Italian Baby Aborted After Mistaken Diagnosis

LifeNews.Com is reporting that Doctors in Italy are furiously working to save the life of a baby boy who was born alive after he survived an abortion that should never have happened. The boy was slated to become the victim of an abortion but physicians realized they had misdiagnosed a physical deformity.

"Doctors at the teaching hospital Careggi performed two ultrasounds on the boy and his mother and they said he had a defective esophagus. That's a disorder that surgery could have corrected after birth in some cases.

"However, when they went to abort the baby boy, they discovered he was healthy and desperately tried to resuscitate him."

The UPI says "The hospital said an ultrasound scan showed only the risk of a deformity and the woman decided to have an abortion after consulting a private specialist, ANSA said."

Well there's a lot here.  First, my co-host Toni Berry is always telling us that doctors make misdiagnoses and abort otherwise healthy babies.  Some people of course believe that the risk of having a deformed child is worth the risk of aborting a baby that meets their expectations.  That's where the culture is.  God help us.

I despise the idea of aborting a child because of its physical makeup.  That's bigoted and self serving.  It says that people who are deformed are so lacking in dignity and such a burden that we should abort anyone who might turn out like them or that they aren't worth the effort.  We don't want kids like that.  If you get one, you can throw it back and put your line back in the water until you get one you want.  God help us.

Second, there was no need to abort.  If the child is not what you expect or want or the type made for your specifications-where'd this idea come from-there are people who adopt special needs children and there are waiting lines.  Go to www.ninafuller.com and look around for these groups.

Third, cases like this offend me.  I'm especially offended in this case because when I was a youth pastor, the first kid I met at one church I served in was born without an esophagus.  Shawn was in the seventh or eighth grade and he had a plug in his stomach.  When he was born, he was not supposed to survive 36 hours.  But he did.  The plug in his stomach was to enable him to receive food and nutrition.  I'm not sure how long he needed that tube, but he had many surgeries to create or stretch his esophagus.  By the time I met Shawn he no longer needed it.  But even if he did, what kind of person judges people based on how they receive food?

Shawn became a diver.  On a couple of occasions I was able to be the announcer at his meets, including the Nevada State Championships where he came in second.  I later married him to his wife.  Now they have two wonderful kids.  Every time I hear about cases like this I think about Shawn and how his life could have been thrown away along with the beauty that he brings to our world.  I hope this baby survives and lives to tell about it and softens the heart of our nation and world.

Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Results Keep POURING In. Will Media Notice?

Here's an article from the indefatigable Richard Doerflinger on adult stem cell research successes and the science called 75 New Reasons To Reconsider The Alleged Need For Stem Cell Research That Destroys Human Embryos.

Okay, the title could be shorter, but it points to a truth, there doesn't seem to be any reason anymore to proceed with embryonic stem cell research.  There are over 72 human treatments/benefits successes that have been documented using non-embryonic stem cell research with over 1000 human trials underway.  There are no embryonic ones. 

My point in posting Doerflinger's new article is that reports on non-embryonic stem cell research success/breakthroughs are so common that we can't keep up with it.  You have to wonder what the buzz is with embryonic stem cell research now except ideology.  Thanks again Mr. Doerflinger for great work.

Woman Sues Planned Parenthood and Abortionist After Failed Abortion

A Boston woman is suing a Planned Parenthood abortionist and Planned Parenthood for failing to abort her child in 2004.  She is suing for wrongful birth and for the costs of child rearing. 

Let's see, she wanted to kill her child when the child was an unborn child, but now that she has delivered her child and is raising her.  The child is valuable enough to her that she wants or wanted to keep her, but she wants someone else to pay to raise her.  I'm guessing that she will not see the horror from the child's point of view when she grows up and learns her mom tried to kill her. 

It's not going to go well.  I've spoken to Gianna Jessen a couple times on our show and in person at events.  Gianna's mother tried to abort her at a Planned Parenthood in S. CA.  Gianna was about 7 months along.  They tried killing her by saline abortion.  After thrashing around in the womb, she was miraculously born and was adopted.  The miracle is that when she was born alive instead of dead the staff at Planned Parenthood didn't do her in.  Someone actually called the hospital.  Had the abortionist been there, he'd have finished her off.

Back to the story, Gianna is a wonderful lady and has a huge heart.  But even she doesn't want anything to do with her birth mom who tried to abort her.  I think this woman is going to rue the day she ever did this.  But it's the self centered, nihilistic spirit of our age and she's probably not going to think anything of it.  She'll probably think that she's gracious to have let the little one into the world and that the baby should be grateful.  Kids aren't toys, possessions or extensions of our selves. 

One of my friends says that it will be interesting to see the results of the suit.  "They will settle or end up having to defend life."

Another Stem Cell Leap. Will Media, Politicians and Science Notice?

Here's great news about adult stem cell research from the University of Minnesota. 

"University of Minnesota stem cell researchers, together with collaborators at Stanford University, have successfully used adult stem cells to replace the immune system and bone marrow of mice, offering the promise of new therapies for people in the future. With this advance and other recent discoveries, the researchers are winning over previous skeptics."

Read the rest of article by clicking here.

This has been going on since 2001 and we included it in our 2005-2006 briefings to a couple Nevada representatives.  Though breakthroughs like this make embryonic stem cell research more and more irrelevant and unnecessary, don't expect that to make a difference.

What's Wrong With The Stem Cell Bill

Yesterday the House of Representatives voted again to overturn President Bush’s embryonic stem cell policy. HR 3, The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 passed 253-174.  The policy allows funding on research using stem cells from embryos killed before August 9, 2001, but it prohibits federal funding on anymore destroying of embryos research to keep us from creating life only to destroy it. 

Why does it matter that these little human beings are killed?  It matters because human life has inherent value and human beings at any stage of life have ultimate value by virtue of being human.  Once any person’s life becomes expendable, the value of every human life becomes negotiable.  It reduces human life to a mere natural resource. Human beings are not resources to be mined, crops to be harvested or commodities to be bought and sold.

The bill would set a dangerous precedent.  It says that we can use human life for experimentation and therapeutic purposes. It says there can be and will be classes of people who are expendable for others.  It also opens the door to more unethical human research.

The announcement this week of the new discovery with amniotic stem cells-which come with the gift of a baby-shows some of the wisdom of President Bush’s embryonic stem cell limitations.  The president’s policy of protecting human life has advanced, not hindered, science.  By limiting unethical embryonic stem cell research, scientists have been led to discover other stem cell sources-which appear to be superior, easier to use and are ethical.

If President Bush had caved to political pressure and “political” science to fund unethical research, it is likely that scientists may not have found these other sources of stem cells, benefits and therapies.

This vote crosses leads America into an irreversible venture into human experimentation.  President Bush has promised to veto this bill again and keep us from crossing the line into human experimentation.  He needs to veto it again.

Hyping And Lying About Embryonic Stem Cells

From Wesley J. Smith's Blog.  Arlen Spector preys on the hopes and fears of American sufferers while practicing political science.  Something's wrong with your case when you make these kinds of comments. Here's the text from Smith's blog. 

"Senator Arlen Specter has managed to top Edwards in sheer hyperbole and advocacy spin. At a press conference today, he said: "It is scandalous that eight years have passed since we have known about stem cell research and the potential to conquer all known maladies, and federal funds have not been available for the research."

"All known maladies? Every single one? The common cold? Herpes? Tooth decay?

"And as for "no federal funds" being available to fund ESCR: In 2005 the Feds put out about $50 million for human ESCR, using the Bush approved lines. But I guess to a senator, that is the same as no money at all.

"Two whoppers in one sentence: Perhaps a new record."

Another Study Says Morning After Pill Does Not Reduce Abortions

Another study, by Morning After Pill supporters, concludes that the MAP does not reduce abortions.  Elizabeth G. Raymond, MD, MPH, James Trussell, PhD and Chelsea B. Polis, write in Obstetrics & Gynecology 2007;109:181-188
by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

CONCLUSION: Increased access to emergency contraceptive pills enhances use but has not been shown to reduce unintended pregnancy rates. Further research is needed to explain this finding and to define the best ways to use emergency contraception to produce a public health benefit.

Don't expect this to stop abortion advocates from saying that if pro-lifers were really pro-life, they'd be joining them in passing out the morning after pill to stop abortion.