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Authorities have said they still have no suspects for the murder of a 23-year-old pregnant Amish woman found dead in her Pennsylvania home on Monday. Rebekah Byler was six months pregnant when she was shot dead in her Crawford County home, where her two children were found unharmed. Trooper Cynthia Schick said on Tuesday that an autopsy has provided some evidence, including her time of death. Schick did not offer additional details besides that Byler was the victim of homicide, after locals reported seeing a red Jeep at the property around the time of the killing. 'Keep being vigilant. This...

CV NEWS FEED // Pro-abortion activists are suing Ohio ballot officials for adopting the term “unborn child” in the new official language for a ballot measure that could make abortion a constitutional right in November. In a vote which occurred along party lines on Monday, the Ohio Ballot Board approved the official language for the ballot measure that proposes a constitutional amendment known as “Issue 1.” According to the ballot’s new language, if Issue 1 passes, it would grant a pregnant woman’s physician “the authority to determine on a case-by-case basis, whether an unborn child is viable,” and subsequently, whether...

The right-to-life movement’s sole aim is to ensure that the rights of all humans, unborn and born, are legally protected. Let’s start acting like it.In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to reconsider Roe v. Wade this fall, Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans United for Life and perhaps the most well-known pro-life attorney, proclaimed: The court desperately needs to decentralize the [abortion] issue and send it back to the states … pro-life leaders need to think long and hard about overturning federalism and taking the issue away from the states.Forsythe’s view is consistent with his recent...

A woman whose unborn baby was killed in a 2018 Pleasant Grove shooting has now been indicted in the death. Marshae Jones, a 27-year-old Birmingham woman, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on a manslaughter charge. She was taken into custody on Wednesday. Though Jones didn’t fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl, authorities say she initiated the dispute that led to the gunfire. Police initially charged 23-year-old Ebony Jemison with manslaughter, but the charge against Jemison was dismissed after the grand jury failed to indict her.

Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, March 16, 1975. | Warner Brothers Records/Public DomainThis month marks the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which made abortion-on-demand the law of the land. It also marks the 45th anniversary of what is arguably the most courageous act in pop culture history.In the early 1970s, the Texas-born duo of Jim Seals and Dash Crofts was at the peak of their popularity. After spending a few years in a band with Glen Campbell, among others, they began to perform under the name “Seals and Croft.”It took a few years, but eventually they hit it big....

The victim, DaRae Delgado, was also 15 at the time of the shooting in May 2014. At seven months pregnant, Delgado was shot four times when she answered the door at her home on Friendship Street, police said. Delgado survived the shooting but lost her baby after having emergency surgery. Taylor could face a potential sentence of 43 1/2 to 87 years in prison. Sentencing is set for Aug. 3.

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.

Yesterday, the U.S. Army convened an Article 32 hearing – the military’s version of a preliminary hearing – to investigate charges made against Major Nidal Hasan and stemming from the November 5, 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan currently faces one charge and 13 specifications of premeditated murder in violation of Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and one charge and 32 specifications of attempted murder in violation of Article 80 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Colonel James Pohl, an experienced Army judge advocate who, in January 2009, was appointed as the Chief...

Blue Springs police thwarted a plan Monday to cut a baby from the womb of a pregnant woman who was being held against her will at a Blue Springs motel. The pregnant woman, 18, was lured into leaving her Clinton, Mo., home on the pretense of purchasing used baby items at a reasonable price from two women she had met on the Internet. Instead, the women picked up the woman in their vehicle and sprayed her with pepper spray, according to Blue Springs Police Detective Troy Pharr. The women assaulted the teen while in route to the Interstate Inn at...

Ocean City, MD (LifeNews.com) -- Officials in Maryland are beginning an investigation today into the case of a mother who allegedly killed four of her own unborn children and placed their bodies around her house. FBI agents are working with local authorities to determine how the babies died and why 37-year-old Christy Freeman kept their dead bodies. They must first determine whether Freeman, who has four living children, is the mother of the four deceased unborn babies. She has already been charged in the death of a 26-week-old unborn child who was discovered under her kitchen sink last week. The...

Cincinnati, OH (LifeNews.com) -- An Ohio teenager and his friend who are accused of attacking his pregnant girlfriend and killing her unborn child have been apprehended by police. Alfonso Price, a 15 year-old, allegedly attacked Kerria Anderson, 18, because she refused to have an abortion of her baby who Price fathered. Price reportedly kicked Anderson, who was eight months pregnant, in the stomach and hit her causing her to miscarry the eight-month old unborn child. Police caught up with Price Friday morning and he was taken into custody and charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault. Later, Price's supposed accomplice,...

Colorado Pro-life Group Introduces Amendment Recognizing "Personhood" of Unborn Child By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, July 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life leaders in Colorado are laying the groundwork to challenge the heart of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision with a constitutional amendment that would completely outlaw abortion by recognizing the personhood of the unborn child. WorldNetDaily reports that the amendment proposed by Colorado Equal Rights would define "any human being from the moment of fertilization" as a "person" under article 2 of the state Constitution. The title given to the proposed human life amendment reads: "Shall there be...

A judge in New Zealand has ruled that pregnancy can be considered an "injury" in a case involving a failed attempt at sterilization. Lawyer magazine reported that Justice Mallon surveyed various features and stages of pregnancy, including nausea and vomiting, stretch marks, increased heart rate, tiredness and cramps, and said that "if these kinds of changes and resulting effects were suffered by some other impact upon the body ... there would be little difficulty in calling them harm".While pregnancy was a natural process, the physical impact of pregnancy was capable of being described as an injury, Justice Mallon found. So...

By Elizabeth O’Brien CANTON, Ohio, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canton policeman, 30-year old Bobby Cutts Jr., was charged today with the murder of his girlfriend, Jessie Davis. He was also separately charged with a second murder—that of Jessie’s unborn child. Davis was nearly nine months pregnant with a baby girl, due on July 3.Davis’ mother alerted the police after she found her daughter’s 2-year old son alone in a devastated apartment last weekend, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Policemen and thousands of friends participated in a week-long search for the young woman until her remains and those of...

Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act --  Bill # H.R. 6099The Pain of the Unborn ChildTelephone in support of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act!Send e-mail urging your U.S. representative to support the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act   The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act will be up in the House of Representatives tomorrow!  An unborn child has less legal protection from pain than commercial livestock. Congress will vote tomorrow to give unborn children some protection from pain.  The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (H.R. 6099) would require abortion providers to inform women seeking abortions 20 weeks after fertilization that medical...

by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor July 12, 2004 Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Two new studies are providing further argument that embryonic stem cell research is unnecessary because adult stem cells are not only more ethical, but more effective as well. Researchers at the Tufts-New England Medical Center reported last week that that unborn children may be giving their mothers the gift of life. As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers have uncovered evidence that fetal stem cells may be migrating from the developing unborn child to diseased tissue and organs in the mother's body. Evidence...

LONDON, August 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ancient quest of fashionable women to stave off the effects of age has always left them open to the claims of swindlers. The latest edition of the snake oil chronicles, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, has a more “scientific” cachet and involves injecting stem cells gleaned from aborted babies as well as umbilical cord blood directly into the skin. Scores of British women are opting for a procedure that stem cell experts are condemning as charlatanry. A private British clinic makes arrangements for well-to-do English women to travel to Rotterdam in the...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An infant's first cry may occur not in the delivery room, but in the womb, researchers have found. ADVERTISEMENT With the help of video-recorded ultrasound images, the investigators found that a group of third-trimester fetuses showed evidence of "crying behavior" in response to a low-decibel noise played on the mother's abdomen. Fetuses showed a "startle" response to the noise, along with deep inhalations and exhalations, an open mouth and a "quivering" chin -- all signs of crying. The behavior, seen in 11 fetuses, began as early as the 28th week of pregnancy. It was only...

Three Irish women are taking Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights over their country's laws on abortion. The Irish Family Planning Association is supporting the case of the women, who have all had abortions in the UK within the past year. The association estimates that 6,000 Irish women travel to the UK each year to have abortions. Under Irish law, abortion remains illegal unless the mother's life would be in real danger without it. The Irish Family Planning Association says it is campaigning to make abortion safe and legal in Ireland, and it will meet political leaders to...

WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents got a morale boost from the Bush administration Thursday when Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced that fetuses would henceforth be redesignated as "unborn children."