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As I type, the House of Representatives is debating the future of civil rights: a girl's right to life itself. Is it OK to choose to destroy a healthy unborn child simply because you or your husband prefer a boy? Should it be legal in this country? The Constitution gives to Congress the power to enforce the 14th Amendment's guarantees of equal protection by appropriate legislation. And this week, in a historic vote, the House is going to consider using that power to ban abortions based on gender. The bill is called the "Prenatal Anti-Discrimination Act," or PRENDA, because it...

- Pro-Choice White House Requires Registration of Unborn Children for Tours - The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. White House Visitors Office director Ellie Schafer sent an email to a Capitol Hill staffer Tuesday morning explaining the process for registering an unborn fetus for a White House tour: We have received a number of calls regarding how to enter security information for a baby that has not yet...

A baby boy’s visit to the Oregon Zoo in Portland has given the world a new viral video that’s hard to look away from. As the boy smiles for Mom’s video phone, a lion behind the glass sees the kid as a snack, apparently, trying in vain to chomp through the glass. It’s rather disturbing. And then Mom kind of laughs, a little nervously. Her trust of the glass installers is stronger than mine would have been. Here’s what KGW-TV in Portland reported: The one-year old, named Jack, is dressed in a striped jacket that looked a little like a...

An Israeli military doctor saved a 12-day-old Palestinian baby girl who had stopped breathing. Lt. Michael Findler, 28, the lone doctor at the Halamish military base near Ramallah in the West Bank, resuscitated the baby with CPR. Following an exam, the baby was taken by Palestinian ambulance to a hospital in Ramallah. The mother had brought the infant to the gates of the base at 3 a.m. Monday seeking help. It was the seventh time since Findler arrived at the base two months ago that he had provided emergency services to Palestinians from area villages, and third in the past...

There are times when you glance at the leftist Daily Kos blog and wonder if they're being sabotaged from the inside. Case in point: a blog titled "The fetus is a parasite." "Sasharusha" blogs "back to the whole fetus= parasite thing. That is how I see them. I don't see them as cute and cuddly. I see them as terrifying and scary. I see pregnancy the same way. Here are some examples on how pregnancy is a parasitic relationship: The Z/E/F sucks the nutrients from the mother. The "relationship" only benefits the fetus. The mother's organs and body parts become...

HOUSTON - Deputies have taken a woman into custody in the case of a newborn infant who was kidnapped and the child's mother who was shot to death. A capital murder charge was filed against Verna Deann McClain, 30, according to a FOX 26 News contributor. He says investigators with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office are questioning McClain, but that she has confessed to the crime. McClain reportedly told her sister that she was about to adopt a baby, FOX 26 has learned. She told investigators she did not know Kala Golden, 28, the mother who was killed. An Amber...

DAVIE — A Davie woman was charged with cruelty toward a child and neglect after police say she placed a plastic bag on her 5-month-old daughter's head, laid the child down in a plastic-lined garbage container and photographed her.

aybe it's the culture in Los Angeles, but every time I go to a different grocery store, there are so many options for children in the grocery cart, I wonder what's next: A teenager cart equipped with an Xbox? I've seen infant seats, booster seats, plastic cars that fit two toddlers or big kids attached to the front of the cart, and carts that have a traditional seat that fits two kids instead of one. But even with all of these options, we can never be too safe when it comes to putting our children on top of a shopping...

Everybody should have a nanny like this one!

Disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards has reportedly decided to have another child with the woman who destroyed his marriage. Rielle Hunter is reportedly hoping to become pregnant before Edwards' trial in April, after which he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in jail. Edwards, who has four children from his 33-year marriage to his late wife Elizabeth, already has a daughter with Hunter, four-year-old Quinn. The couple has now decided to have another baby as 48-year-old Hunter's 'biological clock is ticking loudly', the National Enquirer reported. 'She's made having another baby a top priority,' a source...

It’s commonly understood that having a baby is the way to bring new life into the world. And typically, a life should live, right? Normal people don’t usually go around asking, “Why should that person live?” Usually, the question would be, “Why should they die?” But, in a strange—and horrifying—turn of events, ethicists have written in the UK’s BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics that some infants should be slated for death. They have written a paper entitled “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” Cassy Fiano has already detailed much of the information included in this outrageous paper. However, I’d...

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Earlier today I was sent a link to a blog of a woman named “Ashley” who is acting as a surrogate mother. She says she is around 20 weeks pregnant with the child of another couple, and recently found out that the child suffers from some abnormalities. What those abnormalities are Ashley herself did not say, but the person who forwarded the link to me said it was cleft lip and palate – a minor condition that can be surgically remedied after birth. But now the parents of the child have demanded that Ashley abort the child. In a heartrending...

The White House struggled Wednesday to contain the growing uproar over its birth-control mandate, with Democrats peeling off one by one in what has become an increasingly divisive election-year controversy. Still, one senior Democratic aide said the plan has put some lawmakers in an “awkward position.” “A lot of Democrats just don’t want to talk about it and be in the position of defending it,” the aide said. “It’s horrible timing.”

One of my favorite tweeters for the other side is RabblePro-Choice. She’s like a wild-eyed pro-abort terrier. Last week Rabble went after pro-lifer marylikesbagles, who had posted the following video with the invitation, “Everyone who believes in abortion should watch this video. It’s only 30 seconds anyways.” Apparently Rabble thought all the hyperbolic use of pro-”choice” euphemisms in the video is really the way the world should be. I’m not sure Rabble even understood the point of the video, which is that if an offspring of the species homosapien is wanted she’s called a “baby” and if unwanted she’s called...

A mother is suing the obstetrician who she claims misdiagnosed her pregnancy as ectopic and injected her foetus with an abortant, resulting in birth defects. Thirty-five-year-old Rachel Schoger of Caldwell, Idaho, says she was four weeks five days pregnant with her daughter, Seraphine, when her doctor injected her foetus with chemotherapy drug methotrexate in 2006. Two weeks later, the baby was found inside the uterus. And against all odds, Seraphine made it through term. But the little girl will never lead a normal life, her mother says, after she was born without reproductive organs or a rectum as a result...

A NEW JERSEY woman gave birth on a PATH train Monday as straphangers pitched in to help her panicked husband deliver a boy they nicknamed “Fast.” Rabita Sarker, 31, of Harrison, N.J., said she thought she was just experiencing false labor pains when she boarded the train at the Journal Square station in Jersey City. But as the train rumbled into Manhattan just before 10 a.m., the false alarm became a full-blown emergency. “He decided to come and that was it. Nothing could stop him. Nothing could keep him inside for longer,” said Sarker, showing off her first-born child at...

An infant girl found wrapped in a towel on the front steps of a Northeast residence late Sunday night later died, and police are investigating the case as a homicide. A resident of the 3000 block of Channing Street, NE, was walking home when he saw the unidentified infant on the steps of another home in the same block, police said Tuesday morning. After finding the baby cold and unconscious, he brought the baby into his home and called 911. Police and Fire and Emergency Medical Services arrived at the scene shortly after 11:30 p.m. and found a neighbor performing...

A tiny Texas baby born with some organs on the outside of his body is recovering at a hospital after having surgery to correct the rare condition, his parents told ABC News. Little Hayes Davis was born in Houston on March 25 with a rare defect known as omphalocele, in which a fetus’ intestines and other organs develop in a thin sack outside a baby’s belly. Mom Kelly Davis told ABC that doctors told her about the condition, which afflicts one of every 10,000 babies, during an ultrasound about three months into her pregnancy. “Once we heard the word ‘omphalocele,’...

Please pray for my 2 year old niece Gefen who just had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor of the kidney. She will now have chemo therapy for 4-6 months. Thank you.

NIAGARA FALLS — Throughout history there have been numerous accounts, documentation and stories of miraculous events that warm our hearts and spark our souls to the possibility of the unexplainable. Most miracles are recognized when the majority of us would have concluded that all hope is lost — although I am sure they happen more than we give them credit for. The more “rules” we have on what is or is not possible, the less likely we are to be witness of the miracles that present themselves on a regular basis. Although I have heard many stories of miraculous recoveries...

President Obama may have been able to laugh off the mouthful of fingers given to him by an 8-month-baby while visiting U.S. troops in Hawaii, but the baby's parents could not. "I was mortified. I was so embarrassed," Meredith Wagner, mother of the five-fingered culprit, Cooper Wagner, said today on "Good Morning America." Wagner, 27, and her husband, Capt. Greg Wagner, 25, were smiling for the cameras with their son and President Obama on Christmas Day at the Marine Corps Base at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, which the president visited while vacationing on the island with his family. As the three...

Baby puts hand in Obama's mouthDecember 26, 2011 4:39 AM President Obama was posing for photographs on Christmas Day in Hawaii when an 8-month-old baby put his hand in the president's mouth. Terrell Brown reports.

Donald Trump, who recently pulled out of moderating a Newsmax-sponsored GOP debate that only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum would commit to, has switched his voter registration to "independent," a source confirms. The move was made yesterday, and will make Trump a registered "blank" — used interchangeably with "registered independent" in New York political parlance — but not right away. A Board of Elections spokeswoman hasn't responded to a call for comment about when it would take effect, but sources familiar with the city's BoE rules say that Trump missed the cutoff allowing his registration switch to take effect for...

A Shasta County woman accused of neglecting her newborn daughter until she died is headed for a murder trial.

Please pray for my hospitalized 3 week old grand daughter

The father of a baby who infamously vanished in the Australian Outback more than 30 years said Monday that he was confident a new inquiry into the tragedy will officially rule that a dingo took his daughter. The disappearance of 9-week-old Azaria Chamberlain on Aug. 17, 1980, from a campsite near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known by its Aboriginal name Uluru, divided Australians between those who believed a native dog known as a dingo killed her and those who believed she was murdered by her mother, Lindy Chamberlain

Netflix has added new episodes of 'Bones', and is now complete up until last seasons closer, wherein Angela has her son, and Tempie tells booth she's pregnant, and he's the father. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Bones/70136123?trkid=2361637 (I've been looking for this episode online and in re-runs since last season ended, and here it is...no commercials! Made my day.)

American Heritage Dictionary adds 'offensive' to 'anchor baby'By Breann Bierman Updated: Dec 06, 2011 3:30 PM EST PHOENIX (KPHO) - The American Heritage Dictionary has added "offensive" to the definition of "anchor baby" in the dictionary after criticism from Latino groups. Immigrationimpact.com, a project of the nonprofit American Immigration Council, questioned the inclusion of the "anchor baby" definition. On their website, they describe the new definition as "one that was crafted to reflect more accurately just how artificial a term it really is." The online version of the American Heritage Dictionary now defines "anchor baby" as: "Offensive Used as a...

A mother has been arrested after trying to sell her eight month old son for $7,000. Kenia Quiala Bosque, 30, arranged to meet a prospective buyer in Miami to hand over her newborn son. Police were tipped off about the sale and an undercover officer went to the meeting posing as the buyer leading to her arrest, authorities told NBC Miami.

A video from a Discovery channel special regarding the effect of music on a fetus. One baby in the womb is really getting down and grooving to the tunes. The other-- not so much.

NEW ALBANY, Ind. -- A horrific case of child abuse leaves a baby fighting for her life. New Albany police said the 13-month-old girl is in critical condition at Kosair Children's Hospital. The girl's status has been up and down from critical to serious and back to critical. Detectives said the little girl was severely beaten by her mother's boyfriend. The beating has left many people wanting to know will the violence against children end. "It's just horrible. I couldn't believe it when i heard it," said Vickie Pascual, who lives in the area. Pascual said it makes her sick...

Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar had an announcement to make on The Today Show this morning, which is that Michelle was pregnant with their 20th baby. I found myself getting prickly on their behalf watching the response and somewhat annoying questions by Ann Curry… What a witness this couple and family are. I just love them. See what I mean by this clip posted at People. And this clip just up on the TLC website… “We are so excited,” says Michelle, 45, who is now about 3-1/2 months into her pregnancy and due in April. “I feel good. I am...

A ONE-month-old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the rampant corruption in Africa's most populous country. The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to fish out ghost employees from a bloated workforce, Garba Gajam, justice commissioner for Zamfara State told AFP late Wednesday. "We discovered that a one-month-old baby was among the employees of one local government who is paid a salary," Gajam said. "What is even more astonishing is that it was indicated...

A HOSPITAL in south China has suspended four medical workers for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive, state press said today. Health authorities in Guangdong province have launched an investigation into the incident on October 26 at the Nanhai Red Cross Hospital in Foshan city, the Beijing News said. Liu Dongmei - eight months pregnant - had been rushed to the hospital with internal bleeding and stomach cramps. She later had an emergency birth but the baby was neither breathing nor crying when it came out and its skin had turned purple, the report...

<p>While Justin Bieber spent his Tuesday evening performing on “Dancing With the Stars” to promote his new holiday CD, a tabloid story was breaking online.</p> <p>That story, to be published Thursday in Star magazine and first reported by Radar Online, says that a 20-year-old woman has filed a paternity suit against Bieber, 17, alleging that the singer fathered her child after a brief backstage tryst at a Bieber concert at L.A.’s Staples Center.</p>

by Sheri UrbanReal FeministWhat is Bob Scheiffer’s Solution to “Epidemic of out of wedlock black babies”? Planned Parenthood! Herman Cain hits it out of the park on Big Abortion's history and founder. Bob Scheiffer plays gotcha with Cain and gets schooled... He asks Cain if he has “proof” that abortion clinics were placed in black neighborhoods to “curb the negro population”. Did this “seasoned journalist” really ask that? Mr. Schieffer, Google is your friend. The racist roots of Planned Parenthood have been out there for years, but only now is it coming to light for most Americans, as the media...

(CNN) -- A Cleveland couple faces child endangerment charges after giving away their neglected 2-year-old girl, authorities said. The parents were arrested Thursday after authorities learned that they gave away the toddler 10 days earlier, according to Cleveland police reports. Police got a tip Thursday and went to the parents' home, where they found an emaciated pit bull and fecal matter. The child was nowhere to be found, police said. Officers learned the suspects had given the child away to friends in their neighborhood, who said they agreed to take custody of her if the couple agreed to get help...

  The world has been anxiously waiting for a glimpse of France's First Baby Bonjour Giulia, the newborn daughter of President Nicolas Sarkozy and his actress wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. However, Carla Bruni didn't really show her baby's face to the world as she left the maternity clinic, today. Bruni left the Paris maternity clinic, Clinique de la Muette today, tightly holding her bundle of joy, and was helped into the black SUV by two guards. However, the proud father was not to be seen in the vicinity. Apparently, Nicolas Sarkozy paid an afternoon visit at the maternity clinic, Oct. 21, two...

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has confirmed the name of her daughter as Giulia. In a message on her website, she wrote: "I am deeply touched by the many messages of congratulations that I have received since the birth of our daughter Giulia. "On this happy occasion, my husband joins me in expressing our warmest thanks to all those of you who sent us these tokens of your kindness." Earlier her husband Nicolas Sarkozy spoke of his "very profound joy" at the birth of his daughter, as his "father of the nation" appeal is expected to give him a much needed poll boost....

The California man who lives part of his life as an “adult baby” and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks. Stanley Thornton Jr. now wants an apology from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who called for the benefit review because the investigation disrupted the final months of life for his roommate Sandra Dias, who playacted as his mother, spoon-feeding him and helping him into his baby clothes until her death in July. “We recently reviewed the evidence in your Social Security disability claim and find that...

Mother With Cancer Sacrifices Her Life for Her Unborn Baby Oklahoma City, OK -- Stacie Crimm's life changed dramatically when she learned she was pregnant, as she was filled with joy and excitement about the prospect of becoming a mother. However, Crimm's world was turned upside down when doctors gave her the news that she had been diagnosed with head and neck cancer. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/18/mother-with-cancer-sacrifices-her-life-for-her-unborn-baby/

Mother With Cancer Sacrifices Her Life for Her Unborn Baby Oklahoma City, OK -- Stacie Crimm's life changed dramatically when she learned she was pregnant, as she was filled with joy and excitement about the prospect of becoming a mother. However, Crimm's world was turned upside down when doctors gave her the news that she had been diagnosed with head and neck cancer. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/18/mother-with-cancer-sacrifices-her-life-for-her-unborn-baby/

Carla Bruni keeps publicly asserting how discreet she wants to be about her baby, due any day now. But will she and her husband really be able to resist using their child in what is already an incredible political soap opera? Carla Bruni, French first lady, multimillionaire supermodel-turned-folk- singer, has found her pregnancy at 43 pretty boring. "Quite frankly, I can't stand it any more. I spend most of my time either sitting down or lying down. I can't drink or smoke any more. I'm in a hurry to get it over with." She thinks the public is pretty bored...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Louisville man faces charges after police said he beat two young children with his fists. According to the arrest report, when an officer arrived at the scene, Michael Proffitt was being restrained by bystanders. Witnesses told police Proffitt tried to grab a 3-year-old out of a stroller and punch the child in the face and head, according to the report. Witnesses said Proffitt also punched a 3-month-old baby being carried by its mother in a front baby carrier, according to the report. Police said Proffitt’s actions put both children in a great deal of danger of...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A 3-year-old boy has died after police said he was severely beaten by his mother's boyfriend. Larry Webster, 36, has been charged with murder in connection with Ah'Haod Crawford's death. Webster had been charged with criminal attempted murder before the boy’s death. "We certainly felt based on the information we had last night there was enough evidence to proceed with the charge of attempted murder and really the only thing that has changed is the nature of the charge and that's due to the victim passing away," Detective Josh Meyers said. Shively police were called to the...

The parents of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl planned to make a public statement Friday after police announced that the couple had stopped talking with detectives investigating the baby's disappearance. Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley didn't speak to the media Thursday night after a police news conference accusing them of no longer cooperating, but relatives read a statement insisting they never had stopped. The family said the couple would have more to say Friday.

This is a big story that you're not hearing much about. cites a forbidden source: This is nearly a half-trillion dollars that the Federal government is on the hook for, which might not be showing up in deficit numbers. Another "perfect storm."

Sorry, But Housing And Car Sales Just Do Not Show A Coming Recession New Deal democrat, The Bonddad Blog Oct. 6, 2011, 1:45 PM ECRI's recession call has justifiably gotten much coverage. On the other hand, many have noted the lack of transparency of their method, making reliance on them a matter of trust rather than testing. An alternative to their approach is based on the research of UCLA Anderson School Prof. Edward Leamer. Prof. Leamer made an excellent presentation (pdf) about the progression of business cycles at Jackson Hole in 2007. It is research I have relied on many...