Woman Conceived in Rape Condemns Obamacare's Rape Exception

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Photo Credit: CNS NewsRebecca Kiessling, a family law attorney, blogger, and pro-life speaker who was conceived as the result of a rape, condemned the rape exceptions in Obamacare and even in legislation that limits funding for abortions, such as the Hyde Amendment.

“It’s very frustrating to just be summarily dismissed like this. [This] is my life that you’re talking about,” she said.

Speaking at a Capitol Hill Ambassador’s Luncheon in Washington on Thursday, Kiessling complained that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed “by using the rape exception,” which led to wider taxpayer funding of abortions, as a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed.

Kiessling was conceived when her mother was raped at knifepoint by a serial rapist in Michigan during the late 1960s.

She related that her mother sought an abortion at two different back-alley abortion clinics, but because of the safety and legal risks associated with the then illegal procedure, Kiessling’s mother decided not to go through with it.

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Student’s Photo of Skimpy Michelle O School Lunch Sparks Outrage

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Lunch meat, a couple of crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower qualified as lunch in Chickasha Public Schools Monday.

Student Kaytlin Shelton took a photo of the skimpy lunch and showed it to her parents.

“It makes me want to take that and take it to the Superintendent and tell him to eat it for lunch,” the girl tells Fox 25.

“I can go pay a dollar for a Lunchable and get more food in it,” her father, Vince Holton, says.

Shelton is pregnant and eating for two, complicating the problem.

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Planned Parenthood Turns 98: Celebrates 6.6 Million Abortions With Picture of Baby Carriages

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Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business, is celebrating its 98th birthday today and the abortion giant has done over 6.6 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, more than any other abortion company.

In a terrible irony, Planned Parenthood tweeted out a picture of baby carriages to celebrate its anniversary.

Jim Sedlak of American Life League says the abortion giant has built itself on Margaret Sanger’s racist philosophies.

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America dates its beginning to Oct. 16, 1916, when Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York,” he explained. “Sanger had three basic philosophies that are still active within Planned Parenthood today.

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Attorney Denied Hearing Delay Appears with Baby

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Photo Credit: AP / Stacy Ehrisman-MickleAn immigration judge in Atlanta denied an attorney’s request to delay a hearing that fell during her six-week maternity leave and then scolded her in front of a packed courtroom when she showed up with her 4-week-old strapped to her chest and the infant began to cry, the attorney said.

When Stacy Ehrisman-Mickle took on two young brothers as clients in early September, she immediately filed a request to postpone their next hearing, which was set for a month later, she said. In an order denying her request, Immigration Judge J. Dan Pelletier Sr. wrote, “No good cause. Hearing date set prior to counsel accepting representation.”

Reached by phone Thursday, Pelletier said immigration judges can’t make public comment and referred questions to the public affairs office of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the branch of the Department of Justice that oversees immigration courts. That office said in an email it couldn’t comment on the judge’s action and that a complaint had been filed and was being processed.

Ehrisman-Mickle’s clients came to her in early July for a consultation, but they couldn’t afford to hire her right away, she said. They went to their first immigration court hearing on Sept. 2 without a lawyer and then came to Ehrisman-Mickle’s office with their mother four days later, on a Saturday, to hire her.

Ehrisman-Mickle told them she would take their case but that their next hearing on Oct. 7 fell during her maternity leave. She told them she’d have to file a motion to delay the hearing but that it shouldn’t be a problem because two other immigration judges had already granted similar motions based on letters from her doctor, she said.

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Brad Pitt: My Six Kids Aren't Safe Unless There's a Gun in the House

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Photo Credit: David Cushing / Creative CommonsBrad Pitt has been a gun owner for a very long time. . .

“There’s a rite of passage where I grew up of inheriting your ancestors’ weapons,” said 50-year-old Pitt, according to the Independent. “My brother got my dad’s. I got my grandfather’s shotgun when I was in kindergarten.”

Pitt revealed he was given an air gun first and got the shotgun at age 6. He said he first fired a handgun at age 8.

The husband of Angelina Jolie—and father of six— added in the interview that he doesn’t really feel that his family is safe unless there is a gun in his home.

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Supreme Blocks Part of Texas Pro-Life Law

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Photo Credit: Breitbart On Tuesday night, the Supreme Court blocked part of H.B. 2, the pro-life law passed last summer in Texas, from going into effect during the legal proceedings regarding the bill’s legality. The law made abortion after 20 weeks illegal, required clinics to reach the same standards as ambulatory surgical units, and mandated that abortionists obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The law has resulted in the closing of most of Texas’ abortion clinics.

Thirteen clinics will now re-open as a result of the Court’s action.

From the Washington Post:

The action will allow 13 abortion clinics that closed after the appeals court decision to reopen, said Nancy Northup, president of the center. “We’re absolutely thrilled.”

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Virginia Excuses Troubled Abortionist’s Facility, and 6 Others, from Meeting Health and Safety Requirements

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Photo Credit: LifeSiteNewsA troubled abortion facility whose owner is so disreputable that even the head of the National Abortion Federation thinks he should be shut down, has been granted a variance by the Virginia Health Department allowing it to avoid compliance with new minimum facility safety standards.

In fact, the owner of Virginia Women’s Wellness, the notorious New Jersey abortionist Steven Chase Brigham, lost his last medical license last week when the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners voted to revoke his license due to a pattern of deception and dangerous, abusive practices that have characterized his 30-year abortion career.

Now, because New Jersey does not allow unlicensed practitioners to operate medical facilities, Brigham has 90 days to divest himself of ownership in the eight abortion facilities he operates in New Jersey or shut them down.

Brigham was previously ordered never again have anything to do with abortion facilities in Pennsylvania after he continued to operate substandard facilities long after that that state revoked his medical license. Last year, the state of Maryland shut down his four abortion offices in that state after discovering a slew of violations that endangered patients, including the death of Maria Santiago at his seedy abortion mill that was run out of a residential condo complex. Brigham’s New York medical license was revoked in 1994 and Florida followed suit in 1996.

“If Brigham is unfit to operate abortion facilities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland, he certainly isn’t fit to operate in Virginia or any other state,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, which has worked for over ten years to expose Brigham’s abortion abuses and bring him to justice. “Yet, Virginia’s current radical pro-abortion administration is not only allowing Brigham’s two abortion clinics stay open in that state, but has issued one of them a variance that excuses it from complying with minimum safety standards. It’s just unbelievable that state authorities could be that irresponsible with women’s lives.”

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199 Babies Spared From Abortion So Far During 40 Days for Life Campaign

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Photo Credit: LifeNewsWe are at the halfway point! Have you participated in the 40 Days for Life campaign yet? If not … there is plenty of time. And here’s some motivation.

Halfway through these 40 days of prayer and fasting, we are aware of 199 babies whose mothers chose life at the very last moment!

Here are the stories of just a few of those babies.

Volunteers in Dallas say they have “two jubilant reports” from the sidewalk outside the Planned Parenthood abortion mega-center where the 40 Days for Life vigil is going on.

In one instance, the vigil participants were able to talk to a woman who “just needed someone to help” … and she quickly learned that the help she really needed was not available at Planned Parenthood. One of the volunteers says it brought tears to her eyes when the woman chose life for her child.

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Lawsuit Seeks Human Rights for Chimps, While Unborn Babies Have None

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Photo Credit: LifeNewsThe New York case that seeks to morph chimps from higher mammals into persons has reached the Court of Appeals. (Imagine the laughter if I’d written that sentence twenty years ago. Never say, “It can’t happen here”!)

The case involves Tommy the Chimp, which–not who–is being kept in allegedly neglectful and abusive conditions by Tommy’s owner who–not which–runs a roadside zoo. If the chimp is not being cared for properly, the proper response is to alert authorities to remedy the wrong.

chimpBut animal rights attorney Steven Wise isn’t that interested in the abuse or neglect angle. From the Yahoo News story:

One of the judges said the state has laws to protect animals from mistreatment and suggested they might be a more appropriate avenue to ensure Tommy’s welfare.

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3D-Print Heart Used for Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

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3D printing has reached new applications and a Brooklyn surgeon recently used the three-dimensional technique repairing a congenital heart defect in a 2-week-old baby at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

The research to develop the 3D-print technique to create an actual replica of a human heart using MRI data was funded by Matthew Hearts of Hope, a Sherman based foundation. Funding for the use of 3D-print heart for the Morgan Stanley surgery was also paid for by the foundation.

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