A 14 month-old Down Syndrome baby landed a coveted spot in a child-modeling agency not because they were trying to be "inclusive" or meet a quota, but because the wide-eyed little girl is just plain irresistable.
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Thanks to the ingenuity of doctors, a pregnant woman diagnosed with mouth cancer was able to receive the life-saving chemotherapy and radiation she needed without doing harm to her unborn child.
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In what is being hailed as a huge pro-life victory in Michigan, the owner of two late-term abortion clinics whose employees were caught dumping fetal body parts in dumpsters, has been forced to shutter his clinics and is forbidden open any future medical facilities in the state.
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The results of an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the use of $18 million in taxpayer money by the Obama Administration to fund a group pushing abortion in Kenya has found that the Administration not only broke the law, but stonewalled investigators who were searching for answers.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who serves as the chair of the Democratic National Committee, criticized states for enacting constitutional amendments that say life begins at conception, calling such a position "an extreme and radical step."
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It couldn't have come at a worse time. Just as the U.S. Congress is launching a full-scale investigation of the nation's largest abortion provider, a Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) employee has filed a whistleblower's complaint with the Texas Attorney General alleging that the abortion business engaged in an elaborate Medicaid fraud scheme.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann
The passage of a law in the U.S. House yesterday that will prevent all coverage of abortion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has drawn the usual histrionics from pro-abortion lawmakers and the promise of a veto from President Obama.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
At a time where pre-natal testing is eliminating more than 90 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome, a new study from Children's Hospital in Boston finds that an overwhelming percentage of families say their lives are better because of the presence of a child with Down syndrome.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a fundraiser in St. Louis earlier this week, President Barack Obama bragged about a new regulation that will force religious institutions to provide birth control coverage for their employees, a rule the U.S. bishops have denounced as an "unprecedented attack on religious liberty."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An international pro-life group has discovered that 11 of the 15 members of the Committee on Preventive Services for Woman of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the group that advised the Department of Health and Human Services HHS to force all private health insurers to pay for FDA-approved contraception, are either tied to major pro-abortion groups or to politicians who support that ideology.
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