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Choosing Not to Abort Babies With Disabilities
Nancy Mayer-Whittington remembers it as though it were yesterday; the joy of learning she was pregnant followed by the news that her daughter's first day of life would be her last. Nearly 15 years later, she still weeps at the memory of how on the afternoon of Nov. 17, 1994, her gray-eyed daughter Angela lived barely 10 minutes, the victim of Trisomy 18, a fatal genetic defect. Pictures of the dark-haired little girl, robed in a white christening gown, are still scattered about her suburban Maryland home. She was the first woman her doctor knew who had decided to keep her pregnancy. All his other patients in similar situations had aborted.
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Sweden allows sex-selective abortions
Sweden, which legalized abortion in 1938, has taken its abortion extremism one step further by legalizing "gender based" abortion which allows a mother to decide to abort her baby solely due to his or her sex.
The Local reported that a pregnant woman in South Sweden, who already has two girls, arrived at Mälaren Hospital and inquired whether or not she would be giving birth to another girl. She went on to tell her doctors that her previous two pregnancies ended in abortion because she did not want to have another girl - and if this child was another girl, she would have it aborted as well.
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Notre Dame donor protest announces $14 million withheld
Organizers of a group asking alumni and donors to withhold donations to the University of Notre Dame following its controversial commencement invitation to President Barack Obama claim to have confirmed nearly $14 million in donations have been withheld by those concerned about the university's Catholic identity.
The group, ReplaceJenkins.com, said it had received over 1,400 pledges from alumni and donors promising to withhold future donations.
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High School to Prescribe Birth Control
The school board in Willamina voted in favor of giving a high school health clinic the ability to prescribe birth control to teenage girls. Tuesday night, the school board voted 3 to 2 in favor of the plan to allow the school-based health center's nurse practitioner on the Willamina High campus to write prescriptions for the pill. The school only has about 300 students, but sources said five seniors have given birth this year and nine other girls are currently pregnant. The proposal was recommended by a Yamhill County advisory group that includes people who live in Willamina.
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Hilary Struggles to Produce Evidence to Confirm Brazilian Abortion Story
Last month Secretary of State Hilary Clinton told Congress that half of the women she had seen in Brazilian hospitals "were fighting for their lives against botched abortions." After her comments she was asked to produce evidence as to when she had visited the hospitals or statistics to back her claim, but neither she nor her staffers have been able to produce any evidence. Clinton, who last year falsely claimed that she had been involved in a sniper attack as First Lady when she visited Bosnia, is now making another claim: half the women in Brazilian hospitals are "fighting for their lives against botched abortions."
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Hilary's Reproductive Rights Remarks Spark Concern
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent remarks expanding the definition of reproductive rights to include abortion have sparked criticism and warnings from a U.S. church official and a Catholic congressman. Clinton's comments are a "real threat" to U.S.-based international aid agencies, such as Catholic Relief Services, which do not promote or provide abortions, said Deirdre McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.
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