PERINATAL HOSPICE,
THE MOST LOVING OPTION
Few
things in life derail a parent’s world more
than being informed that the unborn baby
they were excitedly anticipating has an
illness deemed “incompatible with life” or
“a life-limiting condition.” Perinatal
hospice is the most loving option.
At times like these medical professionals
should proceed with great sensitivity and
compassion, realizing that even though this
child’s life will likely be short, she is a
gift from God. Her brief presence on this
earth will serve a purpose often known only
to the Creator.
Sadly, at this fragile moment, doctors often
matter-of-factly advise an abortion. The
procedure is wrapped in soft,
benign-sounding euphemisms intended to paint
images of comfort and peace. They call the
abortion “early induction, interruption of
pregnancy,” or “compassionate termination.”
Whatever they call it the reality is the
same. An abortion intentionally ends the
life of their unborn baby. Killing the child
is never part of God’s plan.
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ABORTION WAS THE
LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE IN 2023,
KILLING 73 MILLION PEOPLE
More
human beings died in abortions than any
other cause of death in 2023.
A heartbreaking reminder about the
prevalence of abortion, statistics compiled
by Worldometers indicate that there were
over 73 million abortions world-wide in
2023. The independent site collects data
from governments and other organizations and
then reports the data, along with estimates
and projections, based on those numbers.
Worldometers bases its daily abortion
figures on a fact sheet from the World
Health Organization, which estimates an even
higher figure for abortions per year than
Worldometers. “Around 73 million induced
abortions take place worldwide each year,”
the WHO says.
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THE ABORTION DRUG IS
NOT SAFER THAN TYLENOL
A
fter
I read. “What is a medication abortion? 5
people share their experiences,” I wasn’t
surprised that “abortion providers” (aka
“reproductive health clinics”) congratulated
Danielle Campoamor for her in-kind
contribution to the cause.
Reporting for “TODAY Parents”, she prefaces
her five accounts with the assurance that
studies have shown that chemical
abortions—which now account for a slight
majority of abortions performed in the
US—are “are safer than Tylenol and Viagra,
and 14 times safer than childbirth.”
Dr. Rebecca Miller, a fellow with Physicians
for Reproductive Health, also told
Campoamor, “Serious complications that would
require hospitalization happen in less than
1% of people who have a medication
abortion.”
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PRO-LIFE AMERICANS
WILL MOURN 65 MILLION BABIES KILLED IN
ABORTIONS
In
an effort to honor preborn babies who have
been killed through abortion, pro-life
Alaskans plan to assemble at Sacred Heart
Church in Fairbanks on Sept. 14 at 12 p.m.
The gathering is part of the National Day of
Remembrance for Aborted Children, which was
observed in more than 200 locations across
the country last year.
The Fairbanks event is sponsored by the
local Knights of Columbus, Interior Right to
Life and The Legion of Mary. It will occur
at Sacred Heart Church on Peger Road at The
Knights of Columbus Memorial Pavilion.
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Note: the
following is a lengthy article but very
informative
EUTHANASIA POISONS
PEOPLE AND SOCIETIES
In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article,
published in Newsweek in 1993, I described
the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed
herself under the influence of the
euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since
rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward
the end of the piece, I predicted what would
happen should assisted suicide become legal
and normalized:
The descent to depravity is reached by small
steps. First, suicide is promoted as a
virtue. Vulnerable people like Frances
become early casualties. Then follows mercy
killing of the terminally ill. From there,
it’s a hop, skip and a jump to killing
people who don’t have a good “quality” of
life, perhaps with the prospect of organ
harvesting thrown in as a plum to society.
I believed my conclusion would be
uncontroversial. After all, it was only
logical. Once the act of eliminating
suffering by eliminating the sufferer is
redefined from a crime to a beneficent
medical intervention, there is no limiting
principle. Terminal illness might be the
gateway excuse for legalization, but since
the real issue is the best response to
suffering, ...
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
JOURNAL PUSHES FOR RESIDENCIES IN ASSISTED
SUICIDE
“Nor
shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to
administer poison to anyone; neither will I
counsel any man to do so.” So says the
Hippocratic Oath.
Alas, the oath is as dead as the patients
some doctors now assist in suicide. In
California, the Sutter Family Residency
Medical Program even offers residencies to
train doctors in assisted suicide —
euphemistically called medical aid in dying
(MAID).
Chillingly, most of the doctors who
participated in a small study on assisted
suicide and who prescribe poison as part of
their job like it. The study was published
in Academic Medicine, the journal of the
Association of American Medical Colleges,
which pushes the assisted-suicide-training
agenda: ...
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CHECKING THE FACT-CHECKERS: ABORTIONS UNTIL
BIRTH
We
do our best, at NRL News Today, to provide a
rich variety of in-depth coverage of all
issues that are of concern to the pro-life
community. But NRLC goes beyond our stories
with scholarly White Papers.
These are available at
https://nrlcpressroom.com/white-papers-and-research-papers.
Here NRLC experts take a topic—typically a
pro-abortion assertion that is grossly
inaccurate but which the Legacy Media
ignores or misrepresents—and provide a
comprehensive corrective in language that
you can use.
For example, “Checking the Fact-Checkers:
Abortions Until Birth,” the latest
investigation that came out just last month.
The White Paper begins with this critique: ...
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JAW-DROPPING:
PRO-ABORTION COUNSELORS CLAIM PREBORN BABIES
CAN CONSENT TO THEIR ABORTIONS
In the article “Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate
Dialogue” in the Journal of Prenatal and
Perinatal Psychology and Health,
psychologist Claudette Nantel encourages
women to communicate with their baby before
an abortion, tell them how much they love
them, say goodbye, and even get their
child’s permission for the abortion.
Really.
Nantel admits the baby’s humanity, defining
“fetus” as “an unborn baby in its mother’s
womb, at any time from conception to birth.”
“Conscious abortion” hinges on the belief
that the baby in the womb can “hear” and
understand the woman’s thoughts and even
telepathically communicate back. Family
doctor G McGarey suggested2 that someone
having an abortion should have “a
heart-to-heart conversation with her baby in
the womb, explaining how this is not a good
time for her to raise a child, reassuring
them that they are deeply loved.”
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Note: the
following is a detailed article on the dangers
of medical abortion
THE CASE AGAINST THE
ABORTION PILL
Here is how I buried the body of my fifth
child: I
took myself to the emergency room because I
was in labor and bleeding. The baby on the
ultrasound screen lay still in the curve of
my belly, its heart silent. Fetal demise
resulting from spontaneous abortion, the
medical term for miscarriage. The room was
quiet as I delivered the baby. At first I
was afraid to hold my child, who fit the
length of my hand, its clavicles and ribs
delicate as strands of hair. Then I saw the
face, and the features were perfect. I
marveled. My baby was soft, its bones not
yet hardened, and still warm from the heat
of my body. In my grief, I was granted a
glimpse into secret places. I am made, and I
make. I was no longer afraid.
The room went black as I lost consciousness,
hemorrhaging. ...
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ORAL ARGUMENT DEBRIEF:
FDA v. ALLIANCE FOR HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE
A thorough analysis of the argument by
Litigation Counsel Carolyn McDonnell, J.D.
following oral arguments heard by the
Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in
Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for
Hippocratic Medicine on March 26, 2024.
The case has challenged the FDA’s 2016 and
2021 actions that removed patient health
safeguards for chemical abortion drugs. The
Supreme Court is now determining whether
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine has
standing to challenge the FDA’s actions, and
whether those actions were unlawful.
The Court will spend the next several months
deciding important issues about standing,
administrative law, conscience rights, and
health safeguards for chemical abortion
drugs.
Read Litigation Counsel Carolyn McDonnell’s
comprehensive analysis of the Supreme
Court’s oral arguments in Food and Drug
Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic
Medicine.
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NORMALIZING ASSISTED
SUICIDE WILL LEAD TO A DUTY TO DIE
Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but
fear of decline and a loathing of
dependency
— and of those experiencing them.
That nasty truth has become abundantly clear
with a new column published in the Times of
London in which former Tory MP Matthew
Parris argues that euthanasia/assisted
suicide should not only be permitted — but
encouraged. In “We Can’t Afford a Taboo on
Assisted Dying,” he writes (my emphasis):
I can’t dispute the objectors’ belief that
once assisted dying becomes normalized we
will become more apt to ask yourselves for
how much longer we can justify the struggle.
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OBGYN CONFIRMS
“ABORTION HARMS WOMEN”
If
President Biden wins reelection, his top
priority on Day One would be codifying
abortion protections in federal law, his
deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Host
Kristen Welker asked, “What would on day one
President Biden’s top priority be?” Fulks
responded, “First of all, Roe. The president
has been adamant that we need to restore
Roe. It is unfathomable that women today
wake up in a country with less rights than
their ancestors had years ago.”
“Constitutionally speaking, abortion is not
a right,” responded Joseph Backholm, senior
fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic
Engagement at Family Research Council.
“Believing it is a right under the
constitution is the mistake the Supreme
Court fixed in the Dobbs decision. It should
not be a right because no one should have
the right to end someone else’s life, except
in the cases of self-defense, when that
would be a proportionate response.”
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FORCED EMPLOYER
ABORTION BENEFIT (ELCRA) - RIGHT TO LIFE OF
MICHIGAN
Current Status
S.B. 147
was signed into law by Governor Whitmer on
May 17, 2023 and will go into effect 90 days
after the close of the 2023 session.
...
Description
S.B. 147 amends the Elliott Larsen Civil
Rights Act by changing the definition of
“sex” to include elective abortion. This
change makes it illegal to discriminate
against an employee for pregnancy,
childbirth, or elective abortions, and
forces employers to treat pregnancy,
childbirth, and abortion equally for the
purposes of employer benefits including
health insurance, paid leave, and work
accommodations. There is no religious or
conscience exception to this bill.
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NEW RESEARCH ON
ABORTION PILL REVERSAL’S EFFECTIVENESS
Abortion pill reversal saves unborn babies
when their mothers have a change of heart
part way through a chemical abortion pill
procedure.
A new study demonstrates
an impressive success rate which translates
into legitimate hope for tens of thousands
of women who want to save their babies.
Chemical abortion consists of taking two
different pills, mifepristone, followed by
misoprostol to effectively kill an unborn
child early in pregnancy. The first drug, …
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CRANKY OLD MAN
When an old man died in the geriatric
ward of a nursing home in an Australian
country town, it was believed that he had
nothing left of any value. Later, when the
nurses were going through his meager
possessions, they found this poem. Its
quality and content so impressed the staff
that copies were made and distributed to
every nurse in the hospital.
Read
the poem here...
IS HOSPICE AN ANTIDOTE
TO ASSISTED SUICIDE
The
goal of palliative care is to relieve
symptoms—including pain and stress—at any
stage in a serious illness. Palliative care
can be provided in conjunction with curative
or life-prolonging treatment. Hospice is a
subset of palliative care. Hospice provides
comfort care when a person no longer has
curative options or has chosen to forgo
treatment because the burdens of treatment
outweigh the benefits. The founding
principles of hospice were to maintain
dignity, to increase quality of life, and to
provide comfort and pain control. When these
principles are followed and staff members
are trained in proper pain management,
hospice can be a blessing for people in need
of expert end-of-life care.
Unfortunately, there is a growing
trend to misapply palliative medications to
make people die, particularly in the hospice
care setting. (emphasis added)
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“FETAL CONTAINER’S”:
BIOETHICIST PROPOSES USING WOMEN IN VEGATATIVE
STATES AS SURROGATES
A
bioethicist has argued for using women in a
persistent vegetative state (PVS) as
surrogates, calling it “whole body
gestational donation.”
Anna Smajdor, of the University of Olso,
wrote in the journal Theoretical Medicine
and Bioethics that women who are brain dead
shouldn’t have their wombs going to waste,
when people who want children can use them.
“We already know that pregnancies can be
successfully carried to term in brain-dead
women,” she said. “There is no obvious
medical reason why initiating such
pregnancies would not be possible.
But the ethics of such a decision seems to
have overlooked by Smajdor.
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Nancy Valko’s comment:
After writing my April 1,2023 blog, I agree
with Dr. DeCock’s conclusions below.
ABORTIONIST DEFINES
“MEDICALLY NECESSARY” ABORTIONS
“A medically necessary abortion is any
abortion a woman asks for.”
— Abortionist Jane Hodgson, quoted in Human
Life International Special Report Number 83,
August 1991, pages 6 and 7.
Editor’s note: This appeared at
"Clinic
Quotes"
and is reposted with permission.
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