With their first birthday only days away, identical triplets Dakota, Savannah and Brooklyn are toddling and cooing and thrilling their family with that baby cuteness that creates photo-sharing grandmothers on airliners. But this family has a right to be proud. These are history-making little girls. Doctors advised their mom that she should abort them —…

She weighed 1 pound, 2 ounces at birth and spent her first three days on life support inside a plastic sandwich bag. Allegra Lategan was delivered during an emergency Caesarian on July 29 at 22 weeks. “South Africa’s miracle baby spent her first three days after birth tucked away in a plastic sandwich bag,” writes…

A Canadian judge, noting that a majority of Canadians support  unrestricted abortion, has freed a woman who strangled her newborn son. Katrina Effert of Wetaskiwin, Alberta gave birth secretly in her parents’ downstairs bathroom, then killed the boy and threw his body over a fence.  She was 19 at the time. She told the court that she was…

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng — who has infuriated the Chinese government by exposing their much-denied practice of forcing women to have unwanted abortions — will be transferred to a small prison built specifically for him and his wife, Yuan Weijing, according to a Radio Free Asia. Chen’s friend He Peirong reports that the couple will…

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