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- The Cleveland Clinic has joined other top hospitals in North America and can now offer in utero surgery. The hospital announced Wednesday that after more than a year of preparations they have successfully completed Northern Ohio’s first ever surgery on a fetus inside the uterus to repair spina bifida. “The operation on the fetus in the uterus, I’m directing and in charge of, and the guidance of where we should open the uterus, the exposure of the baby,” said Dr. Darrell Cass, Director of Fetal Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic’s Fetal Center. Cass and a team of more than...

FULL TITLE: Baby boy who was ripped from his mother's belly by family of womb raiders dies in hospital two months after his mother's murder The baby son of a woman murdered by a family of womb raiders in Chicago has died in the hospital, two months after being torn from her belly. Yadiel Lopez had been on life support since April 30, when he was cut from his mother Marlen's womb by Clarisa Figueroa and her daughter. Marlen had gone to their home to pick up baby clothes after speaking to Clarisa on Facebook. She was strangled and the...

Chinese warships collect baby formula in Australia Chinese warships that docked unexpectedly at an Australian port departed with a cargo of baby formula, local media discovered. The arrival of a trio of Chinese ships, including an amphibious assault vessel, set off alarm bells on Monday morning among Australian citizens who did not have advance notice of the visit and analysts who regarded it as a show of force. But the trip also highlighted China’s vulnerabilities, as Chinese sailors were photographed loading baby formula onto the ships before they departed. “What some Chinese colleagues were saying about ‘realistic socialism’ as true...

WASHINGTON — One of the most dramatic policy initiatives by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., in his presidential campaign is a plan to provide $1,000 grants to every baby born in the U.S. The money would come in the form of a “baby bond” that would be added to during childhood, on a sliding scale depending on the family’s income. Booker and his campaign released a new analysis on Friday morning that provided further details about how his plan would address “the growing wealth gap.” “So many Americans’ lives are dictated by how much money is in their parents’ bank accounts,”...

When I was a little girl around the age of 7 in the late 1960s, the most exciting thing in the world was to persuade my parents to take me and my sisters to Sharp Hospital, up the road from where I lived in San Diego, to go see the newborn babies through the hospital window. In my little-kid mind, two things were very important - to see the giant statue of the stork carrying a baby at the hospital entrance, and to see the window with all the newborn babies and find the babies in the incubators, marveling at how tiny they were...

Please pray for my son Trebor and his wife Anne-Marie. 2 weeks ago they announced she was pregnant with her second child and we rejoiced. My wife just got a text saying the 12 week check revealed no heartbeat and she was in surgery to remove the dead baby...our hearts are broken for them but we also rejoice that they would never consider an abortion...please pray for them.

On May 22, #ProtestPP is coordinating a National Stericycle Protest, calling on the waste disposal company to DUMP Planned Parenthood, and stop hauling the remains of aborted children. A large protest will be held outside the annual Stericycle Stockholders Meeting in Chicago, with concurrent protests at Stericycle facilities nationwide. Local teams are currently being sought to organize protests outside Stericycle sites across the country. Protest locations will be listed here soon. Let us know if you would like to sign on to lead a Stericycle Protest in your area. Support #ProtestPP with a Gift Coordinating protests and vigils throughout the...

<p>A baby boy is fighting for his life after he was ripped from his slain, nine-months-pregnant mother’s womb in Chicago.</p> <p>The newborn, whose family says was named Yadiel Lopez, remains in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., following the savage attack.</p>

Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill to outlaw abortion outright in the state, set to be the strictest such US law. The state Senate approved the law, rejecting an amendment to allow exemptions for cases of rape or incest. It will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey. She has not said whether she will sign it, but she is seen as a strong opponent of abortion. Activists hope it will challenge a landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalised abortion in the US. The bill had been passed 74-3 earlier this month in Alabama's House of Representatives. Abortion would...

A newborn girl has been found alive inside a garbage bin after passers-by heard its cries, authorities say. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in the US state of Florida says two people walking at an apartment complex near Boca Raton heard crying coming from the bin and found the baby Wednesday morning (local time).

Just hours after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed their newborn son to the world, the child’s name has been announced. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their child Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, the couple revealed via Instagram. The Queen was told of the child’s name when she met him for the first time today, following Meghan and Harry’s two-minute interview at Windsor Castle. Doria Ragland, Meghan’s mother, and the Duke of Edinburgh were also present during the meeting with the Queen. The seventh-in-line to the throne, who was born at 05:26am on 6 May 2019, hasn’t yet had...

6:45 AM PT -- Meghan has given birth to a royal baby boy ... 7 lbs., 3 ozs. The palace says the new prince arrived at 5:26 AM Monday, London time. No name for the little guy, yet.

After noticing a baby’s head was growing unusually fast for its age, surgeons were eventually led to an unbelievably rare medical condition: a brain tumor with fully formed teeth. The scans revealed the presence of a walnut-sized tumor, which also appeared to have multiple small structures along its right side (image below). The baby was quickly operated on to have the tumor removed. The growth itself turned out to be a craniopharyngioma, a rare form of brain tumor derived from pituitary gland embryonic tissue. The tumors are typically found in young children, although they can also occur in adults. They...

A bill that creates penalties for doctors and practitioners who don’t treat infants who survive an attempted abortion has passed the Texas Senate. SB 23 passed the Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday with a vote of 21-10, meaning two Democrat votes for it. It will now head to the Texas House. The bill is similar to a measure that recently came before the U.S. Senate, where it failed. Under the bill, doctors would face a fine and up to 10 years in prison. Opponents argue attempted abortion births are rare and measures to protect newborns are already in place. “Republican extremists...

Demented dad offers gruesome confession in death of five-week-old baby boy: “I got angry and threw Aiden to the ground face-first"A demented Bronx dad, just 38 days after holding his newborn son for the first time, hurled the infant face-first into their apartment floor in a fatal fit of frustration, authorities said Wednesday. Court papers detailed the heartbreaking final moments of tiny Aiden Rodriguez’s painfully brief life once his dad Christian returned home with the boy shortly after 10 p.m. on Monday night. The father, who pleaded guilty to injuring his 3-month daughter in 2015, was expected to face homicide...

Two Ecuadorian brothers who ran a company ordered to close because of its trade with abortionists in baby body parts have been apprehended by ICE. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Nestor Yglesias said the brothers, Roberto and William Isaias, were “unlawfully present” in the U.S. and were moved to the agency’s “removal operations” for deportation. The pro-life group Operation Rescue had produced a report on Oct. 27, 2016, detailing the brothers’ “crimes in Ecuador, dubious dealings with the Obama administration, their business with Planned Parenthood and the aborted baby body parts trade.” “We understood that this family was in the...

Jan 25, 2018 at 1:41am I Have a Confession to Make That goober you see above is me as a nerdy high school kid in my bedroom in 1998, being interviewed on TV for a dumb website I made. Allow me to explain.20 years ago this month, an episode of the TV show Ally McBeal featured a strange animated baby dancing the cha-cha in a vision experienced by the show’s titular character. It immediately became an unlikely pop culture sensation, and by the tail end of the 90s you couldn’t pass a mall t-shirt kiosk or a Spencer’s Gifts...

Brutally murdering unborn babies no longer a crime in Dem-run state A Queens man who beat and stabbed his pregnant girlfriend and her baby to death was spared abortion charges thanks to New York’s recently-enacted abortion law. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown initially released a statement saying 48-year-old Anthony Hobson would be charged with murder and abortion for the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend Jennifer Irigoyen earlier this month. “A woman was brutally stabbed — killing her and the unborn child,” Brown said in the statement. “The defendant is alleged to have shown no mercy and no regard for human...

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) Authorities rescued a newborn girl early on Monday after she was found lying on a rural road in Madera County, located in the middle of California's Central Valley. The baby was cold but otherwise believed to be in good condition. She was covered only with a blanket. The Madera County Sheriff's Office working to track down the newborn's mother, who is described by witnesses as Hispanic or Caucasian, possibly in her twenties. She left the area in a small white SUV. SUSPECT DESCRIPTION: Newborn baby girl’s mother described by witnesses as hispanic or caucasian, possibly in her...

An Arlington baby broke hospital records, weighing nearly 15 pounds at birth. Baby boy Ali is a gift the Medlock family once thought they’d never receive. Now, Ali is nearly twice the size of an average newborn, weighing 14 pounds 13 ounces. He broke the record at Arlington Memorial Hospital. Ali was born via C-section. Jennifer said she had a very healthy pregnancy; however, Ali did spend a week in the NICU because his blood sugar and platelettes were low. “It doesn’t matter how big he is, I’m so blessed,” said Jennifer. Ali was a blessing in many ways for...