by APFLI | Jun 22, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
2:30 minute Video – http://www.lifenews.com/2016/06/22/after-discovering-down-syndrome-jerome-lejeune-was-upset-aborted-targeted-children-with-it/ It is August 1969 in San Francisco and Professor Jerome Lejeune is addressing the annual meeting of the American...
by APFLI | May 27, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Students for Life has a new video out that examines the question of whether aborting an unborn baby is necessary to save a woman’s life. Tina Whittington, executive vice president of Students for Life, walks pro-lifers through the question in the short video. She...
by APFLI | May 5, 2016 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
In a society that often tells people with special needs that they can’t, a first grader is proving that she can. Anaya Ellick, a 7-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia, was born without hands, but this month she defied the odds....
by APFLI | Dec 31, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Brian E Fisher, from Online for Life, tells the following story: “The day after Christmas a woman, we’ll call her Sarah, telephoned a local, life-affirming center (a local, community-based organization designed to educate families about pregnancy and options other...
by APFLI | Dec 24, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Right to Life - Archive
In London, Francesca and Lee Moore-William’s baby was born with a terminal illness. Doctors said she had Mitochondrial disease and would not survive. They took one last photograph, and wept as one-year-old Bella lay sedated in a hospital’s intensive care unit and her...
by APFLI | Dec 23, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Right to Life - Archive
The news just kept getting worse and worse for Courtney Mitchell and her unborn son. It began when Mitchell went for her 20-week ultrasound. Her doctor discovered strange pockets of fluid in her placenta and ordered a high risk ultrasound for the next day. After the...
by APFLI | Dec 6, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Prenatal Surgery
When Andrea Hasse of Michigan was pregnant with her son, Grant, he was diagnosed with a condition that has about 1% chance of survival. His airways were largely blocked and he would suffer from lack of oxygen after birth. Doctors operated at 27 weeks of pregnancy and...
by APFLI | Sep 4, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
UPDATE: Planned Parenthood Fighting in Court to be Able to Abort Babies With Down Syndrome Judge Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Indiana has scheduled a June 14, 2016, hearing at which she will consider Planned Parenthood of Indiana...
by APFLI | Aug 19, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption, Right to Life - Archive
My “Crisis Pregnancy” Turned 15 Years-Old Today: “I Didn’t Save My Son, He Saved Me” Destiny Herndon-Delarosa started the group New Wave Feminists to take back feminism from the abortion advocates and work to protect the rights of babies and their mothers. She also...
by APFLI | Jul 13, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Studies - General Research
Please Note that any non-invasive prenatal chromosomal tests could test positive, possibly from cancer present in the mother. “[T]he new findings underscore the need to have any positive result confirmed by amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling diagnostic...
by APFLI | Jun 22, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
[Comment: Note this quote: “Barbara Farlow had a child who died at the age of 80 days from trisomy 13, another rare genetic disorder that causes severe developmental disabilities. She says doctors often recommend against surgery, resuscitation and other possible...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Breast cancer during pregnancy is very rare, occurring in only one in every 3,000 pregnant women. That’s why when 27-year-old Jenny Davis felt a lump in her breast while nursing her 7-month-old son she wasn’t too concerned. Jenny was just five weeks pregnant with her...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Right to Life of Michigan recently published a video about a woman named Sheryl who was violently raped and became pregnant. The video is a part of a series called The Compassion Project, which features women who’ve been affected by abortion. The truth is sometimes...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Paul Smith, an elderly man who suffered with severe cerebral palsy from an early age, created incredible works of art using nothing but a typewriter for decades. Paul used ten of the symbol keys on the typewriter, and compiled a portfolio of hundreds of masterpieces,...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Understandably, medical professionals don’t like it when they are wrong about a diagnosis, especially when it relates to a woman’s pregnancy. This is because in the past doctors and hospitals have been sued for giving incorrect information to women about their unborn...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Ann Marie is a friend of mine. Her daughter is now a celebrity. The story begins when Ann Marie’s daughter Mary was in 4th grade. As PennLive.com reports, her friend Ben worked hard to make sure that Mary was included in the games the other fourth graders would play....
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Instead of focusing on all those who won’t be graduating because their lives were lost to abortion, I want to introduce you to Allison. Allison is a senior at Clyde High School in Abilene Texas and she just did something few people with Down syndrome do — she...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Caitlin and Emily Copeland were born as conjoined twins, but because they were fused at the chest, liver and bile ducts – and not the heart — doctors were able to successfully perform a separation surgery. Once they were separated at 10 months of age, the twins then...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Note: The following is a guest post from a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Pregnant By Sexual Assault (WPSA). I’ve been there. I was 17, drugged and raped. When I learned I was pregnant, my family, counselors, and doctors took control. They intended the...
by APFLI | Oct 1, 2014 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Man With Cerebral Palsy Created Beautiful Artwork With Only a Typewriter: Video Paul Smith, an elderly man who suffered with severe cerebral palsy from an early age, created incredible works of art using nothing but a typewriter for decades. Paul used ten of the...