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- 4-D Image Of Unborn Baby – July 11, 2009
- 40 Days Halifax Newsletter – July 9, 2009
- Aging Population Cannot Be Stopped Without Reducing Abortions – July 4, 2009
- Amnesty International Tars Poland Over Abortion Access – July 12, 2009
- British Doctors Oppose Assisted Suicide – July 2, 2009
- Euthanasia Bill A Threat To Canadians – July 11, 2009
- LifeIssues.Net Newsletter #429 – June 28, 2009
- LifeIssues.Net Newsletter #431 – July 12, 2009
- Obama Administration Calls For Universal Access To Abortion At UN – July 2, 2009
- Pope's New Encyclical Calls For Openness To Human Life – July 9, 2009
- Pro Life Pharmacist Wanted - Do Not Post On Web Site
- Rise And Fall Of The Christian Coalition, Cohabitation Bad For Marriage – July 10, 2009
- Smiling Unborn Child – July 6, 2009
News Archives.htm from 2003 to the present.
1. 4-D Image Of Unborn Baby – July 11, 2009Amazing Video Clip – National Geographic: 4D Ultrasound of Unborn Baby
http://arpacanada.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=633&Itemid=58
2 40 Days Halifax Newsletter – July 9, 2009
Upcoming Events July 9, 2009
In This Issue
Why join 40 Days for Life?
First meeting
Spread the word, web link to Halifax blogGreetings!
...abortion has always been around. So have other sins. But we live today in a culture of abortion, which enshrines it in law, celebrates it as a right, and resorts to it with an alarming frequency that surpasses every other act of violence. That is something that can be turned around. A culture can be created in which abortion is not only illegal, but unthinkable. We can bring society to the point where, both in theory and practice, it regards abortion as it regards slavery today. We can end abortion because the Lord has promised that "the gates of the netherworld will not prevail against (the Church)". "The Church will survive all the attacks launched against her," and certainly that is true. But in a battle, a gate does not run out into the battlefield to attack the enemy. Rather, the gate stands still and defends the city against the enemy attacking! When the Lord says the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, He means that the Church is taking the initiative and storming the gates! Those gates of hell cannot withstand the power of heaven; gates of sin melt in the presence of saving grace; gates of death fall in the presence of eternal life; gates of falsehood collapse in the presence of living truth; gates of violence fall in the presence of divine love. Abortion, indeed, will flee in the presence of the People of Life! – Father Frank Pavone, Priests for Life USAWhy Join 40 Days for Life? 40 Days for Life is our opportunity to push back against the gates of hell in this city. It is our peaceful prayerful presence on South Park Street that will cause people to examine their consciences about abortion. Many people, especially under the age of 20, haven't even thought about the morality or immorality of abortion. When they walk past us on South Park Street, this may be the very first time that they have given abortion serious thought. That is certainly the case for the many Chinese students who have just come to Canada to study, from a country where abortion is mandated for women. Our prayers rise to God for the babies and the mothers who are in the hospital, for the hospital staff who are misguided in thinking that abortion is the solution to an unwanted pregnancy. And our physical presence is a witness to the city of Halifax that the great evil of abortion is going on right there in that hospital with such regularity. 1700 abortions annually, which means an average of 6-7 abortions every day every week of the year. As Christians, we cannot simply stand by and say and do nothing about this evil that plays God with human beings. Abortion is man's deciding that he can determine who will get to live or die; man usurps God's place in the universe. This is why we must join in prayer and ask God to bring an end to abortion in our country. How can we ask for any blessings from God if we overlook the fact that His creation is being terminated in every city in every province in this country to the tune of 100,000 babies per year? 40 Days for Life has awakened the sleeping Body of Christ and people in 240 cities have responded to the call to prayer. Over 200,000 people have become active in 40 Days vigils and the visible result is that 1,561 babies have been spared from being killed. This makes 40 Days for Life the longest and largest pro-life movement in history.
God is inviting YOU to join in this movement of the Holy Spirit. Quietly take a moment and search your heart and listen to what God might be calling you to do.
First Meeting for 40 Days for Life Wednesday, August 5, 7 pm St. Thomas Aquinas Church Hall, Cornwall Street (just behind the church on Oxford Street) Parking in the lot behind the hall and on the streets around. We will have a meeting for anyone who would like to know more about the upcoming fall campaign. Everyone who took part in last fall's vigil is invited to come and there will be some time for sharing your experience with others. This is an excellent opportunity to come and see if God is calling you to take part in this fall's vigil. No commitment is required at this meeting. It is simply a come-and-see-what-this-is-all-about. We will show a current video from the headquarters, that will show what a vigil is like. And you will be able to ask any questions you may have about the campaign. Please attend and bring a friend with you.
Spread the Word
Last year, we had approximately 150 people taking part in the vigil. This year, we would like to double that number. This will ensure that we have more people at the site during every hour of prayer. It is much easier to be there when you have a few people with you. All that is asked is one hour of prayer at the site per week. Not hard to do, and we will give you all the support you need. A survey of last year's vigil showed that 93% of the people who took part, experienced growth in their spiritual life through their participation in 40 Days. If we take one small step towards God, He will take two or more towards us. I have personally found this to be true. Please forward this email to anyone who might be interested. And send them this web site address:
http://www.40daysforlifehalifax.blogspot.com.3. Aging Population Cannot Be Stopped Without Reducing Abortions – July 4, 2009
London Free Press
Rory Leishman
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Major cut in abortions essential
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Columnists/Leishman_Rory/2009/07/04/10023441-sun.html
As the baby-boom generation begins to retire, the ratio of Canadians over age 65 to those of working age (the old-age dependency ratio) is set to grow so rapidly the costs of sustaining retirees threaten to reduce the rate of growth in Canada's national standard of living.What can be done? Robin Banerjee and William Robson of the C. D. Howe Institute have addressed this issue in an illuminating report released Thursday: Faster, Younger, Richer? The Fond Hope and Sobering Reality of Immigration's Impact on Canada's Demographic and Economic Future.
It might be supposed immigration will offset the growing burden of the aging population. This year alone, Canada is expected to take in an additional 245,000 immigrants. With the exception of Australia, Canada maintains much the highest ratio of immigrants to population in the industrialized world.
Nonetheless, Banerjee and Robson estimate even if the extraordinarily high rate of net immigration into Canada is retained, the old-age dependency ratio will more than double to 46.3% in 2057. That's up from 21.5% this year and less than 15% in 1977.
Is even more immigration the answer? Definitely not. Banerjee and Robson project if Parliament were to rely on an increase in the pattern of immigration to stop population aging, Canada would have to take in such a colossal number of additional immigrants the total national population would reach 210 million in 2058.
That's out of the question. No conceivable amount of immigration can prevent a rapid and burdensome growth in the aging of Canada's population.
An increase in the age of retirement would help. Most Canadians at age 70 are no less fit today than were most Canadian workers at age 65 a few decades ago.
Banerjee and Robson conclude a gradual increase in the normal retirement to age 70 would significantly reduce the rise in the old-age dependency ratio; but only temporarily. It's likely that within 15 years, the proportion of elderly dependants would resume a steadily upward trend.
There can be no lasting solution to the multiplying difficulties posed by Canada's aging population short of dealing with the fundamental underlying problem – namely, the devastating collapse in the national fertility rate over the past 40 years. In 2005, the average number of children per woman in Canada was just 1.54 – far below the ratio of 2.1 that is necessary to sustain the population.
Banerjee and Robson have considered the combined effects of a gradual increase in both the age of retirement to age 70 and the national fertility rate to 2.1. The results are encouraging: Other factors remaining the same, the old-age dependency ratio would remain well below 30%.
Banerjee and Robson do not suggest how Parliament and the provincial legislatures might encourage a rise in the national fertility rate. However, at least one part of the solution is obvious: A major reduction in the catastrophic increase in abortions over the past 40 years.
According to Statistics Canada, there were 28.3 induced abortions for every 100 live births in Canada in 2005, down from a peak of 32.2 in 1998. While the downward trend is encouraging, it's hardly sufficient.
Our politicians will have to take decisive action to curb abortion. Few reforms could do more to eliminate a huge amount of suffering and death.
Moreover, as Banerjee and Robson point out, boosting fertility rates could also play a key role in holding down the rate of increase in old-age dependency that threatens the economic prosperity of Canadians.
Write Rory at The London Free Press, P.O. Box 2280, London, Ont. N6A 4G1 or fax 519-667-4528 or E-mail rleishman@sympatico.ca.
4. Amnesty International Tars Poland Over Abortion Access – July 12, 2009
Dear Colleague,
We report today on the just released annual report from the now pro-abortion group Amnesty International. The report salutes a pro-abortion decision against Poland by the European Court of Human Rights.
We also report on the new annual report from the pro-abortion UN Population Fund. Once more their annual report is almost all about reproductive health, which to UNFPA and her allies means abortion.
Spread the word.
Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President
PS. Remember to register for the World Congress of Families. To register in US dollars click here and in Euros click here.
Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access – By Piero A. Tozzi
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty's continued campaign to advance a "right" to abortion globally. In its entry on Poland, Amnesty raps the country for its alleged "Denial of access to abortion for eligible women," citing criticism that Poland received from the Human Rights Council (HRC) in May 2008. It further faulted the government for failing to implement a 2007 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Tysiąc v. Poland, concerning a purported "duty to establish effective mechanisms for ensuring women have access to abortion where it is legal." Read more.
New UNFPA Annual Report Prioritizes "Reproductive Health" – By Samantha Singson
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report for 2008, highlighting the organization's work on maternal health and its "continued efforts to ensure the universal access to reproductive health and the right of all people to decide the number and timing of their children." Though UNFPA refuses to subject its books to an independent audit and also refuses to share specific budget reporting to its board of directors, its annual report asserts that in 2008, almost half of UNFPA's program expenses went to "reproductive health" programs, at a cost of $165.1 million, up from $146.6 million the previous year. Read more.
Editor in Chief – Austin Ruse
Managing Editor – Piero Tozzi
Assistant Managing Editor – Hannah Russo
Chief Correspondent – Samantha Singson
Contributors – Susan Yoshihara / Katharina RothweilerCopyright © 2009 Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required.
5. British Doctors Oppose Assisted Suicide – July 2, 2009
Medical News Today – July 2/09: Doctors have reaffirmed their opposition to assisted suicide following a debate at the BMA's Annual Conference in Liverpool yesterday. Doctors rejected calls from Thameside doctor, Kailash Chand to change legislation to allow the choice of an assisted death by patients who are terminally ill and who have mental capacity.
Continue reading this article here:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156066.php.6. Euthanasia Bill A Threat To Canadians – July 11, 2009
Press Release For Immediate Release – June 25, 2009
Euthanasia Bill a Threat to Canadians
Euthanasia should not be permitted in Canada because the practice would put at risk Canadians who are already in a weak position, says a B.C.-based educational organization.
“This issue is very troubling,” says Yvonne Douma, Executive Director of Signal Hill. “It would place many Canadians who are vulnerable through illness, depression or disability to the risk of making an irreversible, life-threatening choice.”
In May of this year, Quebec Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde introduced Bill C-384, a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. It proposes adding an amendment to the Criminal Code, exempting from criminal prosecution doctors who help a patient to die. Those eligible for euthanasia would be at least 18 years of age. They would suffer from terminal illness or "experience severe physical or mental pain without any prospect of relief," whether or not they had received treatment.
Signal Hill is a human rights organization that provides women and families with supportive education on life issues, helping them make informed and life-affirming decisions.
The group believes that a medical culture that views euthanasia as a legitimate treatment for pain and terminal illness will effectively undermine the commitment to care that all physicians must have.
“In these trying economic times, will those who are ill or disabled feel a subtle pressure to save the system from the burden of caring for them?” Douma asks. “There is no assurance that ‘safeguards’ will eradicate abuse by physicians. We need to err on the side of life and never take the chance of granting a privileged few the power to take it.”
For more information on the issue contact us at 604-853-3425 or visit our web-site at www.thesignalhill.com.
7. LifeIssues.Net Newsletter #429 – June 28, 2009
LifeIssues.Net Newsletter #429 – June 28, 2009
Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.LifeIssues.net)
Dear Friends for Life,
Girl Shortage Becoming a Reality: India offers money to prevent "Girl Abortions". The government has begun to offer 3,000 USD to poor families for each new female birth. This is in response to the fact that today only 927 girls are born for every 1,000 boys, with the missing girls being killed by abortion or infanticide. In Punjab, it is 793 girls. The government money will be paid in increments. The girls must be immunized, educated, have proper nutrition and avoid marriage until the age of eighteen. At that time, a lump sum of 2,500 USD will be paid.
Good News: Most Doctors Now Oppose Abortion: A major nationwide survey in the U.S. by the University of Chicago has turned up interesting results. 52% of doctors oppose abortion, and an additional 29% say they would not refer a patient for an abortion. Among these, 14% said that they did not believe that they were required to tell a patient about all treatment options when it comes to morally objectionable procedures such is abortion.
God Bless, Jerry Novotny, OMI(Quote) "Obtaining multi-potent stem cells from discarded fallopian tubes is yet another example of the extraordinary potential of human waste tissue. Hopefully these cells could also be used to repair damaged fallopian tubes, which are so often a major contributor to female infertility." – Josephine Quintavalle
LifeIssues.Net Newsletter #429 – June 28, 2009
Table Of Contents:
1. Britain To Advertise Abortion To Youngsters
2. Is Late-Term Abortion Ever Necessary?
3. One Family's Experience Of War
4. Mike Huckabee Blasts False Notion That Common Ground Exists In Abortion Debate
5. Obama Scraps President's Bioethics Council After Forcing Embryonic Tax-Funding
6. Seoul, Doctors Pull The Plug On A Woman In A Coma. First Case Of "Passive Euthanasia"
7. The Return Of Anti-People Propaganda
8. World's 65 And Older Population To Triple By 2050
9. Watch Out For Myths About Fatherhood
10. Woman Died Of DVT After Taking Contraceptive Pill
11. Adult Stem Cells Are A Promising Market
12. The Abortion Issue We're IgnoringFocus On Asia: "World hunger 'hits one billion'" – One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the UN.
('Dozens dead' in Pakistan clashes) – At least 44 people have died in a series of clashes between government forces and Taliban militants in north-west Pakistan, the military says.
(Burmese jailed for Suu Kyi prayer) – A court in Burma has sentenced two supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in prison after they prayed for her release.
Item #1. Britain To Advertise Abortion To Youngsters
Britain – the country with the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe – comes the proposal to advertise abortion providers on TV before 9 p.m. Will the British government ever get it?View full article at Spero News.
Item #2. Is Late-Term Abortion Ever Necessary?
In the aftermath of the killing of George Tiller, the Kansas abortionist, on May 31, 2009, we have heard praises of his compassion and courage in performing late-term abortions. But is late-term abortion (or any abortion) ever really necessary? Does the demise of a clinic performing late-term abortions leave a "void" that is harmful to women?View full article at Family Research Council.
Item #3. One Family's Experience Of War
Some days ago, I went to a hospital in Peshawar to meet people from North West Frontier Province's Swat district who had been injured and who subsequently lost their homes. Their stories do not make the headlines, unlike the number of displaced or the number of combatants killed. But they are part of our human story.I had not clearly pictured in my mind what I would see when I went to the hospital. I expected amputations and fractures. Instead, I saw bodies completely burned, open wounds, children's faces that had lost their pigmentation, a baby's burned feet. I heard the crying of women and children in pain.
Sapla is a young mother from Balogram in the Swat Valley whose family used to raise dairy cattle and other livestock. The 25-year-old is in a hospital room with her three surviving children. Her back and breasts are cracked with severe burns. She has open wounds on her legs and arms and her face is bruised. A 16-year-old sister-in-law speaks to herself in one corner, incoherent with pain.
View full article at UNHCR.
Item #4. Mike Huckabee Blasts False Notion That Common Ground Exists In Abortion Debate
Huckabee said that abortion advocates don't want to give an inch in the abortion debate by accepting even modest limits on abortion such as parental notification, which would allow parents to know when their daughters are considering the life-altering decision.View full article at LifeNews.com.
Item #5. Obama Scraps President's Bioethics Council After Forcing Embryonic Tax-Funding
The President's Council on Bioethics is no more. With a one-day notice, the members were told in a letter from the President that their services were no longer required. Pack up, get out. Forget the fact that they had a couple of interesting reports coming out soon, one more meeting, and that the Council's tenure would expire come this September.
View full article at LifeNews.com.Item #6. Seoul, Doctors Pull The Plug On A Woman In A Coma. First Case Of "Passive Euthanasia"
The Yonsei Severance Hospital in Seoul has removed the artificial respirator that kept alive a woman of 77 years, known as Kim, who has been in a comatose state since February 2008 following a hemorrhage caused by unsuccessful lung surgery. It is the first case of "mercy killing" in South Korea. Doctors carried out the ruling passed last May 21 by the Supreme Court, following a long legal battle between relatives of the woman and the clinic.See the full article at AsiaNews.it.
Item #7. The Return Of Anti-People Propaganda
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals, is a mishmash of justifications for the powerful of the world to continue to dictate the fertility of the powerless. It is even illustrated, in Science magazine's summary of the report, with a picture of a starving African child, presumably to drive home the authors' view that there are already too many Africans.Article is located at LifeIssues.net.
Item #8. World's 65 And Older Population To Triple By 2050
The world's 65-and-older population will triple by mid-century to 1 in 6 people, leaving the U.S. and other nations struggling to support the elderly.The number of senior citizens has already jumped 23 percent since 2000 to 516 million, according to census estimates released on Tuesday. That's more than double the growth rate for the general population.
The world's population has been graying for many years due to declining births and medical advances that have extended life spans. As the fastest-growing age group, seniors now comprise just under 8 percent of the world's 6.8 billion people. But demographers warn the biggest shift is yet to come. They cite a coming wave of retirements from baby boomers and China's Red Guard generation that will shrink pensions and add to rising health care costs.
Germany, Italy, Japan and Monaco have the most senior citizens, with 20 percent or more of their people 65 and older.
Article can be found at google.com.Item #9. Watch Out For Myths About Fatherhood
The role of the father is increasingly problematic in the context of modern American culture. Fatherhood has been marginalized and the rule and authority of fathers have been depreciated, ridiculed, and continuously redefined. From the Berenstain Bears to The Simpsons, fathers are all too often the object of ridicule or the subject of the laugh line.View entire text at AlbertMohler.com.
Item #10. Woman Died Of DVT After Taking Contraceptive Pill
A woman has died of a blood clot after taking hormonal birth control, an inquest has heard. Helen Schofield died three months after switching from one type of contraceptive pill to another, Dianette. A spokesman for Bayer, the pill's manufacturer, said the risk of a blood clot was "slightly increased" for any form of contraceptive pill.View entire text at Mail Online.
Item #11. Adult Stem Cells Are A Promising Market
When it comes to stem cells, the public – and the media – tend to focus on embryos. But researchers and analysts say marketable therapies already are emerging from less controversial work with adult stem cells.
Adult cells make up the lion's share of the stem cell space, mainly because they are easier to come by than embryonic cells, and less expensive to run in clinical trials. They are also derived from mature tissue, like bone marrow or umbilical cord blood, so they avoid the ethical debate that surrounds embryonic stem cells.
View entire text at Fortune.Item #12. The Abortion Issue We're Ignoring
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?View full article at CERC.
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 .
2. 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.
3. 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 atjerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.
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OMI Site: http://www.omijapankorea.net/index.html.8. LifeIssues.Net Newsletter #431 – July 12, 2009
Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.LifeIssues.net)
Dear Friends for Life,
Embryonic Stem Cells Cause Brain Tumor – Stem cells taken from a fetus (with different DNA) were injected into the brain of an Israel boy suffering from lethal ataxia telangiectasia. These injected cells caused a slow growing brain tumor as well as a second spinal cord tumor. The brain tumor continues to grow.
Stem Cells Help Diabetes and Broken Jaw Bone – A study in Brazil published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) used the patient's own adult stem cells to treat Type I Diabetes. The study reported that most of these patients now no longer need insulin and this during a minimum eighteen-month follow up.
Another success with adult stem cells was in Korea. Doctors there have re-grown a patient's jaw bone using his own adult stem cells. The jaw bone and most of his teeth had been removed in removing a tumor. His own stem cells were taken from his own bone marrow, which were then "multiplied and specialized" to form an osteoblast, a bone forming cell. These were injected into the impaired part and after six months to a year new bone material has grown to fill the gap.
God Bless, Jerry Novotny, OMI
(Please vote:) "Yes, people who help others commit suicide should he held criminally responsible", in this online poll concerning the case of Travis Kirchner who has been charged with assisting the suicide of his mom. Go to: http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12728048?source=most_emailed
LifeIssues.net Newsletter #431 – July 12, 2009
Table Of Contents:
1. China's Getting Old Fast
2. Study: Abortion Has More Negative Parenting Impact Than Pregnancy Loss
3. When A Celebrity Dies The Nation Mourns, But When A Baby Dies From Abortion...
4. Ending The Scourge Of Prison Rape
5. Pope's Letter Calls For Openness To Human Life
6. Reversing The Deculturation Of Fatherhood
7. Scientists Create Human Sperm From Embryonic Stem Cells, Destroy Human Life
8. Sense Of Family Obligation Healthy For Teens
9. Scientists Claim Sperm 'First'
10. 'Absolutely Vile' Advice Column Tells Men How To Pressure Pregnant Women To Abort
11. Nitschke Expand On Euthanasia Beliefs
12. Abortion: Killing Off More Than The UnbornFocus On Asia: "SC notice to Centre on Delhi HC verdict on gay sex" – The petition filed by Kaushal sought quashing of July 2 verdict of the High Court legalizing gay sex between consenting adults in private, which was earlier a criminal offence punishable with up to life imprisonment. The petition contended that homosexual acts, by all standards, were "unnatural" and could not be permitted. "No one can imagine the consequences of the unnatural acts. Even animals don't indulge in such activities," he said in his petition.
He said the High Court judgement would result in spread of HIV virus as "it has been amply proven" that the infection was contracted through such sexual acts. "We have to look at our own scriptures to seek guidance from them and they are against such behaviour in our society. If such abnormality is permitted, then tomorrow people might seek permission for having sex with animals," he argued.
Item #1. China's Getting Old Fast
Demographic trends present some interesting challenges to global economies – as well as profitable opportunities for us investors. There's the lack of population growth in Japan and retiring baby boomers in the U.S., for example. Now it seems we can add China to the list.View full article at The Motley Fool.
Item #2. Study: Abortion Has More Negative Parenting Impact Than Pregnancy Loss
"In many cases, women may suppress thoughts and emotions related to an abortion, because they have not been able to process and or/openly express negative emotions," Coleman wrote, adding that the lack of acknowledgement and support after abortion gives the "covert message that others would rather not hear what we have to say, and this makes it difficult to even identify our reactions to our losses."View full article at LifeNews.com.
Item #3. When A Celebrity Dies The Nation Mourns, But When A Baby Dies From Abortion...
It appears that when a celebrity dies the entire nation mourns but when 50 million unborn children die the nation pretends it didn't happen. Abortion has since 1973 taken the lives of over 50 million unborn children. Abortion today takes the lives of 1.3 million unborn children every year. 3,300 every day. One every 25 seconds. Where is the public mourning for these lives?View full article at LifeNews.com.
Item #4. Ending The Scourge Of Prison Rape
I awoke one morning last month to read the lead editorial in the Washington Post. The editors were praising the new report of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, established to eliminate the worst horror an inmate can endure.View full article at BreakPoint.
Item #5. Pope's Letter Calls For Openness To Human Life
Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical letter, "On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth", discusses a wide spectrum of social realities, among them the need for openness to new human life, which, he says, "is at the centre of true development", and protection of the family founded on "marriage between a man and a woman, the primary vital cell of society". Here are some excerpts from Chapter II.View full article at MercatorNet.com.
Item #6. Reversing The Deculturation Of Fatherhood
Being freed from the "fetters" of fatherhood means that we neither know who we are nor where we are going. Fatherhood gives us both our identity as well as our destiny.See the full article at CERC.
Item #7. Scientists Create Human Sperm From Embryonic Stem Cells, Destroy Human Life
British scientists have used embryonic stem cells to create human sperm and made a breakthrough that they say will / could revolutionize fertility treatment. However, their discovery couldn't have been accomplished without the destruction of a unique human being and is drawing heat because of it.Article is located at LifeNews.com.
Item #8. Sense Of Family Obligation Healthy For Teens
Children of immigrants often excel as students because their parents have very high expectations of them and make sacrifices to ensure they get the best opportunities. Now a study of Chinese-American youths shows that they have another advantage over their peers: they tend to have better mental health than average in their mid-teens. The reason highlighted by the study is their sense of obligation to their families – caring for siblings or helping elders, for example.Article can be found at MercatorNet.com.
Item #9. Scientists Claim Sperm 'First'
Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first.
View entire text at BBC News.Item #10. 'Absolutely Vile' Advice Column Tells Men How To Pressure Pregnant Women To Abort
A men's advice column advising men how to encourage their pregnant girlfriends to abort provides an unsettling glimpse into the realities of abortion. One pro-life leader characterized the column, which highlights some men's personal desires to avoid the burdens of parenthood, as "a primer for coerced abortion."View entire text at CAN.
Item #11. Nitschke Expand On Euthanasia Beliefs
Philip Nitschke says he no longer believes voluntary euthanasia should only be available to the terminally ill but that elderly people afraid of getting old and incapacitated should also have a choice.The controversial campaigner made the comment on Wednesday at a public forum in Perth, where he spoke before about 100 mostly elderly people about strategies "for a peaceful death", including his Exit Euthanasia Drug Test Kit.
View entire text at theage.com.au.
Item #12. Abortion: Killing Off More Than The Unborn
We have sold our unborn children for our pleasures, and along with it we have sold the soul of our country.View full article at Catholic Online.
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2. 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.
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Friday Fax – July 2, 2009,
http://www.elabs3.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=ebss,115q4,4t6x,63ar,sk0,b1hb,hw27Dear Colleague,
The Obama administration that claims to want to reduce the need for abortion and to reach common group with pro-lifers has called for universal access to abortion at the UN this week. This is so controversial that it has placed a UN negotiation in a huge fight and broken apart the European Union.
We also report on the World Health Organization and their monkeying around with maternal mortality numbers to make it seem that maternal mortality is on par with the top killers in the world like cancer and heart disease. Their purpose in raising maternal mortality to such a high level is to make abortion legal and available. Abortion is their answer to maternal mortality. There is no other reason than ideological ones for the attempt by the WHO to politicize health numbers.
Spread the word.
Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President
Obama Administration Calls for Universal Access to Abortion at UN Meeting – By Samantha Singson
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At United Nations (UN) headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil. The US proposal calls for “universal access” to “sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning.” The document under consideration will culminate in the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, which convenes next week in Geneva. The sticking point for many delegations and what has driven apart the usual solid European bloc is the use of the word “services” in the context of “reproductive health.” Read more.
Recent WHO Report Presents Skewed Data to Advance Abortion Agenda – By Elizabeth Walsh
(WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) In its recently released annual report on the state of global health, the World Health Organization (WHO) presents statistics that misleadingly appear to place maternal mortality on par with other global killers like malaria and HIV/ AIDS. This new approach contradicts other WHO reports where maternal mortality does not even make the top ten of global killers, ranking somewhere lower than car accident fatalities. Read more.
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10. Pope's New Encyclical Calls For Openness To Human Life – July 9, 2009Joanne Byfield: jbyfield@cruzinternet.com
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:02 AM
lbyfield@ccfd.ca
From Mercatornet, Carolyn Moynihan
https://mail.ctstv.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.mercatornet.com/sections/author_page/popes_letter_calls_for_openness_to_human_life/Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical letter, “On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth”
https://mail.ctstv.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html, discusses a wide spectrum of social realities, among them the need for openness to new human life, which, he says, “is at the centre of true development”, and protection of the family founded on “marriage between a man and a woman, the primary vital cell of society”. Here are some excerpts from Chapter II:
28. One of the most striking aspects of development in the present day is the important question of /respect for life, which cannot in any way be detached from questions concerning the development of peoples. It is an aspect which has acquired increasing prominence in recent times, obliging us to broaden our concept of poverty and underdevelopment to include questions connected with the acceptance of life, especially in cases where it is impeded in a variety of ways.
Not only does the situation of poverty still provoke high rates of infant mortality in many regions, but some parts of the world still experience practices of demographic control, on the part of governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose abortion. In economically developed countries, legislation contrary to life is very widespread, and it has already shaped moral attitudes and praxis, contributing to the spread of an anti-birth mentality; frequent attempts are made to export this mentality to other States as if it were a form of cultural progress.
Some non-governmental Organizations work actively to spread abortion, at times promoting the practice of sterilization in poor countries, in some cases not even informing the women concerned. Moreover, there is reason to suspect that development aid is sometimes linked to specific health-care policies which /de facto/ involve the imposition of strong birth control measures. Further grounds for concern are laws permitting euthanasia as well as pressure from lobby groups, nationally and internationally, in favour of its juridical recognition.
Openness to life is at the centre of true development. When a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man's true good. If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away [67]. The acceptance of life strengthens moral fiber and makes people capable of mutual help. By cultivating openness to life, wealthy peoples can better understand the needs of poor ones, they can avoid employing huge economic and intellectual resources to satisfy the selfish desires of their own citizens, and instead, they can promote virtuous action within the perspective of production that is morally sound and marked by solidarity, respecting the fundamental right to life of every people and every individual.In Chapter IV the pope says it is a mistake to see population growth as the primary cause of under-development and he calls for attention to responsible procreation, respect for human values in the use of sex. He also calls on states “to enact policies promoting the centrality and the integrity of the family founded on marriage between a man and a woman, the primary vital cell of society”:
44. The notion of rights and duties in development must also take account of the problems associated with population growth. This is a very important aspect of authentic development, since it concerns the inalienable values of life and the family. To consider population increase as the primary cause of underdevelopment is mistaken, even from an economic point of view. Suffice it to consider, on the one hand, the significant reduction in infant mortality and the rise in average life expectancy found in economically developed countries, and on the other hand, the signs of crisis observable in societies that are registering an alarming decline in their birth rate. Due attention must obviously be given to responsible procreation, which among other things has a positive contribution to make to integral human development. The Church, in her concern for man's authentic development, urges him to have full respect for human values in the exercise of his sexuality. It cannot be reduced merely to pleasure or entertainment, nor can sex education be reduced to technical instruction aimed solely at protecting the interested parties from possible disease or the “risk” of procreation. This would be to impoverish and disregard the deeper meaning of sexuality, a meaning which needs to be acknowledged and responsibly appropriated not only by individuals but also by the community. It is irresponsible to view sexuality merely as a source of pleasure, and likewise to regulate it through strategies of mandatory birth control. In either case materialistic ideas and policies are at work, and individuals are ultimately subjected to various forms of violence. Against such policies, there is a need to defend the primary competence of the family in the area of sexuality, as opposed to the State and its restrictive policies, and to ensure that parents are suitably prepared
to undertake their responsibilities.Morally responsible openness to life represents a rich social and economic resource. Populous nations have been able to emerge from poverty thanks not least to the size of their population and the talents of their people. On the other hand, formerly prosperous nations are presently passing through a phase of uncertainty and in some cases decline, precisely because of their falling birth rates; this has become a crucial problem for highly affluent societies. The decline in births, falling at times beneath the so-called “replacement level”, also puts a strain on social welfare systems, increases their cost, eats into savings and hence the financial resources needed for investment, reduces the availability of qualified labourers, and narrows the “brain pool” upon which nations can draw for their needs. Furthermore, smaller and at times miniscule families run the risk of impoverishing social relations, and failing to ensure effective forms of solidarity. These situations are symptomatic of scant confidence in the future and moral weariness. It is thus becoming a social and even economic necessity once more to hold up to future generations the beauty of marriage and the family, and the fact that these institutions correspond to the deepest needs and dignity of the person. In view of this, States are called to enact policies promoting the centrality and the integrity of the family founded on marriage between a man and a woman, the primary vital cell of society, and to assume responsibility for its economic and fiscal needs, while respecting its essentially relational character.
11. Pro Life Pharmacist Wanted - Do Not Post On Web Site
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12. Rise And Fall Of The Christian Coalition, Cohabitation Bad For Marriage – July 10, 2009
Justice Ginsburg Links Abortion to Population Control
13. Smiling Unborn Child – July 6, 2009
Music in Utero, By Chuck Colson
In 1984, a video called The Silent Scream helped change the way people think about the unborn child. The footage of an actual abortion and the fetus’s reaction reminded us that abortion involves the death of a real person. A recent bit of footage has similar potential, only it couldn’t be more different from The Silent Scream.
The footage was part of a recent PBS special, The Music Instinct:
Science & Song http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/. The program was an exploration of, among other things, music’s “biological, emotional and psychological impact on humans.” Part of this “exploration” included how music affects babies. If we are, as some scientists believe, “wired for music,” then babies are ideal test subjects since their reactions are, by definition, instinctual.Continue reading this fascinating article here:
http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=11966.
