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Designer of Beijing Olympics Opening Faces $27M in Fines, Broke One-Child Policy
Family planning agents are investigating China’s most famous film director for reportedly having 7 children with 4 women. If guilty of breaking China’s laws, Zhang Yimou could face $27 million in fines. Zhang designed the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. His films, like Raise the Red Lantern, have won international acclaim. Reports of his [...]
20-Year-Old Man Kills, Sets on Fire 14-Year-Old Who Refused Abortion
A 20-year-old new York man killed and set on fire a 14-year-old girl who refused his demand to have an abortion. After killing her, the man took her naked body to the beach and set it on fire. But the teen wasn’t pregnant, the city’s medical examiner confirmed, leaving her shattered family members railing against [...]
New York: TV Campaign Takes on Andrew Cuomo’s Abortion Expansion Bill
New Yorkers for Life, the statewide coalition formed in opposition to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s late-term abortion expansion agenda, has launched an up to $250,000 campaign to counter the Governor’s abortion proposal. This morning, New Yorkers for Life released the cornerstone of this campaign: a thirty-second video ad entitled “Job Expansion.” The campaign also features a [...]
Hotel in Spain Bans Kids With Down Syndrome, They Would “Annoy” Guests
A hotel in Spain is coming under international criticism for banning children with Down Syndrome because they “might annoy other guests.” The appalling rate of babies with Down syndrome who are aborted is no secret. When parents receive a prenatal diagnosis, 9 times out of 10, they will choose to abort that child, simply because [...]
Senator: Investigate Doc Who Twists Off Babies’ Necks in Abortions
A U.S. senator from Texas says a recently-exposed abortion practitioner who is the second Kermit Gosnell and twists the heads off of babies he brutally kills in late-term abortions needs to become a subject of investigation. Senator Ted Cruz recently spoke on the Senate floor in support of Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) resolution to investigate [...]
Abortion Doc Who Kept Remains of 35 Aborted Babies Loses License
The Maryland Board of Physicians has permanently revoked the license of abortionist Nicola I. Riley in a scathing 24-page order issued May 6, 2013, that prohibits her from ever again applying for licensure or reinstatement of her license. “In view of the fraudulent and deceptive nature of Dr. Riley’s criminal conduct, her demonstrated lack of [...]
Lord Falconer Introduces Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide in UK
‘I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.’ So reads the Hippocratic Oath, which until recently used to be taken by all graduating doctors. Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC) was an ancient Greek physician of the [...]
Can we support stem cell research?
by Brian Clowes May 20, 2013 (HLI Worldwatch) - Much of the confusion over stem cell research involves misunderstanding of terms, so let’s begin with some definitions. Stem cells are immature cells that are undifferentiated (i.e., they have not yet “decided” what kind of cell to be). A stem cell divides…
IRS asked pro-life group about the content of its prayers
by Joe Carter Click "like" if you are PRO-LIFE! WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2013 (Acton Institute) - IRS agents appear to need a refresher course on First Amendment freedoms. While applying for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based pro-life group was asked by the agency to provide information about its members’…
Time Lapse Imaging of Embryos – IVF Improvement or Eugenics?
Various media outlets (including The Times (£), The Telegraph, BBC, The Independent and The Guardian) have published articles reporting on how fertility specialists from Nottingham have developed a radical technique that will ‘dramatically improve’ the chances of IVF couples having a baby. Show More Summary
Conservative Activists Plan National Protests at IRS Offices Tuesday
With the scandal concerning the IRS and its targeting of pro-life and conservative groups growing, national conservative activists are planning nationwide rallies Tuesday at IRS offices across the country. “On behalf of Tea Party, Patriot groups, 9/12, liberty activists, and the American people, we are calling for anyone and everyone to protest the IRS’ complete [...]
NARAL Opposes Bill Banning Abortions After 20 Weeks Nationwide
Just how extreme is the pro-abortion group NARAL? The organization is now on record opposing a new bill in Congress that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy because scientific evidence shows unborn babies feel pain by at least 20 weeks. Why does NARAL oppose a modest ban on late-term abortions? Its president Ilyse [...]
Most Children With Trisomy 18 are Aborted, Lilliana Defied the Odds
May 29, 2012, I wrote an article about Lilliana Dennis, a child who has a genetic anomaly known as Trisomy 18 or Edwards syndrome. Most children with Trisomy 18 are screened in the womb and not born, and if they are born, they are often denied medical treatment under an ideology that defines them as [...]
Man kills girlfriend and unborn baby, pleads guilty to two counts of second-degree murder
by Dave Andrusko PLACER, CA, May 20, 2013 (National Right to Life News) - In a plea bargain to avoid a trial on first-degree murder charges, Lee Martin Konnerth will be sentenced to 19 years, 8 months to life for shooting his pregnant girlfriend in the back, killing both Sarah Lynn Burr and the couple’s unborn…
Workers in facilities like Gosnell’s and Karpen’s ‘are starting to panic’: pro-life leader (video)
by Ben Johnson HOUSTON, May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More revelations like those made about Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen will soon come to light, because abortion workers are beginning to “panic” that participating in infanticide could land them in jail, according to a veteran pro-life activist.…
Paralyzed UK man petitioning for legalized euthanasia by lethal injection
by Hilary White LONDON, May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The widow of a disabled man is backing the attempt by another paralyzed man to overturn the law against direct euthanasia. Jane Nicklinson, the widow of Tony Nicklinson, and Paul Lamb, a 57-year-old man who is almost entirely paralyzed, are petitioning…
After Gosnell, Senator Ted Cruz and Mike Lee call for national hearings on late-term abortion
by Kirsten Andersen WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Mike Lee, R-UT, has introduced a Senate resolution demanding a review of public policies that he believes led to the illegal abortion practices of Kermit Gosnell and others. The resolution states: “Congress and States should gather…
Abortion Doc Who Twists Off Babies’ Heads Killed Woman in Failed Abortion
The similarities between convicted abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell and Houston-based abortion practitioner Douglas Karpen are striking. Not only does Karpen kill babies born alive following abortions in a similar procedure that more closely resembles infanticide than abortion, but Karpen also killed a patient in a botched abortion. Show More Summary
“We just didn’t have enough patients”: Chain of six northern California abortion centers closes
by Kirsten Andersen SACRAMENTO, CA, May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The last three abortion centers in a northern California chain that once boasted six closed this week, according to Wynette Sills, whose Sacramento 40 Day for Life group has been regularly praying in front of the facilities for years. Sills told…
Gosnell played Chopin on the piano as investigators raided his flea-infested house: detective
by John Jalsevac PHILADELPHIA, May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As investigators in haz-mat suits raided his flea-infested home in West Philadelphia searching for the bodies of babies he killed, abortionist Kermit Gosnell sat at the piano in the living room and calmly played Chopin. This may sound like a scene…
