by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The mother of a newborn child found in a sewer pipe in China allegedly alerted her landlord to the child’s presence. She claims she tried to catch the child after delivering him but he slipped into the pipe:
  

  The state-run, Hangzhou-based newspaper Dushikuaibao said police became suspicious when they found baby toys and blood-tained toilet paper in the 22-year-old woman’s rented room, in the building where Saturday’s rescue occurred in eastern China.

  The woman, whose name was not revealed in state media reports, confessed to police when they asked her to undergo a medical checkup.

  The woman told police she could not afford an abortion and secretly delivered the child Saturday afternoon in the toilet. She said she tried to catch the baby but he slipped into the sewer line and that she alerted her landlord of the trapped baby after she could not pull the child out, the state-run, Jinhua-based Zhezhong News said.

• Kermit Gosnell will plead guilty to the federal drug charges to which he originally pleaded not guilty:
  

  Gosnell, 72 – who was sentenced this month to three life terms for murdering three born-alive babies during illegal late-term abortions – was due to stand trial in federal court for the narcotics-related charges after pleading not guilty last year.

  A change-of-plea notice was filed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office yesterday. Gosnell is scheduled to formally enter the new plea June 6 in front of U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe.

• Some of Gosnell’s former employees, including his wife, will be sentenced this week:
  

  Also scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday is Gosnell’s wife, Pearl [pictured left], 51, who has spent two years on house arrest and could be sent to prison for racketeering and performing an illegal abortion. She feels she’s left “holding the bag” after her husband shamed the family, turned down a plea deal that would have kept her out of prison, and refused to speak at his trial, her lawyer said Tuesday.

• Algerian abortionist Khelifa Hanouti has been found guilty of child trafficking:
  

  An Algerian doctor has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for abducting children born to single mothers and selling them in France for adoption….

  The case came to light in 2009 after a woman died during an abortion at an illegal clinic belonging to Hanouti.

• Speaking of abortionists who illegally prescribe drugs, a late-term abortionist in Australia named Mark Schulberg has been struck off the medical register for a year after prescribing copious amounts of pain killers:
  

  Between 2000 and 2009, the Croydon-based doctor prescribed multiple patients with more than 25,000 Xanax tablets and 9000 Valium among other addictive drugs.

  In her judgment, senior member Noreen Megay said his conduct represented the “most serious and grave lapse” of professional standards. “His conduct was consistent with poor practice, it endangered the patients, it continued over a number of years and we viewed the pattern of prescribing as reckless,” she wrote.

[Photo via examiner.com]

by LauraLoo

A Texas woman was free on bail Wednesday, despite charges that she offered up her 3-year-old son for adoption on Craigslist to ease her anxiety.

Stephanie Christine Redus was freed Tuesday after she posted $1,000 bond on a state charge of advertising the placement of a child, a misdemeanor. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Houston next week.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidgGjsee34[/youtube]

According to court records… she is pregnant again.

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It happened like a movie! It was very hectic and fast but very calm and happy….

Amy [the mother] was like, “We need a blanket for the baby.” Joe [the father] and I were just looking at each other wild-eyed. It was a joyous thing.

~ Miami-based birth photographer Emily Robinson describing the experience of taking pictures of her client, Amy Beth Cavaretta, giving birth just outside the Boca Raton hospital in a wheelchair, HuffPost Miami, May 25

[Photo (click to enlarge) via HuffPo]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The New York Times reveals the Archdiocese of New York already pays for a health care plan which covers abortion for some of its union employees:
  

  The archdiocese agreed to cover its own health workers long before Cardinal Dolan became archbishop of New York, and even today insists that it has no choice. As a result, about 3,000 full-time workers at ArchCare, also known as the Catholic Health Care System, receive coverage for contraception and voluntary pregnancy termination through their membership in 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a powerful health care workers union, according to Dave Bates, a spokesman for the union.

• The Supreme Court declined to hear the state of Indiana’s appeal regarding their efforts to defund Planned Parenthood:
  

  While federal law blocks the use of government funds to perform most abortions (with exceptions for rape, incest and woman’s health), the Indiana ban went further by denying Medicaid funds for other purposes as well. In order to receive Medicaid funds, providers would have to create separate entities for their abortion services. Hospitals were excluded from the law.

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago ruled that the ban on Medicaid funds was unwarranted because it was not related to Planned Parenthood’s ability to perform medical services. But it upheld a ban on federal block grant funds. The high court will let both rulings stand.

• An off-duty police officer who was working at an Indiana Planned Parenthood (pictured left; click to enlarge) was allegedly attacked by a truck driver and ended up shooting the truck driver. The incident had nothing to do with abortion but resulted in the truck driver receiving two tickets:
  

  On Monday, eight-year veteran Merrillville Police Officer Curtis Minchuk was in uniform but off-duty working a security detail for Planned Parenthood, where [Craig Leonard] Strand had parked his semitrailer-tractor truck for hours without permission and against Merrillville ordinance, police said.

  When he returned to find two tickets, Strand became outraged and eventually began to attack Minchuk in the parking lot, beating him and fighting for his weapon, police said. Minchuk was able to regain control of his gun and shot Strand in the abdomen.

  Minchuk has been in the news before. Merrillville settled a lawsuit after a Minchuk and fellow officer allegedly used excessive force against a security guard.

[Photo via NBCChicago.com]

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

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life discusses an analysis on abortion’s effect on women, released at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, utilizing data from several countries:
  

  Documented complications include hemorrhage, infection, cervical damage, uterine perforation, pelvic disease and retained fetal or placental tissue. Large record-based studies from Finland, Denmark and the United States found that maternal mortality rates were significantly higher after abortion compared to childbirth.

  Long-term risks of abortion, including subsequent preterm birth, infertility, cancer, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and placenta previa, can substantially impede future reproductive success. In addition, abortion is associated with increased risk of negative psycho-social consequences. For example, a 2011 meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found an 81 percent increased risk of mental health problems. Anxiety, depression, alcohol and drug use and suicidal behaviors have been found to increase following abortion, along with damage to key relationships.

• The FRC Blog condemns the Obama administration’s refusal to charge Major Nidal Hasan (who shot 30 people at Fort Hood, Texas – killing 14 – while shouting “Allahu Akbar”) with a violation of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act for the murder of victim Francheska Velez’s (pictured left) preborn child:
  

  She cried out “My baby! My baby!” but Hasan killed her and her unborn child anyway. The Obama administration has elected not to charge Hasan with violation of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, even though the law was passed explicitly to cover such instances.

• Kansans for Life reports that legislators listened to scientific and medical evidence before passing the state’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in 2011, including the information that “as revealed in scientific studies developed over the past three decades… unborn children are ‘wired’ to feel pain MORE intensely than any child or adult ever can” and that “the highest density of pain receptors per square inch of skin in human development occurs in utero from 20-30 weeks gestation.”

• American Life League’s Judie Brown harshly criticizes Cardinal Timothy Dolan for calling pro-abortion Governor Andrew Cuomo (despite the governor’s support for abortion and homosexuality) a “Catholic in good standing,” and for agreeing not to exclude him from receiving Holy Communion despite canon law. Brown asks readers to pray and fast for all Bishops.
• Americans United for Life condemns the recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals “[which] struck down Arizona’s prohibition of abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, despite the fact that the risks to maternal health dramatically increase with such later-term abortion procedures”:
  

  Substantial medical data — utilized even by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute — demonstrates that a woman seeking an abortion… at 20 weeks is 35 times more likely to die from abortion than she was in the first trimester. At 21 weeks or more, she is 91 times more likely to die from abortion than she was in the first trimester.

• At Live Action News, Lauren Enriquez has a piece discussing the tension in some Christian circles regarding pro-life activism.
• Fletcher Armstrong wants to bring a pro-life training academy to your town, teaching pro-lifers to “answer tough questions about abortion and [learn] the science and logic behind the pro-life position.”
• At The Leading Edge, Brendan Malone shares the promo video for a pro-life internship opportunity for New Zealanders. The deadline to apply is June 16:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/xDGUVbxON14[/youtube]

[Photos via nydailynews.com, examiner.com]

by Hans Johnson

Last Saturday residents of an apartment building in Jinhua, China heard a baby’s cries from a toilet on the fourth floor, and saw a tiny foot sticking up from the bottom of the bowl.

Firefighters removed the section of pipe holding the baby and took it to the hospital where doctors and rescue workers carefully dismantled it piece by piece.

The newborn boy, found with the placenta still attached, is in stable condition.

(WARNING! Video may upset some viewers.)

By way of CNN and CCTV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMu3m_DB5Hk

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[HT: TheBlaze]

In my opinion, this is not an abortion issue…. [Remee Lee] was poisoned. Her life was put in jeopardy. My life was put in jeopardy.

This is not abortion. This is murder.

~ Caylinn Young of Oklahoma (pictured above, right), victim of a forced miscarriage in her 2nd trimester of pregnancy at the hands of her husband, commenting on the similar case of Remee Lee (pictured above, left) of Florida, who was deceived into taking misoprostol by her boyfriend at seven weeks pregnant, as quoted by Tampa Bay Times, May 24

by LauraLoo

A 25-year-old mother went into labor as the monster Oklahoma twister approached last Monday.  She said, “I was five centimeters already and having contractions.”

Shayla Taylor was on the second floor of the Moore Medical Center and was not particularly worried about the tornado.  Or at least that was the case until the nurses charged in.

“I was kind of just like, ‘Oh crap,'” she said. “I pull out my phone and pull up the weather app. It says it’s coming down 4th Street in Moore, which is the street that the hospital is on.”

Shayla closed her eyes as the tornado hit Moore.  When she opened them again, the hospital room had all but disappeared.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYsQYLxMo0[/youtube]

A group of strangers helped husband Jerome get his wife to an ambulance, who by now was almost fully dilated.  Their son was delivered at an undamaged hospital a few miles away on Monday evening.

The Taylors named their son Braeden Immanuel. “Immanuel means God is with us. I had it picked out for months. And now I know why I did, because God was with us that day.”

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[HT: WMBI Chicago]