liberal Web Site Calls Prince William and Kate Middleton s Baby a Baby
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby, the announcement said. The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry and members of both families are delighted with the news. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/liberal-web-site-calls-prince-william-and-kate-middletons-baby-a-baby/
Amazing Video Shows Unborn Twins Fighting in the Womb
The video from scientists at London s Center for Fetal Care shows two babies essentially pushing each other. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/amazing-video-shows-unborn-twins-fighting-in-the-womb/
Planned Parenthood Opposes Bill to Ban Sex-Selection Abortions
Utah State Sen. Margaret Dayton is proposing legislation prohibiting abortions in the western state if sought because the baby is a girl. The measure may also prevent abortions if sought because the baby is black or another undesired race. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/planned-parenthood-opposes-bill-to-ban-sex-selection-abortions/
Obama Wants Pro-Abortion Democratic Party Chair to Stay
A Roll Call report indicates Wasserman attended more than 850 campaign events in 31 states in the first 18 months of her tenure to support Obama s campaign for another four-year term. That includes events with the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which pumped $15 million into Obama s re-election bid. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/obama-wants-pro-abortion-democratic-party-chair-to-stay/
Ireland: Pro-Life Vigil Outside Dáil Planned for Tuesday
It s time the pro-life majority were heard. Enda needs to Keep his Pro-Life promise. Say NO to abortion in Ireland, says Youth Defence in announcing the event. Fine Gael and Labour are on the verge of legalising abortion. This may be the only chance we get to send a united message to the Government that the people of Ireland do not want abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/ireland-pro-life-vigil-outside-dail-planned-for-tuesday/
Ireland: Reporter Admits Savita May Not Have Wanted Abortion
In a major change in the debate related to the death of a woman in Ireland that abortion activists are using to push legalizing abortion, a newspaper admits that the woman may not have sought an abortion before she died. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/ireland-activist-admits-savita-may-not-have-wanted-abortion/
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Canadians Flood MPs, Upset 491 Babies Left to Die After Abortions
Canadians are unhappy after the story LifeNews features recently showing 491 babies have been born alive and subsequently left to die following failed abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/canadians-flood-mps-upset-491-babies-left-to-die-after-abortions/
Pope: Catholic Groups Can t Support Pro-Abortion Efforts
Responding to concerns pro-life advocates have had about Catholic charitable groups that have been using donor funds to support pro-abortion organizations and efforts, Pope Benedict XVI released a new statement condemning the practice. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/pope-catholic-groups-cant-support-pro-abortion-efforts/
Three Popular Movies With Accidental Pro-Life Messages
It s great that films like Bella, October Baby, and Doonby get made. But sometimes movies have pro-life scenes, or overall pro-life messages, without even meaning to. Oops. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/three-popular-movies-with-accidental-pro-life-messages/
Chen Guangcheng: Forced Abortions Still Rampant in China
Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has released a new video today in which he says forced abortions are still rampant in China, the nation he escaped after facing home detention for exposing the brutal practice. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/chen-guangcheng-forced-abortions-still-rampant-in-china/
The 12 Best Pro-Life Statements From 2012
The following are the 12 best statements from 2012, as compiled by pro-life writer and attorney Kristi Burton Brown at the Live Action blog. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/the-12-best-pro-life-statements-from-2012/
Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Can be Patented
The Supreme Court will decide whether human genes can be patented. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/supreme-court-to-decide-if-human-genes-can-be-patented/
Assisted Suicide Makes it Easy to Hide Elder Abuse
The letter I wrote to the Revalli Republic newspaper in Montana on assisted suicide and elder abuse was published online today. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/assisted-suicide-makes-it-easy-to-hide-elder-abuse/
Does Legalized Abortion Reduce Welfare Costs for Poor Women?
Supporters of the Culture of Death tend to lack foresight, and do not seem to possess even a rudimentary understanding of human nature. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/does-legalized-abortion-reduce-welfare-costs-for-poor-women/
Young People Don t Know Even the Basics About Abortion
How many abortions do you think have happened in the past 40 years? Just take a guess. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/young-people-dont-know-even-the-basics-about-abortion/
Germany: Courts Limit Embryonic Stem Cell Patents
The complicated case of the patenting of discoveries using embryonic stem cells in Europe is full of irony, surprise and confusion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/03/germany-courts-limit-embryonic-stem-cell-patents/
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Heroic News: “Chinese Activist Says Sinful Violence Used to Maintain One-Child Policy” plus 1 more
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| Chinese Activist Says Sinful Violence Used to Maintain One-Child Policy
Posted: 03 Dec 2012 11:43 AM PST Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has recently released a video condemning the Chinese Communist Party's poor human rights record, especially focusing on the country's controversial One-Child Policy. |
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Evidence of the American Holocaust, part 2 Who was Weisberg?
This is the second in a series; the first story ran Monday, Nov. 26.
Malvin Roy Weisberg operated Medical Analytic Laboratories in Santa Monica from 1976 until March 1981. A significant part of the business of these laboratories was to conduct pathology exams on the bodies of unborn babies from clinics in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
A May, 1983 Associated Press story pointed out that Weisberg’s laboratories at one point received nearly $175,000 in Medi-Cal payments, with $88,000 coming from pathology tests on aborted fetuses. Of this, half of it ($44,000) was paid federally through the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). By the Hyde Amendment, this money was ineligible for testing on pre-abortion or post-abortion tissue, which meant the state of California would need to pay back federal funds claimed by Weisberg and by any other laboratories.
Weisberg was not a medical doctor; to do the exams he hired Milo Allado, a pathologist from the Philippines who had been a physician for the U.S. military. Allado’s name was on the paperwork found in Weisberg’s sea/land container which held the 16,433 unborn baby bodies discovered accidentally in February, 1982.
Baby girl, age 25-28 weeks, weight 1 lb., 15 oz., length 16 inches, cause of death, massive hemorrhaging, salt poisoned by Dr. Scott Ricke, Coroner’s case #82-1901-5
This accident occurred because Weisberg (33 years old at the time of the discovery) had neglected to make the payments on the container he was purchasing from the Martin Container company in Wilmington. Weisberg had been keeping the aborted baby bodies at his Santa Monica office, but in 1980 there were complaints about the sight and smell of so many bodies, and Weisberg ordered the container to be delivered to his Woodland Hills home. (The first check for $1700 bounced.)
Weisberg’s Woodland Hills home on Califa Street in the Woodland Hills Country Club sat next to a flag lot, a piece of property with a long driveway that led to larger lot off the street. In back of Weisberg’s house there were tennis courts. Next to the tennis courts, on the vacant flag lot sat the large (20’x8’x8’) steel container before it was re-possessed.
After a short item appeared in the LA Times about the discovery of the bodies, two pro-lifers visited the Weisberg home in February, 1982. Mrs. Weisberg appeared at the front gate in tennis clothes, accompanied by another female. Mrs. Weisberg seemed to acknowledge the existence of the bodies, but at that point her female companion encouraged her to return to the house. The only other testimony to the grisly incident was a neighbor boy, who told the visitors that his parents would not let his sister play with the Weisberg children at their house, because there were “babies’ bodies” stored in a garage there.
Why was Weisberg keeping so many bodies of unborn babies?
To cut back on smog the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District had strict rules by the late 1970s limiting on-site incineration in the L.A. Basin. So disposing of human bodies was going to mean burying in the L.A. area or shipping somewhere out of the area – costs Weisberg was apparently not willing to bear.
And there was little chance to make money from the sale of the bodies. Since the bodies were kept in formaldehyde, they could not be used for research or for other uses.
All that is known for certain is that the bodies accumulated on the Woodland Hills property.
Why was Weisberg not prosecuted or made to pay for the Medi-Cal missing money?
Health and Human Services inspector Richard Kusserow stated “prior to its closing in April, 1981, [Medical Analytical Laboratories] had routinely submitted questionable billings under the Medi-Cal program, using an erroneous billing code…. the case lacked criminal prosecutive merit due to a lack of proof that the false billings were intentional. Because the laboratory was out of business, and its owner had declared bankruptcy, there were no assets against which to proceed for civil recovery”
Weisberg is now 64 years old and runs the Privacy Corporation on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills.
Other installments of this series on California Catholic Daily:
16,433 aborted unborn babies found in San Fernando Valley
The role of the Martin Container company (next week)
How the 16,443 figure arrived at
What the coroner’s office did
The Inglewood Women’s Hospital
Gloria Allred attempts to prevent burial
Mothers’ and abortionists’ names on bodies
How Odd Fellows Cemetery chosen for burial
Future Chief Justice Roberts actions regarding Reagan letter
Clergy participation in burial service
Conrad cartoon in LA Times
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Senate Expected to Vote on Tuesday to Surrender U.S. Sovereignty
If ratified, UN treaty will submit US law to international tribunal.
PURCELLVILLE, Va., Dec. 3, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Senate offices confirm that Majority Leader Harry Reid will move to a final vote at noon this Tuesday on a U.N. treaty that will give up our sovereignty to unelected, unaccountable UN bureaucrats.
Michael Farris, President of ParentalRights.Org and leading expert on international law, observed, "Ever since Obama's reelection, Democrats in Washington DC have revived debate on a series of UN issues. This Tuesday they plan to test their strength and attempt to ratify their first project: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). If the Senate ratifies the UN CRPD, it would be the first time ever that the U.S. has ratified a treaty that obligates us to recognize economic, social, and cultural entitlements as rights under domestic law."
The CRPD calls for numerous protections for people with disabilities. While many of these protections are already provided for in the U.S. by the Americans with Disabilities Act, additional provisions included in the treaty concern many U.S. citizens. If ratified, the CRPD would become the supreme law of the land under the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause in Article VI, would trump state laws, and would be used as binding precedent by state and federal judges.
Farris explains, "Our nation already has laws to protect disabled Americans. The UN CRPD treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families. It is wrong for the United States to ratify a United Nations treaty that will give up our sovereignty to unelected, unaccountable UN bureaucrats. We oppose the UN CRPD for the simple principle that Americans should make the law for America."
Last week the Senate began discussion on the treaty and Senator Reid and Senator Kerry said they hoped for a robust debate and a series of amendments that would bring all sides together. However, after the first day of debate it was announced that there would be no amendments. If 2/3 of the senators present vote yes, the United States will ratify this UN treaty and erode U.S. sovereignty.
For example: Article 4(2) requires the United States to use its maximum resources for compliance with these standards. The UN has interpreted similar provisions in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to criticize nations who spend too much on military issues and not enough on social programs. There is every reason to believe that the UN would interpret these provisions in a similar fashion. The UN believes that it has the power to determine the legitimacy and lawfulness of the budget of the United States to assess compliance with such treaties. Other examples can be found here.
"The question is, who should make critical decisions regarding the care and raising of children who have disabilities? Their parents or United Nations social workers?" said President of the Home School Legal Defense Association, J. Michael Smith. Smith is calling for a national grassroots phone blitz. "There is no need for the CRPD, as our nation's state and federal laws already protect our precious loved ones with disabilities. It is outrageous that U.S. senators would support a treaty that surrenders U.S. sovereignty and family integrity to unelected UN bureaucrats. Call your Senators today and tell them to vote 'No!'"
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Visit us online at www.HSLDA.org.
