A judge appointed by President Obama created a hostile environment in their courtroom when they implied that a pro-life doctor was a liar.
Federal Judge William Conley is overseeing a trial challenging a Wisconsin state law that requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at hospitals. The law is similar to one upheld in many southern states.
Dr. John Thorp, an obstetrician with the University of North Carolina, was testifying about abortions and the complications that arise during the procedure. As Dr. Thorp was testifying, Judge Conley began to make an increasingly hostile series of questions and comments to Dr. Thorp.
When Dr. Thorp testified that he believed complications for abortions to be under-reported by abortion providers, Judge Conley referenced a quote from author Mark Twain.
“[There are] lies, damn lies and statistics,” the Judge said to Dr. Thorp.
When Dr. Thorp was obviously insulted by the Judge’s implications he was a liar, the Judge tried to backtrack and say that he wasn’t really saying that Dr. Thorp was lying.
Dr. Thorp stuck to his testimony throughout the rest of the hostile questioning.
“Admission privileges allow for continued care rather than sending a patient to a black box, which is my opinion what transfer agreements allow them to do,” Thorp said. “I reject the final premise that a law like this will harm Wisconsin women.”
A Facebook page dedicated to attacking and slandering Christians featuring a picture of an aborted baby Jesus was been taken down after protests from pro-life groups.
The web page featured a photo of the Virgin Mary holding an aborted Jesus who was wearing a crown of thorns. The Virgin Mary was smoking a marijuana cigar looking as if she was very satisfied with aborting God’s son.
A spokesman for the group Catholics & Protestants Against Facebook Religious Discrimination said that this wasn’t a case of shutting down someone’s First Amendment rights but rather a case of hate speech.
“It’s one thing to say we’re atheists and we’re proud of it,” Cary Bogue said in a statement, “It’s another to say that [Jesus’s] mother should have aborted him.”
Facebook’s policies say they encourage discussion and permit parody on their site but do have a line when it comes to hate speech.
“While we encourage you to challenge ideas, institutions, events, and practices, we do not permit individuals or groups to attack others based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition,” Facebook’s Community Standards page states.
A new Gallup poll shows that the problem for the pro-life movement isn’t motivating the people who believe to get to the polls.
The problem is that fewer voters value life.
According to a new poll conducted May 8th through 11th, a majority of registered voters say they are in favor of ending the lives of babies through abortion by a 47 to 46 percent margin.
The survey also showed that pro-life voters consider the issue of abortion to be a major problem. When asked if they only support candidates that are pro-life, one in four “pro-life” voters said they only vote for pro-life candidates. Only 16 percent of anti-life voters vote mainly on the anti-life position.
The poll also said that 32 percent of anti-life voters believe abortion is not a major issue. Surprisingly, 21 percent of pro-life voters consider abortion not to be a major issue.
A pro-life student organization at the University of Miami had a display destroyed by vandals.
The display showed multiple renderings of graduation caps to represent the 370,000 Americans who would have graduated from college this year had their lives not been ended through abortion. The display used 370 caps, each representing 1,000 murdered children.
University President and former Clinton Administration official Donna Shalala condemned the vandalism.
“I am sorry your display was vandalized,” Shalala wrote in an e-mail posted on the UM Respect Life’s website. “That behavior is unacceptable at the University of Miami. I have asked our division of student affairs and campus police to investigate. You and your fellow students have every right to express your views.”
The display was one of four nationwide that were reported vandalized. In addition to the University of Miami, displays were destroyed at George Washington University, Winthrop University and in Chicago’s Daley Plaza.
Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is facing a heavy backlash on social media after taking a strong anti-abortion stand.
Mayweather, who unified the WBA and WBC Welterweight titles in a controversial win Saturday night, revealed during the week that he had broken up with his fiancée after she secretly had an abortion.
“I’m totally against killing babies,” Mayweather said on Twitter as he posted a sonogram photo of what he said was the twins. “She killed our twin babies.”
Floyd was immediately attacked by pro-abortionists on Twitter and Facebook saying that he had no right to demand his now ex-fiancee have the babies and that he had no right to say abortion is killing a baby. Many slammed him for making a public statement about something they felt was only his ex’s business.
Some even called for him to be stripped of his title before the fight and to no longer be allowed to professionally fight because of his anti-abortion stance.
A New York City megachurch pastor is calling for immediate action against what she calls an “alarming trend” for increased abortions among the African American community.
Rev. Elaine Flake said that people of faith in the African American community have a responsibility to step in and stem the tide after a report showing over half the black women in New York City aborted their babies in 2012.
“I saw that article about a month ago, someone forwarded it to me via email and I was devastated,” Flake told The Christian Post. “I thought those statistics were just outrageous, and wondered if they were true. But if they are, it’s something that I think we have to deal with as a church. As the African American community we have to educate our people a little bit better. I think we just have to be determined that we’re going to deal with some of these issues.”
Flake suggested that as a whole young women are not being taught the value of life and family and perhaps the media is partially to blame for promoting a lifestyle that devalues human life.
“I could never counsel anyone to have an abortion. I could never do that. And I think that when people are making choices, I think they would know my position on that. Again, I think it goes back to the problem of our children especially becoming sexually active so young. … It just seems to be the way the culture’s going. I think that because it is going that way we are seeing these kinds of statistics,” Flake said.
Pope Francis has taken the boldest stand against abortion since his ascension to the Papacy.
The Pope said that human life is “sacred and inviolable” and that every civil law is based “ on the recognition of the first and most fundamental right, the right to life.” The Pope went on to praise groups that are working to save life “in all its phases.”
“Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes,” Pope Francis said. “It is therefore necessary to reiterate the strongest opposition to any direct attack on life, especially innocent and defenseless, and her unborn child in the womb is the innocent par excellence.”
The Pope went further and said the devaluation of human life via abortion is a direct result of the economics of the world that see human beings as nothing more than a means to an end.
“If you look at life as something that is consumed,” the Pope said, “it will also be something that sooner or later you can throw away, with abortion to begin with.”
The crowd-funding site Kickstarter is being accused of censoring a group of filmmakers who are planning a movie about the abortion house of horrors controlled by convicted murder Kermit Gosnell.
The filmmakers say that Kickstarter told them describing the acts committed by Gosnell in the movie’s description were a violation of the site’s terms of service.
“We ask that the phrase ‘1000s of babies stabbed to death’ and similar language be modified or removed from the project,” wrote a Kickstarter representative in one of their communications with the group.
Phelim McAleer, one of the producers of the film, said that while Kickstarter objected to their references to abortion, the site allowed 16 projects that involve stabbings, 5 projects about incest, 44 about rape and 28 that have the F-word in the title.
Kickstarter told the National Review on Friday that they had approved the project as submitted despite the e-mails shown by the filmmakers that show they were told to censor their wording.
A house of death is turning into a house of life.
The Delaware clinic where convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell performed abortions has been bought by a Christian organization who plans to turn it into an emergency food and support center for the poor.
Lutheran Community Services of Wilmington, Delaware purchased the building that was formerly Atlantic Women’s Medical Services and will transform it into their new headquarters. In addition to offices for the group, they will provide much needed support to the surrounding community.
“It’s going to be a place of hope and life,” LCS Executive Director Jean Warren told Fox News.
Karmit Gosnell, currently serving life in prison without parole for killing babies born alive in his clinics, would begin abortion procedures at the Delaware clinic for late-term abortions. As the late-term procedure was illegal in Delaware, he would then transport the women to his Philadelphia clinic where he would finish killing the babies.
Pro-life groups throughout the state praised the purchase of the clinic and its upcoming transformation.
“I think turning some place that was essentially a killing factory into something that’s life-affirming is wonderful,” Delaware Right To Life President Nicole Collins said.
Two California students are fighting back against a college professor who assaulted them and took away their pro-life signs.
Thrin and Joan Short were part of an pro-life event at the University of California when Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young ripped the signs they were carrying form their hands. When the girls attempted to get their signs back, the professor kicked and pushed them.
The professor, who teaches feminist studies, claims she had a “moral right” to take the signs from the people who were opposing abortion. The professor is also known for showing pornography in her classes to her students.
Joan Short told Fox News the real offending matter in this incident is abortion itself and that if someone is offended by the process of abortion they should stand up for the life of unborn children.
Santa Barbara police are investigating the incident.