by APFLI | Jun 26, 2010 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Autistic Salutatorian Delivers High School Graduation Speech: Rhode Island High Schooler Leads Class Despite Speech Struggle Eric Duquette is the salutatorian of his high school, an honor student, a musician, and he has autism. Despite his early struggles with speech,...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2010 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
http://www.IamWholeLife.com What would the world have been like without Andrea Bocelli, Italian pop, opera, and classical singer? With millions of infants having been victim to abortion, the blind international music sensation has revealed that he too could have...
by APFLI | May 8, 2010 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
…It Only Adds to the Trauma There has been very little research conducted to date on the experiences of women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest. One survey was conducted by the Elliot Institute for our book, Victims and Victors:...
by APFLI | May 8, 2010 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
“How can you deny an abortion to a twelve-year-old girl who is the victim of incest?” Typically, people on both sides of the abortion debate accept the premise that most women who become pregnant through sexual assault want abortions. From this “fact,” it naturally...
by APFLI | Jan 31, 2010 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
www.heavensgain.com Each miscarried baby is a loss and each family grieves differently. Proper burial of miscarried babies in a little casket was very important to us. We wanted to find a little baby casket or tiny coffin for our miscarried babies. ...
by APFLI | Aug 29, 2009 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Mother’s Last Skin-to-Skin Goodbye Saved Her 20 oz Baby Sometimes a preemie doesn’t need to be hooked up to 10 different machines to be given the chance to survive. When Carolyn Isbister put her 20oz baby...
by APFLI | Apr 24, 2009 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a surprising admission recently that she had considered having an abortion after learning that her son Trig would have Down syndrome. Speaking before the Vanderburgh County Right to Life banquet in Evansville, Ind., Palin delved...
by APFLI | Nov 25, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Government researchers say they have developed a new injection that could curb the effects of Down Syndrome. Dr. Catherine Spong headed the National Institutes of Health research team that conducted the tests and published their results in the latest issue of New...
by APFLI | Nov 11, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
The Pre-natally and Post-natally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act (PPDCAA), which proposes to offer information and services for expectant and young mothers of handicapped children, was signed into US federal law in October. The law is an attempt to address the...
by APFLI | Sep 8, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
A story that I first heard 25 years ago is worth re-telling. It was from Dr. J.A. MacDougall of St. John's, New Brunswick. It happened right after World War II before we had any effective treatment for tuberculosis. Back in those days, when a person got active TB,...
by APFLI | Jul 12, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
There are support groups for those who resist pressure from many in the medical community, and instead carry their child to term. One such group, Prenatal Partners for Life, was founded by Mary Kellet after she and her husband, Don, were blessed with their 11th child,...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
On May 24, 2007, my husband and I joyfully discovered that our lives, as we currently knew, were never going to be the same. As those two little lines magically appeared on a pregnancy test, we were thrilled at the thought of becoming parents… Like most...
by APFLI | Jun 10, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Claire's Hope Project: Honoring the Life of Claire Hope Claire Hope was a beautiful child with Trisomy 18. Her parents were "encouraged" to abort her, but instead brought their precious child to term. Claire Hope lived for several weeks, bringing great...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Donna Joy and her mom helped pass the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban in 2003 and Delivered Petition to U.S. Supreme Court Justices In 2007 Donna Joy Vance has been called a life spared to impact a nation. She certainly has done that in her young life, having...
by APFLI | Apr 22, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
As many as 80 percent of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome become victims of abortion, but Alaska Gov, Sarah Palin didn’t let her child become a statistic. Palin, who has deeply-felt pro-life views, gave birth to her fifth child this week and the baby...
by APFLI | Mar 4, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
24 February 2008, BMJ Luca Puccetti, President of Interdisciplinary Medical Society Promed Galileo Pisa, 56011, Renzo Puccetti, MD Italian law rules (act N. 194/1978) that termination of pregnancies after the first trimester is possible only "when...
by APFLI | Feb 4, 2008 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
MOTHER OF HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER TIM TEBOW REJECTED DOCTOR'S ADVICE TO ABORT HIM. University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow won U.S. college football's highest honour 10Dec07. If his mother had followed her doctor's advice when she was carrying him, he...
by APFLI | Sep 26, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Little Marcela de Jesus Galante Ferrerira continues to surprise the world. She is now ten months old despite doctors’ predictions that she would die soon after being born. She suffers from anencephaly, a birth defect in which the brain does not develop. Since her...
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
The Hard Cases: New Facts, New Answers Women victimized by sexual assault deserve our full support. They are asking legislators for a chance to tell their side of the story. Studies show that most do not want abortion. Those who aborted report that it only...
by APFLI | Jul 27, 2007 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
In recent issues of the magazine, we have asked readers to write in and tell us the oldest age at which they personally know of a woman getting pregnant naturally, and whether she delivered a healthy baby. The reason for this request is that we often get calls at CCL...