I've been asked a lot lately why we at
Liberty Counsel are pushing so hard to
enact the Born-Alive Bill into law. The
most common question we receive
is "Why do we need a new law — aren't
babies protected from murder after birth?"
The sad truth is that there exists a
loophole in our legal system whereby
survivors of abortion — fully born,
living, breathing infants — are not
treated as actual, living human beings in
the eyes of the law.
Worse yet, as our client Sandra Merritt
exposed in her earth-shattering videos,
unscrupulous abortionists are taking
advantage of this loophole in order to
deliver babies alive — then chopping their
living bodies up for sale to the
"research" market because organs
harvested from living babies command a
higher sale price than organs harvested
from aborted corpses.
The sheer number of such questions we have
fielded lately underscores the
ever-present need for what we do here at
Liberty Counsel. The cases we handle —
like Sandra Merritt's — are just as
important as the education we provide to
the public, to the members of Congress and
to the Trump administration.
The Lord has called all of us here at
Liberty Counsel to be defenders of truth.
But without you, we can neither defend the
legal rights of Christians under attack in
the courtroom, nor can we defend the
rights of the unborn in Washington, DC, by
educating elected officials on the horrors
of abortion.
Over 60 million children have been lost to
abortion in America since 1973's
unconstitutional Roe V. Wade ruling. As I
mentioned earlier, Planned Parenthood
alone will butcher another 345,000 this
year. And some of those children will
continue to be butchered ALIVE.
Please, help fund the fight for their
lives today.
Tuesday's cloture vote on the Born-Alive
bill, which was needed to end the Democrat
filibuster preventing a full vote, did not
go our way. BUT we made a lot of progress
in pulling reluctant legislators to our
side on this issue, including earning the
votes of all six "swing" votes!
We will continue to fight the Democrat
filibuster, even as we work to change the
hearts and minds of every representative
and senator in the United States Congress.
Our fight will not be finished until every
baby enjoys the right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness!
Life begins at conception
as a single, separate, living cell.
Nothing new is added except oxygen
and nutrition. Fertilization occurs
when a sperm and ovum join to form a
single cell, full of life and
bearing the unique genetic imprint
of a person who has never existed
before. The DNA in the 46
chromosomes of that small cell
contain full instructions about that
new individual’s sex, eye color,
foot size, brain capacity, and other
physical traits.
1 WEEK:Implantation
On about the sixth day,
the growing baby attaches to the
wall of the mother’s uterus. That
rich nutrient lining welcomes the
tiny tenant, and soon the child is
sending out the chemical signal that
can be detected in a home pregnancy
test. Before the second week is
over, the cells of the child’s body
will have already begun segregating
themselves into the various layers
that will give rise to the brain,
nervous system, skin, digestive
system, muscles, bones and
circulatory system.
3-4 Weeks: A Beating
Heart
The Baby’s heart begins it
first beats as early as 18 days
after fertilization, often before
the mother even suspects she is
pregnant. Between the third and
fourth weeks, the baby’s head and
spinal column become easily
distinguishable, and arm buds
appear. Legs will begin to appear
days later. The umbilical cord
forms, transporting oxygen and
nutrients to the child.
6 WEEK: Brain Waves
Fingers are forming and
the child’s mouth and lips are
apparent. The child begins his or
her first movements. At six weeks,
the baby has brain waves that can be
measured with and
electroencephalogram.
10-11 WEEKS: Organ
Systems in place
The baby has eyelids,
fingernails, and fingerprints, and
can grasp and object. The kidneys
begin to form urine. All body
systems are in place and active: the
baby has skeletal structure, nerves,
and circulation.
12 Week: Movements and
Characteristics
Though too small to be
felt by the mother, the baby reaches
peak frequency of movement during
the third month. The baby’s sex can
be visually determined, and the
child’s eyes, ears, and face begin
to display distinctive
characteristics.
14 Week: a Miracle of
Development
Eyebrows have formed, eye
movements are seen. For a couple of
weeks now, this baby has had all the
body parts required to experience
pain, including the nerves and
spinal cord.
16 Weeks: Making His or
Her Presence Known
The baby become large and
active enough for the mother to feel
movement of turn, kicks, and
somersaults that at some point even
become visible to the outside.
20 Week: Hearing
Mother’s Voice
In the fifth and sixth
months, the baby responds to music,
sudden noises, and voices,
especially that of his or her
mother. Over the coming weeks, the
baby will increase seven times in
weight and nearly double in height
23 Weeks…. Or Earlier:
Viability
Viability is the time when
the baby can survive outside the
mother. Not long ago, viability was
at 30 weeks, then 25. Today, babies
at 22 or 23 weeks have been saved,
and even some younger babies have
survived. What will viability be
tomorrow?*
What you Don’t know can
hurt you
Few women faced with an
unwanted pregnancy are told of the
marvelous development of the life
growing within them. In the absence
of information, abortion seems to be
the right decision at the moment.
But they are not warned of what will
really happen to their baby or of
the possible physical and
psychological effects of abortion
that may stay with them the rest of
their lives. And they are rarely
told of the alternatives to save the
life of their child.
Some doctors say that
abortion is a routine operation to
remove “ fetal tissue” But in truth,
is the destruction of a living human
being. One young woman, who later
regretted an abortion stated. “ The
doctor said, A little fluid out and
some fluid injected, severe cramps,
and then the fetus is expelled. That
isn’t what it was. I felt my girl
thrash around for an hour-and-a-half
until she died a slow death.
The mother is also exposed
to long term complications.
Incomplete abortions resulting in
blood clotting, bleeding,
hemorrhage, and infections are not
uncommon.
Menstrual disturbance,
miscarriage, tubal pregnancies, and
sterility are always risk and tend
to multiply with successive
abortions. RU-486 and other
abortifacients can cause severe
birth defects in any child that
survives this self-induce abortion,
and severe side effects for the
mother. Several maternal deaths have
been reported due to the use of this
“miracle pill”
Long-term psychological
and spiritual effects include guilt,
anxiety, depression, anger, sense of
loss, nightmares, death scenes,
deterioration of self-image, and
even suicide. Cervical lacerations
and uterine perforation can result
from suction and D&C procedures.
Convulsions, severe vomiting, and
diarrhea are common with
prostaglandin abortion. Cardiac
arrest and maternal deaths have also
been reported.
A Life-Giving
Alternative
But there is hope for both
the mother and the child. If you
have a problem pregnancy, we want
you know that God cares for you and
the unborn child growing within you.
He knew about you before you were
even born: “O Lord, you have
searched me and know me…. My frame
was not hidden from you, when I was
being made in secret… the days that
were formed for me, when as yet
there were none of them” (from Psalm
139)
God
wants to bring life - not death - out
of your difficult situation. He has
already provided lifelines to help
you.
Ala. Supreme Court: 'Unborn
Child Has Inalienable Right to Life
From its Earliest Stages
By
Michael W Chapman
CNSNews.com
| Apr 23, 2014
In a
case about a pregnant woman who used
cocaine and endangered her unborn child,
the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed (8-1)
that the word "child" includes "an
unborn child," and that the law
therefore "furthers the State's interest
in protecting the life of children from
the earliest stages of their
development."
In his concurring opinion, Alabama Chief
Justice Roy S. Moore wrote that "an
unborn child has an inalienable right to
life from its earliest stages of
development," and added, "I write
separately to emphasize that the
inalienable right to life is a gift of
God that civil government must secure
for all persons - born and unborn."
Kansas
set to enact life-starts-"at
fertilization" abortion law
By
Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Kansas
| Apr 6, 2013
(Reuters)
- Kansas
is set to enact one of the most
restrictive abortion laws in the nation
which defines life as beginning "at
fertilization" and imposes a host of new
regulations.
The Kansas
House of Representatives passed the bill
90-30 on Friday night, a few hours after
the Senate backed it on a 28-10 vote.
Strongly anti-abortion Republican
Governor Sam Brownback is expected to
sign it into law. Republicans hold
strong majorities in both houses.
As we consider candidates
for President of the United States
It seems appropriate to give consideration
to their position on one of those rights
with which we are endowed by our Creater-
namely, LIFE. There is one candidate who,
prior to his remarkable career in the U.S.
House of Representatives, delivered 4,000
babies- and that is Dr. Ron Paul.
Following are some portions from an
article by National Public Radio which is
sixth of their series on various careers
of former Presidents, as well as some of
the candidates for the Presidency in 2012:
Obama Threatens to Veto Bill
For No Abortion $ in Obamacare
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com
10/12/11
The Obama administration released a
Statement of Administration Policy today
threatening to veto a bill the House
plans to vote on tomorrow that ensures
no federal taxpayer funding for
abortions under Obamacare.
On September 9, 2009, President Barack
Obama addressed a joint session of
Congress and claimed about the Obamacare
legislation: “And one more
misunderstanding I want to clear
up—under our plan, no federal dollars
will be used to fund abortions, and
federal conscience laws will remain in
place.”
To hold him accountable to that pledge,
the House of Representatives will vote
Thursday on legislation that would stop
abortion funding in the program. H.R.
358, Protect Life Act, makes it clear
that no funds authorized or appropriated
by the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (PPACA), including tax credits
and cost-sharing reductions, may be used
to pay for abortion or abortion
coverage. It specifies that individual
people or state or local governments
must purchase a separate elective
abortion rider or insurance coverage
that includes elective abortion but only
as long as that is done with private
funds and not monies authorized by
Obamacare.
But the new Obama administration
statement says: “The Administration
strongly opposes H.R. 358 because, as
previously stated in the Statement of
Administration Policy on H.R. 3, the
legislation intrudes on women’s
reproductive freedom and access to
health care and unnecessarily restricts
the private insurance choices that women
and their families have today.”
“Longstanding Federal policy prohibits
Federal funds from being used for
abortions, except in cases of rape or
incest, or when the life of the woman
would be endangered,” the new Obama
administration statement says, referring
to the Hyde Amendment, which does not
apply to the Obamacare law.
The pro-life movement has already
worked to stop taxpayer funding of
abortions that state attempted to
implement under Obamacare. The Obama
administration came under heavy fire
from a pro-life group that discovered,
in three states, officials had approved
paying for abortions under new high risk
insurance programs created under the
national health care law. The National
Right to Life Committee exposed the
abortion funding and the Obama
administration responded at first by
claiming the executive order Obama
signed prohibits the funding NRLC
uncovered. Then, Obama officials revised
the statement to say they promised the
high risk insurance programs would not
fund abortions in Pennsylvania, New
Mexico, Maryland or any other states.
“All the major pro-abortion groups are
now openly proclaiming what National
Right to Life said all along — neither
the law Obama signed, nor his executive
order on abortion, prohibit federal
funding of abortion in the high-risk
program,” Douglas Johnson, the
legislative director for the National
Right to Life Committee who uncovered
the abortion funding, previously said.
The bill also specifies that insurance
issuers may offer health plans that
include elective abortion and may offer
separate elective abortion riders, so
long as they ensure PPACA funds are not
used for premiums or administrative
costs. The bill also clarifies that
issuers who offer elective abortion
coverage must also offer a qualified
health benefits plan that is identical
except that it does not cover elective
abortion.
The pro-life measure also ensures that
state laws “protecting conscience
rights, restricting or prohibiting
abortion or coverage or funding of
abortion, or establishing procedural
requirements on abortion” are not
abrogated by Obamacare. It also makes it
so any state or local governments
receiving funding under Obamacare may
not subject any health care entity to
discrimination or require any health
plan to subject any entity to
discrimination on the basis that it
refuses to undergo abortion training,
refuses to require abortion training,
refuses to perform or pay for abortions,
or refuses to provide abortion
referrals.
ACTION: Contact your member of the
House at http://www.house.gov to urge
strong support for the Protect Life Act
and opposition to any weakening
amendments.
End
Pro-Abortion Judicial Tyranny
Through the Sanctity of Life Act
Ending
Pro-Abortion Judicial Tyranny
from the National
Prolife Alliance
There is no
question that the largest obstacle in
the fight to enact pro-life
legislation to protect the unborn is
the federal court system. Since the
1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe
v. Wade, the courts have
repeatedly thwarted efforts to enact
even the most modest pro-life reforms.
With
such
a
hostile
court
system
resigned
to
blocking all meaningful progress,
pro-lifers are now turning to the
Constitution to end this pro-abortion
judicial tyranny.
Pelosi's
abortion theology 'mangles' Christian
teaching
Catholic House
members say she 'denigrates common
faith'
DENVER – House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's abortion theology
remains under attack, with Catholic
members of Congress writing her to
castigate her re-interpretation of
church teachings and a priest on the
EWTN network condemning her for a
perspective in which, he believes, she
would bomb a city full of innocent
people.
......
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Police force
abortions on Christian women
Dozens of
unborn reported killed by mandatory
chemical injections
Dozens
of
unborn babies have been killed in a
sweep by Chinese authorities of the
Guangxi province that snared pregnant
women and brought them against their
will to a hospital for fatal abortion
injections, according to a Christian
ministry that monitors the district
and ministers to those in need....
MATTERS
OF LIFE AND DEATH Abortion
staff ignores baby boy born alive
- Woman pleads for help with
'Rowan' after delivering son in clinic
restroom, ... click
here
to read more
ABORTION How lying
marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America
- During the tumultuous 1960s, after
centuries of legal prohibition and moral
condemnation of abortion, ... click
here to read more
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