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There is little doubt that America has become a culture of death. Two of the most dangerous places to be are so-called women’s clinics and nursing homes. We do not value life that is not at its prime. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that a doctor was killing babies with scissors. Maybe we should be surprised he’s actually been arrested for it. On Wednesday an abortion doctor in West Philadelphia was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell has...

LAWRENCE, Mass. - The FBI is searching for a 27-year-old Lawrence man wanted for killing a 15-month-old toddler in Maine earlier this week. Police describe the suspect, Edgard Anziani, as a Hispanic male, about 6 feet 1 inches tall, 175 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair and possibly four tattoos. He is a citizen of the Dominican Republic and a permanent resident of the United States. He is known to be violent, according to the FBI. Police said Anziani killed the child on Tuesday in Bangor, Maine. A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.

A woman who allegedly faked her own pregnancy has been charged with killing her pregnant friend, cutting her baby girl from her womb and kidnapping the infant. Julie Corey was initially charged with kidnapping after authorities found her and the baby in a homeless shelter in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in July. A Worcester County grand jury indicted her on Thursday on murder and kidnapping charges. DNA tests confirmed that the baby was cut from the womb of Darlene Haynes. Haynes, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed, was found dead in her Worcester home two days before Corey's...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Obama's budget recommendations unveiled yesterday are being criticized by the National Right to Life Committee for recommending the re-introduction of taxpayer-funded abortion in Washington, D.C. The White House submission urges the House and Senate to repeal a law known as the Dornan Amendment that prevents tax-funded abortion, except for cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother's life, in the District of Columbia for several years. Because Congress holds legislative authority over the District of Columbia, the district's budget must be appropriated by Congress through an annual appropriations bill. The White...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forcefully responded to conservative critics of government funding for programs like stem cell research today, saying that under the Bush administration "we've had a situation where it's faith or science - take your pick." "We're saying science is an answer to our prayers," the San Francisco Democrat said.

Police move a suspect believed to have tossed a toddler from the H1 pedestrian overpass off Magellan St. in the lower Punchbowl area of Honolulu Thursday Jan. 17, 2008 The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2½-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene. The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children. Police arrested a...

HOUSTON Police say a 6-month-old Houston girl was sexually assaulted, had her tongue nearly severed and suffered broken bones from head to toe. She's clinging to life today, and her parents have been charged with injury to a child. The infant is in critical condition at Texas Children's Hospital. Twenty-one-year-old Ivan Castaneda and 19-year-old Donna Marie Norman brought their daughter to the hospital Wednesday. Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin says Castaneda and Norman originally took the baby to a hospital in north Houston to be treated for congestion. Doctors, however, discovered the baby had severe internal and external injuries...

Police have charged the parents of a seven week old infant who died earlier this week. Twenty-eight year old Dalila Aguilar and 30 year old Victor Aguilar face capital murder charges in connection with the death of Jason Daniel Aguilar. El Paso Police detectives interviewed the couple Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results and an ongoing investigation revealed the child's injuries were a result of foul play. As we reported, the baby's mother took him to Thomason Hospital with injuries last month with breathing problems. Doctors thought the injuries were suspicous and notified police. He died Tuesday.

MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee mother was sent to jail Thursday for the death of her 2-month-old son in a tug o' war over the infant with the child's father. Annette O'Neal was sentenced to serve eight months in the Milwaukee County House of Correction with release privileges for employment and school. She and the baby's father, Brandon Davis, were fighting over where the baby was going to sleep. There was an apparent tug o' war when the baby hit the wall and died. O'Neal has been ordered to have no contact with Davis and must take parenting classes. She was...

Below is the Transcript of the second to last question of the town hall debate from Friday 10-7, and the related question from the final debate of 10-13. The questions were related to the murder--dismemberment of innocent children in the womb, more commonly know by the pain-free euphemism of abortion. The questions were first directed to John Kerry. For his entire career in the US Senate John Kerry has vigorously supported and defended the abortion industry’s bloody war of terror on children waiting to be born. His record is clear. Yet with a straight face Kerry flip flopped all over...

Washington, DC -- To change the abortion culture in the United States and around the world, the debate may have to be reframed and redirected with a focus on both the mother and unborn child. Recently, Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life of America, shared her thoughts on pro-life feminism and on trends in the abortion controversy. Her lecture, "The Feminist Case Against Abortion," was included in a 2001 book entitled, "Women's Rights." Q: Your name, Feminists for Life, strikes some as contradictory. What do you see as the connection between feminism and being pro-life? Foster: We are often...

Abortion pill is rarely used by U.S. women, report says 01/21/2003 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News American women seeking to end a pregnancy have been slow to use the so-called abortion pill, according to the first report issued since the drug's approval more than two years ago. About 37,000 women used mifepristone, or RU-486, to end a pregnancy in the first half of 2001, said Lawrence B. Finer, assistant director of research for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit company that tracks U.S. abortion trends. "It represents about 6 percent of the total abortions in that...

30 years after Roe, social rift persists Abortion numbers down, but emotional charge hasn't faded 01/21/2003 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News On a typical morning at The Fairmount Center, Dallas' oldest abortion clinic, the doctor and other staffers slip inside before dawn through the back door. Each patient's arrival through the front door is marked by a burst of activity on the sidewalk outside the small converted house in Oak Lawn. Several demonstrators, clutching Bibles, dissolve into a flurry of hands offering pamphlets and voices imploring the woman to change her mind and walk away from...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rate of infant homicides in the US has more than doubled over the last 30 years, according to a new report by Child Trends, a not-for-profit research organization in Washington, DC. Between 1970 and 2000, the official infant homicide rate in the US increased from 4.3 to 9.1 murders per 100,000 children under age one, according to the report. "Almost one infant homicide per day was reported in the year 2000 (349 total)," the report states. "Although tragic, the numbers of children who die each year from infant homicide do not indicate that a...

Documents: Routier planned insurance scam before slayings 06/22/2002 By HOLLY BECKA / The Dallas Morning News Darin Routier asked his father-in-law whether he knew anyone who would burglarize his home as part of an insurance scam months before his sons were killed, according to affidavits made public Friday by his wife's defense lawyers. Robbie Gene Kee, stepfather of convicted child-killer Darlie Routier, first told his wife about the conversation two years ago, according to the lawyers. He wrote out his affidavit last month. Last year, a private investigator hired by the defense confronted Mr. Routier, who first denied having...

<p>NORTHAMPTON - Authorities investigating the death of a baby found in a trash bin in a University of Massachusetts-Amherst dormitory are awaiting results of an autopsy before deciding if his 19-year-old mother should face criminal charges, officials said yesterday.</p> <p>Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel said the mother, a UMass freshman, is not in custody. But a preliminary examination by the medical examiner for the state's Western region yesterday showed that the child was delivered at ''full term'' and was not premature.</p>