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News June 14th, 2009
1. Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #426
2. Nice Quote by a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
3. Toronto Star-Letter to the Editors Tiller no angel. Silent No More
4. Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Costs Us All
5. Signature in the Cell: DNA and The Evidence for Intelligent Design
6. Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #425
7. U.S. student, 20, emerges as anti-abortion crusader
8. : Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Abortion These affect your life whether or not you realize
9. Catholic Insight - Death notice of the Liberal Party
10. The abortion issue we're ignoringNews Archives.htm from 2003 to the present.
1. Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.LifeIssues.net)Dear Friends for Life,
Here are some interesting facts in a publication from Canada regard the pro-homosexual movement. Given that the pro-homosexual movement has generally been at odds with the pro-life movement, we publish the following from Canada:
* Life expectancy of homosexual men in Canada is 55 years (20 years less than heterosexual males).
* GLB (Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual) people commit suicide at rates from 2 to 14 times more often than heterosexuals.
* GLB people smoke 1.3 to 3 times more.
* GLB people have rates of alcoholism 1.5 to 19 times higher.
* GLB people have rates of depression 2 to 3 times higher.
* Gay and bisexual men comprise 76% of AIDS cases.
* Gay and bisexual men are 54% of the new HIV infections each year. If one uses Statistics Canada's figure of 1.7 of all GLB people becoming infected, this is 26 times higher than average.
* GLB people have a higher risk for anal cancer.
God Bless,Jerry Novotny, OMI
(Not Debatable) "Abstinence is freedom - from disease, unplanned pregnancy, guilt, broken hearts. One of my teenage patients was thrilled when I gave her permission to be abstinent!" --Scott Leeth, M.D., Family Practice
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #426
June 7, 2009
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Kids Born to Unwed Moms Hit Record High
2. Ten per cent rise reported in euthanasia cases in Netherlands
3. Why on earth would we want to "Recapture the soul of bioethics"???
4. The Irreversible Disabling of a Child
5. Teens: Oral Sex and Casual Prostitution No Biggie
6.. Infanticide
7. Pharmacist opposes embryonic stem-cell research
8. Institute One Child Policy for a "Sustainable" Australia: Population Control Group
9. Smallest Baby To Survive At Magee Weighed Same As Pop Can
10. Adult Stem Cells Found to Cure Blindness
11. Sexual diseases in children rise
12. Nancy Pelosi Misleads on Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Reagan Statue Event
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(FOCUS ON ASIA): "Humanitarian Updates from Pakistan" - As the conflict in northwestern Pakistan continues, humanitarian groups are reporting on rising numbers of uprooted people, 1.2 million vulnerable children, severe shortages of food, water, and services, lack of medical care for displaced pregnant women, and trapped civilians, some by Taliban landmines. http://us.oneworld.net/article/363566-in-brief-humanitarian-crisis-worsens-pakistan(FOCUS ON ASIA): "S Asia hunger 'at 40-year high'" - The report by the UN children's fund, Unicef, says that 100 million more people in the region are going hungry compared with two years ago. It names the worst affected areas as Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8079698.stm
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ITEM #1. Kids Born to Unwed Moms Hit Record High
A record number of children worldwide are being born to unmarried mothers as traditional marriage arrangements are being abandoned at a faster pace, according to a report released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
View full article at abc News:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/story?id=7575268&page=1
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ITEM #2. Ten per cent rise reported in euthanasia cases in Netherlands
The number of reported cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands rose some 10 per cent last year to 2,331, from 2,120 in 2007, Dutch euthanasia monitoring officials reported Friday.
View full article at M&C:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1480259.php/Ten_per_cent_rise_reported_in_euthanasia_cases_in_Netherlands_
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ITEM #3. Why on earth would we want to "Recapture the soul of bioethics"???
Bioethics is not Catholic ethics - and any feeble attempt to "convert" secular bioethics to Catholic medical ethics is a total exercise in futility and wishful thinking. Rather, bioethics is the newest of dozens of different kinds of ethics. It was created out of thin air in 1978 by 11 politically appointed people (most of whom had no academic degrees in philosophy or ethics), by mandate of the U.S. Congress with their Belmont Report.
View full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_143ethicsandbioethics.html
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ITEM #4. The Irreversible Disabling of a Child
The controversial growth attenuation therapy for a severely disabled girl named Ashley is about intentional and deliberate medical acts of crippling. Does crippling children amount to a fundamental violation of their dignity and the oath of physicians to first do no harm? The way we formulate the dilemma, the picture we draw of its salient features, largely determines the conclusions we reach and the choices we make. It is intellectually important to try to view the events as the major participants view them.
View full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://lifeissues.net/writers/cole/cole_01ashleytreatment1.html
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ITEM #5. Teens: Oral Sex and Casual Prostitution No Biggie
They don't give their names, but viewers can see their faces plainly and what these teens are saying is shocking parents. "I ended up having sex with more than one person that night and then in the morning I was trying to get morning-after pills," one of the girls said. "I was, like, 14 at the time." It's just one of dozens of stories from teenage girls in a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Sharlene Azam that aims to shed light on the secret, extremely sexual lives of today's teens.
COMMENT: Bill Clinton's infamous defense of his behavior with a young intern, the "sexperts" pushing "comprehensive sex ed" and the shocking but popular TV shows and movies are all forms of child abuse, in my opinion.
The ridicule of God and traditional morals by most of the big media and even courts and legislatures has literally abandoned these teens to the wolves. Parent can try to protect their children but now schools are claiming superior rights to educate children about sex, environmental morality, etc. And Planned Parenthood is praised and taxpayer-funded.
What kind of families (if any, since callous self-gratification seems to be the goal) are these teens going to produce in the future? --Nancy Valko, RN
View full article at abcNews:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7693121
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ITEM #6. Infanticide
A spate of recent articles defends the permissibility and practice of killing newborns. In their Hastings Center Report article "Ending the Life of a Newborn: The Groningen Protocol" (January-February 2008), Hilde Lindemann and Marian Verkerk support those who "responsibly end the lives of severely impaired newborns" of various kinds suffering from serious illness. Their argument is fairly straightforward and similar in form to the argument in favor of euthanasia generally, another practice accepted in the Netherlands. They note that most people already sanction the removal of life support from severely handicapped babies who have no chance of survival.
See the full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/kac/kac_07infanticide.html
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ITEM #7. Pharmacist opposes embryonic stem-cell research
Rothfusz said he objects on moral grounds to research that treats embryos as anything other than humans, even if the embryos are obtained from fertility clinics that would otherwise dispose of them.
"Granted, they're just little specks in a petri dish, but it's a stage of development," Rothfusz told the Lewiston Tribune. "I'm not the same person I was as a teenager and I'm not the same person I was as a toddler. It's a continuum."
Article is located at Fort Mill Times:
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/585412.html
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ITEM #8. Institute One Child Policy for a "Sustainable" Australia: Population Control Group
A group called Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is pushing for Australia to adopt a Chinese-style one-child policy, with the aim of reducing Australia's population of 22 million people to seven million. The groups claims that such a drastic population cut is needed to ensure a sustainable future.
Article can be found at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042404.html
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ITEM #9. Smallest Baby To Survive At Magee Weighed Same As Pop Can
At birth baby Taylor Rideout weighed just 12.5 ounces and was just 10 inches long, making her the smallest baby ever to survive at Magee Women's Hospital.
View entire text at WPXI:
http://www.wpxi.com/news/19625212/detail.html
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ITEM #10. Adult Stem Cells Found to Cure Blindness
Medical researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have used simple contact lenses cultured with stem cells from a patient's own eye to return sight to sufferers of corneal disease.
The researchers worked with three patients who were each blind in one eye. The procedure involved scraping less than a millimeter of tissue from the sides of the cornea of each patient's good eye, culturing the contact lens with the stem cells in that tissue for ten days, and then having the patient wear the contact. Within two weeks the stem cells had begun attaching themselves to the patients' corneas and replenishing the damaged cells.
View entire text at Life Site News:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060411.html
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ITEM #11. Sexual diseases in children rise
There has been a significant rise in the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in Scotland. Government statistics reveal that the number of children diagnosed with chlamydia has risen by 27% over the past four years. There was also a rise in other sexual transmitted infections.
View entire text at BBC News:
http://www2.newsbbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8081820.stm
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ITEM #12. Nancy Pelosi Misleads on Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Reagan Statue Event
The speaker of the US House of Representatives has implied that embryonic stem cell research has saved lives. Paying tribute to Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan, the pro-life former president, Mrs Pelosi said: "Your support for stem cell research has made a significant difference in the lives of many American people. It has saved lives, it has found cures, it has given hope to people." Mrs Reagan is a prominent promoter of embryonic stem cell research.COMMENT: Contrary to Mrs Pelosi's claims, embryo research has yet to produce any benefits in human patients.
View entire text at LifeNews.com:http://www.lifenews.com/bio2866.html
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YOU CAN CHANGE SOCIETY:
1. BE INFORMED: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. Visit Lifeissues.net Website for insights into current Life Issues www.lifeissues.net. All prior email Newsletters Archives are located online at http://lifeissues.net/newsletters/mojo.cgi?flavor=archive&list=lifenews&start=0
3. PRAY DAILY: for the courage to be God's presence in society and to strongly support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
4. BECOME INVOLVED: Several years ago Fr. Jerry created a project entitled, "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia". It is a project which appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is placed on reaching Asian Catholic Major Seminaries, Universities, Parishes, Hospitals and Family/Pro Life related groups. The lectures place emphasis on "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues Trends and Challenges".
For information about no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations to:
** Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI
** LifeIssues.net, Editor
** Akebono-cho 1-15-9
* Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
(or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824)
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*****************2. Nice Quote by a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
"Abortion at any stage of pregnancy is murder,
and any attack against the fetus is a crime.
To kill a fetus is murder."
* Louis-Philippe de Grandpré (1917-2008),
sometime justice of the Supreme Court of Canada**********************
3.June 2, 2009
Toronto Star-Letter to the Editors
Tiller no angel.
Tiller killed over 60,000 innocent babies himself. After the baby was dead and delivered they would on request have a funeral and he even had a crematorium at his abortion "clinic" to dispose of the bodies. At least one patient we know of, Christin Gilbert died at his hands Jan. 13, 2005. Other women have been hurt and physically injured also while at his clinic. He had 19 criminal charges against him. He was shot by a pro-choice woman in 1993 and lived. According to Tiller's website, he did lots of abortions and many of them were healthy women aborting healthy babies. Here is a quote from Tiller himself; "We have some experience with late terminations... about 10,000 patients (aborted) between 24 and 36 weeks and something like 800 fetal anomalies between 26 and 36 weeks in the past 5 years." (Making the vast majority of abortions on healthy viable babies) From a speech given by George R. Tiller at the National Abortion Federation Annual Meeting on April 2-4, 1995 in New Orleans, LA
As a former abortion patient myself I can attest to the reality of what an abortion REALLY IS and does! Like most young women I was pressured to abort, told it was just a 'clump of tissue' and a "safe" procedure, all lies.
Truth is Abortion caused irreparable damaged to my cervix and uterus, affecting my fertility. Abortion killed my babies. It was never a medical necessity. Later I learned that my babies had a beating heart, arms, legs, fingers and toes by 8 weeks...they were fully human and fully alive!
Abortion is terrorism in the womb!
Abortionists do cut up and dismember little babies, they inject poison into their hearts, they forcibly rip them apart and pull them out of the peaceful sanctuary of their mothers womb...which SHOULD be the safest place in the world for a baby to be! These Doctors have many weapons of mass destruction! Abortion also damages women physically, emotionally and spiritually, I know. Go to afterabortion.org and abortionbreastcancer.com On behalf of thousands of women who have suffered the pain of legal abortion we know that Tiller is no hero, and he is no saint. He had much blood on his hands. Abortion is not a black and white issue...it is blood red. I thank God that he will no longer terrorize little ones in the womb. I have repented of my abortions and now want to be a voice for my aborted children so they did not die in vain. Doctors are not doing women a favour by killing pre-born children. We want to warning women of the dangers of abortion and encourage the value and preciousness of life and motherhood.
Please visit this website for other testimonies from post abortive women.
http://www.dr-tiller.com/experience.htm We do not condone the shedding of innocent blood.
Denise Mountenay
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4. Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:19 AM
Subject: Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Costs Us All
Yesterday we released our report, Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Costs Us All to a standing room only crowd of Members of Parliament, staff and interested citizens, on Parliament Hill. The response to date has been very solid with wall to wall radio, print and television. We hope that this report is the start of a national conversation on the value of marriage and families. The social science research is consistently clear, that marriage is the best, strongest family form we have. Kids do better, moms and dads do better, families do better.
I would be interested in your feedback on this piece. Please feel free to forward the report to others as well.
The full report may be found here.
All the best.
Dave Quist
Executive Director
Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
130 Albert Street, Suite 2001
Ottawa, ON
K1P 5G4
5. Signature in the Cell: DNA and The Evidence for Intelligent Design
June 24, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (ET)
The Family Research Council and the Discovery Institute Cordially Invite you to a Policy Lecture
"SIGNATURE IN THE CELL:
DNA AND THE EVIDENCE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN"
Who: Dr. Stephen C. Meyer of the Discovery Institute
When: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. (EST)
Where: Family Research Council
Media Center
801 G Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001
RSVP: 800-225-4008 or online at www.frc.org
This lecture will be available via live webcast at www.frc.org.
Please RSVP for the webcast.
Complimentary Lunch will be provided.
In the Signature in the Cell, Dr. Stephen Meyer shows that the digital code embedded in DNA points powerfully to a designing intelligence and helps unravel a mystery that Darwin did not address: how did the very first life begin? Follow Dr. Meyer as he investigates how new scientific discoveries are pointing to intelligent design as the best explanation for the complexity of life and the universe.
Stephen C. Meyer is Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. Dr. Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University for a dissertation on the history of origin of life biology and the methodology of the historical sciences.
Click here to download the media kit.
Click here to download the flyer.
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6.
Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.LifeIssues.net)Dear Friends for Life,
This week we have received a request from "Pharmacis For Life International" to share the following information with you concerning a Protest Against the Pill. It will be held on June 6, 2009.The Pill Kills Women: Back in 1956, large-scale human clinical trials of the birth control pill were begun in order to gain approval by the US Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Gregory Pincus, a biologist who worked closely with Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, chose Puerto Rico as the location for the human trials because it provided a large pool of poor, uneducated women who could be easily monitored. The local doctor in charge of the study told Pincus that the pill caused "too many side reactions to be generally acceptable." However, Pincus and Dr. John Rock, a Catholic ob-gyn who violated Church teachings by advocating contraception, dismissed her findings and did not investigate what caused the side effects, nor did they investigate the causes of the deaths that took place during the trials.
The pill killed women back before the pill was even "approved" in the U.S., and the pill continues to kill today. Why aren't we hearing more about this? Could it be because of the millions of dollars invested in contraception? There are still so many questions that are NOT answered about women's deaths. Investigations are not conducted to determine whether they might be caused by use of the pill or other hormonal contraceptives.
That is why we are protesting: to inform women of this dangerous poison! Join us on Saturday, June 6, along with pro-lifers across the country who will be participating in the largest protest ever against the birth control pill and other birth control products. Join us as we expose the sordid details surrounding the tragic effects these chemicals have on women. Join us in telling the truth about how the pill kills women. Visit www.thepillkills.com for details - and information you may not have known previously!
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(A Thought) "What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things.
But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful." - Mother Teresa****************************************
Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #425May 31, 2009
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Washington Sees First Person Die Under Second-in-Nation Assisted Suicide Law
2. Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion
3. Does Legalizing Abortion Abroad Protect Women's Health?
4. RU-486 - the little-known killer
5. Contraceptive hormone linked to breast cancer, teens at risk
6. McKim optimistic over euthanasia bill
7. Most Americans Believe Abortion is 'Almost Always a Bad Thing'
8. Adult stem cells cure child of sickle cell anemia
9. Baby Faith Dies at 93 Days - Doctors Had Pressured Mother to Abort
10. New Evangelical Documentary Exposes Abortifacient Qualities of the Birth Control Pill, Promotes NFP
11. Medical Professionals Deserve Conscience Rights on Abortion, Bioethics Practices
12. Dying The last great act of living
*******************************************************(reader request) Hello, Father Jerry, hope you are doing good. Just to thank you for the newsletter I receive from you. There is a lot to do and pray for... Also, to ask you to share our website address with any people you know speak or understands (or want to practice!) Spanish over there. Our radio program is not precisely on Bioethics exclusively, but we include prayers, Catholic poems, listen to Catholic music and make brief reflections in an effort to "fight" the culture of death. People can download programs for free.
Let's pray for each other,
Maria Elenawww.granitosdemostaza.trimilenio.net
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ITEM #1. Washington Sees First Person Die Under Second-in-Nation Assisted Suicide Law
Washington has now seen the first person die under state's the second-in-the-nation law legalizing the practice of assisted suicide. A 66-year-old woman from Sequim named Linda Fleming died Thursday night after taking a lethal cocktail prescribed to her by a physician under the law.
View full article at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/bio2855.html
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ITEM #2. Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion
Most pregnancies among girls under 18 ended in abortion last year. Out of around 40,000 pregnancies more than 20,000 were terminated - the first time more had chosen this option than become mothers.
View full article at Mail Online:
http://lifeissues.net/control_panel/news_info.php
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ITEM #3. Does Legalizing Abortion Abroad Protect Women's Health?
Analysis shows that modern medicine, not abortion, holds the key to reducing maternal mortality in the developing world.
View full article at citizenlink.org:
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000010076.cfm
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ITEM #4. RU-486 - the little-known killer
A new study shows that RU-486 increases the risk for surgical intervention to complete an abortion. The study shows that is the case in 17 to 23 percent of RU-486 cases. Dr. Donna Harrison, president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, tells OneNewsNow there was limited information available when the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug.
View full article at OneNewsNow:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=529650
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ITEM #5. Contraceptive hormone linked to breast cancer, teens at risk
A cancer awareness group says as schools pass out birth control to young girls, they are failing to notify them about an increased health risk.
View full article at OneNewsNow:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=540032
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ITEM #6. McKim optimistic over euthanasia bill
Grant Musgrave from St. Luke's Hospital says before MP's vote, they should be provided with more information about the benefits of palliative care. "We try and limit the fear out of death and dying and I don't think people have a full appreciation of what palliative care is about, and it may steer them away from euthanasia," he said.
See the full article at abc.net.au:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/26/2580767.htm
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ITEM #7. Most Americans Believe Abortion is 'Almost Always a Bad Thing'
Of the 68 percent who told polling company, inc./WomanTrend that they know someone who has had an abortion, 55 percent said the abortion was a negative experience while 33 percent said it was a positive experience. Moreover, 53 percent said they believe abortion is "almost always a bad thing" for a woman while 13 percent said it was "almost always a good thing." Twenty-one percent, meanwhile, said it was neither bad nor good and 13 percent said they do not know or refused to answer.
Article is located at Christian Post:
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090528/most-americans-believe-abortion-is-almost-always-a-bad-thing/index.html
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ITEM #8. Adult stem cells cure child of sickle cell anemia
Research using adult stem cells has saved the life of a Texas boy suffering from sickle cell anemia.
Article can be found at OneNewsNow:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=543298
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ITEM #9. Baby Faith Dies at 93 Days - Doctors Had Pressured Mother to Abort
Faith was born with a condition called anencephaly, in which a portion of the child's brain fails to fully develop. She defied the predictions of physicians by her level of health and full consciousness, and by living to 93 days.
View entire text at Life Site News:
http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=15916&N=172&L=1220&F=H
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ITEM #10. New Evangelical Documentary Exposes Abortifacient Qualities of the Birth Control Pill, Promotes NFP
A documentary called "28 Days on the Pill" has been released that seeks expose the abortifacient properties of the birth control pill. The documentary explains that many forms of birth control pills contain progesterone, which thins the endometrium, the walls of the uterus, which in turn causes it to become inhospitable to a newly conceived child. This inhospitality may cause a newly conceived human being not to implant in the endometrium and cause an abortion.
View entire text at Life Site News:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09052707.html
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ITEM #11. Medical Professionals Deserve Conscience Rights on Abortion, Bioethics Practices
We live in a culturally diverse society in which people vary greatly in their moral beliefs about the importance of human life. These profound differences are most bitterly expressed in the medical context, particularly with regard to issues such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, and other life and death policies and procedures.
Some of these practices - specifically abortion and assisted suicide - contravene explicit provisions of the Hippocratic Oath (at least as it has been understood traditionally).
Yet today, physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals whose moral beliefs prevent them from participating in these legal but ethically controversial acts, find themselves under increasing pressure to either violate their consciences or be driven out of their careers.
View entire text at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat5099.html
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ITEM #12. Dying The last great act of living
Ian Brown, who writes for the Globe and Mail, has a disabled son, Walker. Jean Vanier is the founder of L'Arche, a world-wide organization that provides a refuge and life-long home for intellectually disabled people. In their latest exchange of letters Brown asked Vanier, "Are you fearful of death?" Vanier replied, "No, I cannot say I am".
This letter brought to mind many issues that I struggled with in a speech I gave recently in Ottawa called, "Dying as the Last Great Act of Living". In it I explored the impact that legalizing euthanasia might have on the possibility of our experiencing death as such an act.
Some of the issues I examined were our fear of mystery and uncertainty, the nature of the "human spirit", what an ethics of respect for human potentiality and its fulfillment would require in our treatment of old or dying people, and the role of hope in our lives and death.
View entire text at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/euthanasia/eu0052.htm
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YOU CAN CHANGE SOCIETY:1. BE INFORMED: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. Visit Lifeissues.net Website for insights into current Life Issues www.lifeissues.net. All prior email Newsletters Archives are located online at http://lifeissues.net/newsletters/mojo.cgi?flavor=archive&list=lifenews&start=0
3. PRAY DAILY: for the courage to be God's presence in society and to strongly support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
4. BECOME INVOLVED: Several years ago Fr. Jerry created a project entitled, "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia". It is a project which appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is placed on reaching Asian Catholic Major Seminaries, Universities, Parishes, Hospitals and Family/Pro Life related groups. The lectures place emphasis on "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues Trends and Challenges".
For information about no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.
To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations to:
** Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI
** LifeIssues.net, Editor
** Akebono-cho 1-15-9
** Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
(or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824)
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U.S. student, 20, emerges as anti-abortion crusader
Thu May 28, 2009 8:53am EDT
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With a video camera hidden in her backpack, college student Lila Rose has become a rising star in the U.S. anti-abortion movement for her clandestine tactics in taking on Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions.
Rose stages her own sting operations at Planned Parenthood clinics, posing as a pregnant teenage girl to shine a light on what she says is the taxpayer-subsidized organization's cover-up of sexual abuse.
She claims Planned Parenthood counselors routinely ignore their duty to report statutory rape when dealing with young girls impregnated by older men and often tell them to lie about their age or the identity of their sex partners rather than alert authorities.
Rose, a 20-year-old history major at University of California, Los Angeles, posts the secretly obtained tapes on the website of her nonprofit group, LiveAction.org, prompting authorities in three states to launch investigations of Planned Parenthood.
"Planned Parenthood is looking at these young girls as a plumbing problem: 'We'll get you that abortion and send you on your way,'" Rose told Reuters in an interview. "And that's disrespecting two human lives. It's destroying her pre-born child and sending her back to an abuser."
A spokesman for Planned Parenthood declined to discuss the specific cases involving Rose but said the organization has strict policies and procedures regarding mandatory reporting and takes seriously laws protecting minors.
"In rare instances where health center employees violate those policies, immediate corrective action is taken," he said.
Thirty-six years after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the landmark Roe v. Wade case that termination of pregnancy was legal, abortion is still a bitterly debated social and political issue in the United States.
A Gallup poll conducted earlier this month showed 51 percent of Americans identified themselves as "pro-life."
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Because minors cannot legally consent to sex with an adult, health providers are required to alert authorities when an underage girl has been impregnated by an older man.
A grand jury in Marion County, Indiana, is investigating Planned Parenthood based on Rose's videotapes and authorities in Tennessee and Arizona say they are reviewing the matter.
Officials in Tennessee and Orange County, California, have considered suspending public funds to the organization.
Rose's activities have won her support from conservatives, anti-abortion activists and some child abuse experts and umbrage from abortion rights supporters -- at least one urging donations to Planned Parenthood in her name.
Planned Parenthood clinics have posted Rose's picture to alert workers and U.S. News and World Report blogger Bonnie Erbe demanded to know why she had not been arrested for trespassing or fraud.
Rose, who was raised in a large family in California and started LiveAction.Org at the age of 15, decided to conduct her own investigation after seeing Planned Parenthood sued by girls who said the clinics covered up their sexual abuse and reading a study that found that the practice was common.
Walking into two Los Angeles area Planned Parenthood clinics with a hidden video camera in March 2007, Rose, then 18, told the staff she was 15 and had been impregnated by her 23-year-old boyfriend.
She says the workers at the first center encouraged her to lie about her age so that they would not have to report statutory rape. At the second center, she says, counselors aggressively pushed her to have an abortion.
Since then, Rose has conducted stings at six other clinics, pretending to be a 13- or 14-year-old girl carrying the baby of a much older man. She says staff members at all six clinics told her they did not care about her age or would not report it and in three instances instructed her to lie.
"The laws are set up so that the children don't have to ask for help. It's the job of mandated reporters to be looking at this girl and figuring out her well being. Is she OK? Who is her sexual partner?" Rose said.
"And it's set up that way because these girls are dealing with shame, fear, manipulation. They can't say, 'Hey, he's 21, make the report please.'"
(Editing by John O'Calllaghan)
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On a Personal Note: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Abortion
These issues affect your life whether or not you realize it just yet.
by Faye Sonierhttp://www.christianity.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=6733
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Catholic Insight Magazine
Death notice of the Liberal PartyBy Fr. Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B.Issue: June 2009
May 14, 2009, has come and gone. I know many of
you will wonder why I mention this, as you did not read anything particular
about this date in your newspapers or saw any particular coverage on TV. The
media silence has been deafening.May 14th was the fortieth
anniversary of Pierre Trudeau's legislation making abortion (and
homosexual acts in private) legal in Canada. For the 12th year in a row
pro-lifers in Ontario and Quebec participated in the March for Life on
Parliament Hill, while in other provinces fellow workers have started to do the
same in their provincial capitals. In Ottawa, despite the rain and gusts of wind
which turned umbrellas inside out and almost blew away the young people holding
street-wide banners, the spirit was great. The 2008 record of 8,000 marchers was
replaced by 12,300 people this year, the large majority of them (75 to 80%)
under 25 years of age. Those above that age included twelve Catholic bishops,
including Cardinal Ouellet of Quebec City and the Archbishops of Ottawa,
Kingston and Toronto, together with another eight bishops, including the retired
bishop of Amos, Quebec.In Winnipeg, Man., 140 people showed up including
retired Archbishop Peter Sutton; in Regina, Saskatchewan, 700 people came,
including Archbishop Daniel Bohan and bishops Legatt and Bayda of Sasktoon; in
Edmonton, Alberta, 400 people joined with the four bishops of Alberta; in
Victoria, British Columbia, 2,000 pro-lifers with Archbishop Miller and the
bishops of Victoria, Kamloops and Westminster.In the East, in New
Brunswick the 400 witnesses to life from conception to natural death included 18
Members of the provincial Legislative Assembly (MLAs) as well as the Bishop of
St. John, Robert Harris. Newfoundland had 40 people and Nova Scotia 350, for a
grand-total well over 16,000.In Ottawa the day opened with church
services, for Catholics at Notre Dame Cathedral with 900 faithful, with an
overflow crowd of 300 in the basement, and another 800 people at St. Patrick's
Basilica. The day concluded with the customary Rose dinner for 1000 in the main
dining hall and another 250 in another room. There, the large majority again
were young pro-lifers. Salt and Light TV recorded the day for a DVD
presentation to be shown sometime in July.The
media, as mentioned, were silent despite efforts to bring them
on stream. Campaign Life Toronto called several contacts at the CBC. By accident
a CBC interior memo reached these contacts which instructed employees not to
answer return calls "as the event is of no consequence." So much for the atheist
view.In Ontario, there was indeed no coverage of the March at all.
There was one small photo in Toronto's free paper Metro, and a very tiny piece
with an equally tiny insignificant photo of three people shouting, in the
Ottawa Citizen. That was it!There were two articles, one in
the National Post by Michael Coren and one by Gloria Galloway in the
Globe and Mail on the same date as the March itself, May 14.
Coren recalled some basic facts about the pre-born child and the mother
(the two have different DNAs) and noted that in eleven years of the March for
Life not a single act of violence had taken place, with the crowds singing and
praying.The Globe headed its article "Forty years later,
abortion debate rages on," with the subtitle, "On anniversary of procedure's
legalization in Canada, thousands expected to protest on Parliament Hill." It
then accompanied the story with a 1984 photo of a smiling Henry Morgentaler and
a dozen supporters shouting and waving their hands in the air (presumably after
Morgentaler's acquittal by a jury of illegally opening an abortuary in Toronto.
It was, of course, illegal but the jury had been cleverly pre-selected by
Morgentaler's lawyer Morris Manning).On the following day, May 15, the
National Post printed a large photo of a section of the crowd in rain
gear and umbrellas. One day after that, May 16, Rory Leishman, columnist of the
London Free Press, was able to publish a well-written commentary on the
40th anniversary in that paper under the title "Social chaos awaits unless
Parliament restores restraint." He emphasized future disastrous social and
economic consequences of divorce, abortion and contraceptives all enacted by the
"great" Pierre Trudeau and his Liberal Cabinet.Let me close on a Liberal
note. On May 13, Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff issued the statement:
"It is the longstanding view of the Liberal
Party of Canada that women must have the right to choose and this party will
take no step that limits, or opens the door to limiting access to safe medical
services for women across Canada."I will not now comment on
"right to choose" and "safe medical services," after three and a half million
babies have been slaughtered and tens of thousands of women suffer from the
after-effects. It seems to me that Ignatieff has just written the death notice
of the Liberal Party.
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The abortion issue we're ignoring
Barbara Kay, National Post
Last week's murder of Dr. George Tiller, probably the world's most committed abortion provider, evoked a storm of emotive rhetoric from familiar antagonists in the never-quite-dormant abortion debate over "rights." Those advocating for an unborn child's right to live once again faced off against those advocating for a woman's right to terminate a life within her own body.
There's a third side to the debate that gets short media shrift: emerging knowledge about medical risks surrounding induced abortion (IA). Throughout 40 years of highly publicized ideological squabbling, researchers in the field of human reproduction have been quietly beavering away on mounting epidemiological data around IA and its link to preterm birth (PTB) in a future pregnancy. Recent findings in their research remind us of a "right" generally observed in the breach: the right of women seeking safe abortions to informed consent.
Approximately 100,000 abortions are performed annually in Canada (30 per 100 live births), about a million in the U. S. and some 14 million worldwide, a significant percentage of them repeats (in the U. S. 46%). These are conservative figures: The U. S. National Survey of Family Growth estimates only six of 10 prior IAs are reported.
A fullterm birth is 37-42 weeks' gestation, so all PTBs are under 37 weeks. "Very preterm birth" (VPT) is under 33 weeks; "extreme preterm birth" (XPT) signifies under 28 weeks. Not in dispute: PTB presents a heightened risk for birth defects, and that risk escalates dramatically with VPT and XPT.
The most feared deficits are grouped under the acronym MACE: mental retardation, autism (according to a 2008 Norwegian study, XPT newborns are 10 times as likely as fullterm to be diagnosed with autism), cerebral palsy and epilepsy. So whatever reduces the risk of preterm birth will result in human and material benefit to stricken families and society alike.
Four important peer-reviewed studies in the 21st century confirm "immutable medical risk factors"
for PTB in pregnancies linked to a prior IA.
In 2004 emeritus French ob/gyn professor Emile Papiernik co-authored a European human reproduction study, reporting that: i)Women who had one prior IA had 34% higher relative odds of a VPT birth compared to women with no prior IAs; and ii) Women with more than one prior IA had an 82% higher relative odds of a VPT birth.
In 2007 Dr. Greg Alexander of the U. S. Institutes of Medicine (a branch of the National Academy of Sciences) identified a "prior first trimester induced abortion" as an "immutable medical risk factor associated with preterm birth."
In a 2008 Lancet article, three top researchers in reproductive medicine (Drs. Jay Iams, Robert Romero and Robert L. Goldenberg) expressed hope that "greater public and professional awareness of evidence that repeated uterine instrumentation--e. g. uterine curettage [including "suction" abortion] or endometrial biopsy -- is associated with increased risk of subsequent preterm birth might over time influence [government] decision-making about the procedure."
Finally, we have the February, 2009, Journal of Reproductive Medicine "Swingle study," named for Dr. Hanes Swingle, the chief researcher behind the first comprehensive meta-analysis of IA's link to PTB and VPT risk. After screening 7,891 titles, 349 abstracts and 130 articles mentioning induced or spontaneous abortions between 1995-2007, Swingle concludes: "Our meta-analyses indicate that there is an increased risk of PTB after either spontaneous or induced abortion in both case-control and cohort studies."
In a 2007 article in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Dr. Byron Calhoun et al estimated there were 1,096 annual excess cases of Cerebral Palsy in U. S. newborns under 3.5 lbs that can be directly traced to a prior IA, a finding "that has never been challenged via a letter to the editor." Assuming the usual 10% ratio in Canada vis-a-vis the U. S., that would suggest the possibility of about 100 such cases annually in Canada.
Given the accessibility of these studies to abortion providers, if I were the mother of a post-IA, PTB infant or toddler with autism or cerebral palsy, and had not been informed as a matter of regulatory course of IA's risk for a future PTB, I'd be angry. Litigiously so.
Perhaps it's time we stepped back from the ideological "whether" of abortion, and introduced the evidence-based "whither" of abortion into the national discussion. As an ice-breaker, we might begin at legal abortion's beginning by asking why, uniquely amongst surgical interventions, suction abortion -- the most common method -- has never been animal-tested, a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code for research ethics in human experimentation.
Abortion on demand: empowerment -- or bamboozlement -- of women?
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