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A 3-month-old Westwego girl covered in rat bites was found dead in her home Thursday, and authorities were trying to determine whether they played a role in her death. Natalie Hill was found shortly after 7:30 a.m. in her crib by paramedics responding to an emergency call. When paramedics and police officers arrived, they found the child's father standing in front of the house in the 700 block of Central Avenue, yelling that his daughter was dead inside, said Westwego Police Chief Dwayne Munch Sr. The parents were identified by neighbors as Robby Hill and Casey Laine. Munch said the...

Austin Michael Wright died Wednesday night, two days after Dean Martin's wife Kerry died after complications from childbirth.

In the hierarchy of human misfortune, nothing comes close to the tragedy of mothers and fathers attending the funerals of their children. As a Christian I understand that death is the beginning of eternal life in the presence of God, but as much as I try to reconcile faith and fact I still cannot accept a death that occurs out of sequential order. In the past few months I have listened to homilies delivered by sincere, loving and compassionate ministers of God, but still I ache--my heart has a void at its center.

TAMPA, FL -- Authorities have arrested a man they say threw an infant from a car along I-275 Tuesday morning. The 3-month-old boy died. 21-year-old Richard McTear Jr. was apprehended around 9 a.m. at 3803 Arlington Drive in Tampa. Jason Bird, an off-duty news photographer for WTVT-TV, found the child, identified as Emanuel Murray, in the southbound emergency lane near Fowler Avenue around 4:30 a.m. "On the side of the road, I saw something out of the corner of my eye and at first I thought it was a baby doll, and then as I was thinking about it more...

My purpose for posting this thread is not for sympathy or attention, it is for information. My cousin and his wife just learned that their baby has Spina Bifida. They are five months along, and are obviously in shock.I am very aware of the story of Baby Samuel, who was operated on In Utero and is doing just fine 3-4 years later from what I understand. My question is, how would someone go about finding a Doctor to attempt this procedure? I've learned the Dr's name in Baby Samuel's case. Are there others who do this? Is it realistic to...

A 22-year-old man has been charged with sexual assaulting a 9-month-old girl who died in Newark Friday after she was taken to a local hospital in cardiac arrest, police said. Everette Sheppard is the live-in boyfriend of the child's mother and was also charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child, police said. He could face more serious charges depending on the results of an autopsy scheduled for today, said Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. ... The girl, Victoria Madison, went into cardiac arrest at about 1 p.m. at an apartment on...

I was perusing the Kids and Parenting section of MSNBC and found an article entitled: Drinking water can hurt babies under 6 months. According to Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, MD. "Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink [because] consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication."

This video is making the rounds in a big way tonight...re-launched from the intial release in the Spring. Warning...it does contain some images pro-abortionists might not find offensive. Very damning video that levels Senator Barack Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQiIzS49D8

Obama's 10 reasons for supporting infanticide Posted: January 16, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Jill Stanek © 2008 I was intimately involved in the five-year process to pass the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act, testifying before committees twice that then-state Sen. Barack Obama sat on. Following are 10 excuses Obama has given through the years for voting "present" and "no" on the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act, or BAIPA. 10. Babies who survive abortions are not protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Obama, the sole opponent ever to speak against BAIPA, stated on the Illinois...

The page contains a GRAPHIC cartoon of Barack Obama smashing a baby's head against a wall (which is why I am not actually posting the cartoon here--people who might find such an image upsetting, even in a cartoon, don't have to see it). The cartoon is similar to the kind that was used during the World Wars to portray the enemy as woman-raping and/or baby-killing monsters, e.g. Imperial Germany as a fanged gorilla carrying a half-naked woman over his shoulder. In politics, of course, such a cartoon must convey the absolute truth if it is not to be written off...

Who's really lying about abortion bill's language? Ever wonder how Barack Obama, the great healer, ended up with a more radical record on abortion than Sen. Hillary Clinton or even the zealots at NARAL-Pro-Choice America? It comes down to the "Born-Alive Infant Protection Act." The bill was designed to provide legal protection for babies born alive during an abortion. Babies like the ones ex-nurse Jill Stanek saw discarded and left for dead at her hospital. The experience moved her to push for "Born Alive" legislation in Illinois, but Obama voted against the legislation -- three times. Congress passed a federal...

Wichita, KS - June 24, 2008 - A murder investigation has been opened involving Shelley Sella, a California abortionist employed by George Tiller, who is reported to have intentionally stabbed to death an infant born alive during an abortion at Tiller's Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Operation Rescue reported the incident to the Wichita Police Department after a former Tiller employee, Tina Davis, told Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of the stabbing in April. It is believed that the alleged infanticide took place sometime in the past two years. In addition, the incident has been reported...

A month ago, when I got an e-mail from a Lubbock mom who told me her 16-month-old baby could read, I didn't really take it seriously - especially when she told me it was her first baby.  But after a few weeks and a few more e-mails, I decided to meet her and see for myself.Elizabeth Barrett is now 17 months old. She looks and acts like most babies her age, but  her mom Katy says, "She can read sentences. She can read more words than we can count."  So we watched as Elizabeth pulled out her favorite book,...

2/22/2008 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- A team of Air Force and Army medical specialists from Wilford Hall Medical Center here flew to Greenville, S.C. Feb. 21 to transport a 6-week-old baby boy back to Wilford Hall for advanced medical care. The 15-member critical care air transport team, which included neonatal and pediatric critical care physicians, pediatric surgeons, critical care nurses and respiratory therapists, flew to South Carolina on a C-130 Hercules with their battery-operated portable extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, equipment. An ECMO machine is a heart-lung bypass device which circulates and oxygenates the blood,...

The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial groups, and the country stacks up poorly next to other industrialized nations. In 2004, the most recent year for which statistics are available, roughly seven babies died for every 1,000 live births before reaching their first birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. That was down from about 26 in 1960. Babies born to black mothers died at two and a half times the rate of those born to white mothers, according to the CDC...

Ottawa, ON (AHN) - A medical journal has reported a case of a one-week-old infant who died from complications after being circumcised in an unidentified hospital in Ontario, Canada. In its April 2007 edition, Paediatrics and Child Health reported a case in which an infant, whose parents did not want him identified, was brought back to his family doctor by his parents 5 hours after he had been circumcised. At that time, his parents said he was "very irritable and had blue discoloration below the umbilicus when he cried." The baby's physicians sent the child home. The baby's parents took...

A woman who claimed that a family pet mutilated her infant son's genitals was taken into police custody Friday, accused of "using a sharp instrument" to "cut and remove" his private parts, a criminal complaint shows. Katherine "Katie" Nadal, 25, is charged with injury to a child, a felony. The former Anahuac High School cheerleader was led away in handcuffs by two plainclothes Houston police officers shortly before her son's protective custody hearing began. Nadal, a one-time cocktail waitress now unemployed, had arrived at the Harris County Juvenile Justice Center with her mother and her attorney, Itze Soliz Matthews, after...

A twin leans over and kisses the cheek of her sister in a heart-warming picture that would not be out of place in any family home. Yet these siblings are a not even born and the astonishing images have been captured on a new 'four-dimensional' ultrasound scan of the womb. The scans are a highly developed form of traditional ultrasound where very high frequency sound waves are used to produce images of what is inside the body. As with older forms of ultra-sound, sound waves a emitted from a transducer, or probe, which is placed on the mother's abdomen and...

BAGHDAD — The cries of a newborn never sounded so sweet, though a tough journey still lies ahead of the five-week-old infant. The fact the child still breathes is living proof of progress. The Baghdad Teaching Hospital, also known as the Medical City Teaching Hospital is responsible for the birth of this tiny miracle. Born prematurely at 26 weeks, the tiny infant is still clinging to life approximately five weeks later, said Lt. Col. Neil Ahle, the senior veterinary medical officer for 1st Cavalry Division, who works on civil affairs projects for the division. “I think to allow that infant...

Tonya Edwards spent a lot of time wiping tears away from her eyes today at the Justice Center. The 37-year-old Cleveland woman has been inside the legal center many times over the years as a repeat drug offender. "You've been involved in the criminal justice system at least five times," Judge Daniel Gaul pointed out. "You've been indicted in Cuyahoga County alone at least five times." According to court records, Tonya Edwards has had nine children with six different fathers. Each baby removed by Cuyahoga County Children's Services. "You're not a fit mother," said Judge Gaul. "You lost custody of...

<p>A 7-day-old baby was kidnapped in Franklin County this afternoon by a woman with a gun who forced her way into the infant's home in Lonedell and cut the mother's throat, police said. The child remained missing and the mother was reported to be in stable condition in a St. Louis hospital.</p>

SUFFOLK, Va. -- A charge of inducing an abortion was dismissed Monday in the case of a woman who shot herself in the stomach on the morning her baby was to have been born. Tammy Skinner, 22, told police on Feb. 23 that a man had picked her up, shot her and pushed her out of the car. Then, she told investigators that the child's father did it. Finally, the mother of two other children -- both girls, as was the infant who died -- admitted that the wound was self-inflicted.

After nearly five years of dealing with all the terrible and often absurd abuses of free speech in higher education, I am a hard person to shock, but hats off to professor Sally Jacobsen of Northern Kentucky University (NKU) for showing me the most perverted inversion of the concept of free speech I have seen in a long time. Jacobsen, a professor at NKU, invited students in one of her classes to “to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy [an anti-abortion] display if they wished to.” The anti-abortion display had been erected by an NKU student group with permission from...

MONDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- Infant children of parents who are habitual snorers are themselves at increased risk for frequent snoring, a new study reveals. The study also found that young children diagnosed with atopy -- a tendency to develop allergies and asthma -- are also prone to frequent snoring. And African-American children are at elevated risk for chronic snoring, the researchers said. The findings are important, the researchers said, because so-called "sleep-disordered breathing" among children has been previously associated with the development of learning disabilities, heart disease, and metabolic disorders. "Early intervention can reduce morbidity due to sleep-disordered...

Surgeons Remove Two Fetuses From InfantBy PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 22 minutes ago A doctor pumps oxygen to two-month-old Pakistani girl Nazia after she went through a major surgery at a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Surgeons operated on Nazia to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb. The chief doctor who performed the operation said 'Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other'. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl...

Quote: "Grace Hunt, 22, cried as a court magistrate read the charges at her arraignment today in Montcalm County. She faces two counts of murder – open murder and felony murder -- for the death of three-month-old Jadelyne Schenden from starvation. According to the court records, the baby died on or around January 4 at Hunt’s Greenville apartment. Hunt’s next-door neighbor, David Jeanette, said he knew her from high school. He said he often heard loud commotion coming from her apartment. “She had a few children, sometimes you would hear stuff going on over there. It got quite crazy sometimes.”...

Monica Bolling Williamson filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Fisher-Price, K-Mart, Lifestar Ambulance Services and Danny Williamson, Jr. alleging the defendants were responsible for the death of her son. Williamson claims that on Nov. 11, 2003, her son, Khalil Williamson, was sleeping in a bassinet of the Fisher-Price Nursery Center when it collapsed causing him to slide out and into the bottom of the play yard. The child's death was attributed to injuries sustained in the accident. Represented by Roy Dripps and Rodney Caffey of the Lakin Law Firm, Williamson is seeking damages in excess of $750,000 plus all costs...

MAYWOOD, Ill. Sep 20, 2005 — A baby born weighing less than a soda can and believed to be the smallest baby ever to survive has celebrated her first birthday. Rumaisa Rahman, who weighed just 8.6 ounces at birth and was less than 10 inches long, turned a year old on Monday. She now weighs 13 pounds and is 24 inches tall. Loyola University Medical Center, the suburban Chicago hospital where the girl received treatment until she was discharged in February, hosted a birthday party for Rumaisa and her fraternal twin sister, Hiba.

Limbo and the Hope of Salvation by Dr. Jeff Mirus, special to CatholicCulture.orgMay 12, 2005 In a recent website review, we were compelled to list the site’s views on limbo as a weakness. Some Catholics are under the impression that the Church has formally taught that unbaptized infants cannot be saved but must inevitably be consigned to a marginal abode known as limbo, where no supernatural happiness is possible. But this is not what the Church teaches. The Questions Raised by BaptismThe Church does teach that the enjoyment of the presence of God in heaven is not ours by right....

Mrs. lafroste and I have a rather unusual problem with our two month old daughter and we'd like to solicit some suggestions on how to handle it. She was born on March 6, 2005. A few days after we brought her home, she displayed a most remarkable ability: she has full bowel and bladder control. She would hold it until we had her diaper off, and had her over a bucket. Then on a verbal signal, she would proceed to relieve herself. We told her perdiatrician about this at her 1 month check up. The pediatrician was skeptical, so we...

ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue gave his approval Tuesday to a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions, a measure long pushed by his fellow Republicans but blocked by Democrats while they had control of the Legislature. The measure was approved in March by the first Legislature under Republican control in Georgia since Reconstruction. Perdue called it "a commonsense approach to a sensitive issue" and said it reflects "the mainstream values that Georgians share." With his signature, it became law and onlookers from the faith community, assembled in his office, applauded. The law requires a woman seeking an abortion to...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A stray dog saved the life of a newborn baby after finding the abandoned infant in a forest and apparently carrying it across a busy road and through some barbed wire to her litter of puppies, witnesses said. ADVERTISEMENT The stray dog found the infant, clad in tattered clothing, in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital of Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper. ***SNIP*** Full story here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/kenya_abandoned_baby Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

Did anyone here watch Fox News FROM 8AM to 9AM this SUNDAY MORNING?!!! Did anyone see that Democrat- not sure of his name, but he said he was working with Democrats and Republicans on a new bill- That every infant in the USA would get a 500 $ account- untouchable until they were 18, anyone can add to this account, and the 500 would have to be paid back at 30. Has nothing to do with Social Security, but was being fronted as! Anyone know his name? Anyone watch the show?

An 8-month-old girl received a new heart Friday morning. Shea Patrick and her twin sister Abigail were born with enlarged hearts, Cardiomyopathy, a life-threatening condition. Doctors told the twins' parents that without new hearts they would die. Abigail received a new heart in November. Shea received her heart on Friday. Doctors said the surgery went well and Shea was recovering. With new hearts the babies have a 90 percent chance of living normal lives, doctors said. The Patrick family is from Huntsville. David Lipscomb University donated a home for the family to use. A company called Sweet Scents is trying...

LOS ANGELES -- A woman whose baby was found dead in a washing machine after a house fire was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder, police said. Firefighters found the body of Latunga Starks' 3-month-old boy Monday after putting out a fire that gutted the kitchen and rear bedroom of a home in Los Angeles.

Missouri authorities issued an Amber Alert for an infant who may have survived after a woman was slain and a fetus removed from her body. Bobbi Jo Stinnett, who was eight months' pregnant, was killed Thursday afternoon in her home in Skidmore in northwestern Missouri, the Nodaway County Sheriff's Department said. The initial Amber Alert said that "the fetus was extracted from the victim

In the news reports regarding the Conner Peterson case, the baby was continually referred to by media as "baby" or "person" or "child." I waited to hear the word "fetus" but did not hear it. Good. Finally the truth is getting out that a child inside a female’s womb is a human being. Naturally the abortionists will be up in arms about these reports. They would have delighted in hearing the term "fetus" repeated over and over again. I now await the reaction of Planned Parenthood reps, etc. It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many...

Newborn doing well after being left in a mound of trash Updated 3/29/04 3:52 p.m. DELANO - A women accused of abandoning her newborn Sunday morning is in jail, and the baby discovered in a trash heap out in the middle of a field was doing well in Delano hospital on Monday. It is unknown what prompted Imelda Fernandez, 18, to leave her newborn son in a dump for hours before the baby was found in a plastic box by sheriff's detectives. On Monday KGET 17 learned more about Imelda Fernandez and what may happen to her baby. The...

THE REFORMATION OF BAPTISM FOR AMERICAN METHODISTS (Incomplete) I. Introduction There is so much division in the Church over Baptism that it must surely grieve the Lord Jesus very much. It seems that the very idea of sharing the joy of salvation with fellow Christians is undermined by doubts concerning Baptism. The nagging question of who is and who is not a true Christian sometimes revolves around Baptism, especially when we ignore other evidence in the life of an individual pointing to a right relationship with God. It is my purpose here to put forth an ecumenical view around which...

Why doesnt anyone bring this up in the mainstream media? Let me know what you think!!! I think that all the evidence is there. http://www.mercola.com/2000/nov/5/victory_over_sids.htm It explains that babies are inhaling gases that are being emitted from the mattress, and its the gases that are causing the deaths. It also says that SIDS can be prevented by wrapping the mattress a certain way in a polyethylene plastic, or by purchasing a specific cover which contains the polyethylene. I quoted these from: http://www.preventcribdeath.com/site/452285/page/45030 "it is caused by very toxic nerve gases which can be generated from mattresses and certain other bedding...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Poor Ronald Duffy. First he couldn't get into Brazil. Now he can't get out. The 35-year-old Pennsylvania native was barred entry in the South American country after he threw water on a baby whose crying annoyed him on the long flight from Miami, police said on Thursday. Duffy, who had been planning to spend Carnival with his Brazilian girlfriend in the city of Salvador, was arrested by federal police at Sao Paulo international airport when the flight landed on Wednesday. "I think I overreacted a little," Duffy told Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper. Police said...

First there was Sally Clark, then Trupti Patel, and now Angela Cannings. Three women wrongly accused of serial infanticide - one of the most horrendous crimes imaginable. Each prosecution relied on evidence from Sir Roy Meadow, Britain's leading cot-death expert who decided that, on the balance of probability, these mothers had murdered their children. Yet, according to a growing body of concerned lawyers, doctors and parents, these are not isolated cases but symptomatic of a legal and medical system so determined to protect children that it fails to protect the innocent. In this culture junk science can be seen as...

Palestinian Attacks Jewish Settlement in West Bank, Killing Israeli and a Baby Girl JERUSALEM Sept. 26 — A Palestinian attacked a Jewish settlement in the West Bank and killed two people including an infant before he was killed Friday night, when Israelis were celebrating the Jewish New Year, emergency workers said. Two people were wounded in the attack on settlement of Negahot, near the West Bank city of Hebron, said Dror Richter, spokesman for Israel's ambulance services. The attack came after nightfall, when Israelis began celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Celebrations across Israel were marked by heavy security,...

BARTOW, Fla., Sept. 2 — Paula Burcham ran the kind of day care working mothers dream about.Her house was immaculate, the meals for the children were home cooked. Kids would line up to get a hug from “Mama Paula.” BUT THE FAMILIES who trusted Burcham didn’t know she was giving over-the-counter medicines to their children without their permission. Now they suspect she was using the drugs to sedate cranky little ones. On August 15, Burcham was sentenced to eight years in prison for giving a 3 1/2-month-old girl a lethal dose of Benadryl to quiet her. And in the 20...

Just got off the phone with Jreimer! It's a Boy! 8lbs 2oz, 20 1/2 inches long born this morning at 1:10am! Mom is doing fine and Dad is proud!

Baby Dies Of Stab Wounds To Head, Abdomen; Woman Suffers Stab Wounds To Genitals RACINE, Wis. -- A Racine woman is sentenced to nine months in jail for fatally stabbing her newborn as she gave birth at home. Racine County Circuit Judge Wayne Marik sentenced Sandra Joncas, 44, following a hearing that lasted most of the day. Joncas earlier pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and failing to report the death of a child in an agreement with prosecutors. Joncas was formerly known as Melnik until her divorce following the crime. The woman is accused of stabbing her baby as...

Tot dies after Vegas teacher forgets him all day in hot van By KEN RITTER ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) - A 7-month-old boy died early Friday after being forgotten in a hot van for eight hours, and police said his schoolteacher father could face a felony child endangerment charge. "He was responsible for the health and safety of the child, and the child died," Lt. Jeff Carlson said. Carlson identified the father as a high school teacher in Las Vegas, but declined to release his name because he had not been charged with a crime. The boy died shortly...

According to the mother who had the surgery, Vanderbilt University, where the procedure took place, and the photographer who took the picture, this story is true. This picture of a 21-week fetus hand reaching up through an incision in its mother's uterus to grab the finger of the surgeon who had just performed a life-saving procedure appeared in the November 16 edition of The National Enquirer. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "The Picture of the Decade." The 21-week-old unborn baby is named Samuel Alexander Armas, and is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph...

The Choice For Men November 20, 2002 by Isaiah Flair Is it ever right to cruelly kill innocent human life? No, of course not. Quite the opposite: It is always very wrong to cruelly kill innocent human life. From the book, "Who Broke The Baby?", by Jeanne Garton: "At a time when society is calling for greater responsibility on the part of fathers... it seems ironic that the law denies them the appropriate legal rights necessary to protect their children when their children are the most dependent and the most vulnerable." Pro-life men fight valiantly for the right to...

The Fall Of Roe December 1, 2002 by Isaiah Flair With the late-January anniversary of Roe vs Wade approaching, the pro-abortion, anti-baby, empathy-free feminists are expected to bring a cake to several University campuses and then hand it out to other pro-abortion, anti-baby, empathy-free feminists. They do the "abortion is good, now eat this cake" deal every year. It's profoundly macabre. What manner of being celebrates the deliberately-caused abortion deaths of innocent, vulnerable, defenseless little prenatal babies? The annual pro-abortion table gets sponsored by the deeply toxic male-bashing feminist sector of society. Feminism, a movement based upon an insatiable...