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Congress Forced to Face Up to the Pain Experienced by Unborn Children

In The Public Square, Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

Last week, Representative Trent Franks (R.-Ariz.) introduced legislation in the United States House of Representatives that would ban abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy. The bill, HR 1797, is based on research establishing that unborn children can feel pain by at least twenty weeks of gestation, and very likely at an earlier age. As originally …

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Testimony of Jill L. Stanek, RN HR 1797

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion, Legislation / By Life Legal

Testimony of Jill L. Stanek, RN HR 1797, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice May 23, 2013 When I testified before this committee in 2000 and 2001, it was to tell of my experience as a registered nurse in the Labor and Delivery …

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Verdict: Gosnell is Guilty

Abortion Clinics Closed, Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

Former abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been found guilty of first degree murder of three babies who were born alive following attempted abortion. Life Legal Defense Foundation released the following statement regarding the verdict: “It is our hope that this will be the first step in seeing prosecutors, nationwide, enforce the law when children born …

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Gosnell: the Tip of the Abortion Iceberg

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

As the evidence mounts, one is left wondering whether Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors” is unique, or whether his clinic is merely a very ugly tip of a very ugly iceberg—the abortion industry? Due in no small degree to continued pressure from pro-life advocates, there has been an increase in media coverage of the unfolding …

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD GOLDEN GATE SUCCESSOR CLOSES SAN FRANCISCO AREA ABORTION CLINICS

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

Life Legal Defense Foundation joins San Francisco Bay Area pro-lifers in celebrating the closure of Golden Gate Community Health (GGCH). GGCH was the successor corporation to Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG), the organization that last summer was stripped of its affiliate status by Planned Parenthood Federation of America amidst allegations of financial and administrative mismanagement. …

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SENATE CONFIRMS KAGAN

In The Public Square, Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion, Rights of the Unborn / By Life Legal

Although age must have been a factor in Justice Stevens stepping down from the United States Supreme Court, no doubt his leaving was timed to allow his replacement to be chosen by a president of a similar ideological bent. While Stevens could have rolled the actuarial dice for another year or two of Obama’s term, …

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POTENTIAL SUPREME COURT NOMINEE SHOWS THE AUDACITY OF “CHOICE”

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion, Rights of the Unborn / By Life Legal

One of the candidates most frequently mentioned as a possible replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is Diane Wood of the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. News reports mention possible controversy arising from her involvement in a case arising out of anti-abortion protests in the ’90’s. As Paul Harvey used to …

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Virginia: Ban on Partial Birth Abortions Upheld

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

On June 24, an en banc panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Virginia’s ban on partial birth abortion, overturning the earlier ruling of a three-judge panel striking down the law. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote a powerful concurrence to that decision, excerpts of which are printed below. This is a brutal business …

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Pro-Aborts Cry Foul as South Dakota Becomes Abortion-Free

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

Pro-aborts are howling in rage in response to an informed consent law that has effectively put South Dakota’s only abortion mill out of operation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled on June 27th that the law, which has been working its way through the courts since 2005, was constitutional and could …

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Gonzales v. Carhart: A “Partial” Victory

Infanticide/Partial Birth Abortion / By Life Legal

Katie Short One of the best lines in Gonzales v. Carhart, the SupremeCourt decision upholding (5-4) the federal partial birthabortion ban, came in Justice Ginsburg’s dissent. Shestates: “Retreating from prior rulings that abortion restrictions cannotbe imposed absent an exception safeguarding a woman’s health, theCourt upholds an Act that surely would not survive under the close …

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