By Nancy Flanders A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a five-week-old preborn child, after attacking his wife upon learning she was pregnant. Joel Luna, age 37, was sentenced on November 17 for capital murder of a child under 10 as well as aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury in the …
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By Right to Life UK A man who stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times in Belgium will not be prosecuted for the death of her unborn baby. On Monday, in the Belgian province of Liège, a man, named only as Aslan, stabbed a woman numerous times in the face and neck after an argument broke …
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By Dave Andrusko Another ugly story of a woman murdered because a boyfriend thought she was pregnant. Last week Tony Farese, the attorney for Brandon Theesfeld, cut a deal with prosecutors in Oxford, Mississippi. Facing a capital murder charge in the brutal murder of Alexandria ‘Ally’ Kostial, Theesfeld agreed to plead guilty to murder in …
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By Michael Cook Foreign observers might have the impression that it is always open season for euthanasia in the Netherlands. Not so. While the guidelines are elastic and subject to interpretation, they do exist and people violating them risk prosecution. This story on euthanasia in the Netherlands illustrates this. A pillar of Dutch policy is …
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Baby delivered in critical care, dies at Cincinnati hospital By Dave Andrusko Antonio Wilcox is scheduled to face a judge Wednesday, charged with killing his more-than-eight-month pregnant girlfriend. The 31-year-old Michelle McDonald, suffering from gunshot wounds, “was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she later died, police said,” according to WLWT 5. …
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By Denise Leipold, Executive Director, Right to Life of Northeast Ohio On Wednesday, Right to Life of Northeast Ohio in collaboration with Ohio Right to Life and Citizens for a Pro-life Society held a press conference to announce the discovery of the illegal disposal of an approximately 16 week old dismembered child in the trash container …
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Neither she nor her boyfriend sought medical attention for baby boy who initially survived By Dave Andrusko When last we discussed this tragedy, Brandon Mull had just pled “guilty to one count each child endangering, a third-degree felony; and abuse of a corpse, a fifth-degree felony,” according to Michaela Sumner, in the case of a …
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By Dave Andrusko It’s an awful, awful story. The consolation is that an unidentified woman and her six-month-old unborn baby, attacked by a man and another woman because she refused to abort, survived an April 16th assault. My hometown newspaper, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported Friday that Cameron O. Clark, 30, and Tanisha A. Dunn, …
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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Maura Kathryn Bannister, an Australian nurse who referred to herself as the “angel of death” lost her nursing license on March 19 but will unlikely face criminal charges. On March 10, the Queensland (Australia) Civil And Administrative Tribunal of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, in …
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By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children On March 23, Sheffield Crown Court heard how Ian Buchanan, a violent thug, threatened to kill his unborn baby and his pregnant partner after she refused to have an abortion. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications, said: “We cannot ignore the fact that violence against pregnant …
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By Jonathon Van Maren Back in June, a study in Health Communications detailed how the increased use of RU-486 (the abortion pill) was bringing women face-to-face with their aborted children. Unlike the swift and sanitized first-trimester procedures in clinics or hospitals, where women are not permitted to see the “contents of the uterus” once the child has been …
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Neither father nor mother “sought emergency medical treatment for the child” By Dave Andrusko Trial has been set for November 1 for a Newark man in connection with the death of a 28-29 week old unborn baby whose mother had ingested the chemical abortifacient misoprostol. Kalina Gillum, the baby boy’s mother, and Branden C. Mull’s …
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