National Education Association Under Fire for Letting Abortion Practitioner Speak

The National Education Association is under fire again for promoting abortion -- this time because it allowed late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller to have a speaking role at its building. The teacher's group allowed the pro-abortion Feminist Majority Foundation to host its young women's leadership conference. Tiller currently faces 19 criminal charges for illegal late abortions and a grand jury investigation into additional illegalities. At the event, members of Students for Life of America took video footage showing the abortion advocates giving Tiller a standing ovation during a slide show with pictures of babies who became victims of abortion.

Jill Stanek, a pro-life nurse whose expose of the practices at a Chicago-area hospital led to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, said she can't understand why the NEA would allow an event promoting abortion. "I'll never understand how the NEA could possibly support aborting its future paychecks," she said.

ACTION: Send your complaints to the National Education Association. Go to http://www.nea.org/aboutnea/contact.html for contact information.

Full story at LifeNews.com.

Twelve States Have Ultrasound Laws

South Dakota has become the twelfth state to implement an abortion-ultrasound law. These kinds of laws provide women with an opportunity to see an ultrasound of their unborn children -- a tool long useful in pregnancy centers to persuade women to keep their babies. The measures don't require women considering an abortion to see the ultrasound, but require the abortion practitioner to give mothers a chance to see one if they wish. Read the rest of the story here.

Comment: Seeing a baby in utero offers the mother the chance to see her child move and to hear, via a doppler, the sound of her baby's heart beating. Engaging these two senses, sight and sound, exposes the mother to the humanness of her child and debunks the myth that the fetus is just "tissue": TISSUE does not move or have a beating heart!

Abortions can lead to mental illness

Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counseled on the possible risk to their mental health. This overturns the consensus that has stood for decades that the risk to mental health of continuing with an unwanted pregnancy outweighs the risks of living with the possible regrets of having an abortion. Read the rest of the story here, here, and here.
Editor: The Royal College would be on a par with the American College of Ob/Gyns, which will be weighing in on whether ethics requires a doctor to perform or refer for an abortion.

Comment: Does this seem odd to anyone else? Society expects a woman who aborts to have the abortion procedure done and then to walk away from it as if nothing life-changing had occured, even though her child's life has just been ended. Yet, if a woman were to have given birth to the child and the child died after birth, society would be concerned about her "mental health", and if she did not grieve for that baby, she would be considered cold-hearted and uncaring.

Near Victim of Euthanasia Talking More

Haleigh Poutre nearly became a victim of euthanasia when doctors gave up hope on her after she entered a coma and state officials, who had custody, petitioned a court to let them take her life. Poutre showed unmistakable signs of consciousness just prior to her possible euthanasia, and now the young girl is talking more about what happened. Doctors declared Haleigh "brain dead" and in a permanent vegetative state, but that's when Poutre began responding. She began to interact with people and now, according to the Republican newspaper, is talking more. Read the story here.

An Evil Worse than Slavery

We have risen up from slavery to a point where we can hope and dream about holding the highest office in this land! Against all odds, some may say we have arrived! But have we…really? Or are we closing our eyes to the fact that more than 15 million black children have been slaughtered since 1973? While we look the other way -- smiling, slapping each other on the back -- proud of our accomplishments, abortion facilities are purposefully placed in inner city and minority neighborhoods, crushing the bodies of innocent black children. Read the story here.
The National Black Pro-Life Union is an organization founded to serve as a clearing house to coordinate the flow of communications among all African American pro-life organizations and individuals in order to better network and combine resources.

World's Shortest Mom Rejects Abortion

Stacey Herald isn't like any other typical mother. She's small in stature -- born with a condition known as osteogenesis-imperfecta -- but has the courage of an average-sized women several times her size. Herald stands just two-feet four and a half inches tall, or 28.5 inches total, and she recently rejected an abortion to give birth to a healthy 18-inch baby. Herald says she thinks she may have set a record for the world's shortest mother. Read the story here.

'Miracle' tot survives after dad fed abortion pill to mother

A mum told yesterday how her lover fed her abortion drugs to try to get rid of their baby. The woman - whose child survived despite being born three months early: "I will never forgive him for what he did." Now Gil Magira, 35, could face life in jail when he is sentenced today. He used his brother's credit cards on the internet to buy drugs used by medics for abortions and ground them into sandwiches and a yoghurt. The woman added: "Doctors told me the drugs are virtually 100 per cent effective when administered before seven weeks. I was 11 and a half weeks when he gave them to me and that's why the baby survived. If he'd found out about those pills a month earlier, my baby wouldn't be here."
Read the story here.
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MWC Director Quoted in Sun Post

Colleen was interviewed by the Sun Post newspaper for their Thursday, February 28th paper. Check out Different times, fewer domestic baby adoptions and Finding peace after adoption; local birth mothers group allows women to share adoption stories (both by Boa Lee)!

U.K. Artist Kills Herself After Aborting Twins

Sunday, February 24, 2008 Fox News

A British artist, expressing remorse and regret, hanged herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, London's Sunday Telegraph reported.

"I should never have had an abortion," Emma Beck wrote in a note she left. "I see now I would have been a good mum."

The note continued: "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened; now it is to late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no one else does."

Beck, 30, was found in her home on February 1 and pronounced dead the following day, her 31st birthday. She terminated the pregnancy after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend, who "reacted badly" to her pregnancy, the Telegraph reported.

Click here to read more on this story from the Sunday Telegraph.

Lauren Richardson Becomes Next Terri Schiavo as Parents Debate Euthanasia

by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
February 1, 2008

Dover, DE (LifeNews.com) -- A Delaware woman has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to subject her to euthanasia. Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl.

Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of the battle over Terri's life and death.

As in the Terri Schiavo case, physicians have been quick to label Lauren as having a persistent vegetative state -- something Terri's family called dehumanizing and medically inaccurate as patients have recovered from it.

Edith Towers, Lauren's mother, wants to remove her feeding tube and starve and dehydrate her to death in the same manner that Michael Schiavo subjected Terri. Read more: http://www.lifenews.com/bio2323.html

The Tribune-Democrat: Faith, Not 'Facts', Carries Woman Forward

by Dan Irwin
NEW CASTLE NEWS (NEW CASTLE, Pa.)

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Search the Internet, and there are several “80s” that come up in reference to Down syndrome. Eighty percent of babies with Down syndrome are born to women who are under age 35, the March of Dimes reports. With recent advancements in clinical treatment, as many as 80 percent of adults with Down syndrome reach age 55, and many live even longer, according to the National Down Syndrome Society.

However, the most prevalent “80” — appearing on multiple sites — is that in America, more than 80 percent of babies diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome are aborted.

Bobbie McIlwain, though, refused to go along with the crowd. Today, because of her resolve, she and her husband, Jeff, are the parents of healthy 17-month-old twin girls.

Read the rest of the story here.

Check out these Baptist Bulletin articles!

Check out these articles written for the current issue of the Baptist Bulletin, emphasizing the sanctity of human life:

Abortion Denied

Sharing Christ’s Compassion at PCCs

Pro-Life Ministries: A Bridge to the Church by Cyndy Snyder

Volunteer Extraordinaire about an extraordinary volunteer at the Flint CPC.