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Staff Did Abortions, Anesthesia With No Medical Training, “We Had No Idea What We Were Doing”

Staff Did Abortions, Anesthesia With No Medical Training, “We Had No Idea What We Were Doing”

by Chris Rostenberg | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/5/14 5:20 PM

I believe in the possibility of a world without exploitation – pro-choicers do not. They believe that someone always has to be exploited, either women or children in the womb. Just by lying there asleep, growing, unborn babies exploit their mothers so gravely that the women are essentially enslaved, say pro-choicers, so that pregnant mothers have the right to kill their children through torture.

Women have wombs, therefore society must practice child abuse in the extreme, pro-choicers believe. This claim that there is a perpetual war between unborn children and their pregnant mothers is the height of cynicism and misogyny.

Prenatal homicide is about withholding compassion, not expressing it, and this attitude poses a menace to women. Pro-choicers show love for women through hatred of children (and of course anyone who says, “I don’t hate unborn babies; I just think they can be killed for any reason until birth” is a fool).

abortiondocMost people who call themselves “pro-choice” are not so heartless as true, nine-month pro-choicers (who are the only real pro-choicers in my opinion). And even most nine-month pro-choice-to-kill activists probably are not so lacking in empathy that they would want to perform abortions themselves. Abortionists are the most callous bastards around, and to unleash them on poor desperate women shows contempt for women.

Nine-month pro-choicers (those who support unqualified abortion) delude themselves when they say pro-lifers don’t care about women. It is much harder to empathize with babies in the womb than it is with women. We interact with women all the time, and half of us are women. Women are “close” to us, while unborn children are “far away.” A person who can care for pre-born children is especially loving and has an easy time sympathizing with women; the opposite is not necessarily true. Furthermore, abortion is self-serving – there are plenty of reasons why pro-choice-to-kill activists would rationalize the “right” to choose to kill children. Why would pro-lifers rationalize their position?

This idea that love of one group (women) through the hatred of another (unborn babies) is cynical and destructive to all parties. That is why Helen Pendley says, “Life or death means nothing in [an abortion] clinic. If you don’t respect the life of the unborn, how can you respect the life of the mother and why? It doesn’t happen.” Pendley is a former administrator of abortion clinics and speaks on a double-documentary, Meet the Abortion Providers and Abortion the Inside Story, which is available free on YouTube. The documentaries feature women and men who once made a living by killing children but who have turned around and become opponents of abortion. I urge the  reader to view them.

Joy Davis, who directed six abortion clinics in Alabama and Mississippi yet became a pro-life activist, said that her boss, Dr. Tommy Tucker, was so greedy, he fired his anesthesiologist, the registered nurses, and the lab technician. He trained Joy Davis to act as an abortionist. “I never spent the first day in medical school. I really know nothing about medicine, other than what I had seen other doctors do, but I started doing abortions.” Ms. Davis, who was trained only as an ultrasound technician, explained that staff had watched the doctors put women to sleep. “We started putting patients asleep ourselves, and we had no idea what we were doing.”

Helen Pendley explained that she, not the abortion provider (dead baby provider), who prescribed the drugs, called in the medications and was the one on call when a woman started hemorrhaging. When women did call in saying they were undergoing physical or emotional trouble after a killing, the women were curtly told that the problem was pre-existing and was not caused by the pre-birth infanticide.

“I cannot tell you one thing that happens in an abortion clinic that is not a lie,” says Carol Everett, who had an abortion and was an administrator of five abortion clinics. Nita Whitten, who also worked in a Dallas abortion holocaust clinic, says, “It’s a lie when they tell you that they’re doing it to help the woman, ‘cause they’re not. … We were doing it to get her money.” She explained that it was common to bring $15,000 a day to the bank. Norma McCorvey, the woman called “Jane Roe” in the case Roe v. Wade, who was once pro-choice and is now pro-life, talked about her work in an abortion clinic. “It was just a racket. … [The abortionist] was just doing it for the money. He didn’t care about the women.”

Dina Madsen, a former abortion worker from Sacramento, explained that many of the clinic workers had had several abortions and had no confidence at all in the abortionists they worked with, but had no trouble falsely reassuring their prospective clients – “How stupid can you get?” Deborah Henry, a Michigan abortion counselor, explained that she and her coworkers lied about the pain women experience while undergoing abortions, and provided no information on the development of the child.

One former abortionist testified that the ultrasound machine, which shows pictures of the child, is always hidden from the pregnant mother, so she won’t change her mind and the abortionist/killer won’t be denied her money. But can a woman make an informed choice about abortion if she has not seen ultrasound images?

Joan Appleton, who was once a member of the National Organization for Women and quit over the matter of prenatal homicide, explained how she and her coworkers deliberately deceived women and minors in an attempt to get them pregnant again, so the clinic could get repeat business. The pro-choice-to-kill personnel would give out contraceptive pills for free, but neglect to tell the woman that if they went on antibiotics, the ensuing chemical reaction would render the birth control worthless. The contraceptives were marketed in terms of how low the estrogen level was, as in a 30% failure rate, so the killers knew they would get repeat business. (I don’t oppose contraceptives, but I oppose abortion employees entering schools to discuss it.)

Carol Everett discussed the consent form given to women considering abortion, which was six to twelve pages long. “This form is written by an abortion attorney … and it is written to confuse the girl to death.” Ms. Pendley explained her contempt for the desperate pregnant women who came to her for help. “I never saw [the women] as women. If they were so stupid as to believe our lies, they deserved exactly what we were going to give them.”

Dina Madsen said, “I didn’t really have much sympathy for them [the women]. … ‘You got yourself into this position, you better tough it out.’” Joy Davis echoes this view: “Out of the thousands and thousands of patients we [saw], I couldn’t remember one name or face. Because they were just a number to me, by how much money they paid. Oh, that’s a $5,000 case…” Referring to victims of crimes against humanity (such as women subjected to prenatal homicide) as numbers rather than as human beings directly recalls how Nazis tattooed numbers onto the wrists of concentration camp prisoners.

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http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/05/staff-did-abortions-anesthesia-with-no-medical-training-we-had-no-idea-what-we-were-doing/

Remembering When the New York Times Called Abortion “The Evil of the Age”

Remembering When the New York Times Called Abortion “The Evil of the Age”

by Eric Metaxas | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/5/14 12:22 PM

A major American newspaper launched a crusade to stamp out abortion. That’s right. I’ll tell you about it next.    

It’s time for another BreakPoint pop quiz: name the major American newspaper that ran an expose on what goes on in abortion mills entitled “The Evil of the Age.”

Give up? The answer is the New York Times.

No, you haven’t missed anything: the expose ran in the paper’s August 23, 1871 edition.

newyorktimesThe story, which is recounted in Cait Murphy’s book about New York in the Gilded Age, “Scoundrels in Law,” is, to use the old sixties phrase, mind-blowing.

As Murphy tells us, while all abortions had been illegal in New York since 1869, not only were both abortifacients and surgical abortions readily available, abortionists openly advertised their services.

One notorious abortionist, an English immigrant who went by the name of “Madame Restell,” made so much money that she built a mansion on Fifth Avenue!  And not just any mansion, but one of the grandest of them all: even the servants’ quarters were “lined with mahogany” and furnished with imported carpets.

Not everyone was impressed: street urchins would yell at her, “Your house is built on babies’ skulls!” as she passed in her carriage.

It wasn’t only street urchins who disapproved of the abortion trade. Anti-abortion activists, who “included most doctors and women’s groups, were disappointed at the ineffectiveness of the [1869] law.”

And that is when the New York Times sprang into action. It made stamping out the abortion trade a “crusade.” It ran “a regular series of editorials and reports on the subject,” culminating in “The Evil of the Age.”

The Times sent one of its reporters, accompanied by a woman, to the “city’s most notable abortionists.” The reporter summed up his findings thusly: “there is a systematic business of wholesale murder conducted by men and women in this city that is seldom detected, rarely interfered with, and scarcely ever punished by law.”

“Evil.” “Wholesale murder.” To see how much has changed in 143 years, just consider what the Times had to say about Kermit Gosnell, who last year was convicted of three counts of murder in connection with late-term abortions at his Philadelphia clinic.

While conceding that the “details of the crimes are horrific,” the Times insisted that “the Gosnell case does not really speak to the broader abortion debate.”

On the contrary, the Times regarded attempts to push back the “commonly defined date of viability from 24 weeks to 20 weeks or even earlier,” to be a “part of a larger push to prevent women from exercising their reproductive rights.”

I look forward to the Times’ next about-face.

And this is not entirely in jest. What the story from “Scoundrels in Law” illustrates is that attitudes toward abortion in America have never been fixed and immutable. The nineteenth century saw abortion go from mostly illegal but winked at, to illegal and strongly frowned upon. Public revulsion, translated into policy, put that century’s abortion mills out of business.

It could happen again. Forty-one years after Roe, public attitudes toward abortions seem to be turning against abortion. While children don’t chant about houses being built on babies’ skulls, most Americans think that there’s something disreputable about abortion and its practitioners.

While I doubt that the Times will be repeating “The Evil of The Age” anytime soon, we should continue to make it clear that the Times was correct when it described abortion that way.

Even if they’re embarrassed to recall that bit of their history.

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http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/05/remembering-when-the-new-york-times-called-abortion-the-evil-of-the-age/

 

Powerful Video Reminds Us That Science is Clear on When Life Begins

NRL News Today
February 4, 2014   AbortionFetal Development

Powerful video reminds us that science is clear on when life begins

 By Susan Michelle Tyrell

AboutYoustillIn a battle over partial birth abortion in 1999, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said to Rick Santorum that life begins “when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born … the baby belongs to your family and has all the rights.” The debate about when life begins stirs all sorts of illogical assertions, and a new video seeks to set the truth of life in the heart of America.

About You is a video that takes the life message to viewers, asking them to consider when their own life began. With a a thought-provoking, conversational style, a narrator points out what film producer, Thomas Purifoy, of Nashville-based Compass Cinema, says is the intent of the video, to show:

“There’s no way to draw a line anywhere in our life that says we weren’t ourselves at that moment, so we have to say that we’re a person all the way back to the moment of fertilization.”

Purifoy adds, “I wanted people to think about it in terms of their own lives instead of someone else’s life.”

Originally the video was produced for a nonprofit that decided to stop creating educational videos, so Purifoy and Compass Media decided to finish it for the 41st anniversary of Roe V. Wade January 22.

The end of the video adds a second focus to the message, which is important for voters in Tennessee. Tennesseans will vote in November on Amendment 1, Senate Joint Resolution 127. The reason for the legislation is unique to Tennessee because the Tennessee Supreme Court has limited pro-life legislation in that state because they have ruled that the current Tennessee Constitution limits the restrictions that can be placed on abortion. This new Amendment would clarify the Tennessee Constitution to once again allow the Tennessee legislature to enact abortion restrictions just as many other states have. The Amendment removes the court imagined right to abortion from the Tennessee Constitution, stating:

“Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.”

Purifoy notes that while the video is a general pro-life video, Compass Cinema always wanted Tennesseans to know about SJR 127 and be aware of the ballot amendment.

About You takes a simple message and format to remind us of the complexity of life. From the moment the egg is fertilized, life begins, and About You is another tool that reminds us to assert otherwise is to ignore science altogether

WATCH VIDEO & LEARN MORE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv6WNXIlXlk

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/02/powerful-video-reminds-us-that-science-is-clear-on-when-life-begins/

Forgiving the Man Who Raped My Mother…My Birth Father

Forgiving the man who raped my mother…my birth father

BY MONICA KELSEY

Jan. 6, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When I discovered that I was conceived in rape, the uncontrollable emotions of anger and hatred filled my body for several months on into years.  I was literally “out to get” my birth father and wanted to “make him pay” for what he had done to my birth mother.  As I learned to cope with and accept the truth, I eventually realized that the only way for me to be at peace was through forgiveness. Forgiving my birth father for the circumstances of my conception has proven to be one of the most difficult and emotional periods in my life. Only through the grace of God and the support of my husband was I able to accomplish this.

On a cold morning in January, I made a surprise phone call to my birthmother hoping to reconnect and answer questions that I have had for many years.  A few hours later my husband and I were making the three hour trip in the snow to visit the woman that placed me up for adoption 37 years prior. It was an amazing reunion and she was absolutely beautiful in every single way.

Monica Kelsey

After visiting with her for a while, as I was holding my husband’s hand, I asked her “Who is my birthfather?”  The look on her face is one I will never forget.  Her eyes squinted and an instant look of sadness had overcome her.  After a long uncomfortable silence, nothing prepared me for what I heard next.  It was like watching a movie about someone else’s life.  My birth mother began to tell me about a dark night in 1972 where she was brutally raped and left along the side of the road to die.  My heart sank as she was telling me this horrible story.  I could not immediately comprehend that she was describing the circumstances of my conception and I kept asking myself, “What does this have to do with me?”

My husband’s hand started to grab my hand a little bit tighter.  She went on to say her mother took her to the hospital and then to the police station to press charges.  Her life was in a total tail spin and she was quickly falling into a depression.  Then a few weeks later her worst nightmare come true.  She found out she was pregnant with me.  As my birthmother sat in her living room telling me the graphic details I started to wonder how anyone could do this to another human being.  How could this man, or monster was a better word, force a woman against her will?

With advice from her mother, she went to a back alley abortion clinic hoping to “get her life back” and to forget what had happened.  After showing up to this “so called” clinic and while standing in front of the man who was going to take my life, she changed her mind.  She left the clinic and never looked back.  Her mother hid her from the outside world, she gave birth to me and never even looked at me.  She didn’t even know if I was a boy or girl.  At this point, I was so angry with this man who raped her, I didn’t even truly understand that he was my biological father.  That shock finally hit me for a few days later.

After accepting the truth I grew more and more angry with my biological father for what he had done.  My birthmother fell into a deep depression which led to alcohol and drug abuse for many years.  I wanted revenge on my birthfather for his mistreatment of my birthmother and these emotions eventually consumed my life for many months.

My birthmother passed away in March of 2013.  In one of my final conversations with her, I asked how she had felt about my birthfather.  Her response was shocking to me. She said, “I had forgiven him a long time ago, he doesn’t control me anymore”.  She went on to say that he had controlled her life for so many years and she was finally strong enough to take her life back.  She then said something that I will never forget. She said “you need to forgive him and free yourself also”.  I smiled after she said this statement, for no other reason than the fact that she knew her daughter and she knew I was hurting.

Today, I live my life free and realize that forgiveness is the path to righteousness.  I pray for him and his family as well.  We all fall short of the glory of God sometimes and it’s an absolute blessing that we all have the power to repent because Jesus died for all of us, even my birthfather.  My birthmother once told me, “it’s amazing how something so beautiful has come out of something so horrible”. I couldn’t agree more. God sometimes uses our deepest pain to be the launching pad to our greatest calling.  I am confident that many babies will have a birthday because of my birthmothers’ story and my courage to tell it!

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/forgiving-my-father-the-man-who-raped-my-mother

‘Mother, Hold On To Me!’: Pianist from Celtic Family Band Leahy Releases Pro-Life Song

‘Mother, hold on to me!’: Pianist from Celtic family band Leahy releases pro-life song

BY JOHN JALSEVAC

January 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When the Canadian Celtic family band Leahy debuted the new pro-life song written by their pianist Erin several years ago at a show in Colorado, it felt as if “chains were being released” from audience members, according to Erin.

And wherever else the band has performed the song, the reaction has been the same: women come up to them after the shows, she says, and “will just fall into tears.”

Erin Leahy

While Erin, like the rest of her siblings who are part of the band, has always been pro-life, she admits that she never gave much thought to the issue, with the result that, until relatively recently, she had “never actually felt the emotion” that goes along with the conviction.

It wasn’t until 2008, the year that Canadian arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler was awarded the Order of Canada, that Erin took a close look at what actually happens during an abortion.

That year, at the urging of a pro-choice friend, Erin spent some time while on tour reading the website of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. What she found there disturbed her so much that she continued to research abortion.

“And that’s when it all hit me as far as how really sad the whole situation is,” she told LifeSiteNews.com during a recent interview.

One day, shortly after returning home from that tour, Erin was sitting at her piano, improvising, when a melody began to emerge that she found compelling. Without paying any attention, she began to sing the first words that came into her head.

Those words happened to be “calling all people to life,” the title of the song. Then, as she continued to sing, a second voice began to emerge, that of a pregnant mother, and then a third, of an unborn child.

“Mother, mother / Hold on to me,” this baby cries out in the completed song:

Give me the chance to be
All I was meant to be
‘Cause there is a plan for me
For all of eternity
And when the days are cold
I’ll be in your arms to hold
Then when your eyes grow old
I’ll be the one to take you home

At no point, says Erin, did she ever decide to “write a song about this issue or this idea.” Instead the song emerged organically from an overflowing of emotion that had taken hold of her after looking abortion directly in the face and seeing it for what it is.

Even she finds it interesting that the unborn child’s voice became such a prominent part of the song.

“It’s intriguing that it happened that way, because it’s a voice that you don’t really hear,” she says. “We hear people speaking on behalf of the unborn child, but we don’t hear the unborn child’s voice. How can we? We can’t.”

Erin says she has no real expectations for what the song will accomplish. However, when pressed, she admits that she hopes that “people would listen to that voice [of the unborn baby].

“It’s not a voice that is really saying anything other than ‘I want to live.’ And there’s no judgment.”

Erin is considering releasing the song to wider release.  But in the meantime it is available on iTunes, and is being played on Christian radio stations across North America.

To buy the song on iTunes, click here.

Read LifeSiteNews.com’s 3-part series about the Leahy family:

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion – Part II

A Most Unusual Family: International Music Stars Leahy Talk about Growing Up, Family, Fame, and Religion – Part III
The complete lyrics of Calling All People to Life:

Calling all people to life
I am calling all people to life
Giving all people my life
To be loved by me
To be loved by me

Sharing the blood of my heart
I am sharing the blood of my heart
Giving the blood of my heart
To be one with you
To be one with you

Mother, mother
Hold on to me

Give me the chance to be
All I was meant to be
‘Cause there is a plan for me
For all of eternity
And when the days are cold
I’ll be in your arms to hold
Then when your eyes grow old
I’ll be the one to take you home

Calling all people to life
I am calling all people to life
Giving all people my life
To be loved by me
To be loved by me

Mother, mother
Hold on to me

Look at the flowers grow
The colours are beautiful
But some seeds they never grow
They’re buried in sorrow
Inside these walls of you
I am a part of you
I already love you
And I’d even die for you

I am alive
I’m breathing inside
Forever alive

Mother, mother
Hold on to me

Unveil the mystery
Of all that comes after me
For I do long to see
The children inside of me
The shape of my bones was formed
In heaven by my Lord
And I belong to him
From whom all life begins

So if you don’t hear me cry
I hope you’ll be by my side
And together we’ll be again
Where life will never end

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Kid President’s Surprisingly Accurate Speech to a Baby on the Day of its Birth

Published: January 29, 2014 9:16 pm

Kid President’s surprisingly accurate speech to a baby on the day of its birth

The “Kid President,” of YouTube fame, releases periodic speeches to boost the morale of humanity in general. Sometimes, his messages are directed at specific groups. Here, you can see what he has to say to moms in his Open Letter to Moms (and if you are one, watch it; the kid knows what we need to hear). A few days ago, Kid President released a speech with a target audience of tiny humans: it’s a message to babies on the day of their birthKid President’s Letter to a Person on Their First Day Here. ”Today, over 360,000 babies will be born. And you are one of them. Welcome, this is the world!”

In the video, he explains that life, in general, is awesome. Acknowledging that there are some bumps in the road of life, he sagely advises that little people not to take the mean people too seriously. Most importantly, he wants the babies to know that “we’re glad you’re here.”  Here are a few morsels of wisdom from the young man to newborns, but be sure to watch the whole video.

“Just treat everybody like it’s their birthday. Even if they don’t deserve it sometimes. Because we all mess up sometimes. The biggest mess up? Not forgiving each other’s mess ups.”

“Maybe you’ll be a teacher. Maybe you’ll be the president. Maybe you’ll cure every disease ever… this is so much. It’s a lot. Try to take a breath.”

“Some days gross things will happen. Some days awesome things will happen. Some days you’ll get ice cream. Some days you won’t.”

“Being a person is hard sometimes. You should give people high-fives just for getting out of bed.”

“You, you’re awesome. You’re made that way. You’re made from love to be love to spread love. Love is always louder, no matter what. Even if hate has a bullhorn.”

“I don’t think I told you this yet. We’re really glad you’re here. We don’t say that enough to each other here. Because, well, life gets busy. You’re gonna be important. And you’re gonna do a lot, and you’re gonna smell great. But don’t get too busy. Remember to let everybody know you’re glad they’re here. You don’t have to remember all this right now. You’re gonna need a pep talk sometimes, and that’s OK. For now, remember this: You’re awake. You’re awesome. Live like it.”

Kid President made this video for his nephew, Miles. “I’m trying really hard to teach him to be a person. An awesome person.”

WATCH VIDEO & LEARN MORE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-EwrhsMzY

http://liveactionnews.org/kid-presidents-surprisingly-accurate-speech-to-a-baby-on-the-day-of-its-birth/

Moving Newspaper Report Highlights Life’s Value

NRL News Today
January 28, 2014   People with disabilities

Moving newspaper report highlights life’s value

By Gina L. Diorio

HoldingbabyhandYesterday, one of the newspapers in my area printed an article too beautiful not to share.

Titled “What is the Value of Human Life? Incalculable,” the piece, written by Pocono Record Reporter Howard Frank, tells the story of 65-year-young Linda Albertson, who “was born legally blind and with intellectual disabilities.”

Rather than assume her life of little value, however, her parents “wanted to make her life meaningful.”

“Parents like Linda’s led to the creation of Burnley in 1964. Burnley is a vocational rehabilitation facility that provides training and employment, all focused on giving individuals with disabilities opportunities for a meaningful, purposeful life.

“Linda was among the original employees in 1965, when the workshop received its first major contract, to solder parts of a tiny amplifier for the Army.”

Nearly 50 years later, Linda continues to work at Burnley, having overcome difficulties and discouragement to become “the workshop’s most skilled worker.”

“And with that came confidence, self-esteem and self-worth. Qualities we all, disabled or not, strive to achieve. For Linda, having self-confidence brought her out and helped her to make friends. That’s one of the things that Burnley does. It doesn’t just give people jobs. It exists because it believes in a person’s potential.”

This is not just a “feel good” story intended to make us applaud and then carry on with our lives. It’s a very real testament to the value of every life and to the fact that, regardless of how society may “rank” us (and itself), we all crave the same things. We all want to feel loved and needed. We all want to feel our lives have meaning.

I think of my own family. For years, my grandmother worked with those considered “developmentally disabled.” As a child, I remember her sharing how these precious people packaged sponges. Some would argue that these men and women should have been discarded. But they were loved; they were needed, and their lives had meaning.

I think of my mom’s cousin, who had severe CP. Although requiring assistance to live, she learned to type addresses on envelopes, and she did this to the fullest of her potential. Her passing left a hole in our lives. She was loved; she was needed, and her life had meaning.

To quantify a life’s value based on subjective constructions of worth is tragic. My mom’s cousin, the men and women my grandmother worked with, Linda Albertson. Each a life of immeasurable value. Each wanting to love, be loved, and find meaning.

Indeed, isn’t this what we all want?

Mr. Frank is right: the value of life is incalculable.

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http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/01/moving-newspaper-report-highlights-lifes-value/

Medical Miracle: “Ghost Baby” Born Without 80 Percent of Her Blood

Medical Miracle: “Ghost Baby” Born Without 80 Percent of Her Blood

by Steven Ertelt | Irvine, CA | LifeNews.com | 2/4/14 2:34 PM

Jennifer Juarez felt her baby stop kicking just three weeks before her baby was due. Her gut told her she should get to a hospital right away and she’s not very glad she followed her intuition.

That action saved baby Hope Juarez’s life and now the little child is a healthy 6-week-old infant. But her life outside the womb didn’t start off so well, as KABC reports (and video below):

hopejuarezAt the birth of their first child, new parents may not always know what to expect. But one Fountain Valley couple was not prepared for what happened when their daughter was born. She came into the world with a feature some might call “ghostly.”

The day 6-week-old Hope Juarez entered the world, she was as white as a ghost. When doctors brought her to draw blood, they could barely get a drop.

“She was crying and they brought her over to us and she was really pale,” said the baby’s father, Josh Juarez. “I knew that something was really wrong when they started pricking at her feet trying to get blood to come out and there was no blood coming out.”

Hours before Hope was born, her blood had drained out of her body.

“She probably lost about 80 percent or more. She was pale. She was really white,” said Dr. Marielle Nguyen, a neonatologist at Kaiser Permanente, Irvine Medical Center.

Doctors performed an emergency C-section. Her only hope for survival was a blood transfusion.

So why did little baby Hope have these problems in the first place?

Hope suffered from a fetal-maternal hemorrhage. The only other known recent case of a so-called “ghost white baby” surviving at birth occurred in the U.K. in 2012. There were similar circumstances. The mom in that case also noticed her daughter had stopped kicking.

Slight loss of fetal blood occurs in 98 percent of pregnancies, but hardly ever to this degree and rarely do babies survive.

“We don’t know what causes it. A lot of it is just it happens spontaneously. Sometimes the cause could be a motor vehicle accident, trauma, or where we have placental rupture, where the placenta suddenly just comes off the uterine wall,” said Nguyen.

WATCH VIDEO & LEARN MORE: 

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/04/medical-miracle-ghost-baby-born-without-80-percent-of-her-blood/

‘Feed Me!’ The Culture of Death Always Wants More

‘Feed me!’ The culture of death always wants more

BY WESLEY J. SMITH

  • Tue Feb 04, 2014 13:02 EST

Euthanasia and the Culture of Death are like the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors: No matter how much you feed it, the beast always wants more!

The Netherlands has been expanding the categories of the killable caste for decades. Back in 1991, a psychiatrist named Boudewijn Chabot assisted the suicide of a woman whose two children had died to fulfill her obsession to be buried between them.

The Dutch Supreme Court ruled logically that was just fine because suffering is suffering, and it doesn’t matter whether it is physical or emotional.

Now clinics are assisting the suicides of depressed patients whose own doctors won’t kill them. From the Daily Beast story:

In early 2012 a group called the Life-Ending Clinic went into operation for people whose personal physicians refused to terminate their lives or assist their suicides. The clinic has since tested the boundaries of “unbearable suffering.” Among those it has helped to die: people with chronic depression and those who have signed their own euthanasia declaration in the early stages of dementia.

“We consider it self-evident that someone who is terminal can turn to euthanasia,” Life-Ending Clinic Director Steven Pleiter told The Daily Beast. “Now we are entering a phase in which there will be more debate about patients who are not terminally ill, among them psychiatric patients and those with dementia.”

Even Chabot is worried:

Psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot, seen as a pioneer of the euthanasia movement after his conviction in 1991 for helping a female patient die, told the Dutch TV program Nieuwsuur that the law “has gone off the rails.”…

Chabot warned that the emphasis on a long-term doctor-patient relationship is paramount when it comes to evaluating psychiatric problems. “There are a 100,000 chronic psychiatric patients” in the Netherlands, according to Chabot, and of those “a large segment struggles with and against a death wish.” If the Life-Ending Clinic wants to take on such a responsibility, he said, then it better “get ready.”

Hypocrite! Chabot knew the suicidal woman he infamously assisted only briefly, having met her at a Voluntary Euthanasia Society meeting. He helped kill her after meeting with her only 4 times over about 5 weeks, with no treatment every attempted.

If Chabot is upset, you know things are really getting bad! Here’s an example from the story:

In one highly publicized example last year, the clinic helped a 63-year-old man with severe psychiatric problems to end his life. After a very active career working for government, the patient in question could not face his upcoming retirement. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad the clinic’s psychiatrist, Gerty Casteelen said the man “managed to convince me that it was impossible for him to go on. He was all alone in the world. He’d never had a partner. He did have family but he was not in touch with them. It was almost like he’d never developed as a person. He felt like he didn’t have the right to live. His self-hatred was all consuming.”

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Nancy Pelosi to receive Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood

Nancy Pelosi to receive Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood

BY BEN JOHNSON

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 31, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The highest-ranking Catholic Democrat in the House of Representatives will receive an award from the nation’s largest abortion provider.

On Friday morning, Planned Parenthood announced it would be awarding House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi its Margaret Sanger Award, the group’s “highest honor.”

Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards said it gave her “great pleasure” to bestow “our highest recognition of leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement” to the former House Speaker.

“No one is more deserving of this honor than Leader Pelosi, who has fought tirelessly throughout her career to protect and expand women’s access to health care.”

Chief among the reasons for granting the award is Pelosi’s “leadership in passing the Affordable Care Act,” conventionally known as ObamaCare, which Richards called “the greatest advancement for women’s health in a generation.”

Planned Parenthood said in a press release that Pelosi would join such “distinguished company” as Hilary Clinton, Roe v. Wade author Justice Harry Blackmun, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero, lesbian congresswoman Bella Abzug, Alan Guttmacher, Democratic Socialists of America honorary chair Dolores Huerta, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Critics have said Margaret Sanger is not very “distinguished company,” given her support of eugenics. Sanger referred to certain people as “human weeds” and partnered with the Ku Klux Klan to reduce the growth of “undesirable” populations.

The website Twitchy.com likened the prize to being named “Eugenicist of the Year.”

This is not Pelosi’s first award from the nation’s largest abortion provider.

As LifeSiteNews reported, she received Planned Parenthood’s Champion for Women’s Health award in 2010. The activist group selected Pelosi because she was “instrumental” in leading “her female colleagues in Congress as they stood strong against attempts to insert the Stupak abortion ban into” ObamaCare.

Former Congressman Stupak has said the president is violating the law’s prohibition against funding abortion with taxpayer dollars.

In 2011, Pelosi said defunding Planned Parenthood was only one of “the horrors” Republicans might perpetrate.

In 2012, she described the Girl Scouts of America’s relationship with Planned Parenthood as “very valuable.” When the nation’s Catholic bishops opposed the HHS mandate, she dismissed them as “lobbyists.”

That has not kept the congresswoman, who represents San Francisco, from brandishing her Catholicbona fides in a public manner. Last June, she invoked her Catholic faith to say abortion is “sacred ground.” Calling herself “an ardent, practicing Catholic,” she previously stated in error that the Catholic Church had no position on the morality of abortion until “like maybe 50 years” ago.

Pelosi will receive the award at Planned Parenthood’s “Stronger Together” annual gala in Washington, D.C., on March 27.

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