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President Donald Trump is said to be down to his final three potential picks to replace pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Much of the pro-life focus has been on Judge Amy Barrett and leading pro-life advocates strongly support her as a potential nominee. But there is another potential nominee who is a reported finalist for the position who has very strong pro-life Bona fides and who one leading pro-life attorney says would be an excellent choice for the Supreme Court. That potential nominee is Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who sits on the DC Circuit Court. That is the main federal...

The Obama administration is threatening two states after they made the decision to cut funding to the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the wake of a series of videos exposing how Planned Parenthood sells aborted babies and their body parts. Alabama became the third state to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the wake of five videos exposing how the abortion giant sells the body parts of aborted babies for research. The state followed Louisiana, which is revoking a contract with Planned Parenthood using state Medicaid dollars, and New Hampshire, which zapped $650,000 in state taxpayer funding. In Alabama,...

Claire Culwell knows what it’s like to be a survivor. At the age of 13, her mother learned she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion, though she didn’t know she was pregnant with twins. After she had an abortion of Claire’s brother, she returned to the abortion clinic after realizing she still had a growing and developing baby inside of her. Told she was too late to have a second abortion, she gave birth to Claire, who struggled on life support as she dealt with a myriad of medical issues following her birth. Despite the obstacles she has...

Adult Stem Cell Research Shows Good Long-Term Results, Study Saysby Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor September 19, 2005Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Clinical trials of treatments of patients using adult stem cells shows positive results, but doctors have not known whether patients will continue showing progress long-term. A new study of blood cancer patients who had stem cell transplants are nearly as healthy as their peers 10 years later.Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Research Cancer Center examined 137 patients a decade after their procedures.Reporting their results in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the researchers say they were "largely indistinguishable" from the general population.The finding...

Colorado Springs, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Focus on the Family announced Thursday that it has placed the 200th ultrasound machine in a crisis pregnancy center in order to dramatically increase the percentage of women opting against having an abortion. The machine placements are part of a national campaign. Since the pro-family group launched its Option Ultrasound program, it has helped 200 pregnancy centers get the machines, which show amazing pictures of babies before birth. Statistics show that 84 percent of women decide against an abortion after seeing an ultrasound of their baby. Kim Conroy, is the sanctity of life director for...

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- New York City has become the abortion capital of America. The state of New York passed one of the only laws legalizing abortion in 1970, three years before the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Since then the situation has only gotten worse. Some thirty-five years later, New York City has the highest abortion rates in the country. According to the last figures available, 39 women out of 1,000 women statewide had an abortion. There are so many abortions per year in New York that the number of babies who die,...

I recently came across Steven Ertelt’s article on Planned Parenthood’s Christmas cards, or ''Holiday'' cards, if you are so generically and secularly inclined (''Planned Parenthood’s Christmas Cards Ready to Offend Again'' at Lifenews.com). Mr. Ertelt invites his readers at the end of his article to send responses to the organization at: store@ppfa.org. There seems to be a movement away from acknowledging the purpose of our winter holidays. I have read countless articles citing the actions of the ACLU in its attempt to erase the word ''Christmas'' from the consciousness of public America. And yet, I wonder, what is everyone doing?...