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Judge Dismisses Bogus Charge Against David Daleiden for Exposing Planned Parenthood</h2>
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Undercover
investigator David Daleiden has been vindicated. Today, a Harris
County, Texas judge dismissed the bogus misdemeanor charge against
David Daleiden for allegedly trying to buy body parts from the Planned
Parenthood abortion business he was exposing for selling them as a part
of the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover investigation.<br />
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Daleiden has maintained from the beginning that he and the Center for
Medical Progress followed all applicable laws in the course of its
investigative journalism and that the indictments were politically
motivated.<br />
<a href="http://lifenews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Misdemeanor-Dropped.pdf">Read the judge’s order dropping the misdemeanor charge</a>.<br />
CMP responded to the dismissal in a statement to LifeNews:<br />
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Judge Diane Bull’s swift dismissal of the bogus charge
against CMP founder David Daleiden of trafficking human organs is the
latest confirmation that the indictments from a runaway grand jury in
Houston were a politically-motivated sham all along. In finding that the
indictment was void on its face, Judge Bull’s ruling directly
contradicts the District Attorney’s argument that the indictment was
valid despite the DA’s collusion with Planned Parenthood.<br />
The dismissal of the first indictment today sends a strong message to
Planned Parenthood and their political cronies that colluding to
suppress the First Amendment rights of citizen journalists will never
work. The Center for Medical Progress follows all applicable laws in the
course of its investigative journalism work and as more details about <a href="http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2016/06/6-key-takeaways-from-planned-parenthood-stemexpress-baby-parts-contracts/">Planned Parenthood’s contracts for aborted baby parts</a> come to light, it’s <a href="http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2016/06/statement-on-hippa-violations-in-planned-parenthood-stemexpress-baby-parts-scheme/">clear</a>
that Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress
are the ones who are guilty of trafficking in human body parts.</blockquote>
As the Houston Chronicle reports about the dismissed charge,
Daleiden’s attorneys maintain District Attorney Devon Anderson has been
working in cahoots with the Planned Parenthood abortion company to
target Daleiden:<br />
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Daleiden is accusing the Harris County District Attorney’s Office of illegally colluding with the nonprofit organization.<br />
“The DA’s office has chosen to wage a war on the pro-life movement,”
said attorney Jared Woodfill. “We believe there is clear evidence of
Planned Parenthood actually colluding with and pushing the district
attorney’s office to move forward with these indictments.”</blockquote>
Daleiden still faces bogus charges alleging he used a false ID to
gain access to a Planned Parenthood clinic for a meeting with staff.<br />
<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/04/david-daleiden-posts-bail-on-bogus-charges-of-investigating-and-exposing-planned-parenthood/">Daleiden posted bail</a> in response to what his attorneys and pro-life groups explain are bogus charges related to his <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/04/5th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-official-selling-fully-intact-aborted-babies/">undercover investigation and exposure of the Planned Parenthood abortion business selling the body parts of aborted babies</a>. <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/04/pro-life-advocates-make-strong-show-of-support-for-david-daleiden-as-he-appears-in-court/">Dozens of pro-life advocates turned out to support him</a>.
He turned down a plea deal and Daleiden’s attorneys and supporters
countered that Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson is biased
because of her association with an attorney for an abortion
practitioner.<br />
<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/24/explosive-new-evidence-da-that-indicted-david-daleiden-colluded-with-planned-parenthood/">Last month, LifeNews chronicled</a>
the explosive new evidence showing the Houston district attorney
behind the bogus charges against pro-life advocate David Daleiden
colluded with attorneys for Planned Parenthood.<br />
According to attorney for Daleiden, District Attorney Devon Anderson
shared confidential information with the abortion business, which she
was supposed to be investigating for running afoul of state laws
prohibiting the purchase or sale of body parts form aborted babies.<br />
Yet, in recent court filings by the Harris County District Attorney’s
Office, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s attorney Josh Schaffer admitted
in a sworn declaration that the Harris County DA’s office shared
evidence with Planned Parenthood. That occurred even after the Texas
Attorney General’s office had forbidden Anderson’s office from doing so.<br />
The declaration was included as part of the DA office’s response to
David Daleiden’s motion to quash the indictment against him, alleging
prosecutorial misconduct.<br />
Under oath, Schaffer, the Planned Parenthood attorney, admitted that
he and Assistant District Attorney Sunni Mitchell attempted to do an
end-run around the Texas Attorney General’s directive to Mitchell not to
share raw video footage with Planned Parenthood: “I was told that the
Attorney General’s Office agreed to give it to the HCDAO on the
condition that the HCDAO not give it to PPGC. Mitchell told me that she
would try to obtain the footage by other means.”<br />
Mitchell was responsible in 2013 for a Grand Jury that failed to
indict Houston’s late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen, after photographs
and eyewitness testimony implicated him in illegal late-term abortions
and killing babies who were born alive after failed abortions.<br />
“The recent filings by the Harris County District Attorney confirm
that the DA shared confidential documents and information with abortion
provider Planned Parenthood, colluding with it in the prosecution of
David Daleiden,” said Thomas More Society Special Counsel, Peter Breen,
attorney for David Daleiden.<br />
Breen told LifeNews: “These filings also include evidence that
appears to show that the DA’s office worked with Planned Parenthood Gulf
Coast to undermine the Texas Attorney General’s independent
investigation of that abortion provider. The conduct of Harris County
prosecutors in this case is outrageous and illegal. We look forward to
pressing our motion to quash this indictment in court.”<br />
<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/15/da-devon-anderson-accused-of-colluding-with-planned-parenthood-to-charge-david-daleiden/">This is the second time attorneys from Anderson’s office and Planned Parenthood were accused of working together</a>.<br />
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Daleiden is facing politically-motivated attacks on
multiple fronts. Earlier this year, a Texas grand jury whose task was to
investigate Planned Parenthood turned on the pro-life citizen
journalist instead.</div>
<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/26/david-daleiden-faces-20-years-in-prison-for-using-fake-id-to-expose-planned-parenthood/">A Texas grand jury indicted Daleiden</a>
and another pro-life activist, Sandra Merritt, behind the videos.
Instead of prosecuting Planned Parenthood for selling aborted baby
parts, Daleiden was indicted for buying them.<br />
Daleiden rejected a deal for probation on those charges in February,
and his attorney said he demands an apology from the Texas district
attorney who filed the bogus charges.<br />
Anderson has defended her indictment of pro-life advocate David
Daleiden despite the fact that a Planned Parenthood abortion business
board members works as a prosecutor in her office. And new information
LifeNews uncovered <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/28/d-a-who-indicted-david-daleiden-received-over-25000-from-attorney-for-late-term-abortionist/">shows Anderson’s campaign received more than $25,000 from the attorney who works for a late-term abortionist</a>.<br />
Since the indictment, Anderson is facing criticism over her failure to prosecute <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/30/douglas-karpen-snipped-babies-necks-worse-than-gosnell-is-anyone-noticing/" target="_blank">an abortionist known as the Kermit Gosnell of Houston</a>.<br />
Anderson oversaw a previous abortion-related grand jury investigation of Houston abortionist <a href="http://www.operationrescue.org/archives/special-report-new-stunning-photos-testimony-show-texas-abortionist-kills-babies-born-alive/" target="_blank">Douglas Karpen after Operation Rescue released evidence</a>
in the form of photos and witness testimony that babies were being born
alive during abortions and intentionally killed by twisting their
necks. This case garnered publicity in the wake of the conviction of
Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell on three counts of First Degree
Murder for intentionally killing babies born alive during abortions in a
similar fashion.<br />
That Anderson-led grand jury failed to indict Karpen despite the considerable evidence against him.<br />
Karpen was represented at his trial by attorney Chip Lewis, who donated more than $25,000 to Anderson’s re-election campaign. <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/29/d-a-who-indicted-pro-lifers-has-extensive-relationship-with-attorney-for-late-term-abortionist/">Anderson has an extensive relationship with Lewis as did her husband when he was district attorney</a>.<br />
Anderson has also come under considerable fire for what pro-life
advocates call a politically motivated indictment and because a Planned
Parenthood board member works for Anderson as an assistant district
attorney. Lauren Reeder is a prosecutor in the Harris County District
Attorney’s criminal family law division. Reeder is listed as a
non-compensated “Director” on the <a href="http://abortiondocs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2014-741100163-0b59dd7a-9.pdf" target="_blank">990 Tax Form for 2014</a> filed by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.<br />
Although Anderson indicates Reeder had no role in the Daleiden
indictment, there’s really no way of knowing if that is truly the case.
Because of that, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/27/pro-lifers-demand-special-prosecutor-as-planned-parenthood-rep-works-for-d-a-who-indicted-daleiden/">pro-life advocates have called for the appointment of a special prosecutor</a> to look into the indictment and the fact that <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/27/grand-jury-indicting-david-daleiden-never-even-voted-on-criminal-charges-for-planned-parenthood/">the grand jury never voted on charges related to Planned Parethood’s sale of aborted babies</a>.<br />
In April, pro-abortion California Attorney General Kamala Harris
stole unreleased video footage concerning Planned Parenthood from
Daleiden’s home.<br />
California authorities seized a laptop and hard drives containing the
video footage collected during Daleiden’s 3-year investigation of
Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the illegal sale of aborted baby
remains, according to a <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8212477677.html" target="_blank">written statement</a> made by Life Legal Defense Foundation, which is helping to defend Daleiden.<br />
Harris, a pro-abortion Democrat, chose to focus her investigation on
Daleiden and his associates rather than Planned Parenthood, even though
the video footage so far released by Daleiden’s Center for Medical
Progress shows clear evidence that Planned Parenthood was illegally
altering abortion procedures to endure intact organs targeted for
harvesting then selling the organs for profit.<br />
Since the California Department of Justice, under the leadership of Democratic State Attorney General Kamala Harris,<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/06/pro-abortion-ag-raids-david-daleidens-home-ignores-planned-parenthood-selling-baby-parts/"> searched the home of David Daleiden on Tuesday</a>, there have been <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/06/attorney-general-who-seized-undercover-videos-from-david-daleiden-paid-by-planned-parenthood/">numerous
news stories noting an apparent conflict of interest in Harris’
investigation of Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress that
ignores obvious evidence of illegal conduct on the part of Planned
Parenthood</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/07/planned-parenthood-donated-81000-to-kamala-harris-who-ransacked-david-daleidens-home/">Planned Parenthood has donated $81,000 to Harris</a> and, because of the massive conflict of interest, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/07/pro-life-groups-demand-kamala-harris-resign-after-raiding-david-daleidens-home-stealing-videos/">pro-life groups are calling for her resignation</a>.<br />
Harris also was <a href="http://nowpac.org/kamala-harris-d-ca-u-s-senate/">endorsed by the pro-abortion National Organization for Women</a>.
NOW describes her as a “longtime, vocal supporter of Planned
Parenthood” who promised to investigate CMP and fight for taxpayer
funding of the abortion business.<br />
Harris oversaw the raid — but she has <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/06/attorney-general-who-seized-undercover-videos-from-david-daleiden-paid-by-planned-parenthood/">significant conflict of interest problems</a>. She is funded by Planned Parenthood and her web site is currently promoting a petition for the abortion business.<br />
The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the
body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of
all twelve:<br />
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/14/shock-video-catches-planned-parenthoods-top-doctor-selling-body-parts-of-aborted-babies/">In the first video</a></strong>:
Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing:
“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know
that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below,
I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/21/second-shock-video-catches-another-top-planned-parenthood-doctor-selling-body-parts-of-aborted-babies/">In the second video</a>:</strong> Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/28/3rd-shock-shock-video-catches-planned-parenthood-vice-president-selling-body-parts-of-aborted-babies/">In the third video</a>:</strong>
Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a
Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable
atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/30/4th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-vp-discussing-how-to-break-the-law-to-sell-aborted-babies/">In the fourth video</a>:</strong>
Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just
a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little
better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also
laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to
go.”</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/04/5th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-official-selling-fully-intact-aborted-babies/">In the fifth video</a></strong>:
Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of
Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how
her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our
organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our
Research Department is the largest in the United States.”</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/12/6th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-selling-aborted-babies-without-patient-consent/">In the sixth video</a>: </strong>Holly
O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient
consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted.
And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/19/7th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-harvesting-brain-of-aborted-baby-who-was-still-alive/">In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video</a>:</strong>
Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs
from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar
Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind
of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps
the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking
at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to
think.”</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/28/full-unedited-8th-video-confirms-planned-parenthood-sells-fully-intact-aborted-babies/">In the eighth video</a></strong>: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/09/01/9th-shocking-video-planned-parenthood-sells-intact-aborted-babies-one-just-fell-out-of-the-womb/">The ninth video</a></strong>:
catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the
abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who
“just fell out” of the womb.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/09/15/10th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-we-sell-fresh-aborted-baby-eyes-hearts-and-gonads/">The 10th video</a></strong>:
catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling specific body
parts — including the heart, eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies.The
video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials
admit that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body
parts for profit.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/22/hackers-release-shocking-planned-parenthood-videos-we-cant-stop-selling-baby-parts/">Unreleased Videos</a></strong>:
Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood
caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion business
affiliates may “want to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but
we can’t stop them…” Another video has a woman talking about the
“financial incentives” of selling aborted baby body parts.</li>
<li><a href="http://sign%20the%20petition!%20congress%20must%20de-fund%20planned%20parenthood%20immediately/"><strong>The 11th video</strong></a>:
catches a texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning to sell the
intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught on
tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate
living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal
heads for brain harvesting.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/03/01/12th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-aborting-intact-late-term-babies-to-sell-as-parts/">The 12th video in the series</a>
shows new footage of Jennefer Russo, medical director at Planned
Parenthood in Orange County, California, describing to undercover
investigators how her abortion business tries to harvest intact aborted
babies’ bodies for a local for-profit biotech company and changes the
abortion procedure to do so.</li>
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<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/07/full-unedited-video-confirms-planned-parenthood-sells-baby-parts-to-create-humanized-mice/">The full, unedited videos have confirmed</a> that revelations that <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/05/where-do-the-body-parts-of-aborted-babies-end-up-scientists-transplant-their-brain-tissue-into-mice/">some aborted baby remains sold by Planned Parenthood go to biotech companies for the purpose of creating “humanized” mice</a>. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/07/planned-parenthood-has-been-selling-body-parts-from-aborted-babies-for-at-least-15-years/">Planned Parenthood has been exposed as having sold body parts from aborted babies for as much as 15 years</a>. Source: LifeSite News<br />
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bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-82237294663293846392016-06-14T10:40:00.002-05:002016-06-14T10:40:09.804-05:00Supremes
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Pondering what the Supreme Court may do in “Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt”</h2>
By Dave Andrusko<br />
<img alt="SupremeCourt30" class="alignright wp-image-50424" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SupremeCourt30.jpg" height="227" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SupremeCourt30.jpg" width="403" />There
is likely only two weeks left in the current term of the Supreme Court.
So, albeit to a lesser extent, this Monday, as in previous Mondays,
there are stories speculating about what the justices will do about the
outstanding “controversial cases.”<br />
For pro-lifers, ours is HB 2, the 2013 Texas pro-life law that the High Court could render a verdict on as soon as this week.<br />
As our readers are well aware, the two provisions under challenge in <em>Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt</em>
require abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within
30 miles of the clinics (that is in effect) and mandate that abortion
clinics meet the requirements of ambulatory surgical centers (not yet in
effect).<br />
Here are a few thoughts from various outlets.<br />
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/13/supreme-court-term-abortion-immigration-affirmative-action/85568962">Richard Wolf, USA Today writes</a>: “A substantive ruling could represent the most significant abortion decision by the court since 1992.”<br />
This is an allusion to several considerations, including that with
the death of Antonin Scalia, there are eight justices on the court.<br />
The decision could limit its effect to Texas by affirming the
decision of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding HB 2 but
without setting a national precedent. Or the justices could essentially
return the case for more proceedings, as Justice Anthony Kennedy <a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/03/takeaways-from-wednesdays-supreme-court-abortion-case-part-one/#more-50774">hinted at during the oral arguments March 2</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-abortion-idUSL1N1950CN">Reuters raised the possibility</a> of a ruling against HB 2 or rendering a ‘split decision.’ Lawrence Hurley writes<br />
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<strong>Another possibility is that the
justices strike down the law, or invalidate one of the two provisions at
issue while keeping the other. It may be more likely that the
admitting-privileges provision, already in effect, would survive, while
the hospital-grade facilities requirements, which the justices
themselves temporarily blocked, would not.</strong></div>
Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times spent most of its time <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-abortion-20160607-snap-story.html">painting a grim picture</a> of fewer abortion clinics and longer waits. Not a word about something NRLC’s <a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/03/issues-raised-as-the-supreme-court-considers-texas-abortion-law-part-4-going-too-far/#.V18OZdQrJko">Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon has explored in great depth</a>: that almost none of these closures can be definitely said to be related to the parts of the law that have been challenged in <em>Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt</em>
and that the longer waits simply assume that other abortion clinics
(particularly Planned Parenthood’s “mega-clinics) wouldn’t pick up the
slack.<br />
More tomorrow<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-89647567018813156872016-06-14T10:23:00.002-05:002016-06-14T10:23:49.687-05:00Down A Very Slippery Slope
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Advanced Request For Euthanasia?</h2>
<em>Editor’s note. This article was written by Dr.
Catherine Ferrier and published on June 10, 2016 by impact ethics in
Canadian Bioethics, <a href="https://impactethics.ca/2016/06/10/advance-request-for-euthanasia">Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health</a>.</em><br />
<em>Catherine Ferrier a physician in the Division of Geriatric
Medicine of the McGill University Health Centre, is the president of the
Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia.</em><br />
<em>“C-14” is the Canadian government’s bill to “regulate” euthanasia
and assisted suicide. It is response to the 2015 Supreme Court of
Canada decision in “Carter v. Canada.”</em><br />
<em>This was reposted on the blog of the <a href="http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2016/06/advance-request-for-euthanasia.html">Euthanasia Prevention Coalition</a>.</em><br />
<img alt="supremecourtofcanada994re" class="alignright wp-image-49570" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/supremecourtofcanada994re.jpg" height="205" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/supremecourtofcanada994re.jpg" width="397" />The June 6 deadline for legislation in response to the <em>Carter</em>
judgment has come and gone, and our government has yet to adopt a law
regulating medical assistance in dying. Too few of us have any idea what
we are rushing into.<br />
In the <em>Carter</em> decision the Supreme Court of Canada judges
stated that the risks associated with physician-assisted death can be
limited through a carefully designed and monitored system of safeguards.<br />
In contrast, the pressure is on to offer death as a solution for all
forms of suffering, available to virtually everyone, including those who
fear future suffering or disability.<br />
The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
wants Bill C-14 amended to include the recommendation of the Special
Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying<br />
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<strong>“That the permission to use
advance requests for medical assistance in dying be allowed any time
after one is diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to
cause loss of competence or after a diagnosis of a grievous or
irremediable condition but before the suffering becomes intolerable….”</strong></div>
I have spent the last 30 years diagnosing, treating, and caring for
people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. It takes no special
insight to realize that they are the principal intended “beneficiaries”
of this recommendation.<br />
Dutch academic Boris Brummans wrote in his 2007 article “<a href="http://qix.sagepub.com/content/13/5/711">Death by Document</a>” of his father’s euthanasia death through an advance directive. His father had cancer, not dementia, but the issue is the same.<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>I used to be in favor of
euthanasia… Although the euthanasia was meant to liberate my dad from
the conventional constraints of suicide, its textual, declarative form
turned him into a prisoner of himself (and us into his cellmates). By
signing the euthanasia declaration… my father created a persona of, and
for, himself… based on the person he thought he would be. On what were
these thoughts based? Hollow images of a self not yet lived; meager
ideas about a life not yet fleshed out.</strong></div>
The mantra behind advanced directives is “choice,” whereby one
chooses to die rather than live with the “indignity” of dementia, of
dependence, of becoming a burden. Brummans questions whether one can
truly choose for one’s future self. He describes how he and his family
members projected themselves into the future “in ways that deprived us,
especially my dad, from the very liberty we thought to have signed for.”<br />
A diagnosis of dementia is a major life crisis. Those of us who have
been through even lesser crises know that our judgment is not at its
best when flooded with overwhelming emotions, fears, and questions. Most
of us would be sensible enough to defer life-changing decisions until
we are calm enough to think clearly.<br />
But for the person diagnosed with dementia the clock is ticking and
the advance directive must be signed before decision-making capacity is
lost.<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-89284630351613284542016-06-14T10:19:00.000-05:002016-06-14T10:19:10.990-05:00Organ Donation by Euthanasia
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Doctors say Let’s increase organ transplant rates by encouraging euthanasia patients to donate</h2>
By Michael Cook<br />
<em>Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post that appeared at <a href="http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/lets-increase-organ-transplant-rates-by-encouraging-euthanasia-patients-to/11912">Bioedge.org</a>.</em><br />
<img alt="transplantsurgery54re" class="alignright wp-image-53323" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/transplantsurgery54re.jpg" height="236" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/transplantsurgery54re.jpg" width="398" />Since
2005 about 40 people in Belgium and the Netherlands have successfully
combined euthanasia with organ donation, according to an article in the <em><a href="http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/09/medethics-2015-102898?papetoc">Journal of Medical Ethics</a></em> by ethicists and transplant specialists.<br />
The [five] doctors are so enthusiastic about the procedure that they
have proposed legal changes which will speed up the procedure and
maximize the number of donations. Although the numbers are still low,
the idea is becoming more popular in both countries, according to the
authors.<br />
(Not everyone – in fact, only a small proportion – of people who
request euthanasia are potential organ donors. Most requests come from
patients with cancer, which makes them unsuitable donors. Most of the
Belgians who have already participated in the programme appear to have
suffered from strokes or multiple sclerosis.)<br />
<br />
However there are some legal and ethical wrinkles to be ironed out to
make the transition from euthanasia to organ donation seamless.<br />
Some regulations and laws are supposed to be safeguards, but they
“slow” the procedure down. For example, in the Netherlands, euthanasia
is not regarded as a natural death and so permission must be sought from
the public prosecutor to dispose of the body. In Belgium (where
euthanasia is regarded as “natural”), three doctors need to sign off on
the procedure. …<br />
<br />
Another consideration is whether informing euthanasia patients about
organ donation puts pressure on them to agree. The authors believe that
it doesn’t, provided that it is done tactfully.<br />
According to the principles of the Hippocratic Oath, the authors
argue, doctors may even have an obligation to inform patients because
they will be saving lives of organ recipients. They also point out that
“The patient could be very relieved discovering the existence of this
option and receiving the possibility to give meaning to his or her own
suffering, by potentially relieving the suffering of others.”<br />
Until now, transplant protocols have specified a strict separation
between organ donation and euthanasia. However, if the patient is
[willing], this is not necessary. “As long as all due diligence
requirements are fulfilled, it should not be an obstacle if euthanasia
and donation are not fully separated,” the authors argue.<br />
<br />
Finally, the “dead donor” rule is frustratingly inconvenient for
organ donor euthanasia. Since the patient has chosen to die anyway, why
shouldn’t it be possible, the authors argue, to have “a ‘heart-beating
organ donation euthanasia’ where a patient is sedated, after which his
organs are being removed, causing death”?<br />
The authors conclude:<br />
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<strong>“Combining euthanasia and organ
donation in a so-called ‘donation after circulatory death’ procedure
seems feasible on legal, ethical or medical grounds, and is increasingly
gaining social acceptance in both Belgium and the Netherlands. Since
current legislation does not specifically focus on the—when drafted
unpractised—combination, future redrafting may be necessary in
perspective of the contemporary developments regarding occurrence of
such combined procedures</strong></div>
– See more at: <a href="http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/lets-increase-organ-transplant-rates-by-encouraging-euthanasia-patients-to/11912#sthash.MY3pWNbr.dpuf">bioedge.org</a><br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-29374181530540083302016-06-14T10:15:00.000-05:002016-06-14T10:15:04.200-05:00Life is Awesome
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The enormous impact of a baby’s “first kick”</h2>
By Dave Andrusko<br />
<em>Editor’s note. If you want to peruse stories all day long, go directly to <a href="http://nationalrighttolifenews.org/">nationalrighttolifenews.org</a> and/or follow me on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/daveha">twitter.com/daveha</a></em><br />
<img alt="unbornbaby809" class="alignright wp-image-53338" height="217" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/unbornbaby809.jpg" width="386" />I became “pro-life” long before I realized that abortion had been legalized nationwide in 1973. And I didn’t even know it.<br />
Even with my rapidly aging synapses, I still can recall that moment
in 1964. My mom, already the mother of six children and over 40,
encouraged me to touch her by-then prominent belly and then place my ear
on it.<br />
Talk about black and white becoming Technicolor. The abstraction that
my youngest brother had been previously had now become a concrete,
living, moving human being.<br />
Wow.<br />
<br />
That vivid memory was the first thing that crossed my mind when I read, “<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/10/a-babys-kick-changes-everything-about-abortion">A Baby’s Kick Changes Everything about Abortion</a>,” by Georgi Boorman.<br />
After I read the post, it occurred to me how infrequently we talk
about an unborn baby’s first kick these days, what we used to call
“quickening.” Because ultrasound pictures are almost ubiquitous (and
take place earlier in pregnancy), comparatively little attention is paid
to that moment which occurs somewhere around the 20th week.<br />
<br />
Boorman’s baby packs a wallop. As she writes,<br />
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<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>No, it’s not comfortable. No, it
doesn’t feel “natural,” not because it isn’t, but because there’s
nothing I’ve felt quite like it. My husband told me our baby never felt
more real than after she started kicking. The ultrasounds were
beautiful, especially seeing her heartbeat. But it was still more
conceptual at that point. When you feel her move, it’s like she’s
saying, “I’m here! I’m real! I’ll be out in the world soon!”</strong></div>
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Then, a few paragraphs later<br />
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>For the first time in my life,
the life of my baby is more than a concept, and so now all my reactions
to pro-abortion articles are physical, not just intellectual or even
emotional.</strong></div>
These reassuring comments are bracketed by her thoughts on abortion
and help the reader understand her responses. First, quoting Lindy West,
the pro-abortion author of a new book excerpted in <em>Glamour</em> magazine, she wonders how anyone can write the following:<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>I don’t give a damn why anyone
has an abortion. I believe unconditionally in the right of people with
uteruses to decide what grows inside their body and feeds on their blood
and reroutes their future. There are no ‘good’ abortions and ‘bad’
abortions, there are only pregnant people who want them and pregnant
people who don’t, pregnant people who have access and support and
pregnant people who face institutional roadblocks…”</strong></div>
But they do. In more polite, more discrete language, that is precisely the view Hillary Clinton subscribes to.<br />
On the back side of this quote, Boorman is particularly distraught by
women who have already given birth to children but who, nonetheless,
abort. I was encouraged that “a gentler thought [came] to cover my
anger.”<br />
That all women who’ve aborted not only “need healing” but also “need divine forgiveness and grace, as we all do.” She continues<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>The empathy I have with these
mothers is that of a fellow sinner in need of redemption. … But grace
has already come through Christ, and he mends what is torn. It is
through him that we can love fully; he replaces the turmoil of our
wrongdoing with a peace “that transcends all understanding.”</strong></div>
One other thought about Mrs. Boorman post at the <em>Federalist</em>.<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>My baby is real—not just real to
me, but objectively real. She shows up in my blood test and on the
ultrasound, and others can feel her kicks. She is very much a human
being.</strong></div>
However, as the quote from Ms. West reveals, to the pro-abortion mind
the child is not “objectively real.” Or, better put, it doesn’t make
any difference. The only question is “wantedness.”<br />
Thank goodness it would never have occurred to my mother that the lives of the seven Andrusko s depended on us being “wanted.”<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-30552603573206415672016-06-14T10:09:00.002-05:002016-06-14T10:09:22.247-05:00Unborn Babies
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Protecting unborn babies “helps make the earth a better place for everyone”</h2>
By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation<br />
<img alt="ultrasoundhappyre" class="alignright wp-image-27655" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ultrasoundhappyre.jpg" height="341" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ultrasoundhappyre.jpg" width="385" />I have found that some of the most eloquent spokespeople for the pro-life movement are the youngest ones.<br />
That truth became abundantly clear as I was reading through dozens of
“thank you” cards for state lawmakers that had been handmade by
students, some as young as the first grade.<br />
One card carried an ink drawing of a bumble bee. On one wing the student wrote, “I’m alive,” and on the other wing, “Alleluia.”<br />
<br />
Another card, emblazoned with a pink heart, carried the message,
“Dear fellow pro-lifer, thank you so much for your courage. I appreciate
your support of the pro-life cause.”<br />
A student named Jasmine submitted a card with a picture of a pair of
baby feet on the front. Inside, the card read, “Save the babies. Don’t
let your child die. Don’t kill babies.”<br />
<br />
Students at St. Joan of Arc School in Hershey, Pennsylvania, sent
cards with teddy bears carrying baskets of flowers on the front. Inside
one of the cards, a boy named Tyler wrote, “Dear Legislator, thank you
for saving the lives of unborn babies. Sometimes it’s hard to stand for
what you believe in. Thank you for all of your efforts to stop
abortion.”<br />
A girl named Grace wrote, “Dear Lawmakers, thank you for supporting
pro-life. We really appreciate all your help! It is so sad to hear about
all the babies in trouble or that have passed. Then when I hear people
are helping, supporting, and protecting them, it makes me feel happy. We
are praying for you, and thinking of your work.”<br />
<br />
One school—Good Shepherd in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania—submitted more
than 100 cards for legislators. A strong, encouraging pro-life message
appeared in each one!<br />
Reading through the large volume of thank you notes, I was once again
reminded of the enthusiasm of so many young people for the pro-life
cause. Even the littlest ones know that babies are precious and should
be protected under the law.<br />
These young citizens are using the resources available to
them—markers, crayons, pencils, pens, and construction paper—to send an
important message to their elected officials. They want innocent human
life to be protected, beginning from its earliest stages of development
forward.<br />
What is our job as adults? To encourage young people in their
pro-life advocacy. When they get to college, they will be bombarded with
anti-life messages. It may take every ounce of strength they have to
resist the pervasive culture of death.<br />
With all the death and destruction that has been in the news as of late, it is easy to lose heart. Please don’t.<br />
<br />
The next generation is willing and able to accept the pro-life torch
and raise it high. Their earnest efforts can lead to a nation where
every child is cherished and each mother is respected and supported.<br />
Remember the words of Caroline, a student at Good Shepherd, “Thank
you for protecting babies and supporting them too. This helps make the
earth a better place for everyone.”<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-11366601125437414922016-06-13T11:39:00.000-05:002016-06-13T11:39:04.625-05:00Life- A Beautiful Choice
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‘Fox & Friends’ Interviews Mom Who Refused to Abort Down Syndrome Baby</h2>
By Katie Yoder<br />
<img alt="emmybakerFox4" class="alignright wp-image-53260" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/emmybakerFox4.jpg" height="226" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/emmybakerFox4.jpg" width="400" />The pro-life movement doesn’t just have science on its side. It also has heart.<br />
During <em>Fox & Friends</em> Thursday, co-host Ainsley Earhardt
turned to the viral story of a mother who penned a “powerful message” to
the doctor that suggested she abort her baby with Down syndrome.
Earhardt invited the mother, Courtney Baker, on the show with her now
15-month-old daughter Emersyn (Emmy).<br />
Earhardt began by citing Baker’s letter to her doctor that went viral after ABC News heavily promoted it:<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>“You were so very wrong to say a
baby with Down syndrome would decrease our quality of life… So my prayer
is that no other mommy will have to go through what I did. My prayer is
that you, too, will now see true beauty and pure love with every
sonogram.”</strong></div>
“She is just so sweet!” Earhardt exclaimed to Courtney when she first appeared on camera with little Emmy.<br />
As Emmy waved at the camera, Baker spoke out against abortion.<br />
“We knew we were going to keep her,” she said of Emmy, even though
she was “terrified” when she first discovered her daughter had Down
syndrome.<br />
With the help of her letter, Baker wanted the doctor see past the
“misconception that there’s no value in the life” of someone with Down
syndrome.<br />
Because, as Baker put it, Emmy is “changing the world.”<br />
“[T]hese babies are so – so precious and I want every – not just all
the doctors to know that, I want all the mommies to know that, that are
pregnant right now who are in that – making that decision,” Baker added.<br />
While Baker was a “little afraid,” she “absolutely fell in love” with Emmy the first night following her birth.<br />
“[T]his has been the best year of my life by far,” she said of Emmy.
“She’s brought so much joy to – to me and to so many other people.”<br />
Baker described Emmy’s personality as “hilarious,” “smart” and “fun” –
as well as a baby who has changed the lives of her entire family.<br />
“She’s really grown our faith,” Baker said of Emmy’s impact on
herself, her husband and her two older daughters. “She’s grown us as
people.”<br />
Because of Emmy, Baker’s oldest daughter wants work with special
needs children and both of her daughters want to adopt babies with Down
syndrome.<br />
“It’s changed who they’re going to be,” Baker said. “It’s changed the
trajectory of their lives. And, they’re proud of her. And they’re
better people – we’re better people because of her.”<br />
Baker also had a message for pregnant women who might find themselves in a similar position as she once was:<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>“That little baby inside of you
is going to change the world. It’s going to change your world. It’s –
you know, I really felt like my life was over. And my life just started.
And, you know, your life is just beginning and that’s the – the
greatest, it’s the greatest thing in the world.”</strong></div>
<em>Editor’s note. This appeared at <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/katie-yoder/2016/06/09/fox-friends-interviews-mom-who-refused-abort-down-syndrome-baby">Newsbusters</a>.</em><br />
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<em>Source: NRLC News </em>bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-18004416182472503472016-06-13T11:36:00.001-05:002016-06-13T11:36:07.689-05:00Ireland
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U. N. committee again harshly criticizes Ireland’s protective abortions laws</h2>
By Dave Andrusko<br />
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<img alt="Cora Sherlock" class="size-full wp-image-38374" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Cora-Sherlock3re.jpg" height="266" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Cora-Sherlock3re.jpg" width="288" /><div class="wp-caption-text">
Cora Sherlock</div>
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Since the United Nations and Amnesty International have been
targeting Ireland’s pro-life laws for some considerable time, it came as
zero surprise that the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Committee found
that the nation’s “abortion law violates the U.N. International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights and called for widespread reform,” to
quote the <em>Associated Press</em>.<br />
More specifically, the 29-page report targeted the country, in this
instance, because it does not permit abortions in cases where the unborn
is diagnosed as having a fatal anomaly.<br />
In 2011 Amanda Mellet complained to the Committee that she’d been
told in the 21st week of pregnancy that her baby had a heart defect and
“likely would die” inside the womb or shortly thereafter.<br />
“After three weeks, she checked with doctors to see if her now
24-week-old fetus still had a heartbeat and, when told it was still
alive, traveled with her husband to the English city of Liverpool” where
a premature delivery was induced, the AP reported. 36 hours later she
delivered a “stillborn baby girl.”<br />
According to <em>Reuters</em>, “The U.N. report said Ireland’s law
made the rights of inviable [nonviable] fetuses superior to the rights
of women and this arbitrary imbalance ‘cannot be justified,’ because the
unborn child’s life cannot be saved.”<br />
<br />
The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights welcomed the
“ground-breaking ruling” as sending “the clear message that Ireland’s
abortion laws are cruel and inhumane, and violate women’s human rights.”<br />
<br />
Amnesty International/Ireland, which is the forefront of the campaign
to overturn the Eighth Amendment, chimed in, “The Irish government must
take its head out of the sand and see that it has to tackle this
issue.”<br />
<br />
This tragic case is part of the larger objective–to eliminate Ireland’s “Eighth Amendment.”<br />
“The 8th Amendment (Article 40.3.3.) to the Irish Constitution is the
original Life Equality Amendment,” Deputy Chairperson Cora Sherlock of
the Pro Life Campaign has explained. “It protects the equal right to
life of unborn children and their mothers.”<br />
The pro-life community in Ireland has made an especially concerted
effort to defend babies diagnosed with life-limiting conditions. Last
year a bill was introduced by Clare Daly to legalize abortions in cases
of babies with life-limiting conditions but it was defeated.<br />
“Everyone in the Dáil [the lower house of the Parliament of the
Republic of Ireland] knows that Deputy Clare Daly supports abortion on
demand up to birth,” Sherlock said at the time.<br />
<br />
“The fact that she keeps introducing bills in the Oireachtas [the
Parliament] to allow for abortion where unborn babies have life-limiting
conditions is just part of her campaign for wider abortion. But it is
deeply hurtful to families who opted against abortion in these
situations to hear Deputy Daly and her colleagues describe their babies
as ‘non-viable’ and ‘incompatible with life’.<br />
Sherlock continued, “It is absolutely reprehensible that some members
of the Oireachtas have described the utterly defenceless babies in
these situations as ‘simply a piece of flesh with no sensation, capacity
for sensation or any form of feeling.’ What a grossly ignora<br />
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Abortion worker: Women who asked to see their aborted babies were shown egg whites</h1>
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<span class="entry-date"><a href="http://liveactionnews.org/abortion-worker-women-who-asked-to-see-their-aborted-babies-were-shown-egg-whites/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2016-06-09T15:58:42+00:00"></time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://liveactionnews.org/author/sarah-terzo/" rel="author">Sarah Terzo</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><a data-disqus-identifier="95923 http://liveactionnews.org/?p=95923" href="http://liveactionnews.org/abortion-worker-women-who-asked-to-see-their-aborted-babies-were-shown-egg-whites/#disqus_thread"></a></span>
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There have been <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/abortion-clinic-counseling-rhetoric-vs-reality/" target="_blank">many cases</a>
of abortion facility workers withholding key facts from abortion minded
women. In some cases, staffers outright lied. For example, <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/abortion-facilities-history-lying-women-fetal-development/" target="_blank">in this article</a>, a post-abortive woman recalls being told that her baby was just “a clump of cells”:<br />
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When I saw that a 3-month-old “clump of
cells” had fingers and toes and was a tiny, perfectly formed baby, I
became really hysterical.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
I’ve been lied to and misled, and I’m
sure thousands of other women are being just as poorly informed and
badly served. To prove it, John [her husband] and I visited most every
clinic in Cleveland. I pretended I was pregnant and asked for guidance.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
What we heard was incredible. One
counselor told us the fetus did not begin to resemble a human being
until 7 months, another said 5 months, and so it went.</div>
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Based on countless testimonies from former abortion providers and abortion patients <a href="http://clinicquotes.com/category/truth-aborted/informed-consent-and-selling-abortions/" target="_blank">(here are just a few)</a>,
we know that many abortion facilities deceive women before their
abortions. Live Action investigated the industry’s rampant lying and
manipulation of women.<br />
But a staffer has come forward to say that the deception by abortion
workers sometimes continues even after the abortion is over.<br />
Former clinic worker Laurel Guymer explains how some women ask
questions after their abortions. Some of the women even want to see the
remains of their aborted babies. The clinic had a very special way of
dealing with such requests.<br />
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When the women woke up in recovery they
often whispered to me, “Was it a girl or a boy?” I was instructed to
tell them it was too small to know for sure. But occasionally a woman
would ask, “Can I see the fetus?” The standard line in an abortion
setting was “a pregnancy is a bunch of cells, too early to
differentiate” (unlike in IVF, where the women having miscarriages at
earlier stages were told they have lost the “baby”). But some women
insisted on seeing the fetus, so we would check how many weeks they were
and select the appropriate pot off the shelf.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
None of the containers had a fetus in
them, nothing recognizable to the naked eye at least. The contents
resembled pavlova mixture: egg whites stiffly beaten, floating in a
clear solution. They never saw their own fetus. It had been dismantled
by the abortion procedure, suctioned into a glass container, then
strained like peas in the slush room, the foot measured to estimate
gestation, then finally discarded in the biohazardous waste.</div>
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While the real aborted babies were fully developed with feet that
could be identified and measured, women were shown a carefully concocted
bowl of indistinguishable muck. What the women saw bore no resemblance
to the babies they had just aborted.<br />
In this way, the woman was able to go home with the belief that she
hadn’t killed anything remotely resembling a baby. She would believe
what the clinic workers told her – that the abortion only removed “a
bunch of cells.” If she stumbled across pictures of aborted babies or
information on fetal development later, she would be convinced that the
pictures were fake and the information lies- because, after all, she saw
the remains of her baby with her own eyes.<br />
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Not only has the abortion industry deceived these women, but they
have inoculated them against the truth. Arguments from pro-lifers will
fall on deaf ears, because the woman cannot imagine that the abortion
clinic has tricked her.<br />
This type of deception both hardens a woman’s heart towards the
plight of preborn babies in our society and interferes with her healing.
Instinctively, women feel a connection with their preborn babies. Guilt
may lurk below the surface, and facing reality is often the <a href="http://clinicquotes.com/therapist-who-works-with-postabortion-women-comments-on-graphic-pictures/" target="_blank">catalyst that brings healing</a>.<br />
One thing to take away from Guymer’s testimony is that abortion
clinics can be quite sophisticated in deceiving women. They have to be.
If women knew they were going to have their babies dismembered and
thrown out as medical waste, many of them would say no to abortion.
There would be fewer patients, which means less money for the abortion
facility, which ultimately leads to centers going out of business.
Workers fight to prevent that from happening, even if it means lying
to their patients.<br />
<em> </em>Source: Melinda Tankard Reist<em> Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion</em> (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 181<br />
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By Dave Andrusko<br />
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Gallup poll conducted May 4-8 finds that more Americans still find
abortion “morally wrong” (47%) than “morally acceptable” (43%). In 2015,
Gallup’s numbers were 48% and 42% , respectively.<br />
The breakdown along party lines is that only 24% of Republicans said
abortion was morally acceptable, 44% of Independents, but 62% of
Democrats.<br />
A couple of background items.<br />
First, the question is asked in this manner: “I’m going to read you a
list of issues. Regardless of whether or not you think it should be
legal, for each one, please tell me whether you personally believe that
in general it is morally acceptable or morally wrong. How about
abortion?”<br />
As we have written countless times, if you breakdown responses to the
question under what circumstances should abortion be legal, a majority
opposes the reasons for which at least 90% of all abortions are
performed. So, to most people, “in general” doesn’t necessarily tell you
what you need to know about abortion in general, its morality in
particular.<br />
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Second, “morally wrong” is much more categorical than “morally
acceptable,” much more black and white. “Acceptable” is hardly an
endorsement. What would be the response if the second option was whether
the person thought abortion is “morally commendable”?<br />
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Third, when a recent survey conducted for the Knights of Columbus
asked the question, 60% said they believed abortion is morally wrong,
while only 37% think it is morally acceptable. Interestingly, exactly
one-third of self-identified pro-choicers said abortion is morally
wrong.<br />
On an encouraging note, while there is still a majority who found
“Doctor Assisted Suicide” morally acceptable, the numbers are down
slightly from 2015 (naturally not noted by Gallup).<br />
In 2016, 53% responded that they believed Doctor Assisted suicide is morally acceptable to 41% who said it is morally wrong .<br />
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In 2015, 56% said they believed Doctor Assisted Suicide was morally
acceptable, to 37 who told Gallup they believed it was morally wrong.<br />
Needless to add, the “Doctor assisted” label increases support. Even
now, people are more likely to voice support when a “doctor” is
involved.<br />
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Source:NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-38600695494368460682016-06-10T07:28:00.001-05:002016-06-10T07:28:21.676-05:00Our Job This Summer & Always
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No matter how disguised, abortion is not “care”</h2>
By Carol Tobias, President<br />
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did a story on the so-called “abortion desert,” a term used to describe
a number of states that have few abortion facilities. By way of
preface, pro-lifers see the “desert” as an oasis, where commonsense
abortion laws are like a spring of compassion. But back to Molly
Hennessy-Fiske’s article.<br />
Hennessy-Fiske credits/blames the “desert” mostly to the enactment of
pro-life legislation. Women have to travel farther to find a facility
willing to abort her child.<br />
I’m sure that the principle purpose of the article was to make the
reader feel sorry for women who have to drive a longer distance. Why do I
think that? Because nowhere in the article is there a whisper about the
reason for the trip: the unborn baby.<br />
Willie Parker, who performs abortions in Alabama, Georgia, and
Mississippi, told the reporter that many providers in the region won’t
handle abortion beyond 15 weeks. “If they don’t make the cutoff, they’re
[the women] coming over to Tuscaloosa,” he stated.<br />
It’s unfortunate that Hennessy-Fiske didn’t inform the reader Parker
is an itinerant abortionist who aborts babies well past 15 weeks, or
that by 15 weeks the unborn baby is fully formed—organs are functioning,
blood is pumping, the baby can make a fist, etc. No, we are to focus
solely on the perceived roadblocks to abortion and the difficulties
placed on the women.<br />
One of the facilities mentioned is South Wind Women’s Center (SWWC)
in Wichita, Kansas. In a video accompanying the article, SWWC founder
and CEO Julie Burkhart refers to “abortion care,” trying to associate a
warm fuzzy feeling to one of the most gruesome procedures imaginable.
(NRL News and NRL News Today have run many stories about Burkhart, a
former associate of the late abortionist George Tiller, who was infamous
for performing abortions so late in pregnancy virtually no one else
would do them.)<br />
Burkhart’s effort to make us think positive thoughts about abortion
reminded me of the abortion “spa” that opened in Maryland a couple years
ago. Women who entered the facility to get an abortion would be given a
cup of hot tea and a nice bathrobe. But no matter how hard they try,
the abortion industry can’t make us forget that there are two human
beings involved in each abortion—the mother and the unborn baby.<br />
Knowledge about the development of the unborn child and the use of
sonograms to see that baby moving about in the amniotic sac create too
powerful an image. We see two lives.<br />
Whether the abortion performed is the dismemberment procedure,
tearing the arms and legs off a fully formed little unborn girl or boy,
or the swallowing of a dangerous abortifacient just six weeks after that
new life has begun, a human being dies.<br />
No matter how hard the abortion industry tries to remove the stigma
of abortion from our consciences, they can’t do it. Too many Americans
know that an innocent human life is ended each time an abortion is
performed. The myriad of women who have been involved in abortion and
who now oppose it can’t be ignored.<br />
At our upcoming National Right to Life Convention July 7-9 in
Herndon, Virginia (see page four), we will hear from women who worked in
the abortion industry and what pulled them away from it. We will hear
from women who have had abortions. We will hear the stories of abortion
survivors. We will learn more about how abortion is contributing to the
rise of breast cancer. We will hear how abortion is not “care” for
women.<br />
The abortion industry argues that abortion is a “safe” procedure for
the woman. However, as Olivia Gans Turner, director of NRLC’s American
Victims of Abortion, says about her own abortion– she will always be the
mother of a dead baby.<br />
Summer is often a time to slow down, take a family vacation, read
that book that’s been on the shelf or e-reader for a while, but we can
never stop. The lives of unborn children and their mothers are at risk.<br />
We are making great strides but we have been called to do a job many of us consider sacred. Let’s keep on doing it.<br />
<em>Editor’s note. This appeared on page three of the <a href="http://www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsJune2016.pdf">June digital edition of National Right to Life News</a>. Please be sure to share with your pro-life friends and family using your social networks.</em><br />
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new assisted suicide law takes effect on Thursday, opening the doors to
potential abuses of the vulnerable, elderly and disabled.<br />
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The West Coast state became <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/05/california-gov-jerry-brown-signs-dangerous-bill-to-become-4th-state-to-legalize-assisted-suicide/">the fourth in the U.S. to legalize deadly doctor-prescribed suicides</a> in October, following Oregon, Washington and Vermont. Euthanasia advocates pushed for the legislation by using <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2014/11/02/brittany-maynard-the-29-year-old-with-brain-cancer-has-reportedly-killed-herself/">the tragic story of Brittany Maynard</a>,
a young woman who had terminal brain cancer. A California native,
Maynard moved to Oregon where she committed doctor-prescribed suicide in
November 2014.<br />
The California bill is modeled after Oregon, which, in 1994, became
the first state in the nation to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide. The
deadly procedure involves a doctor prescribing a lethal dose of
medication to an adult patient who has been diagnosed with a terminal
illness.<br />
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Proponents argue that such laws are necessary to provide
“compassionate aid in dying for terminally ill patients” and point to
safeguards similar to Oregon, but the rhetoric obfuscates the real
truth.<br />
Disability rights groups, many in the medical community, pro-lifers
and others are upset by the new law because of the potential for
horrendous abuses of human life. One of their concerns is that doctors
are not required to be present when the patient takes the deadly
medicine; therefore, there is no way of knowing whether the person is
taking the medicine of their own free will.<br />
Carol Tobias of National Right to Life previously pointed out that
the law “shows a blatant disregard for the lives of California’s
medically vulnerable citizens and sends a message to these citizens that
their lives are less worthy to be lived.”<br />
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“It is a well-established fact that nearly every terminally ill
patient who desires death is suffering from treatable depression,”
Tobias said. “In Oregon, fewer than 6% of patients have been referred
for psychiatric evaluation before obtaining life-ending drugs.”<br />
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The California law requires that patients be mentally competent to be
approved for doctor-prescribed suicide; however, psychiatric
evaluations are not required.<br />
Profit-driven motives of families, doctors, insurance companies and
the state also are concerns. Assisted suicide is cheaper than many
medical treatments for the terminally ill and disabled. In Oregon, there
have been several cases of <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2008/10/28/bio-2608/">cancer patients being pushed toward assisted suicide </a>because it was cheaper than the medical treatment they needed.<br />
At least one California doctor is planning to make a business of helping people commit suicide. <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_29985455/bay-area-physician-opens-right-die-practice">The Mercury News reports</a>
Dr. Lonny Shavelson is ready to welcome assisted suicide patients to
his Bay Area office on Thursday. His new office is focused solely on
“helping” patients kill themselves through the new law, according to the
report.<br />
Disability rights advocate Marilyn Golden said Shavelson’s new
practice is alarming. She told the newspaper that the law puts the poor,
the elderly and others at risk of coercion and abuse.<br />
“How dogged are they (doctors) going to be in their pursuit of
solutions that address the patient’s underlying reasons for requesting
death?” Golden said. “If they go all the way to the nth degree of
assisting that person, that’s terrific. But it’s worrisome to see people
advertising themselves for this, unless they plan on talking everybody
out of it by getting them services.”<br />
Euthanasia advocates already are dropping hints about forcing
Catholic hospitals to comply with the deadly new law in the name of
“access” to “end of life options.” <a href="http://religionnews.com/2016/06/07/californias-end-of-life-option-law-more-peaceful-deaths-or-moral-quicksand/">According to the Religion News Service</a>:<br />
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The next step, said Matt Whitaker, Compassion &
Choices state director for Oregon and California, is to ensure access in
a state where the two largest faith-based health care systems, Catholic
hospitals and Adventist Care hospitals, have announced they will not
participate.<br />
Other large California systems, such as Kaiser Permanente and the
Sutter Medical Foundation, the two largest HMOs in the state, are
setting up procedures for doctors who say they are willing to aid
patients seeking this option.</blockquote>
The law currently has conscience and religious exceptions for medical
professionals who are morally opposed to assisted suicide. However,
future measures forcing hospitals to offer or refer patients for
assisted suicide are plausible. California recently began <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/31/california-now-forces-pregnancy-centers-to-promote-abortions-one-center-may-refuse-to-comply/">forcing pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise abortions</a>.<br />
Ironically, the bill was passed during a special session of the
California State Legislature, which was originally called to address
cost savings for the state’s MediCal program. Indeed, there are many who
would see doctor-prescribed suicide as a “cost-savings” measure.
Writing about the bill’s passage in The New York Times, Ian Lovett
included an observation by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, director of the medical
ethics program at the University of California, Irvine, School of
Medicine:<br />
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…[Kheriaty] said that low-income and underinsured
patients would inevitably feel pressure to end their own lives in some
cases, when the cost of continued treatment would be astronomical
compared with the cost of a few lethal pills.</blockquote>
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition previously
told LifeNews.com that people need to know of the dangers associated
with assisted suicide.<br />
“Does legalizing assisted suicide show care and concern to someone
who is living with psychological pain? Recently, Dr Will Johnston wrote
about <a href="http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2015/09/dr-will-johnston-my-young-adult-patient.html">a young adult patient who became suicidal after watching a video about Brittany Maynard</a>, the California woman who moved to Oregon to die by assisted suicide,” he said. “A <a href="http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2015/04/the-effects-of-depression-on-body.html">primary risk associated with depression is suicidal ideation</a>. The data indicates that <a href="http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2014/11/assisted-suicide-is-there-suicide.html">legalizing assisted suicide does not reduce suicide</a>, rather it appears to have a suicide contagion effect.”<br />
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Pro-Life Groups Defeat “Pro-Life Traitor” Renee Ellmers, Who Almost Sabotaged Abortion Ban</h2>
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<span id="more-81065"></span>For a short time last year, Congresswoman <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/22/pro-life-lawmakers-sabotage-vote-on-bill-to-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks/">Renee Ellmers was public enemy number one of the pro-life movement</a>.<br />
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Congressional leaders had planned for weeks to bring up a bill to ban
abortions after 20-weeks on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. But Ellmers
sabotaged the bill by insisting that broad rape and incest exceptions
needed to be added to the bill that many pro-life groups were worried
would undermine the bill entirely and render the ban moot.<br />
Due to her attacks, Republican leaders were force to pull the bill and rework it — and it eventually passed.<br />
Ellmers caused a firestorm of controversy to the point that multiple
pro-life groups like National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony
List actively worked against her this year and supported her pro-life
primary opponent, George Holding , who defeated her handily in last
night’s primary in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District.<br />
National Right to Life president Carol Tobias outlined the problem
with bringing Ellmers back to Congress: “Both behind the scenes and
publicly in the press, Ellmers was the most outspoken representative
opposing the bill, even though she had previously pledged to support it –
and had even voted for the exact same bill in the previous Congress.”<br />
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“Nothing has the potential to do more damage to pro-life efforts than
people who run as pro-life candidates back home in their pro-life
districts and then stab the babies in the back when they come to DC and
work against pro-life efforts,” she said.<br />
“Thankfully, we’ve been given the chance to send Rep. Ellmers
packing,” she said. “George Holding is a pro-life stalwart who was
always taken a pro-life position – at home and in Washington. George
Holding is the kind of congressman the babies can depend on.”<br />
Meanwhile, SBA List urged pro-life voters to <a href="http://www.dumpellmers.com/">“Dump Ellmers”</a>
after she actively worked in 2015 against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child
Protection Act, the group’s top legislative priority. Last month, SBA
List and the North Carolina Values Coalition announced their joint
endorsement of Rep. Holding.<br />
SBA List’s North Carolina team, a ground operation of five field
staff and more than 200 canvassers who have been active in the state
since 2014, has had a team knocking on more than 12,500 doors across
NC-02 in the last few weeks. In addition to reaching NC-02 pro-life
primary voters at their door, SBA List also reached 90,000 voters
through digital advertising. To date SBA List canvassers have knocked on
a total of 185,000 doors throughout the state to educate voters on
pro-life issues in the presidential race.<br />
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“Susan B. Anthony List exists to support and amplify pro-life women’s
voices. Rep. Renee Ellmers was our ally until she led the charge to
derail the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. That’s why we had
to flex the political muscle of the pro-life movement,” said Marjorie
Dannenfelser, SBA List president and a North Carolina native. “She has
her own failed leadership to blame for this loss.”<br />
FRC Action PAC President Tony Perkins made the following comments:<br />
“We congratulate Congressman Holding, a great advocate for
conservative principles, on his victory in North Carolina. Voters sent a
message tonight that they will do more than take notice when Members of
Congressbetray thepro-life principles that they were elected to
champion.<br />
“American families are looking for leaders who will address the
pressing issues we face as a nation, and who will not just make campaign
promises but also follow through on them once elected to office.<br />
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“Rep. Holding’s pro-life, pro-family record stood in stark contrast
to the incumbent, Rep. Renee Ellmers who lost significant support among
pro-life voters after she undermined the Pain-Capable Unborn Child
Protection Act last year. This important legislation would prevent
abortion after 20 weeks — a point at which science has proven unborn
babies can feel excruciating pain. Abortionists kill about 13,000 babies
every year through late-term abortions.<br />
“We look forward to continuing our work with Rep. Holding in
advancing constitutional limited government, individual liberties, and
strong family values,” concluded Perkins.<br />
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Planned Parenthood abortion business has sent out a fundraising email
to its supporters trashing presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The email slams Trump as supposedly “racist and sexist.”<br />
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“Make no mistake about it: Donald Trump is a dangerous bully this
country can’t afford. He’s notoriously racist and sexist, often
personally attacking and retaliating against people,” Planned
Parenthood’s vice president says in the fundraising email.<br />
The abortion business continues: “That’s not someone you want in
charge of the nuclear codes, and certainly not someone you want making
decisions about the rights of women, people of color, and immigrants —
people he’s demonized again and again.”<br />
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In the email LifeNews.com received, The abortion company adds:<br />
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He’s promised to ban abortion, “punish” women, and
consider a judge for the Supreme Court who called Roe v. Wade “the worst
abomination in the history of constitutional law.” He wants to build
the biggest wall you’ve ever seen along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep
out Mexico’s “rapists.” He’s even called for a total ban on Muslims
entering the U.S and stated that a judge should be disqualified because
he’s Mexican-American.<br />
Electing Donald Trump would send a message to employers, policy
makers, and foreign leaders that sexism and racism are now American
values.<br />
There’s no doubt about it — Donald Trump’s policy agenda would be
dangerous for this country. We can’t afford to sit this one out, and we
can’t let our friends and family sit out either.</blockquote>
This isn’t the first time Planned Parenthood has gone after Trump. <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/03/planned-parenthood-bashes-donald-trump-disgusting-that-he-wants-abortion-outlawed/">Earlier this year, the abortion giant called him “dangerous”</a> because he would “ban abortions”<br />
Recently, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/18/donald-trump-releases-list-of-11-potential-supreme-court-justices-im-not-appointing-a-liberal/">Trump announced a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees</a> — a list pro-life and conservative groups praised for having potential judges who would be Constitutionalists.<br />
The list of potential nominees for the seat of pro-life Supreme Court
Justice Antnoin Saclia that Trump would conifer include Steven
Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado and Raymond Gruender of
Missouri.<br />
<br />
Also on the list are: Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, Raymond
Kethledge of Michigan, Joan Larsen of Michigan, Thomas Lee of Utah,
William Pryor of Alabama, David Stras of Minnesota, Diane Sykes of
Wisconsin and Don Willett of Texas.<br />
“This list was compiled, first and foremost, based on constitutional
principles, with input from highly respected conservatives and
Republican party leadership,” Trump’s campaign said.<br />
If Trump is the nominee, he would present a stark contrast on abortion to pro-abortion Democrat Hillary Clinton.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/18/donald-trump-promises-as-president-i-will-sign-a-bill-to-de-fund-planned-parenthood/">Trump has specifically promised he would sign a bill as president to de-fund Planned Parenthood</a>. In an interview with David Brody of CBN, Trump made that promise:<br />
David Brody: “As a President Trump, if a bill came to your desk that
would defund Planned Parenthood you would support that, you would sign
that?”<br />
Donald Trump: “Yes, because as long as they do the abortion I am not
for funding Planned Parenthood… As long as they’re involved with
abortion, as far as I’m concerned forget it, I wouldn’t fund them
regardless. I would defund Planned Parenthood because of their view and
the fact of their work on abortion…. I am for defunding Planned
Parenthood as long as they are involved with abortion.”<br />
<br />
As far as Trump’s comments on Planned Parenthood funding are
concerned, Trump has fairly consistently said he opposes taxpayer
funding but he’s also made some remarks about the “good things” Planned
Parenthood does that have alarmed pro-life voters — as if any “good
thing” could make up for the fact that planned Parenthood kills 330,000
unborn babies a year in abortions and then sells their body parts for
profit.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/18/donald-trump-roe-v-wade-was-wrongly-decided-i-will-appoint-judges-to-change-it/">Trump said he thinks the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that ushered in an era of 48 million abortions was “wrongly decided.” </a>Trump
said he would appoint “very good judges” who would ultimately “change
it” but he opposed Roe without specifically saying it should be
overturned.<br />
Here are some of the headlines we’ve carried at LifeNews.com in
recent months that provide further details on what Trump has said
regarding Planned Parenthood funding:<br />
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July 23: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/23/donald-trump-the-planned-parenthood-abortion-business-should-absolutely-be-de-funded/">Donald Trump: The Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Should “Absolutely be De-Funded”</a></div>
August 4: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/04/donald-trump-shut-down-the-federal-government-to-de-fund-planned-parenthood/">Donald Trump: Shut Down the Federal Government to De-Fund Planned Parenthood</a><br />
August 11: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Donald Trump: Planned Parenthood is an “Abortion Factory”</a><br />
August 17: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/17/donald-trump-videos-of-planned-parenthood-selling-aborted-babies-were-disgusting-de-fund-it/">Donald Trump: Videos of Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Babies Were “Disgusting,” De-Fund It</a><br />
August 26: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/26/donald-trump-planned-parenthood-is-an-abortion-factory-that-sells-baby-parts-like-automobiles/">Donald Trump: Planned Parenthood is an “Abortion Factory” That Sells Baby Parts Like Automobiles</a><br />
October 19: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/19/donald-trump-planned-parenthood-should-absolutely-be-de-funded/">Donald Trump: “Planned Parenthood Should Absolutely be De-Funded”</a><br />
December 2: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/02/donald-trump-de-fund-planned-parenthood-and-look-carefully-at-overturning-roe-v-wade/">Donald Trump: De-Fund Planned Parenthood and “Look Carefully at” Overturning Roe v. Wade</a><br />
December 22: <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/12/22/donald-trump-unless-planned-parenthood-stops-doing-abortions-we-should-de-fund-it/">Donald Trump: Unless Planned Parenthood Stops Doing Abortions, We Should De-Fund It</a><br />
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Source: LifeSite News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-60236393793030962552016-06-09T08:41:00.003-05:002016-06-09T08:41:20.039-05:00Pregancy Help Centers
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<h2 class="title">
Loss of Newborn Sparks Couple’s Long-Term Ministry to Moms</h2>
By Rachel Leigh<br />
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<img alt="Randy and Evelyn James open up their regional center, which can house up to 30 women and children.Photo Courtesy: Paul Stefan Foundation" class=" wp-image-53222" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/pregnancyhelp38re.jpg" height="209" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/pregnancyhelp38re.jpg" width="401" /><div class="wp-caption-text">
Randy
and Evelyn James open up their regional center, which can house up to
30 women and children.Photo Courtesy: Paul Stefan Foundation</div>
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When Randy James and his wife, Evelyn, found out they were pregnant
with their sixth child, they were thrilled. Their joy at the news was
quickly replaced by fear when the first sonogram showed their son
suffered from a diaphragmatic hernia—a condition that impedes the growth
of the baby’s lungs.<br />
After being sent to four different specialists in Washington D.C.,
the couple was given the heartbreaking news that there was no hope
whatsoever of their son surviving birth.<br />
“The doctor told us that the baby was incompatible to life,” Randy James said. “They recommended late-term abortion.”<br />
The doctor advised them to travel to Kansas for a late-term abortion.
As the couple left the office and headed back home to Locust Grove,
Va., midway between Washington, D.C. and Richmond, they put aside their
grief and vowed that no matter what happened in the life of their son,
they would join the fight to stop abortion.<br />
<br />
Paul Stefan James was born Dec.13, 2005. He was named after Fr. Paul
Scalia—son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia—and the James’
parish priest, Fr. Stefan Starzynski.<br />
“We got to take pictures with him and forever we have a picture of my baby boy,” James said.<br />
As Randy held his son in his arms, he realized those precious moments had almost been stolen from him by abortive doctors.<br />
<br />
“They were stealing our joy from holding him and kissing him,” James said.<br />
Although he survived less than an hour after his birth, the ripple
effects of Paul Stefan’s short time on earth continue over a decade
later. At his son’s funeral, James was approached by a woman from their
parish who was praying for a home for unwed mothers. Both James and his
wife felt this was the unmistakable calling of the Lord.<br />
<br />
After Fr. Starzynski mentioned the idea during a homily, a local
company decided to lease two homes for the ministry for a dollar per
year. Another parishioner also donated $100,000 for renovations.<br />
James, a builder and developer by trade, personally oversaw the renovations.<br />
“We called it Paul Stefan foundation after Paul,” James said. “The death of a baby was the birth of a foundation.”<br />
From the beginning it was clear God had His hand in the matter.<br />
“From the day Paul died to the opening of the first house was just
over nine months,” James said. “The first mother to stay at the home
gave birth to her child a year to the day Paul was born.”<br />
In the ten years since the loss of their son and the birth of the
foundation, the James family has seen 170 women and their babies come
through the Paul Stefan homes.<br />
However, their next venture might prove to be the most exciting yet; a
regional housing and maternity center repurposed from an old hotel
James recently purchased.<br />
“We can have up to 30 women and children,” James said. “We are going
to partner with four local colleges and are going to educate them so
they can get an IT certificate. We want them off the welfare system so
they can have their dignity back and go out and be productive and feel
good about raising their children.”<br />
Although he faced many critics in the process, James said he waited on God to open the regional center.<br />
“He opened the doors. Just the hotel property was worth $1.3 million. We bought it for $575,000.” James said.<br />
After purchasing the property, the next hurdle was to begin
renovations. Deciding to involve the local community in the process,
James went to local churches, small groups and even the Chambers of
Commerce to ask for volunteers who would be willing to decorate a room.<br />
“Each room is individual to the people that decorated it,” James said. “Each bedroom is unique.”<br />
The ground floor of the regional center will be allocated as a soup
kitchen for the community as well as an educational center for the
mothers. The second floor will house women and children, and the top
floor will be for pregnant women.<br />
<br />
Though the regional center may look like a broader ministry, their vision remains the same.<br />
“It’s not a shelter, it’s a program,” James said. “You want to get
your life on track, get a safety net and have goals in your life; we’ll
help you get there.”<br />
The stories of changed lives are a constant motivation to stay on the path on which God has placed them.<br />
“One girl came here who was actually on the abortion table,” James
said. “For some reason, they couldn’t get her blood pressure right so
they sent her home. She came back again but they messed up the paperwork
and sent her home again. In the meantime she met someone who gave her
our number.<br />
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<strong>“She came here and had the baby.
One day she came into my wife’s office sobbing and holding the baby
saying, ‘I love her so much and I was going to kill her!’ She realized
what she could have done. And that’s the biggest success story right
there.”</strong></div>
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While hoping to open the top floor of the regional center in August,
James is already looking at opening similar centers across the country.
The legacy of his baby boy—born without lungs—lives on, breathing hope
and life into new communities.<br />
<em>Editor’s note. This appeared at <a href="https://pregnancyhelpnews.com/loss-of-newborn-sparks-couple-s-long-term-ministry-to-moms">Pregnancy Help News</a>.</em><br />
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<em>Source: NRLC News </em>bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-92020866977101608362016-06-09T08:31:00.001-05:002016-06-09T08:31:55.087-05:00Men and Abortion
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<h2 class="title">
How Little we Know about Men and Abortion</h2>
By Dave Andrusko<br />
<em>Editor’s note. Father’s Day is a week from Sunday. As we do each
year we are running stories about one of the most neglected subject
areas in the entire abortion debate: a father’s role and responsibility
in the death of his child.</em><br />
<img alt="prolifekids2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-46714" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/prolifekids2.jpg" height="185" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/prolifekids2.jpg" width="280" />The
following, which first ran in 2012, references the Association for
Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change. The Association
is having its annual meeting at the NRLC Convention. For more about this
year’s gathering, <a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/06/a-valuable-prelude-to-nrlc-2016-come-to-the-association-for-interdisciplinary-research-in-values-and-social-change/#.V1hTJ9QrJko">see here</a>.<br />
After nearly 40 years, you’d think almost everything that could be said about abortion <strong>has</strong>
been said. However, as Wednesday’s annual meeting of the Association
for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change demonstrated,
there are many gaping holes beginning with the topic of last night’s
session: men and abortion.<br />
<br />
The four presenters provided everything from an overview of the
research done to date through a very powerful personal testimony of one
man’s abortion experience to a new organization that will help buttress
the case using scholarly analysis that abortion hurts women and men.<br />
Catherine Coyle explained the paucity of scholarly study, although in
the last few years, she said, the pace had picked up considerably.
Coyle began by elaborating on an almost forgotten consideration.<br />
We tend to forget that even after Roe, there was hope that husbands
would be given a say, or at least notified of the impending abortion of
their child. Subsequently Supreme Court decisions made unmistakably
clear those fathers—unmarried or married—had no voice. Coyle discussed
the symptoms that many post-abortive fathers experience including guilt
and overpowering grief.<br />
She keenly observed that men have a paternal instinct that is much
underrated. Like all presenters, Coyle offer quotes from fathers
devastated by the death of their unborn children.<br />
<br />
Coyle also noted that the failure to communicate may play a part in
more abortions than we would ever imagine. On the one hand, women are
looking for affirmation from men that they want them to continue the
pregnancy and will support them. On the other hand, men are anxious to
“support” whatever decision the women in their lives make, even if they
do not want an abortion. Their noncommittal responses are interpreted as
indifference, at best.<br />
David Russell provided a moving testimony about the abortion many
years ago of a child he subsequently came to name Mathew David. The
audience listened with rapt attention as Mr. Russell talked of how he
felt he had taken the “easy way out,” that his aborted son had deserved a
father “who would protect him,” and that Mathew David “deserved better
than he got.”<br />
He said unequivocally, “Men regret abortion every bit as much as
women.” His comparison of men who sit by while women abort their
children to Saul holding the cloaks of those who stoned Stephen make the
audience’s heads snap to attention.<br />
Greg Hasek offered a very provocative plan for treating men who have
gone through an abortion experience—or more than one. Hasek believes
that men do not often come to counseling to talk about abortion. They
come for other reasons (which he calls “presenting symptoms”) but that
unresolved and unacknowledged grief is at work in their hearts.<br />
Hasek also argues that men respond (in a therapeutic setting) much
better to the idea of “lost fatherhood” than to abortion. He ended his
talk with his own recommendations for how to help men suffering from
what is, after all, a traumatic experience.<br />
<br />
Priscilla Coleman, whose work we have frequently run or commented
about in NRL News Today, ended the evening’s program with an explanation
of WECARE—the World Expert Consortium for Abortion Research and
Education (www.wecareexperts.org).<br />
Launched in January2012, WECARE is designed to “foster international
research, provide experts for litigation, and disseminate information on
the health effects of abortion.”<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-24012777442936216372016-06-08T13:41:00.003-05:002016-06-08T13:41:44.901-05:00Post Abortion and Men
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<h2 class="title">
Remembering Thomas</h2>
<h4>
<em>Responsibility, Guilt and a Child Who Never Was</em></h4>
By Phil McCombs, Washington Post Staff Writer<br />
<em>Editor’s note. Father’s Day is less than two weeks away. We’ve
been running some new, some older stories about one of the most
neglected subject areas in the entire abortion debate: a father’s role
and responsibility in the death of his child.</em><br />
<img alt="contemplatingman" class="alignright size-full wp-image-34957" height="269" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/contemplatingman.jpg" width="320" /><em>Phil
McCombs’s agonizing 1995 account arguably is the finest post-abortion
reflection on abortion from a man’s perspective ever written.</em><br />
This year’s March for Life in which 45,000 abortion opponents
picketed the Supreme Court, didn’t have the emotional impact on me that
these events often do. I was on my way out of town on business, and
scarcely noticed.<br />
Looking at reports later it seemed that everyone had been on his or
her best behavior. The abortion opponents were making it plain that they
oppose the use of violence to close clinics. And counter-demonstrations
by abortion rights advocates as we’re careful to call them were rare.<br />
…<br />
I like prayer. It’s all I have left. And pain.<br />
When the abortion was performed I was out of town on business, too. I
made sure of that. Whatever physical, emotional and spiritual agony the
woman suffered, I was not by her side to support her. I turned my face
away. My behavior was in all respects craven, immoral.<br />
For some instinctual reason, or just imaginatively, I’ve come to
believe that it was a boy, a son whom I wanted killed because, at the
time his existence would have inconvenienced me. I’d had my fun. He
didn’t fit into my plans.<br />
His name, which is carved on my heart, was Thomas.<br />
My feelings of responsibility and guilt are undiminished by the fact
that the woman had full legal authority to make the decision on her own,
either way, without consulting me or even informing me. In fact, she
consulted in an open fashion, reflecting our shared responsibility and I
could have made a strong case for having the child. Instead, I urged
her along the path of death.<br />
And skipped town.<br />
It’s not a lot of help, either-emotionally or spiritually-that the
high priests of the American judiciary have put their A-OK on this
particular form of what I personally have come to regard as the
slaughter of innocents. After all, it’s the task of government to decide
whom we may or must kill, and not necessarily to provide therapeutic
services afterward. In the Army I remember being trained at public
expense in the “spirit of the bayonet,” which is, simply put, “to kill.”
The spirit of abortion is the same in my view, though the enemy isn’t
shooting back.<br />
I feel like a murderer, which isn’t to say that I blame anyone else, or think anyone else is a murderer.<br />
It’s just the way I feel and all the rationalizations in the world
haven’t changed this. I still grieve for little Thomas. It is an ocean
of grief. From somewhere in the distant past I remember the phrase from
Shakespeare, the multitudinous seas, “incarnadine.”<br />
When I go up to the river on vacation this summer, he won’t be going
boating with me on the lovely old wooden runabout that I can’t really
afford to put in the water but can’t bring myself to discard, either.<br />
He won’t be lying on the grass by the tent at night looking at the starry sky and saying, “What’s that one called, Dad?”<br />
Because there was no room on the Earth for Thomas.<br />
He’s dead.<br />
The latest numbers show abortions in America have been running at about 1.5 million annually [<em>Ed. Note. Now just over 1 million annually</em>]. That’s a lot of pain.<br />
<br />
Secular men’s groups have tended to be focused on the “no say, no pay” issue.<br />
“These men feel raped,” says Mel Feit of the National Center for Men.
“They lose everything they worked for all their lives. In many cases
they had an agreement with the woman not to have a baby and when she
changes her mind they call me up and say, “How can she do this to me?
How can she get away with it?” Feit plans to bring suit in federal
court.<br />
<br />
I’m more interested in the traumatic pain that many men, as well as
women often feel after an abortion. A healing process of recognition,
grieving and ultimately forgiveness is needed.<br />
“There’s a lot of ambivalence for men when they get in touch with
their pain,” says Eileen C. Marx, formerly communications director for
Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington and now a columnist for Catholic
publications. “They didn’t have the physical pregnancy, so often they
feel they’re not entitled to the feelings of sadness and anger and guilt
and loss that women often feel.”<br />
She tells of one man, a friend, whose wife had an abortion. “He
pleaded with her not to have it. He said his parents would raise the
child, or they could put it up for adoption. The marriage broke up as a
result of the abortion and other issues. He was really devastated by the
experience.”<br />
Marx has recently written about a post-abortion healing ministry
called Project Rachel in which more men are becoming involved-husbands,
boyfriends and even grandfathers. There are 100 Project Rachel branches,
including one in Washington.<br />
<br />
I found it helpful just talking with Marx, a caring person, on the
phone: though it was a little tough when she mentioned being pregnant
and hearing the heartbeat and feeling “this wonderful celebration of the
life inside you.”<br />
She said not to be too hard on myself, that healing is about forgiveness and God forgives me.<br />
I said sure, that’s right but some things are still hard.<br />
Like looking in the mirror.<br />
<br />
<em>Editor’s note. This first ran in the Washington Post on February 3, 1995. It was reposted at <a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/postabortion/rememberingthomas.htm">priestsforlife.org</a>.</em><br />
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<em>Source: NRLC News </em>bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-76474647278132645402016-06-08T12:40:00.001-05:002016-06-08T12:40:41.316-05:00Religious Freedom
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<h2 class="title">
If Illinois Government Has Its Way, Women Won’t Have the Right to Choose Pro-Life Doctors</h2>
By Marissa Mayer<br />
<em>Editor’s note. This comes from <a href="http://adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2016/06/02/if-illinois-government-has-its-way-women-won%27t-have-the-right-to-choose-pro-life-doctors">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>.</em><br />
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<img alt="Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner" class=" wp-image-53183" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/brucerauner4re.jpg" height="350" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/brucerauner4re.jpg" width="280" /><div class="wp-caption-text">
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner</div>
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Can you imagine a passionately pro-life OB-GYN who is forced by the
government to provide patients with a list of abortion providers if they
request one? How would this doctor reconcile promoting abortion with
his or her conscience? What would this doctor tell pro-life patients who
came to him or her because they wanted someone who shared and upheld
their values – not someone who helps facilitate abortions?<br />
Abortion is a serious issue. For those of us in the pro-life camp,
the thought of promoting abortion—in any form—would be a violation of
conscience.<br />
Unfortunately, the Illinois legislature has passed a bill—SB
1564—that would force all medical facilities and physicians in the state
who conscientiously object to involvement in abortions to adopt
policies that provide women who ask for abortions with a list of
providers “they reasonably believe may offer” them. In other words, the
government is trying to compel the speech of pro-life providers—in the
form of abortion referrals.<br />
<br />
What the Illinois government fails to realize (or care about since
we’ve brought it to their attention before) is that referring someone
for an abortion goes against everything that pro-life doctors and
pregnancy care centers believe about the sanctity of human life.<br />
Not only that, but in a society that is consumed with the idea of
choice, the Illinois government is working to effectively deprive women
of their right to choose a pro-life doctor, which is what will happen if
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signs this unlawful bill.<br />
<br />
This is not the first time a state has shown disregard for the free
speech rights and rights of conscience of medical workers and pro-life
pregnancy care centers. Alliance Defending Freedom is and has been
working to get similar unconstitutional laws struck down. Several of our
cases have specifically resulted in the elimination of requirements
that pregnancy centers and the pro-life professionals who work at them
must tell women certain things about abortion or birth control, or that
force them to give women certain information about alternative service
providers.<br />
<br />
We recently saw a victory in New York where a federal court approved a
final settlement between pregnancy care centers and the city of New
York to <a href="http://adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2016/04/19/court-got-it-right-in-striking-down-government-mandated-speech-for-pro-life-pregnancy-centers">ensure the freedom of speech for these centers</a>.
And in California, we’re working against a similar unconstitutional
state law that forces pro-life pregnancy centers in the state to promote
abortion.<br />
<br />
Pro-life doctors and pregnancy care centers didn’t sign up to be
spokespeople for government ideologies. They have a right to their
beliefs and to operate their businesses accordingly. Please join us in
praying that Gov. Rauner vetoes the bill and upholds the constitutional
rights of its citizens.<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-65638852187425160092016-06-08T09:41:00.000-05:002016-06-08T09:41:03.705-05:00Preinatal Hospice
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<h2 class="title">
Perinatal Hospice: When an Ultrasound Leads to Heartache instead of Happiness</h2>
By Tracy Winsor<br />
<em>Editor’s note. This is Part Two of a series on Perinatal Hospice
which appears on the webpage of the Georgia Life Alliance, NRLC’s State
Affiliate. Part One was reposted previously <a href="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/04/perinatal-hospice-caring-for-a-frail-child-in-utero-and-those-who-love-them/#.V1bF3tQrJko">here</a>.</em><br />
<img alt="GLAPerinatalHospice7" class="alignright wp-image-51912" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GLAPerinatalHospice7.jpg" height="273" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GLAPerinatalHospice7.jpg" width="364" />Sometimes the happy occasion of a prenatal ultrasound suddenly isn’t.<br />
South Carolina expectant parents, Keith and Katherine Brown, learned
that their first pregnancy was complicated by a prenatal diagnosis when
abnormalities were detected during an anatomy scan at nineteen weeks
gestation.<br />
There were a number of issues, but most notably there was excess
fluid in their daughter’s skull and abdomen and all four of her limbs
were atypical. Additional testing was inconclusive, but the doctors
suspected that Baby Grace had a rare genetic condition. The prognosis
was grim.<br />
“We were presented with many new medical terms and I just kept
thinking that this was not supposed to be happening,” shares Katherine
Brown. “Learning our first child had defects that would not likely allow
her to live outside the womb was heart breaking.”<br />
The Browns were fortunate that a <a href="http://www.perinatalhospice.org/home.html">perinatal hospice service</a>
which provided support to parents carrying to term following a
life-limiting prenatal diagnosis existed in their community. A genetics
counselor at their maternal fetal medicine practice referred them to <a href="http://perinatalcomfortcare.org/">PerinatalComfortCare</a>, which provided on-going contacts and practical guidance for the Browns over the next eight weeks.<br />
Perinatal hospice is a life-affirming care option for parents committed to carrying a baby with a prenatal diagnosis to term.<br />
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Tammy Tate, CEO/Founder of Perinatal ComfortCare, met with the Browns
to share information regarding how they could cherish the time they had
with their daughter, and memory-making options they could request at
birth. When Grace was born still at twenty-seven weeks gestation, Tate
was there at the hospital providing comfort and consolation, and
assisting in coordinating their care.<br />
“The practical guidance she gave us in terms of preparing us for what
we would experience in the hospital was invaluable,” notes Brown.<br />
<br />
“I had no idea I could tell the hospital staff what I wanted during
delivery or that I could hold my baby and spend time with her,” she
adds. “We would’ve never thought of taking pictures of us holding Grace,
and I am not sure we would have had a funeral without Tammy’s
guidance.”<br />
First introduced in medical literature in 1997, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Perinatal+hospice%3A+should+all+centers+have+this+service%3F">perinatal hospice care provides comprehensive support</a>
to expectant parents told that their baby will die at or shortly after
birth. Utilizing a multidisciplinary team including genetic counselors,
obstetric and neonatal physicians, nurses, clergy, social workers, etc.,
perinatal hospice services support parents during pregnancy, and for at
least one year after delivery.<br />
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Parents’ needs are addressed by providing appropriate medical
consults, assistance preparing birth plans, guidance regarding options
for newborn care, and bereavement support. This specialized service for
parents prior to delivery allows them to prepare fully for birth, and to
parent their baby for the time they will have no matter how brief or
how frail that child’s life may be. The parent response to perinatal
hospice is positive.<br />
<br />
Nancy Mayer-Whittington, co-founder of <a href="http://www.isaiahspromise.net/">Isaiah’s Promise</a>, a perinatal hospice service in Maryland, is herself a mother who carried to term following a prenatal diagnosis.<br />
Mayer-Whittington observes, “I would have felt less isolated and less
alienated had I received the care we at Isaiah’s Promise provide to
parents. Having the support of someone who can suggest options and
understands the experience can make all the difference in the world.”<br />
Tracy L. Winsor, MPA, is Cofounder of <a href="http://www.benotafraid.net/">Be Not Afraid</a>,
a private non-profit corporation whose mission is to provide
comprehensive, practical, and peer-based support to parents experiencing
a prenatal diagnosis and carrying to term. She can be reached directly
at Tracy.Winsor@benotafraid.net.<br />
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<strong>References:</strong><br />
Link 1 http://www.perinatalhospice.org/home.html<br />
Link 2 http://perinatalcomfortcare.org/<br />
Link3 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Perinatal+hospice%3A+should+all+centers+have+this+service%3F<br />
Link 4 http://www.isaiahspromise.net/<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-13671299682025034222016-06-08T09:33:00.004-05:002016-06-08T09:33:30.249-05:00Down Syndrome
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Strong and passionate, Brock Jordan and his family brings out the best in others</h2>
By Dave Andrusko<br />
<img alt="lsuchampslogo4" class="alignright wp-image-53205" data-pin-media="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lsuchampslogo4.jpeg" height="368" src="http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lsuchampslogo4.jpeg" width="368" />When we switched to a new service, a “freebie” (I think) is access to a gazillion <em>ESPN</em> outlets. You can see college baseball all day long if you like, ditto for college softball.<br />
Flipping channels the other night I briefly saw the LSU baseball team
play. As it happens, the ‘ragin cajuns’ are playing Rice in a SEC
regional championship game as I am writing this post.<br />
So what does that possibly have to do with us? Glad you asked.<br />
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After I caught a glimpse of the game, I happened across “<a href="http://theadvocate.com/sports/latestsports/15985694-37/thats-their-boy-lsus-indestructible-contact-crazy-beau-and-bryce-jordan-remain-grounded-by-their-lit">LSU’s indestructible, contact-crazy Beau and Bryce Jordan</a> <a href="http://theadvocate.com/sports/latestsports/15985694-37/thats-their-boy-lsus-indestructible-contact-crazy-beau-and-bryce-jordan-remain-grounded-by-their-lit">remain grounded by little brother Brock</a>,” by Chandler Rome.</div>
Beau and Bryce are twins who play for LSU, Brock is their little
brother who simultaneously worships them and demands to be treated as an
equal. That means lots and lots of physical contact , beginning with
wrestling and baseball.<br />
Brock is an amazing young man, who has just finished seventh grade.
Brock is “tough,” his brothers say, and sounds as if, for his size,
strong as an ox.<br />
In addition, Rome tells us, Brock is possessed of “a near-photographic memory. He created his own sign language at a young age.”<br />
Brock is omnipresent at his brothers’ games and the owner of more baseball bats than most teams (I exaggerate slightly).<br />
Here’s how Rome begins his story of the three brothers.<br />
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<strong>LAKE CHARLES — The boy who can
soften two indestructible twins required a feeding tube throughout his
first year of life, has one scar from an open heart surgery down his
chest and another on his back from his C4 to L4 vertebrae — scoliosis’
toll on the 10-pound baby Lori Jordan carried to term with no
complications.</strong></div>
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<strong>Brock Jordan spent the first four
months of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit, shriveling to
four pounds from his birth weight.</strong></div>
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<strong>He has Down syndrome.</strong></div>
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<strong>There’s another heart surgery
coming, too. A leaking valve needs to be corrected, but doctors are
comfortable waiting until later in the 15-year-old’s life.</strong></div>
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<strong>Supporting LSU from head to toe,
his brother Beau’s No. 24 on his right arm and Bryce’s No. 25 on the
left, Brock’s the first person to answer the door on a rainy Wednesday
afternoon.</strong></div>
Like you, I’ve read many stories about children (and adults) with
Down syndrome. The best remind us to put away false assumptions: the
individual doesn’t need or want “pity,” or to be treated “differently.”<br />
“We never treated him different,” Bryce told Rome. “You wanted him to
grow up in a normal atmosphere, we didn’t want to treat him any other
way.”<br />
Throughout Brock’s life, people have seen him as a younger brother,
whose older brothers love him intensely and treat him as they would want
to be treated. There’s this:<br />
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<strong>When the twins played at Barbe
High School, coach Glenn Cecchini, himself a special education teacher,
often had Brock in the dugout or as an honorary batboy. Beau and Bryce
often led him out to the foul line, standing with the team for pregame
ceremonies.</strong></div>
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<strong>The batter’s box was much closer then, too, and more suitable to Brock’s constant hitting instruction.</strong></div>
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<strong>“Watching them interact with
Brock makes me want to be a better person,” Cecchini said. “Makes me
want to be more compassionate, more kind, more loving. How they treated
him makes you want to be a better man, husband, coach, brother, better
son, better friend. And they never said anything about it.”</strong></div>
Rather than provide a bunch more quotes or paraphrases, <a href="http://theadvocate.com/sports/latestsports/15985694-37/thats-their-boy-lsus-indestructible-contact-crazy-beau-and-bryce-jordan-remain-grounded-by-their-lit">let me just encourage you to read Rome’s story</a>.<br />
And, if I may put in a plug, Go Ragin Cajuns!<br />
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Source: NRLC News bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454564453120122915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188735629793137244.post-23339959869920898642016-06-08T09:05:00.005-05:002016-06-08T09:05:59.498-05:00Great News
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Oklahoma Gov. Fallin signs ‘Humanity of the Unborn Child Act’</h2>
By Dave Andrusko<br />
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Pro-life Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin yesterday signed the “Humanity of the Unborn Child Act” into law.<br />
Authored by state Rep. Ann Coody and Sen. A.J. Griffin, The Humanity
of the Unborn Child Act “establishes a public education program for high
school students to foster increased awareness of the growth and
development of a baby during the nine months before birth,” explained
Tony Lauinger, state chairman of Oklahomans For Life. “When young people
have a good understanding – in advance – of the development and
humanity of the unborn child, they are much less likely to view abortion
as an acceptable ‘solution’ to an unwanted pregnancy.”<br />
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The Humanity of the Unborn Child Act “constitutes an affirmation by
our legislature that it is the public policy of the state of Oklahoma to
make a value judgment favoring <em>childbirth</em> over <em>abortion</em>,” Lauinger added.<br />
<br />
The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the state’s right to express that preference way back in its 1977 <em>Maher v. Roe</em>
ruling. The Court held that the U.S. Constitution imposes “no
limitation on the authority of a State to make a value judgment favoring
childbirth over abortion, and to implement that judgment by the
allocation of public funds.”<br />
<br />
“Ultimately, the pro-life movement is engaged in an effort to reach
the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens – especially the young,”
Lauinger told <em>NRL News Today</em>. “The Supreme Court has made it
clear that the states are not required to be neutral between life and
death. We are free to come down on the side of life.”<br />
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The Humanity of the Unborn Child Act, Lauinger concluded, “represents a tangible way for our legislature to do that.”<br />
National Right to Life Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, JD, told <em>NRL News Today</em>
that Oklahoma thus becomes the first state to establish by law a public
school educational program focused on the humanity and development of
the unborn child.<br />
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Pro-lifers aren’t trying to ban abortion because it’s ‘gross’</h1>
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Abortion
advocates will do whatever they can to undermine the pro-life movement.
From claiming that pro-lifers are anti-woman to framing abortion as
“health care,” it seems there’s no tactic they won’t try.<br />
Vox is trying one that’s fairly surprising. They’re trying to
convince people that pro-lifers are trying to ban abortion by “grossing
people out”.<br />
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The article, written by Emily Crockett, complains that <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11828370/second-trimester-abortion-ban-louisiana-grossing-out">pro-lifers won’t stop talking about the unpleasant details of abortion</a>.<br />
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D&E bans are quickly becoming the
latest trend in anti-abortion lawmaking at the state level. They have
colorful names like the “Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment
Abortion Act.” And some advocates and lawmakers are using them to focus
on the lurid details of later abortion procedures, in hopes of turning
more Americans against abortion and making the procedure easier to
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Crockett even defended partial-birth abortions, something that only
the most extreme of abortion advocates would dare to do, claiming that
“the focus on the unpleasant details of the procedure helped to sway the
public against it – and even to sway more people against abortion in
general for a time.”<br />
She then goes on to complain about how D&E abortions are also called “dismemberment” abortions:<br />
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It would be no surprise, then, if
abortion opponents wanted to build on that success and use it to try to
ban abortion much more broadly. And so it comes as no surprise that
anti-abortion advocates have rebranded the regular D&E procedure as a
“dismemberment abortion,” which is also not a medical term.</div>
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Abortionists may not refer to D&E procedures as dismemberment
abortions, that’s true. But it isn’t a lie to say that preborn babies
are being dismembered during these abortions, because <em>that is what happens</em>.<br />
<a href="http://liveactionnews.org/a-medical-doctor-and-former-abortionist-describes-the-de-abortion-procedure/">Former abortionist</a> Dr. Anthony Levatino <a href="http://www.abortionprocedures.com/">explains the procedure</a>:
The abortionist puts laminaria into the woman’s cervix to aid in
dilation. 24-48 hours later, when she returns to the abortion facility,
he opens the cervix more using metal dilators and a speculum. He then
drains the uterus of amniotic fluid and gets to work on the preborn
baby.<br />
Using a sopher clamp, the abortionist grasps the baby’s limbs and
tears them from the baby’s body, one by one. He then will move on to the
baby’s body parts – the baby’s intestines, spine, lungs, heart – and
finally, the head.<br />
These details aren’t pointed out because they’re “gross.” People
should, at the very least, know the realities of abortion and what it
entails – even if it’s gross. Women <em>should</em> have the right to basic knowledge of the procedures they consider.<br />
It is true that most people are horrified by the details of D&E
dismemberment abortions, yes (because, after all, it’s pretty horrifying
to find out abortion includes ripping the arms and legs off a living
human being). But that doesn’t mean the answer is to hush up people
giving the details. (To clear up common misconceptions about D&E
abortions, <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/debunking-three-common-misconceptions-on-de-abortions/">go here</a>.)<br />
Abortion activists naturally want to keep this part of the debate
quiet. They don’t want people to hear the gruesome details because, as
Crockett complains, and as the video below shows, it makes people less
likely to support abortion.<br />
Pro-lifers should not be quieted because the details of abortion are
“gross.” Plenty of things are “gross” – rape, murder, molestation – but
we don’t oppose them because we think they’re yucky. We oppose them
because they’re <em>wrong</em>. Violence against other people is wrong.
No one is shy about giving people the details about things like the cold
and flu, or worse, <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/4-key-facts-about-the-zika-virus-birth-defects-and-abortion/">the Zika virus</a> or Ebola, even though the details are downright disgusting and awful to hear.<br />
It’s vital for people to be informed. Yet if we’re talking about
abortion, the pro-abortion extremists want to keep people in the dark as
much as possible. They don’t want people to know the details of what
happens during abortions, because, if they do know them, <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/watch-abortion-supporters-change-their-mind-about-abortion-in-minutes/">they invariably oppose it</a> – a fact that Crockett laments.<br />
Abortion advocates may want to keep women uninformed on abortion
because that keeps it legal. But pro-lifers aren’t trying to gross women
out. We’re the ones keeping women informed, and pro-abortion extremists
like Crockett don’t get to undermine that just because it doesn’t suit
their agenda.<br />
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Business owned by man with Down syndrome featured on No. 95 NASCAR</h1>
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A
young businessman from Sanger, Texas, who has Down syndrome will have
his snow cone business alongside Fortune 500 companies in the upcoming
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway.<br />
<span id="more-95398"></span>At the age of 20, Blake Pyron became the
youngest business owner in Sanger when he opened Blake’s Snow Shack in
early May of this year. Blake’s mother <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/man-syndrome-becomes-youngest-business-owner-city/" target="_blank">previously </a> told Live Action News that when Blake was born, she was asked by her doctor to have an amniocentesis, but she refused.<br />
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</em>“We didn’t take [the amniocentesis] because we knew we would never have an abortion,” she said.<br />
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Last month, I had the privilege to attend the grand opening for
Blake’s Snow Shack where Blake’s mother, Mary Ann, proudly told a
supportive crowd on Mother’s Day weekend how her son had been a blessing
to her family, as well as their community.<br />
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_95517" style="width: 1136px;"><a href="http://liveactionnews.org/business-owned-by-man-down-syndrome-featured-on-no-95-nascar/k%20Pyron"><img alt="Blake Pyron along with his mother and brother " class="size-full wp-image-95517" height="852" src="http://liveactionnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Blake-and-Mary-Ann-Pyron-645787593866063529_o.jpg" width="1136" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Blake Pyron along with his mother and brother</figcaption></figure>
Today, Blake’s inspiring story of success as a Down syndrome business
owner has been featured on several major news outlets. According to
their <a href="http://lfr95.com/news/?cid=65040" target="_blank">press release</a>, Blake’s story reached the desk of Circle Sport-Leavine Family Racing team owner, Bob Leavine, who lives in Texas.<br />
The Leavine family connected with the story because their 21-year-old
grandson, Tanner, is autistic. This prompted the Leavine family to
create a new paint scheme for the No. 95 Chevrolet at Pocono that will
elevate their stories. The No. 95 car will feature Blake’s Snow Shack,
as well as another organization the Leavine family says has benefited
their grandson.<br />
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_95518" style="width: 652px;"><a href="http://liveactionnews.org/business-owned-by-man-down-syndrome-featured-on-no-95-nascar/95"><img alt="No, 95 Nascar features Blake's Snow Shack " class="size-full wp-image-95518" height="364" src="http://liveactionnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Blake-Pyron-No-95-Nascar-Down-Syndrome.png" width="652" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">No. 95 Nascar features Blake’s Snow Shack</figcaption></figure>
“These are great stories that people need to be aware of and we had
an opportunity to do that on our Pocono car,” said Bob Leavine. “We
wanted to put it on the car so we could make a statement and say, ‘Hey
we are behind this.’ We need to help our special kids because it takes a
lot of resources. People need to know about this because they can
help.”<br />
Blake’s mother was thrilled when she received the call with the
opportunity to showcase Blake’s Snow Shack on a NASCAR race car. “The
Leavine family – they touched our hearts,” said Mary Ann Pyron.<br />
“I am honestly speechless,” Mary Ann <a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/NASCAR-to-Feature-Inspiring-Story-of-Blakes-Snow-Shack-381524691.html" target="_blank">told </a>NBC DFW.<br />
“We have tried to show other people that you can believe in yourself
and your child can do anything that they want to. There is no limit for
my child. And I feel that the Leavine family reaching out and for them
to share us with ‘NASCAR Nation’ is great. We feel beyond blessed!”<br />
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_95521" style="width: 300px;"><img alt="Blake at hos Snow Shack image from his Facebook page" class="size-medium wp-image-95521" height="236" src="http://liveactionnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Blakes-Snow-Shack-6167869624162_n-300x236.jpg" width="300" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Blake in front of his Snow Shack image from his Facebook page</figcaption></figure>
Tragically, women who are <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/mom-son-syndrome-joy/#more-84289" target="_blank">told </a>their
preborn child has Down syndrome are often pressured into an abortion,
something disability advocates call a horrible and violent form of
discrimination. For that reason, Mary Ann wants any mother of a child
who is given this diagnosis to reach out to her, and she has given Live
Action News permission to publish an e-mail address where she can be
reached. That address is maryannpyron@hotmail.com.<br />
Blake and his father will attend the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in
Pocono on Sunday, June 5. The No. 95 crew will wear purple Blake’s Snow
Shack t-shirts during the race weekend – the same t-shirts that Blake
wears for his business.<br />
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Comedian booed on talk show after claiming on talk show after claiming abortion is “cool”</h1>
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Keepers of the Official Abortion Narrative hold that absolutely nobody
likes abortion, that every single woman who gets one would of course
rather avoid it if she could. But try as they might, <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/touch-pro-abortion-advocates-celebrate-abortion/">they</a> <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/katha-pollitt-glamourizing-abortion-wont-redeem-your-mothers-suffering/">just</a> <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/women-be-proud-of-abortion/">can’t</a> <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/just-how-low-will-abortion-supporters-stoop-xojane-has-the-answer/">seem</a> <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/new-book-equates-killing-a-baby-with-removing-a-wisdom-tooth/">to</a> <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/killing-her-baby-is-a-special-memory-says-woman-who-filmed-her-own-abortion/">stop</a> the occasional pro-abortion extremist from cheering abortion as a positive good that deserves to be used casually.<br />
<a href="http://liveactionnews.org/?attachment_id=95507" rel="attachment wp-att-95507"><img alt="Natasha Leggero" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-95507" height="150" src="http://liveactionnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Natasha-Leggero-150x150.jpg" width="150" /></a>The latest to miss the memo is actress and comedian Natasha Leggero, who <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/katie-yoder/2016/06/01/actress-conan-abortion-cool-aaa-car-towing#.V1AXoQe4NTU.twitter">recently appeared</a>
on Conan O’Brien’s talk show to gush about how “cool” abortion is, to
the point where even Conan was taken aback and occasionally tried to
veer her back on script.<br />
It came amid a discussion of her conversion away from “mean”
Catholicism to Judaism, which she interprets to be much more welcoming
of abortion…<span id="more-95506"></span><br />
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“You’re part of this beautiful religion
seeped in culture,” she gushed about her new religion, before adding,
“Abortions are cool.”</div>
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As the audience laughed, Conan disagreed.</div>
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“I don’t think they go around saying
‘abortions are cool,’” he said. “Not like the Fonz” (a famously “cool”
character from Happy Days).</div>
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His sidekick, Andy Richter, prompted even more laughter by commenting, “That’s on the PSA, ‘Judaism: Abortion is cool.’”</div>
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Trying to regain control of the abortion
conversation, Conan again started to say no one called abortion “cool,”
when Leggero interrupted, “No, they do!”</div>
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“I mean, you could get an abortion on every Jewish holiday and it would be okay,” she hyped.</div>
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But when Leggero likened abortion to a contract with a towing company, the audience changed its tune towards her.</div>
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“I’m not saying I am going to get an
abortion but, you know, it’s just nice to – it’s like AAA. Like, you’re
not going to use all those tows, but – no, it’s just nice to know –” she
stumbled as some in the audience booed.</div>
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Yes, killing a child is exactly like getting your car towed. The
Catholics are the nutcases for noticing the second person who dies as a
result of Mom’s actions, while those who pretend the kid isn’t there are
the reasonable ones. Now where could anyone get the crazy idea that
abortion advocates are narcissists?<br />
As <em>actual</em> crazy notions go, Leggero’s claim that Judaism is inherently pro-abortion takes the cake. There is <a href="http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Jewish-Values-Report.pdf">disturbing survey data</a>
indicating that contemporary American Jews are as a whole more
pro-abortion than other faiths, but religions are defined by the tenets
of the religions themselves, not the fidelity of their followers many
centuries later. The Jewish Pro-Life Foundation <a href="http://nebula.wsimg.com/a33fbf5dc29929d31d7e1843d73f8e78?AccessKeyId=2B45520519A86EAF036C&disposition=0&alloworigin=1">argues</a>:<br />
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The Halakhic record on the subject of
abortion coalesced around a central theme of sanctifying unborn human
life, permitting abortion only when the mother’s physical life was in
imminent danger during hard labor. While acknowledging the unborn
child’s value, the mother’s life took precedence, and abortion in this
extreme case was permitted. In the absence of modern day surgical
procedures that allow both mother and baby to survive a breech birth,
the pragmatic rabbis of the time allowed this one exception to the laws
prohibiting abortion. Cesarean delivery and high tech medical care for
premature infants have invalidated this exception to the prohibition
against abortion. Today, ectopic pregnancy is the only allowable
exception.</div>
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Rabbi David Novak <a href="http://www.peopleforlife.org/novak.html">adds</a>
that “within the normative Jewish tradition, there is no permission of
elective abortion based on a woman’s ‘right’ to do with her own body as
she (or anyone else) pleases,” and has this to say about modern
pro-abortion Jewish sentiment:<br />
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Admittedly, this outlook contravenes the
emotional inclinations and political opinions of many Jews today,
especially American Jewish liberals. But in traditional Judaism the
Torah takes precedence, irrespective of how few Jews accept its
teachings, whether on a specific issue or in general. In the case of
abortion, there is little doubt that the inclinations and opinions of
may Jews have been strongly influenced by the secular culture in which
they live. On the question of abortion, especially, traditional Judaism
is countercultural.</div>
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There are, of course, <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/09/is-judaism-pro-choice-or-pro-life/">pro-abortion interpretations of Jewish teaching</a>,
but they seem to be based in a number of the same errors that we see
all the time from pro-abortion spins on Christianity: assuming
personhood is bestowed at some point after fertilization similarly to
how some early Catholics used the “quickening” standard in the absence
of a clearer scientific view of embryology; and <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/even-the-devil-can-quote-scripture-biblical-arguments-for-abortion/">drawing questionable interpretations and inferences</a> from various passages of the Bible.<br />
Ultimately, for Christians and Jews alike, abortion should come down to two basic truths: that <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/command.html">both faiths view</a> murder as a grievous sin, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+9%3A6&version=NIV">because</a> “for in the image of God has God made mankind”; and that <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/the-science-of-abortion-when-does-life-begin/">modern science</a> <a href="http://www.abort73.com/abortion/medical_testimony/">unarguably concludes</a> that human zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are members of mankind.<br />
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As sickening as Natasha Leggero’s callous hyping of abortion is,
pro-lifers can find hope in some of the reactions from the audience and
even Conan O’Brien himself, as they show that people outside the
pro-life movement are still capable of being shocked at the true face of
abortion-on-demand.<br />
Realizing we weren’t exaggerating after all may yet be the first step toward joining us.<br />
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Chilling Evidence Shows Planned Parenthood Selling Body Parts: “How’s the Pancreas Forecast Today?”</h2>
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new batch of evidence from the Congressional panel investigating
Planned Parenthood reveals some disturbing exchanges between the buyers
and sellers of aborted baby body parts.<br />
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Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, who chairs the Select Panel on Infant
Lives, sent the evidence to the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services this week along with <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/06/01/congressional-investigation-planned-parenthood-broke-hippa-law-to-sell-aborted-baby-parts/">a letter asking HHS to investigate possible violations</a> by Planned Parenthood and the organ harvesting company StemExpress.<br />
<a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/114/letters/20160601HHSHIPAA.pdf">The newly uncovered evidence</a>
points to multiple potential violations of federal laws based on emails
between the companies, invoices, contracts for the aborted babies’ body
parts and other documents.<br />
Some of the email exchanges are gruesome in nature. In one
correspondence, an individual asks, “How is the pancreas forecast today –
any possible procurements?”<br />
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Others involve individuals who want aborted babies’ skulls, brains
and limbs. One read, “i also wanted to put in another order of 4 normal
fetal brains … please send me a quote for the same.”<br />
Here’s more <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/03/new-evidence-indicates-planned-parenthoods-organ-harvesting-scheme-broke-the-law/">from The Federalist</a>:<br />
<a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/congress-must-de-fund-planned-parenthood-immediately.html"><em><strong>SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately</strong></em></a><br />
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This email raises questions about whether Planned Parenthood<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/15/planned-parenthood-not-getting-womens-full-consent-for-organ-harvesting-program/" target="_blank"> illegally altered abortion procedures </a>to
fulfill the orders for organs. Rather than performing abortions and
then sending StemExpress whatever organs they happened to obtain, it
seems the abortion clinics were under pressure to meet expectations. In
the past, Planned Parenthood abortionists<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/27/planned-parenthood-abortionist-admits-to-illegal-partial-birth-abortions-in-new-video/" target="_blank"> have admitted on camera</a> to altering abortions in order to get the maximum number of organs from the infants.<i> </i></blockquote>
Another document shows a list of bonus payments that StemExpress
employees received for “specimens.” The list shows bonuses of up to $75
per specimen for hearts, brains and lungs and up to $35 for kidneys,
tongues and ears.<br />
StemExpress employees also had access to patients’ private medical records, potentially a violation of HIPPA.<br />
<a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/114/letters/20160601HHSHIPAA.pdf">In a letter to HHS</a>, Blackburn wrote:<br />
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The Panel’s investigation uncovered a series of business
contracts between StemExpress, a tissue procurement business, and
several abortion clinics. These contracts included provisions for the
payment of fees by StemExpress to the abortion clinic for fetal tissue
and maternal blood. StemExpress then resold the fetal tissue and blood
to researchers.</blockquote>
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… In particular the Panel’s investigation has uncovered
information indicating that StemExpress and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
(“PPMM”), Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific (”PPSP”) and Family
Planning Specialists Medical Group (“FPS”) … committed systematic
violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 (“HIPPA”) privacy rule from about 2010 to 2015. <strong>These
violations occurred when the abortion clinics disclosed patients’
individually identifiable health information to StemExpress to
facilitate the TPB’S efforts to procure human fetal tissue for resale. </strong>This
complaint is against each of these entities, and we request a swift and
full investigation by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of
Health and Human Services.</blockquote>
Blackburn said StemExpress did not have a medically valid reason to
see the patients’ private health information, nor did abortion clinics
have reasons to share them.<br />
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“The key to understanding the HIPAA and consent violations that we’ve
referred to HHS is that there’s a business contract between StemExpress
and the abortion clinics under which both sides make a profit from the
baby body parts inside the young woman’s womb,” Blackburn said. “The
contract changes the way both entities view the young woman: her baby is
now a profit-center. This betrayal of a young woman’s trust should
disgust us all. It takes financial advantage, obtains consent through
coercion, and deceives the woman, all in violation of federal privacy
laws.”<br />
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The <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/select-investigative-panel">Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives</a>
formed after a series of undercover videos revealed Planned Parenthood
selling aborted babies’ body parts, potentially in violation of the law.
Since then, the panel has uncovered <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/04/07/women-sitting-in-abortion-clinic-waiting-rooms-are-lobbied-to-donate-their-aborted-babies/">a growing list of evidence that abortion facilities have violated federal laws</a>.<br />
The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the
body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of
all twelve:<br />
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/14/shock-video-catches-planned-parenthoods-top-doctor-selling-body-parts-of-aborted-babies/">In the first video</a></strong>:
Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing:
“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know
that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below,
I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/21/second-shock-video-catches-another-top-planned-parenthood-doctor-selling-body-parts-of-aborted-babies/">In the second video</a>:</strong> Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/28/3rd-shock-shock-video-catches-planned-parenthood-vice-president-selling-body-parts-of-aborted-babies/">In the third video</a>:</strong>
Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a
Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable
atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/30/4th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-vp-discussing-how-to-break-the-law-to-sell-aborted-babies/">In the fourth video</a>:</strong>
Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just
a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little
better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also
laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to
go.”</li>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/04/5th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-official-selling-fully-intact-aborted-babies/">In the fifth video</a></strong>:
Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of
Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how
her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our
organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our
Research Department is the largest in the United States.”</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/12/6th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-selling-aborted-babies-without-patient-consent/">In the sixth video</a>: </strong>Holly
O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient
consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted.
And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/19/7th-shocking-video-catches-planned-parenthood-harvesting-brain-of-aborted-baby-who-was-still-alive/">In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video</a>:</strong>
Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs
from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar
Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind
of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps
the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking
at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to
think.”</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/28/full-unedited-8th-video-confirms-planned-parenthood-sells-fully-intact-aborted-babies/">In the eighth video</a></strong>: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies.</li>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/09/01/9th-shocking-video-planned-parenthood-sells-intact-aborted-babies-one-just-fell-out-of-the-womb/">The ninth video</a></strong>:
catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the
abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who
“just fell out” of the womb.</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/09/15/10th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-we-sell-fresh-aborted-baby-eyes-hearts-and-gonads/">The 10th video</a></strong>:
catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling specific body
parts — </li>
<li>including the heart, eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies. The
video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials
admit that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body
parts for profit.</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/22/hackers-release-shocking-planned-parenthood-videos-we-cant-stop-selling-baby-parts/">Unreleased Videos</a></strong>:
Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood
caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion business
affiliates may “want to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but
we can’t stop them…” Another video has a woman talking about the
“financial incentives” of selling aborted baby body parts.</li>
<li> </li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/27/11th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-abortion-doc-selling-aborted-babies-heads/">The 11th video</a></strong>:
catches a Texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning to sell the
intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught on
tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate
living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal
heads for brain harvesting.</li>
<li> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/03/01/12th-video-catches-planned-parenthood-aborting-intact-late-term-babies-to-sell-as-parts/">The 12th video in the series</a>
shows new footage of Jennefer Russo, medical director at Planned
Parenthood in Orange County, California, describing to undercover
investigators how her abortion business tries to harvest intact aborted
babies’ bodies for a local for-profit biotech company and changes the
abortion procedure to do so.Source: LifeNews</li>
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