Federal Judge orders Trump administration to not “interfere” with illegal immigrant teens accessing abortions

In a 100% predictable move, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (pictured) issued an order Friday evening “barring the government from ‘interfering with or obstructing” pregnant minors’ access to abortion counseling or abortions, among other things, while a lawsuit proceeds,’” the Associated Press reported. “The order covers pregnant minors being held in federal custody after entering the country illegally.” The lawsuit was brought by the ACLU.

Judge Chutkan, who was the first judge to order the government to allow an illegal unaccompanied minor to have an abortion, also gave the ACLU the go-ahead to go forward with the lawsuit as a class action lawsuit. It is the ACLU’s position that all undocumented girls and women have a constitutional “right” to abortion.

In a statement issued Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services said that it “strongly maintains that taxpayers are not responsible for facilitating the abortion of unaccompanied minors who entered the country illegally and are currently in the government’s care.”

It said it is “working closely with the Justice Department to review the court’s order and determine next steps,” according to the AP.

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Same old pro-abortion strategy: Throw enough mud and hope some will stick

Pro-abortionists, depending on the context, either announce that pro-lifers are essentially powerless (as the Texans say, all hat and no cattle), or incredibly influential largely because we supposedly are so underhanded. (Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!)

The latest from pro-abortion scribe Amanda Marcotte (pictured) announces that she’s discovered “How the anti-abortion movement helped invent fake news,” sub-headed, “Anti-abortion activists trained the right to accept and perpetuate lies. Now the problem has metastasized.”

Wow!

This is the same Amanda Marcotte who in 2015 (referencing singer Nicki Minaj) urged us to see that pregnancy is like “when you break your leg” and abortion is the “cast.” Or who in the same year declared that “Actual biologists, for what it’s worth, argue that life is continuous and that a fertilized egg is no more or less alive than a sperm or an unfertilized egg.” (Of course, as Paul Stark astutely observed, this “is to confuse ‘life’ in the sense of all life everywhere on the planet going back to the beginning with the life of an individual human being.”)

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Pro-life students will protest abortion after school shooting walkouts

On April 11, 2018, pro-life high school students will walk out of their schools at 10 am for 17 minutes, to stand up for the lives of preborn children and spark a much-needed conversation about abortion.

Brandon Gillespie, a student at Rocklin High School in Sacramento, California, saw an opportunity for a pro-life walkout after students across the country staged walkouts against access to guns and gun violence in schools. One of Gillespie’s teachers, Julianne Benzel, was placed on administrative leave after asking the students if they think there is a double standard and if there were an abortion walkout, whether the school would support it as they supported the gun violence walkout. That got Gillespie thinking.

“My teacher was placed on administrative leave because she simply asked the question of is there is a double standard,” Gillespie told Live Action News. “That really inspired me and I wanted to put that to the test and see if the school district would allow a walkout for students with a more conservative topic.”

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Our first feminists never wanted abortion

When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was penning the Declaration of Sentiments, she was imagining a future in which women had the right to own property and to vote, as well as the ability to participate in legislation. She was picturing a life in which women were viewed as equal to men, able to earn an income, able to speak their mind, and treated with respect. But in that vision, did Stanton see a world with abortion on demand? Did any of the major players in early feminism aim for such a thing? No, the early feminists fought for women’s rights, and they did not include abortion.

The first feminists of the United States of America didn’t want what today’s liberal feminists spend their time fighting for — total and complete ‘reproductive freedom.’ They saw abortion for what it is: the oppression of women and children. Stanton said:

When we consider that women have been treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

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Organizations are campaigning to have the U.S. Postal Service produce a Pro-Life Stamp

It was March 18, 1972, when the U.S. Postal Service produced a stamp promoting "family planning" – just one year before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide. Larry Jacobs, managing director of the World Congress of Families, explains their request to the USPS.

"... Just like we have ['Choose Life'] license plates in some of the states ... there's no reason we can't we have a 'Choose Life' stamp as a commemorative stamp at the national level," he argues. "It only balances out a stamp that the U.S. Postal Service already had promoting family planning."

Jacobs points that in the eyes of abortion supporters, "family planning" includes killing unborn children.

Click here to sign the petition.

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Alfie Evans’ parents accuse hospital of ‘blackmailing’ them to end their son’s life

In a Thursday Facebook post, Thomas Evans said personnel at England’s Alder Hey Children's Hospital won’t let him hold Alfie Evans until he agrees to allow his son’s ventilator to be removed.

“I have just brought my sister niece and younger brother in Alfies room to give him cuddle time,” Evans says, “and was told that my family cannot hold my son until I speak about removing the vent with the consultants and agree to something.”

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Pro-life group fights to get the truth out about abortion pill reversal

In 2007, an incredible medical advancement happened: Dr. Matthew Harrison saved the first preborn baby with abortion pill reversal. Several years later, in 2012, Dr. George Delgado and Dr. Mary Davenport published “Progesterone Use to Reverse the Effects of mifepristone” in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy, reporting a 66 percent survival rate in their first seven patients. Delgado then established the Abortion Pill Reversal hotline, staffed 24/7 by nurses and medical professionals with a network of over 300 physicians around the world — a far cry from the technique’s humble beginnings.

Abortion pill reversal works to counteract RU-486, or medication abortions. A woman first takes mifepristone, which blocks progesterone from reaching the placenta. This causes the placenta to break down, essentially starving the baby of oxygen and nutrients. After 48 hours, if the abortion has not been completed — if the woman has not expelled the body of her dead baby — she then takes misoprostol, which induces labor, causing her to expel the placenta and the baby. After two weeks, she is supposed to return to the abortion facility to make sure that nothing remains of the baby in her uterus. In the video below, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains:



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European Court leaves Alfie Evans to die, rejects case as ‘inadmissible’

A three-judge panel of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), located in Strasbourg, France, ruled that Tom Evans and Kate James’ appeal to take their 22-month-old son, Alfie (pictured)  abroad for medical care was “inadmissible,” and that the child’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights were not being violated, the BBC reported.

The panel also rejected the parents' request to block a High Court ruling allowing doctors to remove Alfie’s life support. Alder Hey Children's Hospital, where the baby is located in England, says the child has a “catastrophic and untreatable neurodegenerative condition” that would be “futile” to continue treating. Alfie’s parents have been fighting for the right to take him to Bambino Gesu Paediatric Hospital in Rome for further care.

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Media covers March for Our Lives 13x more than March for Life

Two different marches claim to voice America’s youth and boast youthful crowds – but that doesn’t mean they’re treated the same by the liberal media. In reaction to Saturday’s March for Our Lives, multiple conservative writers and commentators took to Twitter to call out the media for a discrepancy on coverage between the gun-control rally and the March for Life. They weren’t wrong: the broadcast networks covered the March for Our Lives 13 times more than the pro-life march, the night of each event. To give an idea how much ABC, CBS and NBC devoted to the latest protest, they also covered it 4 times more than the Women’s March.

During their Saturday news shows the evening of the March for Our Lives, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly a half hour (28 minutes, 23 seconds) highlighting the event. For comparison, the same evening shows gave 2 minutes, 6 seconds to the March for Life, Jan. 19. And even newer marches, like the Women’s March, received 6 minutes, 43 seconds on Jan. 20.

But, according to National Review fellow Alexandra DeSanctis, a recurring march should be even more newsworthy.

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Planned Parenthood deletes “We Need a Disney Princess Who’s Had an Abortion” tweet after barrage of criticism

“We Need a Disney Princess Who’s Had an Abortion.”

No, I am not kidding, that is actually what Planned Parenthood Keystone [Pennsylvania] wrote today on its Twitter Feed.

It turns out that the tweet had been deleted within an hour. Apparently even Planned Parenthood, which specializes in outrageous commentary, figured out it had gone too far: “This propaganda was so disturbing that even many ‘pro-choice’ individuals left critical comments on the post,” Bilger wrote.

But I’m sure after a couple of days of quiet, the same clever folks at PP Keystone that gave us “We Need a Disney Princess Who’s Had an Abortion” will bring back its audience more tastelessness.

Why am I so sure? It’s what they do.

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Abortion, LGBT groups join forces to quash Trump’s pro-life UN agenda

The world's top abortion and LGBT activist groups have joined forces to stop the Trump administration from implementing its international pro-life agenda at the UN women's conference in New York.  It remains to be seen whether the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, will buckle under the intimidation at this conference, and in the future.

OutRight International and the Global Justice Center targeted Bethany Kozma and has circulated a petition calling for Kozma's removal, saying she referred to the U.S. as "a pro-life nation." They claim this is inconsistent with U.S. domestic law which allows for abortion on demand. Others have told the Friday Fax that the delegate said instead that the Trump administration is a "pro-life administration" which is true. The administration has taken a pro-life stance in its international relations, as evidenced by the reinstated and expanded Mexico City Policy which bars U.S. funding to foreign pro-abortion advocacy groups.

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VIDEO: Teen organizes nationwide school ‘walkout’ to protest abortion

A 17-year-old California student, Brandon Gillespie, is planning a pro-life “walkout” to take place at schools across the country next month in imitation of the recent ‘gun-violence’ protests.

The aim of the event is to witness to the millions of lives destroyed by abortion. The event will also test if there’s a double standard from school administration when it comes to allowing students to protest against destroyers of life and the tools they use.



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Alfie Evans’ parents take case to European Court of Human Rights

Last ditch effort to stop hospital from disconnecting Alfie’s ventilator

It’s official. Following defeat in numerous courts in Great Britain, Tom Evans and Kate James, the parents of little Alfie Evans, are asking the European Court of Human Rights to halt the withdrawal of Alfie’s ventilator as an “interim measure.”

Jenny Kirkham of the Liverpool Echo reported today that...

a spokeperson for the ECHR have said that judges are considering an application from the couple.

The spokesperson said no decision had been made yet.

The spokesperson added: “The court has received a request for an interim measure to stay the withdrawal of Alfie Evans’s treatment.

“The court is still considering that request.”

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Why LaHood voted no on Omnibus Bill

Calling from his car after a constituency visit in Peoria Friday afternoon, Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-18) told Illinois Review why he was the only Illinois Republican to vote "no" on the controversial Omnibus spending bill signed into law earlier in the day.

"There were two main reasons I opposed it," LaHood said. "First was process-wise. We had less than twelve hours to review a 2200 page bill, and there was no way we could know what was in it. Communication was lacking, and I couldn't support that.

"Second was the money and what programs the bill funded and didn't fund: I opposed money for Planned Parenthood, sanctuary cities, H2B Visa provisions, and a lack of funding for the wall, glaring things like that," he said. "I ran on those issues and I had to stick with them."

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Pro-life leaders debunk new report claiming abortion is ‘clearly safe’

Pro-life advocates are criticizing a new paper claiming that abortion is so overwhelmingly “safe” that abortion-specific regulations in many states are “unnecessary.” The paper found that all four main abortion procedures used in the United States—medication, aspiration, dilation and evacuation (D&E), and induction were “clearly safe.” Critics point out, however, that the paper ignored the safety of the preborn baby when making this claim. The paper also failed to mention the hundreds of documented women who have died as a direct result of having a legal abortion.

American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists executive director Dr. Donna Harrison told Catholic News Agency that the “politically motivated” report discounted multiple very real medical risks to women, on top of ignoring the fact that “abortion is never safe for the unborn child.”

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U.S. House passes $1.3 trillion omnibus bill that keeps funding Planned Parenthood

The House of Representatives passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill to finance the federal government through the 2018 fiscal year, which continues the more than $500 million in taxpayer dollars Planned Parenthood receives each year leaving Planned Parenthood’s annual subsidies untouched in the process.

The 256-167 vote comes less than a day after congressional Republican leaders unveiled the final bill’s text Wednesday night, leaving lawmakers unable to fully review it before voting. Congress has until midnight Friday to approve a spending plan to prevent a government shutdown.

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U.S. Supreme Court disgusted with California’s attack on pregnancy centers

On March 20, 2018, the long-awaited oral arguments in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra were heard at the U.S. Supreme Court. Michael Farris argued on behalf of the pregnancy centers, and the state of California sent Deputy State Solicitor General Joshua Klein to defend the nation’s most extreme anti-speech law targeting pregnancy centers.

When the arguments had finished, both mainstream media and legal analysts were in near complete agreement that the California law was in trouble. Even the notably liberal Justice Elena Kagan and the usual swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy had appeared troubled — even deeply so — by the state’s attempt to force a very narrow group of private organizations to peddle government speech.

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Woman with Down syndrome addresses UN: Stop targeting us for extinction

Charlotte Fien (pictured) is a woman with Down syndrome, who has been passionately speaking out about the right of her community to exist. Around the world, the lives of people with Down syndrome are endangered… thanks to abortion. Our culture of death has taken the benefits of prenatal testing and subverted it, so in many countries, babies with Down syndrome are killed before they are even born. Fien has regularly spoken out about this injustice — including before the United Nations several times — advocating for the right of people like her to live.

Last week, she spoke before the United Nations again, calling for an end to eugenic abortion.

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Illinois just proved there’s still room for a Pro-Life congressmen in the Democratic Party

Rep. Dan Lipinski (pictured), who has represented his southwest Chicago district since 2005, won a tight primary race on Tuesday night against progressive challenger Marie Newman.

As of this Wednesday morning Rep. Dan Lipinski won the Illinois 2018 Primary with 50.9% over Marie Newman with only 49.1%.  Still it was a very close race.

This is a huge win for the pro-life movement, which proves that protecting innocent life in the womb need not be matter of partisan politics.

Pro-life pregnancy centers hopeful after arguing before Supreme Court

Attorneys for a pro-life pregnancy center resource group are optimistic following Tuesday’s oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court, in the case National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra.

In the pouring rain, the attorneys spoke to a crowd of supporters outside of the court (pictured), and said that they were pleased with the day’s events and remained hopeful that a California law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to provide information about free or low-cost abortions would be struck down.

“We hit a home run today in the court,” said NIFLA President Thomas Glessner. “In fact, [Alliance Defending Freedom CEO] Michael Farris hit a grand slam home run.”

Glessner added that he was “very optimistic” that the court would rule against California.

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