In the Wednesday incident, a group from Campus Life Tour, an outreach project of Survivors, a Christian, pro-life activism organization dedicated to educating and activating high school and college age individuals, arrived on the College of Alameda campus and quietly held signs, distributed literature and talked calmly with students. But, within moments of their arrival, a campus security guard attempted to dispel a group of curious onlookers, ushering them away from the displays, said a news release from Life Legal Defense Foundation, which is representing Survivors. The Alameda Sheriff's Department was called and instructed the group to leave, threatening them with arrest, said the release.

"When the members of Campus Life Tour refused to stop their lawful free speech activity and leave the public school property, the three activists handing out literature to students were handcuffed and arrested," said the Life Legal Defense news release. "When the individuals being arrested repeatedly asked why they were being taken into custody, the arresting deputy responded that he was just doing what the school president asked him to do."

By a vote of 21-3, the Baja California state legislature on Oct. 27 approved an amendment to the state’s constitution providing for the protection of human life "from conception to natural death, without exceptions."

Eyewitness Dale Weldy, a volunteer for the Kansas Coalition for Life, reported that a woman with an IV was loaded into Sedgwick County ambulance number 30 and transported away from the abortion clinic at approximately 8:05 AM. According to Weldy, the ambulance never used its lights or siren.

Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue was notified and arrived at Wesley Medical Center in time to photograph the same ambulance that Weldy saw leave Tiller's abortion clinic. In addition, she was able take photos of Tiller's personal Jeep parked in the emergency room parking lot.

Tiller was joined at the emergency room by his employee, Diane Warren, who noticed Sullenger and called out to her, "You're dying to know, aren't you!"

In addition to Tiller, abortionist Susan Robinson, a part-time Tiller employee from Ukiah, California, was on the schedule and may have been involved in the botched abortion. The condition of the abortion patient is unknown.

The Daily News of Jacksonville reported Tuesday that the baby's body was found Monday by an employee of the garbage service who was about to dump a trash can.

Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said the investigation is continuing.

County medical examiner Dr. Anuradha Arcot said the baby appeared to be full-term and there were no signs of abnormalities.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." He was not, of course, writing about the America of today, with state-sanctioned and even subsidized abortion, and a movement to promote the killing of the elderly through euthanasia. But he could have been. His belief in what should be "the first and only legitimate object of government" should still stand. Like Jefferson, our next president needs to uphold those same concerns, not say that such arenas are "above his pay grade." If he and his administration won't protect the rights of the living (even in the womb), then who will? A left-leaning Congress?

The truth is: If Obama is elected, we will place a man in the highest office in the land who has the most liberal views and voting record on abortion of any president in American history. As a state senator in Illinois, he led opposition three years in a row (2001-2003) to a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of babies unintentionally left alive by abortion. He also opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion and strongly disapproved of the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. He does not support the Hyde amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion through Medicaid. He also voted to block a bill that would have required a doctor to notify at least one parent before performing an abortion on a minor girl from another state. Before a Planned Parenthood action fund last year, Obama promised to give first priority as president to the signing of the Freedom of Choice Act, which would make partial-birth abortion legal again. Strangely, Obama even once said he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" due to an unwanted pregnancy. With the next president likely adding two justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is clear that, as president, Obama will appoint and support the most liberal judges and legal eagles, resulting in a pro-abortion advantage in our courts that will push abortion liberties to every extent of the law and land.[..]

Winning the election is not just about what the underdogs, like John McCain and Sarah Palin – two maverick pro-life advocates, should do. But it's about what the citizens, who are fighting for the underdogs, can do. It's up to We the People to stand up, go back to the basics and once again vote our values.

"Come What May," which already has been shown to packed houses in Grants Pass, Ore., and Harrisonburg, Va., features the character Caleb, a Christian student attending Patrick Henry, who is caught in a moral tug-of-war as he challenges Roe v. Wade at the National Moot Court Championship. At the same time, the character's mother, a feminist attorney, argues the case at the U.S. Supreme Court, but on the opposing side.

The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion conducted a survey from September 28 to October 5 and found the parental notification initiative holds a 19 percentage point lead among likely voters, 52% to 33%.

The survey shows that Proposition 4 has majority support among women (55% to 31%), Latinos (61% to 27%), those who are married (59% to 25%) and those age 45 or older (55% to 28%). The initiative also leads among men (49% to 34%).

The only demographic opposed to the notification for abortion are likely voters 18 to 29 years old, who oppose it on a 52 to 41 percentage point leader.

The poll also shows that Proposition 4 leads by double digits in every region of California except the Bay Area, where a plurality of 48% is opposed.

Among California likely voters, 75% say that parents or legal guardians have the right to know if their underage daughter is seeking an abortion.

Judge Alice Hills sentenced Jacquelin Linaras, following the 25-year-old's conviction last month of first-degree murder and assault on a child causing death.

A San Fernando Superior Court jury deliberated less than two hours before finding Linaras guilty. Deputy District Attorney Carolyn McNary said Linaras killed her newborn girl shortly after giving birth on May 1, 2006, by hitting the infant's head on a cabinet. Linaras then dumped the body in a trash bin near her home in the Polynesian Mobile Home Park in Santa Clarita. The body was discovered May 2 by a resident searching for recyclables.

"The two saddest days of my life were when he was born and when he died," Stallings said. "When he was born, I was devastated, and when he died, I was even more devastated."

That's because, Stallings said, he did not know then what he knows now.

"If the good Lord asked if he could give me a perfectly normal child or Johnny, I'd pick Johnny every time," Stallings said. "No doubt about it."

He added that ignorance must account for the fact that 90 percent of women who are pre-natally diagnosed with carrying a child with Down syndrome choose to abort the child.

"They just don't know what they are missing," said Stallings, who now works on his farm in Powderly, Texas, and gives motivational speeches. "Johnny was 46 years old and didn't know a bad word. He saw the good in everyone. He loved going to church on Sundays and Wednesdays, and he remembered everyone's name."

But at the time it seemed like the right thing to do. We went to counseling before we went through with this thing. We were lucky in that we were well set up to get answers. And the counselor said that whatever you decide, either way, this could be very destructive for a couple if they kept the child and if they did not.

"You know what is the sickest part of all? He was about 20 weeks along. We went through the whole child-birth process after the fact. And when he was born, if you wish to call it that, the doctor that delivered him said there were no visible signs of Down's. Tell me that wasn't a knife through the heart."

A Toronto doctor cannot be sued by a child born with serious deformities caused by a drug that was prescribed to its mother, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.

In an important 3-0 ruling, the court said that doctors cannot owe a duty of care to unborn children because their primary obligation is to their female patients.

"Because the woman and her fetus are one – both physically and legally – it is the woman whom the doctor advises and who makes the treatment decisions affecting herself and her future child," Madam Justice Kathryn Feldman wrote on behalf of Mr. Justice Michael Moldaver and Mr. Justice Russell Juriansz.

The court also said that granting a child the right to sue doctors for damage caused before birth would also interfere with a woman's right to an abortion. The ruling closed the door on a lawsuit launched by Jaime Paxton, her parents – Dawn and Paul – and her three siblings.

The family alleged that Shaffiq Ramji negligently prescribed Ms. Paxton, 36, the acne drug Accutane, which is known to cause severe defects in fetuses.

Jaime was born without a right ear, and with portions of her face paralyzed.

The victim of the violent attack, who only wants to be known as Tim, was outside the Clinica Medica Para La Mujer abortion mill offering help to pregnant women when Pfupanjena attacked him. Tim was stuck repeatedly, fell to the ground, and was choked by Pfupanjena, because Tim had attempted to take his picture.

Tim sought medical treatment for lacerations and severe muscle pain after the attack.

Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl's birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.[..]

Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to "to get the word out" about the campaign.

"I took one for the cause," he said. "I can't give a lot of financial support for the (McCain/Palin) campaign. I do have a sign up in my yard, but I can do very little."

Clarke admits she was terrified the night before her scheduled C-section.

"I've never cried so hard in my life," Clarke said. "It was like I was having a monster instead of a baby. I thought I might not want to see him or hold him."

But on the morning Ethan was born, Clarke said her fears were quickly quelled.

"I can't even describe it," she said. "It was a feeling like I was holding a piece of heaven."

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Authorities arrested Patricia Cortez and charged her with the aggravated assault of Miriam Madina-Moreno, who was believed to be two months pregnant, just after 10 a.m., according to reporting officer Brandon Brown.

According to his report, Cortez cut the pregnant woman with scissors and kicked her repeatedly in the stomach after she found out the woman was having an affair with her husband.

The incident began on Friday, when two sisters arrived at the abortion clinic owned by the infamous partial-birth abortionist LeRoy Carhart. They were given literature, and Mary spoke to them about the abortion and some of the problems that Carhart has had, including his involvement in the third-trimester abortion death of 19-year old Christin Gilbert in 2005, at George Tiller's late-term abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas.

The two girls questioned a clinic worker about the Gilbert death before they were hustled into the clinic. The girls later left the clinic without having gotten the abortion.

Police were summoned by the abortion clinic staff, who told the police that Mary and another pro-lifer, Larry Donlan, were "screaming" at the girls. Donlan had videotaped the encounter and told the officers that the accusations were absurd, and the video would prove it. The police then threatened Mary and Donlan with arrest.

Mr. Donlan, head of Rescue the Heartland, and a Truth Truck driver for Operation Rescue, gave the following report about what happened the following day:

Apparently after we had gone [on Friday], the girls left the mill only to return the next morning, this time with their mother who was furious that her daughter didn't have the abortion. She hurled threats and curses at the pro-lifers as they got out of the car. Mary was at the top of the stairs as usual, but because of the high fence, she couldn't see who it was that was coming. As the three women walked up the stairs from the parking lot, she said, "This is the worst thing you will do in your whole life. Your baby's heart is beating right now."

Upon hearing this the mother, went ballistic. Cursing and screaming, she rushed Mary, shoving her and knocking her down into the street. Mary fell backwards hitting her head on the concrete. The woman then went inside the mill leaving Mary lying in the street.

National anti-abortion opposition groups aren't funding it. Colorado's anti-abortion Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, held a press conference on the Capitol steps to denounce it, joining the Colorado Bar Association and the Colorado Medical Society.

The executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference, Jennifer Kraska, said the church believes life begins at conception. But Kraska said Catholics fear that the amendment's passage wouldn't end abortion but rather lead to judicial reaffirmation of abortion rights.

"We just don't think this is the best way to pursue the end of abortion," Kraska said.

Doctors warn they could be guilty or murder for helping a couple conceive a child using in-vitro methods that often require disposal of fertilized eggs. Ritter, who opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest or medical emergency, said the state would pile up legal bills defending the amendment.

"It would create a legal nightmare," he said.

In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Oklahoma County District Court, the Center for Reproductive Rights says that the requirement intrudes on privacy, endangers health and assaults dignity.

"This is a great victory for the culture of life we should all seek to promote," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. "Currently, 90 percent of children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. That number is much too high and suggests that we as a society are not doing everything we can to protect every human life, at every stage."

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by a federal judge in Detroit who had issued an injunction stopping Jefferson Middle School authorities from interfering with the First Amendment rights of an eighth-grade student and awarded the student nominal damages of $1.

The appeals court ruled the school did not bar the student's freedom of expression but merely regulated it. Though school officials did not grant permission for the student, identified only as Michael, to distribute leaflets in hallways, they did permit him to post them on school bulletin boards and make them available in the school lunch room, the appeals court said in a published opinion.

"The school district ... is entitled to put time, place, and manner restrictions on hallway speech so long as the restrictions are viewpoint neutral and reasonable," the court said.

The Pre-natally and Post-natally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act, introduced by Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), was passed by Congress on Sept. 25 and delivered to the president on Sept. 29.

According to the Constitution, the bill will become law in 10 days, with or without the president’s signature, unless Congress adjourns, resulting in a pocket veto of the act.

The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development [..] said Thursday that they had told six African governments to stop giving U.S.-donated contraceptives to the British-based Marie Stopes International family planning organization for distribution to their needy populations.

The move affects Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe and follows a determination by USAID that the organization is a major player in a U.N. program in China that the administration says promotes coerced abortion and sterilization.

"Given these circumstances, USAID made the policy decision to inform governments in these countries that it does not want USAID-funded commodities to be provided to Marie Stopes International," the State Department, which oversees USAID, said in a statement.

"We're tired of it. This group of legislators has had enough of the slaughter of innocents and we're going to step up and we're going to do something about it," said Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman.

Behind him, about 60 abortion opponents, many in town for a Catholic conference, held signs calling for protection for the unborn. A roughly equal number of pro-choice advocates stood behind them holding signs of their own.

"We are here to stand up for the unborn, to stand up against the dogs of hate who defend abortion on demand," Wimmer said.

The key bill in the package backed by the legislators would ban all abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or if the life or a bodily function of the mother is threatened. Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, said his bill will be nearly identical to one that failed in the 2007 session. [..]

"I have a duty to defend life," said Sandstrom. "I think it's reprehensible to suggest that defending life is a political gimmick."