Category Archives: Human Interest

Following in the footsteps of past presidents, President Trump issued a declaration today affirming the dignity of human life.

January 22, 2020 is the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in all 50 states around the country. Since the decision, more that 60 million preborn babies have been killed.

The court’s decision has resulted in a tragic amount of loss of life. Intriguingly, despite the popular pro-choice slogan “no uterus no opinion,” the decision was made by nine unelected, unaccountable men.

To mark the somber occasion and push forward in the fight for life, President Trump proclaimed January 22nd as “National Sanctity of Human Life Day.” Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush and Trump have issued annual declarations on or around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Presidents Clinton and Obama refused to issue the proclamations during their administrations.

President Trump’s proclamation began by affirming the dignity of human life. “Every person — the born and unborn, the poor, the downcast, the disabled, the infirm, and the elderly — has inherent value,” it began. The declaration went on to praise the recent decreases in annual abortions in the United States. It notes that the rate of abortions decreased by 24 percent between 2007 and….

Click to read more at dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com

Mom Regains Custody of 10-Month-Old Son Who Was Taken By CPS ‘Because She Left the Hospital Too Quickly’

Judge: “There is nothing in the record which would lead this court to believe that the mother is unwilling to provide the appropriate care for the child.”

A Minnesota mom whose 10-month-old son was taken from her by child protective services because she didn’t stick around the hospital for a second opinion on his cough finally regained custody—four months and six court dates later. The judge ruled that the nurse who claimed Amanda Weber’s actions left her child, Zayvion, in “danger of dying,” had engaged in “disinformation.”

According to Fox 9:

It all started in May when Weber brought Zayvion to Children’s Hospital for a cough. Doctors determined Zayvion was fine and stable, and after a long wait for another doctor, Weber wanted to go home and signed that she was leaving against medical advice. The next day, Zayvion was immediately taken away by CPS for medical neglect.

After Zayvion was taken, Weber began her fight to get him back. The county declared that Weber had deprived her son of necessary medical care. Weber denied this, asserting that both the social worker and a doctor on the case had acted “in bad faith and with malice.”

Last week, Judge Leonard Weiler agreed. He ruled there was zero evidence of medical neglect on the mom’s part, and that she had acted within her rights in taking Zayvion home.

Read more at Reason.com

BREAKING: British pro-life activist, mom of 5 denied entry to US after months of online persecution

LONDON, England, November 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― The UK director of an international pro-life organization was refused entry to the United States today.

Caroline Farrow, a British Catholic apologist and mother of five, was not permitted to board her flight for Orlando this afternoon, even though her travel to the USA had initially been approved by the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA). Farrow is a frequent guest on British media and is the UK Director for CitizenGO.

“Your ESTA has been denied,” Farrow told LifeSiteNews an airline representative told her at the desk, but could not tell her why.

“I’ve never been arrested,” Farrow said. “I’ve never even been interviewed [by police]. I don’t have a criminal record.”

“Somebody has obviously gone to the U.S. Embassy. How vindictive is that?”

Read more at LifeSiteNews.

Babies Born Alive After Abortion Can be Left to Die in 16 States

Excerpts:

Family Research Council today released a first-of-its-kind set of maps showing the strength of born-alive abortion survivor protection laws and the legal status of late term abortion in every state. Protections for born-alive abortion survivors became a national conversation when New York and Illinois walked back their protections earlier this year, removing existing protections for infants born alive during failed abortion attempts.

According to research conducted by Family Research Council, only fifteen states provide strong protections for born-alive abortion survivors, and only eight require reporting on infants who survive abortion. The maps also show which states have no laws protecting born-alive abortion survivors, which states allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, and some surprising differences between those lists.

Sixteen states have no laws protecting born-alive abortion survivors: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.

Twenty-two states allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, either directly or indirectly: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.

Quena González, Director of State and Local Affairs at Family Research Council, said this was a direct result of what he called the “wave election” of 2010:

“The 2010 election cycle saw a record number of state-level Republicans elected. Many of them were pro-life, and as their majorities in legislatures and statehouses across the country continued to increase throughout the Obama administration, they enacted pro-life laws at a record pace.

Read more at lifenews.com.

West Virginians For Life is proposing new state legislation for the upcoming session that would outlaw leaving a baby to die after he or she survives an abortion.

SIGN THE WVFL PETITION: Stop Infanticide!

 

Martin Luther King Jr’s Niece: “Women Have Right to Choose What to Do With Their Body, Not the Baby’s Body”

When abortion activists talk about supporting women’s rights, they forget about the women who are not yet born, the niece of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr. told students at Georgia Tech on Oct. 1.

Dr. Alveda King continues to champion the civil rights cause of her famous family by advocating for the most vulnerable people in the world today: unborn babies. Technique, a student newspaper at Georgia Tech, reported about her speech hosted by the college Students for Life club.

“I believe in women’s rights, but you know many of those little babies in the womb are women,” King told the crowd. “So you have to ask this question. A woman has the right to choose what she does with her body, but the baby’s not her body. So you have to ask next, where’s the lawyer for the baby?”

Read more at lifenews.com.

Supreme Court to review Louisiana abortion regulations, could mean the end of Roe

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will take up the case of Louisiana’s admitting privileges law, which could have the potential of upending the high court’s most recent pro-abortion precedent.

The court announced Friday it has decided to review June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, NPR reports. The case concerns Louisiana’s Act 620, which requires abortion centers to make arrangements for admitting women to hospitals within 30 miles in cases of life-threatening complications. The abortion industry’s attorneys argue the law is no different from the Texas law the Supreme Court struck down in 2016’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt; pro-lifers argue that not only was Hellerstedt wrongly decided, but that the Louisiana law is different from the Texas one.

Read more at lifesitenews.com.

Petition to end Roe presented at Supreme Court today with quarter of a million signatures

A petition to end Roe v. Wade was delivered to the Supreme Court yesterday with a quarter of a million signatures.

“We urgently plead with… the United States Supreme Court to do the right thing as you did in one of your greatest cases, Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned a 58-year-old precedent of the United States.”

Click here to sign the petition yourself. Click below to read more:

Petition to end Roe presented at Supreme Court today with quarter of a million signatures

VIDEO: CBS interview with National Right To Life’s Karen Cross

CBS News had the following to say about their interview with Karen Cross, who articulated well some key facts about abortion, the US Constitution, and the warped view of the 1973 SCOTUS that invented “out of whole cloth” a so-called “constitutional right” to abortion for any reason, at any time up until birth:

“Anti-abortion advocate on plan to challenge Roe v. Wade“

“CBS News spoke to Karen Cross, the political director of National Right to Life, the oldest anti-abortion rights group in the country. Cross said she doesn’t believe the Constitution includes the right to an abortion, and said her group is trying to pass laws that could overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Click below to watch the video clip:

Euthanasia Grows: Canadian Supreme Court rules that patients have the right to die, including children

The Canadian Supreme Court in Quebec recently made a ruling on euthanasia, effectively making it easy for anyone diagnosed with a medical condition that causes “irremediable suffering” to die by a physicians’ hand. This ruling will extend to patients with mental illnesses like depression and even to children.

Euthanasia Grows: Canadian Supreme Court Rules that Patients have the Right to Die, including Children

WVFL Calls Out Poll Bias

West Virginians for Life today released a response to the WV Free press release which made claims that WVFL finds hard to believe. In the words of WVFL President Dr. Wanda Franz, “Given their history of misrepresenting the issue of abortion, it is difficult to take the results of the WV Free poll seriously without seeing the details of the questions asked plus the size and diversity of those sampled.”

Read the WVFL press release in its entirety here.

Read more of the latest WV For Life email blast here.

Subscribe to the WV For Life email list here.