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Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Like no other state in the country, Kansas has became ground zero in the abortion battle as pro-life elected officials and groups have battled with the courts to get abortion laws there enforced. On Monday, Kansas legislators called on Attorney General Paul Morrison to uphold a late-term abortion law. They want Morrison to put charges against Wichita late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller back in place. Former top attorney Phill Kline charged Tiller with dozens of counts of violating a law that allows late-term abortions only in legitimate medical situations affecting a woman's health. However, Paul McHugh,...

LODA, Illinois, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by a private opinion research firm has shown that since the height of the “abortion wars” in the 1980’s and 90’s, public opinion in the US has made dramatic changes towards the pro-life position. Christopher Blunt, co-author of the study and founder of Overbrook Research, wrote that the analysis shows a complete turnaround in the support for abortion in the last fifteen years. The study, Turnaround on Abortion, cites the debate over partial birth abortion and the move towards a less confrontational approach as one reason for a “dramatic” change...

Under new Guidelines on Abortion (click here) being considered by the Department of Health under the new minister Mr Michael McGimpsey, there will be a loophole in the current law which, if used to its full extent will allow for the horror of partial birth abortion. For all ordinary people who haven’t yet heard of this horror, it’s a process whereby a child is aborted (read “murdered”) as it is being born. If you think this is too horrific even for abortionists to stoop too, it has been going on in America for years. Recently the Americans have passed a...

    News Full Incriminating Interview Video and Transcript Discussing Tiller Abortion Records Now Available Suit Filed Against KS Legislator In Attack On Abortion Protester The Incriminating Video About Tiller Criminal Case That AG Morrison Doesn’t Want You To See Media Misinformation About Abortion Records Statements Countered By WND.com VIDEO: O’Reilly Confronts “Tiller the Baby Killer” In Wichita Morrison Threatens Expert Witness With Arrest, Orders Him To Stop Talking To Operation Rescue VIDEO: Key Witness In Tiller Criminal Case Says AG Morrison Never Contacted Him Expert Witness in Criminal Abortion Case Drops Bombshell Testimony Urgent Tiller Briefing To Be Held...

Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- An analyst who reviewed the files of the women who had late-term abortions at George Tiller’s Wichita abortion business said Tiller did the abortions illegally by not following the state law’s guidelines for when they can be done. Psychiatrist Paul McHugh said the abortions were done for specious depression reasons rather than because of legitimate medical concerns. McHugh, a professor at Johns Hopkins University said the records revealed the women having the abortions were distressed for a variety of reasons that ma be normal during pregnancy but that none of the women had "substantial and irreversible"...

Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox says he is planning to study a decision released earlier this week by a federal appeals court striking down a Michigan law that bans partial-birth abortions. He said he is considering appealing the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to get the law upheld."We're in the process of reviewing the court's opinion. Obviously, we will be considering it in light of the Supreme Court's Gonzales ruling, which upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortions," Cox spokesman Rusty Hills said Tuesday. The nation's high court upheld the national partial-birth abortion...

Baton Rouge, LA (LifeNews.com) -- A Louisiana Senate committee has approved a bill that would ban partial-birth abortions in the state. A similar measure has already been approved by the state House and it would help local and state officials better enforce the national ban the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional in April. Sen. Ben Nevers is the sponsor of the Senate version of the partial-birth abortion ban that the committee approved on a unanimous vote. It now heads to the full Senate. “Many of us know that partial-birth abortion is one of the most gruesome procedures ever allowed in...

America has killed twenty million children during this long distraction, all in pursuit of a ban that from the beginning Never Had The Authority To Prevent Even A Single Abortion. Dr. Dobson, you and these other leaders needed to warn Christians of all this, but instead you joined together in calling evil good. Please stop foisting onto the church the falsehood that this gruesome ruling will "protect children." This decision, to use your word, is more "Naziesque" than the PBA it regulates. This wicked ruling does not even prohibit aborting partially born children. It is not a ban, but a...

Baton Rouge, LA (LifeNews.com) -- A Louisiana state House committee has signed off on a bill that would prohibit partial-birth abortions in the state. The measure is a reaction to the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a federal partial-birth abortion ban and a means to step up enforcement of the ban there. The high court's decision reaffirmed the ability of states to approve pro-life laws limiting abortion and lawmakers are eager to get started. Baton Rouge Rep. Gary Beard, the sponsor of the pro-life bill HB 614, called the grisly three-day-long abortion procedure “a practice that crosses the line between...

This time it may be the Democrats who are getting religion. Former Sen. John Edwards invoked "My Lord" when asked about moral influences on his life in the first Democratic presidential debate. At a campaign event on the day of the Virginia Tech massacre, he offered a prayer and — in a pointed break from Democratic candidates' usual wariness of offending religious minorities — closed with the words "in Christ's name." Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. comfortably works in references to his faith at public appearances. Even before his presidential candidacy, he gave a well-received speech arguing for a greater role...

Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart (the case that involved a challenge to the federal law restricting so-called partial birth abortion), I received an email reporting the decision with a copy of the ruling attached. Unlike many whom the media identify as leaders in the pro-life movement, I felt no inclination to leap for joy at the news that the Court's opinion upheld the constitutionality of the law. In the first place, I have never been convinced that the legislative action in question had much significance for the pro-life cause. I believe it...

Reuters reports that the May 24 issue of New England Journal of Medicine will include a group of commentaries about the effect that last week’s Supreme Court's ruling upholding the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has on "the practice of medicine": "With this decision the Supreme Court has sanctioned the intrusion of legislation into the day-to-day practice of medicine," Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, editor of the journal …"Both health care providers and patients should be alarmed by the current degree of intrusion by our government into the practice of medicine and even more so by the apparent trajectory that it seems...

NEW YORK, April 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood called for a day of nationwide rallies and demonstrations in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the federal abortion ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure. In a press release, Planned Parenthood said it was summoning all pro-abortion advocates to “express outrage” today on the third anniversary of the abortion rally, the 2004 March for Women’s Lives. "Last Wednesday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the federal abortion ban in its entirety represents a serious setback for women’s health and safety, and is truly ‘an alarming...

It was buried in the avalanche of coverage of the horrible shootings at Virginia Tech. But the Supreme Court's partial-birth ruling will likely have a much bigger impact on Campaign. The human toll is unfathomable. And the heartfelt debate triggered by the slaughter at Virginia Tech—over why America allows such easy access to guns, and how best to determine when a troubled student might turn into a psychopath—will rage on for years. But as a political matter, the killings in Blacksburg, Va., will likely have little impact—on the presidential campaign of 2008, at least. That race will, however, be affected...

THIRTY-TWO years ago a Suffolk County jury in Massachusetts found me guilty of manslaughter in the death of a fetus during the performance of a legal second-trimester abortion. In that particular case, the abortion was carried out by hysterotomy, a major surgical procedure often described as a mini-caesarean section, after multiple attempts at saline infusion had failed. Both hysterotomy and saline infusion are techniques which are effective in terminating pregnancies, but both of them carry substantial risks for the pregnant woman. The best, safest procedure for my patient would have been one called dilation and evacuation, or D & E....

After the Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said at a news conference: "I would only say that this isn't the only decision that a lot of us wish that [Justice Samuel] Alito weren't there and [former justice Sandra Day] O'Connor were there." Does that mean Reid was repudiating his 2003 Senate vote in favor of the bill? No, he told me Thursday, he was talking about other decisions by Alito. Reid, an effective legislator and canny politician, reflects a dilemma on abortion among Democrats, currently flying high against dispirited...

No reflective, thoughtful, or civilized person in America this week could dare to look upon the unwarranted bloodshed of the innocent and have even one ounce of tolerance for such actions. The trauma these events had on our collective psyche as a nation seemed to erode differences amongst people who see themselves as separated by partisan disagreement. For these few days the moral absolute of not shedding innocent blood, even the Old Testament biblical mandate of "Thou shall not commit murder", was easily agreed upon. Yes? For Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards the answer is a shocking, "NO!"...

Very strange week for America this week. How do we measure it? It was the most historic massacre of our history, with copycat threats all week long, and another hostage taken at NASA ending in death yesterday. It was also the most important week in the prevention of murder of innocent life since 1973. All the deaths from the high-profile incidents nationwide add up to less than 40 dead. In only ONE NYC area "medical clinic" 1500 lives were saved. There are hundreds of such clinics in the New York City metro alone. We were unable to stop some crazed...

Judicial nominations just took front and center for presidential nominees and the 2008 primaries. The magnitude of who gets to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court is supremely illustrated by the Court’s ruling today upholding the congressional ban on partial birth abortion (PBA). The newest justice, Samuel A. Alito, joined the majority of the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart. Put simply, it’s Sam v. Sandra. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor voted with the Court majority in 2000 when it struck down Nebraska’s ban on PBA in Stenberg v. Carhart, based on the law’s failure...

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