Thursday, January 4, 2018

Indiana University Uses Brains, Livers and Kidneys From Aborted Babies in Experiments

 STATE   STEVEN ERTELT   JAN 3, 2018   |   12:20PM    BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
A recent decision by a federal judge in the state of Indiana will allow Indiana University to continue using brains, livers and kidneys from aborted babies grisly experiments.
As LifeNews reported, Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana sided with Indiana University researchers, arguing that most of the law was unconstitutional. The university sued the state in 2016 after lawmakers passed a law prohibiting the acquisition, receipt, sale or transfer of aborted baby body parts. Violations would be a felony.
The purpose of the law is to stop the sales of aborted baby body parts. It came about after a series of undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress exposed Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities potentially illegally selling aborted baby parts. Earlier in December, news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice officially is investigating the abortion chain.
Now IU can continue the grisly experiments and the ruling means Indiana is blocked from enforcing much of the law aimed at prohibiting the trafficking of parts from aborted babies in Indiana.
“We are gravely disappointed with this ruling,” Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter told LifeNews.com. “The purpose of the law is to prevent the trafficking of aborted baby parts in our state. Most of the safeguards in the law are now gutted due to Indiana University’s penchant for using the parts of aborted babies for experimental purposes.”
Fichter told LifeNews Indiana University sued to block the law due to its provision that prohibits the “acquisition, receipt, sale and transfer” of aborted fetal tissue. In its pleadings, IU acknowledged it obtains tissue from organs such as brains, livers and kidneys for experiments, but argued the law’s definition of fetal tissue is too “vague” when defining it as, “tissue, organs, or any part of an aborted fetus.” IU also argued that the definition of what it means to “transfer” aborted tissue is too “vague.”
He said Indiana University’s objections were more straightforward when it declared the statute, “builds a wall around Indiana and prohibits tissue from an aborted fetus from entering or exiting the state.”
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“The language and intent of the law is clear,” says Fichter. “Yet due to courtroom wrangling over what a word like ‘transfer’ means, Indiana’s protections against body parts trafficking is now compromised.”
While undercutting much of the law’s effectiveness, Magnus-Stinson’s ruling does let stand provisions including the prohibition of selling aborted tissue or organs and the prohibition on altering the timing or type of abortion for the purpose of obtaining parts from aborted babies.
In a key setback for Indiana University, Magnus-Stinson rejected IU’s claim that the state law was unconstitutional because it allegedly violates IU’s right to academic freedom, noting the First Amendment does not prevent states “from enacting statutes prohibiting conduct in which the University would like to engage, and then teach about.”

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Chip and Joanna Gaines Share Their Unborn Baby’s “Little Heartbeat” in Amazing Ultrasound Photo

 NATIONAL   KATIE YODER   JAN 3, 2018   |   6:58PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Many in the media have long idolized “childfree” relationships. But that isn’t stopping one well-known couple from welcoming their fifth.
Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines recently announced that they’re expecting their fifth child. On Wednesday, Joanna shared an ultrasound video showing the baby’s “little heartbeat” on Twitter and Instagram.
“What!” Chip reacted in the video. “A beating heart.”
On Tuesday, the HGTV hosts who remodel homes first revealed the news. Chip posted “hints” on Twitter, including a video of the two chanting “number five” and talking about Joanna’s cravings for ice cream and pickles.
Later, he added, “we are officially pregnant. And I could not be more EXCITED! #5 #7ThePerfectNumber.”
Then, turning to Instagram, he posted a picture of himself with Joanna, with his stomach puffed out to match hers.



“Gaines party of 7,” he typed. “(If you’re still confused.. WE ARE PREGNANT).”
The new baby will be welcomed by four siblings: 12-year-old Drake, 11-year-old Ella Rose, 9-year-old Duke and 7-year-old Emmie Kay.
Last year, the couple declared that the 5th season of Fixer Upper (now running) would be their last, in order to focus on their family and business.
“While we are confident that this is the right choice for us, it has for sure not been an easy one to come to terms with,” they wrote. “Our family has grown up alongside yours, and we have felt you rooting us on from the other side of the screen.”
In 2016, the reality stars faced unwarranted attacks by Buzzfeed reporter Kate Aurthur because their pastor believed in traditional marriage. Others in the media, including gay writers, came to the Gaines’ defense.
LifeNews Note: Katie Yoder writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.

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Doctors Said His Brain Cancer Would Kill Him in 3 Months, But He Lived Three More Years

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 3, 2018   |   8:01PM    WASHINGTON, DC
J.J. Hanson, a valiant advocate against assisted suicide, died on Dec. 30 after a three-year struggle with brain cancer.
The 36-year-old husband and father was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq. In 2014, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma. Hanson’s doctors told him that he had just three or four months to live; but he chose to battle through the disease anyway. He underwent surgery, chemotherapy and an experimental treatment that gave him three more years with his wife and two young sons.
In that time, he also became a strong advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and terminal illnesses. He fought against the assisted suicide lobby as the president of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund. His personal story and his advocacy for patients’ rights helped states across the U.S. defeat doctor-prescribed suicide bills.
“… his life story has been an encouragement and an inspiration to cancer survivors and many others across the country,” the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide said in a statement. “We will miss J.J.’s leadership, his optimism, his selflessness, his tenacity and his willingness to draw upon his own difficult experiences to advocate for others facing challenging medical problems.”
“JJ lived his motto: ‘Every day is a gift, and you can’t ever let that go,’” said Kathleen Gallagher, director of pro-life activities for the New York State Catholic Conference, in a statement.
Hanson grew up in Sullivan County and was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served as an aide for Govs. Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson. He later served as budget director for Ulster County Executive Mike Hein.
His wife, Kristen, and two young sons, James and Lucas, survive him.
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Gallagher said that Hanson “reached out to doctors, veterans groups and other organizations, persuaded lawmakers and journalists, raised funds for cancer research, traveled to Albany, Washington, D.C., and states all across the country, and took every opportunity to promote compassionate life-affirming care for persons facing disease and disability.
“And he did that while facing tremendous health hurdles, undergoing surgeries and treatments, and caring for his family.”
Not long after Brittany Maynard’s doctor-prescribed suicide became big news, Hanson responded with his own cancer story.
“[Brittany] took her cancer story public, and it was used to headline a national effort to ‘normalize’ assisted suicide; a notion that had previously been rejected by dozens of states,” Hanson wrote in a column for the New Jersey Star-Ledger in 2016. “The message sent to patients across the country, who, like me, wanted to fight and live was now — ‘assisted suicide may be the best option for you.’ I recognized this as a huge danger.”
Hanson said he refused to give up hope. He and his wife traveled to doctor after doctor until one agreed to treat him.
“There were days when I completely lost all of my most basic physical abilities. I couldn’t talk, walk, read or write,” Hanson wrote in 2016. “I fought for treatment that was so difficult there were times when I questioned if the struggle was worth the pain.”
If doctor-prescribed suicide had been legal in his state, Hanson said he easily could have succumbed to the same fate as Brittany Maynard, who committed suicide with a lethal drug prescribed by a doctor on Nov. 2, 2014 in Oregon.
Hanson said he wondered what would have happened if he had access to assisted suicide drugs.
“I would have lost the opportunity to make memories with my wife and son,” he wrote at the time. He and his wife later had a second child.
He worked hard with the hope that his story would inspire others facing terminal illnesses to not give up hope or throw away their lives.
“Without a doubt, people similar to me facing desperate situations will feel like assisted suicide is their only option,” Hanson wrote. “In our society we should be focused on giving hope to the vulnerable and the sick at their greatest time of need, not taking hope away.”
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