The bad news for Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s Wilmington clinic continued to pile up today with scathing testimony at a bipartisan state Senate hearing from Melody Meanor, who ran the clinic’s health centre for three months in 2012. Meanor reinforced the testimony of Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich and Joyce Vasikonis, two former nurses who were highly critical, … Read more
Editor’s note. This is from SPUC – the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The Economist magazine reports that although reported cases of people helping someone to commit suicide have increased, the number of arrests and prosecutions has fallen. Euthanasia campaigners Dignity in Dying say this means the law should be changed. The Economist … Read more
Dear Mr. President, On behalf of the National Right to Life Committee, we write to express our grave concern with recent reports of planned discrimination on the basis of disability in the allocation of scarce medical resources in response to the recent outbreak of Covid-19. According to a recent report in the Washington Post, state … Read more
The recent tragedy of Terri Schiavo’s death by starvation serves to illustrate the long-standing tendency of euthanasia advocates to dismiss the lives of those with intellectual and physical disabilities, whom they dehumanise by labelling as ‘vegetative’. Despite the explicit targeting of people with disabilities through legalised active euthanasia in Canada and the ongoing campaign to … Read more
This has been a tremendous couple of weeks for the pro-life movement, capped by Wednesday’s 242-184 House vote in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). This followed last week’s study in the New England Journal of Medicine, which documented both that tiny premature babies can survive if treated “actively”, and that … Read more
Editor’s note. This appeared on www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-lifers-in-over-100-cities-and-towns-across-spain-join-third-annual-marc and is reprinted with permission. 9 October 2012 – Hundreds of pro-life groups and thousands of individuals in over 100 cities across Spain mobilised on Sunday for the country’s third annual March for Life. Participants called on Spain’s new, more conservative government to close the “psychological risk” loophole in … Read more
WASHINGTON — Carol Tobias has been elected president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the national federation of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters. She succeeds Wanda Franz, Ph.D. of West Virginia as the 8th NRLC president since Roe v. Wade. “I am extremely humbled and honoured to be elected … Read more
It is impossible to imagine the heartache Khae Saetern-Angeles and her husband Bobby experienced when they learned their unborn son had a deadly amount of fluid in his chest. They had struggled with infertility for years, ABC 10’s Monica Jacquez reports, losing two babies to miscarriage and a stillborn girl in the past three years. … Read more
In a Monday night decision, the City Council of Hartford, Connecticut, approved a new ordinance that will force the city’s only pro-life pregnancy centre to post signs designed to steer women away from its life-saving services. The ordinance, which threatens to fine the Hartford Women’s Center $100 per day for non-compliance, would require the centre … Read more
There’s been a flurry of activity since last Friday, when the full 8th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed an order requiring the state of Missouri to license more abortion clinics. What follows is an overview of the many actions, reactions and responses to the reactions from the state, Planned Parenthood and the Supreme Court. … Read more