Midwife student in Scotland suspended for pro-life social media comment wins case – Standing for Freedom Center– www.standingforfreedom.com Source Link Excerpt:
Sara Spencer, 30, is seeking recognition of her rights to conscientious objection and freedom of speech following her unpleasant experience with National Health Service (NHS) Fife, which suspended her for a comment she made on Facebook.
Spencer, an American citizen residing in Scotland, was only a few months into her training at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland when her dream turned into a nightmare.
Shortly after beginning her placement at a clinic run by NHS Fife, one of 14 territorial boards in Scotland, Spencer was called in for a meeting with her line manager to be reprimanded.
Spencer told the Daily Mail, “At first I thought maybe I had just said something silly or made some kind of dumb mistake. My mind was racing, thinking what have I done?”
Attorney General Faces Impeachment for Targeting Pro-life Centers– www.dailysignal.com Source Link Excerpt:
The New Jersey attorney general is facing impeachment, in part, for allegedly targeting pregnancy resource centers for investigation because of their pro-life stance and for demanding the names of their staff and donors in the process.
Republicans in the New Jersey Assembly filed articles of impeachment against Attorney General Matthew Platkin on Thursday. They accused him of targeting “certain organizations based upon the political beliefs of the organization, specifically pro-life pregnancy centers.”
The resolution refers to Platkin targeting First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which has five locations in the state.
Platkin demanded documents and information from First Choice last year, including the names of staff and the identities of its donors. The attorney general brought the investigation under multiple statutes, but most notably under the Consumer Fraud Act, according to Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Gabriella McIntyre.
After Dobbs, the maternal mortality rate is down– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
The public has been sold the lie that abortion keeps women safe and, by extension, reduces maternal mortality rates. We’ve been told lack of access to so-called reproductive care will kill women. During the 2024 election season, the Harris-Walz campaign pointed to President Donald Trump as a threat to women based on abortion. The data tell a different story.
Abortion lies, not abortion bans, have caused harm to women, and the maternal mortality rate is actually decreasing. Data published this month by the National Center for Health Statistics show the 2023 maternal mortality rate in the United States was “18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births.” This is a total of 669 deaths. In 2022, the rate was 22.3, which resulted in a total of 817 deaths.
Sadly, the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal deaths among developed nations. In the United Kingdom, for example, the maternal mortality rate for 2021-2023 was 12.67 per 100,000 live births. There is much work to be done to reduce our rate even further. However, a decrease is worth mentioning during a time when fearmongering is so prevalent.
Chip Roy Files Bill to Repeal FACE Law Biden Used to Put Pro-Life Americans in Prison– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
As pro-life activists await pardons from President Donald Trump, a key Republican member of Congress is introducing legislation targeting the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the FACE Act, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.”
“Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again,” Roy said in a statement.
“Free Americans should never live in fear of their government targeting them because of their beliefs,” Roy has said. “Yet, Biden’s Department of Justice has brazenly weaponized the FACE Act against normal, everyday Americans across the political spectrum, simply because they are pro-life.”
“Our Constitution separates power between the federal government and the states for a reason, and we ignore that safeguard at our own peril,” he added. “The FACE Act is an unconstitutional federal takeover of state police powers; it must be repealed.”
Ron DeSantis to headline March for Life after defeat of Florida abortion amendment– www.lifesitenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
The March for Life Education & Defense Fund has announced the speaking lineup for the 52nd annual March for Life in the nation’s capital, which will be headlined by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, all speaking under the theme “Life: Why We March.”
“Our goal this year is to remind and reignite everyone – politicians, legislators, families, and women – in the truth that every life, unborn and born, has inherent dignity, meaning, and value, and as such is always worth fighting for,” the organization said in its press release. “Our speakers will serve as witnesses to emphasizes [sic] the joy and beauty of life, and the dedication of the pro-life movement.”
From his time in Congress through his governorship, DeSantis has established a consistently pro-life record, most recently by leading the charge to defeat a proposed amendment that would have declared abortion a “right” in the Florida Constitution, overcoming more than $40 million in spending by out-of-state activists.
Texas Medical Board Director Removed After Being Exposed as Planned Parenthood Employee– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Robert Bredt, medical director of the Texas Medical Board (TMB), the state agency responsible for ensuring ethical standards and quality care in medicine, was forced out after the discovery of a blatantly unethical conflict of interest.
After it was made public that Bredt worked for a Planned Parenthood-affiliated lab while fulfilling his role as the Texas Medical Board Director, Operation Rescue’s legal counsel, State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-TX) demanded the “immediate termination” of Bredt. Following a December 30 letter, 62-year-old Bredt escaped being fired by submitting retirement paperwork on January 7.
Bredt had been employed in this public capacity since 2012, earning $185,000 annually. According to his resumé, he was working for Planned Parenthood South Texas in 2011 — even before he began fulfilling his public role with the state licensing board.
Man who plotted to kill Justice Kavanaugh wanted to protect Roe v. Wade: court document– www.lifesitenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
(LifeSiteNews) — A new court filing confirmed that the young man who plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was motivated by the leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision and sought to prevent the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, posted to X on Saturday a copy of a federal court document containing the admission by Nicholas Roske, who called the police on himself outside of Kavanaugh’s home in 2022 before following through with an assassination attempt.
The court filing shows that, asked why he came to Maryland in 2022, Roske replied, “My plan was to kill Mr. Kavanaugh and then myself.”
Democrat AGs are Trying to Shut Down Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
NRL News Today, in our pursuit of keeping pro-lifers up to date on the never-ending pro-abortion offensive against the true and the noble, has written or reposted innumerable stories about the war on pro-life pregnancy centers.
Sometimes Democrats—and they are all Democrats — pretend there is “cause” for suing, defunding, harassing problem pregnancy centers, but almost all of the time the excuses are awfully thin gruel.
Erin Hawley describes herself as a wife, mom of three, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, and a law professor at Regent University School of Law. She is a powerful litigator and a gifted writer. She is married to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.
Mrs. Hawley wrote a piece that appeared today in World magazine under the headline, “The harassment of pro-life pregnancy centers must stop.”
Pro-Life Groups Challenge New York Law Forcing Them to Hire Abortion Advocates– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Last week, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled to reinstate a legal challenge brought by several pro-life organizations against a New York law that undermines their First Amendment rights to employ people who agree with their religious beliefs and mission. The Second Circuit reversed a district court’s 2020 dismissal of the case and sent it back to the lower court with instructions to adjudicate the challenge under a more recent 2023 precedent that may give their First Amendment claims merit.
In CompassCare v. Hochul, the case centers around New York Labor Law Section 203-e, which remains effect, and prohibits employers from engaging in “discrimination based on an employee’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making.” CompassCare, a pro-life pregnancy care center, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), a nationwide association of pro-life pregnancy care centers, and First Bible Baptist Church brought the case to protect their ability to employ only like-minded people who will not take part in abortion themselves. The organizations seek an injunction to render the law unconstitutional by contending the law infringes on their First Amendment freedoms of expressive association. They argue the law forces them to employ and associate with those who do not share the organizations’ beliefs regarding abortion, contraception, and sexual morality.
Babies murdered in Planned Parenthood Clinics whose bodies manage to survive the slaughter intact are being sold to a University that is conducting “experiments” on the murdered child’s body. The report came from The Center for Medical Progress (CMP).
They learned of this program through emails obtained through a FOIA request that reveals a “Research Plan” to find and harvest the babies needed for these experiments. The plan was formally approved in 2018 by the University of California San Diego, who would purchase the dead children from Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood Sold ‘Viable’ Fetuses For Experiments– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report.
Published by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the emails detail a “Research Plan” that documents the harvesting of babies for experimentation on their bodies. The plan was submitted to and approved by UCSD’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2018. The heavily redacted communications were obtained by the group via open records request.
According to the records reported by CMP, researchers unveiled plans in their submission to “collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.” The researchers further noted that patients with “viable nonanomalous … fetuses” would partake in the analysis.
Planned Parenthood will gather “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” the submitted plan reads. The abortion provider aimed to harvest babies from “up to 2,500 patients,” according to the plan.
As noted by CMP, the “majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.”
An episode of NBC’s “Law & Order” portrayed Pro-Life activists as being dangerous terrorist bombers who are trying to hunt down and kill IVF doctors. The episode, “The Meaning of Life,” offers other Pro-Unborn-Murder-Killer tropes, while allowing for a scintilla of pro-life counter through their largely DNC-CCP activist characters.
NBC’s ‘Law & Order’ Portrays Pro-lifers as Terrorist Bombers– www.newsbusters.org Source Link Excerpt:
Last night, NBC’s Law & Order portrayed pro-lifers as terrorist bombers who target IVF (in-vitro fertilization) practitioners.
In the episode, “The Meaning of Life,” on Thursday, an IVF doctor named Sarah Heartwood (Erica Sweany) is left in an irreversible coma after receiving a bomb-laden package.
Heartwood’s husband is a well-known atheist author. Law enforcement initially suspects the bomber is a Muslim plumber who attacked her husband at a book lecture. When the plumber provides an alibi, NYPD next arrests a black man who delivered the package. Of course, neither the Muslim nor the black man are the killer. The real killer turns out to be a “random white guy,” in the words of one of the detectives. Surprise!
Kamala Harris told a reporter that any hope any American would have to get a religious exemption from having to perform an abortion if their work “required it” should be tossed into the dustbin of history.
Harris told an MSM reporter, in response to their question about religious exemptions, “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.”
Harris is Against Religious Exemptions Regarding Abortions– legalinsurrection.com Source Link Excerpt:
What a ghoul. Seriously. This woman makes me sick. Somehow, her tongue doesn’t get twisted when she’s talking about abortion:
REPORTER: What concessions would be on the table? Religious exemptions, for example? Is that something that you would consider?
HARRIS: I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.
REPORTER: To Republicans like, for example, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, who would back something like this on a democratic agenda if, in fact, Republicans control Congress. Would you offer them an olive branch or is that off the table? Is that not an option for you.
HARRIS: I’m not going to engage in hypotheticals because we can go on with a variety of scenarios. Let’s start with the fundamental fact. A basic freedom has been taken from the women of America, the freedom to make decisions about their own body. And that cannot be negotiable, which is that we need to put back in the protections of Roe v. Wade, and that is it.
Q: What concessions would you be willing to make on abortion?
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