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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Activist and muckraker Lila Rose has single-handedly helped gain national exposure for the glaring problem of the abortion industry covering up cases of sexual abuse of minors by encouraging them to get abortions. largely silent in response, one pro-abortion activists suggests her colleagues wake up.
Rose has taken it upon herself to go to abortion centers in states such as Arizona, Indiana and Tennessee and to find out what they would say to an underage woman who allegedly is a victim of statutory rape by a much-older boyfriend.
The results have shocked even veteran pro-life advocates with the emotionless ways in which Planned Parenthood staff members go out of their way to not report the sexual abuse to authorities. They even go further by encouraging Rose to hide the identify of her boyfriend from a state judge so she can avoid the state's parental involvement laws and have a secret abortion without her parents knowing.
The nationally-recognized pro-abortion groups like NARAL and Emily's List have ignores the videos and Planned Parenthood's response has mostly been to minimize their content, promise to do better, and to guard their taxpayer funding.
Mandy Van Deven, a writer at the pro-abortion blog RH Reality Check, says this response is problematic and that the pro-abortion movement will be found by the public to be guilty of an avoidance group-think if it fails to respond more appropriately.
Van Deven doesn't have much regard for Rose and her undercover "Dateline NBC"-style activism, but she acknowledges that they are effective.
"Though those methods raise many worthwhile ethical questions, few would have batted an eye had she not captured a handful of questionable encounters with Planned Parenthood staff," she writes, saying Rose's efforts are "damning" for her side of the abortion debate. . .
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MONCTON, May 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) Myah Walker has described the time from her daughters birth up until this past Saturday, May 23, as the best 93 days of my life. Faith Hope Walker, the baby about whom LifeSiteNews had previously reported, passed away peacefully this weekend in the arms of her mother, a 23 year-old student living in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Myah, who maintained a weblog of her daughters life, wrote on Saturday, She looked up at me and opened her beautiful eyes, and I realized what was happening. I told her to go with Jesus. I told her that I loved her and that it was ok, that I would meet her in Heaven.
Faith was born with a condition called anencephaly, in which a portion of the childs brain fails to fully develop. With the prevalence in the medical community of eugenic abortion, the great majority of such children are not allowed to live until birth.
Myah has said that she was pressured by hospital staff to have Faith killed before birth via abortion. Doctors told her that Faith was alive only because "she was attached" to her mother and that even if she survived to birth, she would be neither able to hear nor see.
Myah, a believing Christian, was told by doctors that she could continue the pregnancy without risk, "Or, I could choose to induce early to terminate the pregnancy."
She wrote, For some reason I had to give the doctors my decision over and over again, which was frustrating. One doctor asked, 'Can I ask why you want to continue this pregnancy?' I guess some people are baffled by unconditional love.
When the baby was born, she was apparently able to both see and hear and suffered no health problems other than anencephaly. No medication was required in Faiths daily care and she was able to breastfeed, although she also received nutrition through a tube. . .