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Abortionist Investigated After Patient Death Given “Tiller Award”

Fellow abortionists are honoring an Ohio abortionist who has been investigated over the death of a woman during a late-term abortion.

Abortionist Lisa Perriera will receive the “Tiller Award” by the organization Physicians For Reproductive Health.  The group gives two awards annually to abortionists. The first is the Rashbaum award, given in honor of William Rashbaum who “trained hundreds of medical students, residents and doctors” in the practice of abortion.

The Tiller Award is given in honor of the late George Tiller who burned the bodies of aborted babies in an on-site incinerator.  This award “recognizes a physician early in their career who provides abortions while demonstrating leadership and courage, even in the face of adversity.”

Perriera had been under a spotlight this year after a woman died following a late-term abortion at her clinic.  Lakisha Wilson, 22, went into cardiac arrest on March 21, 2014 at the clinic and was pronounced brain dead at a local hospital.  She was kept alive for a week on machines until her organs could be donated.

The Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Medical Board both said complaints against the abortionist for her role in the woman’s death were “unsubstantiated.”  The state attorney’s office did not take action on a criminal complaint.

Pro-life groups are not staying silent about abortionists celebrating their practices.

“Clearly, the Physicians for Reproductive Choice are engaged in a public relations campaign to make Perriera appear to be the victim when the truth is that she is the victimizer,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue. “The true victims are her dead patient, a dead viable baby that Ohio laws should have protected, Wilson’s motherless son, and her grieving family.”

“These despicable actions reveal how abortion groups are more concerned about protecting their dwindling number of abortionists than they are about the lives of the women they falsely purport to serve,” he added to Christian News.

Texas Mother Gives Birth To Quintuplets After Refusing Abortion

A Texas woman has given birth to the nation’s first all-female set of quintuplets after doctors suggested a selective reduction abortion.

Danielle Busby and her husband had struggled with infertility and went through several unsuccessful intrauterine insemination processes.  The couple decided they would give it one last try.

“We completely laid it at God’s feet and said that we would try one last time,” the Busby family explained on their GoFundMe page.

The couple had a daughter named Blayke.  The couple decided to try again a few years later and when natural did not work, they tried another IUI process that worked.

“Never would we have imagined the plan that God had for us in our journey to grow our little family,” the Busbys said.

They were urged by doctors to have an abortion to increase the chances of live birth for a portion of the babies.  The couple flat out refused to end the lives of any of the children God was giving them.

“We are holding on to our faith and convictions as followers of Christ and refuse to abort over half of our babies per the medical doctors advice,” the Busbys stated. “Every week not one baby showed any signs of having problems or issues. All hearbeats and scans have been great. How would you even choose at that point?”

On April 8th, the couple welcomed Olivia Marie, Ava Lane, Hazel Grace, Parker Kate and Riley Paige.

The director of the Woman Hospital of Texas NICU said the babies are doing well.

“The baby girls did well during the delivery and are currently requiring only modest support of their breathing,” Dr. Jayne Finkowski-Rivera said. “They were all in the appropriate weight range for their gestational age, which is due to their mother’s excellent efforts to have the healthiest pregnancy possible. They have made a strong start in life, and we are excited to watch them grow and mature.”

Johns Hopkins Reverses Decision Banning Pro-Life Display

Johns Hopkins has announced they are reversing a decision that banned a pro-life display from campus.

The display, which had been part of the university’s “Spring Fair” for 30 years, was initially banned until a call from Fox News to the school asking why the JHU Voice for Life student group was denied a chance to post the display.

The group’s display, which shows unborn children in various stages of development, was called “disturbing” by a student committee.

“We’ve reviewed your pictures with our advisers and have determined that your display contains triggering and disturbing images and content,” read an email the committee sent to JHU Voice for Life.

Andrew Guernsey, president of the pro-life group, told Fox News that abortion is disturbing and that’s the reason they need to post the display.  He also pointed out that it was odd a school that’s famous for medicine would be calling the display offensive.

“I certainly find it ironic that a university that has dedicated itself to the advancement of medicine and biology would find displaying medically accurate fetal models disturbing and offensive,” Guernsey said.

The committee responded to Fox News’ inquiry by stating “We… were wrong in our initial decision and, upon further reflection, have decided we will not impose restrictions on the displays presented by any community groups at Spring Fair… The committee values free speech.”

Vermont Man Sues Over Being Forced To Fund Abortion

A Vermont man is suing the state over being forced to buy insurance that includes a surcharge to fund abortion coverage.

Alan Howe, 63, filed suit against the state and federal government after the discovery that all health care plans in Vermont required a dollar per month to cover abortions.

“No one actually discloses to you that you are paying this separate abortion fee because they just roll it into the general premium, but everyone in Vermont is being required to pay this separate abortion fee in order to enroll in a plan,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Casey Mattox told reporters.

“That’s the case in Vermont and a few other states,” he outlined to OneNewsNow. “And people aren’t even aware that that’s the case that they’re being forced to pay for abortions in violation of their conscience.”

An attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice told a judge that the Obama administration had asked insurance providers to waive the surcharge for Mr. Howe but that all insurance companies refused to provide a waiver.

U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss is expected to make a decision in the next 30 days while negotiations are continuing to get the abortion requirement removed.  All states must offer at least one plan without abortion coverage by 2017.

Mom Refuses Abortion Despite Doctor’s Pressure

A British woman is praising God for her child after she fought doctors who wanted her to have an abortion.

Michelle Macaulay and her husband learned in late 2012 they were going to have a second baby.  At her 12-week scan, doctors said the baby had a genetic disorder and that she was unlikely to make it to her birth.

The doctors said Michelle needed to abort the baby.  They called the child “incompatible with life.”

“To be told by a consultant the baby was incompatible with life was just horrendous because, looking at that screen, there was a life already started,” she said. “It’s just an awful term to call anyone, let alone a baby growing inside of you.”

The baby was born at 36 weeks and has tested negative for a wide range of genetic diseases.  Baby Carla is now two years old and while she has struggles, she has beaten the odds doctors gave her.

“Carla’s not walking, but she started crawling and pulling herself up in November—-things we were told she would never be able to do,” Macaulay stated. “She will develop and then she might plateau for a long time. She can eat normal foods but she can’t feed herself. The physiotherapists are really confident that she will walk and they’ve always been quite positive.”

Pro-life groups are making an effort to inform mothers across the world that a doctor saying their child is “incompatible with life” is not a medical diagnosis.

“We have undertaken this global campaign because the phrase ‘incompatible with life’ is not a medical diagnosis: it misinforms parents, it pushes families towards abortion, and it denies those families a chance to spend time with their children, to make memories and to heal,” declared Every Life Counts spokesman Tracy Harkin.

Oklahoma Legislature Passes Dismemberment Abortion Bill

A day after Kansas’s governor signed a bill banning dismemberment abortions in the state, the Oklahoma senate passed a bill prohibiting the same procedure in their state.

The Senate passed the bill 37-4 and sent the bill to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin.  Fallin, a Republican, has not said if she will sign the bill but she has signed previous anti-abortion measures.

The bill bans doctors from using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar devices to stop a baby’s heart and remove the fetus in pieces.  Statistics show that only 5 percent of abortions in Oklahoma in 2013 were performed with this procedure.

Senator Josh Brecheen described the procedure as “gruesome” and promoted the bill by graphically describing to his colleagues exactly how the baby is removed during the procedure.

Abortion promoters like Planned Parenthood attacked the bill, saying that inflammatory language was used to persuade legislators.  Pro-abortion advocates say the procedure is often safest for women who want to have an abortion.

Missouri and South Carolina are both considering similar bills.

Kansas First State To Ban Dismemberment Abortions

Kansas is the first state to ban the abortion process where they dismember babies during their removal.

Govenror Sam Brownback signed the SB95 law Tuesday banning dilation and evacuation abortions.  The Senate approved the bill 31-9 while the House passed the law 98-26.

The law says it will now be illegal to “knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush or grasp a portion of the unborn child’s body in order to cut or rip it off.”

The process, which is common in second trimester abortions, stops the child’s heart and then the child is removed from the uterus in pieces.

Pro-abortion groups like Trust Women and Planned Parenthood said they’re considering lawsuits to block the law.

Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina are considering similar legislation.

Anti-Life Students Demand Abortion Display Be Removed

A group of students opposed to a display of crosses posted by a pro-life group at the University of Texas at Arlington is demanding the school remove the display.

The group of anti-life activists claim that the display of crosses represents Christianity and thus is “culturally insensitive” to a “diverse campus.”

“Every cross is supposed to represent an unborn child, but not necessarily every child that is aborted is Christian,” petition organizer Ashley Radovcich told The Shorthorn, the campus newspaper. “And therefore, they’re being culturally insensitive, especially since we’re the fifth most diverse campus in America.”

“They need to be more culturally sensitive to religions and cultures on campus,” she reiterated. “I mean, by all means, they should represent their views—freedom of speech … but they should also be more aware of what they’re putting out to the public.”

“When I’m looking at this, they’re basically telling us that we can go to Hell just for having options,” sophomore Olivia Frost added.

The group that placed the crosses, Pro-Life Mavericks, said the 2,900 crosses represent the number of children killed each day by abortion.  This is the second year of the display, which also received hostile backlash from anti-life students the previous year.

Adam Fogel of Pro-Life Mavericks told Chrisitan News that the biggest surprise to their group was not the anti-life protesters who held signs in front of the display, but the number of students who said they were unaware of the number of babies killed via abortion.

“Many people had no idea that abortion was this common and this much of a problem in the states,” he said.

The student group says they will erect the display again next year despite the hostile response.

Woman Who Abandoned Baby Sentenced To 20 Years

An Indiana woman who threw her newborn baby in the trash after giving birth will be spending 20 years in prison.

Purvi Patel, 33, was arrested in 2013 after she arrived at an Indiana hospital following the birth of her child.  She denied being pregnant but her injuries made it obvious to hospital personnel that she had just given birth.  Patel then admitted she had been pregnant after an affair with a co-worker.

Patel claims because her Hindu family is against pre-martial sex so she panicked when she gave birth and threw the child into a dumpster behind a shopping center.  She claimed the baby was stillborn, however doctors were able to show the baby had been born alive and could have survived if given medical attention.

The defense claimed she had been trying to induce her own abortion using drugs but that failed.  Under Indiana law, it is feticide to induce premature birth with the intent of causing death except in the case of approved abortions.

“You, Miss Patel, are an educated woman of considerable means. If you wished to terminate your pregnancy safely and legally, you could have done so,” the judge said. “You planned a course of action and took matters into your own hands and chose not to go to a doctor.”

Lila Rose of Live Action said there was a high level of irony in the case.

“If an abortionist had destroyed this defenseless little person at 28 weeks, there would be no controversy,” she said. “But since the baby managed to be born, to breathe, and then to be killed at the exact same age, law enforcement is scrambling to see justice served.”

Montana House Advances Personhood Bill

The Montana House of Representatives has passed a bill that would recognize unborn children as persons.

The bill, HB 425, now moves to the Senate.  If the bill passes the Senate, it would put the measure on the ballot for voters to amend the state Constitution.

“No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, the bill reads. “As used in this section, the word ‘person’ applies to all members of the species Homo sapiens at any stage of development, including the stage of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning, or condition of dependency.”

The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Matthew Monforton, says the bill would restore the state’s abortion law to the pre-Roe v. Wade state.  He said that it would sanctify the life of a child.

The Guttmacher Institute said that in 2011, the last year of recorded data, 2,200 women killed their children via abortion in the state.