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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report Friday, April 20, 2018

April 20, 2018

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.

Top Stories
• Alfie Evans’ Parents Lose Supreme Court Case, Judge Says Hospital Can Yank Life Support Without Their Consent
• President Trump’s Support From Christian Voters at All-Time High After Compiling Pro-Life Record
• Alfie Evans’ Parents Head to European Court in Desperate Bid to Save His Life
• Cecile Richards Calls Nancy Pelosi the Woman “Who Has Done More Than Anyone Else” to Advance Abortion

More Pro-Life News
• Shocking Report Shows Cancer Patients are Being Euthanized Without Their Consent
• Woman Died in the Back of a Taxi After “Extensive Internal Bleeding” From Botched Legal Abortion
• Study Finds Hundreds of Mentally Ill and Dementia Patients Euthanized Without Consent
• This Man Wants to Kill Hundreds of Unborn Children to Help People Find the Perfect Genetically-Engineered Baby
• Woman With Down Syndrome Says Twitter Suspended Her Account for Tweets Opposing Abortion
• College Will Discipline Pro-Abortion Students Caught on Camera Vandalizing Pro-Life Display
• Pro-Life Groups Hope U.S. Postal Service Will Issue a “Choose Life” Stamp
• Why Did Planned Parenthood Clinic Call Two Ambulances After Injuring Woman in Botched Abortion?
• Key Pro-Abortion Study Falsely Claiming “Pro-Life Legislation Kills Women” is Refuted
• Poll Shows Ireland is Dangerously Close to Legalizing Abortion on Demand
• Court Blocks Indiana Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome
• Euthanasia Group Sues to Overturn Minnesota Assisted Suicide Ban After It Was Convicted for Breaking Law

Alfie Evans’ Parents Lose Supreme Court Case, Judge Says Hospital Can Yank Life Support Without Their Consent

The parents of little Alfie Evans have lost what may be their last ditch attempt to spare his life.Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

President Trump’s Support From Christian Voters at All-Time High After Compiling Pro-Life Record

Despite constant criticism by the mainstream media, President Donald Trump has gained support among Christian voters, according to a new poll.
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Alfie Evans’ Parents Head to European Court in Desperate Bid to Save His Life

The parents of little Alfie Evans are headed back to a European Court in a desperate attempt to save his life.

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Cecile Richards Calls Nancy Pelosi the Woman “Who Has Done More Than Anyone Else” to Advance Abortion

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, who will be leaving the abortion giant in May, wrote a glowing profile for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018.

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Shocking Report Shows Cancer Patients are Being Euthanized Without Their Consent

A British inquest Thursday heard how a Marie Stopes abortion clinic allegedly urged a woman to leave after her late-term abortion even though she was vomiting and swaying when she walked.

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Woman Died in the Back of a Taxi After “Extensive Internal Bleeding” From Botched Legal Abortion

A woman who died following a late-stage abortion procedure was discharged from the clinic despite vomiting and swaying so much she looked “drunk”, an inquest has heard.

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Study Finds Hundreds of Mentally Ill and Dementia Patients Euthanized Without Consent

An important study was published in the Journal BMC Medical Ethics (March 5) examining nine euthanasia deaths of people with intellectual disabilities in the Netherlands.

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This Man Wants to Kill Hundreds of Unborn Children to Help People Find the Perfect Genetically-Engineered Baby

Procreation is becoming a matter of manufacturing, engineering, quality control, and other accouterments of industrial control.

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Woman With Down Syndrome Says Twitter Suspended Her Account for Tweets Opposing Abortion

College Will Discipline Pro-Abortion Students Caught on Camera Vandalizing Pro-Life Display

Pro-Life Groups Hope U.S. Postal Service Will Issue a “Choose Life” Stamp

Why Did Planned Parenthood Clinic Call Two Ambulances After Injuring Woman in Botched Abortion?

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Key Pro-Abortion Study Falsely Claiming “Pro-Life Legislation Kills Women” is Refuted

Poll Shows Ireland is Dangerously Close to Legalizing Abortion on Demand

Court Blocks Indiana Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome

Euthanasia Group Sues to Overturn Minnesota Assisted Suicide Ban After It Was Convicted for Breaking Law

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California To Ban the Sale of Bibles?

Reported By Benjamin Arie | April 19, 2018 at 4:53pm

URL of the original posting site: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/california-to-ban-sale-of-bibles/

When you think about the censorship and outright banning of books and opinions, do you imagine the United States of America? Or, more likely, does that kind of suppression strike you more as the tactics of communists or fascists that America has frequently fought against?

If liberal lawmakers in California get their way, that west coast state may be one step closer to being unrecognizable as part of the United States. A bill currently pending in the legislature would essentially ban the sale of books that include traditional Christian views on marriage and sexuality.

Shockingly, the proposed law could even be construed to make it illegal to sell Bibles, since they include verses that the far left finds unacceptable.

“Assembly Bill 2943 would make it an ‘unlawful business practice’ to engage in ‘a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer’ that advertise, offer to engage in, or do engage in ‘sexual orientation change efforts with an individual,’” explained National Review.

That’s a lot of legalese to digest, so let’s break it down. What the bill basically says is that anything that can be seen as trying to impact a person’s sexual orientation would be illegal to sell or offer. This would almost certainly include traditional Christian counseling services and books.

“The bill then defines ‘sexual orientation change efforts’ as ‘any practices that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation. This includes efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex,” continued National Review (emphasis added).

“Efforts to change behaviors” is where the real problem is. After all, almost all counseling and even common psychiatric care are intended to “change behaviors” in various ways.

If you think about it, that’s the entire reason people seek help in the first place: They want to stop drinking or becoming angry or, yes, having troubling thoughts about their sexuality.

It’s also worth pointing out that the bill as written would apply to people who are trying to change their own behavior. This would mean that if a person was struggling with same-sex behavior or sexual identity and they themselves wanted to change, it would be illegal for them to buy any book meant to help them with this. The problem here isn’t limited to Christian books. Bizarrely, the bill appears to put almost any counseling or psychiatric service in the cross-hairs.

For example, let’s say a man has the paraphilia of crossdressing or transvestism. For whatever reason, the person has become addicted to wearing women’s clothes and has found that showing up to work in high heels and a dress has a negative impact on his life. Setting aside any personal judgment about this lifestyle choice (how liberal of us), suppose he voluntarily seeks counseling to get a handle on this problem. Maybe he just wants to stop being addicted to cross-dressing in public.

It’s his own choice. Yet counselors or books intended to help him would be illegal because they’re “efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions,” in the words of the proposed law.

You might consider that example silly, but this concern is rather serious: If passed, it could only be a matter of time before the law’s extremely vague wording is used against traditional Christian teachings in the Bible.

Take Romans 1:26-27, for instance. This verse calls out homosexuality as “shameful” and encourages Christians to not act in this way.

Then there are 1 Peter 1:15-17, Romans 6:1, and Ephesians 4:22-24, all of which direct followers of Christianity to abstain from homosexuality even if they have those desires.

Let’s be extremely clear: The point of this article is not to lecture about gay lifestyles. There are an increasing number of gay conservatives who have reached their own conclusions about their beliefs, and many are on the front lines of the culture war.

You don’t even have to particularly agree with the Bible verses mentioned here to see the problem. Efforts like the proposed bill represent dangerous slippery slopes that would use the legislature to attack traditional beliefs, and even mainstream views that happen to be at odds with the far-left agenda. If nothing else, it’s an affront to the free exchange of ideas — yes, even ones that someone might dislike — and a censorship of speech.

“No one doubts that (Christianity’s) teachings on sexual morality are increasingly unpopular,” summarized National Review. “But they remain constitutionally protected, and no state legislature should be permitted to ban a ‘good’ (such as a book) or a ‘service’ (like counseling) that makes these arguments and provides them to willing, consenting consumers.”

It’s amazing that the same liberals who bemoan “government in the bedroom” eagerly jump at the chance to give the same government control over sexual and moral topics the moment it helps their cause.

Even non-Christians and political moderates need to fight against the new wave of suppression before a 21st-century iron curtain appears. Free speech is everyone’s fight.

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The Clarion Project Newsletter for Friday April 20, 2018

Feature: Clarion Launches First Amendment Essay Contest The winner will be awarded $300 Read and Share

Feature: Why Our Contest Is About the First Amendment Clarion Project’s new essay topic hits on the crux of the debate over Islamism Read

Feature: Why The First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 1 If the struggle against Islamism is about anything, it’s about the First Amendment. Read

Feature: Why The First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 2 The early relationship between religion and state in Islam Read

Feature: Why The First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 3 How the Reformation changed religion and state Read More

Feature: Why the First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 4 After the death of the last Abbasid Caliph, different parts of the Muslim world went in very different directions Read

Feature: Why the First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 5 Enlightenment ideas spread under the reign of absolutism monarchs, then overthrew them Read

Feature: Why the First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 6 The lofty ideals of the First Amendment were at odds with reality from the start Read

Feature: Why the First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 7 World War I set in motion the development of three totalitarian ideologies: Islamism, fascism and communism Read

Feature: Why the First Amendment Is the Best Amendment: Part 8 How upholding this value could unify the Left and Right against political Islam Read More

Readers Write

Who Should Regulate: Facebook or the Government?

“Facebook being a private business should be self-regulated. I believe in small government with minimum regulations. Having said that, when a company develops a monopoly as Facebook ‘kinda’ is, and does not practice fair balances standards, government may have to create regulations to: 1) protect the market and 2) protect the customers from unfair practices. I believe Facebook has been playing with bad business ethics whereby political bias has created an environment for unfair practices to thrive.”

– B.K.H.

Mauro on Fox: Trump Needs to Hit Syria Hard

“Wisdom speaks softly and carries a big stick. The worst thing a leader can do is make a threat and not carry it out. That is Obama-style foreign affairs. The question becomes what would a truly effective action be?”

– C.K.

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Heroic Southwest pilot studied in Olathe, among 1st female fighter pilots in the Navy

Tammie Jo Shults is seen here in the early ’90s, during her days as a fighter pilot with the Navy. Shults served for about 10 years. Courtesy Linda Maloney

By Max Londberg | jlondberg@kcstar.com | April 17, 2018 08:10 PM | Updated April 18, 2018 06:57 PM

URL of the original posting site: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article209178274.html

The Southwest pilot hailed as a hero for landing a crippled Southwest plane was among the first female fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Navy. The woman also has Johnson County ties, and she recently advocated for female empowerment at an event in the area.

Tammie Jo Shults was at the helm of a twin-engine Boeing 737 on Tuesday with 149 people aboard when one of the aircraft’s engines blew. At 32,000 feet, shrapnel from the blown engine smashed a window, and passengers scrambled to save a woman from getting sucked out.

The woman, Jennifer Riordan, died of blunt impact trauma of the head, neck and torso. Seven others were hospitalized with minor injuries, authorities said.

Shults took the plane into a rapid descent and made an emergency landing in Philadelphia as passengers said their prayers and braced for impact.

Hear the pilot of Southwest flight 1380 communicate with air traffic control after one of the engines of the plane fails. The flight made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Jason Boatright

Shults was a pioneer in the 1980s, paving the way for women fighter pilots to serve in the military. She was “among the first cohort of women pilots to transition to tactical aircraft,” said Navy spokeswoman Christina Sears in a statement.

Shults was a 1983 graduate of MidAmerica Nazarene in Olathe, where she earned degrees in biology and agribusiness, said Carol Best, a university spokeswoman.

She was commissioned in the Navy in 1985.

Cindy Foster, a classmate of Shults’ at MidAmerica, said Shults was met with “a lot of resistance” in the Navy because of her gender. Shults had long had a love for flying, and she chose the Navy only after the Air Force denied her a chance to become a pilot, Foster said.

Hear the pilot of Southwest flight 1380 communicate with air traffic control after one of the engines of the plane catches fire. The flight, which was heading from New York City to Dallas, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Lena BlietzJason Boatright

“She knew she had to work harder than everyone else,” Foster said. “She did it for herself and all women fighting for a chance. … I’m extremely proud of her. She saved a lot of lives.”

Foster said that not only was Shults among the first female fighter pilots, she was the first woman to fly an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. Shults once had an instructor who said he found it “degrading” for a woman to be in the cockpit, according to a story in the San Antonio Express-News.

“I told him Congress has stated that I am going to be here. If you don’t like that, vote,” Shults recalled for the publication.

Shults eventually transitioned into a role as an instructor pilot. She remained on active duty until 1993 and was in the Naval Reserve until her retirement in 2001, according to the Navy.

Foster recalled Shults’ calm demeanor and disciplined lifestyle, remembering their days on the college volleyball team. Later, Shults was in Foster’s wedding.

“She said she wasn’t going to let anyone tell her she couldn’t,” Foster said.

Kim Young, another longtime friend, said she wasn’t surprised by Shults’ composure during the emergency.

“That’s what she does, and she’s good at it,” she said.

Young said Shults’ military training prepared her to handle the emergency calmly.

Kevin Garber, the director of alumni relations for MidAmerica Nazarene, said Shults gave a speech to about 30 people last spring on campus. Garber recalled how Shults advocated for diversity in the workforce and encouraged women to crack through in male-dominated fields.

“She had tenacity to do something that excelled beyond the norm of what women were allowed or expected to do,” Garber said of Shults’ success as a pilot. “She pushed the limits and became what she strived for.”

Shults was commended by passengers for her cool-headed handling of the emergency.

Her voice remained calm as she communicated with air traffic control in Philadelphia.

“We have a part of the aircraft missing, so we’re going to need to slow down a bit,” Shults said from the cockpit. Later, she adds, “They said there’s a hole and … and, uh, someone went out.”

Passenger Alfred Tumlinson said Shults had “nerves of steel.”

Added Eric Zilbert, another passenger, “The plane was steady as a rock after (the engine blew). I didn’t have any fear that it was out of control.”

Diana McBride Self, who wrote on Facebook that she was aboard Flight 1380, thanked Shults for navigating the plane to safety.

“Her grace and knowledge under pressure were remarkable,” she wrote. “She came through the plane personally to check on us after she landed our crippled airplane. … We were truly all in amazing hands.”

Shults lives outside San Antonio and is married to a pilot.

Tammie Jo Shults, left, with former MidAmerica Nazarene classmate Cindy Foster. Shults, the Southwest pilot forced into an emergency landing on Tuesday, returned to the Olathe University’s campus last year to discuss her career and encourage women to break into male-dominated fields. Kevin Garber MidAmerica Nazarene Tammie Jo Shults, left, with former MidAmerica Nazarene classmate Cindy Foster. Shults, the Southwest pilot forced into an emergency landing on Tuesday, returned to the Olathe University’s campus last year to discuss her career and encourage women to break into male-dominated fields. Kevin Garber MidAmerica Nazarene

Tammie Jo Shults, MidAmerican Nazarene University Alum, Touted As Hero

Apr 18, 2018 | by Carol Best cbest@mnu.edu

Student & Alumni Stories | Tammie Jo and Dean Shults. Photo credit: Kevin Garber, MidAmerica Nazarene University

MNU Alumnae Capt. Tammie Jo Shults, pilot for SWA 1380, is being credited as a hero. Tammie Jo, a 1983 graduate, safely landed the passenger plane after engine failure. Prior to joining Southwest, Tammie Jo was one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy. For more information read the KC Star article at: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article209178274.html.

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A.F. Branco | on April 20, 2018 at 7:40 am | https://comicallyincorrect.com/starbucks-overreaction/

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report Thursday, April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.

Top Stories
• Alfie Evans’ Father Says Vatican Hospital is “Ready to Take Alfie Immediately”
• Trump Admin and Pro-Life Nations Stop Latest Attempt to Push Abortion at the UN
• Outgoing Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards: “We’re Pushing Forward” to Kill More Babies in Abortions
• ABC Show “Scandal” Comes to a Close After Playing Song “Silent Night” as Character Kills Her Baby in an Abortion

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• Abortion Clinic Threw Woman to the Curb Despite Vomiting and Swaying So Much She Looked “Drunk”
• Planned Parenthood Won’t Follow Law to Inform Women Abortion Kills a “Living Human Being”
• Tennessee House Votes for Moment to the Unborn to Remember Victims of Abortion
• Catholic Bishop’s Powerful Letter Calls on People to Oppose Abortion: “Don’t be Ashamed” to Stand Up for Life
• Euthanasia Activist Pushes Suicide Machine With Detachable Coffin Lets You Kill Yourself
• Catholic Bishop Slams Ban on Prayer Outside Abortion Clinics: This is Incredibly “Disrespectful”
• Men Outnumber Women By 70 Million in China and India Thanks to Sex-Selection Abortions
• Abortion Activist Admits Babies With Down Syndrome are Targeted in Abortions
• Teen Kills Himself After Euthanasia Group Announces New Suicide Drug
• John Oliver Lies About Abby Johnson and Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Here’s How

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report Friday, April 20, 2018

Alfie Evans’ Parents Lose Supreme Court Case, Judge Says Hospital Can Yank Life Support Without Their Consent

President Trump’s Support From Christian Voters at All-Time High After Compiling Pro-Life Record