“Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives”

“Awakening His Mind’s Eye”

By Dave Andrusko Professor William Brennan is a pro-life scholar whose academic life’s work it’s been to illuminate the dark power of destructive language. “Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives” helps us understand how a witch’s brew of derogatory words mingled with degrading labels and stirred with a demeaning stamp of disapproval works to poison our attitude toward the medically vulnerable.

Scientists: Brain Wave Patterns Show Unborn Children Recognize Words in the Womb

Washington, DC | 8/27/13 11:28 AM

Babies learn to recognize words and sounds in the womb, scientists say. An the baby does so well at recognizing the words that he or she has memories of them after birth, research shows.

From today’s report:

It may seem implausible that fetuses can listen to speech within the womb, but the sound-processing parts of their brain become active in the last trimester of pregnancy, and sound carries fairly well through the mother’s abdomen. “If you put your hand over your mouth and speak, that’s very similar to the situation the fetus is in,” says cognitive neuroscientist Eino Partanen of the University of Helsinki. “You can hear the rhythm of speech, rhythm of music, and so on.”

A 1988 study suggested that newborns recognize the theme song from their mother’s favorite soap opera. More recent studies have expanded on the idea of fetal learning, indicating that newborns already familiarized themselves with sounds of their parent’s native language; one showed that American newborns seem to perceive Swedish vowel sounds as unfamiliar, sucking on a high-tech pacifier to hear more of the new sounds. Swedish infants showed the same response to English vowels.

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/27/scientists-brain-wave-patterns-show-unborn-children-recognize-words-in-the-womb/

Eight Facts Most People Don’t Know About How Abortion Hurts Women

London, England | 8/27/13 5:15 PM

Mother Awakens From Coma Pregnant, Rejects Abortion to Birth Miracle Baby

London, England | 8/27/13 1:40 PM

Gemma Holmes was driving her scooter last year when the 26-year-old hit a parked car and sustained such significant injuries that she went into a coma.

After almost dying from the accident, Holmes awakened three months later and doctors informed her she was four months pregnant.

Holmes suffered from amnesia and couldn’t remember the last three years of her life — including the identity of the father. However, she rejected the abortion advice from physicians and gave birth anyway.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/27/mother-awakens-from-coma-pregnant-rejects-abortion-to-birth-miracle-baby/

Pro-life Friend –

The nation can no longer accept the torture of pain-capable unborn children. Every poll since the Gosnell trial shows this, and we have to continue to make sure our Senators know as well.

• Take Action: Send a message to your Senator today telling him to end this terrifying reality.

We have to protect the 15,000 unborn children who are tortured and killed at the hands of late-term abortionists every year. This nightmare that we allow in the United States has to end.

Study after study shows that these poor unborn babies feel every moment of their murder, and as a nation, we’ve been forced to the sidelines because pro-abortion politicians have called the act of murdering an unborn baby “sacred” and protected.

Well, I’m not willing to let this continue.

The pro-life movement has fought for forty years against these protected murders, and now for the first time we have the chance to stop them for unborn babies that are pain-capable. We have to take that chance.

The US House’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is the law we’ve worked so hard for. For babies 20 weeks and beyond, we can extend federal protection and save these babies lives.

It might seem like a dream, but if this law had been on the books, we’d have 15,000 more infants and toddlers alive today. The Kermit Gosnell trial – hopefully – would have never happened because his late-term abortion clinic would have closed years ago.

Let’s make this dream a reality. Help us end the nightmare of late-term abortions in America and extend the protection of the federal government to unborn babies.

Will you take a minute right now to send your Senator a message urging him to fight for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the Senate? We need to introduce and enact this legislation! I know if might not feel like a lot, but it’s how we start saving 15,000 unborn babies every year

For Life,

Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony List www.sba-list.org

Dear Chapters and Friends,

Recently, Reuters published an article regarding the Ohio Right to Life legislative strategy for protecting mothers and helping to save babies.  Below is a link to the Chicago Tribune story entitled “Ohio Clinic Shows New Tactics in U.S. Abortion Clashes” : http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-abortion-ohio-20130823,0,2992894.story

The Reuters story was picked up by national Christian publications as well.  Specifically, Charisma News ran the story with the following headline: “Why Abortion Rights Groups Fear Ohio’s Pro-Life Strategy”:  http://www.charismanews.com/us/40759-why-abortion-rights-groups-fear-ohio-s-pro-life-strategy

The fact is that Ohio Right to Life and with the strong support of our affiliated chapters are leading the effort to save lives not just in Ohio, but nationally as other states are implementing our tactics and strategies.  I send this information to you by way of an update and inspiration to continue to stay focused on our responsibility to serve God in all that we do to save lives.

While we have much work still to do, we also have much to be thankful for including our great pro-life Governor John Kasich as well as our pro-life majorities in both the Ohio House and Senate.

All my personal best,

___________________________________________

Michael Gonidakis

President

Ohio Right to Life

88 East Broad Street, Suite 620

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614/547-0099 ext. 301

http://www.ohiolife.org/

“My Abortion Was a Horrifying Experience, Women Were Treated Like Cattle”

Washington, DC | 8/26/13 11:31 AM

Carla Stream knows what it’s like to experience an abortion decision she would later come to regret.Her personal story is one she has shared before and she calls it a “horrifying” experience where women were subjected to being treated “like cattle.”

“I was 24 when I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t know what to do and wasn’t sure to whom I could turn,” Stream says. “I told my roommate who offered to drive me to an abortion clinic. The only other person I told didn’t say anything.”

“I didn’t want an abortion. I wanted help and hope and support. My fear and confusion quickly became desperation. I was so unsure of myself, and yet the only choice I could see was abortion. I took that ride from my roommate,” Carla continues.

Like so many other women who go to abortion clinics, Carla was given very little information ahead of time.

“My abortion was the most horrifying experience of my life. The women were treated like human cattle. I was told over and over about “a bunch of cells,” even though I was 10 weeks along. I was only asked, “Will that be Visa or MasterCard today?” I believed all of the lies that I was told,” Stream explains.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/26/my-abortion-was-a-horrifying-experience-women-were-treated-like-cattle/