Posted on 12/08/2008 4:42:42 AM PST by wagglebee
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Madoff fundraising scandal has had some beneficial fallout for the pro-life movement. Combined with the current economic downturn, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is feeling the pinch and has laid off 20 percent of its staff.
The nation's largest abortion business, which does 25 percent of all abortions in the United States annually, laid off about 30 people this week...
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The Elliot Institute has released a report that exposes America's forced abortion epidemic. Elliot Institute spokesperson Amy Solby tells OneNewsNow that one study found 64 percent of women who had abortions reported they felt pressured to abort by others. "Something like 80 percent of them said that they didn't get the counseling they needed to make a good decision, that often they were not given counseling at all, or that the counseling they had was inadequate," she explains...
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Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- George Tiller has been embroiled in a multi-year legal battle defending himself against charges from the Kansas attorney general that he is violating the state's late-term abortion laws. A pro-life group that has been monitoring him released the results of an undercover probe showing that's the case.
Operation Rescue released to LifeNews.com the results of an undercover investigation it recently conducted at Tiller's late-term abortion facility, Women's Health Care Services.
The results show what OR says is compelling evidence that Tiller's abortion business routinely underestimates the fetal age and viability of unborn children in order to comply with Kansas law...
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PORTSMOUTH, UK, January 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lisa Chamberlain, 25, pregnant with dicephalus twins who have separate heads but share a single body, is determined to allow her conjoined daughters a chance at life, despite doctors advice to kill the children in utero.
If the babies survive after birth, they will become the first ever living British dicephalus twins.
"Some people might look at me and say 'You're going to give birth to a freak' but I don't care because I feel blessed," Chamberlain told the UK Sun.
"To me, my twins are a gift from God and we're determined to give them their chance of life," she said, adding, "I've even give the twins names Layla and Kelsey because I think they're going to be little girls. I've been told that 75 per cent of Siamese twins are."
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(UPI) - Doctors in Oxford, England, say they kept a woman's body alive for two days after her death to allow her to give birth.
The Daily Mail said Monday despite the fact professional ice skater Jayne Soliman was declared brain dead last week, doctors were able to keep her body alive long enough to deliver her unborn child via Cesarean section.
David Phillips, a fellow skater and friend of Soliman's, said Soliman was deemed legally dead last Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by a tumor.
The 41-year-old woman had been 25 weeks pregnant at the time, so doctors used large doses of steroids to speed up the unborn child's lung development.
Phillips said within 48 hours of Soliman's official death, she became the proud mother of a nearly 2 pound, 2 ounce girl.
"She lived to have a baby girl -- that was the one thing she wanted in her life," Phillips told the Mail of last Friday's birth.
"This would have been the best day of her life," he added later.
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"But a 'total breakdown in communication' meant he was never fitted with a feeding tube. It was one of a number of horrific cases where the NHS fatally failed patients with learning difficulties, a health watchdog is expected to rule later this month. Tragedy: Martin Ryan died starving and 'in agony' in an NHS hospital after a 'communication breakdown' meant he was not fitted with a feeding tube..."
Italian doctors are making it clear that they understand that a doctor's role is to help people not kill them.
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ROME, January 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) An open letter by doctors, circulated before Christmas, asking that Eluana Englaro be spared death by dehydration has grown from 44 to over 700 signatures. The letter says that physicians have a professional and scientific duty to provide hydration and nutrition to a patient who is not capable of feeding himself.
The case of Eluana Englaro, the young woman in a state of diminished consciousness whose father has campaigned in the courts to have her food and hydration removed, continues to make headlines in Italy. In November, the Court of Cassation, Italys highest appeals court in Rome ruled that Eluana could be dehydrated to death.
The open letter, however, states that if the decree of the Court of Cassation allowing the killing of Eluana is applied that will be an attack against the basic rules of good medical practice as established in the declaration of Helsinki.
Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops Conference, carried comments today from Luigi Tesio, a signatory of the letter and professor of physical therapy at the university of Milan, underlining that the duty of the medical doctor is to take care of handicapped patients and not to let them die.
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA, Jan. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- In 36 years, 50,000,000 children have died as a result of legalized abortion in the United States. There is no visible monument capable of handling the scope of these deaths. Georgia Right to Life wants to correct this injustice by establishing an Abortion Holocaust Memorial Wall in cyberspace...
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- To hear pro-life advocates tell it, attorney and Obama apologist Douglas Kmiec sold out his alleged pro-life, Catholic views for backing the man who could become the most pro-abortion president in history. In a new editorial in Commonweal, Kmiec strikes back at the pro-life people who blasted him.
Kmiec claims the so-called "right-wing Catholic" bloggers were the ones leading the charge -- as if to say that they are out of touch with the pro-life views of the Catholic Church.
Never mind that mainstream pro-life groups of every stripe called Kmiec on the carpet for underplaying Barack Obama's radical pro-abortion views.
In the editorial, Kmiec acknowledges his crimes but continues to peddle a not guilty plea...
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London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A British hospital that allowed a Down syndrome patient to starve to death over a 26 day period has apologized but will not be held accountable. That's upsetting to one bioethicist who says he can't believe the hospital hasn't made any progress in investigating the case in four years.
As LifeNews.com reported, Martin Ryan died in a hospital in Kingston-upon-Thames and the medical center conducted an internal investigation following his death.
Ryan, who could not swallow after a stroke, was allowed to lie in a bed and starve to death without receiving any medical care.
Now, Kingston hospital has apologized and issued a statement telling Martin's parents that officials are very sorry he died.
Chief executive Kate Grimes told the London Daily Mail that the medical center had apologized personally to Mr Ryan's parents, and that the staff involved "very much regret" his death...
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CHICAGO, January 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This is the first of a short series of LifeSiteNews.com articles in which we ask major leaders in the pro-life movement their impressions of the current status of the movement, where we're headed and the best response to the Obama administration. The first to comment in the series is one of the most senior and well known figures in the movement - Joe Scheidler, the founder and President of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League.
Q. Where are we today in the pro-life movement facing the Obama Administration?
R. We're going into a crisis with this circus that's going on. But I'm thinking deep down this might be what we need to get rid of the whole goofy Democratic attitude.
Q. How do you think we got here?
R. These things are all planned out way ahead of time. There's no way Obama could be where he is if there weren't a lot of power behind and a lot of planning. He was totally unknown, working in a community, and suddenly he's president of the United States. How does that happen? There's a machine going and he just was picked. (Scheidler compared the situation to the movie 'The Candidate' starring Robert Redford) I feel that there almost has been a re-run.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- MSNBC anchor and commentator should have stuck to his original career giving out the latest sports news and information. The left-wing media man is coming under fire for bashing pro-life advocates and their opposition to Barack Obama picking a former lawyer for Michael Schiavo for a high post.
As LifeNews.com has reported, Obama selected Thomas Perrelli, who is best known as the right-to-kill lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo's husband pro-bono in his suit to euthanize his wife.
In the Obama administration, Perrelli will occupy the third highest post in the Justice Department.
Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council, conducted media interviews outlining how Perrelli's appointment as associate attorney general was "detrimental" to the pro-life movement.
In the media world, however, Perrelli seems to have at least one staunch ally -- Olbermann.
Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," highlighted McClusky's quote in a recent broadcast and named him "the worst person in the world" for criticizing Perrelli's nomination...
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HARRISBURG, PA, January 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Real Alternatives, the statewide program administrator for the award winning Pennsylvania Alternative to Abortion Services Program, has reported that in fiscal year 2007 -2008 a record 19,742 women were provided comprehensive counseling, mentoring, and support...
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MEXICO CITY, January 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leadership of Mexico's socialist Social Democratic Party (PSD) has issued a demand to Mexico City's Cardinal Archbishop Norberto Rivera that he and the Church stop opposing its initiatives to legalize abortion, homosexual "marriage" and euthanasia, or face legal action...
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Each year at this time, I predict the coming year's happenings in the field of bioethics. Such prognostications do not require a crystal ball. It is merely a matter of being informed about current controversies, sniffing the air to see which way the wind seems to be blowing, connecting some dots, and making educated guesses about how things will turn out.
Alas, the bioethical events of 2009 are all too easy to foresee. While the recent election results were not determined by bioethical issuesthe economic meltdown swept all other considerations asideit amounted to a cultural earthquake nonetheless because the people now in power have views that are inimical to the sanctity and equality of human life...
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