LIFE NEWS 05/13/2014

Pro-Lifers to Harry Reid: Quit Denying Vote on Late-Term Abortion Ban A mother in Australia who LifeNews previously profiled as preparing to give birth to conjoined twins — who share one body but have two faces — has finally given birth after refusing to have an abortion.
Renee Young and Simon Howie of Sydney said that a routine ultrasound found problems with their baby’s development and that the twins they were expecting were actually conjoined twins with a rare medi. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/pro-lifers-to-harry-reid-quit-denying-vote-on-late-term-abortion-ban/

Last Week She Was Considering Aborting Her Triplets, Then This HappenedSharon Lewis came to Heartbeat of Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic seeking information on abortion. She wanted to terminate the pregnancy due to her age. Sharon was 47 years old and thought she was going through the change of life but instead realized she was pregnant. We performed a pregnancy test and confirmed her pregnancy.
Sharon was distraught and confused. She had two other children, one 25 and the other one 14. How could she have a baby at this stage of her life? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/last-week-she-was-considering-aborting-her-triplets-then-this-happened/

She Had Eight Abortions, Is There Any Way God Could Forgive Her?When I met Tammi Morris for the first time, she helped me to understand something I’ve struggled with many times – why a woman would have multiple abortions.

Tammi had eight.

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/she-had-eight-abortions-is-there-any-way-god-could-forgive-her/
They Prepared for a Funeral When Doctors Said Their Baby Would Die, Then She Was Born HealthyNatalie Brown and Peter Gordon were told their baby would not survive and an ultrasound scan doctors performed suggested the unborn child had a terminal condition. They prepared themselves for her death and even began planning for a funeral, but then their child was born healthy.

They were overjoyed when baby Elsie was delivered full of life and she eventually left the hospital with a much less serious medical condition than initially thought. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/they-prepared-for-a-funeral-when-doctors-said-their-baby-would-die-then-she-was-born-healthy/

Warren Buffet Has Given $1.2 Billion to Pro-Abortion Groups, Would Fund 2.7 Million AbortionsThey say the key to successful investing is diversification. But Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” is a one-issue man — and that issue is abortion.
Through the foundation he financed with more than $3 billion of his own money, Buffett donated $1,230,585,161 to abortion groups worldwide from 2001 to 2012. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/warren-buffet-has-given-1-2-billion-to-pro-abortion-groups-would-fund-2-7-million-abortions/

Botched Abortion Put Woman in ICU for 8 Days, Clinic Just Tells 911 There’s an “Issue With the Procedure”Operation Rescue has obtained the 911 records related to an abortion-related medical emergency at LeRoy Carhart’s Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska on April 26, 2014. Those records show that a 37-year old female was suffering from abdominal pain after Carhart had an “issue with the procedure.”

The Carhart employee, who identified herself as “Becka,” placed the 911 call at 11:51 a.m. on April 26. She identified the name of the business as “Bellevue Health Clinic,” which is a sanitized alternate name for his Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/botched-abortion-put-woman-in-icu-for-8-days-clinic-just-tells-911-theres-an-issue-with-the-procedure/

Hundreds of Babies Born Alive After Failed Abortions in Canada, Left to DieWARNING: Graphic image…

In an “urgent appeal”, the ECLJ has called the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to investigate on children born alive after late abortion, and on methods of late abortion, especially in the United-Kingdom and Canada: in Canada, between 2000 and 2011, 622 babies born alive after an abortion were left to die, and 66 in the United Kingdom in 2005. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/hundreds-of-babies-born-alive-after-failed-abortions-in-canada-left-to-die/

“The Head is Out!” 8-year-Old Delivers Younger Brother With Help From 911 Normally a newborn baby is the star of the show but this time, Jazmine McEnaney, 8, may qualify for best supporting actress. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/the-head-is-out-8-year-old-delivers-younger-brother-with-help-from-911/

Abortionist Overdosed and Killed His Patients and Spread Venereal Diseases Among Them “The medical practice by which [Gosnell] carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths.” http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/abortionist-overdosed-and-killed-his-patients-and-spread-venereal-diseases-among-them/

Abortion Activist Uses Vehicle as Weapon Against Pro-Lifers, Jumps Curb to Run Over Them Pro-life protesters in Albuquerque say that a truck jumped the curb and ran over their pro-life signs. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/abortion-activist-uses-vehicle-as-weapon-against-pro-lifers-jumps-curb-to-run-over-them/

Tiny Premature Baby Born at Just Over One Pound Can Finally Drink Out of a Bottle We received a tremendous response recently when we wrote about Emily Cressey, a preemie born so young she “could legally have been aborted” in Great Britain. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/tiny-premature-baby-born-at-just-over-one-pound-can-finally-drink-out-of-a-bottle/

Why Should the Rapist Get Custody When a Raped Woman Rejects Abortion? When a woman who becomes pregnant after sexual assault bravely rejects an abortion and decides to keep her baby, why should the rapist get even partial custody in such a situation? http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/why-should-the-rapist-get-custody-when-a-raped-woman-rejects-abortion/

Eleven Thousand Reasons Why Planned Parenthood Can’t Be Trusted For the past five years, every dawn has brought additional evidence of the fact that Planned Parenthood and its allies in the abortion industry cannot be trusted to tell the truth about the one thing they should know well – abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/eleven-thousand-reasons-why-planned-parenthood-cant-be-trusted/

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Movement to End Abortion Can Learn Much From Movement to Abolish the Death Penalty Yesterday, Slate published an article by Boer Deng and Dahlia Lithwick entitled Liberal Guilt: In the push to abolish the capital punishment, opponents of the death penalty have made it less safe. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/movement-to-end-abortion-can-learn-much-from-movement-to-abolish-the-death-penalty/

California Democrats Defeat Sex-Selection Abortion Ban on Party-Line Vote Sex-selection abortion in California—which has evolved into a cottage tourism industry for women wishing to hand-pick their baby’s gender—will remain a protected practice after the Assembly Health Committee snubbed a proposal on May 6 to end the barbaric trend. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/california-democrats-defeat-sex-selection-abortion-ban-on-party-line-vote/

Terry McAuliffe Pushes to Overturn Law That Has Closed Virginia Abortion Clinics Yesterday, Governor Terry McAuliffe held a press conference to announce his plans to try to undo the abortion center health and safety standards that have exposed more than 300 safety violations at Virginia’s abortion centers. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/terry-mcauliffe-pushes-to-overturn-law-that-has-closed-virginia-abortion-clinics/

Missouri Senate Passes 72-Hour Waiting Period Before an Abortion The Missouri Senate worked past the midnight hour overnight to win passage of a key pro-life bill which will undoubtedly save the lives of many unborn boys and girls. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/missouri-senate-passes-72-hour-waiting-period-before-an-abortion/

Pro-Life People Need to Vote in the European Parliament Elections Hot on the heels of the recent successful National Vigil For Life, the Pro Life Campaign is encouraging its supporters to use their vote wisely in Ireland’s upcoming Local and European elections. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/13/pro-life-people-need-to-vote-in-the-european-parliament-elections/