Religion or Science: What is the Basis for the Pro-Life View?
by Murray Vasser | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/30/13 7:10 PM Washington, DC (LiveActionFilms) — One of the most shocking conversations I have experienced occurred on a train. I was in the lounge car, watching the sun rise as we glided through the gritty precincts of Los Angeles. Sitting next to me was a young man, about my age, who was an atheist. We had become entangled in a debate on religion, and I was pressing him to concede the reality of objective moral values. “Surely,” I argued, “You would admit that the Holocaust was truly evil.” “Well,” he responded, “You…
Genetic Testing to Abort “Imperfect” Babies? Who are We to Judge?
by John Stonestreet | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/2/13 10:06 AM Imagine you and your spouse find out you’re expecting. Having experienced this moment a few times, I know there’s nothing quite like it. Your world changes, and within days, your child’s entire biography unfolds in your mind: her first steps, first words, kindergarten, little league, ballet, high school, college, and eventually a young adult who will make you insanely proud. It’s all so promising. But for thousands of parents every year, that’s when the “bad news” comes. You find out your child has been diagnosed in utero…
Abortion is Not the Answer to Stopping Maternal Mortality in Africa
by Jon Russell | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/26/13 4:52 PM Social media, office water-cooler chatter, and the mainstream media obsessed this week over the birth of a single child: the #RoyalBaby. Meanwhile, Steve Murigi took up his pen on CNN.com to remind the world of the hundreds of women and children who die daily during childbirth – and how easily these lives can be saved. Self-proclaimed advocates of “choice” and “women’s health” in the United States and other developed nations would probably assume the answer is more abortions. But, rather than mirror the American abortion business’ apparent obsession with plying their trade, this…
Ireland President Signs Bill to Legalize Abortions Despite Pro-Life Objection
by Steven Ertelt | Dublin, Ireland | LifeNews.com | 7/30/13 10:30 AM Although pro-life groups mounted an amazing campaign to attempt to defeat the bill and turned out tens of thousands of pro-life people at multiple rallies against it, the Irish Parliament approved the measure. Now, Ireland’s head of state, President Michael D. Higgins, signed the country’s first bill on abortion into law. Abortions would be allowed when the life of the mother is supposedly in danger from the pregnancy and in cases when pregnant women may commit suicide, even though studies show abortion increases suicide risk for women. Pro-life groups…
Abortion Survivor: My Mom Tried to Abort Me Three Times, God Protected Me
by Melissa Ohden | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/2/13 3:54 PM Here’s Beth’s story. Beth is a photographer, and I will be sharing more in upcoming months about a project she is working on that embraces the beauty of life. “I am 25 years old and a product of multiple failed abortion attempts. I was born in India to an unwed 15 year old who felt her only option was abortion. My birth mother went to abort me but was stopped due to running into an old friend of hers, who was also connected with my (adoptive) parents, which…
Parents of Seven Children Reject Abortion to Have Baby With Trisomy 18
Nancy Flanders | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/4/13 7:12 PM Bernadette and Philip Smith were the proud parents of seven children – Philip Jr., Delores, Soma, Titus, Isaac, Israel, and Eden – when they were blessed to learn they would soon welcome an eighth child. But by the fourth month of the pregnancy, during a routine ultrasound, doctors learned there was a problem with the baby. The Smiths were told that their child had Trisomy 18, or Edward’s syndrome. “They told me that she was fatal,” explains Bernadette, “and that she wasn’t going to make it.” Trisomy 18 is considered…
Doctor Sings Happy Birthday to Every Baby He Delivers
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/1/13 3:50 PM When he was in the White House President George W. Bush liked to say he wanted every child “welcomed into life and protected under law.” Dr. Carey D. Andrew-Jaja takes that to heart by welcoming every child he delivers with a song, “Happy Birthday.” “Andrew-Jaja, of Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC has delivered thousands and thousands of babies, but he welcomes each of them into the world, with a beautiful song,” the hospital says in an intro to a cute video it posted. “From “Happy Birthday,” to “It’s…
How a Son Learned From His Father to Defend Unborn Children
by John Stonestreet | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/23/13 12:01 PM Rebuilding a pro-life culture means more than opposing abortion. It also means caring for and defending the helpless at all stages. Fr. Thomas Vander Woude, pastor at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Gainesville, Virginia, has a special place in his heart for children born with Down syndrome. His recent parish campaign to save one such life grabbed headlines. But to understand this story, and why these children are so special to Fr. Vander Woude, you need to know another story. This one blew me away. Earlier this month,…
Planned Parenthood Was Behind Push for Ireland Bill Legalizing Abortions
by Pat Buckley | Dublin, Ireland | LifeNews.com | 7/25/13 1:58 PM The Irish Government has passed all stages of the so called “Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill 2013” which will now be sent to the President Michael D Higgins for signature. The passing of this pro-abortion legislation is to be deplored and we put the Irish Government on notice that the pro-life people of Ireland will work without ceasing to have this anti-life legislation overturned as soon as possible no matter what it takes, commencing with an immediate legal challenge to its constitutionality. The Parliamentary debates of both…
Planned Parenthood Continues Pushing Women Into Dangerous Abortion Drug
by Randy O’Bannon Ph.D. | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/24/13 6:56 PM Visit the website for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, and look for “surgical abortion” in the “Abortion” section of their “Health Services and Information” heading. You won’t find it. Oh, it’s not that they don’t do surgical abortions. They do, to the tune of tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands a year. (The remainder of their 330,000 abortions are chemical—e.g., RU-486—abortions.) But unless you are watching very carefully, you would miss that, like a lot of others in the abortion industry, PPFA uses the…
