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By Jay Hobbs Just months after giving birth to a daughter, Chastidy Ronan, an executive director of a pregnancy help medical clinic in San Francisco, was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in late July. Friends of Ronan, who has served with Alpha Pregnancy Center since...
By Dave Andrusko A jury in Arizona has convicted Chalice Renee Zeitner of faking a cancer diagnosis in a scheme to get the state to pay for the 2010 abortion of her 22-week-old unborn baby. Zeitner was arrested in Georgia in May 2015 where authorities said she was...
By Leticia Velasquez, co-founder, KIDS (Keep Infants with Down Syndrome) Editor’s note. World Down Syndrome Day is observed annually on March 21 to raise public awareness of and about Down syndrome. On March 4, the world of pop culture mourned the passing of Joey...
By Cassy Fiano We all know Brittany Maynard’s story by now. The beautiful 29-year-old seemingly had it all, until she was diagnosed with Stage IV glioblastoma multiforme, the deadliest form of brain cancer, and told that she only had months left to live. Rather than...
By Dave Andrusko Holley Tierney was 23-weeks pregnant when the dance instructor felt a pain in her chest. She’d carried a sound system that day and attributed the pain to that. But better safe than sorry, she went to the hospital in Manchester, England, to have it...
By Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life Editor’s note. This note of appreciation to Maggie Karner was written last April by NRL President Carol Tobias. Mrs. Karner died last Friday. We have also included the Open Letter Dr. Karner wrote to Brittany Maynard,...
By Dave Andrusko In 2010 Nicola Weller went into the hospital to remove a tumor from her womb. As she told the British newspaper, The Daily Mail recently, “I was absolutely devastated. My world just fell apart. My daughter was four years old, and I was being...
By Dave Andrusko It’s Friday and, as seems to be the case every week, there is one story I’ve been meaning to get to all week and haven’t. We have written innumerable stories about the impact of adult stem cells as an effective, ethical alternative to lethally...