http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/infanticide/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:21:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284382/posts BOSTON, Mass, July 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - General Electric has announced that it will use embryonic stem cells provided by Geron Corporation for the purpose of testing toxic effects of drug treatments.GE issued a statement, attempting to preempt criticism over the decision, saying, "We acknowledge the considerable debate and take very seriously the ethical and societal issues associated with research using stem cells derived from embryonic or fetal tissue.""We conduct our research in an ethically and scientifically responsible manner," the statement said.However, embryonic stem cells have been the center of heated controversy since harvesting the cells requires the destruction... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284382/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:21:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275602/posts PARIS — Two murder cases that have riveted France in the last week came to an end Thursday, with both female defendants sentenced to relatively lenient prison terms. In one, a mother murdered three of her babies, hid two of the bodies in a freezer and burned the other, without her family knowing she was ever pregnant. "sn" In the culmination of a three-year saga, Véronique Courjault, 41, was sentenced to eight years in prison for the murders of three of her children while they were babies between 1999 and 2006. Prosecutors had requested only 10 years, because of Ms.... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275602/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:57:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272984/posts it's a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a "99.9-percent accurate" baby-gender test, claiming the results they got were 100 percent wrong. The product was advertised as "infallibly accurate in foretelling the gender of a healthy baby," and its Web site said the "prediction of your baby's gender is unmistakably correct or we will double your money back." The Baby Gender Mentor is touted as allowing women as little as five weeks pregnant to tell if they're expecting a boy or a girl, the suit says. That's nine to... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272984/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266182/posts Hundreds are expected to turn out this morning under tight security for the funeral service for George Tiller, the Kansas physician specializing in late term abortions who was gunned down in the vestibule of his Lutheran church where he was working as an usher Sunday. The suspect in his death, Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old man with dire financial problems who authorities say flirted with a number of militia-style protests against the government before becoming fixated on the abortion issue, has been charged in Tiller's death. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-tiller-funeral7-2009jun07,0,5957036.story http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266182/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:48:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262958/posts "Kill and Destroy" Synopsis: Featuring an interview with Jill Stanek, "Kill and Destroy" explores Barack Hussein Obama's support of infanticide in Illinois, an alarming decision that was opposed by every Democrat and Republican in the U.S. Senate. "What does it take to make a man a monster any more?" Illuminati Pictures president Molotov Mitchell recently wrote. "If Americans can watch this video and still support Barack Obama, then America is...beyond all hope." Video can be found here. It can also be found on youtube. notoriouslyconservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262958/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:43:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2262224/posts Introduction In today's humanistic culture, individuals are tinkering with ethical boundaries in science, namely genetics, pushing research and experimentation to the limit. In 1973, the monumental court case, Roe v. Wade, altered the bioethical playing field in the United States forever. For the first time in history, a mother could kill her unborn child without any legal consequences. Years later, a sheep named Dolly was cloned in a Scottish laboratory, and scientists around the world claimed they could clone human beings next. Likewise, stem cell research is one of the pivotal debates of the twenty-first century. In-vitro fertilization poses severe... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2262224/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:41:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260057/posts BARCELONA, May 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Martinez Sistach, the Cardinal Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain, said in a recent interview that abortion and abortifacient contraception are attacks on human life, comparing them to the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.Commenting on the murder of unborn children inside their mothers' wombs, Sistach observed that "the Bible teaches us that man and woman were created in the image and likeness of God. To touch a man or a woman is to touch God. To kill a human being is to kill God.  Historically, we have seen barbarities... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260057/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 20:02:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256036/posts Adult tucuxi dolphins have been seen trying to kill a newborn calf of their own species. It is the first record of these dolphins attempting infanticide. Although common in many mammal species, infanticide is rarely recorded among cetaceans, the group of animals that includes whales and dolphins. Until now, the behaviour has only been reported twice in bottlenose dolphins; but the new episode suggests it may be more widespread than was thought. Tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) live either in the freshwater of the Amazonian basin, or in the ocean off the coast of Brazil to Nicaragua. bbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256036/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 02:58:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254392/posts With due respect to the millions who adore President Barack Obama, I just don't understand what causes people to hear only his lofty rhetoric and appeals for unity while turning a deaf ear to his polarizing language and actions, for example, on the subject of abortion. In his book "The Audacity of Hope," he seemed determined to address every issue from the perspective of achieving some kind of common ground. We'll give a little bit of this to liberals and a little bit of that to conservatives and all live happily ever after. I'm sorry, but I believe Obama calculatingly... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254392/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 02:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253639/posts By the mainline media's "oh, isn't he just wonderful?" gushing accounts of Obama's speech at Notre Dame, it was a grand slam home run. He was conciliatory, gracious, and non-partisan - and did I mention wonderful? Among his other remarks, Obama said this: That's when we begin to say, "Maybe we won't agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this heart-wrenching decision for any woman is not made casually, it has both moral and spiritual dimensions. So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions, let's reduce unintended pregnancies. (Applause.) Let's make adoption more... Start Thinking Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253639/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 02:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253299/posts The administrators at Notre Dame had it in mind to foster tolerance and diversity with those of differing opinions. Among the graduating class a few students had Obama’s circle logo pasted on their caps leaving no doubt what was in their minds. Outside in protest chanting, Benedict’s flock No you can’t, no you can’t Inside Obama’s friends chant and mock Yes we can, yes we can Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253299/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 17:17:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252558/posts URGENT RELEASE: TURN YOUR BACKS ON BARRACK OBORTION http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252558/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 08:03:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252034/posts U.S. President Barack Obama will mention protests over his speaking at Notre Dame University in Indiana when he appears there, a spokesman said Friday. About 15 anti-abortion activists were arrested Friday at Notre Dame, Fox News reported. They included Alan Keyes, the right-wing pundit who ran against Obama for the Senate in 2004 in Illinois and has become a perennial candidate for president. Obama's pro-choice position on abortion and his reversal of the Bush administration ban on stem cell research has angered some Catholics. Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, told reporters at the daily briefing that the president, who has... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252034/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 02:40:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2251970/posts NEW YORK – A Gallup Poll released Friday found that 51 percent of Americans now call themselves pro-life rather than pro-choice on the issue of abortion, the first time a majority gave that answer in the 15 years that Gallup has asked the question. The findings, obtained in an annual survey on values and beliefs conducted May 7-10, marked a significant shift from a year ago. A year ago, 50 percent said they were pro-choice and 44 percent pro-life — in the new poll, 42 percent said they were pro-choice. The new survey showed that Americans remained deeply divided on... news.yahoo. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2251970/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 00:38:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250023/posts Swedish health authorities have ruled that under the current law, a woman is allowed to have an abortion, solely for the purpose of ending a pregnancy when the gender of the fetus is not what a woman wants. Health officials also decided that requests by pregnant women for gender testing, without a specific medical reason are allowed under the country’s laws. Chattahbox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250023/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 15:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248936/posts Austin, Texas, May 6, 2009 / 09:55 pm (CNA).- A Texas bill proposing to reduce significantly the penalty for the murder of young infants by their mothers conveys the message that newborns and infants are "less valuable people," a Texas pro-life leader warns. The introduced version of House Bill 3318 adds the offense of "infanticide" to the Texas penal code. It defines infanticide as a state jail felony "if the person willfully by an act or omission causes the death of a child to whom the person gave birth within the 12-month period preceding the child’s death" and if... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248936/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 01:14:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247380/posts 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... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247380/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 03:21:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246384/posts It sounds like a great idea: Pro- and anti-choice activists both (ostensibly) care about women's health, pregnancy and the rights of mothers. So why not bring them together to seek common ground, despite their obvious disagreements? In a series of meetings that, as the Wall Street Journal reports, began about a month ago and should continue for the next six to eight weeks, President Obama is attempting to do just that. And while I respect his intentions, appreciate that he's trying to make good on that promise to "reach across the aisle," and would love to be optimistic about these... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246384/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 20:51:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2245366/posts Well Operation Save America came, they saw, they harassed, and they annoyed; but they did not close the clinic. The clinic stayed open, no patients were turned away, and the doors never closed. We remain victorious. And that victory is a good thing – but, make no mistake, even though OSA has gone home; our work is not done. If we were to leave this park and discover that clinic violence had become a thing of the past, never to plague us again, that would be a very good thing, indeed; but, still, our work would not be done. If... NARAL Pro-Choice Texas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2245366/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 15:18:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2245448/posts A Catholic state legislator in Texas has introduced shocking new legislation that would effectively reduce infanticide to a fineable offense for the first 12 months of a baby's life. The bill states that if a mother kills her own child within the child's first 12 months of life due to past partum depression, the murder would be downgraded and punishable by relatively short jail stay and/or a fine. The bill, according to the House Committee Report, would amend the Penal Code relating to the punishment stage of a trial in which a defendant is guilty of causing the death of... CMR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2245448/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 17:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245008/posts Link DescriptionEmanuel Wesley Murray was found dead this morning on the shoulder of Interstate 275. Investigators have arrested his mother's ex-boyfriend in the killing. Early today, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies say, McTear battered Bedwell and threw Emanuel on concrete, kidnapped the infant and threw him out of the driver's side window onto the shoulder of southbound Interstate 275, just south of Fowler Avenue. Tampa Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245008/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 01:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241865/posts And he's not cool. He's cold. This is a cold, cold guy. - Rush Limbaugh Last year I read that Barack Obama not only voted against, but vigorously fought the passage in Illinois of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA). This bill addressed the situation when an abortion results in a live baby. BAIPA stated all live born babies are guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection whether or not they were wanted. The Federal version of this legislation passed the Senate unanimously. Yet Barack Obama voted against this legislation not once but several times. As a mom,... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241865/posts#comment Fri, 1 May 2009 10:10:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238880/posts Monday April 27, 2009 Illegal Abortionist Bertha Bugarin Sentenced to 6 Years, 9 Months Prison SAN DIEGO, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Abortionist Bertha Bugarin was sentenced in San Diego County on Friday to 6 years, 8 months on nine felony counts of committing abortions without a medical license. Judge Charles Gill ordered that Bugarin's sentence run concurrently with a sentence she is currently serving on similar charges in Los Angeles. Bugarin once ran the second largest abortion chain in California, operating eleven abortion mills in the 1990s. She was known to hire abortionists who were sex offenders, substance... LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Family, Life, and Culture Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238880/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:49:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238620/posts The girl’s voice in the videotape is tiny and tentative. She is talking to a nursing aide in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bloomington, Ind. The girl wants an abortion. The aide explains that the girl will need a parent’s consent because she is only 13. The girl balks; she does not want to name the father. “Cause, I mean, he would be in really big trouble,” says the girl. Her boyfriend, she explains, is 31. The aide drops her head into her hands. “In the state of Indiana,” says the aide, “when anyone has had intercourse and they are... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238620/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:41:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2238734/posts It’s no secret that the majority of Hollywood stars are strong advocates for a woman’s right to choose whether or not she wants to terminate a pregnancy, however former "Sports Illustrated" supermodel-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author Kathy Ireland has gone against the grain of the glitterati and spoken out against abortion. "My entire life I was pro-choice — who was I to tell another woman what she could or couldn’t do with her body? But when I was 18, I became a Christian and I dove into the medical books, I dove into science," Ireland told Tarts while promoting her insightful new book "Real... www.foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2238734/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:36:29 GMT