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Botched Aborted Babies Left to Die

Botched Abortion Babies 'Left To Die'
Aborted babies which survive NHS terminations are being left to die, doctors and midwives claim. When injections supposed to end their lives in the womb fail, some babies are placed in dishes and left in side rooms, the Daily Mail reports. At least nine are known to have survived terminations in recent years. Campaigners tell the paper there are an average of two such cases each year. Most of the cases involve terminations at around 23 weeks, when babies have a chance of survival with ventilation and special care.

Government overhaul to avoid babies being born alive
Live Babies Being Born After Abortions
Leading doctors today called for a major overhaul to avoid babies being born alive after abortions. Pregnancy expert Professor Stuart Campbell has demanded rules should be tightened after it was revealed that at least nine babies are known to have survived terminations in recent years. He said injections that were supposed to end their lives in the womb failed to do so - and he called for stricter regulations to be enforced on the methods of abortion.

Baby Delivered In Toilet Bowl
Woman going to jail for only five years
after throwing baby's body off bridge
MARRYSVILLE, Ohio -- A judge sentenced a woman who delivered a baby in a toilet bowl to five years in prison for neglecting the boy and throwing his body off a bridge. Union County Common Pleas Judge Richard Parrott told Amy Detlor, 20, before sentencing her Monday that he couldn't understand how she could put her own needs above those of her newborn. Detlor was convicted last month on charges of reckless homicide, abuse of a corpse and child endangering, but a jury acquitted her of involuntary manslaughter, the most serious charge.

Dead Baby Found In Nebraska River
Police in Nebraska are searching for clues and looking for answers in the death of a baby found in a river. Authorities say the baby boy was discovered in the north fork of the Elkhorn River in Norfolk. His body was unclothed and had no external signs of injury. Autopsy results show the infant was only two days old and was in the river for about 30 minutes. Investigators are checking hospitals and nearby cities for recent births to find the child's mother.

Parents Murdered 4 Children
WARSAW, Poland -- A husband and wife were sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering their four children, whose mummified bodies were found in barrels at their family's apartment. The couple -- a 30-year-old man who has been identified only as Krzysztof N. and his 31-year-old wife, Jadwiga N. -- were charged after police in the city of Lodz found the barrels in a closet last year. They contained the bodies of five-year-old twin boys, killed about five years ago, and of two newborn babies. The couple's remaining child, a 12-year-old girl, has been placed in an orphanage.

Man Petitions Higher Court In Infanticide Case
A Washington man, convicted two years ago of third-degree murder in the shaking death of his infant daughter, petitioned the state Supreme Court last week to hear his appeal. A Greene County jury convicted Chad Willis Wynn, 25, of third-degree murder and aggravated assault, but found him not guilty of first-degree murder in the December 2000 death of 2-month-old Destiny Wynn. He is serving a 20- to 40-year sentance at State Correctional Institution at Frackville.

People Upset That Planned Parenthood
to Benefit From Ticket Proceeds
Every year, the Pima County Board of Supervisors chooses four local non-profit groups to receive the ticket proceeds from select Sidewinders games. At this Wednesday's game, the group that will benefit is Planned Parenthood. Some people, aren't too happy about the county's decision. Steve Aiken is a radio show host for KVOI-690 AM, a Christian radio station. Aiken says it's ridiculous that the county would select Planned Parenthood, a group that supports abortion, to benefit from a community event like this.

New Zealand Baby Killer in the Olympics
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand's Olympic federation is defending the selection for its Athens team of a boxer convicted of killing his infant daughter. Soulan Pownceby served four years in jail beginning in 1995 for the manslaughter of his 5-month-old child. Since his release, he had seven more convictions, most recently for an assault on a woman four years ago.

Rudolph Change Of Venue Hearing Begins Today
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- On Tuesday, attorneys for accused abortion clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will argue for a change of venue in a Huntsville courtroom. Rudolph’s attorneys’ argument is that it would be nearly impossible to find an impartial jury in Birmingham because of the amount of media coverage and the residents’ subsequent familiarity with the case. Polling numbers unsealed Monday indicated that the further you move away from Birmingham, the less the public knows.

Eric Rudolph chronological updates
Special Report from The Covenant News
A bomb exploded January 29, 1998 outside the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. Robert "Sandy" Sanderson, a police officer moonlighting as a security guard at the clinic, was killed in the blast. Emily Lyons, a nurse at the clinic, was severely wounded.

Federal Appeals Court Orders More Proceedings in
South Dakota's 30-Year-Old Abortion Regulation Laws
PIERRE, S.D. - Further proceedings must be held in a federal court lawsuit that challenges several 30-year-old South Dakota laws that regulate abortions, an appeals court ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier of Rapid City in 2002 struck down laws that generally make it a crime to perform abortions outside a hospital after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The judge ruled that the requirement was unconstitutional because it imposed an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion.

Judgment pulls up lame in Kansas City
June 14, 2004 Report by Liz Thomas
The WAA Team is leaving Kansas City, which has given them quite a story for their journals. As the Team was nearing the Kansas border, Flip began feeling compelled to make a change of plans and to take a northern trek up to visit Kansas City. ("A man's heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps." -Prov.16:9) When they arrived, Judgment, the horse, came up lame, which hindered their progress. They had to get him checked out and things were not looking too good for him. There's a possibility that Judgment may not be able to continue the Walk, which is sad for all the Team. They have literally fallen in love with this animal. They are asking for your prayers for him and for wisdom in how to proceed.

Trucks With Aborted Fetus Images Tour Downtown
PEORIA - A 7-foot-tall picture of an aborted fetus is hard to ignore, which is what anti-abortion activists were banking on Monday. Members of the California-based Center for Bio-Ethical Reform drove three 21-foot-long rental-like trucks around Downtown Peoria on Monday afternoon, plastered with images of fetuses aborted in the first trimester of pregnancy.

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Pro-Life Billboards On the Streets
Pro-life activists took their message to the streets of Peoria on Monday. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform will spend the next week using mobile billboards to drive home their point that abortions kill un-born humans. The trucks display images of aborted human embryos and early fetuses. According to Bill Calvin of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, "What I don't understand is why people are upset with us about the pictures. It's the reality that should be upsetting the dead babies that should make people angry."

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See: Abortion Signs Catalog
Order by mail, print out the order form.

Anti-Abortion Message
A group opposed to abortion is using a new vehicle to get its message out and to make sure people will not forget it. It's called the Key States Initiative, an anti-abortion campaign aimed at driving home a shocking message. The reproductive choice campaign has already made its way through eight states and will hit twenty-two by election time. The latest picture campaign can be seen on trucks driving through downtown Peoria. The high-resolution photos depict first trimester or eleven-week old aborted fetuses. But, some think the images are just too gruesome for everyone to see.

Louisiana's Cloning Ban Bills Both Fail
Louisiana will not become the seventh state in the nation to outlaw human cloning despite last-minute maneuvering Monday by lawmakers to hammer out a compromise ban. Legislators left Baton Rouge for the second year in a row without regulating the use of cloned cells for reproduction or research.

Clone Wars End With No Bill, Plenty of Disagreement
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The big debate is on whether the result is a tiny package of possible miracle cures or a human life owed all the protections the law has to offer. Is compromise possible? Senate president Don Hines thought about it for a moment Monday night. "I doubt it," he conceded. The 2004 session had just ended with no agreement on how far to go in banning cloning.

Study of Post-Abortion Depression Proposed
Proposed legislation to fund research on post-abortion depression is a long-overdue step in the right direction, say the bill's proponents. The Post-Abortion Depression Research and Care Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican, allocates $15 million to the National Institutes of Health in the next five years to "expand and intensify research and related activities" of post-abortion conditions. The bill is in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

More After The Morning
One of the latest anti-abortion/pro-life targets in Alabama appears to be the "morning-after" pill. The pill, distributed at state health departments, prevents most pregnancies if taken within 72 hours of sexual relations. "This is promoting a whole new market for young teenagers to get pregnant and run to the health department to get bailed out," John Giles, president of the Christian Coalition in Alabama told the Associated Press.

Springfield to Get Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Clinic
The "problem child" in elementary school is getting early, better therapy these days, thanks to increased awareness of conditions such as attention-deficit disorder. But the true diagnosis for unusual behavior may go overlooked, because medical schools spend little time on the topic: fetal alcohol syndrome. Each year, it is estimated that 150 babies are born in Missouri with FAS, the nation's leading — and most preventable — cause of mental retardation. It occurs when a woman drinks during pregnancy.

Friends: Laci Was Tired, Stopped Walking Dog
A string of Laci Peterson’s friends testified Monday that pregnancy had forced her to stop exercising, as prosecutors tried to discredit her husband’s story of what happened the day she vanished. Scott Peterson claims his wife planned to walk the couple’s dog the morning he left for a solo fishing trip and returned to an empty home.

GE 4D Ultrasound Technology Helps
Doctors Detect Fetal Heart Defects
WAUKESHA, Wis.-- Imagine this: Joseph Smith is just a few minutes old, and his family can't wait to meet him - but first he has an appointment with a heart surgeon. During his mother's pregnancy, doctors using a new medical imaging technology from GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) found a defect in Joseph's heart that if not repaired could cause a serious condition, or even death, during infancy. An immediate and successful surgery will mean Joseph will have the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. The technology that is helping doctors find fetal heart defects is GE's Voluson 730 ultrasound system. It lets doctors look at multi-dimensional images of a fetus' heart. By identifying heart defects in the early stages of a woman's pregnancy, doctors can recommend proper care to give the baby the best possible chance of survival. Joseph isn't a real child, but his story is all too common: as many as one in every 250 babies are born with heart defects, according to Greggory R. DeVore, M.D., director of the Fetal Diagnostic Centers in Pasadena, Calif.

AIDS is exhausting healthcare worldwide: UN
GENEVA — The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is threatening efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health goals that are supposed to improve the lives of women and reduce poverty, the head of the United Nations population agency said Monday. "We need to make reproductive care accessible to the poor," she said, adding that the UN Population Fund also is careful to "take the social and cultural environment into account." Since 2002, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has blocked $34 million US in annual funds appropriated by Congress for the UN Population Fund. (Read: White House Transfers UNFPA Funding To USAID)

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The $34 Million Red Herring:
Bush Holds Funds On Family Planning
But Increases International Family Planning to $480.5 million
By Amy Fagan / The Washington Times
The Bush administration said yesterday that it will not pay the $34 million Congress has earmarked for U.N. family-planning programs overseas, a population-control initiative that conservative groups say tolerates abortions and forces sterilizations in China. (But) Richard Boucher, State Department spokesman said the $34 million Congress appropriated in December 2001 will instead be spent through the U.S. Agency for International Development and noted that this will bring to $480.5 million the total spent by the United States this year on population programs worldwide.

Bush Betrays Pro-Life Cause Again,
Backs Federal Aid to Overseas Abortion Providers
By Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News

Again and again, President G. W. Bush has betrayed the pro-life cause. The latest example is his push for $15 billion in U.S. tax dollars to be sent to Africa for A.I.D.S prevention.

According to British sources, "President George W. Bush dismissed a bid by conservative Christians to restrict his $15 billion foreign initiative to fight A.I.D.S. to only those programs that reject abortion and promote abstinence." In other words, Bush proposes to send federal dollars to those organizations that promote abortion and promiscuity.

The New York Times concurred with the British report by saying, "Ignoring objections from his conservative base, President Bush is to make a Rose Garden speech on Tuesday in support of a $15 billion bill to fight A.I.D.S. internationally that will direct some money to groups that promote abortion."

Posted by Editor at June 22, 2004 06:49 AM