by Kelli You Ms. Patel, are an educated woman of considerable means. If you wished to terminate your pregnancy safely and legally, you could have done so. You planned a course of action and took matters into your own hands. ~ Judge Elizabeth Hurley of Indiana, upon sentencing Purvi Patel to 20 years for neglect […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• It’s funny how Reuters decided to investigate the absurd claim which was repeated non-stop that only 5 clinics in Texas would stay open after pro-life legislation passed. Why they didn’t investigate these claims while the legislation was being debated and making national news is anyone’s guess:
  

  Twenty-six states have laws that require abortion clinics to meet varying levels of hospital standards, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. Pennsylvania, Virginia and Missouri passed strict health and safety rules similar to Texas, it said.In those three states, however, most clinics were able to stay open after the laws passed, some by reallocating dollars to comply with building upgrades, according to abortion providers and state health department officials interviewed by Reuters….

  Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, which favors abortion rights but does research cited by both sides, said the new law will have an impact in Texas but maybe less than the worst fears.

  “Clinics will close,” she said. “But I can’t say we are going to go down to six.”

  Only one clinic has closed in Virginia since a new law was implemented there earlier this year, the state health department said. No clinics have closed in Missouri because of a tough law passed there in 2007, abortion provider Planned Parenthood of Kansas and mid-Missouri said.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• NBC New York: Police are investigating the report of an “apparent human fetus” in a trash bag:
  

  Police are investigating a report of an apparent human fetus found inside a trash bag on a Queens sidewalk Wednesday evening.

  A neighbor in East Elmhurst called 911 after spotting a black trash bag in front of her home at 99th Street and 31st Avenue.

  She told police she kicked the bag, then reached in and saw a jar containing what looked like a human fetus.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• As Jill reported, Johns Hopkins has agreed to fully recognize a pro-life student group. According to the Baltimore Sun, Voice for Life, a pro-life group at the university, will be fully recognized by the campus after a student judiciary unanimously overturned a decision by student legislators which would have prevented the group from doing certain activities:
  

  The Judiciary Committee called for its decision to be effective immediately. As a sanctioned club, Voice for Life will be listed in all university publications and websites, be able to raise money on campus and publicize its events, among other privileges. The decision to recognize the group as a club does not guarantee that Voice for Life will receive university funding, which is approved in a separate process.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A mother writes to Dear Abby, wondering why she has taken her daughter’s abortion so hard:
  

  Abby, I have taken this really hard. I have cried every day since she had the abortion, and I’m torturing myself thinking this is my fault because I went against everything I believe in when I supported her in her decision.

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

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• Big Blue Wave shines a light on the “French partial birth abortion” method, found in a document released by the French College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists:
  

  It consists of birthing a baby until the head and upper body is out and then committing feticide by injecting the umbilical cord with a lethal agent such as potassium chloride. This must occur before the first breath, so technically, it could even occur after complete expulsion.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Canada will start funding International Planned Parenthood again – this time only in countries where abortion is illegal: Planned Parenthood, which provides an array of sexual and reproductive health services, including abortions, abortion counselling and training for providers, is getting the federal funding after [International Co-operation Minister Bev] […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat A teenager may face feticide charges after crashing her car into a tree and killing a passenger’s unborn child at 36-weeks. She told authorities she had been drinking before the accident. Some local Albuquerque media outlets have covered the attack on abortion protester Bud Shaver by a post-abortive […]