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- Case-Control Study Of Oral Contraceptive Use And Incident Breast Cancer – January 14, 2009
- Christians Accept Order Of Canada Awards – January 14, 2009
- Co-Inventor Of The Pill Says It Has Created ‘Demographic Catastrophe’ – January 14, 2009
- Families Are An Answer To Crisis, Says Papal Legate – January 14, 2009
- Forced Abortions, America's Secret Epidemic – January 14, 2009
- Gibbons Freed From Custody After Judge Quashes Charge – January 14, 2009
- If Doctors Who Won't Kill Are 'Wicked,' The World Is Sick – January 14, 2009
- Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #405 – January 11, 2009
- Poll Shows 92 Percent Of Canadians Uninformed On Abortion Status Quo – January 14, 2009
- Quarterback Who Led Florida Gators To Championship Almost Victim Of Abortion – January 14, 2009
1. Case-Control Study Of Oral Contraceptive Use And Incident Breast Cancer – January 14, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on December 13, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008.
Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.
Case-Control Study of Oral Contraceptive Use and Incident Breast Cancer
Lynn Rosenberg, Yuqing Zhang, Patricia F. Coogan, Brian L. Strom and Julie R. Palmer
Correspondence to Dr. Lynn Rosenberg, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: lrosenberg@slone.bu.edu).
Received for publication July 1, 2008. Accepted for publication October 10, 2008.
Oral contraceptive (OC) use has been linked to increased risk of breast cancer, largely on the basis of studies conducted before 1990. In the Case-Control Surveillance Study, a US hospital-based case-control study of medication use and cancer, the authors assessed the relation of OC use to breast cancer risk among 907 case women with incident invasive breast cancer (731 white, 176 black) and 1,711 controls (1,152 white, 559 black) interviewed from 1993 to 2007. They evaluated whether the association differed by ethnicity or tumour hormone receptor status. After control for breast cancer risk factors, the multivariable odds ratio for 1 year or more of OC use, relative to less than 1 year of use, was 1.5 (95% confidence interval: 1.2, 1.8). The estimates were similar within age strata (<50 years and >/= 50 years). The odds ratios were larger for use within the previous 10 years, long-duration use, and black ethnicity, but these differences were not statistically significant. The association of OC use with breast cancer risk did not differ according to the estrogen or progestogen receptor status of the tumour. These results suggest that OC use is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer diagnosed in recent years.
Breast neoplasms; Case-control studies; Contraceptives, oral
Abbreviations: CARE, Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences; CI, confidence interval; ER, estrogen receptor; OC(s), oral contraceptive(s); PR, progestogen receptor.
Story continued... http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/kwn360v1
2. Christians Accept Order Of Canada Awards – January 14, 2009By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
Four openly pro-life Christians were inducted into the Order of Canada at a Rideau Hall ceremony last month.
The most prominent was Preston Manning, one-time federal opposition leader. The others were Manning's Reform Party colleague, Deborah Grey and two nuns known for humanitarian work.
They chose to receive Canada's highest civilian honour, despite the controversy over abortionist Henry Morgentaler's appointment last July 1 – which led about a dozen Canadians, including Montreal Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte and two Polish Oblate priests, to return their medals.
Cont'd... http://www.canadianchristianity.com/nationalupdates/090108order.html#null
3. Co-Inventor Of The Pill Says It Has Created ‘Demographic Catastrophe’ – January 14, 2009
Church grabs chance to attack birth control pill
Kate Connolly http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/kateconnolly in Berlin
John Hooper http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnhooper in Rome
The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Article history:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/catholic-church-birth-control-pill/print#history-byline
Roman Catholic leaders have pounced on a "confession" by one of the inventors of the birth control pill who has said the contraceptive he helped create was responsible for a "demographic catastrophe".
In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world's Roman Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought "devastating ecological effects" by releasing into the environment "tons of hormones" that had impaired male fertility.
The assault began with a personal commentary in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard by 85-year-old Carl Djerassi. The Austrian chemist was one of three whose formulation of the synthetic progestogen Norethisterone marked a key step towards the earliest oral contraceptive pill.
Djerassi outlined the "horror scenario" that occurred because of the population imbalance, for which his invention was partly to blame. He said that in most of Europe there was now "no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/reproduction". He said: "This divide in Catholic Austria, a country which has on average 1.4 children per family, is now complete."
He described families who had decided against reproduction as "wanting to enjoy their schnitzels while leaving the rest of the world to get on with it".
The fall in the birth rate, he said, was an "epidemic" far worse – but given less attention – than obesity. Young Austrians, he said, were committing national suicide if they failed to procreate. And if it were not possible to reverse the population decline they would have to understand the necessity of an "intelligent immigration policy".
The head of Austria's Catholics, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, told an interviewer that the Vatican had forecast 40 years ago that the pill would lead to a dramatic fall in the birth rate in the west. "Somebody above suspicion like Carl Djerassi ... is saying that each family has to produce three children to maintain population levels, but we're far away from that."
Schönborn told Austrian TV that when he first read Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical condemning artificial contraception he viewed it negatively as a "cold shower". But he said he had altered his views, as over time, it had proved "prophetic".
Writing for the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, the president of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, José María Simón, said research from his association also showed the pill "worked in many cases with a genuinely... abortive effect".
Angelo Bonelli, of the Italian Green party, said it was the first he had heard of a link between the pill and environmental pollution. The worst of poisons were to be found in the water supply. "It strikes me as idiosyncratic to be worried about this."
A leading gynaecologist and member of the New York Academy of Science, professor Gian Benedetto Melis, called Simón's claims "science fiction", saying that the pill blocked ovulation only.
http://www.guardian.co.uk© Guardian News and Media Limited 2009
4. Families Are An Answer To Crisis, Says Papal Legate – January 14, 2009
Pope's Secretary of State Previews Mexico Trip
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 12, 2009 (Zenit.org).
"The world economic situation is very grave and it affects families above all, as well as the poorest peoples," Cardinal Bertone said. "The Church is worried and the Pope has launched various messages. With the motive of the Christmas feasts, he has spoken of the commitment of sobriety and solidarity, which involves everyone, so as not to unload and delegate the task of affronting this crisis only on political, economic or financial leaders, or the leaders of central banks.
"It affects everyone and it affects everyone personally – precisely in the realm of sobriety and solidarity."
The cardinal announced that social issues such as this one will be the theme of Benedict XVI's next encyclical, which he said is "in its final leg" and which "certainly will be published during the first half of this year."
...Cont’d http://www.zenit.org/article-24755?l=english
5. Forced Abortions, America's Secret Epidemic – January 14, 2009
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow – 1/11/2009 4:00:00 AM
The Elliot Institute has released a report that exposes America's forced abortion epidemic.
Elliot Institute spokesperson Amy Solby tells OneNewsNow that one study found 64 percent of women who had abortions reported they felt pressured to abort by others. "Something like 80 percent of them said that they didn't get the counselling they needed to make a good decision, that often they were not given counselling at all, or that the counselling they had was inadequate," she explains.
Solby also mentions forced abortions, which are not widely discussed in the U.S. An article released from the Institute cites two cases in 2006 in which teenage girls were violently persuaded to have abortions. In Maine, a couple abducted their 19-year-old daughter, bound and gagged her, and drove her to New York for an abortion. However, she escaped from her parents in the parking lot of a store and called police from her cell phone.
That same year, a Georgia mother forced her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to drink turpentine in hopes of aborting her baby. She was later arrested for criminal abortion after her daughter told the school counsellor about the incident. The Institute has studied other cases where women are commonly threatened, pressured, or subjected to violence for refusing to abort.
"There's not any necessarily real hard numbers on violent [coercion] but, if you consider that homicide is the leading killer of pregnant women according to several studies, and then the fact that a large number of them have to do with the fact that the woman was killed or assaulted...because she refused to have an abortion or in an attempt to force her to abort," Solby concludes.
The Elliot Institute is trying to convince states to pass laws forcing abortion facilities to screen women for coercion and not to do an abortion where coercion is involved. Solby believes women then could be helped with whatever situation they are facing.
6. Gibbons Freed From Custody After Judge Quashes Charge – January 14, 2009
By Tony Gosgnach
TORONTO, January 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons walked out of court a free woman to the hugs of supporters after a criminal court judge quashed a charge of disobeying a court order against her this afternoon. She had been held in prison since her arrest last Oct. 8 outside the Scott "Clinic" abortion site in downtown Toronto, which is shielded by a legal bubble zone established as part of a "temporary" court injunction implemented in 1994.
The development is the second in a row for Gibbons, who similarly was immediately released from custody last Sept. 30 after a judge found her not guilty of obstructing a peace officer. Today, her lawyer, Daniel Santoro, successfully argued that Gibbons could not be criminally charged with disobeying a court order, since the injunction that shields the Scott site was imposed by a civil court.
Legal arguments took up the whole day, until about 4 p.m. when the judge made his finding and a smiling Gibbons was released. The Crown attorney attempted to argue that the criminal charge was an appropriate one, but the judge concluded that it was "really a simple issue" in quashing the charge.
Noting that the 1994 injunction was a civil proceeding, the judge said, "There are rules for civil matters and there are rules for criminal matters. They're separate and apart… The rules are clear and mutually exclusive."
The latest development presents an interesting conundrum for those who have prosecuted Gibbons over the past 15 years. With judges having successively thrown out charges of obstructing a peace officer and disobeying a court order, the province and Crown attorney's office appear to be left with little option but to launch a civil proceeding against her, if they wish to pursue the matter at all. They have two years from the date of the alleged transgression to do so.
However, a civil proceeding raises the spectre of a challenge to the legality of the injunction itself, which was supposed to be temporary but has now stretched to the unprecedented age of 15 years. Pro-life activists in Toronto will be watching carefully to see what path the authorities choose to follow.
For her part, Gibbons had a few words as she was whisked away to a vehicle for a change of clothes and some nourishment after a long day in court: "The courts need to establish their credibility by acknowledging the rights of every human being, born or unborn."
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7. If Doctors Who Won't Kill Are 'Wicked,' The World Is Sick – January 14, 2009
This is one of the best articles on euthanasia that you will ever read. It is written by Licia Corbella the fantastic columnist with the Calgary Herald. (Alex)
If doctors who won't kill are 'wicked,' the world is sick
Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald – Saturday, January 10. 2009
http://www.canada.com:80/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=83835868-7f89-40bd-b16e-8bc961d41b39
Talk about Orwellian. A woman described as a "leading expert in ethics" has declared that doctors who refuse to kill their patients are "genuinely wicked." I'm not making this up.
Mary Warnock, a British baroness told the Northern Ireland Forum for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare this past Monday, that doctors who refuse to break their Hippocratic oath are evil.
It seems that virtually every day, I read another story that proves the world – and what is accepted as good and true – is being turned on its head.
Referring to terminally ill patients who make a written request to be killed when they reach a certain point in their illness, Warnock said: "There are doctors, we know, who don't pay any attention (to those written wishes to be killed).
"But that seems to me a genuinely wicked thing to do – to disregard what somebody had quite explicitly said, that he wants to die..."
This is the same old bird (she's 84) who argued that people who have dementia or Alzheimer's disease have a "duty to die" because they are a burden to society and their families.
"If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives – your family's lives – and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service," she said a few months ago.
There was a time when such statements would be described as wicked and the orator as well.
But in Warnock's twisted world of "ethics," doctors who kill are righteous and doctors who refuse to kill are villainous.
Black is white, white is black and wrong is right. Murder is merciful and compassionate care, cruel. Somewhere out there, George Orwell is saying, "I told you so."
In her Jan. 5 speech, Warnock dismisses the idea that murdering the elderly and "demented" will not lead to a slippery slope of killing infants, depressed teens and others.
But that is precisely what is happening in Holland, where euthanasia has been practised since 1980 and has been fully legal since 2002.
Currently, infants born with defects are often killed by their doctor, with or without the parents' permission, not that permission makes it any more acceptable.
That's not just a slippery slope; it's Mount Everest in a blizzard.
The language surrounding euthanasia is necessarily softened by its proponents, calling the active killing of another human being, mercy killing, dying with dignity and choice. But what actually has been shown to happen in places that embrace legalized euthanasia is the antithesis of choice.
In a government study in the Netherlands, called Medical Decisions about the End of Life, it was found that in 1990 alone 1,031 patients were actively killed by their doctor without their request and of those people, 14 per cent were fully competent, 72 per cent had never expressed that they wanted their lives ended and in eight per cent of the cases, doctors performed "involuntary euthanasia" even though they believed other options were available.
Similar subsequent studies found similar outcomes.
So, this form of "choice" actually leads to thousands of people never being able to make a choice – ever again.
Even some staunch proponents of euthanasia say Holland is an extreme example. Much better to look to Oregon, where physician assisted suicide (PAS) has been legal since 1997.
But in the reports published annually by the state, it's evident that choice is compromised in Oregon too.
In 1998, 12 per cent of PAS patients in Oregon said they chose this irreversible course of action because they didn't want to burden their family. That rose to 26 per cent in 1999, 42 per cent in 2005 and 45 percent in 2007, the last year figures are available. If that were a company's bottom line, champagne corks would be popping!
In other words, for the infirm and disabled, the right to die quickly becomes the duty to die. Wanting to live despite being frail or ill increasingly is viewed as selfish in places where euthanasia is the law.
That's not empowerment; it's coercion, guilt for living, pressure to die.
According to Belfast's daily paper, The News Letter, after Warnock spoke in the debate – which was ironically held in a local church, one of the members of the audience, Avril Robb, a lawyer and a member of the Medical Legal Society, said she had cared for her parents through their terminal illnesses and stated: "I do know that the last months were very precious."
That is what many who spend time caring for a dying parent, child or spouse says about a loved one's last days and months. Their vulnerability causes all emotional walls to tumble down and petty problems to vanish.
A nurse friend of mine who works in palliative care but had also spent years helping to bring babies into the world says: "I'm convinced that dying can be a more blessed a time than birth."
That may sound counterintuitive, but compared to saying that refusing to kill is wicked; it's much easier to believe.
lcorbella@theherald.canwest.com© The Calgary Herald 2009
8. Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #405 – January 11, 2009
Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.lifeissues.net)
Dear Friends for Life,
U.S. Freedom of Choice Act? Obama has promised to sign the radical Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which would prohibit any state from "interference with a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy..." It would nullify any and all restrictions on abortion, including parental consent laws, waiting periods, informed consent provisions, funding restrictions, etc. He also has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who will maintain the abortion freedom. The question is will FOCA pass? Washington insiders tell us that at least in its proposed comprehensive form there are not enough votes in the new Congress to pass it.
Europe – Turning Point in 2015: This is the date, after which deaths will outnumber births in the European Union. This is in spite of the fact that many more people will live to be older, those over 80 tripling from today's 22 million to tomorrow's 61 million. If there is any growth after that, it will be because of the inflow of Muslim immigrants from the south.
God Bless, Jerry Novotny, OMI
Inspiring Thought: "When you tell a woman how she's made, you're telling her about her Maker!" – Emily Sederstrand
Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #405 – January 11, 2009
Table Of Contents:
1. Miracle Baby Whose Mother Was Told Twice By Doctors To Abort Him Enjoys His First New Year
2. Pope Benedict's New Year's Message Condemns, Abortion, Population Control
3. How Down Syndrome Lifted Me Up
4. Children: The Supreme Gift Of Marriage
5. 'Embryos On Ice' And Other Absurdities
6. 14-Year-Olds To Learn About Their "Right" To An Abortion
7. The World Won't Be Aging Gracefully. Just The Opposite.
8. Morning-After Pills Available To Pupils In Almost 1,000 Schools
9. Pill Inventor Slams... Pill
10. Frail Elderly Vulnerable To Abuse
11. Medical Expert Says That Contraceptive Pill Is Causing Global Rise In Male Infertility
12. Dignitas Personae And The Right To Life (Part I) And (Part II) By Brian Clowes
Focus On Asia: "Rats Causing Famine in Myanmar " – Bamboo is normally a steady source of food for people in Southeast Asia. But part of the bamboo plant's natural growing cycle has caused parts of the region to be overrun with rats, which has caused a famine in the small country of Myanmar (Burma). At least 40 children have died, and more than 100,000 are living on the brink of starvation because of this crisis.
View full article: http://www.gfa.org/rats-causing-famine-in-myanmar
Item #1. Miracle Baby Whose Mother Was Told Twice By Doctors To Abort Him Enjoys His First New Year
Well before he was born doctors gave Kai Purdy no chance of survival. Scans showing a life-threatening heart condition convinced specialists he had a rare genetic disorder which would probably leave him stillborn. Yet Kai's parents, Gaynor and Lee, would not give up on him despite advice to have an abortion. They switched hospitals and were rewarded with a baby who quickly confounded medical opinion.
Ten months on, and despite being a tiny 14lb, Kai is a picture of health and his parents believe he will lead a normal life. 'Little Kai is perfect,' said his 28-year-old mother. 'We refused to give up on him and decided throughout the pregnancy that as long as he was fighting, we would continue fighting with him. 'It is a complete horror to think he may not be here with us.
View full article at BreakPoint: http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=10772
Item #2. Pope Benedict's New Year's Message Condemns, Abortion, Population Control
Pope Benedict XVI has a special message for the world with the start of the New Year and it focuses on condemning abortion and birth control. The pope urged efforts to end poverty across the globe but said those efforts must also be life-affirming for women and unborn children.
View full article at LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/int1039.html
Item #3. How Down Syndrome Lifted Me Up
I have a beautiful 5-year-old daughter, Chloe, who has Down Syndrome. She has brought immeasurable good and light into the world. Because of technology developments and the increase in prenatal testing, children with Down Syndrome are also an endangered species with a 90+ percent abortion rate once identified in the womb.
View full article at newAmerica: http://www.renewamerica.us/news/090102kondrich.htm
Item #4. Children: The Supreme Gift Of Marriage
What I wish to explore here is how the modern age has a philosophical and theological dysfunctionality in respect to its understanding of children and their intrinsic importance, and of the importance of children to their parents and society. At the risk of sounding unduly alarmist, I must observe that our society has nearly reached a state of philosophical insanity in respect to the value of human life, the value of babies and the meaning of sexuality. A state of philosophical insanity means that we are fundamentally and basically denying the reality of fundamental and basic truths to the point that our behaviour is dangerously self-destructive.
View full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/smith/smith_11childrengift.html
Item #5. 'Embryos On Ice' And Other Absurdities
Of all the now familiar terms we have seen and heard applied to preborn children, perhaps the most heartless is "Embryos on ice." While the term was coined by a Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer reporter covering fertility clinics, the idea reappeared just a few days ago in a New York Times article entitled "Parents Torn Over Fate of Frozen Embryos." The underlying idea in both articles is that parents are faced with a dilemma involving "extra" embryos that were not needed for the in vitro fertilization procedure they underwent in order to have a child. These parents – loving and well meaning, I am sure – have unwittingly contributed to the ongoing growth of the culture of death by agreeing with the hypothesis that there are embryonic children who are somehow less human than those who were implanted in their mom and brought to term. It is as if there are some embryonic children who are really children and others who are not.
View full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/brown/brown_21embryos_on_ice.html
Item #6. 14-Year-Olds To Learn About Their "Right" To An Abortion
Schoolgirls in Britain and Northern Ireland as young as 14 might have to watch a film that says they have the right to choose an abortion. The film stresses that it's up to a woman, and its producers assert that only a few mothers are left traumatised by an abortion. "Why Abortion?" by the Family Planning Association (FPA) shows various scenarios in which actresses justify abortion by saying they can't afford a child or that having a baby could jeopardise their relationship with parents or boyfriends.
See the full article at Family and Life:
http://www.familyandlife.org/Abortion-and-Embryo/835/9/13.html
Item #7. The World Won't Be Aging Gracefully. Just The Opposite.
The world is in crisis. A financial crash and a deepening recession are afflicting rich and poor countries alike. The threat of weapons of mass destruction looms ever larger. A bipartisan congressional panel announced last month that the odds of a nuclear or biological terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the year 2014 are better than 50-50. It looks as though we'll be grappling with these economic and geopolitical challenges well into the 2010s. But if you think that things couldn't get any worse, wait till the 2020s. The economic and geopolitical climate could become even more threatening by then – and this time the reason will be demographics. Yes, demographics, that relentless maker and breaker of civilizations.
Comment: Of course, abortion is a big component of depopulation. Euthanasia may be in the future. – Nancy Valko, RN
Full article at washingtonpost.com:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202231_pf.htm
Item #8. Morning-After Pills Available To Pupils In Almost 1,000 Schools
Emergency contraception is being handed out to pupils in almost 1,000 schools without the knowledge of parents, according to figures.
Full Article at telegraph.co.uk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4109094/Morning-after-pills-available-to-pupils-in-almost-1000-schools.html
Item #9. Pill Inventor Slams... Pill
Eighty five year old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill now says that his co-creation has led to a "demographic catastrophe." In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world's Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought "devastating ecological effects" by releasing into the environment "tonnes of hormones" that had impaired male fertility, The Taiwan Times says.
View entire text at CNCathNews: http://lifeissues.net/control_panel/news_info.php
Item #10. Frail Elderly Vulnerable To Abuse
An article written by Andrew Conte and Mike Cronin and published in the Tribune-Review explains how seniors are vulnerable to abuse.
The article states:
View entire text at Euthanasia Prevention Coalition:
http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2009/01/frail-elderly-vulnerable-to-abuse.html
Item #11. Medical Expert Says That Contraceptive Pill Is Causing Global Rise In Male Infertility
An eminent doctor writing for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has stated that hormones from the contraceptive pill are causing a significant rise in male infertility in western nations. Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, President of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC), writes that "we have sufficient data to affirm that one of the reasons for the not insignificant rise in male infertility in the west (due to increasingly fewer sperm in men), is the environmental contamination caused by 'the pill'."
"We are confronted with a clear anti-ecological effect that demands further explanation from the manufacturers," continued Castellvi, who also noted that the abortifacient and carcinogenic effects of the contraceptive pill are also well known (see LifeSiteNews coverage here).
View entire text at LifeSiteNews.com: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09010701.html
Also see: Vatican Newspaper Publishes Article Detailing Birth Control Pill as Cause of Abortion and Cancer
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09010504.html
Item #12. Dignitas Personae And The Right To Life (Part I) And (Part II) By Brian Clowes
There are two causes of most of the human misery that afflicts the world today. The first is lack of respect for the transmission of life within the marital union, which leads to destructive practices such as contraception, sterilization, abortion, homosexual adoption and "gay marriage." The second is a lack of respect for the born human person, which has given us murder, genocide, racism, slavery, rape and many other evils.
View entire text (Part I) at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/eut/eut_72dignitaspersonae1.html
As we saw last week, the primary purpose of the new Vatican instruction on bioethics, Dignitas Personae, is to clarify Church teachings on biotechnologies that have become prominent since Donum Vitae was published in 1987. Dignitas Personae draws a bright line between scientific activities that treat human beings as a commodity to be produced – or as God's greatest gift.
View entire text (Part II) at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/eut/eut_73dignitaspersonae2.html
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.
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 I 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 inquires 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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9. Poll Shows 92 Percent Of Canadians Uninformed On Abortion Status Quo – January 14, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release – January 12, 2009
Poll shows 92 percent of Canadians uninformed on abortion status quo
An Angus Reid poll has found that a vast majority of Canadians do not know, under the country’s current legal situation that abortion is permitted at any time from conception up to the moment of birth.
The poll results have been made public on the heels of a late-December declaration by Dimitri Soudas, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, that the Conservative government has no intention of reopening the abortion debate in Canada.
The Angus Reid poll found that 92 percent of the respondents did not know abortion was available to a woman throughout the full nine months of gestation.
Significantly, a June 2008 poll by Angus Reid Strategies found that 46 percent of Canadians approve of the Canadian legal status quo, even if – as the more recent poll shows – they do not actually understand what the status quo is.
The new poll also found that respondents wanted information to be readily available to women contemplating abortion. Fully 95 percent said all information about all options should be made available to women, and 95 and 96 percent (respectively) said that information about the physical and psychological effects of abortion should be made available.
“Canadian women have a right to know,” said Yvonne Douma, Executive Director of Signal Hill, a human rights organization whose mandate is to provide accurate information to the public on these and other life issues (www.thesignalhill.com).
The poll also found that an overwhelming number of respondents did not support a woman’s right to abort a foetus because of its gender, a practice that is legal in Canada. Only six percent supported a woman’s right to choose abortion when the foetus is an undesirable gender, usually female.
“Society recognizes that choice is not an absolute,” said Douma. “Some choices cannot be supported as is evident with gender selection abortions. But informed consent is vital to making good choices, and we do not see women getting all the information they need when making these life-changing decisions.”
Signal Hill is an advocate for human rights that provides information on life issues, women's health and family support. For more information go to: www.thesignalhill.com or call 1-877-7SIGNAL to speak with Yvonne Douma or Natalie Hudson.
See the CNW Release at: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2009/12/c6403.html.
10. Quarterback Who Led Florida Gators To Championship Almost Victim Of Abortion – January 14, 2009
Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) – Tim Tebow led his Florida Gators football team to become national champions last Thursday in a win over Oklahoma. On Sunday, the former Heisman Trophy winner announced he's coming back for his senior season, despite thoughts that he was looking to leave early for the NFL after pulling off the big victory.
However, Tebow's accomplishments may never have been supported had his mother followed a doctor's recommendation to have an abortion. Pam Tebow and her husband were Christian missionaries in the Philippines in 1985 and they prayed for "Timmy" before she became pregnant.
Pam entered into a coma after she contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in a contaminated food or drink. The treatment for the medical condition would require strong medications that doctors told Pam had caused irreversible damage to Tim – so they advised her to have an abortion. Pam Tebow refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and, eventually, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in August 1987.
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