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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
Pro-lifers have good reason to be happy about U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth’s decision this week to prevent the Obama administration from expanding embryonic stem cell research.
In his decision, Lamberth determined that an executive order signed by President Obama in March 2009 was at odds with an appropriations bill rider commonly known as the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of research in which human embryos “are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.” [Continue reading ...]
The mother of a 6th grade girl who was not allowed to wear a pro-life T-shirt at her public school in Merced, California filed a federal lawsuit this week against the school, claiming that the school violated her daughter’s First Amendment rights.
The design on the girl’s shirt can be seen above, right.
The school claims it had the right to prevent the girl (identified in court documents as “T.A.”) from wearing the shirt on the grounds that it violated the school’s dress code, which states:
Personal articles, clothing, or manner of dress shall make no suggestion of tobacco, drug, or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter.
June 27, 1987—Nineteen aborted babies retrieved from an abortuary dumpster by League staffers Monica Migliorino (now Miller) and Tim Murphy are buried in a memorial at St Mary’s Cemetery in Evergreen Park, Illinois, presided over by Rev. Hiram Crawford and Fr. Charles Fanelli. These babies join 500 others from the same dumpster who were buried a month before.
Ella is already being used in Europe. Now its manufacturers are trying to bring it to America. And the FDA just might let them.
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending the approval of a new drug called ella, “an emergency contraceptive for use up to five days after sex.”
This is an “improvement” over Plan B, which is supposed to be used no more than three days after having sex.
The excitement over emergency contraception, of course, assumes that it actually prevents pregnancy in the first place—a premise that is still unproven.
According to Anna Glasier, former director of a health care organization in Scotland, a study in Britain actually found that abortion rates went up even as use of “emergency contraception” increased. The same article reports that ten studies found that having these pills readily available had no impact on pregnancy or abortion rates. [Continue reading ...]
A billboard produced by ChurchAds.net set to release in Great Britain in December is causing a stir.
The ad is called “Baby Scan Jesus,” and shows an ultrasound image of Jesus in the womb (halo included) with the captions “He’s on His way” and “Christmas starts with Christ.”
The designers of the ad write [pdf], the ultrasound picture “announces the imminent birth of the Christ child in the way that many modern day parents choose to announce the coming birth of their own child.” They believe Mary probably would have shown off Jesus’ ultrasound picture if he had been born in the 21st century.
The ultrasound has become an interesting tool in the abortion debate, hasn’t it? Parents who are excited about their soon-to-be born babies proudly show the image of their children on the ultrasound.
Even women who are “pro-choice” do this, I’ve discovered. Imagine my shock when a college roommate who had marched in the pro-abortion “March for Women’s Lives” posted her friend’s ultrasound on our refrigerator! [Continue reading ...]
Will Nebraskans be able to enforce their ban on late-term abortions?
We feel kind of sorry for pro-lifers in Nebraska. Sure, after tons of work they finally have a groundbreaking law that says you can’t abort a baby after 20 weeks because at that age the baby can feel pain.
But even though the Legislature passed the law, and even though Governor Dave Heineman signed the bill, and even though the bill is scheduled to take effect this October, the bill will be challenged by the pro-aborts.
Can one father plus two mothers make one baby?
Two stories have come to my attention this week that are just sickening.
If you thought you’d already heard of all of the ways an unborn child—created in the image and likeness of God—could be disrespected, you were wrong. [Continue reading ...]
Neil Steinberg pictured beside the eight week old unborn baby he believes is merely "a dot."
I have always felt compassion for Neil Steinberg, columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, because, as I once told him, “You’re always wrong, especially in matters of religion and pro-life.”
This judgment recently proved true in a Steinberg article featuring a large “Stop Abortion Now” sign.
It turned out to be another mockery of pro-life. While the picture was authentic, that’s about all that was.
![Which of these pictures do you find disgusting? [Photo by Dan Gura]](http://prolifeaction.org/pix/2010/disgusting.jpg "disgusting1")
Which of these pictures do you find disgusting? [Photo by Dan Gura]
It happened again this week. Someone pulled up to a small group of pro-lifers who were holding signs along a busy street to yell at them.
He rolled down his window and said,
I have some “free speech” for you. I don’t have an opinion on abortion either way. But I have children. And those horrible pictures are disgusting! My kids would be so upset by them. You shouldn’t be out here. (etc, etc, etc)
My dad, holding a picture of Jesus asked, “You think Jesus is disgusting?”
I turned my picture so it would be facing him, since he was pointing my direction. In disbelief I asked, “This? This is a picture of a baby!” Another woman piped up, “Why would a child be scared of a baby picture?” [Continue reading ...]
Indeed He is risen!
During this Easter Week, we take special consolation in the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. Not only is it the central event of our faith life, but it also provides us with great encouragement in our ongoing battle against abortion.
By conquering death, Jesus has also conquered abortion. As a result, we know that the outcome of the struggle that we carry on — this seemingly endless conflict between life and death — has already been decided.
We have, so to speak, been allowed to read the book’s final chapter before we actually get to it. We know that in the end, Life will be victorious.
From time to time, all of us need to remind ourselves of this, lest we lose heart.