Hobby Lobby in Pictures: Americans Cheer and Thank God After SCOTUS Victory The Supreme Court gave the pro-life movement a huge victory today. It determined the Obama administration couldn’t force Hobby Lobby and any other company or business that doesn’t want to pay for abortion-causing drugs or birth control for its employees to obey the HHS mandate forcing it to do so. Before and after the decision, pro-life advocates flooded the steps of the Supreme Court building with signs and pictures and led chants as the justices were preparing to hand down their decision. Afterwards, they cried tears of joy, cheered and prayed to thank God for the decision. Read More
Pro-Abortion Activists Threaten to Burn Down Hobby Lobby Stores After SCOTUS Ruling ’The Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of Hobby Lobby against ObamaCare mandating them to pay for at least four drugs they deem abortive which would violate their religious freedoms! According to experts, the 5 to 4 decision applies to “closely-held” corporations. Following the ruling, Twitter filled up with treats to burn Hobby Lobby to the ground. WARNING: Strong language and violence. Read More
EWTN Wins Big Pro-Life Victory Against HHS Mandate on Heels of Hobby Lobby Decision On the heels of the Supreme Court ruling today that the Christian-run business Hobby Lobby doesn’t have to obey the HHS mandate that is a part of Obamacare that requires businesses to pay for abortion causing drugs in their employee health care plans, EWTN has won a victory of its own. The Catholic television network is asking the courts to stop the Obama administration from enforcing the mandate against it while its own lawsuit continues. Read More
Bobby Jindal Punks Obama on Hobby Lobby: “He’s Googling ‘Can an Executive Order Override Supreme Court?’”< Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is already a pro-life rock star, but the governor may have one-upped himself with this excellent response to the Supreme Court decision today saying the Obama administration can’t force Hobby Lobby to obey the HHS mandate. Jindal may have earned the prize for the best response to the decision. Well played Mr. Governor, well-played! Read More
Kathleen Sebelius Totally Silent on Hobby Lobby Decision Bearing Her Name
Hours after the Supreme Court knocked down Obama’s contraception mandate with regard to Hobby Lobby and other small business owners, there seems to be silence from the architect of this mandate, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The last post on her twitter is from June 9th – so far she has not tweeted anything about this today: Read More Tags: Pro-Life, News To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the Greater Fitchburg For Life. Thanks!
After being re-arrested less than a day after being released from death row for her Christian faith, Meriam Ibrahim and her American family have reportedly been released from the custody of Sudanese police forces on the condition that they not leave Sudan, as possible charges are brought against them. They are not free. 
Yesterday morning, in a unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down a Massachusetts “buffer zone” law, sidewalk counselor Eleanor McCullen won the right to speak up freely to women entering abortion centers in Massachusetts. The 77 year-old grandmother recently gave a revealing interview to NPR. 
Melanie Pritchard was as prepared as you can be to deliver her second baby. When she was pregnant with her first she had done all the research necessary to find a pro-life OB/GYN and drove 25 minutes of her way just to see that doctor. Her unborn child’s life was of the highest value to her, and she wanted to ensure that her doctor felt the same way. It turned out to be one of the best and most important decisions of her life.
Liberty Counsel Action is proud to support “Justina’s Law,” a bipartisan bill that prohibits federal tax dollars to be used for medical experimentation on a ward of the State. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) joined with Reps. Karen Bass (D-CA), Tom Marino (R-PA), and Jim McDermott (D-WA), to introduce “Justina’s Law” in a response to the case of Justina Pelletier. 
The back and forth in the plight of Meriam Ibrahim and her children has received international attention as she was released from prison, arrested attempting to leave Sudan on bogus forgery charges, and now, as AP and other news outlets are reporting early Thursday morning, has been released again. AP reported the following: A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned has been freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents. 
In a unanimous decision today, the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts buffer zone law prohibiting pro-life free speech outside abortion clinics. The decision is a huge victory for pro-life sidewalk counselors who provide women with abortion alternatives. The decision strikes down a Massachusetts law that created a 35-foot “buffer zone” restricting pro-life advocates from speaking with people entering abortion facilities. Saying the abortion buffer zone is “inconsistent with the First Amendment,” the Supreme Court ruled that that the buffer zone violated the First Amendment because it “restricts access to ‘public way[s]’ and ‘sidewalk[s],’ places that have traditionally been open for speech activities.” 
Kandace Bowers, the mother with cystic fibrosis, who risked her life and defied doctors by refusing to terminate her triplets, has died. Pregnancy puts pressure on anyone’s lungs, but when you are living with a chronic genetic condition that leaves you with countless lung infections and poor lung function, it can be much, much more difficult. Bowers and her then finance (now her widower), Steven were in complete shock when they found out about the pregnancy. 
No sooner had Sudanese officials informed the world that Meriam Ibrahim had not been re-arrested and would be freed again after the nation’s courts released her from prison than news reports surfaced today that she would be charged with fraud and prevented from leaving the country. She’s out on bail but facing new charges of document fraud: The Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for being a Christian has been released from her latest detention but has been charged with new crimes, MailOnline can reveal. 
< It was one in the morning when Genesis Hailey’s mom pulled into a gas station to buy a coke because she was tired. Genesis was sleeping in her car seat so the mom decided to leave her in the car, locking the doors, but forgetting to lock the driver’s door. That was all the opportunity needed for a man who is described as an African-American in his late teens to jump in the car and speed away, with Genesis still inside. 
The Christian Post reports today that the Alabama Women’s Center, the sole abortion facility in North Alabama is scheduled to close its doors on Friday. This is due to them failing to meet all of the requirements of the Women’s Health and Safety Act, which stipulates that doctors working at closedsign6Alabama abortion facilities must have hospital admitting privileges in the same city where they do abortions, and they must meet the same building safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers. According to an al.com report, these safety standards require a number of things, including making hallways at abortion clinics wide enough to accommodate patient gurneys. < 
It would have been shocking if the abortion comedy Obvious Child hadn’t been celebrated on Melissa Harris-Perry’s weekend show on MSNBC. But the spin on Sunday morning’s program could not have been expected. “MHP” wanted to know if abortion opponents just couldn’t handle the uncomfortable truth about women’s sexuality and how women’s bodies operate. She asked Obvious filmmaker Gillian Robespierre if her abortion comedy could be a good educational “tool” for mothers to share with their daughters as they mature, and the answer led to the term “laminated uterus.” 
The Internet is a remarkable invention. It has expanded commerce, made information more widely available, and has helped to connect far off friends in distant lands. It also allows people to say things like this: That was posted under a Live Action article by someone called “phxflyguy.” He was replying to a another commenter who had said, “If you’re for abortion, you are for dismembering babies inside the womb.” Naturally, phxflyguy’s words provoked a scathing, brutal response: 
Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman who was jailed and forced to give birth in prison in the Muslim nation of Sudan and who was released yesterday after a court overturned a verdict of apostasy, was freed again after she was re-arrested trying to leave the country. The BBC has more details on the re-release after the several hour detention: A Sudanese woman freed from death row on Monday has been released again after being briefly detained with her family at Khartoum airport. 
Last week LifeNews and many other media outlets reported on a grandmother’s accusation that her granddaughter whose face was still healing from being mauled by dogs had been kicked out of a KFC restaurant for scaring the other customers. According to the Laurel Leader-Call, sources “with deep knowledge of the investigation” say that the entire thing was a hoax. The sources spoke on the condition of strict anonymity because they were not permitted to speak on the record. 
A Connecticut couple is seeking financial assistance and emotional support after receiving the best news of their lives quickly followed by the worst. Amanda and Chris Bernier spent their time, including working together as medical first responders, dreaming about having a baby. When the learned Amanda was pregnant, they were excited to start their life as parents. But just weeks later, they were blindsided with the news that Amanda has ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. 
The 11-year-old Iowan girl you see standing in the middle of the picture below is my hero. She is the definition of the pro-life movement. She is not blinded by the abortion industry’s lies. She has a profound message to share with you. While working the Iowa Right to Life booth at NICHE 2014, this girl picked up one of our 12-week baby models and said to me, “Last year, at the Iowa State Fair, I got a 12-week baby model, and now, I keep it out on my dresser so that when my one friend that I know comes over to my house, she sees it. 
Shauna Prewitt, a Chicago-based attorney and rape-victim advocate has become a high-profile supporter of state legislation that prevents rapists from demanding custody of their victim’s children. shaunaprewittWhen Prewitt was in college she was raped and became pregnant, and chose life for her baby girl. Her rapist then sued her for custody of the child! As Prewitt explained to CNN, in many states, “…men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy.” 
The Presbyterian Church USA has voted to endorse Kermit Gosnell. Delegates meeting in Detroit at the 221st General Assembly of the 1.8 million–member Presbyterian Church (USA) voted down a measure that would have the church endorse care for babies born alive after abortions. From World Magazine: Also Thursday, 78 percent of the PCUSA General Assembly struck down a resolution condemning the killing of babies born alive during abortions, as occurred with notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Initiated by the South Alabama presbytery, it called for inclusion of pro-life Presbyterians and an investigation into doctrinal and financial support of abortion. 
I’ve had a few Christian pro-life friends of mine (kindly) tell me they don’t really understand how a secularist can defend the pro-life position. Sure, they get that we don’t need religion to understand fetal development, and we don’t need to believe in a god to recognize that abortion is violence. But they trip over how a secularist could defend the pro-life view on a metaphysical level. Why should secularists care about fetal development or the violence of abortion? What transcendent reason do we have to care about human life in the first place? In other words, these Christian pro-life friends of mine want to know how I, as a secularist, can truly defend the pro-life position without the Imago Dei. 
LifeNews printed a story last year about an amazing mom and her awesome son, Christian. When Lacey was pregnant with Christian he was diagnosed with fetal abnormalities. christian7Lacey and her husband didn’t even know if Christian would survive until birth. Christian survived the pregnancy and was born with no eyes and a cleft palate. We reported on the story last year because a lot of offensive comments were being made about children with disabilities. 
Garnett Spears died at the young age of five years old in January, six days after he had been rushed to the hospital. His sodium levels had risen, though there was no medical explanation. But this last hospital stay was hardly Garnett’s only one. From when he was first born, he was in and out of the hospital, his first visit when he was five days old and bleeding from an ear infection. He even was on feeding tubes for most of his life. And so, his mother, Lacey Spears, began to blog, to share her son’s illness with readers who would listen, in order to gain support, and also, attention. And she may have gone so far as to kill her own son to achieve such attention. 
Senator Ted Cruz delivered a message to President Barack Obama yesterday during his speech at the Road to Majority Conference Thursday afternoon: demand the release of Meriam Ibraham. His speech follows on the heels of a large rally outside the White House that he and pro-life groups led. Meriam is the Christian woman who was jailed when she was pregnant and was forced to give birth in chains in a Sudanese prison as she awaits a death sentence ad brutal flogging by Muslim officials because of her Christian faith. 
When preemie twins Brielle and Kyrie Jackson were born, doctors weren’t sure they’d make it, until a smart nurse placed the girls together in one incubator. These iconic twins were born 12 weeks premature in 1995. They’re lying on their bellies, and the slightly larger baby has her stick-thin arm around her sister. One baby was not expected to live, hospital nurse fought to put them in the same incubator. 
Just days before the Supreme Court is slated to hand down its decision in the Hobby Lobby case against the mandate, a judge in Denver gave a Christian university a big victory against the abortion mandate. The Becket Fund emailed LifeNews the details: Colorado Christian University (CCU) scored a victory for religious liberty today when a federal judge in Denver ruled that the Christian-based institution does not have to facilitate access for its employees and students to potentially life-terminating drugs. 
A foundation in Ireland is helping to provide life-affirming options to parents of children born with severe disabilities. The mission of The Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation is to provide direct funding to families of children with brain damage up to the age of 4 who suffer severe intellectual and physical developmental delay, enabling them to purchase home respite care. They also provide end of life care to all children up to the age of 4 years. 
Thursday afternoon’s The Cycle plugged the recently released “abortion rom-com” Obvious Child by interviewing the film’s screenwriter and director Gillian Robespierre and lead actress Jenny Slate. After the hosts spent a couple minutes praising the way in which the film portrayed a “positive, safe, shame-free abortion,” co-host Krystal Ball took the liberty of asking the director if there was ever a point where she felt nervous for her “physical safety” citing the sometimes “violent” nature of anti-abortion activists. 
In this amazing video, Melanie Pritchard and her family tell the harrowing tale of her sudden death and miraculous healing. Pregnant at the time, Melaine suffered from amniotic fluid embolism, DIC, heart failure and cardiac arrest. She was declared dead and should have never recovered, but, miraculously, she did. 
The family of Justina Pelletier, the teenage girl at the center of a national parental rights dispute, vows to pursue legal action against the state of Massachusetts for what they say was essentially an abduction of their daughter. Earlier this week, Massachusetts Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Johnston signed the order for Justina to go home following a 16-month dispute between her family and state officials. Lou Pelletier said in a text message, “This battle has been finally won. The WAR will not be won until we stop this from happening to ALL CHILDREN!!” 
Jonathan Husbands had always felt different during his life, as his step-father wasn’t very loving towards him and because he “sensed the whispers, nudges and knowing glances,” according to The Daily Mail. It wasn’t until he was 65 though when his mother took him aside and revealed to him that he was the conceived from rape. While her boyfriend and sister were downstairs in the kitchen, waiting to go to a dance, a man named Jock who was a tenant at her parent’s home took Jonathan’s mother, Mary, aside and raped her. 
House Republicans elected a new number two for their Congressional party leadership after Virginia Republican voter defeated pro-life Rep. Eric Cantor in his primary election earlier this month. Republicans picked Kevin McCarthy to serve as the next majority leader, promoting the California Republican to the number two spot behind pro-life House Speaker John Boehner. 
Superintendent Jody Goeler released a statement today responding to the charge that a Woodbury school discriminates against conservative and pro-life websites by blocking them. Andrew Lampart, a senior at Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, told his local Fox station that he discovered a clear political bias at his school, based on which websites are blocked. 
