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Federal Spending Bill May Include Abortion Funding in D.C.
The Omnibus Appropriations Bill, a massive yearly spending bill, is expected to be considered by the House later this week. Democrats are adding pro-abortion provisions, including lifting a ban on funding for abortions performed in Washington, D.C.
Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, said lawmakers are trying to make the changes while everyone is focused on health care and other issues.
"They want to ram these through under a fast-track procedure," he told OneNewsNow, "where the Senate would never have even debated or had a chance to vote on these measures."
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Full page ad challenges Planned Parenthood to fess up on healthcare kick-back plans
Americans United for Life took out a full-page ad in Tuesday's The Hill, and it's fabulous. Click on the link to see the actual newspaper scan. Here's the letter. Click to enlarge....
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"I'll go first," I love it.
The next obvious question is, "Cecile, what do you plan to use public funded healthcare kickbacks for?"
But we already know the answer: to cover up underage rapes, and to target black babies for abortion, and most recently revealed, to use scare tactics and provide gross misinformation to abortion-vulnerable mothers.
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Pro-Life Resolution to Appear on Texas Ballot
The governing body of the Republican Party in Texas has voted to include a resolution on the March 2010 primary ballot asking lawmakers to require that women seeking an abortion would be able to see an ultrasound image before they agree to the procedure.
Kyleen Wright, president of Texans for Life Coalition, said they tried to get it passed this session.
"It was a measure that we pushed very hard in the state Legislature," she said. It passed in the Senate, but died as a result of Democrats running out the clock filibustering on another measure."
Wright said many of the abortion clinics in the state already perform sonograms, but that doesn't mean women are seeing the results.
"Most of the women," she said, "don't know that it's in the package that they're paying for, don't even necessarily know that they are having this procedure and are never offered the opportunity to see the sonogram."
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Belgian Doctor Cleared of Murder Charges after Euthanizing 88-year-old, Non-Terminally-Ill Woman
BRUSSELS - A Belgian judge has decide not to prosecute a doctor specializing in euthanasia after he was accused of murdering a woman who came to him seeking death, but who was not terminally ill.
Dr. Marc Cosyns of Ghent euthanized the 88-year-old woman on January 5, 2008 after her own doctor had opposed the request for euthanasia. It was reported that the woman had an incurable disease that was not terminal and suffered from several other ailments.
The woman's son filed a complaint with the public prosecutor after he learned of Dr. Cosyns part in his mother's death.
Upon hearing of the judge's refusal to hear the charge of murder against him, Dr. Cosyns reportedly said, "I am very pleased that the right of the patient has been secured."
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Dominican nun, former Planned Parenthood escort, continues support for abortion
A Dominican nun who gained national notoriety by working as an escort at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Chicago has applauded US Senators who voted against a pro-life amendment to the pending health-care reform legislation. Sister Donna Quinn—who quit her volunteer work with Planned Parenthood under pressure from local Church leaders—reports that she has sent thank-you notes to abortion supporters who lobbied their senators against the pro-life amendment. Sister Quinn expressed satisfaction that the amendment was defeated on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, saying that the Virgin Mary was “one of the first women in the New Testament to express ‘choice.’”
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Italy approves RU-486
Italy has granted final approval to the abortion pill RU-486 but, unlike most other nations, will limit its use to hospitals.
“There will be excommunication for the doctor, the woman and anyone who encourages its use,” Bishop Elio Sgreccia said in July, referring to the penalty of automatic excommunication associated with abortion. The retired president of the Pontifical Academy for Life added, “First abortion was legalized to stop it being clandestine, but now doctors are washing their hands of it and transferring the burden of conscience to women.”
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