Georgia Abortionist Arrested in Road Rage Incident

A Georgia abortion practitioner was arrested in a road rage incident that saw him punch a woman in the face. Sandy Springs police arrested Marietta-based abortion practitioner Daniel E. McBrayer, 58, after learning he assaulted a woman. This isn't the first time McBrayer has been in trouble. LifeNews

Pro-Abort Students Shout Down Pro-Life Presenter

A pro-life presentation at McGill University erupted in chaos Tuesday after a mob of pro-abortion students were allowed to silence the pro-life message while university officials made meek attempts to intervene until the designated time ran out. Ironically, following the event the pro-abortion protesters complained that their 'right to assemble' was violated. LifeSiteNews

French Abortions Rise

According to a new study by the French National Institute of Demographic Studies, although the number of unplanned pregnancies in France has fallen, the number of abortions in such cases has increased. Unplanned pregnancies fell from 46% to 33% from 1975 to 2004, ostensibly due to use of contraceptives, but the number of abortions of such pregnancies increased from 40% to 60% over the same period. Over 40% of French women have an abortion at least once in their life. According to Chantal Blayot, a professor of demography at Montesquieu-Bordeau IV, this trend is supported by "a strong social pressure to abort." LifeSiteNews

The H1N1 Vaccine and Pregnant Women

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced in September that it was preparing to conduct a clinical trial of the H1N1 influenza vaccine involving pregnant women. This is welcome news since pregnant women have been identified as a priority group for receiving the vaccine in the United States and in Canada. Bioethics Forum

Ireland Adopts Lisbon Treaty but Pro-life Guarantees Remain Suspect

Irish voters overwhelmingly accepted the Lisbon Treaty on October 2nd after they were given guarantees that their pro-life and pro-family laws would be protected. While some pro-life and pro-family voices hail the guarantees as a step forward, many analysts argue that the nature and extent of those guarantees are far from certain and that the “yes” vote will eventually lead to intense pressure on Ireland from the European Union to liberalize its laws and policies on abortion and homosexual “marriage.” C-Fam

Loving and Caring seminar

Cradles of Grace in Grand Rapids, MI, is hosting Anne Pierson of Loving and Caring, Inc., at a seminar for pastors, youth workers, school volunteers, social workers, healthcare professionals, counselors, and PCC volunteers. She'll speak on My Baby & Me and Principles of Adoption. The seminar is Monday, October 26, from 9 am to 3 pm, at St. Luke's Lutheran Church. Call (616) 295-7151 for registration information.

What parents need to know about sex education

If you think sex education is still about the birds and the bees, you're wrong. And it's not about science either. If you're a parent with children in the public school system, you need to know what's really going on. In You're Teaching My Child What? Dr. Miriam Grossman rips back the curtain on sex education today, exposing a sordid truth. Instead of teaching our children the facts of life, sex educators are lying to them, ignoring medical fact in favor of politicized, and dangerous, propaganda that could ruin your child's life forever. eBookstore

Flu in pregnancy leaves a mean legacy

Pregnant women are at the front of the queue for swine flu vaccine as distribution starts this month in the US, UK and elsewhere. It is well known that their suppressed immunity puts them at greater risk; less widely recognised is the evidence that flu can harm their babies. New Scientist

Populous China's infertility problems

Semi-official data indicate that 40 million couples, one in eight, have difficulties in having children. Fertility treatment often fails. For experts, this is the outcome of the ‘one-child’ policy, too many abortions and obesity. Asia News

Seizures and Brain Damage Follow HPV Vaccine Injection for U.K. Girl

An 18 year-old U.K. girl has suffered severe brain damage from seizures that began after receiving the vaccination Cervarix. Stacey Jones, 18, of Bilston in the West Midlands of England, began to have seizures days after receiving the first injection. The fits eventually caused such severe brain injury that she had to be admitted to a rehabilitation unit to relearn simple tasks. LifeSiteNews

New emergency hormonal contraceptive effective for up to five days after sex

Ulipristal (ellaOne), an emergency hormonal contraceptive that maintains its efficacy when taken up to five days after unprotected sexual intercourse, is now available on prescription in the UK. Ulipristal is the first in a new class of drugs called synthetic selective progesterone receptor modulators. It acts by high affinity binding to the progesterone receptor and is thought to inhibit or delay ovulation. Alterations to the endometrium may also contribute to ulipristal’s efficacy. PJ Online

Study Claims Botched Abortions Cost $250 Million Annually

A new study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute suggests failed abortions in nations in Africa and Latin America cost approximately $250 million in follow-up medical costs for women. It only surveys nations where abortions are illegal and does not provide any cost-comparisons for nations where abortions are legal. The study also fails to note that the illegal abortions are done by abortion centers and abortion practitioners that would continue injuring women in failed abortions were the abortions legalized. LifeNews

Third Woman Rushed to Hospital after Botched Abortion

A third woman in as many weeks was recently rushed to a local hospital from a southern California Planned Parenthood abortion clinic after an apparent botched abortion required urgent medical care. The latest incident occurred on Saturday morning and was photographed by local pro-life advocates. Two women were hospitalized in recent weeks from a Planned Parenthood center in Orange, California after alleged botched abortions. LifeNews

Planned Parenthood Used Underage Girls in Clinical Trials

Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League and the head of its STOPP Planned Parenthood effort, released the details about how 28 Planned Parenthood affiliates have been involved in 33 clinical trials, some of which received government funds; 10 of them involved girls as young as 13 years of age. LifeNews

Abortion is not health care!

President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Reid and Speaker of the House Pelosi have repeatedly stated that abortion will not be included in the health care legislation currently being considered in Congress. However, in both the House and Senate, several important pro-life amendments that would have prevented the federal funding and coverage of abortion as well as protected the conscience rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in abortion were defeated. The message is clear; if abortion is not explicity excluded in the legislation, it will be included.

Please sign our petition letting Congressional leaders and the White House know that you insist that your tax dollars not be used to cover abortion and that health care legislation must explicitly exclude abortion coverage. The petitions will be delivered to Senate Majority Leader Reid, Speaker of the House Pelosi and the White House on Friday, October 16. If you have already joined thousands of others in signing the petition, please forward this to a friend.

Pro-Life Institute Equips Gophers

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s training arm called the Pro-Life Institute teaches students to fish. The Genocide Awareness Project takes students fishing. On September 12, 2009, PLI trained 75 students and local community activists at the University Of Minnesota. Then on September 13-14, CBR’s campus outreach program took students out on the campus to persuasively present the pro-life position with their peers. The results are a one two punch that is hard to imagine. Brochure

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Abortion Advocate Attacks PCCs After Release of Report

Not able to stand the competition that pregnancy resource centers provide by helping women find tangible help and support during an unplanned pregnancy, abortion advocates are attacking pregnancy centers and using a new report highlighting their history and service to do so. The report by the Family Research Council (in conjunction with Care Net, Heartbeat International and NIFLA) gives a historical overview of the pregnancy center movement and highlights case studies and interviews with staff and former clients to demonstrate how pregnancy centers have helped millions of women during their time of need. Last Thursday, Wendy Norris, a blogger at the pro-abortion RH Reality Check blog fired back. LifeNews

STDs: Serious, Threatening, Deadly

Read the results of a national online survey of 18- to 21-year-olds on sexual relationships and sexually-transmitted diseases, prepared for Women’s Health & Sexuality at The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. The results of this survey suggest that those who support young women of this age group – student health counselors and nurses, student organization staff, and campus residential advisors – should consider advising them of the information contained in the Sense & Sexuality guide.

YWCA and Abortion

The case of a raped inmate in Kansas who was coerced into an abortion and taken to a Planned Parenthood center is generating criticism of Kansas corrections officials. But it is also implicating the YWCA, which appears to have misled the woman and arranged her abortion. LifeNews, Topeka Capital-Journal The YWCA has long been a pro-abortion organization and shifting in that direction after shedding its previously Christian basis for existing. Dr. Lorraine Cole, the CEO of the YWCA, said last year that "the YWCA has always been pro-choice."