Thursday, April 11, 2013

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 4/11/13





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Thursday, April 11, 2013

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Top Stories
• Worker at Gosnell Clinic: Baby’s Chest Moved After Neck Snipped
• Infant Beheadings and Severed Babies’ Feet, But Media Ignores Gosnell

• Gosnell Attorney: Babies’ Deaths Justify Snipping Their Necks
 Congressman: Gosnell an Abortion Predator Who Must be Exposed

More Pro-Life News• Poll: Majority Say Abortion Morally Wrong Most of the Time
• NBC Won’t Cover Gosnell Trial, Tweets News From Another Source

• Death Panels for Babies in Obamacare? Kids With RSV Should Beware

• Planned Parenthood Pro-Infanticide Lobbyist Lied to Catholic Group• Congressman Upset President Obama Ignoring Gosnell Abortion Trial
• George Soros Bankrolling Efforts to Legalize Assisted Suicide
• Sixth Abortion Clinic Closes in Michigan in Recent Months
• Five Reasons Why the Abortion Industry is Pushing RU 486 Harder
• Ethicists Plugged After-Birth Abortions, Now Back “In Vitro Eugenics”

• New Texas Budget Keeps Planned Parenthood De-Funding Intact

• Alabama Doc Still Doing Abortions Despite Losing Medical License
• Maryland Asks Obama Admin to Ration Health Care More Than Obamacare

• Indiana: Bill to Target Dangerous Abortion Drug Heads to Governor

• Media Exploits Canadian Woman Committing Assisted Suicide in Switzerland


Worker at Gosnell Clinic: Baby’s Chest Moved After Neck SnippedA young woman who worked at Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic as a teenager testified today in court that she saw a baby’s chest move even after the gruesome snipping procedure he used to end their lives.
That a 15-year-old girl was employed at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania abortion clinic is problematic enough, Ashley Baldwin testified Thursday in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell that even his horrific “snipping” procedure for killing babies in abortions/infanticides didn’t necessarily end their lives. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/worker-at-gosnell-clinic-babys-chest-moved-after-neck-snipped/
Infant Beheadings and Severed Babies’ Feet, But Media Ignores GosnellCriticism of the mainstream media is reaching such a level that even some Democrats are upset it has failed to provide adequate coverage of the Kermit Gosnell controversy. Today, pro-life Democrat Kirsten Powers has a well-received article in USA Today bemoaning the lack of media coverage.
Her column follows research from the media watchdog group Newsbusters, which found the three major network newscasts have covered the Gosnell trial a total of zero minutes, compared to 41 minutes worth of coverage for the controversy at Rutgers university over how coaches were treating players. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/infant-beheadings-and-severed-babies-feet-but-media-ignores-gosnell/
Gosnell Attorney: Babies’ Deaths Justify Snipping Their NecksYesterday, the primary defense theory in the Kermit Gosnell murder case was explored by defense attorney Jack McMahon, who posits that all the babies aborted at Gosnell’s clinic were already dead when their spinal cords were “snipped” to ensure “fetal demise.”
McMahon pressed former Gosnell employee Lynda Williams concerning her duties at Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors” abortion clinic that included cleaning up and disposing of babies born after late-term abortions, many of which were beyond the legal gestational limit of 24 weeks. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/gosnell-attorney-babies-deaths-justify-snipping-their-necks/
Congressman: Gosnell an Abortion Predator Who Must be ExposedA Planned Parenthood abortion business in Delaware has been closed pending an investigation over multiple botched abortions at the clinic.
As LifeNews has reported, the Delaware Planned Parenthood clinic has experienced five botched abortion emergencies in less than five weeks. Since then, one abortionist and two employees have left Planned Parenthood in Wilmington, Delaware, as a result of the scandal. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/congressman-gosnell-an-abortion-predator-who-must-be-exposed/

Poll: Majority Say Abortion Morally Wrong Most of the TimeA new poll of voters shows a majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong most of the time.
The survey from Rasmussen Reports included 1,000 Likely Voters and was conducted April 9-10. It showed 51% of all voters consider abortion to be morally wrong most of the time. That’s up from an all-time low of 44% in January but more consistent with findings in surveys since March 2006. Just thirty-four percent (34%) view abortion as morally acceptable in most instances. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/poll-majority-say-abortion-morally-wrong-most-of-the-time/
NBC Won’t Cover Gosnell Trial, Tweets News From Another SourceNBC News is one of three networks that refuses to cover the trial of gruesome abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell.
The media blackout is apparently so extensive that Luke Russert of NBC News today had to tweet a local news story on the trial because NBC has not done its own national reporting.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/nbc-wont-cover-gosnell-trial-tweets-news-from-another-source/
Death Panels for Babies in Obamacare? Kids With RSV Should BewareOSarah Palin was attacked mercilessly for her claims that the Obamacare legislation      would lead to death panels — where bureaucrats would make treatment decisions for patients or ration their expensive medical care.
Since her warning salvo was fired, numerous examples have come up involving Obamacare rationing medical care or putting in cost containments that would lead to rationed care or prohibit patients from spending more of their own money on lifesaving medical treatment or wanted care. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/death-panels-for-babies-in-obamacare-kids-with-rsv-should-beware/
Planned Parenthood Pro-Infanticide Lobbyist Lied to Catholic GroupThe controversial Planned Parenthood lobbyist who put the Florida chapter of the nation’s largest abortion business on record supporting infanticide was once a member of the board of directors for a local Catholic Charities branch. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/planned-parenthood-pro-infanticide-lobbyist-lied-to-catholic-group/

Congressman Upset President Obama Ignoring Gosnell Abortion Trial
The mainstream media has become a target of frustration for those wishing it would provide more coverage of the dramatic trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell. But one congressman is upset President Barack Obama is apparently not paying much attention to it — since the president hasn’t commented on the gruesome live-birth abortion deaths. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/congressman-upset-president-obama-ignoring-gosnell-abortion-trial/

George Soros Bankrolling Efforts to Legalize Assisted SuicideLiberal billionaire George Soros has apparently found a new cause to put his money behind, having already supported President Barack Obama, liberal candidates and abortion. His new venture appears to be assisted suicide. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/george-soros-bankrolling-efforts-to-legalize-assisted-suicide/
Sixth Abortion Clinic Closes in Michigan in Recent MonthsWord came yesterday morning that the American Family Planning abortion clinic in Dearborn, Michigan, is shutting its doors as of this Friday. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/sixth-abortion-clinic-closes-in-michigan-in-recent-months/
Five Reasons Why the Abortion Industry is Pushing RU 486 HarderWhen RU-486, the abortion pill, was approved for sale in America in September of 2000, this two-drug chemical abortion technique didn’t simply appear out of the blue. It was the result of the years of planning, research, and market analysis by the abortion industry, the culmination of a long term strategy put in place decades earlier. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/five-reasons-why-the-abortion-industry-is-pushing-ru-486-harder/

Ethicists Plugged After-Birth Abortions, Now Back “In Vitro Eugenics”Two Australian ethicists created a firestorm of controversy last year when they argued for after-birth abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/ethicists-plugged-after-birth-abortions-now-back-in-vitro-eugenics/
New Texas Budget Keeps Planned Parenthood De-Funding IntactLast week, the Texas House debated the Texas State budget for twelve hours with the uneasy promise of a truce on taxpayer dollars going to the abortion industry. Before Budget Day even began, lawmakers        scrambled to avoid controversial amendments dealing with abortion and family planning funding. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/new-texas-budget-keeps-planned-parenthood-de-funding-intact/
Alabama Doc Still Doing Abortions Despite Losing Medical LicenseA pro-life legal group is calling on the Alabama health department to take further action against an abortion practitioner who continues to do abortions in the state despite losing his medical license. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/alabama-doc-still-doing-abortions-despite-losing-medical-license/
Maryland Asks Obama Admin to Ration Health Care More Than ObamacareThe federal health care law enacted in 2010 imposes unprecedented limits on what Americans are allowed to spend to save their lives and the lives of their family members. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/maryland-asks-obama-admin-to-ration-health-care-more-than-obamacare/

Indiana: Bill to Target Dangerous Abortion Drug Heads to GovernorA pro-life group in Indiana is celebrating the fact that the state legislature is sending a bill that targets the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug to Governor Mike Pence. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/indiana-bill-to-target-dangerous-abortion-drug-heads-to-governor/
Media Exploits Canadian Woman Committing Assisted Suicide in SwitzerlandThe media is promoting the sad story of Susan Griffiths, a Winnipeg Manitoba woman who decided to die at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. Griffiths has Multiple System Atrophy, a condition that will leave her significantly disabled before she dies. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/11/media-exploits-canadian-woman-committing-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/
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