JUST A REMINDER OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT....the difference between a baby being wanted like the one below and the little babies being killed by the millions.
Mom's photos of 'perfect' 14-week miscarried son have saved other babies
A 40-year-old mother of 11 children in Missouri has shared photos of her miscarried baby in the hope that people will see the humanity of preborn children. When Sharran Sutherland miscarried her son, Miran, at 14 weeks, she says her doctor offered to throw him out with "medical waste." The UK Mirror quotes Sharran as saying:
The doctor said we can either dispose of it as medical waste, or you can call a funeral home.
I was so angered by her calling my baby a 'fetus'. I couldn't believe she would insinuate he was medical waste....
But I also felt like a funeral seemed extreme. I didn't know what to do....
Sharran and her husband Michael saved their son's little, perfectly formed body in a container of saline solution in their refrigerator before eventually choosing to bury him in a flowerpot with hydrangeas "that would grow each year and come back to remind us of him," says Sharran. "We had him almost a week," she added. "In that time I was able to get his handprints, take his pictures, hold him, grieve to an extent. But I had that time with him which I think really helped a lot."
President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration.
The memorandum will "reverse my predecessor's attack on women's health access," Biden told reporters during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
He added that the measure "relates to protecting women's health at home and abroad, and it reinstates the changes that were made to Title X and other things making it harder for women to have access to affordable health care as it relates to their reproductive rights."
Biden's move fulfilled a campaign promise to rescind the so-called Mexico City Policy, a ban on US government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions. The Trump administration reinstated the restriction in 2017 by presidential memorandum and then extended it to cover all applicable US global health funding. That made some $9.5 billion in aid for everything from HIV treatment to clean water projects and child immunizations contingent on groups agreeing not to discuss or perform abortions.
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, author of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, issued the following statement after the Senate held a roll call vote on an amendment based on the legislation. The amendment received a bipartisan majority vote of 52-48, but failed to meet the 60-vote threshold required to advance.
"Protecting newborns ought to be the easiest thing in the world. This legislation isn't red vs. blue, it is simply about giving every baby a fighting chance. Every baby deserves care. This isn't about abortion, it's about human rights. I am going to continue to fight for these babies because love is strong than power and we will win."
Senator Sasse spoke on the Senate floor prior to the vote. Full text of the remarks is available below.
"Thank you. Mr. President, we're doing a lot of red vs. blue jersey stuff today until about 2:00 a.m. It's going to be mostly straight, partisan votes. It'd be good for us to find some common ground and this amendment is an opportunity to do that.
Pro-life leaders decry Biden decision to rescind 'Mexico City policy'
January 28, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Joe Biden's memo rescinding the so-called "Mexico City policy" Jan. 28, the eve of this year's March for Life, "is a deeply disturbing move, especially when the president says he wants national unity," tweeted Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Defense and Education Fund.
A number of other national pro-life leaders also criticized Biden for his decision, which was included in a "Presidential Memorandum to Protect and Expand Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care."
The policy, first announced by President Ronald Reagan during an international conference on population in Mexico City in 1984, blocked U.S. funding for nongovernmental organizations that perform or actively promote abortion as a form of family planning in other nations.
Republican presidents since then have upheld the policy and Democratic presidents have overturned it. Opponents of the policy call it a "gag order."
