Tuesday, April 1, 2014

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 4/1/14





LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Young Woman Who Died from Botched Late-Term Abortion Identified
• Baby Saved From Abortion When Mom’s Smart Phone Guided Her to a Pregnancy Center
Mississippi Legislature Passes Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks• Baby Born With “Heart-Shaped Head:” Family Seeks Help for Newborn With Large Tumor on His Face

More Pro-Life News
• New Congressional Bill Would Repeal Obamacare’s Death Panels, Health Care Rationing
• Three Legal Reasons Why Abortion Should be Banned

• Her Mom Aborted Her Twin But Changed Her Mind and Spared Her
• Dying Man Left a Heartbreaking Final Video For His Newborn Daughter
• Legislators Will Call for Investigation Into DCF After Parents Lose Custody of Justina Pelletier
• Jahi McMath’s Mother Convinced She “Will Have a Recovery”

• Teen Reads Speech Supporting Abortion While Class Laughs

• Chinese Parents, Unable to Have More Than One Baby, Give Away Babies Online
• Feminist History Lesson: Who Gloria Steinem Is And Why She’s a Bad Role Model
• Doula Organization Provides Doulas to Help You Kill Your Baby in an Abortion

• Democrat Joe Manchin Says He Will Vote for 20-Week Abortion Ban
• Louisiana House Passes Pro-Life Laws That Have Closed Abortion Clinics Elsewhere
• Planned Parenthood is Trying to Get a Bigger Share of the Abortion Market



Young Woman Who Died from Botched Late-Term Abortion IdentifiedOperation Rescue has confirmed death and the identity of a patient of the Preterm abortion facility in Cleveland, Ohio, who was transported to University Hospital Case Medical Center on Friday, March 21, 2014.
Lakisha Wilson, 22, a Black female, died after transport from the abortion clinic to the hospital. According to a statement released by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/young-woman-who-died-from-botched-late-term-abortion-identified/
Baby Saved From Abortion When Mom’s Smart Phone Guided Her to a Pregnancy Center Five years ago, following the birth of her baby girl, “Tasha” made herself a promise, “Never again.” The pregnancy had been exceedingly difficult, the delivery was terrifying, and the risks were too high. “I experienced serious health issues that made that pregnancy extremely challenging,” Tasha says, as she thinks back on the days leading up to her daughter’s birth.
So when Tasha discovered she was pregnant a second time, her thoughts immediately turned toward those frightening nine months when she didn’t know if she would live or die. “My anxiety about my health was definitely a concern,” Tasha says. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/baby-saved-from-abortion-when-moms-smart-phone-guided-her-to-a-pregnancy-center/

Mississippi Legislature Passes Ban on Abortions After 20 WeeksThe Mississippi legislature has approved a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and now the bill heads to the governor for his signature. The measure is similar to legislation pending in Congress and in other states that points to the pain babies feel in abortions as a reason to ban them.
The bill, which bans abortions after five months of pregnancy passed in both the state House and Senate, by a 41-10 margin, today and now goes to pro-life Governor Phil Bryant. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/mississippi-legislature-passes-ban-on-abortions-after-20-weeks/

Baby Born With “Heart-Shaped Head:” Family Seeks Help for Newborn With Large Tumor on His Face
The family of a newborn baby in Indonesia is actively seeking help for the newborn son, who was born with a large tumor on his face that makes him appear to have a heart-shaped head.
Muhammad Nafi, who is two weeks old, was born with a huge facial tumour and the London Daily Mail reports that his family is trying to raise money for him to have surgery, though the newspaper doesn’t have an indication of where help can be sent at this time. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/baby-born-with-heart-shaped-head-family-seeks-help-for-newborn-with-large-tumor-on-his-face/

New Congressional Bill Would Repeal Obamacare’s Death Panels, Health Care Rationing New legislation introduced today in the U.S. Senate would repeal some of the health care rationing components of Obamacare, including the controversial death panels.
Senator Pat Roberts (R-Ks) today introduced the “Repeal Rationing in Support of Life Act,” which targets the four key rationing components of Obamacare identified in a March 6, 2014, report by the National Right to Life Committee’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics, “The Affordable Care Act and Health Care Access in the United States,” available at www.nrlc.org/communications/healthcarereport. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/new-congressional-bill-would-repeal-obamacares-death-panels-health-care-rationing/
Three Legal Reasons Why Abortion Should be BannedHere are three legal reasons why abortion should be banned:
1) Murder is illegal. Murder is the “unlawful killing of a human being” with some level of intent. California law includes “a deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/three-legal-reasons-why-abortion-should-be-banned/

Her Mom Aborted Her Twin But Changed Her Mind and Spared HerIn 2012 the movie October Baby was seen on big screens across America. The story of a girl named Hannah who discovered her life long medical conditions were linked to surviving a failed abortion was an eye opening hit.
The story was based on the life of Gianna Jensen, a pro-life speaker whose cerebral palsy came as a result of surviving a late term saline injection abortion. Audiences found the film compelling because many had never heard the story of an abortion survivor. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/her-mom-aborted-her-twin-but-changed-her-mind-and-spared-her/
Dying Man Left a Heartbreaking Final Video For His Newborn Daughter Nick Magnotti was a 27 year old new father who had been battling cancer for two years when he left this final heartbreaking message for his newborn daughter. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/dying-man-left-a-heartbreaking-final-video-for-his-newborn-daughter/
Legislators Will Call for Investigation Into DCF After Parents Lose Custody of Justina Pelletier Massachusetts state representatives Jim Lyons (R-Andover) and Marc Lombardo (R-Billerica) will discuss an impending investigation into DCF spending on the Justina Pelletier case at a Wednesday morning news conference. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/legislators-will-call-for-investigation-into-dcf-after-parents-lose-custody-of-justina-pelletier/
Jahi McMath’s Mother Convinced She “Will Have a Recovery” When last we posted on the condition of Jahi McMath, the family of the teenager whom doctors had diagnosed as brain dead had won the right to move her from Oakland Children’s Hospital to an undisclosed location where feeding and breathing tubes were successfully inserted into the 13-year-old Jahi. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/jahi-mcmaths-mother-convinced-she-will-have-a-recovery/

Teen Reads Speech Supporting Abortion While Class Laughs Last week, LifeNews highlighted Lia Mills, a student pro-life activist who surprised her class with a moving speech on abortion that is so good it’s gone viral on the Internet. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/pro-choice-teen-reads-speech-supporting-abortion-while-class-laughs/
Chinese Parents, Unable to Have More Than One Baby, Give Away Babies Online The consequences of the one-child policy in China are numerous: forced abortions, coercive sterilization, human rights abuses, infanticide, human trafficking, prostitution, skewed gender ratios, etc. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/chinese-parents-unable-to-have-more-than-one-baby-give-away-babies-online/
Feminist History Lesson: Who Gloria Steinem Is And Why She’s a Bad Role Model I was reading that Gloria Steinem turned 80 years old the other day. You may remember that she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom back on November 20, 2013. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/feminist-history-lesson-who-gloria-steinem-is-and-why-shes-a-bad-role-model/
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Doula Organization Provides Doulas to Help You Kill Your Baby in an Abortion I am the mother of a beautiful (everyone says that, but she really is a pretty adorable baby) 9-month old daughter. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/doula-organization-provides-midwives-to-help-you-kill-your-baby-in-an-abortion/
Democrat Joe Manchin Says He Will Vote for 20-Week Abortion Ban After the announcement (below) of the ad campaign against him, Manchin has indicated he will support the legislation. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/democrat-joe-manchin-says-he-will-vote-for-20-week-abortion-ban/
Planned Parenthood is Trying to Get a Bigger Share of the Abortion Market In its onslaught of attacks against HB2 (the historic pro-life bill that passed the Texas legislature last summer), Planned Parenthood has consistently bemoaned the “lack of access” experienced by women in rural areas of Texas as a direct result of changes incurred by HB2 legislation. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/planned-parenthood-is-trying-to-get-a-bigger-share-of-the-abortion-market/
Louisiana House Passes Pro-Life Laws That Have Closed Abortion Clinics Elsewhere Yesterday, HB 388, the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, authored by Representative Katrina Jackson (D-Monroe), passed through the Louisiana House of Representatives by a bi-partisan vote of 85-6. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/01/louisiana-house-passes-pro-life-laws-that-have-closed-abortion-clinics-elsewhere/