Hysterical Reactions to Missouri Parental Notification Bill Expose Abortion Advocates’ Extremism

By Cavin Freiburger
Live Action News

One of the surest ways to tell if somebody’s an extremist is to see whether their words are proportionate to what they’re discussing. Pro-lifers, for instance, believe that killing a pre-implantation embryo via abortifacient drugs and killing a developed, pain-capable fetus by partially delivering her and stabbing her skull are equally wrong, but we can see clear differences in the moral intentions of those who support one versus the other.

Pro-aborts tend to recognize no such distinctions, and the latest manifestation of that tendency is a doozy. At the Daily Kos, Bimmerella Zone freaks out that the latest abortion bill to pass the Missouri House of Representatives has “only ONE reason” to exist—“shaming teens”—and has the effect of making them “second class citizens.” Democrat state Representative Genise Montecillo calls it“absolutely cruel.” Her fellow Democrat Stacey Newman said it forced teens to follow pro-lifers’ “religious beliefs.”

Whoa, it must be pretty bad if people who disagree can see only malice and theology instead of decent and secular motivations behind it. So what does this demonic legislation do?

It strengthens Missouri’s current parental consent law, which requires minors to get the permission of one parent for an abortion, by requiring that the second parent be notified (not give consent) as well.

Seriously, that’s it. It doesn’t reduce a teenager’s likelihood of getting an abortion in any other way. It doesn’t tighten the state’s relatively-weak parental bypass option, which does not require a judge to base his decision on specific criteria or the “clear and convincing evidence” standard. It just requires that both parents know that their child is making such an irreversible, life-altering decision.

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Silent Scream

by Judith Alciatore

How can they do this, how do they dare

Destroying a life in God’s loving care

How do they live with what they have done

Stealing the life of a daughter or son

How can they sleep, how can they dream

They turn a deaf ear to the babe’s silent scream

Please stop this madness, for I tell you true

The baby’s as human as I or as you

The baby is real, though unseen in the womb

The life-giving cradle turned into a tomb

We must take a stand, be united as one

Or we, too, will answer for what they have done

Note: Below is the full version of The Silent Scream by Dr. Bernard Nathanson that I found on YouTube.  Comments below are by Clifford Sumner, who posted this video to YouTube.  

"This video shows a live abortion. The unborn child struggles to escape as its heart rate rises over 200 BPM. To watch this video and not at least entertain the idea that the child is ALIVE denotes willful ignorance. To ignore this video proves your cowardice."

 You can watch it here or on YouTube, using this link.  

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Michigan House passes bills to prevent abortion coercion

by Calvin Freiburger
Live Action News 

On Thursday, the Michigan House voted 65-43 to pass two pro-life bills to protect women from being coerced into having abortions.

One would make it a felony to stalk or assault a pregnant woman for the purpose of pressuring her into an abortion, and the other would make it a misdemeanor to threaten to withhold legally-required financial aid or employment if she refuses to abort.

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Prayer for our Supreme Court Justices

by Patricia Dowling
Voices for the Unborn 

On Wednesday, I attended a prayer vigil in center city Philadelphia to support the  Little Sisters of the Poor. These nuns provide free, compassionate care for the elderly poor, and they are facing $70 million in government fines for refusing to violate their Catholic faith by cooperating in  the government's plan to expand access to contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization through their healthcare insurance plan.

At the prayer vigil, the following invocation was prayed for our Supreme Court Justices.  I'm re-posting it here and asking everyone to use this prayer each day asking for God's intercession on these Justices.

This prayer comes from the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference.

Father of Mercy, in whose hands rest every human heart and the right of peoples:
Inspire, we pray, the Supreme Court Justices of our land so that freedom of religion might be upheld, not simply as the right to worship, but to live our faith in word and deed. 

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, and with the help of Mary, our dear Blessed Mother and Patroness of our Country.  Amen.  

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Pro-Life Group Organizes Good Friday Prayer Vigils Outside 70 Abortion Clinics Nationwide

 

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

On Friday, Christians all across the U.S. will gather outside of abortion clinics for a special event to remember the innocent lives of unborn children lost to abortion.

Special prayer vigils called the Way of the Cross for Victims of Abortion coincide with Good Friday, the solemn day when Christians remember Jesus’s death on the cross to take away the sins of humanity.
The Pro-Life Action League, which is organizing the effort, began the Good Friday prayer vigils as a way to commemorate the deaths of nearly 60 million unborn babies who have been aborted in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade. The group compared Jesus’s suffering and horrific death on the cross to the suffering that unborn babies experience every day inside the nation’s abortion clinics.

“These children’s lives are ended, deliberately, before they even get to take their first breath,” Executive Director Eric Scheidler said. “As Christians, we seek Christ’s forgiveness for our sins. This sin of killing our own children is one of which our entire society must repent. If we cannot protect the child in the womb, we will never truly be a civilized, compassionate people.”

The non-denominational vigils will be held in front of about 70 abortion facilities in 28 states, including California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, according to a press release from the group. More details about the prayer vigil times and locations are available on the Pro-Life Action League website.

Led by local clergy, the groups will go through the stations of the cross and meditate on Jesus’ crucifixion and the devastating effects of abortion on our nation. They also will pray for the unborn victims of abortion and their mothers, communities, abortion industry workers and abortion advocates.

Scheidler said they have seen prayers save unborn babies, heal women who are hurting and move hearts to compassion for unborn babies.

“More than 3,300 babies are put to death by abortion every day in the United States—even on Good Friday and it’s happening in our town, in every town,” Scheidler said. “This solemn day that has been revered for centuries is an ideal time for pro-life Americans to put their convictions into effective action.”  http://www.lifenews.com/2016/03/23/

USAID Needs to Warn Women of the Dangers of Depo-Provera

It’s the Law, Yet Family Planners Routinely Fail to Provide Women with even Basic Information

By Steven W. Mosher and Jonathan Abbamonte

Population Research Institute 

Despite mounting evidence of serious side effects associated with the use of injectable contraceptives, international aid programs continue to indiscriminately distribute Depo-Provera under various brand names worldwide.

Indeed, a coalition of family planning partners including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health), and others are seeking to inject even more vulnerable women in developing countries with risky injectable contraceptives.

Like the injectable contraceptives that preceded it, the new one-time use injectable contraceptive—called Sayana Press—is intended to be administered by an unlicensed “community health worker” with minimal training, or even by women themselves.

True to form, the training materials and job aids used in Sayana Press acceptability studies fail to provide complete information on the possible side effects of the drug. This could constitute a violation of the Tiahrt Amendment which guarantees “informed consent.”

Read more at Population Research Institute using this link

Priests for Life Father Frank Pavone Defends Faith at SCOTUS

by Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart News Daily 

Asked by Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon why he is so committed to the issue of life, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says: “About 25 years ago I came to a decision…to devote myself completely to the protection of unborn children. I came to realize…there is no tragedy greater in our nation today or in our world than this ongoing holocaust of abortion – nothing takes more human life.”

Pavone tells Breitbart News Daily the problem with abortion violence is that “the law is saying it’s okay.”

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No Gurney: Barely Able to Walk, Planned Parenthood Patient is Lifted into Ambulance

By Cheryl Sullenger
Operation Rescue

Silver Spring, MD - An ambulance was called to the Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. in Silver Spring, Maryland, on February 25, 2016, for an African-American female who appeared hardly able to walk.

No gurney was used to aid the woman, who was in obvious pain. She walked out to the ambulance under the assistance of emergency responders and was partially lifted into the side door of the ambulance.

Continue reading to watch the video featuring the actual 911 recording!

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The doctor said he was “sorry” my twins had Down’s syndrome – but I wouldn’t swap them for the world

Abigail and Isobel Parry Started at a Mainstream School in September

National Right to Life

Editor’s note. Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD). NRL News Today ran many stories leading up to the anniversary and two more yesterday.

We will, of course, continue posting stories that affirm the intrinsic value of every human being. The following comes from our friends at SPUC–the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.

They are mum and dad to identical twin girls, Abigail and Isobel, who also have Down’s syndrome – the chances of which are two MILLION to one.Every child is special, and Jodi and Matt Parry know that even better than most parents

Jodi and Matt are open in admitting that when they first heard their children had been diagnosed with Down’s syndrome – three weeks after their premature birth in June 2011 – they felt it was a ‘life sentence’.

The first words the doctor said to them when they received the news were: “I’m sorry”

Jodi says:  The day our twin girls were diagnosed with Down’s syndrome it felt like a life sentence.That day, I didn’t feel like a mother. I just felt lost and confused. I had bleak visions of the future. I thought we’d be carers until we dropped dead.

Lack of support: Sadly, many families with a child who has a learning disability struggle to get the right support at the right time. This reinforces the negative stereotypes and fears that many people have about people with disabilities.

The doctor took us off the ward, into a bare, clinical side room with three chairs and then uttered the words that have remained stamped on my memory: ‘I’m sorry.’

Everything else he said that day is a blur, that ‘I’m sorry’, the first words that came out of his mouth, is the thing that stayed with us.

We had so many questions. Would the girls walk? Would they talk? We knew nothing about Down’s syndrome and left the hospital with no answers, no information, just fear and dread.

But now, nearly five years later, their family is flourishing. And Jodi and Matt say they want to spread positive awareness and provide support to other parents who may be feeling lost and confused.

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24-Week-Old Baby Survives Abortion, Cries for an Hour While Left to Die

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, 

but because of those who look on and do nothing.”  Albert Einstein

By Cassy Fiano
Live Action News

The abortion industry doesn’t want to admit that babies can survive abortion. They call it a myth and pretend it doesn’t happen — but it does. And what happens when babies do survive abortions is chilling. Too often, the babies are left to die, with no comfort or compassion, but alone and cold and in pain. This is exactly what just happened in Poland, where a baby with Down syndrome was the victim of a botched abortion, and was then left to die, crying for nearly an hour while doctors did nothing.

Doctors and medical staff at Holy Family Hospital in Warsaw, Poland, left a child to die after a botched abortion, according to local media reports detailing the horrific scene.

The baby was born on March 7, 2016 at 24 weeks, after an abortion failed. The child cried and screaming for an hour before dying, according to witnesses, as reported on Republika Television.

Medical personnel did not try to help the child in any way.

Hospital spokesperson Dorota Jasłowska-Niemyska explained that a patient at the end of the 23rd week of pregnancy came to the hospital, and her medical tests suggested that the baby had Down syndrome. The hospital claims that everything that happened thereafter was according to the law and medical procedures. The dignity of the patient and the dignity of the fetus were respected, she continued.

In Poland, abortion is illegal — except to save the life of the mother, in cases of rape in the first trimester, or if the baby has a “severe and irreversible handicap or an incurable and life-threatening disease.” In the third option, the baby can be aborted until the point of viability. But viability is not explicitly defined, so late-term abortions can happen, as long as the baby is considered to be disabled. It’s a despicable law that discriminates against people for the “crime” of having a disability.

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