Thirty abortion facilities have either close or are in the process of closing in the United States thus far in 2013, more than twice the number of facilities that closed in all of 2012. The latest closure is Nova Women’s Healthcare in Fairfax, Virginia, a facility with a history of botched abortions which shut its doors in June. On May 14, pro-life [...]
A few weeks ago, my editor, Paul Tuns, told me about an article he read in Chatelaine magazine. A woman named Chloe Ashton recounted her experiences after learning her second child – this one unplanned – would have Down syndrome. Having refused genetic screening while pregnant with her then four-year-old daughter, Ashton was convinced at first that she wouldn’t have “done anything [...]
Pro-lifers says his true legacy is millions of dead babies Abortionist Henry Morgentaler Pro-lifers reacted to the news that Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler died by reiterating they continue to pray for the man personally responsible for killing tens of thousands of babies in the womb. For decades, Canadian pro-lifer leaders have prayed for Morgentaler’s conversion. Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign [...]
And so, at the age of 90, Henry Morgentaler has died in his bed, an old man and full of years. Each death is a tragedy, a kind of promise broken with the mystery of life, and we at The Interim mourn Morgentaler’s passing. His life was precious; every life is precious. But, upon the grave of one who left so many [...]
Three first degree murder, one involuntary homicide, and more than 230 other charges Kermit Gosnee being processed in prison. Kermit Gosnell will have to serve three life sentences for killing three babies. He was found guilty by the jurors in three out of four first degree murder charges. This came on the tenth day of deliberation after the jury reported [...]
Activists and commentators on both sides of the abortion issue reacted to the Kermit Gosnell verdict. Pro-abortion organizations condemned Gosnell but turned the decision around to argue against restrictive abortion laws. “Anti-choice politicians…will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell,” said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America in a statement. She said Pennsylvania had received an ‘F’ from [...]
Douglas Karpen alleged to have twisted the heads off newborn babies Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic descriptions that may offend some readers. An investigation has been launched of a Texas late-term abortionist who reportedly twisted the heads off babies born alive. Douglas Karpen, who works at three Texas abortion facilities, is alleged to have also cut the spines and stabbed the [...]
An investigation by Jillian May Melchior for the National Review shows that the horrific and illegal practices within Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion mill are not unique to his House of Horrors. The article focuses on three facilities in Miami, Hialeah, and Miramar located in Florida, operated by Frantz Bazile, Belkis Gonzalez, and Siomara Senises. The abortionists working at the trio’s facilities included [...]
A shortage of obstetrician-gynaecologists in Italy willing to provide abortions is making abortion advocates worried. Government figures indicate that the proportion of gynaecologists conscientiously objecting to providing abortion increased from 58.7 per cent in 2005 to over 70 per cent in 2007 and the rate has remained largely constant since then. The pro-abortion group Gynaecologists for the Application of Law 194/78 (LAIGA) [...]
LeRoy Carhard compared a dead unborn baby to meat. Four new videos released by Live Action show that the killing of newborns is not as unusual an occurrence in American abortion mills as abortion advocates like to claim. In the undercover footage, a part of the organization’s new investigation, “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry,” the actress is assured [...]
On March 18 the trial of Kermit Gosnell began in a Philadelphia courthouse, and the jury heard some of the most sensational – and graphic – testimony any courtroom has witnessed. Yet despite the numerous storylines – a doctor who preyed on women, killed children, snipping the spines of babies who survived abortion, a racial subtext about the minority women who were [...]
Bringing the back-alley to the street front. Abortionist Kermit Gosnell is on trial for killing a woman and seven newborns. The media ignored the gruesome testimony until they had no choice. Jurors at the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell have heard shocking testimony about the conditions at his “House of Horrors” – the Women’s Medical Society in Philadelphia. Gosnell, who [...]
On Feb. 18, 2010, the FBI raided the “Women’s Medical Society” in Philadelphia searching for evidence of illicit prescription drugs sales; what they found, instead, were horrors unimagined by the most gruesome Hollywood film: “The search team discovered fetal remains haphazardly stored throughout the clinic—in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers.” Investigators also “found a row of [...]
A 29-year-old woman has died as a result of a 33-week abortion conducted by late-term abortion specialist Dr. LeRoy Carhart. Jennifer Morbelli, a kindergarten teacher from White Plains, New York, travelled to Carhart’s abortion facility, the Germantown Reproductive Health Center (GRHC), in Germantown, Maryland to begin the four-day procedure on Sunday, Feb. 3. The reason for the abortion was a fetal abnormality. [...]
Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women by Janet Morana (Saint Benedict Press, $22.37, 211 pages) A new book, by a co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, argues that abortion is a terrible product which should have been recalled long ago. “Abortion is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated against women, and those who profit from abortion are the [...]