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Chuck Baldwin: Birds of A Feather

By Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News
There is an old adage that, for the most part, has proven itself to be true: "Birds of a feather flock together." In other words, one can discern much about a person by the company he or she keeps. Accordingly, here is a sample of the quirky company of Senator John McCain. As Jerome Corsi recently reported, John McCain has long enjoyed sizeable funding from the ultraliberal gazillionaire George Soros, and from liberal Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. In addition, a pro-abortion group has endorsed the now self-touted "pro-life" candidacy of John McCain. "The Republicans for Choice Political Action Committee decided that McCain was the best candidate to make the Republican Party pro-choice following Rudy Giuliani's withdrawal from the race, reported CNS News today."
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McCain Poised to Flip on GOP Abortion Platform to Kill Babies

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., faces enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP's platform on abortion. A senior Republican close to McCain told ABC News that building a more inclusive GOP is a top priority for the Arizona senator. The problem for McCain, however, is that he excoriated then-Gov. George W. Bush during a 2000 debate for not being willing to make this change to the platform, and Democrats are salivating at the prospect of arguing, in the words of one strategist, "that another four years of Bush begins with another four years of Bush's platform."
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Forced Abortion Asylum Case

The US Supreme Court has declined to take up a case examining whether a Chinese national should be granted political asylum in the United States because his wife was forced to abort their first child under China's harsh population-control measures. The action, announced on Monday, means that lower court rulings rejecting the Chinese citizen's asylum claims remain in place. At issue in the case was whether the spouse of someone who had suffered directly under the Chinese program – enduring a forced abortion or sterilization – could claim political asylum in the US.
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Woman Says GOP Congressional Candidate Paid for Abortion

A 33-year-old Clackamas County woman alleged Monday that Republican congressional candidate Mike Erickson got her pregnant in 2000 and then paid for her to have an abortion. The woman and her friend, Kristi Oetken, first attempted to draw attention to the issue in 2006 after receiving a campaign mailer from Erickson touting his endorsement by Oregon Right to Life during Erickson’s first run for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District. The woman and her friend said they considered Erickson’s anti-abortion stand hypocritical in light of his experience with the woman. The issue remained under-the-radar in 2006, however, when both women had second thoughts and declined on-the-record media interviews.
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Planned Parenthood Warns of Prank Phone Calls

COLUMBUS -- Anti-abortion activists' prank phone calls pledging to underwrite abortions for blacks are an attempt to portray Planned Parenthood as racist, a spokeswoman for the health care provider said. The calls to Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio, Idaho, Oklahoma and New Mexico were made with the help of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, and audio recordings have been posted on YouTube.com. UCLA sophomore Lila Rose, one of the students involved in the anti-abortion campaign, defended the phone calls and said the conversations show the willingness of Planned Parenthood to go along with racist requests. "They could have hung up, they could have disagreed, they could have said 'No, we don't discriminate,' but not a single clinic did that, and that's disturbing and shocking," she said. Rose denied that the conversations posted on YouTube were taken out of context.
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Planned Parenthood Racism Investigation by UCLA Law Student

Michelle Malkin: UCLA Undercover Reporting of Planned Parenthood

Eco Group Calls For 'Voluntary Human Extinction'

An environmental group says it's sole purpose is to recruit volunteers and educate enough people to eventually realize that the human race needs to completely die out in order that the planet can survive. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) says humans need to stop breeding and voluntarily progress our own slow demise in order that plants, animals and fragile ecosystems can survive.
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Homicide Investigators Look Into Baby's Death

LANCASTER -- Homicide investigators were at a Lancaster home all day Sunday where an infant was found dead. Someone called 911 at 7 a.m. to report that a woman was bleeding inside her home. When police arrived they found a dead fetus. The woman was taken to the hospital to be treated. It's unclear if she suffered a miscarriage. Neighbors say a woman who lived in the home was pregnant and just one day away from delivery.
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Genetically Modified Human Embryo Stirs Criticism

NEW YORK -- News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating "designer babies." But an author of the study says the work was focused on stem cells. He notes that the researchers used an abnormal embryo that could never have developed into a baby anyway. "None of us wants to make designer babies," said Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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R. Kelly Pornography Trial Finally set to Begin in Chicago

CHICAGO -- It seemed for a while as if R. Kelly’s day in court might never come. But after six years of repeated delays, jury selection is set to begin Friday in the Grammy-winning R&B singer’s trial on child pornography charges, prompted by a videotape allegedly showing Kelly having sex with a girl as young as 13. Prosecutors, though, will have a unique challenge: The alleged victim, now 23, says it wasn’t her. And Kelly’s attorneys — including Ed Genson, who often represents the rich and famous — haven’t admitted it’s Kelly in the video. Kelly has settled three lawsuits accusing him of having sex with underage girls, filed in 1997, 2001 and 2002. In the third suit, the woman claimed that she began having sex with Kelly when she was 16, and that he forced her to have an abortion.
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Abortion Protesters Back in Killer's Neighborhood

Arizona Daily Sun
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona -- Abortion protesters have returned to the home of a local Planned Parenthood employee, leaving fliers on doorsteps around the woman's neighborhood calling her a killer. According to Flagstaff police reports, the daughter of the Planned Parenthood nurse practitioner called police at about 7 p.m. Thursday to say a group of people was walking around her northside neighborhood placing fliers on front stoops, including hers. The fliers included the woman's name, photograph, and address, calling her a killer. Police took one of the fliers as "evidence." The report does not name any suspects, but the woman does have valid injunctions against harassment against three people who had been cited for residential picketing after congregating outside of her home in February.
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Dead Newborn Found In Rehab Center's Dryer

A dead newborn, wrapped in bloody towels and clothes, was found Friday night in a dryer in a Southwest Side rehabilitation facility laundry room, police said. San Antonio Police Sgt. Rudy Cran said the baby was discovered about 7 p.m. when clients at Victory Home, in the 1000 block of Southwest 38th Street, were doing their laundry. Cran said the women pulled the bundle out of a dryer, noticed blood, and then saw the baby girl. Police believe the baby was placed in the dryer but that the dryer wasn't turned on. EMS technicians believe the baby was born alive, Cran said.
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Jane Fonda a.k.a. Hanoi Jane to boost Planned Parenthood during Orlando visit

Orlando Sentinel
Jane Fonda - two-time Oscar winner, author, activist and fitness guru -- will speak in Orlando on Thursday at a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando. (To reserve tickets, call 407-872-6838.) Fonda recently spoke to the Sentinel about teen pregnancy, feminism and making the most of her "third act": Why are you coming to Orlando? I am a big believer in the work that Planned Parenthood does. You were one of the early feminists. Yet these days there seems to be a backlash against feminism, with young women not wanting to call themselves feminists. What do you think? I don't think there's been a backlash.
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Jane Fonda endorses B. Hussein Obama
Jane Fonda, the actress and ardent anti-Vietnam War advocate who visited North Vietnam during those hostilities, has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president. There were no formal ceremonies for the endorsement. In fact, the Obama campaign may just be learning about the actress's approval now as word spreads like lit gunpowder via the Internet. Fonda was eating out last night and exited the restaurant, ignoring as celebrities often do the assembled press contingent.

Planned Parenthood Promotes Mother's Day Abortions, Draws Protests

Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions, has triggered protests and outcry from pro-life groups recently over a series of emails that were sent out soliciting donations "in honor" of Mother's Day. "Dear Friend, Join us! Make a Mother's Day gift!" the email states. Janet Morana and Georgette Forney, joint founders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), an organization dedicated to bringing to public the horrors of abortion, said the emails sent by Planned Parenthood were a slap in the face to the millions of men and women who continue to suffer from the personal trauma of past abortions. Moreover, they added, Planned Parenthood’s use of Mother's Day as a platform to further their abortion agenda was "appalling."
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Punishing Pro-Life Kids

Jonathon Falwell / The Conservative Voice
Ten students at an Ohio public high school recently learned that voicing your pro-life beliefs can be a tricky proposition. As in similar cases across the country over the last few years, officials in the Anthony Wayne Local School District told the students that they must either take off the shirts, turn them inside-out or face stiff penalties, including suspension. The T-shirts are distributed by Rock for Life (http://www.rockforlife.org/), an affiliate organization of American Life League (ALL), which promotes the annual Pro-Life T-Shirt Day on the last Tuesday of every April.
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Happy Mother's Day: Woman Pregnant With 18th Child

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins. "We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing. The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old. The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children - whose names start with the letter J - are home-schooled.
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Families Will Make Case for Vaccine Link to Autism

WASHINGTON -- Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. They seek vindication and financial redress from a government fund that helps people injured by shots. Two 10-year-old boys from Portland, Ore., will serve as test cases that determine whether the children and their families in similar situations should be compensated. Attorneys for the boys will attempt to show the boys were happy, healthy and developing normally. But, after being exposed to vaccines with thimerosal, they began to regress and show symptoms of autism.
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Vietnam Nabs Suspected Baby Traffickers

HANOI, Vietnam -- Police said Monday they have arrested two people in northern Vietnam for trying to transport a newborn baby to China as part of a baby-trafficking ring, the second suspected ring broken up in a week. Police in the border town of Mong Cai in Quang Ninh province detained the two Vietnamese women early Saturday as they were about to cross the border into China with a 12-day-old baby boy, said Nguyen Thai Binh, the town's deputy police chief.
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The Long Night of Statism

By Charley Reese / LewRockwell.com
Have you ever wondered how human beings can be so cruel? And how cruelty crosses all the boundaries – national, racial and ethnic? I have. Rereading an autobiography published in 1941 by a communist agent reminded me of the dark side of human nature. The book, Out of the Night, was written – under the pseudonym "Jan Valtin" – by a German who lived through the chaos of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. Broken by Gestapo torture, he ended up being pursued by both the Nazi and the communist manhunters and killers. Murders by these two forms of socialism are measured in the millions during the 20th century.
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Judge Rejects Planned Parenthood Lawsuit Over Chemically 'Induced' Abortions

By Mark Morris / The Kansas City Star
A Jackson County judge on Friday ruled against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri in a lawsuit over how to regulate Missouri abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood had challenged a state law that said abortion clinics must meet the same standards required of ambulatory surgical centers. In a brief order, Judge Jay A. Daugherty ruled in favor of Jane Drummond, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, whose lawyers had argued that the legislature clearly meant to regulate abortion clinics under the law, even those that provided medication abortions using drugs, such as RU-486. "Essentially, the judge said the law means what it says,” said Dale Schowengerdt, a lawyer representing Drummond. “Medication abortions are covered just like any other."
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Judge Rejects Attempt to Stop Abortion Law
Alan Scher Zagier / The Associated Press
Kansas City -- A Jackson County judge dealt a setback Friday to an effort by Planned Parenthood to overturn a new Missouri law that tightens oversight of abortion clinics. Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri Inc. argued at a hearing before Circuit Judge Jay Daugherty that Missouri's law is vague since it doesn't include the words "medical abortion," but instead refers to "induced" abortions. Attorney Dale Schowengerdt of the Alliance Defense Fund called the state's intent clear. "I don't think anyone can dispute that 'induced' refers to medically induced procedures," he told the court. "There's no ambiguity."

Planned Parenthood Racist, activists say

Staffers said 'OK' to money for blacks' abortions
Racist responses from Planned Parenthood officials has sparked an uproar among anti-abortion activists and a call for a congressional investigation of the nonprofit health-care provider. A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio did not dispute that the staffer indicated such a contribution would be accepted, but said it was just another attempt by anti-abortion activists to discredit the organization. "It was quite an unprofessional call that she received, and she struggled with how to address it," said Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Stephanie Tresso. Tresso said Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio has updated its donation policy as a result of the incident and has given staff additional training about handling such callers.
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Anti-Abortion Campaign Needs Collective Effort

Abortion is a soft terminology coined to disguise murder. The only circumstances under which it may be medically acceptable is when the unborn baby is dying in the mother's womb or when medical practitioners confirm that both the life of the mother and the baby are at imminent danger of death. Abortion is not only a crime but it is also against the moral values. Some women carry out abortions in order to purse their carriers, whereas others argue that they can choose what they want to do with their bodies. Such thinking shouldn’t go without challenge.
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New Idea in Mortuary Science: Dissolving Bodies With Lye

By Norma Love / The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. -- A new option is generating interest - dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain. The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses. It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers.
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Pat Robertson Kowtows to Communist Chinese

By John Lofton / The American View
Like many of us who have been watching and reading about the Red China/Olympic/Tibet protests, Pat Robertson is appalled. But, Robertson has a slightly different take from what you would guess would be the reaction of your typical Christian/conservative. Robertson is appalled at the actions of the protesters! Wow! Where is that "word of knowledge" when it’s needed? On his "700 Club" TV show recently, Robertson said: "I'm just appalled at this. This isn't the time to make some political statement... . The Olympics [go] all the way back to Greece. For these protesters to take this opportunity to slam China is just wrong."
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Supreme Court to Consider Chinese Forced Abortion Asylum Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider appeals by two men whose partners were forced to undergo abortions in China. U.S. courts have taken "varying approaches" to petitions for asylum by Chinese men who argue that they have suffered from the country's one-child-per-family policy. The Bush administration is opposing the two petitions for asylum for the men, although there is no dispute that women can seek asylum under the law. As part of China's one-child policy, couples are prohibited to marry until the man is 22 and the woman is 20, but the government says that many people enter into traditional marriages at younger ages. As part of a report on human rights released in March, the U.S. State Department found that Chinese authorities sometimes impose forced abortions or sterilizations for people who seek to have children and are not legally married, or who want more than one child.
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Grand Jury May Reissue Subpoenas in Tiller Case

By Ron Sylvester / The Wichita Eagle
A Sedgwick County district judge said Thursday that a grand jury investigating a Wichita abortion provider may have to issue new subpoenas for patient records. Judge Paul Buchanan did not rule on whether he would enforce or reject the subpoenas to George Tiller's clinic in light of a Kansas Supreme Court decision earlier this week. The state's highest court outlined specific findings Buchanan would have to make before ruling on the order for more than 2,000 patient records and limiting the scope of the grand jury's request. During the hearing, the judge indicated that revised subpoenas may need to be issued.
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Police Affidavit Reveals Chilling Details About Baby's Death

PALMER -- A police affidavit is revealing some chilling details about the death of a newborn baby in Colorado. The affidavit says 22-year-old Morgan Hite of Wasilla secretly delivered a baby boy in a neighbor's bathtub, then wrapped him in a garbage bag, put him in a plastic tote and put the baby in a bedroom closet at her family's home in Grand Junction, Colo. The affidavit says the body remained hidden for two months before Hite's father and stepmother discovered it wrapped in a green towel. Hite has been charged in Colorado with first-degree murder and child abuse. She was arrested this week in Alaska.
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State Faces New Headache Over Vaccinating FLDS Children

A state requirement that children in foster care be inoculated against disease has prompted another round of headaches for lawyers who represent 464 children taken from a polygamist ranch last month. Most children are immunized against diseases including chicken pox, polio, measles and smallpox before they start school. But many, if not most of the children of the Yearning For Zion ranch, owned and operated by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, have not been immunized. All are homeschooled on the 1,700-acre ranch north of Eldorado.
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Arizona Children Killed by Abortions Might Increase

PHOENIX -- A panel of the state Board of Nursing is recommending that nurse practitioners be allowed to perform first-trimester abortions in Arizona. Without dissent, the board's Advance Practices Committee concluded that terminating a pregnancy during the first three months, using a procedure in which the fetus is vacuumed out of the womb, is within state laws and regulations about what a nurse practitioner can do. That sets the stage for a vote Wednesday by the full nursing board. The move, if approved, would give the board's formal approval to what Mary Andrews has been doing for Planned Parenthood of Arizona at its Tucson office for eight years.
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'Margaret Sanger' Protest held at UMW

FREDERICKSBURG -- A string of protesters lined the entrance to Dodd Auditorium on the University of Mary Washington campus March 20, as the school's Great Lives speaker series honored the late feminist Margaret Sanger. Sanger, who is credited for establishing in 1917 what would later become Planned Parenthood, worked to educate women on the contraceptive options available during the era. Many of Sanger's writings and protests lead to the legalization of and distribution of birth control to women across the county. "The truth is Margaret Sanger is a racist and she proposed eugenics as a form of birth control to the black and Hispanic population," said Dylan DeBruin, a protester staged outside of the auditorium.
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Walsh Construction out as Builder for Planned Parenthood

Walsh Construction, which weathered months of protest for planning to build a large abortion business in Portland’s African American neighborhood, is now off the job. Some opponents have sent notes of thanks to Walsh for distancing itself from the Planned Parenthood headquarters project in Northeast Portland. But it appears that the move did not come from the firm itself. Andrew Beyer, project manager for Walsh, says that construction at Northeast Beech and Martin Luther King Boulevard may go ahead with developers and Planned Parenthood opting to act as their own general contractors.
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Group Urges F.D.A. to Take Birth-Control Off Market

WASHINGTON -- A consumer advocacy group petitioned the government Thursday to pull the birth control patch off the market, calling it far riskier than the pill. "Ortho-Evra is a poor choice for women," Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the group, Public Citizen, wrote the Food and Drug Administration. Warnings about the Ortho-Evra weekly patch have escalated since a 2005 investigation by The Associated Press found that patch users had higher rates of life-threatening blood clots than did women who took birth control pills.
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Pro-Choice Politicians Take Papal Communion

By Julia Duin / The Washington Times
Despite a 2004 order from the future Pope Benedict XVI barring pro-choice Catholic politicians from the Communion table, a quintet of elected officials flouted his wishes twice during his recent six-day visit here by partaking of the sacrament right before his eyes. The bishops whose job it is to enforce the pope's wishes have been all over the map in responding. While New York Cardinal Edward Egan publicly chastised former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for taking Communion during an April 19 Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, the bishops of Washington, Boston and Norwalk, Conn., have not disciplined members of their flock who partook April 17 at Nationals Park. In fact, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a liberal Massachusetts Democrat, got a personalized delivery of Communion, said Dan Skehan, a businessman from Lancaster, Pa., who sat in Section 216 directly above the senator.
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Premature Baby Study Stokes Row on Murdering Them by Abortion Past the Limits of Viability

The limits of viability for the survival of premature babies appear to have been reached, a team from the University of Leicester has concluded. Their new study appears in the British Medical Journal online the week before Parliament is due to debate the time limit on abortion. The increasing survival of very premature babies has led some people to suggest that the limit should be lowered from the present 24 weeks. Significant improvements in the survival of babies born at 24 and 25 weeks. Of 497 babies admitted to intensive care in 2000–05, 236 (47 per cent) survived to discharge compared with 174 of 490 (36 per cent) in 1994–95. The Trent region is reasonably representative of Britain, say the authors.
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Suspect in Pregnant Woman's Death Charged With Double Murder

SANTA CRUZ -- Santa Cruz County prosecutors said today they have charged a former store manager with two counts of murder in the 2006 slaying of a pregnant Ben Lomond woman who worked as a cashier at the store. Michael McClish, 39, is already serving 18 years to life in prison for a separate conviction on charges of rape, sodomy and assault with a hatchet. McClish emerged early on as a suspect in the slaying of Joanna "Asha" Veil, who disappeared Sept. 9, 2006, after leaving work at Ben Lomond Market, authorities said. Veil was almost seven months pregnant, and her fetus also is considered a murder victim, District Attorney Bob Lee said today.
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Michael McClish to Be Charged in 2006 Slaying of Pregnant Woman
SANTA CRUZ -- The only person ever publicly named a suspect in the 2006 slaying of a pregnant Ben Lomond woman was arrested on two counts of murder Wednesday. Michael Patrick McClish, 38, will be charged with killing Joanna "Asha" Veil, 28, and her unborn child, Anina, today, according to authorities at a Wednesday afternoon press conference at the District Attorney's Office. District Attorney Bob Lee called the double-homicide "a possible death [penalty] case" but said he and his staff had yet to decide if they will pursue a capital case against McClish.

Fairground Toilet-Mom Charged With Murder

BRIDGETON -- A 14-year-old mother has been charged with murdering her baby, who was found dead in the tank of a public toilet, Cumberland County Prosecutor Ron Casella said Wednesday. The girl, a Bridgeton resident, gave birth to the baby boy in a bathroom stall at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds during a Cinco de Mayo celebration Sunday and allegedly removed the lid of a working toilet and hid the living baby inside. Cleaning crews discovered the body Monday.
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Autopsy: Newborn boy drowned
MILLVILLE -- A newborn boy found Monday morning stuffed in a toilet tank in a bathroom at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds drowned, an autopsy report concluded Tuesday. The Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office identified a 14-year-old Bridgeton girl as the mother. The baby's death is being investigated as a homicide, county Prosecutor Ronald Casella said late Tuesday afternoon. "There was liquid in the stomach and the lungs were aerated, according to the autopsy," meaning the baby was alive and had taken at least one breath before he died, Casella said.

Baby drowned; mother is 14-year-old from Bridgeton
MILLVILLE -- The newborn boy discovered Monday morning by a clean-up crew in a toilet's water tank at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds drowned, authorities said late Tuesday night. "We have preliminarily found the cause of death is drowning," Prosecutor Ron Casella said. "The mother is a 14 year old from Bridgeton." An autopsy was performed on the baby Tuesday morning. The prosecutor said no charges have been filed at this time, adding any further action in this case wouldn't occur until Wednesday. It is being investigated as a homicide.

Dead Baby Was In Closet for 2 Months

Morgan Hite secretly delivered a baby boy in a neighbor's bathtub, then wrapped him in a garbage bag, put him in a plastic tote and shelved the container in a bedroom closet at her family's Grand Junction, Colo., home, according to a police affidavit made public Wednesday. The child's body remained hidden for two months before Hite's father and stepmother discovered the decomposing body wrapped in a bloody green towel, the affidavit says.
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Wasilla Woman Awaits Extradition on Newborn Murder Charges
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Wasilla woman is under arrest and being held for extradition to Colorado to answer murder charges in the death of her newborn. Morgan Hite, 22, is currently being held on a fugitive from justice warrant. But in Colorado she's accused of secretly giving birth in late February while visiting her parents. Colorado authorities claim she then placed the infant in a plastic bag inside a storage tote, which she hid in a bedroom closet. Hite returned to Alaska early last month.

Baby left to die in Junction closet; mom held
Rocky Mountain News
GRAND JUNCTION -- An Alaska woman stowed her newborn boy in a tote bag and left him to die in the closet of her parents' Grand Junction house after giving birth to the child, police said in her arrest affidavit. Police arrested 22-year-old Morgan Hite in Wasilla, Alaska on investigation of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death. Robert Kurtzman, a forensic pathologist, said the baby which was found dead more than two months after his birth had been born alive.

Opponents Hot As Personhood Initiative Gains Steam

DENVER -- Medical professionals are fighting a ballot initiative that would define when life begins. Opponents of a controversial constitutional amendment gathered on the west steps of the state capitol Tuesday, urging Coloradans to avoid signing a petition that would put the "personhood" proposal on the November ballot. The measure would define "personhood" as the beginning of conception. (Video: See Baby Killers and Bigots Opposed to Personhood) Opponents worry the permanent addition to the state constitution would open a Pandora's Box.
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Increasing Concern Over HPV Vaccine

If you are the parent of a young girl you most likely have heard of a first of its kind vaccine named GARDASIL, developed to protect against the viruses which can cause cervical cancer. The FDA's approval of the vaccine triggered efforts in Florida and across the nation to mandate its use for 11 and 12 year old girls. There is an increasing concern over the use of the vaccine. Christina Bell's daughter, Brittney, was one of the young girls who recieved the vaccine. Just weeks later, her life took a radical turn for the worse. Seemingly, in a moment's time, Brittney's left leg became paralyzed, her ankle swinging like a rag doll's. Even with a shoe brace, she walks with a limp.
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Stem Cell Agency Grants $271 Million Despite Abortion Foes

LOS ANGELES -- No longer hampered by legal challenges, California's stem cell agency announced $271 million in grants Wednesday to build new research laboratories. A dozen universities and research centers will receive funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a $3 billion stem cell research agency that Californians approved through Proposition 71 in 2004. In a statement Wednesday, Schwarzenegger praised California for investing three times more in embryonic stem cell research than the National Institutes of Health.
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Peaceful Pro-Life Display Vandalized by Student Senator on Wisconsin Campus

StudentsForLife.org
Arlington, VA -- On Thursday, May 1, 2008, a peaceful Cemetery of the Innocents display at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP) was vandalized by a Student Senator, Roderick King. After having their display vandalized on the night of April 30th, several members from the UWSP pro-life group, Pointers for Life, were repairing the display around 11am on the morning of May 1st when a group of angry students, lead by UWSP Student Senator Roderick King, began to walk though the rows, taking crosses from the ground and throwing them.
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Student senate leader tells pro-lifers to censor their message
A student senate leader at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has told pro-life display supporters they have no right to express their opinion on the volatile issue of abortion. "It's not your responsibility," Roderick King, a sophomore at the school and member of its student senate, shouted at those who had assembled a display of white crosses in the campus lawn – with university permission.

Late Abortions Set Record In Denmark

The number of abortions after the first trimester have risen sharply due to scans not being offered until the second trimester. More mothers than ever are having late abortions, primarily due to the timing of scans that determine defects in the foetus. According to figures from the Board of Health's Abortion Appeals Committee, a record 818 women received abortions after the first trimester in 2007. A main reason for the increasing number of late abortions is ironically linked to the progress of technology. Nuchal translucency scans for Down's syndrome and a later scan for physical defects are only effective after the first trimester, and therefore parents can only find out about the abnormalities after the first 12 weeks.
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Phelps Family Planning Protest of Bush Visit

GREENSBURG, KS -- Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps, confirmed to The Signal Friday morning that "probably 15 to 20" persons affiliated with the congregation will be in Greensburg the afternoon of May 4 to picket the appearance of President George W Bush, who's scheduled to address the school's graduating seniors during a 3 p.m. commencement. Bush is a target of the church, according to Phelps-Roper, because of his leadership betraying biblical principles and "pretending he's righteous when he's given this country over to the fags." Shirley said she won't be certain until the middle of next week exactly where in Greensburg the WBC will set up to picket the day's events. "I haven't looked at the overhead map or spoken to the police," she said. "But we'll be within sight and sound of what's going on... we'll be able to deliver our message to those who suck up to Bush."
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Kansas High Court Upholds Citizen-Petitioned Grand Juries in Tiller Case

By David Klepper / Kansas City Star
TOPEKA -- The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state's system of allowing citizen-petitioned grand juries is constitutional. The unanimous ruling delivers a victory for anti-abortion groups that have used citizen-initiated grand juries to investigate alleged violations of state abortion law in Sedgwick and Johnson counties. Kansas is one of only a few states that allow citizens to prompt the creation of grand juries through petition drives. The challenge to the law was brought by Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, who has twice been the subject of grand jury investigations.
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'Pro-Choice' Teens Sentenced to Life for Murdering Unborn Baby

CINCINNATI -- A judge sentenced two teens to life in prison for a beating that injured a pregnant woman and killed her unborn child. Alfonso Price, 16, and Jebrell Wright, 17, will be eligible for parole in 23 years for their convictions on murder, felonious assault and kidnapping charges in the July 2007 attack. Authorities said the pair attacked 18-year-old Kerria Anderson, who told Price she was pregnant at the time with his unborn child. The teens stomped Anderson in the hallway of an Over-The-Rhine apartment building after she refused to get an abortion, investigators said.
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Teens Accused of Beating Woman to Kill Fetus Convicted of Murder
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI -- Two teens were convicted of murder Monday in the death of a fetus by kicking, beating and stomping on its mother, who was the girlfriend and cousin of one of the boys. The Hamilton County Common Pleas jury also found Alfonso Price, 16, and Jebrell Wright, 17, guilty of kidnapping and felonious assault for the July 11 beating in an apartment. During closing arguments earlier Monday, Prosecutor Rick Gibson said the boys had planned to beat 18-year-old Kerria Anderson until she miscarried the seven-month-old fetus. She told Price he had fathered the baby, he asked her to abort the pregnancy because he had recently discovered they were cousins, and she refused, Gibson said.

Baby Killers and Bigots Oppose Personhood Amendment

A group of doctors, politicians and reproductive-rights leaders campaigned Tuesday from the Capitol steps against a ballot initiative to define personhood as starting at the moment of fertilization. Calling their campaign "Protect Families, Protect Choices," group members said they represent a broad coalition opposing the amendment to extend constitutional rights and due process to the unborn. Mary Fairbanks, a doctor who teaches general-practice physicians at St. Anthony's Family Medicine Residency, said the amendment was vague and deceptive. Initiative supporters, led by Colorado for Equal Rights, have until May 13 to submit just over 76,000 voter signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot.
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Campaign Against 'Personhood' Amendment Launched
A group of doctors, politicians and reproductive-rights leaders campaigned today from the Capitol steps against a ballot initiative to define personhood as starting at the moment of fertilization. Calling their campaign "Protect Families, Protect Choices," group members said they represent a broad coalition opposing the amendment extending constitutional rights and due process of law to the unborn. They said such a law would allow the government to intrude into Coloradans' private medical decisions (sic). Mary Fairbanks, a doctor who teaches general-practice physicians at St. Anthony's Family Medicine Residency, said the amendment scared her because it was vague and deceptive. Initiative supporters, led by Colorado for Equal Rights, have until May 13 to submit just over 76,000 voter signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot.

Darwin, Hitler, and the Culture of Death

Michael Baggot
Ben Stein has suffered extensive media criticism for drawing the connection between Darwin, Hitler, and the modern eugenics movements in a powerful 10-minute section of his film "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". In an MSNBC.com review, Arthur Caplan calls the connection Stein draws between Darwin's theory and the Holocaust "despicable". Neo-Darwinians on the whole have unleashed a barrage of insults at Stein and his work. They have also, however, completely failed to address the intimidating body of evidence Stein presents to support his claims.
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Dead Newborn Found in Fairground Toilet

MILLVILLE, NJ -- On Sunday, the Cumberland County Fairgrounds was the site of a celebration. On Monday, with Cinco de Mayo revelers long since gone, cleaning crews made a gruesome discovery when they found what was originally thought to be an aborted fetus in the upper tank of a public toilet. A preliminary investigation revealed it was a newborn baby boy brought to full-term. County Prosecutor Ron Casella said an autopsy is scheduled to determine whether or not the baby was alive when it was born. The ethnicity of the child is not yet known and investigators are not sure just how long the baby was hidden in the tank before being discovered. It is also unknown if the baby sustained any post-birth trauma.
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Arrest Made In 2006 Slaying of Pregnant Cashier

SANTA CRUZ -- Sheriff's deputies announced late Tuesday they have made an arrest in the September 2006 slaying of Joanna "Asha" Veil, a cashier at the Ben Lomond Market. Veil was seven months pregnant at the time. She and her unborn child, Anina, were killed in the homicide. The Sheriff's Office refused to release the name of the suspect late Tuesday, saying it would be announced at a press conference at 2 p.m. today. The suspect is set to be arraigned Thursday in Santa Cruz Superior Court on homicide charges.
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Woman Accused of Suffocating Infant Son, Heard Voices Telling Her to Sacrifice Boy

Court records show that a woman accused of suffocating her 2-year-old son told police she heard voices telling her to sacrifice him while she was reading the Bible. The Winnebago County employee is in custody but not formally charged. The Winnebago County coroner concluded yesterday the boy was murdered, but did not release a cause. Neenah police asked the Milwaukee County district attorney's office to file homicide charges against the boy's mother.
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Mom Pleads Guilty to Drowning Daughter

A Lakeville woman whose 11-month-old daughter drowned in the bathtub while her mother shopped online for shoes pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree manslaughter. Katherine Bodem, 38, had been charged with the death of Cecilia Bodem, whom she had left with her 2-year-old brother in a bathtub while Bodem was on the Internet. According to the Dakota County attorney's office, Bodem called 911 about 5:45 p.m. Aug. 25 to report that a child was not breathing. Officers arrived and found Cecilia unresponsive. Neighbors had administered CPR and tried unsuccessfully to revive the infant. A forensic examination of Bodem's computer showed that she had been using the Internet search engines to search for shoes for 19 minutes before she placed the 911 call.
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Appeals Court 'Protects' Christians as Plan B Case Progresses

Pharmacists who have moral objections to dispensing chemicals that cause abortions have won the latest battle in their war with the abortion industry, which is trying to force them to dispense drugs such as RU-486 in violation of their conscience. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that pharmacists in Washington state will be protected during an appeal by state officials who earlier imposed a requirement for them to dispense abortifacients. The case developed when Kevin Stormans, an owner of Ralph's Thriftway, got a telephone call about the availability of Plan B. After discovering the abortion-inducing results, Stormans, a Christian, decided his store would not stock the product.
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EPA May Decide Not to Limit the Amount of Toxin in Water Supplies

A top Environmental Protection Agency official told a Senate committee Tuesday that there was "a distinct possibility" that the agency would not limit the amount of perchlorate, a toxic ingredient of solid rocket fuel, that is allowable in drinking water. State officials and water suppliers across the nation have been waiting for the EPA to set a standard for several years because perchlorate has contaminated the water supplies of at least 11 million people. Scientific studies have shown that the chemical blocks iodide and suppresses thyroid hormones, which are necessary for the normal brain development of a fetus or infant.
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China Accuses US of Shoddy Probe Into Tainted Heparin

BEIJING -- China's drug safety agency accused the United States on Tuesday of blocking Beijing's inquiry into a blood thinner linked to 81 deaths by refusing to provide details on victims and specifics about production. Two Chinese experts who attended a conference on the drug, heparin, in suburban Washington, D.C., last month said the U.S. determined a contaminant was likely to blame without considering other possible factors. Besides the deaths, hundreds of patients have suffered severe allergic reactions to large doses of heparin, which is used in dialysis and other treatments. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it suspects the problems stem from a contaminant the agency discovered in supplies of raw heparin coming from China - a compound derived from animal cartilage that so closely mimics heparin that routine tests can't detect it.
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Pregnancy Group Call for BPA Labels Over Bottle Fears

The use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in bottles and other food packaging continues to stir controversy, with calls this week from a UK-based pregnancy charity for mandatory labelling of the chemical when present in packs. The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) says that a clear labelling system, particularly on infant feeding bottles, should be introduced over fears that the chemical can leak into beverages and food. Some recent animal studies have indicated that high levels of BPA could be carcinogenic.
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N.D. Woman Gets 5 Years for Killing Her Unborn Child

A Garrison woman will spend five years in prison for causing the death of her unborn child. Michelle Behlesused prescription pain and muscle relaxant drugs while she was pregnant. At the time she was seven months along. She was also found guilty of possessing a controlled substance without a prescription and ingestion of a controlled substance. In a seperate case, Behles was sentenced for getting prescription drugs through deception. (See News Clip)
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Pregnant Bank Teller: Gunman Stopped Co-Workers From Helping Her

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -- A pregnant bank teller who lost the twins she was carrying after being shot during a holdup choked back tears Saturday as she recalled lying on the bank's floor, bleeding and pleading for help, as the gunman demanded money from her co-workers. Katherin Shuffield, 30, said the masked gunman jumped over her teller station and shot her once in the abdomen April 22 just after the Huntington Bank branch had opened for the day. As she lay bleeding on the floor, she said the gunman, who remains at large, refused to let her co-workers call 911 to get her medical assistance.
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McCain Will Seek Pro-Abort Judges Like Roberts and Alito

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Tuesday he would appoint judges in the mould of John Roberts, Samuel Alito and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist if he were elected in November. In an excerpt from a speech McCain was to give in Winston-Salem on Tuesday, the Arizona senator said he would "look for accomplished men and women with a proven record of excellence in the law, and a proven commitment to judicial restraint."
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Pro-Abort John Roberts:

• Radio Show Exposes Pro-Abortion View Of Bush Nominee John Roberts


• Continued Analysis Of Bush Nominee John Roberts Part II


• Continued Analysis Of Bush Nominee John Roberts, Part III


• Continued Analysis Of Bush Nominee John Roberts, Part IV


• Three Strikes Against John Roberts


• John Roberts: Accomplice In Crime


• Roberts' Words Give Abortion Foes Reason To Be Wary


• Since Bible And Catholic Catechism Denounce Homosexuality, Why Did John Roberts Help Homosexuals To Get Special Rights?


• John Roberts' Legal Help For Porn-Peddlers at Playboy


• Bible Repudiated As The Standard For Roberts' Judging

Pro-Abort Samuel Alito:

• Alito Hearings And How They Prove He Is Unqualified To Be A Judge


• Interviews Lawyer Who Fought For Ban On Partial-Birth Abortion Which Alito Voted Against


• Alito Not Pro-Life; Voted To Overturn Ban On Partial-Birth Abortion Which Is Infanticide


• Alito Says Pennsylvania's Pro-Life Law On Medicaid Abortions Too Strict; Didn't Allow 'Physical, Psychological' Exceptions


• In New Jersey Wrongful Death Suit Alito Agrees With Roe v. Wade That Unborn Child Not 'Constitutionally' A Person


• Specter Says Alito Accepts As 'Good Law' Griswold Case Which Was Neither 'Good' Nor 'Law' And Gave Us Roe v. Wade


• Alito Agrees With Anti-Christian 'Lemon' Test Denounced Repeatedly By Justice Scalia


• Jim Bopp Interview: Clueless Re: Courts, God's Law, Alito, And More


• Dumb Dogs, GOP Cheerleaders And Godless Judges: 'Christian' Groups Lie Down, Slumber, Ignore Alito's Pro-Abortion Record

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Proof McCain Is A Pro-Abort
Columbia Christians for Life / Covenant News Wire Service
Pro-Abort McCain votes for HHS funding with surgical abortion, chemical abortion, and fornication funding: HR 3010 - HHS Appropriations included: selected Medicaid surgical abortions (rape, incest, "life" of mother). Title X and Medicaid chemical abortions. Title X and Medicaid drugs and devices to unmarried teens with which to fornicate. Title X birth control to minors with which to fornicate, even if the minor child's (teen's) parents object to this intervention by the gov't.

Groups Push Bush to Impose Abortion Regulations

Advocacy groups have signed onto a letter that will press President Bush to reinstitute regulations (sic) that would strip federal funding for family planning groups if they refer patients to abortion doctors or share facilities with abortion providers. The letter will be sent to the White House Tuesday. Tom McClusky, vice president of government affairs at the Family Research Council, who is helping to organize the effort, said that nearly 80 conservative groups have signed onto the letter. Concerned Women for America and Eagle Forum, two other prominent conservative organizations, have joined the push, he said. “We respectfully ask that you make the necessary changes to the Title X regulations so that U.S. taxpayer funds are not used to promote and facilitate abortion,” the groups wrote in the letter. Title X provides nearly $300 million in federal funds to family planning groups such as Planned Parenthood.
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AP: Who Should MDs Let Die During Pandemic?

Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn't be treated. They include the very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia. The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Japan Steadily Becoming a Land of Few Children

TOKYO -- Japan celebrated a national holiday on Monday in honor of its children. But Children's Day might just as easily have been a national day of mourning. For this is the land of disappearing children and a slow-motion demographic catastrophe that is without precedent in the developed world. The number of children has declined for 27 consecutive years, a government report said over the weekend. Japan now has fewer children who are 14 or younger than at any time since 1908.
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3 Dead Infants Found in Freezer in Germany, Mother Arrested

OLPE, Germany -- A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing three of her babies after their bodies were discovered in the family freezer by her grown children looking for pizza, police said Monday. Police confirmed the grisly find Sunday night in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia after the woman turned herself in, officials said. The three infants are believed to have been born alive, but authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine how they died, said Johannes Daheim, a spokesman for prosecutors investigating the case.
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