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Louisiana Woman Arrested for Narcotic "Distribution" to Unborn Child By Peter J. Smith OUACHITA, Louisiana, August 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Authorities arrested and charged a Louisiana woman yesterday for taking illegal narcotics that harmed her unborn child reports the Louisiana Gannett News. The case is particularly interesting to pro-life advocates since justice will depend on whether state courts will recognize the newborn daughter of Rebecca Thompson, 26, as a person before birth, the period when the crime occurred. Sheriff's deputies charged Thompson on one count each of distribution of cocaine to a person under age 18 and second-degree cruelty to...

Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- As more reports surface on the new abortion center Planned Parenthood is building Aurora, Illinois, pro-life advocates are concerned about how it was built with so little advanced notice. The 22,000-foot building is one of the largest abortion centers in the nation but Planned Parenthood was able to build it under the radar. As LifeNews.com reported Tuesday, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area will open the abortion business in the 200 block of North Oakhurst Drive, located in the DuPage County section of Aurora. But the new facility escaped the attention of pro-life advocates and area residents until recently...

LifeNews.com Note: Rev. Mark H. Creech is executive director of the Raleigh-based Christian Action League of North Carolina. This editorial first appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer on July 19.The web site justice4jenna.org describes “an amazing and wonderful” young woman who was a “talented pianist, dancer and singer.” The site’s photo gallery shows a series of pictures of Jenna Nielsen, 22, as playful and humorous - someone who obviously relished in being a wife and mother. Jenna was expecting the birth of her third child, Ethen, with whom she was eight months pregnant, when tragically on June 14th some...

New Life Decisions International Boycott List Identifies Corporate Planned Parenthood Sponsors Life Decisions International (LDI) will soon release a revised edition of The Boycott List, which identifies corporations that are boycott targets due to their support of Planned Parenthood, the world's leading abortion-advocacy group. "As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 153 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood," said LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $35 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began some 15 years ago. "This should...

Knocked Up is an outstanding argument for the need for women to see what is going on inside their bodies when they are pregnant. Special Commentary to LifeSiteNews.com By Dr. Marc T. Newman July 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Knocked Up appears poised to be this summer's Wedding Crashers - a loud, raunchy battle-of-the-sexes film that brings in big box office. Millions of people will flock to this morally reprehensible film, and laugh it up while watching drugged-out, sex-obsessed slackers slouching through extended adolescence do anything to avoid growing up and taking responsibility for their lives. While viewers wallow in profanity,...

Sharnell Onaga loses her battle with leukemia By KHON News She never gave up till the end. That's how family and friends are remembering Sharnell Onaga. Last night she lost her battle with leukemia. Loved ones were by her side when she died. Onaga was diagnosed with an agressive form of leukemia while pregnant with her third child. Doctors advised her to terminate the pregnancy to save her life. She refused and gave birth to baby Sarah who is now four months old. Husband Clifton says the couple's eldest daughter will play a big role in making sure that sharnell...

GUELPH, March 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two pro-life advertisements on city buses in Guelph, Ontario were vandalized last week. The ads, depicting a 19-week-old fetus with the caption "this is a child not a choice" and offering the phone number of a local crisis pregnancy centre, were defaced with black spray-paint. The phone number was blotted out and the word "CHOICE" was sprawled over the ad. The board of Guelph and Area Right to Life association was saddened by the vandalism. "We are not surprised, however," association president Jakki Jeffs said, "those who say they support 'choice' have consistently shown...

AN unborn baby killed in a three-vehicle accident in north Queensland has lifted the national Christmas period road toll to 24. Queensland police added the unborn baby to the toll after a pregnant woman, 32, was killed in an accident on the Flinders Highway near Charters Towers around 3.30pm (AEST) yesterday. A ute travelling west and a sedan headed east collided, before the sedan careened into another car driven by the pregnant woman, a police spokeswoman said. The pregnant woman's car was travelling behind the ute. The woman, from Edmonton, south of Cairns, was taken to Townsville Hospital where she...

Ok, my second vanity, even though I had earlier promised that I would only post one. However, I felt that this was important enough to post here, where good people pray for those that really need it. Got this e-mail from a friend this morning and I am asking you for some of that special prayer support that one only finds here. I thank you. "My Dear, dear Friends, I have some very sad news. My niece Sara xxx, my sister Fran's daughter, was beaten to death by her boyfriend this past Friday in Hawaii where she lived. She was...

A Mother's Act of Love to Save Her Unborn Child by Justin Torres June 1, 2005 LifeNews.com Note: Justin Torres is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and research director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. There's a truism in conservative politics that abortion is everything. Clinton's impeachment was a proxy fight over abortion (the feminists were trying to save the bacon of the most reliably pro-abortion administration in history, thus demonstrating that they cared more for the ghastly procedure than the oppressed sisterhood). Certainly, the fight over the "nuclear option" was all about abortion...

My cousin, Scott and his wife, Marsha are expecting a baby girl. Two weeks ago at 24 weeks gestation, her amniotic fluid began to leak. After messing around at their local (and horrible) hospital, she went by ambulance to a big one in Pittsburgh. They found out that everything the previous hospital did was wrong. Now They are just waiting to see how long they can keep the baby in the womb and hoping everyday that it will be another day. The baby weighed 1 pound 6 oz on Monday. Any prayers for Scott, Marsha and their daughter would be...

GPS data at issue in Peterson caseScott Peterson is charged with killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son. GPS data at issue in Peterson case Judge to hear defense request to sequester jury Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Posted: 0544 GMT ( 1:44 PM HKT) REDWOOD CITY, California (CNN) -- Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Scott Peterson's murder trial are due in court again Tuesday to argue whether information gathered from tracking Peterson's vehicles by satellite after his wife disappeared should be admitted as evidence. Peterson, 31, is charged with killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son....

Two People, Two Deaths Paul Weyrich Thursday, Mar. 18, 2004 Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) stated in a letter to South Dakotans that he favored acting "expeditiously" on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. In his June 12, 2003 letter, Daschle stated: "I agree with the Republican Leader that Congress should consider this issue expeditiously." The rhetoric of the Senate Minority Leader fails to match the record. The Unborn Victims of Violence failed to reach the Senate floor quickly. After all, Tom Daschle has a voting record slanted in favor of legalized abortion, having voted for the Harkin (D-Iowa)...

NewsMax.com's religion editor Fr. Mike Reilly argues that the Laci Peterson case poses a problem for America's abortion advocates. "[Scott] Peterson, who is to be arraigned on charges for the death of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, was arrested Friday morning ..." reports the New York Post. We can all agree that Laci Peterson was murdered, but I thought that the unborn baby was just a fetus. How can Scott Peterson be arraigned on charges for murdering a non-person? If Lacihad brought the child to a local abortionist, he could have killed the baby - and the state...

Breast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC LinkBreast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC Link     10/25/2004By Mary E. Traeger, CWA of MO Media CoordinatorOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds . . ."While he was saying this a woman from the crowd called out, ‘Blest is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!'" (Luke 1:27)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds of thousands of participants in numerous cities walking to find a breast cancer cure. Corporations are...

Laci Peterson left her home in a car, not by foot, the handler of a bloodhound used in the search for the missing 27-year-old Modesto woman told detectives. Peterson, who is 8 1/2 months pregnant, disappeared Christmas Eve. Since then, hundreds of volunteers and police officers have searched parks, neighborhoods, fields, rivers and streams. A $500,000 reward has been offered for her safe return. Her husband, Scott Peterson, told police he last saw her at 9:30 a.m. as she prepared to walk the family's golden retriever in East La Loma Park. He said he was leaving on a fishing day...

A week after Laci Peterson disappeared, Modesto police said Tuesday that foul play had become the main focus of the investigation. Detective Jon Buehler said other possibilities had not been ruled out. But, he said, "as we continue to profile Laci's background, gather witness statements, recognize her close relationship with family and friends, investigate the circumstances of her disappearance, and in view of the timing with the holiday season, it is becoming more apparent that her disappearance is the result of foul play." Police spokesman Doug Ridenour said: "We are hopeful that we will find her alive. But seven days...

<p>Modesto police on Thursday asked the public to help verify the whereabouts of Scott Peterson, the husband of a pregnant woman missing for more than a week.</p> <p>Police released pictures of a pickup truck, boat and boat trailer they impounded from Laci Peterson's husband, and asked the public to tell them if they saw Scott Peterson before Christmas.</p>

Search goes on for their sub Light blue and yellow ribbons adorn trees at Ustach Middle School for missing Laci Peterson, a substitute teacher. Complete Coverage Photos Laci Peterson Website TED BENSON/THE BEE Jacqueline Peterson, mother of Scott Peterson, and Sharon Rocha, mother of Laci Peterson, listen to Modesto police Detective Doug Ridenour update reporters on the search. His words: 'Right now, I haven't got a clue.' January 7, 2003 Posted: 05:35:11 AM PST By TY PHILLIPS BEE STAFF WRITER As the widespread search for Laci Peterson continued Monday, nine divers spent a second consecutive day focusing on a small...

<p>By PATRICK GIBLIN BEE STAFF WRITER The state crime lab in Ripon is analyzing evidence collected in the Laci Peterson disappearance, and the evidence could be blood, saliva or semen.</p> <p>The Justice Department's Central Valley Regional Laboratory includes a serology lab that specifically looks at organic materials -- usually blood, saliva or semen -- and extracts DNA from the evidence to match with victims and suspects, said Katy Ciula, assistant lab director.</p>

<p>Officers aboard a San Mateo County Sheriff's Department search and rescue boat check underwater.</p> <p>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A law enforcement official collects a water sample from the Berkeley Marina on Wednesday while searching for Laci Peterson.</p> <p>By TY PHILLIPS BEE STAFF WRITER Searchers returned to the Berkeley Marina on Wednesday and used underwater camera equipment to hunt for clues relating to the disappearance of Laci Peterson of Modesto.</p>

Fox News has just aired the announcement by police authorities that the 'object' found in Berkley Bay, thought to possibly be the body of 8 month pregnant missing woman, Laci Peterson is a partially submerged, abandoned anchor. The search goes on.

<p>Modesto Police is '99% convinced' that Scott is the suspect they are looking for in the homicide of Laci and her unborn child, but do not have enough evidence to make an arrest.</p> <p>Scott was definitely having an affair with at least one woman (the PE teacher from Fresno) and possibly several others.</p>

<p>Rita Cosby again quoting local LE sources saying that three different samples of blood were found in the Peterson house, not just in the kitchen.</p> <p>Authorities confiscated Scott's computer in the earlier search and some outdoor patio chair furniture.</p> <p>The blood work is taking some time to process and will be ready late next week as was indicated in Rita's initial report, the authorities will wait to make an potential arrest until then.</p>

Scott Peterson admitted he had an affair last year before his pregnant wife vanished, and claimed he told her about it.He also has previously denied killing his wife.'The affair was not a positive, obviously..but it was not something we weren't dealing with,' Peterson told ABC News Good Morning America in an interview broadcast Tuesday.'It wasn't anything that could break up apart.'Laci Peterson 27, disappeared on Christmas Eve from her home in Modesto, CA.Scott Peterson 30, told police he was fishing at the Berkley marina at the time, and that his wife had planned to take her dog for a walk...

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Modesto, CA -[Missing pregnant woman] Laci Peterson's family fired another salvo at her husband Scott during interviews on two national cable shows Tuesday night, demanding he answer both their questions and those of Modesto investigators.Meanwhile a source with inside information about the case told KTVU's Ted Rowlands that Scott Peterson continued to be the focus in the case.The source added that even without a body an arrest 'could come in a matter of weeks, not months.'On FOX News Tuesday night, Ron Grantski-Laci's Stepfather--demanded that Scott answer all the family questions surrounding his possible involvement in Laci's disappearance on Christmas Eve.

MODESTO, Calif. -- Modesto police say that their search of the home of a missing pregnant woman Tuesday has not led to a big break in the case, but that they will return to the home of Laci Peterson Wednesday to continue the search. Modeseto Detective Doug Ridenour is downplaying Tuesday's daylong search at the house. He said unspecified new discoveries led officers to return to the home. Investigators removed dozens of bags and boxes of potential evidence from the house Tuesday, and they also drove away with Scott Peterson's new truck, which was later returned. Detectives with gloves had...

Technology makes start of life clear By Juanita Thouin Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Since the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade, one pivotal issue has fueled the continuing abortion debate - the origin of life. Some said, and still say, life begins at conception. Others claim it begins at birth. Through the 1970s and 80s, many of us accepted or at least acquiesced to a pro-choice philosophy - myself included. After all, the womb was a mysterious place where few ventured. Yes, some of us had seen the amazing 1965 photos Lennart Nilsson took, via an endoscope, of a...

The brother and sister of missing Modesto woman Laci Peterson appeared on the "Today Show" Monday to talk about the continuing search and their feelings toward Laci's husband. Brent Rocha and Amy Rocha (pictured, right) said that they continue to struggle for answers as to what happened to Laci. "I think it has been a difficult process," Brent Rocha said. "We've taken it in phases. In the beginning, when she first went missing, I think friends and family just really focused on getting the word out. And then as time went by, I think that reality set in that the...

SAN DIEGO DETECTIVE AIDS IN LACI PETERSON CASE (03-04-2003) - A private investigator from San Diego made an unusual discovery in Northern California that just might help police in their search for missing Modesto woman, Laci Peterson. Bill Garcia spotted a chunk of cement by a waterway near Modesto. “It was interesting because it was the only patch of cement we saw in about 20, 30 miles stretch. And there was a tire track through it,” said Garcia. Last week, the couple who sold a boat to Laci's husband Scott, said cement residue in the boat wasn't there when they...

Peterson Searchers Return To Bay Waters POSTED: 3:36 p.m. PST March 16, 2003 UPDATED: 8:54 p.m. PST March 16, 2003 Weather permitting divers will return to the San Francisco Bay waters off Richmond on Monday looking for any clue to as what happened to pregnant Modesto schoolteacher Laci Peterson, who vanished from her home without a trace on Christmas Eve. Modesto investigators returned to the Bay Area last week, but a series of winter storms kicked up waves and winds that forced them to call off their operations on Thursday afternoon. It is the third time searchers have been in...

Police can't say whether woman and infant are Laci Peterson and sonInvestigators load a decomposed woman's body discovered Monday at Point Isabel Shoreline Park in Richmond. Officials are looking into the possibility the body is that of Laci Peterson. The Bay Bridge can be seen in the background. THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPolice can't say whether woman and infant are Laci Peterson and son Investigators load a decomposed woman's body discovered Monday at Point Isabel Shoreline Park in Richmond. Officials are looking into the possibility the body is that of Laci Peterson. The Bay Bridge can be seen in the background. By...

Coroner: More testing and analysis neededCoroner's office remove a body found at Point Isabel Regional Park in Richmond Monday afternoon. Officials announced Tuesday that more analysis of the remains will be needed. AP PhotoCoroner: More testing and analysis needed Bee Staff Reports Published: April 15, 2003, 02:05:22 PM PDT A man walking a dog by the Berkeley Marina Monday found a bone that may be connected to two bodies found in the area, Contra Costa County coroner's officials said in a press conference Tuesday morning. Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, said that investigators had...

<p>Stanislaus County District Attorney James Brazelton said Wednesday he thinks Laci Peterson is the woman whose body was found this week along San Francisco Bay.</p> <p>"I feel pretty strongly it is (her)," the county's top prosecutor said. "It's too much of a coincidence to have a female and a baby found close to each other a day apart and no others were reported missing. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on it."</p>

SAN DIEGO - Remains that washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay this week were those of Laci Peterson and her unborn child, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Friday night. Meanwhile, Scott Peterson was arrested in the disappearance of his wife, who was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing Christmas eve, a San Diego County Sheriff's deputy said Friday. The arrest came as Modesto police planned to announce a "significant" development in the search for his missing wife and son. Peterson was being transported to Modesto, said the deputy, who spoke on condition that his name not...

<p>MODESTO, Calif. — Modesto police say they feared Scott Peterson was preparing to flee to Mexico when they arrested him on Friday.</p> <p>Attorney General Bill Lockyer says Modesto police and state agents used wire taps on phones and radio transponders on vehicles to keep track of Peterson. He says that Peterson indicated moments before his arrest that he discovered he was under police surveillance.</p>

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"Peterson, who is to be arraigned on charges for the death of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, was arrested Friday morning ..." reports Sunday's New York Post. We can all agree that Laci was murdered, but I thought that the unborn baby was just a fetus. How can Scott Peterson be arraigned on charges for murdering a non-person? If Laci brought the child to a local abortionist, he could have killed the baby and the state would have paid for it! Actually, Scott probably was not as brutal as the local abortionist. So let's get this straight. If...

<p>The head of the National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is opposing a double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case, saying it could provide ammunition to the pro-life lobby.</p> <p>"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday.</p>

<p>MODESTO -He spent his first full day in jail Saturday dressed in a red government-issued jumpsuit, sitting in a concrete cell, treating guards very politely and doing very little to draw attention to himself.</p> <p>With his image beamed on televisions from coast to coast, Scott Peterson could be this town's most infamous inmate. After a four-month odyssey, he is behind bars, facing two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Connor, and the object of scorn among many residents of the farming community where he once made his living selling fertilizer.</p>

Peterson courtroom under tight controlPeterson courtroom under tight control By PATRICK GIBLIN April 20, 2003 Security will be tight and access to the courtroom where Scott Peterson is expected to be arraigned will be strictly controlled, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department announced Sunday. Peterson, accused of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Conner, could appear at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Judge Nancy Ashley's courtroom, said sheriff's spokesman Kelly Huston. But, he warned, that could change at a moment's notice. "We want to make sure that everyone has access to see what's going on, but the final...

Police: Murder of Laci Peterson took place at home 'between 12/23 and 12/24/02...' Developing...

Unlike the case of the famous athlete who walked away free after murdering two people, a California jury today did the right thing. Scott Peterson was judged guilty of first degree murder of his wife Laci. And he was judged guilty of second degree murder of his son Conner who was within weeks of entering the world. Two lessons were taught today. First, that even in my state, the land of movie stars, breast augmentation, gay pride, illegal immigrants, fruits, nuts, and whackjobs, sometimes people here can do the right thing. Second, inside Laci was not just a group of...

Unborn babies prefer mom's voice Heart rates of children in womb accelerate when hearing mother A new study finds unborn children recognize and prefer their mother's voice while still in the womb. Canadian and Chinese researchers studying infant development released key findings this month suggesting babies' brains learn speech patterns and lay the groundwork for language acquisition while still in the womb, ABC News reports. "Before birth, the brain is being set up to learn language," Barbara Kisilevsky, a nursing professor at Queens University in Ontario, told ABC News. Kisilevsky conducted the research with a team of psychologists from Queens...

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Scott Peterson, husband of Laci Peterson, is being arraigned today in a California court on two counts of murder: One for Laci, the other for their unborn child. Pro-choice organizations are understandably uncomfortable about the latter, exposing as it does the convenient lie that abortion isn't somehow murder. "There's something about this that bothers me a little bit," said Mavra Stark, president of the local NOW office in Morris County, N.J., about the second count. "Was it born, or was it unborn? If it was unborn, then I can't see charging [Peterson] with a double-murder." Her logic:...

The California deaths of Laci Peterson and her unborn son are sending shock waves across America as the issue of when human life begins has been reignited. Laci's husband Scott was arrested last week following the discovery of what prosecutors say is Laci's body and that of their "biological child." Scott Peterson, who was booked on two counts of murder hours after his arrest in San Diego, is scheduled for an arraignment hearing tomorrow. If charged and convicted of double homicide, he could face the death penalty. Already, some pro-choice groups including the National Organization for Women are voicing their...

SAN DIEGO - Remains that washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay this week were those of Laci Peterson and her unborn child, California's attorney general said Friday night. Meanwhile, Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego on Friday in connection with the Christmas Eve disappearance of his pregnant wife, a sheriff's deputy said. Scott Peterson was being transported to Modesto, according to the deputy who spoke on condition that his name not be used. Peterson has not been seen in public since the decomposed remains washed ashore in Richmond, 90 miles away from the couple's Modesto home. The bodies...

Tiny Miracle: Unborn Child Receives Rare Blood Transfusion Sacramento, CA -- Isaac James Melendez is so young he doesn't even have an age yet; he won't be born until July 21 or so. According to the ultrasound pictures, he's a strapping little fellow. And listen to his wonderfully strong and regular heartbeat as picked up and amplified by ultrasound equipment: "VROOM VROOM VROOM VROOM VROOM." Robust as he is, he was on the ultrasound screen at Kaiser Sacramento Medical Center the other day for an emergency procedure to save his life. Isaac's mother, Audrey Melendez, has Rh-negative blood and Isaac...