by LauraLoo

Warning: Content not suitable for younger children.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss of Revive Our Hearts aired a four-part interview entitled The Story of Angie.  Full transcripts are also available in the links below.

Part 1  – No Place for a Child

Angie’s story is sobering and heavy at times, but it proclaims God and His ability to move in any situation and to provide healing and grace.

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For many men, a new baby is a terrifying prospect. It means a lot of responsibility. After all, a new life is completely dependent on them. It’s scary for women, too, but we have nine months to get used to it as we bond with the baby inside us. Could this have played into his decision to end it? We may never know.

In many ways, that just seems so cruel.

~ Sasha Brown-Worsham commenting on the report of a man who killed himself hours after the birth of his baby, The Stir, August 13

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

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• American Life League’s Judie Brown says the silence of the Catholic Church on social issues, especially abortion, has led to a worldly state of mind among those who consider themselves Catholic:
  

  … [T]he results of a recent Quinnipiac poll… show[ed] that 54 percent of Catholics believe that abortion should be legal in all or at least most cases, while 59 percent of born-again Christians oppose at least some abortion.

  As Catholics have gone the way of contraception, so too have they followed the status quo on abortion. This might be shocking to some, but when we realize how little has been said about contraception and abortion from the pulpit in the past 50 years, we come to understand why Catholics are no different in their views on sexual morality than the average population of this nation.

• Live Action joins Georgia Right to Life in praising Gov. Nathan Deal for working with the Department of Community Health to exempt abortion coverage from state employees’ healthcare packages, relieving taxpayers from subsidizing abortions. GA RTL encourages legislators to continue to work to pass this legislatively so future administrations cannot undo this. Live Action urges readers to “check with your state legislators to find out if your state is using your taxpayer funds to pay for other people’s abortions.”
• Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest asks “When will abortion come with a warning label?”:
  

  Numerous, well-documented studies in peer-reviewed medical journals demonstrate that abortion poses significant medical risks for women. At every turn, the abortion industry fights to remain unregulated, unmonitored and secretive, lobbying to keep women ignorant about what will happen to their own bodies and to keep responsible adults away from vulnerable girls being pressured to buy an abortion.

• A Culture of Life shares the testimony of Christina Martin, originally posted at Live Action. Christina’s mother decided not to abort her, and later, her story was used to save the life of another child.
• Expose Abortion shares jarring testimony from an abortion witness:
  

  I was helping the doctor hold the baby [to keep it in the birth canal]. The other nurse got the instrument [a large syringe with a large needle], handed it to the doctor, and he inserted it into the base of the skull. Then he pulled the baby out. Its little hands were grasping. When the baby quit grasping, then he delivered it. He used the syringe to suction out the brains.

• Culture Campaign reports that Orlando, Florida abortionist James Scott Pendergraft, who has lost his license five times and says he “loves what he does and is proficient at it,” has reopened a clinic with borrowed equipment after a $36M malpractice lawsuit over a botched abortion. The clinic performs “fast” abortions 24/7 — no waiting,” and even coupons for those willing to come on Sunday.

  Local station Eyewitness News 9 spotlights this well:

[Deal photo via Live Action/NRTL News]

by Hans Johnson

Fasotec, a medical engineering firm based in Tokyo, Japan provides expectant parents 3D plastic models of the face of their baby taken from 3D ultrasounds. The process costs about $500.

Here is a CNN report:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/F7s5XY9yBgI[/youtube]

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At the end of the show, viewers are directed to the East Los High website. Planned Parenthood ads plaster the site, along with “resource links” for abortion and birth control…. The show’s Facebook page announces one of the high school girls “doesn’t regret having had sex, she just wished she would have used birth control.”

“You would think, since this show is targeting this age group, they would want to encourage that, not play into the stereotype,” she said.

~ Elise Grafe, reporting on the exclusive Hulu teen drama, East Los High, which was “made in cooperation with leading sexual and reproductive health organizations such as California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, California Family Health Council, Planned Parenthood, and others,” World, August 12

by LauraLoo

41 years ago, Nurse Wanda‘s dad walked out on her family shortly after she was born.  But amazingly, God joined their two paths when her dad became terminally ill and was admitted to the hospital where she works:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUk9jDOpjvc[/youtube]

What a shining example of forgiveness and grace!

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The normally unflappable star uncharacteristically snapped at a reporter this week who not so innocently asked ‘So, what does family mean to you?’ A round about way, Jen rightly felt, of asking ‘So, do you want children?’

‘I surround myself with my amazing work, my amazing friends, my amazing partner, my beautiful dogs, and I tune that noise out. I mean, I think it’s very sweet that people want everything for me,’ she explained, noting that she’s ‘so content and happy’ as is.

~ Ashley Pearson defending actress Jennifer Aniston’s reaction to those who inquire about her lack of children, Daily Mail, Auguest 11

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Then Jesus took the children in his arms, put his hands on them, and blessed them.

~ Mark 10:16, New Century Version