Reasonable Doubt
Amillia Taylor shouldn't be alive. She was born at less than 22 weeks - in the US, where babies aren't considered 'viable' until 23 weeks.
And one ACLU member in California has said, in a letter to me, that “no one can say with authority when life begins, but since we know that identity begins at conception, we’re obliged to give the benefit of the doubt.”
-Nat Hentoff 
Vice President Joe Biden believes life begins “at the moment of conception.”
“I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life and being” Biden said, during an interview with Father Matt Malone, S.J. of “America Media.”
-Steve Guest
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
-Albert Einstein
Homecoming King and Queen
"She is a beautiful girl. Not just outside but inside also." -Karen McNeil
Abortion
An examination by the New York Times has found that 85 percent of prenatal blood tests for rare chromosomal disorders provided false positive results to expectant mothers. On average, only 15 out of every 85 tests came back with accurate information on their child’s genetic make-up, potentially leading many mothers to abort perfectly healthy children...
More than a third of mothers across the United States may have been told, falsely, that their children would be born with syndromes like DiGeorge, 1p36, Cri-du-Chat syndrome, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, Turner syndrome, and Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. In the case of Prader-Willi syndrome, 90 percent of positive tests were false.
Science, Narrative, Abortion
The 15th week is an important point in the development of the unborn child, as demonstrated by the following dozen facts compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, based on peer-reviewed, fact-based research:
• By 15 weeks of pregnancy, every major organ has grown and most are functional.
○ The heart pumps 26 quarts of blood per day.
○ Intestines have started the lifelong contractions that propel food through the digestive system.
○ The kidneys already filter toxins.
• The unborn baby prefers sucking his right or left thumb.
○ By studying ultrasounds, scientists have determined that 85% of unborn babies prefer moving their right hand over their left hand. About 85% of adults prefer their right hand, too.
○ If a twin, the unborn baby moves more gently when reaching toward her twin’s face.
• The baby responds to taste.
○ Flavors from the mother’s food seep into the amniotic fluid, peaking after about 45 minutes.
○ If the amniotic fluid tastes sweet because of an injection of saccharin, the baby swallows more fluid. If the amniotic fluid tastes bitter, the baby swallows less.
• The baby’s heart has already beat approximately 15,800,000 times.
○ A baby’s heart starts beating about 22 days after fertilization.
○ In total, a baby’s heart beats about 54 million times between conception and birth.
• The baby’s body responds to both touch and pain.
○ The baby responds to light touches over most of the body.
○ If something touches the palm of the baby’s hand, the baby will bend his or her fingers as if to grasp the object.
○ Neurotransmitters specific to pain processing appear between 10 and 14 weeks’ gestation. The spinal nerves needed to transmit pain to the thalamus have formed by 15 weeks’ gestation.
Rep. Mia Love at March for Life
January 2017
“Forty-one years ago, that couple could have made the choice to abort, but they didn’t. They chose life,” she said, referring to herself. “I’m certain that this couple would never have thought that that child would become the first female, black, Republican member elected to Congress.”
Narrative, Oops, Abortion
Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film. An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.
Scientists had seen the phenomenon occur in other animals but it is the first time is has been also shown to happen in humans. Not only is it an incredible spectacle, highlighting the very moment that a new life begins, the size of the flash can be used to determine the quality of the fertilised egg.
Narrative, Oops, Abortion
A baby born three months premature was so small that doctors put her into a Tesco sandwich bag to keep her warm. Pixie Griffiths-Grant weighed just 1.1lbs when she was delivered by emergency C-section at 28 weeks but her weight quickly fell to less than 1lb minutes after birth...
Pixie, who was lighter than half a bag of sugar and smaller than her mother's hand, was rushed to intensive care, where doctors expected her to survive for less than an hour. But she defied the odds and is now at home at five months old.
“You can’t stand on the sidelines, especially now that you’ve seen these videos,” she told me recently.
“That’s bullshit! These are babies that are being killed. Millions of them. And you need to use your voice to protect them.
That’s what a man does. He protects children—his own children, and other children. That’s what it means to be a man.”
-Ruben Navarrrette Jr.'s Wife
Narrative, Oops, Abortion
A study conducted by a team of Spanish researchers has shown that fetuses in the womb can start to hear and respond to the voices around them as early as 16 weeks. The researchers came to the conclusion based on their observation of the reaction of the fetuses to the music played outside the womb of the mother...
During the study, the researchers exposed the babies to the effective and distortion-free music with the help of a musical tampon inside the mother's vagina. The team captured a series of 3D images showing fetuses responding to the music.
Bernard Nathanson: Embrace Life...
One-time notorious abortion doctor and key architect of the abortion movement, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, is speaking from the grave. His message: Embrace life.
Over the weekend, author Terry Beatley spoke at a local right-to-life event here in South Florida. Beatley had met with Nathanson in 2009 (about a year before he died), and he gave her a charge to continue spreading the pro-life message.
He told her, “teach the strategy of how I deceived America” to accept abortion.
"Record-breaking" Preemie
Goes Home Healthy
"Record-breaking" preemie weighing as much as an onion at birth goes home healthy https://t.co/ih8Lp6A78H pic.twitter.com/rQnLy4UgT5
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2019
A baby born in Tokyo weighing the same as a large onion has gone home healthy. The tiny tot weighed just 268 grams — under 10 ounces — when he was delivered at 24 weeks, reportedly after he stopped growing in the womb.
Character, Abortion
Robin Barton shares a bond like no other with retired Santa Ana police officer Michael Buelna. "I hoped that someday I would see him again," Buelna said. The two first met 25 years ago when Barton was just four hours old, in what some would call a miracle encounter. It was Nov. 21, 1989 and Buelna was on duty in Santa Ana.
"It was like a sound of a very low meow, like a cat or something," Buelna said, referring to a sound coming from behind a garbage dumpster. Buelna started moving trash around and then made the shocking discovery. "I noticed the umbilical cord and he was covered, he still had all the mucus and stuff and all the trash and gravel was sticking to him," Buelna said. "I tried to give him a tiny little bit of breath and he reacted a little bit."
The baby weighed just four pounds, two ounces. Buelna named him "Adam".
Pearl
Miracle Triplets Born at 28 Weeks Survive, Doctors Wanted Parents to Kill Sister to Save Her Brothers
H/T: Lifesite News
Editorial, Abortion
Technology in recent years has improved imagery inside the womb and allowed for realistic animated visualizations to present various aspects of fetal development in a way that hasn’t been seen before.
Walker Pruett Born April 25, 2014
Walker Pruett weighed 1 pound, 3 ounces when he was born.
Science, Narrative, Abortion
"I don't think people realise the range of facial expressions you get inside the uterus, or indeed that babies blink." -Professor Stuart Campbell, Obstetrician
Heroic Ms. Culwell Takes a Stand for Human Life.
My life is a miracle and I would be selfish to keep this GIFT of life to myself. I want to tell everyone what a gift I and even they have been given!! I want to encourage them to seek alternatives to abortion because I would never want any woman/man to go through the grief and the pain that my birth mother went through simply because she didn’t know she had any other option.
My job with to hold the ultrasound probe on the woman’s abdomen so he could see what was going on during the abortion, and I watched a 13 week old baby fight and struggle for his life during that abortion procedure, and I knew then that I had been lied to.
I knew that because of that, I had, in turn, lied to thousands of women who had come through my facility.
-Abby Johnson, Director of a Planned Parenthood Facility for 8 Years
Science, Narrative, Abortion
A new study from a team of psychologists examines the behavior of twins in utero, and finds that “by the 14th week of gestation, unborn twins are already directing arm movements at each other, and by the 18th week these ’social’ gestures have increased to 29 percent of all observed movements.
Nat Hentoff
Being without theology isn't the slightest hindrance to being pro-life. As any obstetrics manual— Williams Obstetrics, for example—points out, there are two patients involved [in pre natal care], and the one not yet born "should be given the same meticulous care by the physician that we long have given the pregnant woman."
Nor, biologically, does it make any sense to draw life-or-death lines at viability. Once implantation takes place, this being has all the genetic information within that makes each human being unique. And he or she embodies continually developing human life from that point on.
It misses a crucial point to say that the extermination can take place because the brain has not yet functioned or because the thing is not yet a "person." Whether the life is cut off in the fourth week or the fourteenth, the victim is one of our species, and has been from the start.
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson was the first black woman to attend and graduate from Harvard Medical School and was a founder of Massachusetts Citizens for Life and National Right to Life. She is even credited with influencing Ronald Reagan’s conversion from pro-abortion to pro-life. pic.twitter.com/cyYdxNhjbE
— PolishPatriot™️ (@PolishPatriotTM) February 9, 2019
"You have made it irrefutably clear that an abortion is the taking of a human life, I am grateful to you."
-Ronald Reagan
Narrative, Oops, Abortion
After extensive adjustment for confounding, other pregnancy outcomes, and sociodemographic differences, abortion was consistently associated with increased risk of mental health disorder. Overall risk was elevated 45% (RR 1.45, 95% CI 1.30-1.62, p. < .0001). Risk of mental health disorder with pregnancy loss was mixed, but also elevated 24% (RR 1.24, 95% CI 1.13-1.37, p. < .0001) overall. Birth was weakly associated with reduced mental disorders...
Evidence from the United States confirms previous findings from Norway and New Zealand that, unlike other pregnancy outcomes, abortion is consistently associated with a moderate increase in risk of mental health disorders during late adolescence and early adulthood. -Donald Paul Sullins
The witnesses swore an oath to tell the truth and to present the evidence, and they did, under pain of penalty for perjury. What they said and the pictures they showed changed me. I am not the same person I was.
Liberal, Narrative, Abortion, Lie, Murder
Her name is May Lynn and she has a story. She was my daughter, murdered by me via abortion at 24 weeks. In light of these Planned Parenthood videos I want to share her story.
Hardly anyone knew and the few people that did, I lied to, never admitting that her blood was on my hands. I couldn’t even admit it to the hospital staff. I told everyone (only a handful of people) it was just a crazy misfortune.
She changed everything for me. Now I knew I had been lied to. Now I knew regret. Now I knew what I had done. I was a murderer. The heavy guilt of that hit me like a freight train.
It hit me the hardest when I woke up in the hospital bed with her in my arms and she was warm from my own body heat and for a moment I could pretend that I hadn’t done what I had done…. until I couldn’t pretend any more.
It hit me again when I called and begged the funeral home to unseal her casket so I could hold her one last time. Those precious, tiny fingers. That soft skin and tiny little mouth. Every time I hold my other children… but never her…
It hit me again when I buried her with only one person there to comfort me, my closest confidant who still didn’t even know what I had done.
It hit me again when I woke up in my car in the cemetery...
-Anna C
LA County Sheriff Delivers Baby
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy helped deliver a baby in the front seat of a car in the parking lot of a car wash.
Science, Narrative, Abortion
A new type of ultrasound scan has produced vivid pictures of a 12 week-old foetus "walking" in the womb. The new images also show foetuses apparently yawning and rubbing their eyes.
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Abby also experienced a spiritual transformation following her decision to leave Planned Parenthood.
“The most important thing to know is that I believe in forgiveness, mercy, and redemption. No one is beyond the amazing power of Christ and His love,” she writes.
Character
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A first birthday is a milestone event for any family — but Eliora "Ellie" Schneider's first birthday might be a miracle.
The Kansas City-area girl was born after 21 weeks. The normal pregnancy is 40 weeks. Doctors told 41 Action News babies born that early have a very slim chance of surviving.
But one year later, Ellie's mother, Robin, said you'd never know Ellie was the size of a soda can when she was born. The 1-year-old can sit up on her own, is starting to crawl, and only uses an oxygen machine when she sleeps, instead of all the time.
"She had all the odds stacked against her," explained Dr. Barbara Carr, a neonatologist with Mednax working at Saint Luke's Hospital. "She had parents that had a very deep faith. They just continued to believe, we all kept working on and continuing to believe in her and she did well."
Abortion, Video
Abortion is the number one killer of black Americans.
Frank Stephens
My Life Is Worth Living
Dr. Anthony Levatino
2nd Trimester Surgical Abortion
For the woman, this procedure carries a significant risk of major complications, including perforation or laceration of the uterus or cervix, with possible damage to the bowel, bladder, and other maternal organs. Infection and hemorrhage can also occur, which can even lead to death.
The flight diverted to LAX because one of the passengers went into labor in the middle of the flight. "Everything was going great. About 50 minutes prior to touchdown, we got a call from the flight attendants in the back," said Capt. John Gordy. A spokesperson for the airline said the mother gave birth with the help of a doctor and a nurse on the flight. "It was amazing. All the passengers were awesome, everybody was clapping," said flight attendant Danielle Fite.
The Sex Life of Fire
Roderick Falconer
Education, Abortion
Abort73 is working to protect women and children from the violence of abortion.
Animals Know Better
A dog rummaging in a garbage dump in Brazil is being credited with saving a newborn baby’s life.
We know that America is beginning to see abortion in all its evil.
Thanks to the Center for Medical Progress videos exposing Planned Parenthood's and other human harvesting agents' horrific atrocities against the most innocent, vulnerable members of our human family, the time is right to stand up for life, to demand accountability, and to demand that our governments stop supporting abortion and its byproducts.
-Alveda King
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.