by Kelli
In this YouTube video, pro-life activist Rebecca Kiessling’s adopted son, Kyler, shares the circumstances surrounding his birth to a drug-addicted young woman. Kyler’s story is considered one of the “hard cases.” In the video, his friend Eogenio Ytuarte from Mexico translates his testimony into Spanish:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/lYnPt907Qtw[/youtube]
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by Carder
I said to myself… okay, then let’s go after the exceptions in the Hyde Amendment. I went to the Hill and made some appointments with several pro-life legislators. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM told me that they would NEVER try to repeal the exceptions in the Hyde Amendment. One of them actually told me that if he went after that, it would be an “election killer” for him. I had one female legislator tell me that closing any rape exceptions would be “unkind” to women who had been raped. Seriously?? Unkind? Unkind for who? It is certainly not unkind for these unborn babies. And it can’t be unkind for a woman who has conceived in rape to have equal rights and information as women who have not conceived in rape.
So that was it for me. I knew that we had to have clean bills go in and clean bills come out… because our politicians will NEVER allow rape exceptions to be closed. To be perfectly honest, they don’t want them closed.
~ Former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson, explaining the difficulties she experienced in attempting to convince legislators to remove rape exceptions included in so much pro-life legislation, Epic Pew, June 10
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
“Without the stay granted today, we would have been in the position of being fined for failing to comply with the mandate,” Father Pavone said. “But no matter what happens, we will not obey the mandate, nor will we pay fines to the government.”The stay will remain in effect while the Supreme Court considers the case.
by Kelli
YouTube features a viral video from a man who wanted to chronicle his wife’s pregnancy:
When I found out my wife was pregnant, I thought it would be a great opportunity to capture her growth via photography, but what I really started to notice was how things started to change around me.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/J9hBXvOoS5s[/youtube]
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by Carder
Well, I don’t know whether this is appropriate, but I just told Sister Carol I love her. On a big stage.
It is true, though, I do. She is just wonderful. Her dedication to doing God’s work here on Earth, her commitment to serving ‘the least of these,’ her steadiness, her strength, her steadfast voice have been an inspiration to me.
We would not have gotten the Affordable Care Act done had it not been for her. I want to thank the entire Catholic Health Association for the incredible work you do.
And it’s true, I just love nuns, generally. I’m just saying.
~ President Barack Obama praising Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Hospital Assocation, at the Catholic Health Association Conference, CNS News, June 10
by Hans Johnson
A young Congolese immigrant to Belgium was diagnosed with sickle-cell anemia, and when at age 13 a bone-marrow transplant was in order, another procedure was done. Too often chemotherapy can damage or destroy future fertility, so one of her ovaries was removed and frozen.
Now recovered a decade later, she asked for doctors to use the ovary to repair her fertility, so strands of the tissue were spliced on to the remaining non-functioning ovary. The “jump start” worked, and she is the first to give birth after having an ovary frozen in childhood:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/3Q-SPyUFuMA[/youtube]
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[HT: LauraLoo]
by Kelli
The email was signed by a NARAL supporter, Dana Weinstein, asking for donations to NARAL to fight HR 36, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks (5 months). She writes, “When I was more than 20 weeks pregnant, my doctor discovered our baby had horrifying severe fetal anomalies that could not have been discovered earlier in pregnancy.”
It’s strange enough to see NARAL using the term “baby” to describe the “products of conception” that the pro-abortion movement has worked so hard to dehumanize — to the point that the media now frequently refer to abandoned babies as “fetuses.”
But even stranger is what comes next. Weinstein writes, “If I’d carried our wanted and loved baby to term, she would have survived only for a short time, in a world of immense suffering. So we chose to end our baby’s pain.”
Again, the word “baby” — even “loved baby,” as if it were possible for this valueless being in the womb to be the proper object for human love. But even more shocking is the admission that children in the womb can feel pain.
The pro-abortion lobby has declared for years that fetuses cannot feel pain, or at least not until much later in pregnancy than 20 weeks. They’ve called it “junk science” to claim otherwise (despite the fact that perinatal surgeons routinely use anesthesia when operating on unborn children).
But now Dana Weinstein is insisting that she and her husband needed to abort their child to end its pain!…
I understand why NARAL is breaking message here. It would be a heartless, unsympathetic parent who would talk about their “fetus” being diagnosed with health problems. And sounds a lot better to talk about “ending” the pain that a baby is supposedly in right now, than killing the child to keep it from feeling pain later.
But NARAL doesn’t get to have it both ways.
~ Eric Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League, June 4
[HT: Life Site News; image via babyjordi.blogspot.com]
by Hans Johnson
Despite the frustration of many on the pro-life side, statistics show a decided and steady drop in the number of abortions since 2010 – a 12% average nationwide.
While pro-choice advocates will point to better access to birth control (while decrying its unavailability at the same time) as an explanation, they also focus on the two states that showed an increase in abortions. They say that women are fleeing to Louisiana and Michigan because of tighter restrictions in neighboring states. But New York has shown a 15.2% drop, and, as the AP reports:
Five of the six states with the biggest declines — Hawaii at 30 percent, New Mexico at 24 percent, Nevada and Rhode Island at 22 percent, Connecticut at 21 percent — have passed no recent laws to restrict abortion clinics or providers.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/UQ4RQ_dNxvU[/youtube]
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(Image from Operation Rescue)
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
