Monthly Archives: April 2014

Shades of Kermit Gosnell: New York Abortion Clinics Less Regulated Than Tanning Salons

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April 7, 2014

Shades of Kermit Gosnell: New York abortion clinics less regulated than tanning salons

Gosnell84  By Dave Andrusko Based on documents secured through a freedom of information request by the Chiaroscuro Foundation, the New York Post today reported that of the 225 abortion providers operating in New York, only 17 clinics were inspected over

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April 7, 2014

Stalwart Pro-Life Congressman Rep. Chris Smith, and wife Marie Smith, Awarded Prestigious Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal

The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture awarded the prestigious Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Congressman Chris Smith and his wife, Marie Smith, at a banquet ceremony on the Notre Dame campus April 5. With the Smiths is the center’s director, Law Professor Carter Snead, who presented the Medal.  By Susan T. Muskett, J.D., Senior Legislative Counsel The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture awarded the prestigious Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and his wife, Marie Smith, at a banquet ceremony on

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April 7, 2014

‘The Duty to Protect the Weakest and Most Vulnerable”

Pro-Life Congressman Chris Smith  Editor’s note. Elsewhere at NRL News Today, NRLC Senior Legislative Counsel Susan T. Muskett, J.D., writes about the honor bestowed on Pro-life Rep. Chris Smith and his wife, Marie Smith, by The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

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April 7, 2014

National Right to Life: Elect Thom Tillis to the U.S. Senate

North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis  Tillis is “the best candidate to defeat pro-abortion Kay Hagan” in November WASHINGTON – National Right to Life, the nation’s oldest and largest pro-life organization, today endorsed North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis in both the Republican primary and

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April 7, 2014

Youngest British baby ever to have heart surgeon now five weeks old, doctors twice counseled an abortion

Message to mum: The ultrasound scan of baby Chanel showing her giving a thumbs-up  Given option to abort, couple refused after a scan showed “tiny fighter giving the thumbs-up” By Dave Andrusko Still another story of a determined baby and parents who would not “choose the option” of an abortion—in this case twice!

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April 7, 2014

Pro-Life Advocates to Use Twitter on April 9th to Be a Voice for the Voiceless

voicelesstweet  By Andrew Bair, Field Coordinator, National Right to Life Committee I’m sure you’re as outraged as I am about what happened in West Virginia. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act passed the Democrat-controlled legislature by historic bipartisan margins. Yet,

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April 7, 2014

Swiss to Save the Planet!

The retired art teacher committed suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.  By Wesley J. Smith Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. Assisted suicide is not about disability. Assisted suicide is not about mental illness. Assisted suicide is about suicide! All pretense otherwise was stripped off the movement as the

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April 7, 2014

Alabama legislature sends 48 hour waiting period, parental consent bills to Governor Bentley

Alabama Gov. Roger Bentley  By Dave Andrusko The Alabama legislature has sent two additional pieces of pro-life legislation to Gov. Roger Bentley, who is expected to sign them both. The session ended on Thursday. One, HB 489, is in line with similar state

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April 7, 2014

Olympic star opens up about his miracle baby

Little Lyla Grace Oshie  By Kristi Burton Brown At the Sochi Olympics, hockey player T.J. Oshie was arguably the USA’s biggest star. Scoring the game-winning goal against host country Russia, Oshie made his country proud. When he was called a hero, Oshie became

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April 7, 2014

Another Word for Failure

Failurere  By Jean Garton Editor’s note. Jean Garton is best known to pro-lifers as the author of the classic, “Who Broke the Baby?” But over the years she has also contributed a number of wonderful essays for National Right to

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April 7, 2014

Oklahomans For Life – LEGISLATIVE ALERT

babyandmomhands  Pro-Life Perinatal Hospice Bill Faces Additional Hurdle; Please Urge Appropriations Committee Approval! The pro-life Perinatal Hospice Bill, HB 2685, was approved by the Health Committee week before last, but faces an additional hurdle – the Appropriations Committee – before

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April 4, 2014

Protecting the Unborn requires taking on the machinery of death

Taxdollars  By Dave Andrusko Yesterday we posted an analysis of a remarkable piece that appeared on a pro-abortion site titled “Abortion as a Blessing, Grace, or Gift: Changing the Conversation on Reproductive Rights and Moral Values.” In a word, it

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Preemie Born So Young She “Could Legally Have Been Aborted” in Great Britain

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April 4, 2014   Premature babies

Preemie born so young she “could legally have been aborted” in Great Britain

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By Dave Andrusko

Emily Cressey holds on to her mother’s finger (Picture: Deadline News)

What a harrowing juxtaposition of realities in the same sentence. We’re told that Emily Cressey is believed to be Britain’s youngest surviving birth.

“Emily weighed 535g (1lb 3oz) when she was born on February 27, and could legally have been aborted,” reports Metro.co.uk.

When she was able to hold her for the first time on Mother’s Day (March 30), Emily’s mother Claire said it was “the best moment of my life.”.

And Emily is doing well at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, weighing in at 736g (1lb 10oz).

Ms. Cressey said Emily is so tiny she fits in the palm of her hand.

“I cried before the nurse brought her out, it was so emotional, I’ve never experienced anything like it before.

“She snuggled up to my chest and fell asleep.”

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Mother of Jahi McMath Still Convinced “She Will Have a Recovery”

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April 1, 2014   Brain Death

Mother of Jahi McMath still convinced “she will have a recovery”

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By Dave Andrusko

Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath

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.

At the time, Christopher Dolan, the family attorney, told reporters the family would not be talking for a while. That silence was not broken until last week when Jahi’s mother Nailah Winkfield, gave an exclusive interview with NBC Bay Area and NBC’s affiliate in Philadelphia.

Lisa Fernandez of NBC Bay Area began by quoting Winkfield.

“She’s still asleep.  I don’t use the word ‘brain dead’ for my daughter. I’m just waiting and faithful that she will have a recovery. She is blossoming into a teenager before my eyes.”

For those coming late to the story, Jahi has been on a ventilator since going into cardiac arrest following December 9 surgery to remove her tonsils and clear tissue from her nose and throat. Three days later she was diagnosed as brain-dead and the legal battle began in earnest when the hospital sought to remove Jahi from a ventilator over the family’s vigorous objections.

A truce was brokered in early January during a hearing before Alameda Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo, allowing Nailah Winkfield to remove her daughter from the hospital as long as she assumed full responsibility.

Hospital spokesman Sam Singer vigorously disagreed.

“We have done everything to assist the family of Jahi McMath in their quest to take the deceased body of their daughter to another medical facility,” he said three months ago. Singer told reporters that Dolan is “perpetuating a sad and tragic hoax on the public and the McMath family. Tragically, this young woman is dead, and there is no food, no medical procedures and no amount of time that will bring back the deceased.”

But Nailah Winkfield painted an entirely different picture of her daughter’s condition. She described Jahi as “very responsive.” Fernandez wrote that Winkfield said her daughter is “now moving her head side to side, something she hadn’t done before.”

Jahi, who is undergoing physical therapy, can bend at the waist and turn over in bed, according to her mother.

“No matter how many times you position her to the right or in the middle, she always ends up on the left side,” Winkfield said. “She will reposition herself over and over if she is uncomfortable.”

But Winkfield did tell NBC Bay Area that her daughter “is unable to speak or squeeze her hand. Jahi is on a ventilator and is nourished through a feeding tube. Her mother gives her vitamins and fish oil herself ‘to feel useful,’” Fernandez wrote.

Fernandez solicited input from outside experts who suggested she not put too much weight into what Winkfield is saying. Fernandez wrote

“In a phone interview on Thursday from the University of Washington where he is head of pediatric neurology, Dr. Sidney Gospe said he couldn’t put a ‘whole lot of weight’ into what Jahi’s mother had to say about her movements without a neurological examination. ‘Someone with expertise would have to characterize those movements as either reflexes or something initiated by her cerebral cortex,’ he said. Gospe added that a ventilator has the ability to help maintain a patient’s vital signs.”

But, as you would imagine, Winkfield was not dissuaded. As a measure of her determination, she quit her job at Home Depot to sit by Jahi’s bedside and relatives are caring for her other three children—two daughters and a son. Fernandez ends her story by noting

“There are many who have criticized the family for keeping a brain-dead daughter on machines.

“Winkfield, however, is paying those critics no mind.

“She’s too focused on spending her days caring for Jahi, giving her a manicure and pedicure every Friday, like she did at home. On St. Patrick’s Day, she painted her daughter’s toes and nails green with black and silver tips.”

“Winkfield also pores over case studies on people who have come out of deep comas, and she spends long hours reading the pages of the Bible, looking for hope and wisdom.

“’Literally,’ Winkfield said. ‘That’s the only book I read.’”

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Doctors Tell Mom to Abort her Baby Girl Five Times, Now that Baby is an Internet Sensation

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April 4, 2014   People with disabilities

Doctors tell mom to abort her baby girl five times, now that baby is an internet sensation

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After three miscarriages in a row, Angie Rodgers wasn’t expecting her next unborn child to survive to 40 weeks. But she had hope. So when doctors repeatedly told her to abort her baby, she knew the answer was no. She knew she needed to give her baby a chance at life.

At three months gestation, doctors discovered that Rodgers baby girl had a rare form of dwarfism. According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Conradi-Hünermann syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by skeletal malformations, skin abnormalities, cataracts and short stature. The specific symptoms and severity varies greatly from one individual to the next. It occurs almost exclusively in girls.

According to ABC News, doctors informed Rodgers that her daughter would likely be deaf and that her scoliosis could impair her lung function. Doctors also said her daughter would likely never walk.

And when Grace Anna was born via C-section, she was quickly rushed away due to meconium aspiration, a life-threatening condition that occurs as a result of a baby inhaling her first stool during or before delivery. Rodgers told ABC News:

“I didn’t know if she would make it – they didn’t tell me anything. I never saw her for the first 12 hours and when I did, she had scales on three-quarters of her body. The only place with no scales were her face and butt. They fell off in three months.”

Now, three years later, Grace is an adorable internet sensation, singing for the world on You Tube and gaining over 200,000 likes on her Facebook page. It all started when her mother shared a video of her singing The Star Spangled Banner. That video has over 350,000 views. And Grace has been invited to sing at events including a veterans’ benefit.

Her sweet voice and face have brought joy to thousands. And while she hasn’t yet begun to walk, Grace’s mom knows that her daughter has overcome ever obstacle thrown her way, and they’ve learned to take the advice of doctors with a grain of salt.

Grace, a little girl whom doctors thought wasn’t worthy of life, is singing her way into America’s hearts and hearts around the world.

Editor’s note. Nancy is a work at home mom who writes about parenting, special needs children, and the right to life. She is the lucky mother of three spirited little girls, one who has cystic fibrosis, and she spends any free moment she can find fundraising for a cure for CF. This appeared at liveactionnews.org.

You can watch Grace Anna sing the National Anthem at www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdjwpfcC8w

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Amidst all the Debate Over Enrollment Numbers, We Can’t Forget Obama Knew of ObamaCare’s Massive Abortion Subsidies and Healthcare Rationing

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April 4, 2014   ObamaCare

Amidst all the debate over enrollment numbers, we can’t forget Obama knew of ObamaCare’s massive abortion subsidies and healthcare rationing

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By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

Thanks go out to those kind readers who wrote me about “President’s Breathtakingly misleading celebration of ObamaCare.”  Those remarks were put together at the very end of the day, and I would like to add a few additional thoughts today.

When the President (choosing to ignore the obvious holes that undercut his contention) bragged that “7.1 million Americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these [ObamaCare] marketplaces — 7.1,” it was taken as a signal for his supporters to follow the party line: debate/disagreement about ObamaCare was now old news.

If you think about that, it’s quite amazing. A long string of snafus, broken promises, frequent instances of backsliding, revisions, and extensions count for nothing: all’s well that ends well. To point out that we weren’t even close to the “end” was said to be sour grapes, an unwillingness to face reality: ObamaCare had succeeded.

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan had an interesting response in a column titled “A Catastrophe Like No Other: The president tries to put a good face on ObamaCare.”

She began with a succinct summary of the “daily argument”:

“Seven point one million people have signed up!”

“But six million people lost their coverage and were forced onto the exchanges! That’s no triumph, it’s a manipulation. And how many of the 7.1 million have paid?”

“We can’t say, but 7.1 million is a big number and redeems the program.”

“Is it a real number?”

“Your lack of trust betrays a dark and conspiratorial right-wing mindset.”

Noonan could have added a litany of other problems and examples of misdirection in the President’s remarks besides this one we read later in the column:

“What the bill declared it would do—insure tens of millions of uninsured Americans—it has not done. There are still tens of millions uninsured Americans. On the other hand, it has terrorized millions who did have insurance and lost it, or who still have insurance and may lose it.

For instance, the President’s happy-talk presentation ignores that premiums are not going down, for most people, but up…substantially. At the same time deductibles are also increasing…substantially. There is every reason to believe the increases will be even larger next year.

Her larger point is this.

“Support it or not, you cannot look at ObamaCare and call it anything but a huge, historic mess. It is also utterly unique in the annals of American lawmaking and government administration.”

But it is crucial to remember that Obama and his administration and his congressional allies knew perfectly well that ObamaCare was a boon to the abortion industry. As NRLC has pointed out, when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, an array of long-established laws, including the Hyde Amendment, had created a nearly uniform policy that federal programs did not pay for abortion or subsidize health plans that included coverage of abortion, with narrow exceptions. However, key provisions of the 2010 Obamacare health law sharply departed from that longstanding policy. Among other objectionable provisions, the Obamacare law authorized massive federal tax subsidies to assist many millions of Americans to purchase private health plans that will cover abortion on demand.

Likewise, they knew that rationing was built-in to ObamaCare.

“Obamacare authorizes Washington bureaucrats to create one uniform, national standard of care that is designed to limit what private citizens are allowed to spend to save their own lives,” explained Burke Balch, J.D., director of the Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics. “We are convinced most Americans do not believe that the government should limit the right of Americans to use their own money for health care necessary to save their lives. Yet, that is exactly what Obamacare does.”

Beyond any discussion of the inflated claims for ObamaCare’s enrollment “success,” we must never forget that there are components that were deliberately built in to provide massive abortion subsidies and to ensure rationing of health care.

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Paralyzed Man with “No Hope” for Recovery Unable to Speak While Doctors Ask Family About Donating his Organs

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April 4, 2014   People with disabilities

Paralyzed man with “no hope” for recovery unable to speak while doctors ask family about donating his organs

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JimFritzeJim Fritze’s grief-stricken relatives came to Sahlgrenska Hospital to say their final goodbyes. Doctors said brains scans showed that the 43-year-old Fritze had “no hope” of pulling through.

“Doctors asked the family about the possibility of donating his organs when he died,” reported The Daily Mail’s Sara Malm, “not realising Mr. Fritze could also hear the conversation.”

The victim of a stroke, Fritze was unable to talk while the people surrounding his bed were discussing taking his organs!

He was saved because another doctor took a second look.

Malm reports that Fritze had suffered a brain hemorrhage two years before when out with his family. “’I managed to catch my girlfriend’s attention – I was bright red in the face, and she’s a nurse so she managed to keep my airways open,” he told Malm.

Unfortunately, because an air ambulance was unable to land on the Island where he had suffered his stroke, Fritze did not reach the Swedish hospital, by boat, for two hours.

“Only my ears and eyes were working,” Fritze said. “They (the doctors) told my girlfriend that there was no hope.”

Fortunately another doctor, who had returned from a holiday, looked at him three days later. “’She looked at my scans and said, ‘This doesn’t look too bad,’ and told the staff to give me cortisone to bring down the swelling in my brain,’” Fritze said.

But he was still unable to speak—that would take another three weeks. Now, two years later, he has recovered enough to take action against the hospital.

“If that doctor hadn’t come back from her holiday, would I have been made to lie there until my body couldn’t take it any longer?” Fritze asked in his complaint.

Sahlgrenska Hospital’s press spokesperson Stefan Sarajärvi said, ‘We are of course taking this complaint very seriously, as we do with all complaints.”

Fritze is now undergoing rehabilitation at Örebro hospital to regain full function in his limbs.

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Pollution from Contraceptives Continues to have Gender-Bending Effect on Water: Report

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Pollution from contraceptives continues to have gender-bending effect on water: report

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BASQUE COUNTY, SPAIN, April 4, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report is showing that chemicals in contraceptives, as well as certain everyday products, are producing eggs in male fish in estuaries in a county in Spain.

 

The report says endocrine disrupting chemicals are seeping into the water and affecting reproductive and developmental processes in fish. Specifically, male fish testicles have been found to have immature eggs. The chemicals are found in products such as pesticides, oral contraceptives, and detergents.

It is suspected that the estuaries are impacted after the chemicals make their way through cleaning systems in water treatment plants and/or because of farming and industrial activities.

Spain has studied the problem in this part of the country for nearly seven years. They have found both masculinization and feminization of organisms, though data is still uncertain as to the effects on the environment.

In 2009, a study by Brunel University, the Universities of Exeter and Reading and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Britain found “testosterone-blocking” chemicals affected wildlife and possibly human beings.

Male fish had been found to change sex, and other studies at the time found that a link may exist between human male fertility issues caused by testicular dysgenesis syndrome.

The British study looked at over 1,000 fish from 30 rivers across Britain.

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Filmmakers Set to Expose Gosnell as “America’s Biggest Serial Killer”

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Filmmakers set to expose Gosnell as “America’s Biggest Serial Killer”

by Gina L. Diorio
 

Drive west down Lancaster Avenue through Philadelphia’s “Main Line” and you’ll pass picturesque towns fit for movie backdrops. But turn east, and you’ll soon find yourself in front of a former house of horrors, the truth of which some want to censor from ever hitting the screen, big or small.

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s clinic no longer hears the cries of full-term, born-alive babies being brutally murdered or the silent screams of thousands of the unborn innocent, but one team of filmmakers wants to make sure America never forgets. Not surprisingly, the team is facing an uphill battle.

An independent filmmaker has set out to tell the story of “America’s biggest serial killer … and the media cover-up,” producing a drama that will be based both on Gosnell’s trial and on the grand jury report. The filmmakers – husband and wife Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, along with Magdalena Segieda – are not new to tackling controversial topics. Their earlier credits include “FrackNation,” which dealt with hydraulic fracturing, and “Not Evil Just Wrong,” which addressed global warming.

So, the fact that they’ve set out to highlight the evil of the man who “killed more people than Gary Ridgeway, John Wayne Gacey, The Zodiac Killer and Ted Bundy combined” isn’t necessarily surprising.

But beyond exposing the gruesome practices that were routine in Gosnell’s clinic, McAleer’s film – titled “Gosnell: The Doctor Is Sin” – will also expose the deliberate attempt by the media to cover up the truth about Gosnell’s factory of death. Indeed, as Newsbusters.org reports,

The trial, in which witnesses described baby abortion survivors “swimming” in toilets “trying to get out,” attracted merely 12 – 15 reporters. Only after 56 days, multiple letters from members of the House of Representatives and a public outcry from conservative groups, did all three broadcast networks report on Gosnell.

But the cover-up didn’t end with the trial. And plans for the film have proven that the cover-up agenda is still strong.

You see, when McAleer and his team sought to finance the Gosnell film, they turned to the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com, the same site they had used to finance FrackNation. Yet, as the Washington Examiner reports, when McAleer tried to use Kickstarter for the Gosnell film, the site tried to censor how the fundraising campaign would describe Gosnell, including “limit[ing] what details about the case could be put in the fundraising campaign.”

McAleer called the attempted censorship as “particularly odious and alarming” as it is “an attempt to censor factual descriptions of a serial killer’s actions.” He went on to say, “In justifying their censorship Kickstarter told us they ‘understand your convictions’ but that they ‘encourage and enforce a culture of respect and consideration’ and therefore they could not approve our project until we removed factual descriptions of Kermit Gosnell stabbing babies and ‘similar language.’”

In reality, it’s not that the truth is too gruesome; it’s simply that it’s too true. Indeed, the only truth you have to hide is the truth you’re afraid of. And apparently, Kickstarter is as afraid as the mainstream media of the horrific reality of the abortion industry. Unable to argue in light of that reality, they simply try to keep the reality in the dark.

Not dissuaded, McAleer and his team are pressing on and have turned to Indiegogo.com to raise support for the film. They’ve set an ambitious goal of $2.1 million, the sum of which must be raised within the next 42 days or Indiegogo returns all of the funds (“all or nothing” fundraising is not an unusual practice for crowdfunding sites).

In addition to requesting donations, the site is also asking people to share the link – www.gosnellmovie.com — in order to ask others to support the film.

As the campaign site notes, “We tell a lot about ourselves by the stories we choose to tell and the ones we want to cover up or ignore…. It’s a frightening testament to the power of the media that very few people even know about Kermit Gosnell: America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”

The babies slaughtered by Gosnell had their individual stories cut short and their collective story largely ignored. The Gosnell movie, along with the documentary series 3801 Lancaster Film Project, is making sure the truth of Gosnell’s house of horrors and the subsequent media cover up is no longer held hostage by those whose interests lies best serve.

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Mapping the Unborn Baby’s Brain and the Moral Topography of the Human Heart

Posted on April 4, 2014 | Leave a comment

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April 3, 2014   Fetal Development

Mapping the unborn baby’s brain and the moral topography of the human heart

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Images of the developing fetal brain show connections among brain regions. Allen Institute for Brain Science

There I was peacefully driving my way into work, switching channels every five minutes as is my habit. I turned on NPR and caught a piece narrated by Jon Hamilton on NPR’s website which was called “Map of the Developing Human Brain Shows Where Problems Begin.”

Before reporter Jon Hamilton narrates his 4-minute-long piece, we are told “The human brain is often called the most complex object in the universe. Yet its basic architecture is created in just nine months, during pregnancy. Now scientists have taken a big step toward understanding how this is happens. They’ve created a highly detailed map of the developing brain.”

Hamilton begins with this awe-inspiring fact:

“During pregnancy the human brain grows from a single cell to more than 80 billion cells. And Ed Lein, of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, says before we’re born these cells have to get organized in a way that will eventually let us think and feel and remember.”

“We’re talking about a remarkable process where we build a brain,” Lein, tells Hamilton, a process that is “controlled by our genes.”

Great! I love stories that teach us the continuity of human life, beginning in the beginning, and which illustrate the almost mindboggling complexity of human life—what the great Dr. Jerome Lejeune famously described as “the symphony of life.”

The listener learns that the basis for the story is an article that ran yesterday in Nature. (For some reason, I could not open “Transcriptional landscape of the prenatal human brain” at the Nature website when I was writing this post, but I got a fairly detailed overview of the study from sciencedaily.com.)

Back to NPR.

The following is from the transcript found on the webpage, which, as always, differs slightly from what you hear.

“[Lein] and a large team of researchers decided to use genetic techniques to create a map that would help reveal this process. Funding came from the 2009 federal stimulus package. The project is part of the BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain.

“The massive effort required tens of thousands of brain tissue samples so small that they had to be cut out with a laser. …

“Researchers tested each sample to see which genes were turned on and off in each tiny bit of brain. This helped the team figure out which types cells were present at specific points in the brain and what those cells were doing, Lein says.”

To Hamilton’s credit, he includes an important fact not found at sciencedaily.com:

“Researchers used brain tissue from four aborted fetuses, a practice that the Obama administration has authorized over the objections of abortion opponents.”

One of the two major findings from the mapping project, Hamilton says, “is that the human brain is different from a mouse brain in ways researchers didn’t know about before. …The map shows just how little scientists had known about the brain of a fetus.”

I wonder if further “mapping,” that does not require the deaths of unborn children, might show these scientists just how much more than mere “tissue” unborn human life really is. Perhaps they ought to have mapped their hearts first.

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Another Botched Abortion, Another Young Woman Killed By “Choice”

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April 4, 2014

Dear Friends,

Below is Janet Morana’s column, Another botched abortion, another young woman killed by “choice,” about a beautiful young lady, Lakisha Wilson, who was recently killed in an Ohio abortion mill. Priests for Life is very much involved in speaking up for this young lady and exposing the injustice done to her and her baby.

I encourage you to read Janet’s book, Recall Abortion, in which she exposes the myriad ways abortion exploits women, and calls for a national recall of this deadly procedure.  You can order the book at RecallAbortion.com and on that site you can also sign a petition to demand that we recall this failed product known as abortion.

Also, as you know, Sunday, April 27th is the canonization of Pope John Paul II. In honor of this occasion, we at Priests for Life have prepared a special prayer card which thanks the Lord for the life and witness of this Pope of Life.

You can see the text of the prayer at PrayerCampaign.org, and can place an order there for as many as you would like. Please invite your pastor to give out these prayer cards to the congregation on Sunday, April 27th!

However, time is short and so is the supply, so if you are interested in ordering this beautiful card that will help you celebrate this momentous occasion, please order your supply now.

Also available, again at PrayerCampaign.org, are cards with our Easter Prayer for Life, which you will want to have for Easter Sunday and during the Easter Season. Each of these cards are only $6 per 100.

Blessings,

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

Another botched abortion, another young woman killed by “choice” 

April 2, 2014

by Janet Morana
Executive Director, Priests for Life
Co-Founder, Silent No More Awareness Campaign

Lakisha Wilson would be alive today if we cared about women’s health. Because if we did, if we really cared about women’s health, we would have banned abortion long ago, as soon as it became obvious that abortion was equally deadly in the front office and the back alley.

Yesterday we watched the CEO of General Motors get a public dressing-down because her company failed to recall cars to perform a very inexpensive fix until thirteen people had died. The broken-hearted families of some of these GM victims have been interviewed on television and we feel for them. We understand their grief. We know that losing a loved one from a completely preventable cause feels woefully unfair.

We may never see the family of Lakisha Wilson on TV. We will not be shown what her family is going through, knowing that they lost this beautiful 22-year-old woman because of a harmful and deadly procedure that should have been recalled decades ago. Certainly no CEO will face a congressional grilling. Did you see Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards facing angry politicians after one of her clinics let Tonya Reaves bleed to death in Chicago? No.

When abortion is the cause of death, there is a whole new set of rules. It’s not mentioned in the media. Death certificates are tailored to make it seem that it wasn’t the abortion that killed these women. The pro-aborts on Twitter barely make a sound. But the fact remains that Lakisha Wilson would be alive today if she hadn’t gone to Preterm clinic in Cleveland to end the life of her baby. And her child would still be kicking in her womb.

The cloak of silence around abortion is so heavy that we would not even know of Lakisha’s death had it not been for the pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors who watched her taken away by ambulance, and we would not have heard the total nonchalance with which a clinic worker summoned an ambulance to attend a to a young woman who was not breathing if not for the tireless efforts of our friends at Operation Rescue. They are leading a press conference today to make sure people do learn of Lakisha and what killed her.

There is never a reason compelling enough to kill an unborn child, but somehow we as a society have learned to avert our eyes. We cannot let this willful blindness obscure the truth about abortion. It is a harmful product that kills women and their children, and it needs to be recalled before one more mother exercises her freedom of choice and dies in the process.

Please go to RecallAbortion.com and sign the petition to demand that abortion is taken off the market.

And if you are not convinced then read my book, Recall Abortion where there is compelling evidence as to why this product called abortion should be recalled!

This column and more like it can be read on Janet’s Blog.

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