Planned Parenthood Sued

AGAPEPRESS, July 15 — A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Planned Parenthood in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Lead attorney Johnny Davis said the abortion business is guilty of deceptive and false trade practices by failing to disclose all information to women seeking an abortion.

Davis said there is evidence that Planned Parenthood has always targeted minority groups for abortion. “This organization was founded for bad purposes, it's only conducted [for] bad purposes. This is truly a sinister criminal enterprise,” Davis said.

Surgeries on the Unborn

THE TENNESSEAN, July 15 — Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are developing an in utero treatment for gastroschisis, a prenatal disorder in which parts of a child's intestines grow outside of his body and contaminate the amniotic sac.

The standard treatment requires one or more surgeries after birth to replace the intestines within the infant's abdominal cavity and close the abdominal wall. The new treatment involves periodically flushing out some of the amniotic fluid and replacing it with saline solution to reduce inflammation of the fetal organs.

Abortion Memorial

DUBUQUE TELEGRAPH HERALD, July 16 — An estimated 400 people attended a dedication of the Memorial to the Unborn at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Key West, Iowa, which was a yearlong $26,000 project of Dubuque County Right to Life Inc.

The memorial features a 100-foot meandering stream interspersed with 14 waterfalls that empties into a pond 20 feet by 20 feet.

Stephen Hardie, who helped design the memorial, said, “Instead of just a headstone marking the event of an abortion, we wanted to carry it a little further and provide an area that would lend itself to quiet reflection and contemplation, to allow those involved in the abortion decision to have a quiet place to go.”

3,000-Mile Pro-Life Walk

CROSSROADS, July 19 — For the past seven years, Crossroads has sponsored college students who walk across the country, pray at abortion facilities, speak at churches and host town-hall meetings to educate the public about abortion.

Two teams of Crossroads walkers have covered more than 4,000 miles on foot this summer and were sheduled to meet at World Youth Day on July 22. The northern team began its walk in San Francisco while the southern team began its journey in Tampa, Fla.

Aaron Redmon, director of Crossroads, said that, at World Youth Day in Denver, the Pope encouraged youth to take a stand against the culture of death.

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