IFRL NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY

NEWS SHORTS FOR FRIDAY

Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of The Illinois Federation for Right to Life. They are presented only for your information.

Planned Parenthood Looks Into Unreported Claim of Teen Rape

Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona is investigating an allegation that one of its Tucson employees did not report statutory rape of a teen asking about an abortion. The allegation was made by Lila Rose, a UCLA student who filmed interactions with Planned Parenthood nurses across the country last summer. Rose, who is president of Live Action Films, visited the Margaret Sanger Clinic, 2255 N. Wyatt Drive, last July. Live Action released a video of the July visit Tuesday, the same day Planned Parenthood representatives were lobbying the state Legislature in Phoenix. The six-minute video shows Rose's friend, Jackie Stollar, posing as a 15-year-old impregnated by her 27-year-old boyfriend.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/109496.php


S.C. Lawmakers Advance 'Born Alive' Legislation

A South Carolina legislative panel has approved a bill that says any fetus that survives abortion is entitled to lifesaving treatment. Chester Republican Rep. Greg Delleney says doctors would have to try to save those infants just as they do any other patient with a life-threatening condition. The measure defines a person as anyone who's breathing and has a beating heart after birth, whether that's by labor, cesarean section, or abortion. Delleny told News Channel 7 there have been reports across the country of babies born alive at abortion clinics and left to die.
http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/s.c._house_bill_defines_fetuses_as_people_passes_subcommittee/14286/


Obama Plan Aims to Appease 'Both Sides' of Abortion Issue

Obama is trying to blunt the edge of perhaps the sharpest, most divisive wedge issue in the country: abortion. In a series of moves, he is attempting to nudge the debate away from the morality and legality of abortion and toward a goal he hopes both sides can endorse: decreasing the number of women who terminate their pregnancies by addressing the reasons they might choose the procedure. The strategy is being met by deep skepticism from many prominent antiabortion activists, but it has been embraced by some others as well as by leading abortion rights activists, who hope it could fundamentally reshape one of the nation's most intransigent political stalemates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020501506.html


Abortionist Stripped of Medical License in the Hialeah Baby Murder Case

This morning, the Florida Board of Medicine revoked the medical license of Pierre Renelique, a Florida abortionist who failed to show up for a scheduled late-term abortion at a Hialeah clinic in July, 2006. As a result, unlicensed workers delivered a live 23-week old baby girl, shoved the struggling baby into trash bag, and stashed her body on the roof.
The Board found Renelique guilty of medical malpractice and delegating responsibility to unlicensed personnel.
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/794769399.html


A strategy for deception on FOCA?

Concern about the threat to virtually all abortion regulations posed by the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) have generated online petitions, postcard campaigns, statements from Catholic bishops, letters to Congress, and other opposition throughout the Pro-Life community. 

Has this risk been overblown?  Is there really no risk at all?   It seems "abortion rights" proponents are trying to challenge the credibility of their opposition by claiming they were never serious about FOCA in the first place.   They might have a bridge to sell you too; in Brooklyn perhaps?
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2009/02/a-strategy-for-deception-on-foca.html