NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY
Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of The Illinois Federation for Right to Life. They are presented only for your information.
Federal Court Sides with Life Advocates
A federal court has ruled that Findlay, Ohio, violated the First Amendment rights of life advocates when police officers threatened them with arrest for engaging in pro-life speech.
"Christians shouldn't be penalized for expressing their beliefs," said Matt Bowman, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). "Exercising your First Amendment rights is not a crime. The government has no right to harass and threaten citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights in public."
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000009001.cfm
Selling Abortion: Through Academia, The Press, and TV, Abortion Forces Peddled Their Cause
During the half-century from 1860 to 1910 in which America's rate of abortion declined sharply, The New York Times regularly reported on prominent physicians who did abortions. A story in 1884, "Two Physicians in Trouble," noted that two of the "best known physicians in Providence, R.I.," were on trial for abortion. A typical story in 1886, "DOCTOR INDICTED," detailed abortion charges against a highly regarded New Haven physician, Dr. Gallagher. A similar story about a well-connected doctor noted the abortion arrest of Philadelphia physician David Otway.
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14860
Obama Pick for Surgeon General Is Pro-Vaccine Pusher With Ties To Merck
Barack Obama's choice for U.S. Surgeon General is reportedly CNN journalist Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a pro-vaccine pusher with ties to Merck. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a strong proponent of the Gardasil HPV vaccine, and the television show he once hosted ("Accent Health") was primarily sponsored by Merck, makers of Gardasil. Get ready for a whole new mandatory vaccination push under the Obama administration, folks. It's the same scam that's been running under the Bush Administration, but now it's going to be disguised as "public health policy." Yep, all those vaccines are President Obama's way of caring for the American people, didn't you know?
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000649_Dr_Sanjay_Gupta_Obama_Surgeon_General.html
Survival of premature baby of 23 weeks calls UK abortion laws into question
A premature baby born in Britain 23 weeks into pregnancy has been allowed to return home six months after her birth, prompting her parents to question the British laws which permit unborn children like her to be aborted.
Lexie Slater-Folksman weighed only 1 lb, 8 oz. at delivery. She was put on life support, her parents being warned that she might not survive, the Daily Mail reports.
Her eyes not having developed fully, Lexie required laser surgery when she was just one month-old. She also suffered collapsed lungs and spent weeks on ventilator equipment.
Lexie's parents, the 20-year-old Sarah Slater and her 25-year-old fiancé Richard Folksman, said their daughter's case proves that abortion laws are outdated and should be changed.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14698
Federal Fetus Law To Be Used In Murder Case
Man is accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death
Federal prosecutors in New Mexico believe they may be the first to use a 2004 law to charge someone with killing a fetus while causing the death or injury of the mother. Charges against Frederick Beach, accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death, include one under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt said his office's research found "no other case in the country in which that section (of law) has been charged," the Albuquerque Journal reported Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28438682/
Obama Selects Yet another Pro-Abortion "Catholic" for Leading Office
With the appointment of Leon Panetta as the new head of the CIA, president-elect Barack Obama has continued a trend of appointing pro-abortion "Catholics" to high-profile positions in his government. Some pro-life leaders fear that these highly public Catholic dissidents could deal a serious blow to the pro-life Catholic image in America.
Panetta, a practicing Catholic who teaches a course each year at the Jesuit-run Santa Clara University, accumulated a strong pro-abortion record as a California congressman, including co-sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act in 1990. During his run as Clinton's Chief of Staff, he supported the president's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09010603.html
Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of The Illinois Federation for Right to Life. They are presented only for your information.
Federal Court Sides with Life Advocates
A federal court has ruled that Findlay, Ohio, violated the First Amendment rights of life advocates when police officers threatened them with arrest for engaging in pro-life speech.
"Christians shouldn't be penalized for expressing their beliefs," said Matt Bowman, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). "Exercising your First Amendment rights is not a crime. The government has no right to harass and threaten citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights in public."
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000009001.cfm
Selling Abortion: Through Academia, The Press, and TV, Abortion Forces Peddled Their Cause
During the half-century from 1860 to 1910 in which America's rate of abortion declined sharply, The New York Times regularly reported on prominent physicians who did abortions. A story in 1884, "Two Physicians in Trouble," noted that two of the "best known physicians in Providence, R.I.," were on trial for abortion. A typical story in 1886, "DOCTOR INDICTED," detailed abortion charges against a highly regarded New Haven physician, Dr. Gallagher. A similar story about a well-connected doctor noted the abortion arrest of Philadelphia physician David Otway.
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14860
Obama Pick for Surgeon General Is Pro-Vaccine Pusher With Ties To Merck
Barack Obama's choice for U.S. Surgeon General is reportedly CNN journalist Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a pro-vaccine pusher with ties to Merck. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a strong proponent of the Gardasil HPV vaccine, and the television show he once hosted ("Accent Health") was primarily sponsored by Merck, makers of Gardasil. Get ready for a whole new mandatory vaccination push under the Obama administration, folks. It's the same scam that's been running under the Bush Administration, but now it's going to be disguised as "public health policy." Yep, all those vaccines are President Obama's way of caring for the American people, didn't you know?
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000649_Dr_Sanjay_Gupta_Obama_Surgeon_General.html
Survival of premature baby of 23 weeks calls UK abortion laws into question
A premature baby born in Britain 23 weeks into pregnancy has been allowed to return home six months after her birth, prompting her parents to question the British laws which permit unborn children like her to be aborted.
Lexie Slater-Folksman weighed only 1 lb, 8 oz. at delivery. She was put on life support, her parents being warned that she might not survive, the Daily Mail reports.
Her eyes not having developed fully, Lexie required laser surgery when she was just one month-old. She also suffered collapsed lungs and spent weeks on ventilator equipment.
Lexie's parents, the 20-year-old Sarah Slater and her 25-year-old fiancé Richard Folksman, said their daughter's case proves that abortion laws are outdated and should be changed.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14698
Federal Fetus Law To Be Used In Murder Case
Man is accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death
Federal prosecutors in New Mexico believe they may be the first to use a 2004 law to charge someone with killing a fetus while causing the death or injury of the mother. Charges against Frederick Beach, accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death, include one under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt said his office's research found "no other case in the country in which that section (of law) has been charged," the Albuquerque Journal reported Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28438682/
Obama Selects Yet another Pro-Abortion "Catholic" for Leading Office
With the appointment of Leon Panetta as the new head of the CIA, president-elect Barack Obama has continued a trend of appointing pro-abortion "Catholics" to high-profile positions in his government. Some pro-life leaders fear that these highly public Catholic dissidents could deal a serious blow to the pro-life Catholic image in America.
Panetta, a practicing Catholic who teaches a course each year at the Jesuit-run Santa Clara University, accumulated a strong pro-abortion record as a California congressman, including co-sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act in 1990. During his run as Clinton's Chief of Staff, he supported the president's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09010603.html
