Pro-life news brief 2-27-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- TIME provides more information on the teenage couple in Texas who sued to prevent the young woman’s parents from forcing her to have an abortion:
The baby is due Sept. 16. According to [the baby’s father] Evan, he and R.E.K. — they began dating last summer — knew right away they would have the baby. “We’ve always been against abortion,” says Evan, who wants to become a welder (R.E.K. wants to attend nursing school). “As soon as we found out she was pregnant, we knew we wanted to keep it.”… It remains to be seen just how involved the girl’s parents will be with their new grandchild. While Burnside and her husband, who is not Evan’s biological father, are being supportive, the girl’s parents may find it harder to play a role: days after the judge’s ruling, Evan, a high school sophomore, married his pregnant girlfriend, a junior, in what Burnside calls a “shotgun” wedding.
- Michael New shows how contrary to some cherry-picked polling data, abortion attitudes in 2012 remained largely the same.
- Governor Mike Beebe (pictured left), a Democrat, vetoed Arkansas’ 20-week fetal pain/abortion ban bill yesterday. It appears the legislature has more than enough votes to override his veto.
- The BBC reports on the research of French scientists who have discovered that unborn children can decipher speech as early as 3 months before birth:
The evidence comes from detailed brain scans of 12 infants born prematurely.At just 28 weeks’ gestation, the babies appeared to discriminate between different syllables like “ga” and “ba” as well as male and female voices.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the French team said it was unlikely the babies’ experience outside the womb would have affected their findings.
- A couple in Virginia have filed a $1.7 million lawsuit against Langley Air Force Base Hospital after the hospital allegedly misdiagnosed a healthy unborn child as a molar pregnancy and then aborted the child:
Heather Fergurson, 32, of Chesapeake, Va., filed the suit against the federal government this month, alleging hospital personnel performed a dilation and curettage procedure April 18, 2011, after medical staff misinterpreted ultrasound and other tests to conclude Fergurson had a molar pregnancy — a rare mass inside the uterus that can change into a rapidly spreading cancer — The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday.Fergurson and her husband, Army Sgt. Maj. Charles Fergurson, 56, have been unable to conceive again, the newspaper said.
[Image via thecitywire.com]

Re: Beebe’s veto — Once again, a Democrat’s devotion to the abortion industry trumps the will of the people.
Since Arkansas only has one free-standing abortion clinic, I wonder how much of our money Planned Parenthood contributed to support his election?
If the unborn are hearing words by the 6th month of pregnancy, that might give a clue as to why adoptees have special problems, In the last trimester of pregnancy, the unborn are forming auditory connections with those around them, especially the female carrying. When that connection is severed, the baby suffers a trauma.
Before undergoing any major medical procedure including elective abortion, get an independent second opinion.
I’m curious as to how the couple found out their baby had been “accidentally” aborted. Did the hospital ADMIT their mistake, and tell them that there WAS actually a baby in there, and not a tumor? Did she not have an ultrasound to confirm ?
Just curious, because the article didn’t really say.
An abortion instead of tumor removal! WOW!!!! Talk about a boo-boo! But there’s nothing funny about this situation — nothing at all. That must be horrible for this couple. To think a tumor is being removed and find out it was an abortion! These people must feel like they are inside a nightmare. This is medical incompetency to the maximum.