The View Host Joy Behar Says John McCain Turning on Women Over Abortion
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Last week, the hosts of "The View" offended pro-life advocates again. This time, Joy Behar said if you don't support abortion on demand, you're against women’s rights. She talked about an off camera exchange she had with eventual Republican presidential candidate John McCain. "I said to [McCain] off the camera, I said to him 'listen how can you be against Roe v. Wade? You can not turn on women like that,'' Behar said. Pro-life co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck wondered how that could be the case. "Because it’s against women and you know it," Behar contended. Olivia Gans, the head of American Victims of Abortion, a group for women who have been victimized by abortions, responded in comments to LifeNews.com. "The truly sad fact about Joy Behar's comments is the total lack of understanding it shows for what Roe v. Wade has done to American women," she said. "The reality for thousands of American women is that Roe v. Wade only means the memory of a dead baby and a lifetime of emotional or physical damage that no one in our society wants to talk about. Tragically Ms. Behar chooses to continue to reinforce the out dated notion that abortion is what women really want when faced with a difficult pregnancy. Thirty years of rhetoric hasn't made Roe v. Wade a victory for American women or ,sadly, their lost children."

Adult Stem Cells Used in Treating Wounded Soldiers From Iraq, Afghanistan
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates have long supported the use of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cell research because no human life is destroyed in obtaining the cells. Now, new reports show wounded soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan are helped by the ethical stem cells. Showing how far adult stem cells have come in a very short time, our wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated with their own stem cells to help treat wounds involving bones. According to ABC News, the Bush administration has spent $85 million to fund the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Thomas Einhorn, the chairman of orthopaedic surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, has used adult stem cells to repair a patient's hip after conventional surgeries failed. Noted bioethics watchdog Wesley Smith says he's not surprised by the news. "Illustrating how the hype overcame reality, the story's author felt the need to say that the stem cells did not come from embryos," he said. But, as pro-life advocates know, "no human applications have yet come from human embryonic stem cells." Smith added: "It will not take much time for this procedure to become available in the civilian sector. The good news just keeps coming."

Post-Abortion Group Says Yale "Art" Controversy Shows Anti-Woman Bias
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading group for women who have regret about the abortions they had says the controversy last week over an "abortion art" project at Yale shows how abortion advocates have a dim view of women. Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign commented on a Yale student’s controversial performance art project scheduled to be exhibited this week. Georgette Forney, the co-founder and director of the group, talked with LifeNews.com about the project. “While initially shocking, though, the project is really just a natural extension of the abortion mindset’s utilitarian view that unborn children are expendable," she said. After all, if embryonic human beings can be destroyed for the sake of science, why can't they be killed in the name of art?” “When people are treated like things, we all suffer,” added Janet Morana, another co-founder of the group. “The lie that unborn children are not children is a cancer that has resulted in the kind of calloused hearts and minds that would conceive and approve of a project like this. It’s not just that the project is offensive, it diminishes human life.”

Indiana Pro-Life Group Sues to Uphold Judicial Candidate's Free Speech
Indianapolis, IN (LifeNews.com) -- Two Indiana judicial candidates filed suit last week in federal court to block enforcement of Indiana rules prohibiting them from responding to a survey asking their views on abortion, euthanasia, and other issues. Judge David Certo, a Superior Court Judge in Marion County, and Torrey Bauer, a candidate for Superior Court Judge in Kosciusko County are joined in the suit by the Indiana Right to Life Committee. The case arises out of a survey Indiana Right to Life sent to candidates for judicial office in the May 2008 election, requesting that they state their views on policies and court decisions related to abortion, euthanasia, and other related issues. Several of the judicial candidates refused to do so and cited state rules warning candidates against it. Indiana Right to Life had previously challenged these Indiana rules during the 2004 election. But while a federal district court initially found the Canons in question unconstitutional, the case was ultimately dismissed on the grounds that Indiana Right to Life had not shown there were any judicial candidates who wanted to answer its questions. James Bopp, a leading pro-life attorney, says the rules “contradict the U.S. Supreme Court, which clearly stated that judicial candidates have a right to respond to surveys like this and that voters have a right to hear what they have to say.”