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ealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited claims that the MMR vaccine contains "a lot of aborted fetus debris." He made the remarks during a town hall event on Newsnation on Wednesday, saying this "debris" was the reason many religious groups don't get vaccinated. Why It Matters The claim comes amid a serious measles outbreak in Texas that has already claimed the lives of two children in a Mennonite community with low vaccination rates. Kennedy Jr., who has long faced criticism over his comments about vaccines, has vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule. Despite...

On March 21, Selena Maria Chandler-Scott was arrested and charged after having a miscarriage and dumping a 19-week-old fetus in the dumpster. Tift County District Attorney Patrick Warren said the decision to drop the criminal charges against Chandler-Scott came after a “comprehensive review” from both legal and medical experts who found no trauma or foul play to the fetal remains.

I am a follower of Jesus, a father, and also a Scot. I don’t claim to know Northern Ireland like most of the contributors on this blog, but I’ll bring what I can. What does following Jesus bring to the discussion of valuing mothers and their unborn children in Northern Ireland today? Let me tell you a story. One of the New Testament authors was a doctor. His name was Luke. It is no shock to discover then that he showed great interest in finding out many details of the pregnancy of Jesus’ mother Mary to record them in his...

The nation’s biggest abortion business has been shown once again to be selling the body parts of aborted babies. The latest expose’ of the Planned Parenthood abortion giant comes via never- before-seen documents released under a California public records request. They show Planned Parenthood selling 23-week-old aborted babies to a university for dubious research, Newly revealed documents show Planned Parenthood supplying UC San Diego with aborted babies parts from unborn babies killed in elective abortions , including viable babies up to 23 weeks. The agreements suggest the use of fetal material for research projects in exchange for potential intellectual property...

Vague Language and Deceptive Tactics Could Cost ‘Wanted’ and ‘Unwanted’ Preborn Children Even More than Americans Might Realize Last week, Operation Rescue reported on the detrimental effect that pro-abortion ballot initiatives in ten separate states will have on children targeted by abortion. Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, sounded the alarm, stating, “If these amendments pass, our nation will be struck by a large-scale slaughter of innocent babies like we’ve never seen before.” But there is a second, equally sinister aim of many of these ballot initiatives. When it comes to law-making, language is everything, and five of these ten...

First, we need to dispense with the silly use of the word “fetus.”No one talks about their fetus’s due date or asks when your fetus is due. Use of the word is an insidious, but successful use of propaganda to distance pro-abortionists from the reality of their position.A baby is only a fetus when someone wants to kill a baby and doesn’t want to take responsibility for their position. How badly has America’s moral compass been broken when people who want to keep unborn babies alive are smeared as the extremists instead of those who demand fealty to unfettered abortion....

On Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled to uphold the state’s law protecting preborn children from being killed by abortion after about six weeks gestation (four weeks post-fertilization), when a prenatal heartbeat can be detected. Previously, babies were legally allowed to be killed up to 22 weeks gestation in the state. A preborn child’s heart begins to beat by around day 22 after fertilization, even before it has formed four chambers. “As the heartbeat bill finally becomes law, we are deeply committed to supporting women in planning for motherhood, and promoting fatherhood and its importance in parenting,” said Gov. Kim...

An Ohio woman faces felony charges related to the abuse of a corpse after she suffered a miscarriage at home and attempted to flush the fetus down the toilet. Brittany Watts, 33, miscarried in the bathroom of her Warren home during the third week of September. It was her first pregnancy. Earlier that week, she was admitted twice to Mercy Health St. Joseph Warren Hospital when she experienced agonizing cramps and bleeding. However, she left both times after waiting hours to see a doctor. ‘I was distraught, heartbroken, empty - literally and figuratively,’ Watts told WCMH-TV. She did not tell...

Some leftists honestly acknowledge that a fetus is a human being but argue that the mother’s needs trump that baby’s life. Most, though, insist that the “miracle of birth” is just that—a miraculous moment when an inanimate, insensate lump of cells that has value only if the mother wants it magically converts into a human being, complete with rights. Science, however, again reveals that the real magic happens in the womb. This time, the magic is that babies are already learning language before they’re born. I’ve always known about the connection between a verbal mother and a child who learns...

Certain images have power that goes way beyond what a thousand words can convey. One example is an image tweeted on June first this year by LifeNews.com showing a smile on a baby that hasn’t been born yet next to a similar smile on the baby after birth. That makes expressions like “fetal tissue mass” as descriptors of in-utero children look like the sick jokes they are.Baby before birth. Baby after. pic.twitter.com/2ARhNjJOO6 — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) June 1, 2023Perhaps understanding the potential to undermine the logic of abortion, someone wrote to the so-called “fact-checking” website Snopes asking if it was genuine....

In his 67-page straight-talking opinion, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk stuck to the facts — something Americans desperately need to hear after decades of euphemistic discussions about abortion.“Unborn humans.” “Eugenics.” “Head, hands, and legs, with defined fingers and toes.” “Shame, regret, anxiety, depression, drug abuse, and suicidal thoughts.”Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s Friday decision freezing the FDA’s approval of the abortion-pill combination, mifepristone and misoprostol, included these phrases and more. And while the left is already attacking Kacsmaryk’s 67-page straight-talking opinion in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA by framing it as filled with anti-abortion rhetoric, the Trump appointee stuck to the facts...

A photo taken by the late Dr. Russell Sacco at the helm of the pro-life movement, showing the perfectly-formed feet of an aborted baby held between finger and thumb, proved that unborn babies are not mere “clumps of cells.” Half a century later, the photo is more important than ever. Oregon Right to Life (ORTL) was founded in 1970 to oppose the legalization of abortion in Oregon. Five years later, pro-life champion Sacco co-founded ORTL’s Education Foundation. The executive director of ORTL, Lois Anderson, 56, is a born and raised Oregonian and has been working at the organization since 1999....

A pregnant Florida woman charged with fatally shooting a mother of three in an Uber last year is arguing to be let out of jail because her unborn child hasn’t committed a crime. In an unusual legal argument, attorneys for Natalia Harrell, 24, filed a motion on behalf of her fetus, asserting that it shouldn’t be behind bars without being charged with an offense. “The State has placed the unborn child in such inherently dangerous environment by placing the unborn child in close proximity to violent criminal offenders,” the filing asserts. Harrell’s child, it argues, is receiving inadequate pre-natal care...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) mocked Christians for opposing abortion and ranted about how babies in the womb are not a life. “Oh… for people saying you’re harming a life, I believe this is life, well some religions don’t, so how about that!” AOC said mocking Christians. "Our Jewish brothers and sisters – they are able to have an abortion according to their faith, you know, there are so many faiths that do not have the same definition of life as fundamentalist Christians…it is theocratic! It’s authoritarian,” AOC said. VIDEO:

url=https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/new-york-times-apologizes-wordle-day-robert-spencer/&text=New York Times Apologizes for Wordle of the Day - Frontpagemag">The New York Times posted an apology one minute after midnight on Monday: “At New York Times Games,” the Paper of Record announced sonorously, “we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news.” Yes, you know how determined the Left is to avoid the politicization of everything, right? Wordle, the massively popular daily puzzle that has people guess a five-letter word every day, had crossed the line: Monday’s word (spoiler alert!) was “fetus,” and the Times felt...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the idea that a fetus that has the ability to move and react to pain is a human life that should be protected from abortion. "Virtually every state defines a brain death as death," Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said during oral arguments in a potential landmark abortion rights case Wednesday, as the state of Mississippi defended an abortion restriction law that directly challenges Roe v. Wade. "Yet, the literature is filled with episodes of people who are completely and utterly brain dead responding to stimuli," Sotomayor continued. "There's about 40 percent...

New emails uncovered by Judicial Watch’s FOIA request detail how FDA employees were working with buyers to get 'fresh' aborted baby organs for experiments.This article contains disturbing information about human dismembermentIn what should have been a national headline, the exposure of the U.S. government’s involvement in trafficking aborted baby bodies is now even more newsworthy following Friday’s announcement from the White House. At President Biden’s direction, the Department of Health and Human Services reversed the Trump administration’s policy protecting preborn Americans from the callous dehumanization of organ harvesting and further desecration of their bodies in research disguised as “science.” This...

A federal complaint filed against Stanford University on Tuesday includes disturbing details about how scientists are using aborted babies’ fingers in taxpayer-funded experiments. The complaint came from an animal rights group called the White Coat Waste Project, which aims to end taxpayer-funded experiments on animals, Fox News reports. It accused the university of failing to disclose the funding that it received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the research. “When NIH-funded white coats implant fingers and femurs from aborted human fetuses into young mice and keep their spending a secret, we call that a gross, gross misuse of...

Babies were aborted alive, placed in fridge to harvest cell lines used in some vaccines: researcherThese babies were literally placed into the fridge alive and then stored between one and 24 hours until they could be dismembered.'February 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Cell lines derived from aborted babies used in the production or testing of various vaccines, including a number of COVID vaccines, most likely came from babies who were aborted alive, and according to the general practice as outlined in medical literature, may have been placed in a fridge while still living where they awaited dismemberment before having their organs...

[Editor’s Note: AP auxiliary staff writer Dr. Stearsman holds an M.A. in Bioethics and Medical Humanities from the University of South Florida, as well as the Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Florida. He has taught courses in the University of South Florida College of Medicine and the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.] QUESTION: Can vaccines be used in good conscience if the vaccine was developed using tissue from aborted fetuses? ANSWER: In 2015 a group by the name of Center for Medical Progress set up a fake company called Biomax that infiltrated Planned Parenthood, exposing some...