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Obama's Embryonic Stem Cell Rules Turn Americans Into `Cannibals'
"The United States once stood for equality and justice, based on the dignity of the human person – the basic building block of our society. Yet, today our country has taken another huge step backward, as it embraces ever-worsening dehumanization. The Obama administration's new embryonic stem cell research guidelines mark a new low in our government's tax-funded and imposed culture of death. The nation's most vulnerable human beings are now being torn apart for research and treated as leftover table scraps that need to be recycled. The new rules confirm, in black and white, that human beings created in the laboratory by in vitro fertilization, are now considered mere products that, if `no longer needed,' `left over' or destined to be `thrown away,' can also be destroyed in a laboratory."
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Appropriations Bill Could `Eliminate DC Funding Ban for Abortion'
The federal appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2010 includes several items that would end funding bans affecting several different issues in Washington, DC. If passed in its current form, the bill would eliminate a prohibition on using DC-raised monies for abortion, would end a ban that prohibits the use of federal funds for registration of domestic partners in the District, and would end a federal funding ban on needle exchange programs in DC. Another provision would allow DC to conduct a referendum on the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
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Obama, Democratic Congressional Leaders Push "Health Care Reform" Bills That Mandate Abortion Funding and Nullify State Abortion Laws
Lots and lots and lots going on today, so let me get right to it. Let me first thank all who wrote about yesterday's TN&V, the topic of which was pro-life Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
The numerous hit-jobs needed a response, and I tried my best. If you have a chance, go to www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24606.html. It is the finest rebuttal of the venomous nonsense spewed out against Palin that I've read. (And I've read a lot of 'em!)
I've attached a link to the latest from NRLC concerning the attempt by pro-abortion President Obama and the equally pro-abortion Democratic leadership in the House and Senate "to smuggle into federal law sweeping expansions of access to abortion on demand, including federal funding of abortion, through 'health care reform' legislation.'"
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Media Utter Inability to Report Assisted Suicide Stories Accurately
The media everywhere can't–or won't–report assisted suicide-related stories accurately. Example: Most stories still report that Jack Kevorkian assisted the suicides of the terminally ill when 70 percent or so of his victims were not terminally ill and five had no illnesses upon their autopsies.
The same thing happens in Australia. In August 2001, I traveled to Australia to bust Philip Nitschke for arguing that "troubled teens" should have access to assisted suicide. It created a national media firestorm with television reporters chasing me down for interviews at restaurants. At first, he admitted it: After all, he had said that explicitly in an interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez over at NRO. Then, he turned on a dime and denied it: Rather than point out his different stories, the media simply pretended his lie settled the matter despite the evidence to the contrary in black and white.
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Pro-Life Ireland Unites Against Threat of Abortion from London, UN and EU
An organizer of a massive pro-life rally in Dublin says she and the other key figures were "jubilant" at the turn-out of seven thousand people on Saturday. Bernadette Smyth, Director of Belfast's Precious Life, also told LifeSiteNews.com that pro-life leaders in Ireland are especially encouraged by a growing cooperation between North and South in the pro-life movement in Ireland.
A major breakthrough of the pro-life campaigns in all of Ireland, she said, has been the growing awareness that if legalized abortion is forced into Northern Ireland, it will be effectively made available in the Republic of Ireland as well.
The All-Ireland Rally for Life was organized by a cross-border coalition of pro-life groups such as Youth Defence, the Life Institute, and Precious Life.
Smyth told LSN, "If abortion becomes legal in the north, it becomes legal in the south. It's only a car journey across the border. Irish children will die regardless of whether it is in the north or the south."
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Woman Charged For Using Abortion Pill
A young woman charged with procuring her own miscarriage will face a committal hearing alongside her boyfriend in September. Tegan Simone Leach, 19, of Cairns, became the first woman to be charged with the offence in half a century after using a smuggled pill to abort her foetus. Her boyfriend, Sergie Brennan, 21, is charged with attempting to procure and supply drugs to procuring an abortion. Pro-choice advocates have blasted the decision to charge the couple, saying it's an unprecedented breach of the rights of women.
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