Wisconsin bill would allow fathers to sue late-term abortionists

Wisconsin Assembly Bill 237 would ban abortions after 20 weeks “postfertilization,” which doctors would measure as 22 weeks of pregnancy since pregnancies are usually measured from the woman’s last menstrual period. If the bill becomes law, doctors who perform an abortion after this time could be charged with a felony and fined up to $10,000, or face up to three and a half years in prison.

In addition to those penalties, the bill would allow the father to sue the doctor for damages, “including damages for personal injury and emotional and psychological distress,” if the doctor performs or attempts to perform an abortion after the 20-week limit. The man does not need to be married to the woman or even in a relationship with her to sue her doctor, as long as the pregnancy is not a result of sexual assault or incest. The bill also says the woman can sue.

~ Laura Bassett, describing a proposed WI bill that would allow expectant fathers to sue an abortionist for the emotional distress of a partner’s late-term abortion, Huffington Post, June 3

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The Reason for Euthanasia Word Engineering

The euthanasia movement has always tried to change the meanings and definitions of descriptive words and phrases as the honey that helps the hemlock go down. That is why assisted suicide–again accurate and descriptive–is called by movement propagandists ”death with dignity” or “aid in dying.”

We live in a time of feeling over thinking, and so such blatant word engineering tactics have an impact. The recent Gallup Poll shows a 20% increase in support for assisted suicide if it is described euphemistically as opposed to accurately described.

This is why the George Soros-funded Compassion and Choices pushes “aid in dying” so hard. It’s a game of hide the ball.

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Hawking: Suicide if I Become a Burden, Can’t Contribute

I have been warning that the high-profile normalization of assisted suicide–and the media celebrating those who kill themselves in the face of disease–is leading toward an ethic in which people kill themselves to not be a ”burden,” in essence, a moral duty to die.

And now the great physicist Stephen Hawking has joined the parade, saying he would commit assisted suicide if he was no longer contributing or felt like a burden.

By saying that being a burden or unable to contribute justifies suicide–the actual issue is rarely pain, which can significantly alleviated–Hawking abandons those who should be able to look to him as an inspiration for keeping on keeping on.

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Senator Graham to reintroduce Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in U.S. Senate!

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has announced that he will introduce the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the U.S. Senate the week of June 8, 2015.

This bill would extend general protection to unborn children nationwide beginning at 20 weeks fetal age, based on congressional recognition that by this point in development, if not earlier, the unborn child is capable of experiencing pain.The bill is based on model legislation developed by National Right to Life, already enacted in 11 states.  On May 13, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36) by a vote of 242-184.

It is easy for you to send email messages to your two U.S. senators, urging them to sign on as original Senate cosponsors of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.  Just use our "Take Action" link, enter your zip code, and you will be taken to a page that shows you the names of your two U.S. senators, along with a suggested message (you can modify the suggested message however you see fit).  Be sure that you enter your contact information in the places provided, so that your senators' offices will recognize that the communication comes from a constituent, and so that you can receive a reply from the senator(s).

For access to extensive documentation regarding the pain capacity of unborn children and related subjects, click here.

DEADLINE EXTENDED AGAIN on SB1564

Health Care Right of Conscience Act (SB1564)

We would like to thank all those who thus far have called and stopped the vote on this bill over and over again.

Without your support and effort we would not have successfully stopped the sponsor from calling the bill prior to the deadline of May 31st.  We won that battle, however the war is not over.  The deadline for SB1564 has again been extended, now until June 30th. This gives the pro-aborts more time to gather more votes to pass this dangerous legislation. However, it is also giving pro-lifers the time to take the votes back in the name of life.

We cannot stop. We need to continue to call our Representatives and urge them to vote NO on SB1564.

The House will be back in session Thursday June 4th so call now!

Here is more information on SB1564...

Sponsor: Senator Biss.

This bill undermines Healthcare Right of Conscience by requiring pro-life facilities to provide information that will help women obtain an abortion thus violating their morals or religious beliefs.

The bill is on the House floor for debate and vote. The deadline to call the bill for a vote has been extended to June 30th and we have time to stop it!

IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP THIS BILL.

Contact your Representative and urge him/her to vote NO on SB1564.

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Legislative Alert - DEADLINE EXTENDED AGAIN on SB1564

Health Care Right of Conscience Act - ACTION ALERT - DEADLINE EXTENDED AGAIN

SB1564

Sponsor: Senator Biss.

This bill now undermines Healthcare Right of Conscience by requiring pro-life facilities to refer pro-abort services to other facilities thus violating their morals or beliefs.

The bill is on the House floor for debate and vote.  The deadline to call the bill for a vote has been extended to June 30th giving this bill more of a chance to get the votes it needs to pass. We have time to stop it!  IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP THIS BILL.

Contact your Representative, urge them to vote NO on SB1564.

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Endorsement of Darin LaHood for the 18th Congressional District

The Illinois Federation for Right to Life Federal Political Action Committee (IFRL-PAC) and the Illinois Citizens for Life Federal Political Action Committee (ICL-PAC) announce their joint endorsement of Darin LaHood for the nomination as Republican candidate for the 18th Congressional District in the Special Primary Election to be held on July 7, 2015.

The protection of the lives of conceived yet unborn children of Illinois and the nation is the foundation upon which we build all other rights. If we do not restore and maintain protection of the Right to Life for the weakest and most helpless members of our society, we ourselves become endangered.

The Illinois Federation for Right to Life Federal PAC and the Illinois Citizens for Life Federal PAC are pleased to announce their endorsement of Darin LaHood as Republican Candidate for the 18th Congressional District. Not only has Mr. LaHood expressed a desire to protect unborn children but he has also indicated his support for those who are endangered at the end of life.

Dawn Behnke – IFRL – 217-544-9700
Ralph Rivera – ICL - 773-392-8680

On-Line Pharmacy Selling Strawberry, Chocolate, and Marijuana Flavored Abortion Pills

In the pharmaceutical industry, as soon as someone makes a widely selling drug, it usually isn’t long before there are lots of companies trying to figure out the formula and sell knockoff generics.

To gain a foothold in a highly competitive market, though, you’ve got to have some gimmick – lower prices, a memorable name, a good marketing programs, free delivery, etc. – to stand out and make a profit.

Cipla, a major pharmaceutical maker and exporter from India, thinks they’ve found a way to distinguish their MTP (the “MTP” stands for “medical termination of pregnancy") single pack kits – add popular flavors like strawberry, chocolate… and cannabis.

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Obama's Fake Genetic Engineering Caution

Given the eugenic possibilities, the foreseen and unforeseen consequences, and our lack of wisdom to recreate ourselves, this should be considered an “off limits” area of human endeavor.

But Big Biotech, government technocrats, and the new eugenicists never say no–although they usually mask their full speed ahead mentality–by opposing what can’t be now done–in order to gain acquiescence to do what now can, or soon may, be done.

Cloning is cloning is cloning. Therapeutic cloning is just a different use of the cloned embryo than reproductive cloning,  but the identical cloning technique is used in both. Moreover, TC is the essential step required to make RC feasible.

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Post-abortive father reveals his pain in Esquire article

Among pro-lifers, it is well-known that many women suffer emotionally after their abortions. A previous Live Action article about post-abortion women and suicide mentioned two studies that found that women who aborted had a six to seven times higher suicide rate than women who did not.

But men can also suffer after their partner’s abortions. Through the years, many post-abortion men have spoken out about their pain. In the magazine Esquire, a publication not known for pro-life biases, post-abortion father, Mark Baker, gave an eloquent and poignant testimony. Although the testimony was given years ago, the feelings it expresses are common among men who regret a past abortion.

Despite trying, he was unable to deny his baby’s humanity: “I don’t have a good rationalization for that either. I’m not one of those people who believes that it’s only potential life. I’ve come to believe more and more that the baby in the womb is just that – a human life. I wish I didn’t. I wish I could make myself believe differently, but I can’t. It would make it easier to deal with mentally. When you have the opposite view and you go through with the abortion anyway, well that’s worse than anything.”

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School allows GSA but decides pro-life club too controversial

Schools in North Dakota and Iowa rejected the clubs initially but changed their minds after intervention by the Thomas More Society. Now Angeleque Clark, a sophomore at West Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada, requested permission to establish the pro-life club at her school. Her request was rejected.

Attorney Jocelyn Floyd of the Thomas More Society is representing Clark in a her claim of discrimination by school administrators.

“She was rejected by the school [on the grounds that] the club is too controversial, it's not inclusive enough, there are far more people who know more about abortion than a sophomore in high school, and the public schools are different when it comes to First Amendment law,” Floyd explains.

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Family-Supported Suicide Risks Others

It used to be that families and mental health professionals were the last bastions helping despairing people (for whatever reasons) stay in life.

These days, even that bastion is crumbling. Psychiatrists in the Netherlands and Belgium euthanize patients, and a strong minority of USA mental health professionals support the concept of “rational suicide.”

Families also support their loved ones in self-killing. In Belgium, a joint euthanasia killing of an elderly couple was arranged by their own son because, well care giving would have been difficult.

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Embryonic stem cells sold on black market for plastic surgery

Eight people were found guilty in the City Court in Budapest, Hungary, of selling embryonic stem cells from aborted babies in the black market for use in creating cosmetics. The stem cells were used at a plastic surgery clinic where patients paid $25,000 per treatment.

Alliance Defending Freedom filed a brief in the case stating that European law stipulates that life begins at conception and the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that human embryos are not to be used for industrial or commercial purposes.

Sentences for the eight suspects varied based on the extent of their role in the scheme. In 2009, a Switzerland-based firm admitted using the aborted baby cells in skin-care products. The same was true for a San Francisco firm in 2012, and soda and food firms in the U.S. stopped using them for flavor testing.

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Health Care Right of Conscience Act - ACTION ALERT - DEADLINE EXTENDED

Health Care Right of Conscience Act 

ACTION ALERT - DEADLINE EXTENDED

SB1564

Sponsor: Senator Biss.

This bill has passed out of the Health Services Committee on May 13th

The bill now goes to the House floor for debate and vote.  The deadline to call the bill for a vote has been extended for another week giving this bill more of a chance to get the votes it needs to pass.  IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP THIS BILL.

Contact your Representative, urge them to vote NO on SB1564.

Click here to find your Representative's contact information.

This bill undermines Healthcare Right of Conscience by requiring pro-life facilities to refer pro-abort services to other facilities thus violating their morals or beliefs.

Contact your Representative, urge them to vote NO on SB1564.

Click here to find your Representative's contact information.

Gates gives $5M to create 'permanent contraception' drug

Back in October, the Gates Foundation gave $5 million in grant money for the Oregon doctor to come up with a nonsurgical form of “permanent contraception” — a large sum of money going to the pro-abortion population control cause that has raised red flags for many pro-life advocates.

“The news has drawn condemnation from the world’s largest pro-life organization, [which] said the Gates Foundation's obsessive focus on promoting contraception in the third world is based upon a faulty notion of what constitutes authentic ‘development,’ as well as highly suspect data about the actual desire for such contraception,” LifeSiteNews’ Lisa Bourne explained.

“It is difficult to determine what is more outrageous, the uncritical and fawning ‘news’ reporting on every new Gates Foundation sterilization development grant — even as coercive sterilization campaigns continue around the world — or the fact that the Gates Foundation continues to act as if every problem in the developing world can be solved by sterilizing women,” Human Life International Communications Director Stephen Phelan told LifeSiteNews.

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Judges shoot down Notre Dame's appeal on contraception mandate

A federal court has again denied the University of Notre Dame’s request for a preliminary injunction against federal mandates it says violate its religious freedom, though a trial can still go forward.

Circuit Judge Joel Flaum dissented from the Tuesday decision, saying he would have granted an injunction. He called the mandate is a substantial burden on the university’s rights and would turn Notre Dame into a “conduit for the provision of cost-free contraception.” The mandate would compel it to contract with insurance companies in a way that the university believes would make it “complicit in moral wrong.”

Notre Dame and other objecting organizations have said this form of the mandate still forces them to violate their religious convictions, which bar complicity in providing such coverage.  Refusal to comply with the mandate could result in heavy fines.

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Final Exit Network Convicted of Assisted Suicide

Final Exit Network the suicide pushers and “counselors,” has been convicted of assisting a suicide and interfering with a death scene in Minnesota.

 From the AP story:

"...information uncovered during a 2009 investigation in Georgia revealed that Dunn had joined Final Exit Network and that two other members — Jerry Dincin and Dr. Larry Egbert, the group’s former medical director — were with her the day she died. Equipment she used to take her life by helium asphyxiation, the group’s preferred method of suicide, had been removed from the scene."

The punishment, alas, will not nearly fit the crime–helping make a woman dead and covering up the death’s cause: The group faces a maximum fine of $33,000

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ACLU Illinois calls for end to medical personnel's right of conscience

The Illinois chapter of the ACLU is calling on Illinois lawmakers to pass legislation that would prohibit doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from exercising their First Amendment rights to speech, association and religion if it conflicts with the type of services and care their patients demand.

"You may be shocked to learn that current Illinois law permits doctors, nurses and other health care providers to deny information and health care to their patients based on the providers’ religious beliefs," the ACLU says on its website. "This law is wrong and must be changed in order to put patients first."

Doctors, nurses, medical personnel (including pregnancy crisis centers) will be required to inform their patients about protocols they may find objectionable. According to the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, ninety-five (95) percent of physicians in a national poll agreed with this statement: “I would rather stop practicing medicine altogether then be forced to violate my conscience.”

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Pro-lifers shed light on controversial abortion research

Researchers at the University of Hawaii are conducting gruesome research to determine how much women bleed during a second-trimester abortion.

Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America says the organization held a protest rally demanding answers, including who is paying for the research.

Unborn babies, killed in the womb in the second semester, feel "excruciating pain," she says. Hawkins argues that the younger girls recruited for the research are likely victims of a crime. The age of consent is higher than 14 in Hawaii, she notes, so the girls are, at a minimum, victims of statutory rape.

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Pro-abortion children’s book to hit a school, library near you

The book, titled Sister Apple, Sister Pig, is authored by Mary Walling Blackburn, who teaches at Southern Methodist University and has been an advocate pro-abortion movement.

“[Blackburnweaves [this] into a children's book to somehow indoctrinate the youngest of our society — the Christian children — and somehow tells them that killing a child is better for the family than giving birth,” Operation Rescue President Troy Newman explains. “[This] is so antithetical to our Christian beliefs.”

Newman asserts that the book actually contends the aborted child is happy and content.

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