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Police in Macon, Georgia, arrested 19-year-old Passion Latrice Watkins on April 26 in connection to the shooting death of her 36-year-old stepmother Melanie Powers, who was more than eight months pregnant at the time of her death. Watkins has been charged with malice murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, and feticide, according to WMGT. Georgia’s criminal code states that a person who “willfully and without legal justification causes the death of an unborn child by injury to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, or if he or she,...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. —A jury has returned a guilty verdict in the 2016 hair weave triple murder. Shelby Isaac, 19, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder, one count of reckless homicide and one count of criminally negligent homicide. Isaac fell to the ground in shock as the first guilty verdict was read around 7 p.m. Friday after about three hours of deliberations.

My bride's water broke at 15 weeks. Baby's heart beat is still strong. We need prayers please.

A video from a Discovery channel special regarding the effect of music on a fetus. One baby in the womb is really getting down and grooving to the tunes. The other-- not so much.

Monday May 17, 2010 Bishop Says Nun is Automatically Excommunicated for Rubberstamping Hospital Abortion By Peter J. SmithPHOENIX, Arizona, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bishop of Phoenix has announced that a Catholic nun and administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has automatically excommunicated herself by approving an abortion on a woman who was 11-weeks pregnant, and whose life hospital officials allege they were trying to save. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said the excommunications apply to all involved, and lambasted the hospital’s defense of their decision by comparing the ill woman’s unborn child to a...

Louisiana Woman Arrested for Narcotic "Distribution" to Unborn Child By Peter J. Smith OUACHITA, Louisiana, August 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Authorities arrested and charged a Louisiana woman yesterday for taking illegal narcotics that harmed her unborn child reports the Louisiana Gannett News. The case is particularly interesting to pro-life advocates since justice will depend on whether state courts will recognize the newborn daughter of Rebecca Thompson, 26, as a person before birth, the period when the crime occurred. Sheriff's deputies charged Thompson on one count each of distribution of cocaine to a person under age 18 and second-degree cruelty to...

Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- As more reports surface on the new abortion center Planned Parenthood is building Aurora, Illinois, pro-life advocates are concerned about how it was built with so little advanced notice. The 22,000-foot building is one of the largest abortion centers in the nation but Planned Parenthood was able to build it under the radar. As LifeNews.com reported Tuesday, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area will open the abortion business in the 200 block of North Oakhurst Drive, located in the DuPage County section of Aurora. But the new facility escaped the attention of pro-life advocates and area residents until recently...

LifeNews.com Note: Rev. Mark H. Creech is executive director of the Raleigh-based Christian Action League of North Carolina. This editorial first appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer on July 19.The web site justice4jenna.org describes “an amazing and wonderful” young woman who was a “talented pianist, dancer and singer.” The site’s photo gallery shows a series of pictures of Jenna Nielsen, 22, as playful and humorous - someone who obviously relished in being a wife and mother. Jenna was expecting the birth of her third child, Ethen, with whom she was eight months pregnant, when tragically on June 14th some...

New Life Decisions International Boycott List Identifies Corporate Planned Parenthood Sponsors Life Decisions International (LDI) will soon release a revised edition of The Boycott List, which identifies corporations that are boycott targets due to their support of Planned Parenthood, the world's leading abortion-advocacy group. "As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 153 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood," said LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $35 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began some 15 years ago. "This should...

Knocked Up is an outstanding argument for the need for women to see what is going on inside their bodies when they are pregnant. Special Commentary to LifeSiteNews.com By Dr. Marc T. Newman July 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Knocked Up appears poised to be this summer's Wedding Crashers - a loud, raunchy battle-of-the-sexes film that brings in big box office. Millions of people will flock to this morally reprehensible film, and laugh it up while watching drugged-out, sex-obsessed slackers slouching through extended adolescence do anything to avoid growing up and taking responsibility for their lives. While viewers wallow in profanity,...

Sharnell Onaga loses her battle with leukemia By KHON News She never gave up till the end. That's how family and friends are remembering Sharnell Onaga. Last night she lost her battle with leukemia. Loved ones were by her side when she died. Onaga was diagnosed with an agressive form of leukemia while pregnant with her third child. Doctors advised her to terminate the pregnancy to save her life. She refused and gave birth to baby Sarah who is now four months old. Husband Clifton says the couple's eldest daughter will play a big role in making sure that sharnell...

GUELPH, March 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two pro-life advertisements on city buses in Guelph, Ontario were vandalized last week. The ads, depicting a 19-week-old fetus with the caption "this is a child not a choice" and offering the phone number of a local crisis pregnancy centre, were defaced with black spray-paint. The phone number was blotted out and the word "CHOICE" was sprawled over the ad. The board of Guelph and Area Right to Life association was saddened by the vandalism. "We are not surprised, however," association president Jakki Jeffs said, "those who say they support 'choice' have consistently shown...

AN unborn baby killed in a three-vehicle accident in north Queensland has lifted the national Christmas period road toll to 24. Queensland police added the unborn baby to the toll after a pregnant woman, 32, was killed in an accident on the Flinders Highway near Charters Towers around 3.30pm (AEST) yesterday. A ute travelling west and a sedan headed east collided, before the sedan careened into another car driven by the pregnant woman, a police spokeswoman said. The pregnant woman's car was travelling behind the ute. The woman, from Edmonton, south of Cairns, was taken to Townsville Hospital where she...

Ok, my second vanity, even though I had earlier promised that I would only post one. However, I felt that this was important enough to post here, where good people pray for those that really need it. Got this e-mail from a friend this morning and I am asking you for some of that special prayer support that one only finds here. I thank you. "My Dear, dear Friends, I have some very sad news. My niece Sara xxx, my sister Fran's daughter, was beaten to death by her boyfriend this past Friday in Hawaii where she lived. She was...

A Mother's Act of Love to Save Her Unborn Child by Justin Torres June 1, 2005 LifeNews.com Note: Justin Torres is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and research director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. There's a truism in conservative politics that abortion is everything. Clinton's impeachment was a proxy fight over abortion (the feminists were trying to save the bacon of the most reliably pro-abortion administration in history, thus demonstrating that they cared more for the ghastly procedure than the oppressed sisterhood). Certainly, the fight over the "nuclear option" was all about abortion...

My cousin, Scott and his wife, Marsha are expecting a baby girl. Two weeks ago at 24 weeks gestation, her amniotic fluid began to leak. After messing around at their local (and horrible) hospital, she went by ambulance to a big one in Pittsburgh. They found out that everything the previous hospital did was wrong. Now They are just waiting to see how long they can keep the baby in the womb and hoping everyday that it will be another day. The baby weighed 1 pound 6 oz on Monday. Any prayers for Scott, Marsha and their daughter would be...

GPS data at issue in Peterson caseScott Peterson is charged with killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son. GPS data at issue in Peterson case Judge to hear defense request to sequester jury Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Posted: 0544 GMT ( 1:44 PM HKT) REDWOOD CITY, California (CNN) -- Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Scott Peterson's murder trial are due in court again Tuesday to argue whether information gathered from tracking Peterson's vehicles by satellite after his wife disappeared should be admitted as evidence. Peterson, 31, is charged with killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son....

Two People, Two Deaths Paul Weyrich Thursday, Mar. 18, 2004 Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) stated in a letter to South Dakotans that he favored acting "expeditiously" on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. In his June 12, 2003 letter, Daschle stated: "I agree with the Republican Leader that Congress should consider this issue expeditiously." The rhetoric of the Senate Minority Leader fails to match the record. The Unborn Victims of Violence failed to reach the Senate floor quickly. After all, Tom Daschle has a voting record slanted in favor of legalized abortion, having voted for the Harkin (D-Iowa)...

NewsMax.com's religion editor Fr. Mike Reilly argues that the Laci Peterson case poses a problem for America's abortion advocates. "[Scott] Peterson, who is to be arraigned on charges for the death of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, was arrested Friday morning ..." reports the New York Post. We can all agree that Laci Peterson was murdered, but I thought that the unborn baby was just a fetus. How can Scott Peterson be arraigned on charges for murdering a non-person? If Lacihad brought the child to a local abortionist, he could have killed the baby - and the state...

Breast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC LinkBreast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC Link     10/25/2004By Mary E. Traeger, CWA of MO Media CoordinatorOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds . . ."While he was saying this a woman from the crowd called out, ‘Blest is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!'" (Luke 1:27)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds of thousands of participants in numerous cities walking to find a breast cancer cure. Corporations are...