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Topics for July 10, 2013

Texas House passes pro-life House Bill 2, Senate committee likely will consider bill this week By Dave Andrusko Within the last hour, the Texas House approved House Bill 2, an important pro-life bill that has garnered national headlines, on a third reading, by a 96-49 vote.    The importance of Texas’ HB2 By Dave Andrusko Should Texas pass HB2—it’s already successfully negotiated unfriendly fire in the House and it’s now on to the Senate—the Lone Star state would be the tenth to enact a law to protect children The pain may be worse for unborn babies aborted at 20 weeks By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research Defenders of late abortions try to argue that the unborn child at twenty weeks is not capable of feeling pain   National Right to Life in Austin, Texas: Helping Texas RTL to pass HB2 By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life understood the importance—substantive and symbolic—of the fight in Austin, Texas, that has garnered worldwide headlines. That’s why NRLC send five people—one employee, three interns, and a volunteer—on an exhausting 30-hour bus trip  In Defense of Pro-Life Texas Gov. Rick Perry By Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life Committee I arrived in Dallas on Tuesday, June 25, the eve of our 43rd annual National Right to Life Convention. The news dominating the state was the filibuster of Senate Bill 5   The exhilaration of seeing a room full of pro-life youth By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. Melissa, the survivor of a “failed” saline abortion in 1977, speaks all over the world including at the last three National Right to Life Conventions. She writes frequently for NRL News Today. Continued improvement in the percentage of Americans who identify as Pro-Life By Dave Andrusko Yesterday NRL News Today carried a story about the vastly under-reported truth that a poll that appeared in the Texas Tribune showed both a whopping support for a ban on abortions after 20 weeks (62%)   West Virginians for Life Supports Attorney General Morrisey in Abortion Clinic Regulation Inquiry West Virginians for Life (WVFL) supports the efforts of Attorney General Patrick Morrisey to protect the health and well-being of West Virginia women by initiating inquiries into the practices and regulation of abortion facilities in the state. Liverpool Care Pathway Death Investigation By Wesley J. Smith I have written often about the Liverpool Care Pathway(LCP) and how it has led to backdoor euthanasia. Now, an official inquiry is being made into one death that may be LCP related.   Hundreds of families offer to adopt baby with Down syndrome slated for abortion By Peter Baklinski GAINESVILLE, Virginia, July 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An unborn baby with Down syndrome slated for abortion may yet live, thanks to the effort of a Catholic priest who reached out to the baby’s parents Warrior Mothers, Miracle Daughters: China’s Battle for Life By Sarah Elliott For many Chinese women, keeping a daughter is a battle—and the stakes are unthinkably high. A Chinese woman may not become pregnant without the government’s permission.   Leading parliamentary think tank says Lord Falconer’s ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill fails public safety test By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Wisconsin Case Shows Contrast in Attitudes to Parental Denial of Treatment Based on Religion and Based on Disability By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the homicide convictions of a couple who prayed over their gravely ill daughter rather than seek medical help.     Check out the full stories and more at: nationalrighttolifenews.org