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Pro-Life News
Briefs
Week of October 18, 2007
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA
RECONFIRMS: NO RIGHT TO ABORTION IN CONSTITUTION
Philadelphia, PA -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia attended
Catholic celebratory events on Monday and gave a speech at Villanova Law
School's Second Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics &
Culture. He reconfirmed his belief that the so-called right to abortion
is found nowhere in the Constitution. He said that notion is not guided
by his Catholic views but by his understanding of the Constitution and
his perspective as a "strict originalist" and "legal positivist."
"Not everything you may care about is in the Constitution," he told the
audience, according to a report in The Bulletin newspaper. "It is a
legal document that had compromises in it. What it says it says; what it
doesn't say it doesn't say." "I don't agree we are in an era of narrow
constitutional interpretation. There are still sweeping decisions out
there," Scalia added. "Roe v. Wade is one. There is nothing in the
Constitution about the right to abortion," the associate justice
explained. Source:
LifeNews, October 18, 2007.
MITT ROMNEY "PROUDLY"
PRO-LIFE ON ABORTION, OPPOSES EMBRYONIC RESEARCH
Pawleys Island, SC -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
campaigned in South Carolina on Thursday and had a local voter ask him
where he stands on the issue of abortion. The former Massachusetts
governor said he is "proud" to be pro-life after supporting legalized
abortion most of his political career. "I am pro-life and I am proud to
be pro-life," Romney said. The former governor also told local residents
that he opposes forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions using federal
funds and would name justices to the Supreme Court who oppose abortion.
Source:
LifeNews, October 18, 2007.
Overland Park, KS -- One hundred-seven criminal charges were filed in Johnson County, Kansas, on Wednesday against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. According to the Johnson County District Attorney's web site, the charges include:
23 felony counts of Making a False Information
26 misdemeanor counts of Unlawful Failure to Maintain Record
29 misdemeanor counts of Unlawful Failure to Determine Viability for a Late-Term Abortion
29 misdemeanor counts of Unlawful Late-Term Abortion
The felonies carry possible fines of up to $100,000 for each count, and the misdemeanors carry possible fines of up to $2,500 for each count. Source: Christian Newswire, October 18, 2007
FAMILY OF
WOMAN WHO DIES AT MASSACHUSETTS ABORTION CENTER SPEAKS OUT
Hyannis, MA -- The family of a woman who died
from an abortion at an abortion business in this Massachusetts city is
speaking out about her death and wondering why the mainstream media has
refused to cover it. Laura Hope Smith, who was 22-years-old, apparently
died after suffering hemorrhaging caused by an abortion obtained at
Women Health Center. It appears that abortion practitioner Rapin
Osathanondh, did the September 13 abortion that may have caused her
death.
He made headlines in 2001 when he threatened to kill staff members
because of misplaced paperwork. Nearly 600 people attended Smith's
funeral and the National Catholic Register reports that at least one
woman canceled her appointment for an abortion after hearing of the
tragic news. Source:
LifeNews, October 18, 2007.
PRO-LIFE
STALWART SAM BROWNBACK WILL LEAVE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Washington, DC -- One of the strongest pro-life
candidates will leave the race for the Republican nomination for
president on Friday. Kansas senator Sam Brownback, who many pro-life
advocates favored but who never could rise up out of the back end of the
polls, said he would quit the race after reporting fundraising problems.
Brownback had a sterling pro-life record as a member of the Senate and
was the key sponsor of pro-life bills to ban human cloning and help
limit the number of abortions. He finished third in the August
pre-caucus event in Iowa but that was considered a bust in some circles
because fellow pro-life candidate Mike Huckabee spent less on the event
and came in second. Source:
LifeNews, October 18, 2007.
HILLARY
CLINTON WOULD REVERSE BUSH'S EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH RULES
Washington,
DC -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said
Thursday that one of her first actions if she wins the 2008 election
will be reversing President Bush's protections on embryonic stem cell
research. Bush has twice vetoed bills that would force taxpayers to fund
the research, which requires the destruction of human life.
Bush
also put in place a policy in August 2001 that prevents federal funding
of any new embryonic stem cell research and, instead, concentrates most
federal money in the area of adult stem cells.
Those
are the cells that have shown the most promise in treating patients, as
embryonic stem cell research has encountered significant problems such
as immune system rejection issues. Still,
she called the limits and protections Bush has instituted a "ban on
hope." "The
Bush administration has declared war on science," Clinton claimed
in an address to the Carnegie Institution for Science. "When I am
president, scientific integrity will not be the exception it will be the
rule." Source:
LifeNews, October 4, 2007.
DEMOCRATS
TRUST HILLARY CLINTON OVER OBAMA, EDWARDS ON HANDLING ABORTION
Washington,
DC -- A new Gallup poll finds an overwhelming majority of Democrats
say they trust pro-abortion New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to handle the
issue of abortion. She obtains much higher support on the issue from
Democrats in the survey than pro-abortion rivals Barack Obama and John
Edwards. Sen.
Hillary Clinton, who currently leads the Democratic race for the 2008
presidential nomination by more than 20 percentage points according to
two recent polls. Part
of the lead is explained in a new Gallup survey which shows Democrats
perceive Clinton as the best prepared of the top three Democratic
contenders to handle 13 of 17 different challenges that could face the
next president. On
abortion, 61 percent of the Democrats polled say they trust Clinton
while just 14 percent say Obama would best handle the issue and 11
percent for Edwards. Source:
Life News, October 4, 2007
LIBERALS
LIE, CHILDREN DIE
Townhall
Column by Kevin McCullough -- At
this very moment one of the most liberal organizations in our nation has
fraudulent papers before a court in the Midwest awaiting permission to
begin the systematic slaughter of innocent children on Tuesday. Using
false pretense, misdirected answers on applications, and fraudulent
forms Planned Parenthood is awaiting word to see if it will be allowed
to open a super-butchery in Aurora, Illinois this coming Tuesday. The
situation highlights a new trend for the tax-payer subsidized
organization that is now resorting to lying to municipalities and their
populations in order to set up shop, hack women's uteruses and slice
children's bodies like lunchmeat. Some of the children just inches from
birth. The way it works is first they set-up a phony name for a phony
company. In the Aurora, Illinois case they filed their fraudulent
permits under the name of Gemini Office Management Corporation.
Pretending to be a neutral landlord, they then asserted on the forms
requesting the construction permits that the "tenant is
unknown." With the municipality duped, the residents of
Aurora feel betrayed. Several reports have emanated from the region
demonstrating that even people who do not normally protest abortion
publicly are outraged and feel that they have been lied to. And they
should feel this way, because they have. Source: Townhall,
September 16, 2007. Note:
Kevin McCullough is heard daily in New York City, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware on WMCA 570 at 2pm.
PRO-ABORTION
GROUPS DECEIVE LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS, HISPANIC LEADER SAYS
Washington, DC -- A pro-abortion group based in the United States
has released a new report claiming that pro-life laws in Latin American
countries, specifically Nicaragua, are hurting women. However, a leading
Hispanic activist says abortion advocacy groups located outside the
region are deceiving Latino people. Abortion
advocates have been successful in getting Mexico City to legalize
abortion and they are targeting nations like Nicaragua, Brazil, and
others to weaken their pro-life laws. On
Tuesday, the U.S.-based pro-abortion group Human Rights Watch released a
report on Tuesday claiming the complete abortion ban Nicaragua has
adopted is causing human rights abuses. The
group's new report, titled “Over Their Dead Bodies," supposedly
documents how the abortion ban has made women afraid to seek legal
reproductive health services. Raimundo
Rojas, the Hispanic outreach director for National Right to Life, tells
LifeNews.com that's not the case. "Those
of us who regularly do battle with the extremist pro-abortion groups
such as the Catholics for a Free Choice and groups heralded by
mainstream media as legitimate watch dog groups such as Human Rights
Watch have sadly learned that we have to take every thing coming from
them not just with a grain of salt, but quite possibly an entire salt
mine," Rojas said. "The
numbers and statistics and stories now being promulgated by these
people, who have as much disdain for the truth as they do human life,
has to be weighed against their last big putsch in Latin America when
they waved the banner of injustice over one Carmen Clamico," Rojas
added. Source:
Life News, October 4, 2007
PRO-LIFE
GROUP RELEASES LIST OF PRO-ABORTION LOCAL BUSINESSES TO BOYCOTT
Washington,
DC -- A pro-life group that has successfully led a national boycott
of businesses that provide charitable contributions to Planned
Parenthood has released a list of local businesses that do the same
thing. The boycotts have cost the nation's largest abortion business
millions in donations. Life
Decisions International on Wednesday told LifeNews.com that the list of
local pro-abortion businesses comes at the request of pro-life people
who want to have a more local impact. "The
local/regional boycott List identifies companies that do business in a
limited area," LDI president Douglas Scott said.
"We
urge pro-life people to take a local approach. These are businesses that
may operate in your home town or in your state/province," he
explained. "It is important that pro-life people let the owners of
these establishments know how disappointed they are by the owners'
philanthropic choices."
Source: Life
News, September 20, 2007