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This week is Women’s Rights Week, which is a good opportunity to become aware of the state of women’s rights around the world. Among all countries, China, with its one-child policy and forced abortion rates, is perhaps the most out of touch with women’s rights. This story highlights the strides that have yet to be made in modern-day China. At the end of the piece, we’ll tell you how you can get involved in the fight for women’s rights in China. Li Fengfei (Image from China Aid Association) In an exclusive interview with ChinaAid.org, 31-year-old Li Fengfei relayed the horrifying...

A young mother is determined to carry her child, diagnosed with anencephaly, to term. They know that their baby is doomed, but they want to do the best with what they've been given. The parents are a couple in our community. They're trying to come up with the funds to manage a small funeral. If you just want to share their story, that's awesome. If you feel compelled to help them, you can do so at the link. Right now, my heart is just breaking for them. o go through all that and all their looking forward to is a...

On September 20th, during a Papal Audience, a man drew close to Pope Francis, carrying with him a somewhat suspicious looking bag. Inside were half a dozen surgical instruments of various types and sizes which he, Dr Antonio Oriente from Messina, ex-abortion gynaecologist, wanted to deliver at all costs to the Holy Father. This luggage had already created problems as he boarded the plane from Palermo. He then became the central protagonist in an event, that despite being unscheduled on the programme of the Mater Care International Conference in Rome had an enormous symbolic impact on the participants. These were...

Four of the most notorious late-term abortionists in the United States — LeRoy Carhart, Warren Hern, Shelly Sella, and Susan Robinson — may have been portrayed as noble martyrs in the new documentary film After Tiller. They received standing ovations at the Sundance Film Festival, and certainly receive plenty of adulation from the likes of pro-abortion extremists like Amanda Marcotte and Wendy “Abortion Barbie” Davis. But evidently, they’re the only ones. In a recent interview, Robinson talked about how she gives mothers little keepsakes and mementos of the viable babies she murders, and refers to her work as “euthanasia” and...

Senate Democrats today, on a party-line vote, rejected the House Republicans’ effort Saturday night to delay Obamacare, and stop abortion funding and promotion. The Senate yanked out the House-approved amendments on the bill to fund the federal government, meaning it rejected amendments to strike abortion funding from Obamcare and to strike the HHS mandate that compels religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions. “We are not going to negotiate on this,” Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said — pushing the vote to defeat the House bill without debate or amendment. Saturday night, the House...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While taxpayer funds are flowing into the coffers of Planned Parenthood at a record-breaking rate of $1.5 million every single day, the numbers of every service that the organization offers have decreased in recent years, except for one – abortion. That’s the sobering finding of a newly released study from the American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood Project (STOPP), which found that while cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood are down 29 percent in just two years, and contraception services down 15 percent over four years, abortion numbers are continuing to climb.

I never wrote this, but after abortionist Kermit Gosnell was sentenced I KNEW we had not heard the last of a man convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter. Why? Simply because I had read the interview he had given March 22, 2010, to David Gambacorta of the Philadelphia Daily News long before the trial began (“DOCTOR FROM HELL . . . OR GODSEND?”), the excusatory comments of Jack McMahon, his defense attorney during and after the trial, and what the Grand Jury report said about a man who operated a “House of Horrors.”...

NEW YORK, September 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attorney in a high-profile child custody case says she is receiving death threats after asking whether abortion causes enduring stress in a case that has stirred the abortion debate in the Empire State. Eleanor Alter represents Green Bancorp CEO Manuel “John” Mehos, who is seeking custody of his two young children from ex-wife, Lisa. She had denied her ex the right to see his children over Easter weekend last year on the grounds that he is an atheist and she is a Christian. However, Alter says Lisa opted to ditch the kids...

September 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Argentinean government is under fire for distributing “educational” literature with graphic nudity, rape scenes, and explicit bestiality to public schools throughout Argentina. “They contain explicit sex, drugs, and even zoophilia,” said Principal Osvaldo Calvente, from the Guillermo Villanueva School in Maipú, in the province of Mendoza. He was the first person to publicly denounce the books. “I decided to put them away immediately to keep them out of the student’s reach. This cannot, by any means belong in a school library,” he said. “It is my duty as the school’s principal.” One of the...

A recent interview with late-term abortionist Dr. Susan Robinson has drawn significant attention for some of the ways Robinson attempts to humanize the process of destroying the lives of unborn children in late-term abortions. Although surveys show women frequently regret their abortions and face a litany of medical and mental health problems following an abortion, Robinson attempts to make women feel better about their decision in a sick and twisted sort of way. From a report on the interview: Jia Tolentino interviewed Susan Robinson, one of only four American abortionists who openly perform third-trimester abortions. Robinson is featured in the...

OKLAHOMA CITY, September 26, 2013 (LifeSIteNews.com) – Four Christian universities in Oklahoma have filed a joint lawsuit in federal court seeking to overturn the HHS mandate. All four schools — Oklahoma Baptist University, Mid-America Christian University, Southern Nazarene University, and Oklahoma Wesleyan University – assert that the ObamaCare stipulation violates their constitutional rights, forcing them to violate their deeply held Christian beliefs against abortion in order to avoid massive governmental fines. The Oklahoma schools join dozens of other religious employers who have sued the federal government over the contraceptive/abortifacient mandate. While the Obama administration has offered a limited “compromise” arrangement...

Port Chester police are vigorously searching for a man accused of forcibly raping his stepdaughter who is under the age of 13, Police Lt. James Ladeairous said. Police believe the man has fled the Port Chester area since the alleged rape was first reported by the victim's mother on Sept. 16, police said. The mother took the child to an abortion clinic to have the pregnancy terminated, Ladeairous said. At the time of the abuse, the mother, stepfather and child were all living together. The suspect has never been arrested in Port Chester before, Ladeairous said. Police could not release...

With all the attention focused on Ted Cruz’s attempt to defund Obamacare in the continuing resolution, some of the law’s parade of horribles are momentarily out of view. Come October 1, those horribles will resume their onward march as the law’s impact on subsidizing elective abortion will begin to become clearer. One area that deserves special scrutiny is the feature known as Multi-State Plans (MSPs). This provision of Obamacare represented a partial victory for progressive forces who favored a national, single-payer system. In its place they accepted a category of health-insurance plans managed by the Office of Personnel Management under...

LifeNews.com is pleased to present the first chapter of Abby Johnson’s book Unplanned. Johnson is the former director of the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Bryan, Texas. She had a change of heart after agreeing to a request to assist in an abortion procedure and has now converted to the pro-life position.

Please keep my daughter and other pro life marchers in your prayers tonight and tomorrow as they present a visible witness for life in Berlin tomorrow. Unlike the US Marches for Life, the pro abort forces in Europe are a lit more active...and violence on pro lifers is not unheard of. Thanks for your prayers

A Catholic religious order, the Little Sisters of the Poor, has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration asking the courts to protect them from being forced to comply with the HHS abortion mandate. The mandate compels religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions. Yesterday, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious order of Sisters dedicated to caring for the elderly poor. Without relief, the Little Sisters face millions of dollars in IRS fines because they cannot comply with the government’s...

I’ve often thought that one of the best things that could happen to the pro-life movement is for the “pro-choice” movement to get its own 24-hour cable channel. Just give them a camera, give them a microphone, and let them talk. And talk. And talk some more. The more they try to justify their position, the more self-evidently appalling their arguments become. This is what went through my mind as I read excerpts from “Gosnell’s Babies,” a story released today in Philadelphia Magazine. In it, the country’s most notorious abortionist, Kermit Gosnell, is quoted as saying: In an ideal world,...

FULL TITLE: Afghan minicab driver tied up his pregnant mistress and aborted 19-week-old foetus using tablets he bought online An Afghani minicab driver who tied his pregnant mistress up then forced poisonous pills into her womb in order to abort his unwanted child has been jailed for six years. Ahmed Raofi, 29, became enraged when lover Irene Santos refused to terminate their unborn child, so he hatched a plan to kill the foetus without her consent. After hours of internet research, Raofi bought packets Misoprostol online and invited Ms Santos to his flat in Edgware, northwest London, on April 9,...

The next 40 Days for Life campaign starts tomorrow in 306 locations — with more than 20 brand-new cities on board for the first time to participate in the pro-life prayer campaign. That number of cities is an astonishing growth from the early days of the campaign, when it began in Texas as a local event Shawn Carney and other pro-life activists headed. “Six years ago, when 40 Days for Life was first launched as a coordinated effort, our national director David Bereit and I were hoping 20 cities would take part. But God moved people in 89 cities to...

A recent interview with late-term abortionist Dr. Susan Robinson in The Hairpin casts some light on the controversial practice of third-trimester abortion. Even many pro-choice people have a hard time understanding why a woman would wait 30 weeks before having an abortion. You sometimes hear pro-choicers say that if there were fewer restrictions on earlier abortion, there would be no late-term abortions. Not so, says Dr. Robinson: "I think that the public perceives first of all that late abortion could be completely eliminated if people would only get their act together and have their abortions earlier, which is completely untrue….No...