Life Links 12/10/09

Lila Rose and Live Action have posted another undercover video taped at a Planned Parenthood in Appleton, Wisconsin. The video exposes a Planned Parenthood counselor who lies about fetal heartbeats and how employees answer a potential client who wonders if the child she is caring is a baby. The abortion counselor claims the child isn’t a baby until birth while the abortionist says the fetus becomes a baby at 6 or 7 months.


The National Institutes of Health has a press release on an adult stem cell study which found that sickle cell disease could be effectively reversed using modified adult stem cells from donors.


A pro-choice blogger at the International Women’s Health Coalition claims attempt to permanently repeal the Mexico City policy have been taken off the table.


Wesley Smith makes his annual predictions for what will happen next year in bio-ethics.


The bill set to liberalize Spain’s abortion laws will now require parental notifications for 16 and 17-year-olds who want to have abortions.

The new bill proposes unrestricted abortion up to the fourteenth week of pregnancy, as opposed to stricter limits currently in place.

The amendment says also that young women who could demonstrate that having to inform a parent — or their legal guardian — would cause serious problems for them can be exempted from this obligation.