Friday, February 6, 2015

LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 2/6/15 - Wife Tells Dad of Newborn With Down Syndrome Pick Him or Me





LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Friday, February 6, 2015

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Top Stories
• Wife Tells Father of Newborn Son With Down Syndrome to Get Rid of Him or Get a Divorce
• Woman Starved Five-Month-Old Baby to Death While She Went Out Partying for Weeks
• Pregnant Mom Hit by a Train Gives Birth Two Months Later While in Coma
• Couple’s Moving Documentary of Loving Their Disabled Son: “He Went From a Curse to a Blessing”


More Pro-Life News
• Woman Defends Aborting Her Baby: I Wanted to be “Treated as a Human”
• Canada Strikes Down Ban on Assisted Suicide, Says it Violates the Right to Life
• Boy in Coma Starts Breathing After Doctors Declare Him “Brain Dead,” Try to Remove Life Support
• Man Who Had No Idea His Mom Was Euthanized Until the Morgue Called Challenges Euthanasia Law

• Hospice Needs to Take a Stronger Stance Against Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia
• Liberal Senators Urge Funding UN Agency to Promote Abortion
• West Virginia Committee Passes Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks

• Members of Irish Parliament Call Severely Disabled Babies “Corpses” and “Abnormal”
• Missouri’s Only Abortion Clinic, Operated by Planned Parenthood, Failed Inspections Twice

• New Mexico Abortions Increase as More Hispanic Babies Targeted in Abortions
• Sex-Selection Abortions Drop in India, Nepal After Search Engines Drop Ads for Them
• Isle of Man Parliament Rejects Bill Legalizing Euthanasia

• 500 Pro-Lifers March Against 40 Years of Abortion in Austria



Wife Tells Father of Newborn Son With Down Syndrome to Get Rid of Him or Get a Divorce
Samuel Forrest was excited to be a new dad and was pacing the halls of the hospital outside his wife’s hospital room when he heard his newborn son cry for the first time. But when the doctor left the room, Samuel saw a look on his face that alerted him something was wrong.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/wife-tells-father-of-newborn-son-with-down-syndrome-to-get-rid-of-him-or-get-a-divorce/


Woman Starved Five-Month-Old Baby to Death While She Went Out Partying for Weeks
A woman from Russia has been sentenced to 10 years of hard labor after she starved her 5-month-old baby to death during a two week party binge. Alena Itapova, 19, who has been nicknamed ‘Monster Mum’ in Russian media for letting baby Veronika die...

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/woman-starved-five-month-old-baby-to-death-while-she-went-out-partying-for-weeks/



Pregnant Mom Hit by a Train Gives Birth Two Months Later While in Coma
Maria Kudrina was far along in her pregnancy when she was horrifically hit by a train. She was left in a coma but, four months later, doctors performed a Caesarean to save the baby. Just before Christmas, Kudrina, 31, was standing on a train station platform waiting for a train when she stumbled a fell because of the large number of people waiting alongside her.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/pregnant-mom-hit-by-a-train-gives-birth-two-months-later-while-in-coma/


Couple’s Moving Documentary of Loving Their Disabled Son: “He Went From a Curse to a Blessing”
In a recent article in the New York Times, Tomasz S'liwin'sk shared about his newborn son, Leo, who was born with a life-threating condition called Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (C.C.H.S.), also known as Ondine’s curse.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/couples-moving-documentary-of-loving-their-disabled-son-he-went-from-a-curse-to-a-blessing/





Woman Defends Aborting Her Baby: I Wanted to be “Treated as a Human”
A 24-year-old woman has shared with the Irish Independent that she traveled from her home in Ireland to west London to obtain an abortion. In Ireland, under the Abortion Act 1967, abortion is illegal unless a woman is suicidal or her pregnancy is deemed life threatening.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/woman-defends-aborting-her-baby-i-wanted-to-be-treated-as-a-human/


Canada Strikes Down Ban on Assisted Suicide, Says it Violates the Right to Life
The Canadian Supreme Court has struck down Canada’s ban on assisted suicide, saying it violates the right to life of terminally ill people. The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision today in the Carter case concerning Canada’s laws that protect people from euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/canada-strikes-down-ban-on-assisted-suicide-says-it-violates-the-right-to-life/



Boy in Coma Starts Breathing After Doctors Declare Him “Brain Dead,” Try to Remove Life Support
In another case that reminds the pro-life movement of how some doctors are too hasty to declare patients too far gone, a 12-year-old boy in Texas who was in a coma has started breathing on his own again after doctors declared him “brain dead” and tried to remove his life support.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/boy-in-coma-starts-breathing-after-doctors-declare-himbrain-dead-try-to-remove-life-support/


Man Who Had No Idea His Mom Was Euthanized Until the Morgue Called Challenges Euthanasia Law
In April 2012, Godelieva De Troyer died from lethal injection in Belgium after she asked to be put to death for “untreatable depression.” Her son, Tom Mortier, didn’t find out until the next day when the morgue called him to come pick up her body.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/man-who-had-no-idea-his-mom-was-euthanized-until-the-morgue-called-challenges-euthanasia-law/


Hospice Needs to Take a Stronger Stance Against Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia Technically, the hospice movement is part of the diverse coalition opposing assisted suicide. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/hospice-needs-to-take-a-stronger-stance-against-assisted-suicide-euthanasia/
Liberal Senators Urge Funding UN Agency to Promote Abortion A group of U.S. senators is urging President Obama to fund the UN’s controversial population agency despite its ties to abortion and coercive population control programs, and its new push for countries to legalize prostitution. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/liberal-senators-urge-funding-un-agency-to-promote-abortion/
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West Virginia Committee Passes Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks Last summer, the West Virginia legislature passed a 20-week abortion ban on abortion by overwhelming bipartisan margins. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/west-virginia-committee-passes-ban-on-abortions-after-20-weeks/
Members of Irish Parliament Call Severely Disabled Babies “Corpses” and “Abnormal” The Pro Life Campaign is today criticising the language used by some politicians in the Oireachtas, when describing unborn babies with life-limiting conditions, during the debate on Deputy Clare Daly’s latest abortion bill on the issue. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/members-of-irish-parliament-call-severely-disabled-babies-corpses-and-abnormal/
Missouri’s Only Abortion Clinic, Operated by Planned Parenthood, Failed Inspections Twice Since 2004, Planned Parenthood of Missouri has only had a handful of health inspections by government officials. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/missouris-only-abortion-clinic-operated-by-planned-parenthood-failed-inspections-twice/
New Mexico Abortions Increase as More Hispanic Babies Targeted in Abortions The New Mexico Vital Statistics has released its annual Selected Health Statistics Report that includes data on abortions performed in the state. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/new-mexico-abortions-increase-as-more-hispanic-babies-targeted-in-abortions/
Sex-Selection Abortions Drop in India, Nepal After Search Engines Drop Ads for Them If a story in AsiaNews is accurate, it’s not often you see a result as startling—or as quick—as this. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/sex-selection-abortions-drop-in-india-nepal-after-search-engines-drop-ads-for-them/
Isle of Man Parliament Rejects Bill Legalizing Euthanasia On the 3rd of February, the parliament of the Isle of Man (known as The House of Keys) rejected a euthanasia initiative by a margin of 17 to 5. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/isle-of-man-parliament-rejects-bill-legalizing-euthanasia/
500 Pro-Lifers March Against 40 Years of Abortion in Austria More than 500 Austrian pro-lifers solemnly marched in opposition to the country’s 40-year-old abortion decriminalization laws on January 23, in remembrance of those lost to the ravages of abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/06/500-pro-lifers-march-against-40-years-of-abortion-in-austria/