March 25, 2014

Abortion

142 Babies Saved From Abortion So Far During 40 Days for Life Campaign by Shawn Carney

Baby Girl With Hydrocephalus is Doing Great After Her Parents Rejected Abortion by Steven Ertelt

Pro-Life Students Won’t Back Down After Feminist Studies Professor Assaults Them by Jill Stanek

Woman Tells How Aerosmith Singer Steven Tyler Pressured Her to Have Late-Term Abortion by Steven Ertelt

Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals by Sarah Knapton – “The remains of more than 15,000 babies were incinerated as ‘clinical waste’ by hospitals in Britain with some used in ‘waste to energy’ plants.”

From the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (3/25/14): Last night a Channel 4 Dispatches program highlighted the disposal of human remains from aborted and miscarried babies in NHS hospitals.

Paul Tully, General Secretary of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), has commented to the media on the revelations in the programme. Here’s what he said:

“We welcome the efforts of those who have highlighted these appalling practices, but we insist that the answer is not as simple as having a new code of practice or better ways of treating babies’ remains. We must stop killing babies like these by abortion and then we will know how to respect the dead.

“The way we treat those who have died is important, yet parents who lose a baby by miscarriage or abortion are rarely consulted over the disposal of the baby’s remains.

“The reluctance to consult families in these situations is undoubtedly linked to our barbaric abortion policies, even if sometimes after late abortions everyone admits that the baby is a baby and tries at least to respect his or her remains.

“There are two issues at stake here. One is the feelings of the parents, and the other is the respect due to the dead – in this case a dead unborn child, killed by abortion or who has died as a result of spontaneous miscarriage.

“Some argue that because very early spontaneous miscarriage is not marked by social ceremony, and may be unrecognised by the mother herself, this indicates that the human embryo is not a person. This approach is used to argue for an arbitrary time before which the unborn are treated as non-persons.

“In fact the unborn has all the essential attributes of a person from conception, even though some characteristics take months or years to develop fully. If we feel differently about the unborn, it is simply because he or she is a stranger – someone we have not yet met or developed affection for.

“Until we reject the abortion culture and learn to honour all mothers – including expectant mothers and bereaved mothers – the sickening consequences of aborting over 500 babies every day will continue to resurface and unsettle us.”

The Symbol of a Lie by Kevin D. Williamson – “Wire-hanger abortions pre-Roe are pure myth.”

Who is Your Hero? You’ll Be Surprised Who These Children Say is Theirs by Christinia Martin

Adoption

Mother of 13, With 6 Adopted Children, Shares Her Story of Life and Love by Lauren Enriquez

Russia Bans Belgium From Adopting Kids Because They May be Euthanized by Alex Schadenberg

Romania: Largest-Ever Pro-Life March for Life Will Take Place in 40 Cities by Studenti pentru Viata

End-of-Life

Nine Years Ago My Sister Terri Schiavo Was Starved to Death, Our Health Care System is Worse Now by Bobby Schindler

Family Living

A father’s love … by Marcus Roberts

Children With Down Syndrome Tell Pregnant Mom Her Son With Down Syndrome Will be Happy by Katrina Trinko

An Open Letter on Confirmation by Adriane Hein

Why I Would Never Force my Kids to go to Church by Ruth Meyer

Fetal Development

New Smart-Phone “Appcessory” Allows Moms to Hear Unborn Child’s Heartbeat by Randy O’Bannon, Ph.D.

Worldview and Culture

Media Censors Story of Public School Censoring Pro-life Students’ Fetal Models by Ken Shepherd

Technology and Wisdom – Tech advancements make it too easy to forget age-old realities by Victor Davis Hanson

This and That

Ways to raise money for your mission trip (from Buckner International)