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Futile Care Theory: Baby Joseph’s Father Wants Answers – Wesley J. Smith
Baby Joseph is home, and apparently not as unconscious as the London hospital representative stated. Baby Joseph napping at home in his crib on Easter Sunday is all the proof his father needs that his Ontario doctors were wrong.

Why was Joseph and the family treated so badly? Why did the family have to go the USA to obtain proper care for their baby? Will Canada Medicare pay for the procedure that so clearly should have been provided to Joseph in his home hospital? Perhaps a good place to start to right the wrong would be a sincere apology from Joseph’s doctors and the hospital administration to the family.

‘It seemed like they were trying to force her to abort’

Brave New World of Webcam Abortions by Gary Bauer
An abortion-seeking woman can simply head out to her nearest Planned Parenthood or other “health clinic” and receive some consultation from the abortionist via Internet videoconferencing.  Then, with the push of a remote button, the abortionist can open a drawer in the clinic that contains the abortion pills known as mifepristone (RU-486).  The patient takes one pill while in the office, and another several days later.

South Carolina Bid to Stop Some Tax-Funded Abortions Fails
– LifeNews

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Calls Development & Peace Abortion Scandal Bloggers, “Polarizing Voices”, “Radicalizing”

45 cities and towns across Britain have seen street vigils against abortion – SPUC

Girls Gets Violent Against Pro-Life GAP Display – LiveAction

The Faculty Senate of Notre Dame voted down a resolution of support for either Father Jenkins’s participation in the March for Life

Pro-Life Movement Emerging in Force on College Campuses by Kristan Hawkins – Human Events
As Washington and Americans turn their attention to the coming fiscal crisis, the pro-life movement, still energized by its recent fight to federally de-fund Planned Parenthood, is in full force, engaging the abortion industry on multiple fronts that span from the Beltway to your local hospital. 

Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards named one of Time’s 100 most influential people
– Jill Stanek

11 Republican Senators Permit Former Planned Parenthood Director to Become Federal Judge – CNS News
Senate Democrats were able to confirm the former director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island to a lifetime federal judgeship after 11 Republicans voted to close debate on the nomination and allow it to come up for a final vote

Most College Ties to Planned Parenthood Remain Weeks After CNS Report – Cardinal Newman Society
The Cardinal Newman Society’s (CNS) report “A Scandalous Relationship: Catholic Colleges and Planned Parenthood” uncovered more than 150 current and past connections to the notorious abortion provider on college websites in early April.  The vast majority of these connections still remain on the college websites almost a month later.

Bombay archdiocese gives pro-life award to nurses for taking care of patient in vegetative state for 37 years

No prosecution over death of English man by assisted suicide – This is Bristol


91-Year-Old Grandma Sells Suicide Kits To Help Terminally Ill Die With Dignity
– CBS

UK euthanasia lobby sets up how-to-die helpline

Media Pushes Suicide Assistance – Wesley Smith

British suicide couple release internet video calling for assisted suicide law change – Daily Mail

European Court of Justice considering ban on patents on embryonic stem cell treatments
– Daily Mail

China considering financial incentives for organ donation – Wesley Smith