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Elderly Pro-Life Woman Attacked Outside Abortion Clinic

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By Townhall. An elderly pro-life woman was attacked and thrown to the ground last month outside of an abortion clinic in Kentucky, suffering a broken leg and multiple head injuries.

The incident was captured on video by a surveillance camera outside of the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville.

The victim is long-time pro-life sidewalk counselor Donna Durning. She can be seen in the video being pushed to the ground, after calmly approaching a woman who’d exited the abortion facility. Durning said she was merely attempting to give the woman some literature about a crisis pregnancy center.

“I had a little card from Little Way Crisis pregnancy center, and I just offered it to her. And I said, ‘Honey, if you need to talk to anybody, there’s a number on here,’” the pro-lifer said, WLKY News reported. . .

According to LifeNews, abortion activists in the Louisville area are using the recent assault to bolster calls for so-called “buffer zones,” which “prohibit pro-lifers from coming within a certain distance of the abortion clinic.” (Read more from “Elderly Pro-Life Woman Attacked Outside Abortion Clinic” HERE)

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Anti-Abortion Activist Says She Was Assaulted Outside Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic

By WLKY. Durning has approached countless women outside of abortion clinics over the last 23 years.

“I was there, as I am five days a week, talking to girls, offering them alternatives to abortion,” Durning explained.

But this encounter went differently. Durning said the woman came after her and threw her to the ground.

“I saw a lot of hatred in her face and, I’m not exaggerating, I saw the face of Satan in her eyes,” Durning said.

Durning suffered a broken femur and a head injury. She underwent surgery and is now recovering in a rehabilitation center. (Read more from “Anti-Abortion Activist Says She Was Assaulted Outside Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic” HERE)

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Lawmaker’s Harrowing Testimony: I Saw Born-Alive Babies Drowned in Saline After Botched Abortions

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Testifying in support for a bill (Bill 359) seeking to protect babies born alive from botched abortions in North Carolina, Republican state representative Pat McElraft recalled horrifying experiences that she witnessed at the hands of a late-term abortionist when she previously worked in the medical field.

After passing the state House and Senate, the bill was eventually vetoed by Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC). But McElraft’s harrowing testimony offers a chilling inside looks at late-term abortion, which is increasingly being relentlessly pushed by the Democratic Party.

“You will hear from opponents of Bill 359 that there is no need for this bill. ‘We don’t have is happening in North Carolina.’ I can testify to the fact that infanticide has happened in North Carolina. I’ve been witness to the results of those late-term abortions,” stated the lawmaker, reported Live Action.

“There was an abortionist in Jacksonville, North Carolina, who was known nationally for performing late term abortions,” the Republican continued. “We heard of many girls who came from other states to North Carolina — Jacksonville, North Carolina, to have their late-term abortions. Even hitchhiking down from New York, some of them did, to come in — those were the days when saline abortions were performed.” . . .

“Nurses told of stories of the babies that were born alive and [had] been taken by the doctor and turned over with their faces down in the saline to drown,” she recalled. “Most of the nurses refused to work with this abortionist. He only did his abortions on the weekends.” (Read more from “Lawmaker’s Harrowing Testimony: I Saw Born-Alive Babies Drowned in Saline After Botched Abortions” HERE)

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Kansas Supreme Court Rules That Abortion Is Protected by the State’s Constitution

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The Kansas State Supreme Court ruled on Friday that laws restricting abortion go against the state’s constitution. Only one of the court’s seven justices dissented. . .

The court asked if the “equal and inalienable rights” granted by the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights includes a woman’s right to make decisions about her body, including the decision whether to continue her pregnancy.” It determined that the answer to this was “yes.”

“The State may only infringe upon the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy,” the court argued “if the State has a compelling interest and has narrowly tailored its actions to that interest.”

In his dissent, Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall argued that the ruling “fundamentally alters the structure of our government to magnify the power of the state” and accused the majority of painting “the interest in unborn life championed by millions of Kansans as rooted in an ugly prejudice.” . . .

There is no path for this ruling to be appealed. In 2014, however, voters from Tennessee amended that state’s constitution to clarify that the Tennessee state constitution did not prohibit the legislature from passing laws pertaining to abortion in response to a similar ruling from the Tennessee Supreme Court. (Read more from “Kansas Supreme Court Rules That Abortion Is Protected by the State’s Constitution” HERE)

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Trump Admin Gets Pro-Abortion Language Removed From UN Anti-Rape Resolution

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By Life Site News. The Trump administration secured the removal of pro-abortion language from a United Nations resolution against rape in war zones Tuesday by threatening to veto the measure if the final version contained a notorious euphemism for abortion.

The UN Security Council had been debating updates a resolution first approved in 2013 to combat the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. The United States objected to a reference in the document calling for “comprehensive health services, including sexual and reproductive health” for “survivors of sexual violence,” on the grounds that “reproductive health” is a longstanding term of art for abortion and related services.

America remains “strongly committed to preventing conflict-related sexual violence and holding responsible persons accountable” and agrees “more needs to be done to deter the recurrence of such crimes and assist survivors,” the cable said, but “cannot accept unamended explicit, or implicit, references to ‘sexual and reproductive health’” because “we do not support or promote abortion.”

“If we let the Americans do this and take out this language, it will be watered down for a long time,” an unnamed European diplomat complained to The Guardian. “It is, at its heart, an attack on the progressive normative framework established over the past 25 years.” (Read more from “Trump Admin Gets Pro-Abortion Language Removed From UN Anti-Rape Resolution” HERE)

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Bowing to U.S. Demands, U.N. Waters Down Resolution

By US News. A U.S. threat to veto U.N. Security Council action on sexual violence in conflict was averted on Tuesday after a long-agreed phrase was removed because President Donald Trump’s administration sees it as code for abortion, diplomats said.

A German-drafted resolution was adopted after a reference was cut referring to the need for U.N. bodies and donors to give timely “sexual and reproductive health” assistance to survivors of sexual violence in conflict. (Read more from “Bowing to U.S. Demands, U.N. Waters Down Resolution” HERE)

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Woman Aggressively Going After Uber Driver Who Refused to Take Her for Abortion

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One woman took to Reddit to share how she was “dumped” out of an Uber taxi after the driver figured she was on her way to an abortion clinic. . .

She said: “After a few more minutes he asked, ‘are we going to an abortion clinic?’ I was shocked; I had no idea what to say, so I just remained quiet. He then said ‘I know it’s none of my business, but…’ and proceeded to mention something about his wife being pregnant.” . . .

“There was a gas station and a closed antiques store, and around us was farmland and forest. He said ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t take you the rest of the way. I can take you back to [my city], but you won’t be able to find another Uber out here.’” . . .

The woman went on to report the driver to the police. Uber have since confirmed to her that he has been banned from working for the company.

People flooded to the woman’s aid on the Reddit thread. One user wrote: “There’s a BIG difference between refusing to drive someone to a destination/dropping them off somewhere they didn’t ask and intentionally driving out of your way to shame and leave them stranded based on your perceived moral high ground.” (Read more from “Woman Aggressively Going After Uber Driver Who Refused to Take Her for Abortion” HERE)

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Democratic Governor Vetoes Anti-Infanticide Legislation, Offers Misleading Excuses

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North Carolina’s Democratic Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a state-level anti-infanticide bill Thursday morning.

Senate Bill 359 was passed out of the North Carolina House of Representatives and sent to Cooper earlier this week. Like similar federal legislation that is currently the subject of a discharge petition in the House of Representatives, it is titled the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

The North Carolina legislation would have required that children who survive botched abortion attempts be given the same degree of lifesaving medical care “as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.” Failure to do so would have been classified as a felony punishable with a fine of up to $250,000.

“Laws already protect newborn babies and this bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients,” reads a statement from Cooper’s office. “This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other healthcare providers for a practice that simply does not exist.”

In reality, current federal law passed in 2002 declares that abortion survivors are legal persons, but impose no legal penalties for medical professionals who willfully deny them lifesaving care after the fact. Alexandra DeSanctis has more details on that at National Review.

“The day before Good Friday, Governor Cooper has chosen to stand with infanticide and extremist groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL over life,” reads a statement from North Carolina Republican Communications Director Jeff Hauser. “It is grotesque to think that Cooper believes providing care to infants born alive during an abortion procedure is ‘an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients.’”

And contrary to the fear-mongering talking points about the bill’s supposed affects on abortion access, it would have imposed no restrictions on abortion procedures or time limits before a child is born. It literally only applied to newborns outside the womb.

“Caring for a living, breathing, newborn infant is too restrictive for Governor Cooper’s radical abortion agenda,” the legislation’s sponsors said in a press release. “We thought Democrats would agree that children born alive should be separate from the abortion debate, but it’s clear that they want the ‘right to choose’ to even extend past birth. This is a sad day for North Carolina.”

The measure passed by a vote of 65-46 in the state house and by a vote of 28-19 in the senate.

While many of Cooper’s vetoes have been overridden by the GOP-controlled legislature, this is the first he’s issued since Republicans lost a veto-proof supermajority in November. And while a handful of Democrats voted in favor of the legislation, it remains unclear whether pro-lifers will have enough bipartisan support to override the veto. (For more from the author of “Democratic Governor Vetoes Anti-Infanticide Legislation, Offers Misleading Excuses” please click HERE)

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Constitutional Crisis in the Making in Alaska?

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Article 1, Section 22: The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed. The legislature shall implement this section. [Amended 1972]

So was the Alaska State Constitution amended. It had nothing to do with abortion, which had already been legalized in 1970 in our state. But it did have everything to do with traditional frontier attitudes seen in American culture regarding personal vice. But at the dawn of the computer age, the primary concern was to protect data mining of electronic legal, corporate, private, medical and commercial files.

Note the bold highlight, my own. Understanding that “privacy” was a nebulous term, the legislature would be empowered to define its limits.

Naturally, it has never done so, and abdicated the field to — who else? — the courts. If you believe that this section has protected your personal privacy in the Internet Age, you are living in a dream world. However, the Alaska Supreme Court has used it primarily to protect [you guessed it] abortion. It is why Planned Parenthood has identified Alaska as an “abortion safe state” in a post-Roe culture.

This needs to be addressed by an allegedly prolife Governor, Attorney General and members of the legislature.

THE NEWS: the Alaska State House of Representatives, due to the efforts of prolife members within the majority coalition (dominated by Democrats), surprisingly left out funding for abortion. The inside scoop was a mild raised eye-brow most by prolifers, who have figured with their knowledge of past events, that the Democrats let them have their way, being protected by court-ordered funding.

Court-ordered funding, you say? Just who holds the “power of the purse”? The courts or the legislature? It is an amazing usurpation (overthrow) of constitutional principles, which have never, repeat never, been defended by the legislature.

It is time that they do. A person could even be in favor of abortion and state funding thereof, yet understand the principle at stake to be a vital one. What’s next? Court-ordered subsidies for dairy farmers?

However, due to constitutional ignorance, reinforced not only by junior high civics, high school text books and law schools that promote Case Law above all others, most people believe that “The constitution means whatever the courts say it is.”

When … not “If” … the courts order the legislature to install abortion funding, the Governor and the legislature ought to defy it. Imagine a prolife committee chairman of Senate Finance violating not only his conscience but his oath to defend the state constitution. [Please note: His oath is not to defend the courts.]

Imagine a prolife AG going along with funding. Or an already-proven risk-taking and prolife Governor to sit idly by!

There is absolutely no mechanism to support the courts, except that of constitutional ignorance. Would state troopers arrest legislators? Who would order them? Would they stand in committee with a gun at their head or handcuffs ready to take them to jail?

The courts cannot do it. The legislative lawyers, who are part and parcel of this scam, are mere bureaucrats. Would the courts impeach the legislature or Governor and AG? They have no power to do so.

In truth, such an action by the courts would be an impeachable offense. But because the legislature has been a weak and compliant arm for many years now, such an action would be — Gasp! — controversial! The mainstream media would not like them, you see. Screeching feminists would be in their face and Democrats would get open play with pontificating nostrums about “the poor”.

Your mission, prolife Alaskans, is to:

POM, email, call your local legislator and tell them that any effort by the courts to order abortion funding is an impeachable offense. At the very least, they should call the courts’ bluff this time.

And then, amend Article 1, Sec. 22 to state: “The right to abortion is not recognized in this section.” It would be that simple.

Do this often: today, tomorrow, next week.

A unified prolife response to this is being planned.

May God help us, and beg His assistance in prayer.

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Medical Students in Africa Outraged Over U.S. Based Org Enticing Them to Become Abortionists

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A U.S. based pro-abortion group that misleadingly calls itself “Catholics for Choice” is enticing unsuspecting medical students in Africa’s most vibrant Catholic countries to become not only abortion promoters but even abortionists, according to medical students who attended a workshop hosted by the organization.

Ugandan medical students recently became troubled when they realized too late that a seminar about “reproductive health” offered by Catholics for Choice (CFC) was really about ending the lives of children in their mothers’ wombs.

They felt they were deceived by the euphemistic terminology employed by the CFC. The seminar, titled “Values Clarification Workshop,” turned out to be what they said was abortion “indoctrination” that perverted Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life.

CFC wooed students to the abortion propaganda event by bringing them free of charge to Kampala’s most lavish resort, The Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa—the country’s only five-star hotel—for a luxury weekend.

Catholics for Choice, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. with an annual budget of $3,000,000, states on its website that it “helps people and organizations confidently challenge the power of the Catholic hierarchy.” The group promotes contraception, abortion, and sex education. LifeSiteNews reached out to Catholics for Choice several times for comment during the writing of this report but received no response. (Read more from “Medical Students in Africa Outraged Over U.S. Based Org Enticing Them to Become Abortionists” HERE)

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Hospital Pressured Mom to Abort Her Baby to Cover up Drug Mistake, Lawsuit Claims

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An Illinois woman has filed a lawsuit against a Peoria hospital for allegedly pressuring her to abort her wanted baby to avoid liability for having accidentally administered a drug that could have caused severe birth defects.

Reneizha Morris says that in November 2017, during a routine appointment at UnityPoint Health-Methodist’s area hospital, she learned she was pregnant with a healthy 7-week-old baby, ABC reports. But due to a “miscommunication,” she was allegedly injected with Methotrexate, which can cause severe birth defects.

Morris says the doctors held two meetings with her to inform her about the risks. She still wanted to give birth, but the hospital’s risk manager led her to schedule an abortion on November 29, which she refused after seeing an ultrasound of her child. Yet the risk manager allegedly called her family multiple times to keep pressuring her to abort, going so far as to offer her $2,000 for a consultation at a Planned Parenthood location in Chicago.

“Morris’s attorneys have found the hospital’s records suddenly trail off at this point on how and when she supposedly decided to terminate the pregnancy,” her attorneys explain, according to the Peoria Journal Star. “Following the canceled procedure, the hospital’s risk manager had two phone calls with her family, which have been omitted from the medical record. On December 5, the hospital’s risk manager asked Morris to come to the hospital to pick up $2,000 in cash and a letter stating the money was to be used for ‘a consultation’ at a Chicago-area Planned Parenthood clinic.”

Morris ultimately gave in and had her baby aborted on December 17, which her attorneys suggest she wouldn’t have done without the hospital’s repeated pressuring to do so — or if the hospital had informed her that because it had given her the wrong drug without warning her of the risks, it would be the one covering her child’s medical expenses. (Read more from “Hospital Pressured Mom to Abort Her Baby to Cover up Drug Mistake, Lawsuit Claims” HERE)

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Newest Feminist Lie: A Botched Abortion Survivor Is Not An Actual Baby

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By Townhall. A pro-choice student at Boston College is in the news this week for repeatedly claiming that a baby born after a failed abortion is “not a baby.”

The student made the claim during an exchange with Kristan Hawkins, a pro-life advocate and president of Students for Life of America, during a sold-out stop on Hawkins’ “Lies Feminists Tell” university tour. Hawkins later wrote about the uncomfortable exchange on Twitter. . .

“Okay. Do you believe that a baby who is born alive during an abortion at Planned Parenthood should get care?” Hawkins followed up. . .

[The student said “no.”]

When Hawkins asked again why the child who survives a botched abortion is not a child, the student doubled down.

“Because they’re performing an abortion,” the student argued. “So, before that, they’ve already determined that it’s not a baby. I know you’re telling me that science has determined one thing, but…” (Read more from “Newest Feminist Lie: A Botched Abortion Survivor Is Not an Actual Baby” HERE)

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Boston College Student: Baby Born Alive Shouldn’t Get Care but Children Crossing Border Should

By MRCTV.

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