by Kelli

… [T]he doctor immediately became suspicious of [Chalice] Zeitner’s previous claims of cancer as the woman showed no signs of the surgeries she claimed she so desperately needed just a year ago. Therefore, the OB called the doctor listed on the doctor’s note that Zeitner had given her the year before. Her fears were confirmed. Zeitner did not have cancer and was never treated by the doctor. In fact, the doctor said he had never seen Zeitner before.

More startling is the fact that in the days leading up to her arrest, Zeitner was in the works to become one woman’s surrogate. Angela Aduri claims that when she saw Zeitner’s photo on the news, she was taken aback as that was the woman who was supposed to have her embryo implanted in just two days.

~ The Inquisitr, reporting on an Arizona woman who faked cancer so the state would pay for her late-term abortion, May 13

[Photo via thetrialdiaries.com]

by Kelli

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote TODAY on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36), which would federally ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation – an important “next step” on the road to protection for all preborn children.

Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League explains why you should encourage your representative to vote “yes” on this important bill:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/7ATh7OufRwc[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Jill]

The photo, right, is a close-up of the nape of the neck of a 28-week old baby boy whose spinal cord was “snipped” to kill him by late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell after the baby survived his abortion.

Today marks the two-year anniversary Gosnell was convicted for first degree murder of three babies – of likely thousands killed at his Philadelphia clinic over the course of decades. Gosnell was also convicted for involuntary manslaughter in the agonized death of Karnamaya Mongar by anesthesia overdose during her 2nd-trimester abortion.

Today is also the day the U.S. House will vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which will ban abortions of babies after 20 weeks because it is known they feel excruciating pain when dismembered to death.

I will be present in the House Gallery to view this vote.

It was over the 20-week abortion ban that I was arrested on March 25, following first the decision by Republican House leadership to renege on a promised vote on January 22, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, and then to go silent for two months, after promising to quickly bring it back.

After all the angst, I will say this, however. The bill today is much stronger than it was on January 22, as I briefly explained last week.

There are several new born-alive protections, an issue near to my heart, as well as other important enhancements. Read bullet points on the revisions in this one-page document of bullet points.

I want to highlight a couple of the provisions.

One, that a second physician be present in the event a live birth is anticipated, is exactly what then-state Senator Barack Obama opposed in 2002, expressing “confidence” (pages 28-35) in the abortionist to properly provide medical care to the baby who just survived his or her first assassination attempt.

Another, what one of my friends on the Hill calls the ”call-the-cops-or-wear-the-cuffs” provision, makes it a federal crime if a hospital or clinic employee, or another doctor, doesn’t report an abortionist’s failure to provide medical care to abortion survivors.

Social Media Rally!

Floor action on the 20-week abortion ban is expected to begin between 4-7p EST, although watch tweets by Congressman Trent Franks (@RepTrentFranks) for fine-tuning on the time.

Meanwhile, a social media rally has been launched to set the narrative and counteract pro-abortion opposition. Hashtags are: 1) #theyfeelpain, 2) #HR36, and 3) #prolife.

1. RT and share @RepTrentFranks’ tweets.
2. Create your own tweets in defense and support of HR 36 (see www.paincapable.com or NRLC’s Facebook events page for tweet samples). The more tweets the merrier!
3. RT and/or Favorite other tweets from supporters of #HR36/#theyfeelpain.
4. Write your own social media post

Thanks in advance. This is an important bill. At least 18,000 babies a year will be saved when it is eventually signed into law, and Americans will be further educated in the meantime.

As SBA List’s Marjorie Dannenfelser writes at Red State, there is no difference between the murders that Gosnell committed and late-term abortions than a few inches.

by Carder

Pope Francis will send an army of globe-trotting priests — his “missionaries of mercy” — to absolve women who’ve had abortions, in the latest Vatican bid to catch up with modern times.

The effort, which includes reaching out to doctors and nurses who’ve performed abortions, will commence in the Holy Year of Mercy, which Francis has declared will be celebrated between Dec. 8, 2015, and Nov. 20, 2016.

~ The New York Post, May 8

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

• Secular Pro-Life responds to Amnesty International’s recommendation that a 10-year-old rape victim in Paraguay should be made to undergo an abortion at 22 weeks – for her “safety”:
  

  An abortion on a pregnancy this advanced is performed by lethal injection to the unborn baby’s heart, after which the mother goes into labor to expel the corpse. That means this poor 10-year-old is going to experience labor no matter what happens….

  The only question is whether she will give birth to a live baby or a dead one. But Amnesty International doesn’t even consider the idea of allowing this baby to take a breath. They’re just using this case to push a “safe abortion” agenda. I’m afraid the days when Amnesty International actually stood up for human rights are long gone.

• Clinic Quotes posts remarks on abortion from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (pictured left), a pastor who was executed after joining an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler during WWII:
  

  Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

• At Live Action News, Rebecca Downs says now – not a year from now – is the time to find out where the Presidential candidates of both parties stand on the issue of life. She says, “With any hope, the right to life will be at the forefront of the campaigns, as candidates communicate to voters where they stand on this issue.”

• Wesley J. Smith calls out Princeton’s (unethical) bioethicist Dr. Peter Singer (pictured right) for “argu[ing] that it is ‘reasonable’ for the government or private insurance companies to deny treatment to infants with disabilities”:
  

  On Sunday April 16… Singer’s remarks were made on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” which is broadcast on New York’s AM 970 and Philadelphia 990 AM. In the interview, which was perhaps ironically conducted as part of a press tour Singer is currently on promoting his new book about charities, “The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically,” the professor advocated the shocking claim that health care laws like the Affordable Care Act should be more overt about rationing and that we should acknowledge the necessity of “intentionally ending the lives of severely disabled infants.”

  “Mr. Charity” then makes an uncharitable utilitarian assertion: Without offering any concrete measure on how quality of life could or should be determined, Singer admitted, “I don’t want my health insurance premiums to be higher so that infants who can experience zero quality of life can have expensive treatments.”

• A Culture of Life posts a powerful video of their recent event in which Dame Colleen Bayer, adoptive mom and director of Family Life International NZ expressed sentiments quite the opposite of Peter Singer’s; she encouraged “welcoming all people, especially unborn children, who have disabilities – including those whose lives may be very short”:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/WRWoOOUb_No[/youtube]

[Photos via lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com and rabble.ca]

by Hans Johnson

A man passing a trash dumpster in La Vista, Nebraska, thought he heard something, and looked in to find 11-month-old Angel Marinero, whimpering and covered in lint. He and his companion were aided by the other man’s pregnant girlfriend and her mother, who is a nurse.

But this did not turn out to be another case of a mother cruelly abandoning her newborn or infant, but a different twisted family tragedy, in which the 25-year-old brother Roberto Martinez-Marinero killed his mother Jesus Ismena Marinero, threw his little five-year-old brother Josue in the river, and left Angel in the dumpster. He and his girlfriend have been arrested.

This is the early report of the story from WOWT:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/o3o1VSMcnmM[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: TheBlaze]

by Kelli

Emily wrote, “Children deserve so much, and if you don’t start with a solid platform, how can you ever give them that? I’m sure I could have done fine, eventually….”

If I had chosen to abort my baby, I would have chosen death. Blood spilled to wash away my sins. Another’s life taken so I could have mine, so I could be free of the consequences of my choice to have sex. But the blood of a child can never fix what is broken. That sacrifice is a lie.

~ D.C. McAllister, referring to a Washington Post story in which a woman describes her reasons for aborting her child, The Federalist, May 11

by Kelli

In March, Colorado prosecutors were unable to bring murder charges against a defendant who had cut open a seven-months pregnant woman and removed her child. The reason was that the baby (who died) could not be proven to have lived after she was extracted, and Colorado had no murder statute that applied to unborn children.

The abortion movement is increasingly staking out a break-don’t-bend position on the issue, based on its deep ideological commitment to unrestricted and even government-funded abortion. But at some point, the activists and campaigners will have to reckon with science and curb their fanaticism. Otherwise, they will most likely break.

~ Washington Examiner, illustrating how the abortion industry fights against legal protections for even “wanted” preborn children, May 11

[Image via littlecatholicbubble.blogspot.com]