NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY

NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY
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Girls 'Using Abortion As Birth Control'



Teenagers are using repeat abortions as a form of birth control, with some girls having four or more terminations by the age of 18, it has been claimed. Nearly 1,500 of the 19,000 girls under 18 who had a termination last year had previously undergone one earlier abortion for an unwanted pregnancy – and in at least one case a teenage girl had her eighth abortion. Department of Health data for 2008 reveals 74 teenagers had their third abortion and a further 15 girls under the age of 18 had previously had between three and six earlier abortions.
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Miracle Birth: Baby & Mom Brought Back to Life



A mom and her newborn son are back home, after they both touched death on Christmas Eve morning at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. Tracy Hermanstorfer went into labor nearly two weeks earlier than her due date. She was discussing baby names with her husband, Mike, while she was getting an epidural. "I was feeling weird, but nothing out of the ordinary," says Tracy. She says she fell asleep, but what happened was, she stopped breathing and her heart soon after stopped beating. "Once her heartbeat and breathing stopped, it felt like mine did too," says Mike. "I sat there with my wife's hand in mine, ice cold."
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New York archdiocese sued for excluding unvaccinated pre-schooler



The New York archdiocese is being sued by a couple who charge that they have suffered discrimination because of their pro-life beliefs. The couple say that their daughter has been denied entrance into an archdiocesan pre-school program because she has not received all required vaccinations. The family (whose name is being withheld to protect the girl’s privacy) say that they have a moral objection to the use of vaccines derived from fetal tissues. The New York archdiocese requires all schoolchildren to receive vaccinations.
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Parents Want Answers In Their Unborn Baby's Death



SENATOBIA, Mississippi -- 20-year-old Brannigan Bohanna thought she would be holding her newborn baby soon. "We have two boys, but we wanted a third one." she says. But eight months into her pregnancy, Brannigan's baby died. She says it started with a little nausea. She went to Baptist Desoto Hospital and ended up hospitalized for a week with dehydration. But she says the baby was ok, until Sunday, when they couldn't get a heartbeat. "The nurse came in with a bigger ultra sound, they still couldn't find it. They told me my baby had died,"she says. The baby's father, Justin Harris, wants to know what happened. "They always said the baby was ok." says Harris. Baptist Hospital says the case is under review.
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Proposed Laws Target Fetal Killings



MONTPELIER - According to Vermont law, no one died in the Aug. 10 car accident that injured Patricia Blair. But Blair, a Pownal woman whose twin fetuses were lost as a result of injuries she suffered in the Route 7 wreck, says the accident claimed two lives. The young woman allegedly responsible for crash – Kelly Cook, also of Pownal – has since been charged with driving under the influence of drugs and gross negligence with injury resulting. Cook should face additional sanctions, according to Blair, for the deaths of the unborn twins. "I lost two children. Two lives were snatched," Blair says. "And the person that did that should be held accountable for both those lives."
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Mexico Antiabortion Forces Swaying State Legislatures



A year after the Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing abortion in the first trimester, 17 states have amended their constitutions to protect the unborn. Abortion activists dreamed of legislative victories across Mexico after the Supreme Court last year upheld a Mexico City law allowing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Instead, the opposite has happened. In state after state, antiabortion forces have won changes to local constitutions declaring that life begins at conception and explicitly granting legal rights to the unborn. In all, 17 state legislatures have approved such measures, often with minimal debate, since the August 2008 court decision validating Mexico City's law.
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