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1. Be Open To Life - March 18, ?2007?
http://humanlifematters.blogspot.com/2007/03/be-open-to-life.html
Be open to life - By Mark Pickup (Mark Pickup)
Sitting closer to the end of my life than its beginning, I find myself
wishing I'd had more children. Deep into the sorrow and pain of
progressive multiple sclerosis, it is only Christ and my family that
give me any joy and consolation:
HumanLifeMatters - HLM
http://humanlifematters.blogspot.com/index.html
http://humanlifematters.blogspot.com/index.html%20
2. China, India And Canada Kill UN Resolution Against Sex Selected Abortions - March 18, 2007
March 8, 2007 - Volume 10, Number 12
Dear Colleague,
This is truly shocking. Various countries moved this week to block a UN resolution condemning the barbaric practice of sex selected abortions. Shame on China, India, Canada, the EU, and sadly Costa Rica.
Spread the word.
Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President
China, India and Canada Kill UN Resolution Against Sex Selected Abortions - By Samantha Singson
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Despite a groundswell of support from the NGO community and many country delegations at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) this week, the US-sponsored resolution calling on states to eliminate prenatal sex selection and female infanticide has been withdrawn due to pressure from China, India, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and others.
China lobbied against the resolution at the highest levels of UN delegations. The Indian delegation likewise lobbied forcefully against it. It is likely that India and China objected because, even though the resolution focused on the global nature of the problem, they believed it would draw attention to the fact that theirs are the worst cases of female infanticide and sex-selected abortion. Demographers estimate that about 100 million girls are already "missing".
Other delegations also worked to derail the resolution by maneuver, thus avoiding discussion about the rising trend of killing baby girls and the substance of the resolution. Canada worked against the resolution by loading up the draft document with language that the US could not support. Costa Rica did the same, although it is unclear why the pro-life country worked so hard to oppose the initiative, or why Mexico chose to oppose it.
The EU announced on Monday that it had reached a collective European decision to oppose the resolution. They argued that in order to streamline the CSW process, it would be better to simply add the language to the final outcome document. A European NGO told the Friday Fax that in their meetings with EU officials they were briefed that some European states objected to the sex selection resolution because they opposed condemning any abortions. But the EU said it would support the US language in the outcome document. Pro-life groups following the negotiations late into the night on Wednesday say that the EU has so far made good on its promise.
South Korea, one of the countries that has experienced alarming demographic imbalance, has been the only country to successfully reverse the trend after launching "Love Your Daughter" awareness campaigns. Of all the countries in which "son preference" is high, South Korea was the only country that stepped up to co-sponsor the resolution.
In sharp contrast to the official delegations, NGOs from across the political spectrum discussed the problem at length during the two-week meeting, universally condemning it. Several scholars and practitioners showed evidence that sex selection is increasingly linked to organized crime, rape, kidnapping, and trafficking of women and girls. The Holy See circulated a non-paper noting that, "Despite its importance, the Commission on the Status of Women has remained silent on prenatal sex selection, infanticide and son preference. The time has come for the Commission on the Status of Women to break the silence on these important issues."
The CSW chairman announced last night that negotiations may go round the clock tonight. The meeting is scheduled to conclude on Friday evening.
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3. Comments On Miss Jamaica World 2006 Relinquishing Her Crown Due To Pregnancy - March 18, 2007
Former Miss Delaware, Now President of the National Black Pro-Life Union Comments on Miss Jamaica World 2006 Relinquishing Her Crown Due to Pregnancy
WASHINGTON, Mar. 16 /Christian Newswire/ - Twenty-two-year old Sara Lawrence, Miss Jamaica World 2006 resigned her title because she discovered that she was pregnant. I can only imagine the pressure she must have experienced. We are living in an age where we are taught to look for a quick fix no matter what the consequences and unfortunately, one such "quick fix" has resulted in the torturous killing of millions and millions of children by abortion since the passing of Roe vs. Wade in 1973.
In an official statement reported by The Gleaner, Ms. Lawrence said, "I relinquish my position as Miss Jamaica World 2006, having taken a deeply personal decision to face up to my responsibilities as one who expects to become a mother later this year. I believe that it is my moral obligation to do what I believe to be ethically correct and will follow what I believe to be right."
Ms. Lawrence who is 12 weeks pregnant, went on to say for ethical reasons, having an abortion was not an option, and her boyfriend fully supports her decision. "I will continue pursuing a career in medicine after the birth of my baby," she said.
It's difficult to explain what it means for a young woman to win a pageant crown. I guess the best thing to compare it to would be like being part of a football team that makes it to the Super Bowl, or a farm team baseball player that finally makes it to "the big dance."
I remember how it felt to compete and to be selected above so many equally
beautiful and talented girls. I remember how it felt to win. Though there are
those who would have a woman in Sara's predicament believe differently, life
is NOT over because of an
unplanned or unexpected pregnancy. Sara Lawrence is still young and still beautiful
and she still has a wonderful, exciting and successful career ahead of her.
Life goes on--it does not end because you become a mother, but rather your life is much more enriched.
Day Gardner was the first black Miss Delaware and the first black woman to be named a semi-finalist in the Miss America Pageant. She can be reached at 202-834-0844
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4. England's Draconian New Equality Act Discrimination Against Catholics
- March 18, 2007
The Interim - March 2007 - By Rory
Leishman
Thanks to a draconian new Equality Act, which comes into effect in England,
Wales and Scotland in April, faithful British Christians are about to undergo
much the same persecution as their Canadian counterparts.
The British Act includes a sweeping ban on discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation. In a letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and members of
his cabinet on January 22, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of Catholics
in England and Wales, urged the government to exempt Catholic adoption agencies
from the new regulation.
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor underlined that the Catholic Church "utterly
condemns all forms of unjust discrimination, violence, harassment or abuse directed
against people who are homosexual, and teaches that they must be accepted with
respect, compassion and sensitivity."
Given that the Catholic Church also upholds marriage and the natural family
as best for children, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor insisted: "We believe it
would be unreasonable, unnecessary and unjust discrimination against Catholics"
to force employees of Catholic adoption agencies to provide adoption services
to same-sex couples in violation of "the teaching of the Church and their
own consciences."
On this point, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor got solid backing from the two most
senior clerics in the Church of England - the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
Williams and the Archbishop of York John Sentamu. In a joint letter to Blair
on January 23, Williams and Sentamu emphasized: "The rights of conscience
cannot be made subject to legislation, however well meaning." And they
pointedly added: "It is vitally important that the interests of vulnerable
children are not relegated to suit any political interest."
Quite so. It's regrettable that Williams and Sentamu stopped just short of
joining Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in affirming what the Church has traditionally
taught and a wealth of social-science data has confirmed: That children thrive
best under the care and guidance of a mother and father who are joined in the
bond of marriage.
Initially, Blair seemed sympathetic to the pleas of England's most prominent
clerics to respect the rights of conscience. The same cannot be said for the
Opposition Leader David Cameron and most members of Blair's cabinet, including
its leading Catholic member, Home Secretary John Reid. In a recent speech, Reid
argued that no faith-based groups should be exempt from the newly proclaimed
equality rights for homosexuals. By analogy, he said: "If somebody says
to me: 'I'm sorry, I'm not going to treat women as equal because my religion
does not allow it," I say: 'Tough, you're in Britain and that's a fundamental
value in Britain and everyone has to accept it.'"
Under pressure from Reid, Cameron and others, Blair caved in. On January 30,
he announced that after a transition period, Catholic adoption agencies will
be required by law to treat same-sex couples the same as a husband and wife.
In response, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor has threatened to shut down Catholic
adoption agencies in England and Wales. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Glasgow,
Mario Conti, has vowed that Scottish adoption agencies will defy the new regulation
on the ground that it violates the rights of Catholics to freedom of conscience
in the Equality Act.
It will be interesting to see how British courts deal with Conti's argument.
In Canada, the courts have consistently held that equality rights for homosexuals
trump the religious rights of Christians that are supposedly guaranteed in the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The row over adoption agencies signals just the beginning of a campaign against
religious freedom in Britain. A spokesman for the Scottish Catholic bishops
has pointed out that the Equality Act "will impact on anyone who provides
goods and services, from the priest who refuses to hire the parish hall to a
same-sex couple, to the editor of a Catholic newspaper who refuses to carry
a Gay Pride advert, or a printer who refuses to print those adverts - they will
all be criminalised by this Draconian measure. This is as close as you can get
to a thought crime."
It's scandalous that politicians like Reid are leading this attack on their
fellow Christians. It's high time that church leaders in Britain and Canada
took tougher action to defend the faithful, by telling these rogue Christian
politicians that they are no longer welcome at communion.
5. Good News For Supporters Of Life, Faith, Family & Freedom - March 18, 2007
Dear LifeSiteNews Readers,
Today there is a lot of GOOD NEWS about people courageously fighting back against the enemies of life, family, faith and freedom.
The strong public warning by the Czech president about the real agenda of the hysteria being generated by 'global warming' enthusiasts is especially noteworthy.
More and more it is coming out into the open now that population control and a totalitarian "New World Order" of political control over the nations and peoples of the world is what is especially driving the incredible demands of the climate Change/global warming leadership.
With our years of experience on international issues we sensed this a long time ago because of the history of so many of the global warming spokesmen.
Every story today is an example of leaders finally taking strong actions and speaking the blunt truth about the current evils and taking action. Hopefully many more will join them soon as developments are accelerating at a fast pace.
LifeSiteNews.com - Monday March 12, 2007
1. Czech President: "Religion" of Environmentalism
a way of "masterminding human society from above"
2. Protection of Religious Freedom Undertaken by U.S. Attorney General Initiative
3. Vatican Prelate: Catholics will "do everything possible" to prevent
Homosexual Civil Unions
4. Polish People Support Pro-Life Constitutional Amendment
5. New Toronto Archbishop Speaks to Life And Family Issues
6. Scottish Bishop: Labour Party's Anti-Family Policies have Lost Catholic Support
7. Wyoming Priest Denies Communion to Lesbian Activist Couple "Married"
in Canada
8. Controversial Former US Senator Names Abortion as Culprit in US Population
Shortages
Czech President: "Religion" of Environmentalism
a way of "masterminding human society from above"
A "New World Order" With Warming "Deniers" Threatened
- By John-Henry Westen
LONDON, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The general appreciation for taking care of the earth's resources, of being stewards of creation is being exploited to drive a political and even mythological system of environmentalism. The President of the Czech Republic spoke at the Cato Institute Friday calling "environmentalism" a "religion", and warning against the hysteria being generated by 'global warming' enthusiasts.
"All of us are very much in favour of maximum environmental protection and protection of nature," said President Vaclav Klaus during a follow-up interview for a Cato podcast. "But it has nothing in common with environmentalism, which is ideological and practically attacking our freedom."
Environmentalism is, he said "a way of introducing new forms of statism, new forms of masterminding human society from above." The Czech President noted that the citizens of his nation experienced communism first hand giving them awareness of agendas of domination. It is, he said, "something we feel very strongly about because our experience with communism gives us very special sensitivity in this respect."
Almost as if on queue, Gordon Brown, likely to replace Tony Blair as the next British prime minister, delivered a speech today calling for a "new world order" to combat global warming. He called on the United Nations to make the fight against global warming a core "pillar" of its international mission.
The warnings of President Klaus come as no surprise to the pro-life movement which has warned for years that Kyoto and similar proposals to counter global warming have at their core a population control agenda.
According to scientists who contest the science behind global warming, the faithful followers of the environmentalist religion do not sanction dissent. Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, told the Sunday Telegraph that he has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.
"I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust," said Ball. "That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal."
The Telegraph also reports that Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently stated that: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges." Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, concurred: "The Green movement has hijacked the issue of climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only way to deal with the problem is to start micro managing everyone, which is what environmentalists seem to want to do."
To hear the podcast interview with President Klaus:
http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/presidentvaclavklaus_environmentalismasreligion_20070312.mp3
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Protection of Religious Freedom Undertaken by U.S.
Attorney General Initiative
Government will create Justice Department Task Force on Religious Liberty
- By Gudrun Schultz
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales launched a new initiative Feb. 20 to better protect freedom of religion in the country, in a project known as The First Freedom Project - religious freedom is listed first in the Bill of Rights and is a "fundamental freedom on which so many of our other freedoms rest," said a statement released by the Department of Justice.
"Preserving religious liberty requires an ongoing commitment to protecting this most basic freedom for people of all faiths," Gonzales said. He announced the project in a speech to the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention last month.
"One of our most cherished freedoms, one we've sacrificed greatly to defend, is our religious liberty," the attorney general said at the SBC Building in Nashville, Tenn. "Nothing defines us more as a nation and differentiates us more from the extremists who are our enemies than our respect for religious freedom. Our great country was founded on these principles, and many of us today believe it continues to thrive because of, not despite, them."
The Freedom First Project is based on a foundational commitment to "continued expansion of enforcement of civil rights statutes protecting religious liberty," the DOJ statement said.
Among the commitments set out by the Project is the creation of a Justice Department Task Force on Religious Liberty, set up to review current department polices on religious liberty, to oversee religious liberty cases and to work on improving communication with concerned communities.
As well, the Justice Department wants to hold a series of seminars throughout the country to better educate the public about the laws that ensure religious freedom is protected, and to offer instruction on how to file complaints.
"The attorney general's desire to address a major meeting of SBC leaders to announce this initiative shows both the importance of the issue and the commitment of the justice department at the highest levels to defend every individual American's religious freedom rights, particularly their free exercise rights, which are too often infringed," Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told the Baptist Press.
"This initiative is needed and should make a real difference. When individuals find themselves in a confrontation concerning their free exercise rights, it helps to have the attorney general and the Department of Justice on your side."
The announcement of the initiative was accompanied by the release of a report documenting efforts taken by the DOJ to enforce religious liberty laws over the past five years. Entitled Report on Enforcement of Laws Protecting Religious Freedom: Fiscal Years 2001-2006, the document shows an increased emphasis on enforcing religious liberty legislation, including laws banning religious discrimination in employment and public education, and laws preventing zoning authorities from discriminating against houses of worship and religious schools.
"I am here to ask the Southern Baptist Convention, and all of you in this room, for your help," the attorney general said. "The Department of Justice has many tools to protect religious freedoms in this country, and we are using them. But even with all of our passion and our dedication to this cause, we cannot do it alone.... I am so very glad to be here among men and women who understand and share our commitment."
To read a transcript of Attorney General Gonzales' comments:
http://www.usdoj.gov./
To access First Freedom Project webpage:
http://www.firstfreedom.gov/
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Vatican Prelate: Catholics will "do everything
possible" to prevent Homosexual Civil Unions
Bishop Sgreccia, says, "Everything based on untruths is destined to damage
someone, if not many people." - By Gudrun Schultz
VATICAN CITY, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Legislation permitting de facto and same-sex unions would be so damaging to family life and society that Catholics will do "everything possible" to ensure the laws do not pass, the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life said last week.
"Catholics will do everything to shed light on the debate, and will do everything possible so that these proposals will not pass," said Bishop Elio Sgreccia, during a press conference at Vatican Radio. "Everything based on untruths is destined to damage someone, if not many people."
Zenit News Agency reported March 7 on Bishop Sgreccia comments at the Rome launch of a book on the issue by Carlo Casini, a European Parliamentary member representing Italy. Casini's book was titled "Unioni di fatto, matrimonio, figli: tra ideologia e realtà" (De Facto Unions, Marriage, Children: Between Ideology and Facts), published in Italian by Società Editrice Fiorentina.
Bishop Sgreccia said the Church's objections to de facto unions simply upheld laws established by international and national legislation, recognizing the family as the foundation of human society. The bishop referred to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights where it states that "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state."
"If family stability is weakened, the fundamental group unit of society is also weakened," Bishop Sgreccia said.
Homosexual unions would go "against a law of nature," he said, since "in the corporality of man and woman there is written natural and structural complementarity pertaining to emotional life, sexual life and the procreation of children."
"Natural law expresses the good sense" of that union between a man and a woman, Bishop Sgreccia said.
Further, the family is essential for economic health and social progress.
"If we wish to see an economy that has as its main unit family health, then we must take into account that the de facto families, constitutionally precarious, are the source, as well as divorce and separations, of social and economic instability."
Far from encouraging the establishment of de facto unions, "the state would do well in helping youth by teaching them the formation of a true family, with a civic or religious marriage, but stable, and with an eased access to house and work."
"This is where the money should be spent," said the bishop, "and not creating marital precariousness."
Permitting legal unions apart from marriage injures young people by "placing them in a situation that does not give security, that does not give stability or serenity."
At the same time, legalizing homosexual unions does not address the real needs of people dealing with same-sex attraction, the bishop said.
"[G]ay pride certainly does not help them in overcoming their suffering, which instead must be faced with human understanding, with medical and psychological sciences, and with promotional attitudes of all the good qualities that exist in these persons."
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Vatican Bishop: Humanity Heading for "Self-Genocide"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07012607.html
Bishop Sgreccia Named President of Pontifical Academy For Life
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05010308.html
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Polish People Support Pro-Life Constitutional Amendment - By Hilary White
WARSAW, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The people of Poland are remaining firm as the country struggles to remain steadfastly opposed to expansion of abortion. A poll by Polska Grupa Badawcza has found that a majority of Poles support strengthening the law protecting human life from conception to natural death.
52.4% of Poles would support a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and euthanasia in all cases. Currently abortion is legal in cases where the pregnancy is due to rape or incest or there are foetal abnormalities. Only 15% were definitely against an amendment.
Currently, while the rate of abortions in Poland is relatively low because of legal restrictions, the numbers are rising and international groups are agitating, as in most countries with strong protections for the unborn, for wider permissions.
In response to the pressure from international abortion-activists, one party has begun a movement to have the right to life enshrined in the Polish constitution. The League of Polish Families (LPR) is seeking a constitutional amendment that would guarantee "the legal right to life from the moment of conception."
In 2003, the UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), warned that a move was afoot in the EU to have the right to abortion installed in the European Constitution. In countries such as Ireland and Argentina, where the right to life is a constitutional matter, abortion pushers have had a more difficult time overturning the law.
Media and European abortion supporters have reacted as expected and are receiving some support within Poland's political culture as well. Poland's First Lady, Maria Kaczynska, responding to the debate, said that Poland's protections of the unborn and vulnerable patients and elderly are sufficient.
The First Lady's objection to the pro-life proposal came at a meeting held on International Women's Day, an observance established by the United Nations to help promote the feminist movement's international agenda. Polish Radio reports that the meeting was held at the presidential palace and was attended by "well-known leftist feminists."
Krzysztof Bosak of the League of Polish Families told Polish Radio, "We introduced this proposition because we want Poland to be a truly democratic country where fundamental human rights are respected. The abortion law that we have now is eugenic. It divides people into those who deserve to be born and those who don't. We cannot accept that in the 21st century. We believe that all people deserve human rights - also those who are disabled."
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Poland may End Rape/Incest Abortion Exception
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06102505.html
UK Pro-Life Group Warns EU Constitution May Establish Continental 'Right' to
Abortion on Demand
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/nov/03111101.html
Malta Pro-Life Urges Constitutional Protection for Unborn
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06110702.html
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New Toronto Archbishop Speaks to Life And Family Issues
Would like to see the church take a more prominent role in secular media - by
Tony Gosgnach, Assistant Editor, The Interim
TORONTO, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - He is taking over the leadership of Canada's largest English-speaking Catholic diocese - with some 1.7 million adherents, 225 parishes and four missions - at a pivotal time in this country's history, when abortions now number over 100,000 yearly in Canada, same-sex "marriage" has been legalized, the traditional family is otherwise under assault by widespread divorce and co-habitation and pornography outsells Hollywood movies, among other serious social problems.
Archbishop Thomas Collins has some ideas on how the situation can be addressed. The former archbishop of Edmonton says he plans to give voice to Catholic values in the public sphere as his new ministry takes shape.
"We are a very important community within the greater community of society," he said. "We are important numerically, we are significant historically … and we are important in terms of the contribution we make to the common good of all society … I think, to put it mildly, we have earned a place at the table."
Collins was installed as the 10th archbishop of Toronto at St. Michael's Cathedral on Jan. 30. He was born in 1947 and ordained to the priesthood in 1973. He served as bishop of St. Paul, Alta. from 1997-1999 and as archbishop of Edmonton from 1999 until his appointment to Toronto. He sat down with The Interim in his office the day after his installation to talk about his plans for life and the family in his diocese in the coming years.
Collins said with respect to the traditional family, the church has to remain focused on the central reality that marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman, faithful in love and open to the gift of life. "It becomes, therefore, very important to appreciate how that great reality can be strengthened. I would say one very, very great way of doing that would be for people to study the teachings of Pope John Paul II in the Theology of the Body (an integrated vision of the human person - body, soul, and spirit)… I think it's very important to popularize that, where the intense writings of the Holy Father are made more accessible to everybody."
On human life, Collins reiterated the Catholic church's teaching that life is sacred from the first moment of conception to natural death. In promoting that ethic, he would like to see the church first emphasize providing positive alternatives to those contemplating abortion or other life-ending actions such as assisted suicide or euthanasia. "I think we are mistaken if we start with the negative response. We should start with the positive."
Second, Collins would like to promulgate to others not directly faced with a life-and-death situation the sacredness-of-life ethic. "Our advertising, our advocacy, our public emphasis, should be totally or almost totally in that dimension … If people only realized the precious gift of human life, a person made in the image and likeness of God, no matter how vulnerable, no matter how small, no matter how old and how frail … that is the greatest barrier to the terrible realities we're aware of in terms of abortion, euthanasia and other things."
Collins added it is the reduction of other human beings to the status of objects that leads to the death-dealing manifestations modern civilization is seeing today. "When they do that, then anything goes. I think that has happened, so people don't see a problem … Our second phase or dimension of what we should emphasize is to provide a radiant, clear vision of the dignity of the human person throughout the whole continuum of life."
Third, Collins said the church needs to deal with "elements within our social reality" that are against this ethic and are moving in the direction of the "culture of death."
"But I think you first put the emphasis on practical assistance … We need to be involved in providing positive, practical alternatives and second, providing a vision of the culture of life … We stress the virtue and leave no room for the vice. If we simply stress the vice, we'll spend all our time on that and that's ultimately not the most fruitful way of approaching things."
In conclusion, Collins indicated he would like to see the church take a more
prominent role in the secular media, as did other great Catholics of the past
such as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and G.K. Chesterton. "This is where we should
be … We need to reach outwards in a respectful, creative and energetic way to
be present … We can't be complaining about the popular culture not being in
tune with the culture of life and say, 'Oh, isn't that too bad?' Very well -
what are we doing about it?"
This article was originally published in the March 2007 Interim newspaper
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Scottish Bishop: Labour Party's Anti-Family Policies
have Lost Catholic Support
Charges party creating "new kind of morality devoid of any Christian principle
or background" - By Gudrun Schultz
SCOTLAND, United Kingdom, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Scotland's Labour Party will feel the increasing distress of the country's Catholics over liberal moral policies in the coming May election, warned a senior Scottish bishop Sunday, the Scotsman reported earlier today.
"For generations, including myself, Catholics in their droves tended to vote consistently for the Labour Party," said Bishop Joseph Devine in an interview with Radio 4's Sunday program. "But over the past few months it has been very noticeable, in conversations I've had with all manner of people, that that allegiance has been severely tested to the point, I think, of being broken."
The bishop charged the Labour Party's leadership with creating "a new kind of morality devoid of any Christian principle or background," and said it would be "ill-founded" of the party to assume that traditional support for the party would continue among Scotland's working class.
While Bishop Devine said it was up to the individual Catholic to "exercise their votes responsibly, according to their conscience," he said he would let people know what party he was going to vote for, saying, "I have never done that before."
"I'll not ask people to follow me but if they want to take that lead that's fine enough."
Parliament's decision last year, led by a Labour majority, to permit the adoption of children by same-sex couples was a key factor in losing the party Catholic support, Bishop Devine said. In February 2006 the bishop sent a letter to First Minister Jack McConnell condemning the proposal as "yet another violation of family life."
Saying he was "not prepared to stand by and watch the destruction of Christian values and truth," Bishop Devine said political correctness was hijacking family values.
"What started as a tolerance and compassion for gays has developed into the suppression of the majority heterosexual lifestyle," the bishop stated. "Traditional family values are in the dock and the judge and jury are composed of politically correct extremists."
Bishop Devine said he anticipated voting for the Christian People's Alliance, formed in Scotland in 2001, but would wait until he had heard the policies of all parties before making a final decision.
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Scotland Bishop Blasts Parliament Decision to Allow Gay Adoption
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022703.html
Scotland Bishop Says Homosexual Adoption Being Pushed by "Politically
Correct Zealots"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06040607.html
Scottish Government Says Churches Can Exclude Homosexuals From Adoption
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06061307.html
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Wyoming Priest Denies Communion to Lesbian Activist Couple "Married" in Canada - By Peter J. Smith
GILLETTE, Wyoming, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An activist lesbian couple "married" in Canada may no longer receive Holy Communion in the Catholic Church, after having been told by their pastor that their homosexual behavior and advocacy of same-sex unions prevent them from being Catholics in good standing.
The News-Record, a Gillette newspaper, reports that Rev. Cliff Jacobson, pastor of St. Mathew's Catholic Church, informed Leah Vader and Lynne Huskinson by letter that "because of your union and your public advocacy of same-sex unions, that you are unable to receive communion."
Rev. Jacobson told the News-Record that Vader and Huskinson's public advocacy of same-sex "marriage" created a public scandal mandating the church to take action with support from the Cheyenne Diocese. Vader and Huskinson, who attended St. Matthew's since 1998 and later were "married" in Canada, wrote a number of newspaper articles advocating same-sex "marriage" and vociferously opposed a marriage bill that would prevent Wyoming from recognizing same-sex "marriages" from other states, such as their own.
"We're not the bedroom police," said Rev. Jacobson. "That ultimately comes between the person and God, but it puts it in a much different light with a public nature."
"It's the idea of scandal, we profess our faith and belief as Catholics on one level, and practice something else at a public level."
The letter shocked Vader, who described herself as having "grown up" in the Catholic Church, attended Catholic school, and received Holy Communion every week until forbidden by Rev. Jacobson's March 1 letter.
"This is the one food we all need," Vader told the News-Record. "Of all the sacraments, it's the one that should be taken frequently."
"It's surprising that it's so specific and personal and being done through this letter," Vader remarked, adding that the Church's action "sends a big fat message to gay people."
However, reception of Holy Communion is not a right in the Church, and the confusion created by the lesbian couple's self-proclaimed behavior required Rev. Jacobson to enforce canon law 915: "Those [...] who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."
According to the Catholic Church, same-sex "marriage" is impossible,
because Divine law decrees marriage to be a permanent exclusive union of a man
and a woman for their mutual assistance and the procreation of children. The
Church also teaches homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and contravene
God's plan for human sexuality in marriage.
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Culprit in US Population Shortages
"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last
30 years?" Miller asks - By Peter J. Smith
MACON, Georgia, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Former US Senator Zell Miller blamed abortion as the reason why the United States faces shortages of military manpower, the impending collapse of its social security system, and depends on illegal immigration.
The pro-life former Democrat appeared as the featured speaker for a fundraising banquet last Tuesday for the Sav-A-Life Care Center, which counsels women contemplating abortion. The Center was raising money to buy ultrasound equipment in order to become a health clinic.
"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?" Miller asked his audience. "Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We're too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973."
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security," the former Georgia governor said. "Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this."
Miller praised the number of cures developed through adult stem-cell therapies, and condemned embryonic stem research as abortion on a smaller scale.
"It is not a proper fate for a human being made in God's image...killing is wrong when it is called abortion and it is just as wrong when it is called research."
Miller became a pro-life champion in the US Senate after a conversion that began in the 1990s, and has generated controversy by criticizing his party's absolute dependence on ultraliberal activists and the abortion lobby, esp. in his 2003 book A National Party No More: the Conscience of a Conservative Democrat. The former senator even went so far as to break ranks with his party to endorse George Bush's re-election in 2004 and give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention.
Linking abortion to the population shortage faced in the United States, however, has been politically dangerous and unpopular. Republican state Sen. Nancy Schaefer made a similar statement nearly a year ago only to retract her statements after an unfavorable reception in the mainstream media.
However, Miller made it clear he will not back down from his statements, and urged other Americans to take a courageous stand against abortion.
"And sometimes in the life of a nation, a time comes when men and women of conscience and courage have to stand up and be counted and say, 'Enough! No more, this cannot continue.'"
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6. Lifeissues.net Newsletter #314 - March 11, 2007
Dear Friends for Life,
We are told that the current warming of our climate will bring major hardships and economic dislocations - untold human suffering, especially for our children and grandchildren. The views of scientists on greenhouse gases, climate change, and the likely impacts are even more lopsided when they blame overpopulation for this. The overwhelming consensus opinion is: 1) the earth is warming; 2) human activities are responsible; 3) left unchecked, the impact will be large, potentially catastrophic.
In his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, Cardinal George Pell - archbishop of
Sydney said people have been "subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate
disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us."
"What we were seeing from the doomsdayers was an induced dose of mild hysteria,
semi-religious if you like, but dangerously close to superstition," he
said. "I would be surprised if industrial pollution, and carbon emissions,
had no ill effect at all. But enough is enough."
He cited some scientific evidence to try to make sense of it and noted that
the evidence on warming is, in fact, mixed. He noted that:
o Global warming has been increasing constantly since 1975 at the rate of less than one-fifth of a degree centigrade per decade.
o The concentration of carbon dioxide increased surface temperatures more in winter than in summer and especially in mid and high latitudes over land, while there was a global cooling of the stratosphere.
o The East Anglia University climate research unit found that global temperatures did not increase between 1998 and 2005.
o A recent NASA satellite found that the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 years. (Source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8678)
These are indeed cool facts for hot controversies on global warming.
God Bless, Marlon Castillo Ramirez, Assistant Editor
(A Thought:) On a 1990 Barbara Walters TV special, Gibson stated his opposition to birth control, infidelity and abortion. He said, "God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn't. That decision doesn't belong to us." - Mel Gibson, Hollywood actor and director.
Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #314 - March 11, 2007
Table Of Contents:
1. Boston Woman Sues Planned Parenthood After Failed Abortion Of Twins
2. Top India State Court Rules Unborn Child Is "Living Person"
3. Polish Government Would Hike Support For Large Families
4. Family Policy Group Confirms Spain As Country
With Least Assistance For Families
5. Council Of Andalusia Authorizes Euthanasia For Handicapped Spanish Woman
6. 100 Million Women Missing Due To Selective Abortion, Women's Groups Tell
United Nations
7. Mother Given Chance For More Children
8. End-Of-Life Teaching More Than 'Dilemmas, Controversies,' Priest Says
9. Swedes Forewarn Of "Abortion Paradise"
10. Poll: Support For Abortion Dropping, More Americans Want It Illegal
11. When Killing Yourself Isn't Suicide
12. Women Speak Out About Abortion Pain At UN-NY
Focus On Asia: South Korea Researchers Seek New Ways to Get Embryonic Stem Cells
In the wake of an international scandal that saw one of the world's top embryonic stem cell researchers come under fire for completely faking his studies, scientists in South Korea are now looking at alternative ways of collecting embryonic stem cells that don't involve the destruction of human life. Prof. Han Yong-mahn of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is heading up several government-funded projects to find new methods. To weed out ethical debate, we started last November, with financial support from the government, to delve into new technologies for creating human stem cells without using embryos, Han told the Korea Times. http://www.lifenews.com/bio2017.html
Item #1. Boston Woman Sues Planned Parenthood After
Failed Abortion Of Twins
A Massachusetts woman who went to Planned Parenthood hoping for a successful abortion of her twin babies has filed a lawsuit against the abortion business for botching the procedure. Jennifer Raper, who is 45, wants it to pay for the cost of raising her two children.
In the three-page lawsuit, Raper says she learned she was pregnant in March
2004 and decided to have an abortion because she couldn't afford to have children.
According to a Boston Globe report, Allison Bryant did the abortion on Raper
at a Planned Parenthood facility but the complaint said it "was not done
properly, causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant."
View full file at Life News: http://www.lifenews.com/state2143.html
Item #2. Top India State Court Rules Unborn Child
Is "Living Person"
An Indian state consumer court has delivered an unprecedented ruling in favour
of a woman seeking an insurance claim on the death of an unborn child--the court
determined that the unborn baby was a living human being entitled to personhood
and required the insurance company to pay the claim.
Kanta Kotecha filed the claim on the deaths of her husband, her son and daughter-in-law, and her unborn grandchild of seven months gestation, who were all killed in a tragic automobile accident, The Times of India reported March 6.
View full text at Life Site News: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030702.html
Item #3. Polish Government Would Hike Support For
Large Families
Poland's finance minister, Zyta Gilowska, has announced plans to give 17.5 billion
zloty (nearly $6 billion) in government aid to families by 2014. The government
program envisions a major increase in government support for families, which
is currently set at 120 zloty ($40) per year annually, and a 2-week extension
for government-mandated maternity leaves, which currently are fixed at 18 weeks.
The program is a response to complaints from the League of Polish Families,
a party that has joined the center-right governing coalition, that the current
tax system discriminates against large families. The party has argued that support
for larger families is necessary to reverse the country's demographic decline.
View full text at Catholic World News: http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49709
Item #4. Family Policy Group Confirms Spain As
Country With Least Assistance For Families
The Institute for Family Policy in Spain unveiled a report today entitled "Assistance
for Children in Spain," which indicates a lack of interest in supporting
families on the part of the government of President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
The report also confirms that of the 25 countries that make up the European
Union, Spain provides the least amount of assistance to the family.
"Today out of the 25 EU [countries], Spain is the one that provides the
least assistance to families, allotting only 0.5% of its GDP. Moreover, it's
the only European country that does not allot at least 1% of its GDP,"
the report explains.
View full text at CNA: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8807
Item #5. Council Of Andalusia Authorizes Euthanasia
For Handicapped Spanish Woman
In a controversial case in which the distinction between euthanasia and the
discontinuation of extraordinary medical treatment has been blurred, the government
of the Spanish region of Andalusia has authorized a woman suffering from muscular
dystrophy to disconnect the respirator that is keeping her alive.
The Committee on Ethics of the Council of Andalusia announced its support for the request by Inmaculada Echevarria, who argued that hers was not a case of active euthanasia, but a rejection of further treatment.
Yet, despite her claim, Echevarria is not terminally ill and the artificial
respirator she uses is not prolonging her life but rather supporting her so
she does not die of asphyxiation. The decision by the Council will shield the
doctors who disconnect the respirator from legal liability.
View full text at Catholic News Agency: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8798
Item #6. 100 Million Women Missing Due To Selective
Abortion, Women's Groups Tell United Nations
The IPF (Institute for Family Policy) and 18 other organizations from around
the world - all with UN consultative status presented a report last week at
the 51st session of the Committee on the Situation of Women, which is taking
place in the United Nations Head Quarters in New York from 26 February to 10
March.
The report addresses the situation of female children in various countries, and focuses particularly on the discrimination against them practiced in many countries, including denial of the basic right to be born.
The report reveals that 100 million women are missing from today's world as a result of selective abortion and female infanticide. 80 million of the missing women are due to selective abortions in India and China. And in other Asiatic countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia) female infanticide is giving way to selective abortion.
See the full article at Lifesite News: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030608.html
Item #7. Mother Given Chance For More Children
Sarah Ruddell-Briaris asked to be sterilized after her son Conor died of a degenerative
disorder as she could not bear the thought of losing another child. But the
35-year-old from Cheshunt, Herts, was persuaded to think again by her doctor.
Now, eight years later, she has gone on to have two daughters after being reassured
by the new blood test.
Her first son, Kane, was born in July 1990 and is now a healthy 16-year-old.
But his brother Conor, born three years later, had adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).
The disease attacks myelin, the insulation around the nerves, leading to increasing
disability.
Source: Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/05/nblood105.xml
Item #8. End-Of-Life Teaching More Than 'Dilemmas,
Controversies,' Priest Says
Church teaching on end-of-life issues is much more than "dilemmas and controversies,"
a priest-physician told a gathering of Catholic health care ethicists in Chicago
March 1.
"Don't let people hijack our church anymore," said Jesuit Father Myles N. Sheehan, a geriatric oncologist who is senior associate dean for educational programs at the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago.
"Let's pay attention to church teaching and not to what someone reads in this liberal magazine or that conservative magazine," he added, noting that the 46-page "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services" is "a three-line document to the rest of the world."
View entire text at Catholic News Service: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0701215.htm
Item #10. Poll: Support For Abortion Dropping,
More Americans Want It Illegal
A new national poll conducted last month by ABC News and the Washington Post
finds that the level of support for legalized abortion is on the decline. Meanwhile,
the number of people who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases
in on the rise.
The media outlets conducted the poll from February 22-25 with telephone interviews with 1,082 American adults and it has a three percent margin of error.
The poll asked respondents: "Do you think abortion should be legal in
all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in most cases or illegal in all cases?"
View full text at Lifesite News: http://www.lifenews.com/nat2961.html
Item #11. When Killing Yourself Isn't Suicide
The deconstruction of language, with disregard for facts and accurate definitions,
is infecting medical and health-care ethics and policies. Case in point: In
order to further the legitimization of assisted suicide, the American Public
Health Association (APHA) embraced the political advocacy of assisted-suicide
supporters in November when it decided that "physician-assisted suicide"-an
accurate and descriptive term-should be replaced with the euphemistic advocacy-phrase
"aid in dying." At its annual meeting, the organization approved an
interim policy:
Urges health educators, policy-makers, journalists and health care providers
to recognize that the choice of a mentally competent, terminally ill person
to choose to self-administer medications to bring about a peaceful death is
not "suicide," nor is the prescribing of such medication by a physician
"assisted suicide." Urges terms such as "aid-in-dying" or
"patient-directed dying" be used to describe such a choice.
This policy will become permanent if confirmed by the APHA's governing council
in 2007.
Read full article at National Review: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGYwNWM4Y2EwODRjOTViZjI4ZTJjZTQ0M2Q4NWRhZjI=
Item #12. Women Speak Out About Abortion Pain At
UN-NY
A group of women from across Canada who know the pain and experience of abortion
first hand, are speaking out at the UN this week. Melony, Lorraine, Evelyn,
Maria and Denise, each with their own devastating story and negative impact
abortion has had on their lives and bodies. They are participating in a workshop
at the United Nations' 51st Conference on the Status of Women (CSW) in NY, on
March 6th, 2007. This workshop entitled, "Breast Cancer & Reproductive
HEALTH" is featuring Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a Breast Cancer Surgeon and
Joel Brind, PhD, co-founders of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. The
priority theme for the 2007 CSW is The Elimination of all forms of discrimination
and violence against women.
This team of women from Canada Silent No More an outreach to post abortive women across Canada believe that, "Induced abortion is the greatest crime against women and children in this generation", states Denise Mountenay Founder and President heading up the workshop. "Our mission is to expose the lies and rhetoric of the abortion advocates and providers and help, educate and empower women on the benefits of motherhood."
See the full article at Christian Newswire: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/767252387.html
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Fr. Jerry's lectures this year will emphasis "The Asian Family at Crossroads:
Life Issues, Trends and Challenges". For Lectures in Asia: contact Fr.
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7. Lifeissues.net Newsletter #315 - March 18, 2007
Dear Friends for Life,
The battle over same sex marriage simply can't keep quiet. It's a thorny issue in the United States. This is hardly surprising, considering that it had stirred much debate in other Western countries prior to gaining acceptance in Scandinavia and Canada. But the battle over same-sex marriage is shaping into something more than deep societal tradition vs. civil rights. It is becoming a conflict of equality vs. religious liberty.
Government's interest in marriage has been based primarily on its interest in the welfare of the next generation. Among the many types of social relationships, marriage has always had a special place in all legal traditions, because it is the essential foundation of the intact family, and no other family form has been able to provide a commensurate level of social security.
When marriage is redefined so as to make other relationships equivalent to it, the institution of marriage is devalued and further weakened. Marriage is a gift to be cherished and protected.
God Bless, Marlon Castillo Ramirez, Assistant Editor
(A Thought:) "The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors." - Charles Péguy
Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #315 - March 18, 2007
Table Of Contents:
1. Study: Women Having Abortions More Likely To Engage In Child Abuse
2. Many Alzheimer's Caregivers Seek Help In God
3. Canadian National Paper Editorial Warns Of "Full-Blown Fertility Crisis"
4. Restrict Late-Term Abortions, Former Health Minister Urges
5. French Euthanasia Trial Begins As Practice Spreads Across Europe
6. Top General Calls Homosexuality Immoral
7. Minister Protests Same-Sex Union Ban With A Halt To All Weddings
8. French High Court Affirms Lower Courts' Rejection Of Gay 'Marriage'
9. Scrap State Support For Cloning, Archbishop Argues
10. Pro-Life Chileans Seek Legal Protection For The Unborn
11. Sterilized Roma Accuse Czechs
12. Italy Baby Boy Dies When Doctors Do Erroneous Abortion After Bad Test
Focus On Asia: Human Rights Group Honors China Forced Abortion Activist Chen Guangcheng.
An international human rights group that recognizes those who have made contributions to society by speaking out against injustice has given an award to Chen Guangcheng. Chen is the Chinese activist who was jailed on bogus charges after exposing a brutal family planning campaign there. China's family planning policy, which allows families in most places there to have just one child, frequently results in violence and intimidation against women and their loved ones.
(Source: http://www.lifenews.com/int216.html)
Item #1. Study: Women Having Abortions More Likely
To Engage In Child Abuse
A new study finds that women who have a history of abortion are more likely
to abuse children born from subsequent pregnancies. The study, published in
the Internet Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology, confirms previous research,
which suggests that there is a link between abortion and child abuse.
The study is based on an analysis of data on 237 low-income women in Baltimore who had physically mistreated or neglected at least one of their children or allowed someone else to do so.
While all the women in the study had some connection with child maltreatment or neglect, the authors found that those who reported a history of abortion reported significantly more frequent acts of physical violence, such as slapping, hitting or beating, directed at their children.
View full file at Life News: http://www.lifenews.com/nat2984.html
Item #2. Many Alzheimer's Caregivers Seek Help
In God
The study found that about one-third of people caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's
disease felt "more religious" because of the experience. The study,
which surveyed 650 adults nationwide, was conducted by Harris Interactive on
behalf of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.
The survey found that 36% of respondents, who identified themselves as religious or nonreligious, said they felt "more religious." This feeling was more pronounced among African American respondents, with 48% saying that's how they felt.
View full text at L.A. Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-alzheimer14mar14,0,5706486,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Item #3. Canadian National Paper Editorial Warns
Of "Full-Blown Fertility Crisis"
Canadians are more materialistic, career-oriented and irreligious than Americans,
which is why women have no more than one or two children; an article by the
Canadian Press explains the reasons for the low Canadian birth rate.
The 2006 census data were released Tuesday by Statistics Canada showing the Canadian birth rate at 1.5 children per woman. 2.1 is necessary to maintain a stable population with no growth.
An editorial in today's National Post proposes a solution that is getting little mention in the mainstream press: "start making babies." The Post points to the example of France with its generous tax subsidies for couples with children that have "spurred a mini-renaissance in the country's birth rate."
View full text at Life Site News:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07031404.html
Item #4. Restrict Late-Term Abortions, Former Health
Minister Urges
Dr. Umberto Veronesi, an Italian oncologist and former health minister, has
proposed a revision in the country's law on abortion, barring the practice after
the 22nd week of pregnancy.
Italian law currently allows abortion through the 24th week of pregnancy. But Veronesi pointed to the recent furor created by the birth of a baby in Florence who had briefly survived a late-term abortion. Although he made it clear that he favors legal abortion-- and criticized Italian laws against in vitro fertilization-- the former health minister told an audience in Milan that limits were required by medical standards.
View full text at CWNews:
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49861
Item #5. French Euthanasia Trial Begins As Practice
Spreads Across Europe
Advocates of assisted suicide always claimed that legalizing the practice in
nations like the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium would never open the door
for euthanasia. But a French doctor and nurse are the latest on trial for killing
a patient without his consent in what is becoming an epidemic across the continent.
Laurence Tramois, a doctor, and Chantal Chanel, a nurse, both were the subjects of a trial that begin on Monday morning concerning the death of a 65-year-old patient.
View full text at Life News:
http://www.lifenews.com/bio2022.html
Item #6. Top General Calls Homosexuality Immoral
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality
to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel
to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral, the newspaper reported on its Web site. "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way," Pace told the newspaper in a wide-ranging interview.
See the full article at Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201420.html
Item #7. Minister Protests Same-Sex Union Ban With
A Halt To All Weddings
An Episcopal minister will stop performing all wedding ceremonies to protest
the denomination's prohibition of same-sex unions.
"We are called to join the fast that our homosexual brothers and sisters in Christ have had to observe all their lives," said the Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, rector of Grace Episcopal Church.
Several members of the congregation say they support Hirschfeld's move, which he announced in his Sunday sermon. Others said they were concerned that that the move might add to the polarization of an issue that has already divided Episcopals.
View full text at Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/03/12/minister_protests_same_sex_union_ban_with_a_halt_to_all_weddings/
Item #8. French High Court Affirms Lower Courts'
Rejection Of Gay 'Marriage'
Yesterday, France's highest court upheld the decision of a lower court and rejected
the 2004 'marriage' of two homosexual men. The court declared the marriage annulled
declaring that "under French law, marriage is a union between a man and
a woman."
In 2004, Noel Mamére, Mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Begles, illegally 'married' the two men despite a prior warning from then President Jean-Pierre Raffarin that "any elected official who does not respect the law in this matter will be exposed to the sanctions provided for by the law." Mamére ignored both the law and the warning and carried out the ceremony. The state prosecutor immediately initiated annulment proceedings for the 'marriage' and Mamére was publicly criticized by several political figures and received a month long suspension of his mayoral duties as punishment.
View entire text at LifeSiteNews:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07031401.html
Item #9. Scrap State Support For Cloning, Archbishop
Argues
Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, Australia, has denounced a proposal to enact
a new law in the state of Victoria allowing "therapeutic cloning."
The archbishop was responding to an announcement by Victoria's prime minister, Steve Bracks, that he would back new state legislation allowing the cloning of human embryos for the purpose of obtaining stem cells. Archbishop Hart said that cloning of humans is "always unethical," and cannot be justified by medical research.
View entire text at CWNews:
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49859
Item #10. Pro-Life Chileans Seek Legal Protection
For The Unborn
Pro-life groups in Chile are pushing for legislation to give legal status to
human embryos and to the unborn at any stage of development and to assure their
proper burial in case they are aborted.
Veronica Santa Maria of the Network For Life and the Family said her organization, together with other pro-lifers and with Congressman Francisco Chahuan, are working on the details of the legislative proposals.
The initiative began after a number of aborted babies were found in the city of Valparaiso and were given Christian burial. Pro-lifers pointed to the incident as evidence that no legal norm exists allowing for possession of the fetus after an abortion in order to give it proper burial. "This is because in Chile there is no juridical statute that regulates the rights of the embryo," Chahuan said.
View full text at CNA:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8829
Item #11. Sterilized Roma Accuse Czechs
For years these women stayed silent, and some were even ashamed to tell their
own husbands. Only a few years ago did the shocking details start to emerge.
There are allegations that coercive sterilization was used to curb the traditionally high fertility rate among the Roma. Many were offered money, though that was not official policy. Similar cases have been reported in neighboring Slovakia.
The practice officially ended in 1990 after the collapse of communist Czechoslovakia, but a number of doctors are said to have continued the operations on their own initiative.
Read full article at BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6409699.stm
Item #12. Italy Baby Boy Dies When Doctors Do Erroneous
Abortion After Bad Test
The baby boy who became the victim of an abortion after doctors failed a disability
test on him died over the weekend. Physicians advised his mother to have an
abortion after they had misdiagnosed a physical deformity but the boy survived
the procedure. Doctors at the teaching hospital Careggi performed two ultrasounds
on the boy and his mother and they said he had a defective esophagus.
That's a disorder that surgery could have corrected after birth in some cases. However, when they went to abort the baby boy, they discovered he was healthy and desperately tried to resuscitate him.
The boy was born healthy and lived for six days following the failed abortion, which was done at 22 weeks into the pregnancy. Italy's abortion law allows abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy in certain cases but it also requires doctors to do all they can to save the life of a baby who survives a botched abortion attempt. Italy's Health Minister, Livia Tureo, defend the law in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper and said that people who put the abortion law in place 29 years ago could not have predicted that medical technologies would be able to save children born alive at such an early age.
See the full article at Life News:
http://www.lifenews.com/int210.html
Get Involved:
1. Pray Daily that we all may have the courage to be God's presence in society
and strongly support those who have been deemed "unworthy of life".
2. Be Informed at Lifeissues.net website: http://www.lifeissues.net.
3. Become A Missionary For Human Life: "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia" is a project, which appeals for donations to help finance travel expenses for talks to undeveloped countries in Asia.
Fr. Jerry's lectures this year will emphasis "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues, Trends and Challenges". For Lectures in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry. To become a supportive Missionary for Human Life in Asia, kindly send your donations directly 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.
Contact EDITOR:
Jerry Novotny, OMI; Akebono-cho 1-15-9; Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072; Tel/Fax:
088-843-0406; E-Mail: jerry@lifeissues.net
Contact ASSISTANT EDITOR:
Mr. Marlon Castillo Ramirez; Author of Book: "The Sights and Soul of Life";
E-Mail: mcr4lifeissues@gmail.com
Websites by Editor:
English LifeIssues Site: http://www.lifeissues.net,
Japanese LifeIssues Site: http://www.japan-lifeissues.net,
OMI Site: http://www.omijapankorea.net/index.html
8. Merck & California HPV Advocates Behind Deception About Vaccine - March 18, 2007
Vaccine Was Never Intended for Young Girls According to Clinical Trial Director
TEMECULA, Calif., Mar. 14 /Christian Newswire/ - In direct contravention to
information published in legislative analyses by the California State Assembly
on Assembly Bill 16 (Hernandez - D), and yesterday's testimony before the California
Assembly Committee on Health, a proposed mandatory vaccine for a sexually transmitted
disease is not suitable for young girls and would amount to an "experiment."
AB16 proposed a mandate that all girls be vaccinated prior to entering seventh
grade in an alleged effort to prevent cervical cancer.
According to a startling article
published by writer Cindy Bevington of the KPC Media Group, Dr. Diane
M. Harper, a pioneer of a humanpapilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, is claiming that
"the HPV vaccine is not for younger girls" and that requiring all
teen girls to be injected with the vaccine is a "great big public health
experiment." The article further indicates that "such a vaccination
crusade actually could cause the [cancer] numbers to go up." Most importantly,
the article indicates that Dr. Harper says the HPV vaccine "its not been
tested for effectiveness in younger girls, and administering the vaccine to
girls as young as nine may not even protect them at all."
Dr. Harper is the director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group
at the Norris Cotton Center at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire. Dr.
Harper has worked on the vaccine for 20 years.
The startling article further states, "Harper is an independent researcher
whose work is funded through Dartmouth in part by Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline,
which means she is an employee of the university, not the drug companies."
The issue of Merck 'priming the pot' with political contributions to the present
and past authors of the California legislation has become a major issue in the
battle to expose the truth about Merck's push of this vaccine, regardless of
Dr. Harper's concerns, in at least 20 states in the nation.
The concerns of Dr. Harper mirror those that were specifically expressed by
pro-family groups to a committee of 15 California legislators in hearings yesterday
over Assembly Bill 16 (Ed Hernandez-D) in Sacramento, California. The AB16 author
rejected such arguments claiming that they had no basis in science. A UCLA doctor,
serving as a witness for bill proponents at the hearing, failed to mention any
of the clinical trial work by Dr. Harper. Mainstream media sources and others
are failing to mention any of Dr. Harper's findings. One Los Angeles morning
show host (KFI radio), which reaches millions of listeners, has stated that
he wants the vaccine for his daughters yet fails to demonstrate any knowledge
about Dr. Harper's work.
The Pro-Family Law Center in conjunction with Dr. Angela Griffiths, Campaign
for Children and Families, and other pro-family advocacy groups raised concerns
about children being used as "guinea pigs" during the hearings and
in prior written testimony provided to the offices of all 15 members of the
Assembly Health Committee. These prophetic concerns were disregarded by several
of the committee members along with other concerns about parental rights, medical
privacy, and informed patient consent.
Earlier this week, the Pro- Family Law Center stated in its written legislative
analysis that, "According to information published by the CDC and
Merck Pharmaceuticals, it appears that Gardisil was only tested worldwide on
approximately 25,000 people between the ages of 9 and 26. According to the American
College of Pediatricians, the vaccine was tested on only 1121 girls between
the ages of 9 and 15. Furthermore, testing on males has not yet been completed.
As such, it is very likely that the HPV strain- specific vaccine has not been
tested on a study group that could render fully accurate predictions about the
effect of the HPV vaccine on pre-pubescent American children or on girls who
have not otherwise fully matured. As such, it seems rather obvious that you
should not be using children as 'guinea pigs' with respect to their reproductive
health. If you must use this mass experiment with Gardisil as a way of dealing
with HPV, our stated concerns about the scope of information provided to parents
are all the more obvious." Dr. Harper was the director of an international
clinical trial for the Gardisil product and another similar product.
In an effort to educate the public about this issue, the Pro-Family Law Center
has a link to the Bevington article on its website at www.profamilylawcenter.com.
According to the article, "For months, Harper said, she's been trying to
convince major television and print media to listen to her and tell the facts
about the usefulness and effectiveness of the vaccine." PFLC is imploring
all media, pro-family groups, and patients-rights advocates to read this article
before judging the merits of the HPV vaccine.
PFLC has spoken with Cindy Bevington, the author of this shocking article,
and PFLC is very concerned that the information contained in the article is
not reaching those who could be harmed by the rush to judgment proposed by the
authors of AB16.
9. Miss Jamaica World Gives Up Crown For Her Unborn Child - March 18, 2007
By Hilary White
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Miss Jamaica
World 2006 has announced that she will relinquish her beauty pageant crown after
becoming pregnant rather than have an abortion.
Sara Lawrence wrote in a statement, "Having taken a deeply personal decision to face up to my responsibilities as one who expects to become a mother later this year."
The 21 year-old Lawrence is an alumna of Immaculate Conception High School, and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology with an emphasis on Pre-Medicine from Randolph-Macon College, Virginia.
She wrote, "I believe with all that is within me that it is my moral
obligation to do what I believe to be ethically correct and follow what I believe
in my heart to be right."
The Jamaica Observer reports that Lawrence's decision has sparked a debate over abortion in Jamaica. Jamaica Bureau of Women's Affairs, Faith Webster, told the paper that the decision is a reflection of the success of the "choice" campaign for abortion in that country.
"She had a choice and she made that choice. We just have to give people their choice, which is what it's all about, the woman's choice."
Calling her pregnancy the result of "an error of judgment," the Miss Jamaica World pageant authorities said, "There was another way out of the predicament that Sara found herself to be in and many, perhaps most, young women would have chosen that path."
Mickey Haughton-James, the pageant promoter said, "As is typical of her she is doing so in a forthright manner, with class and in keeping with her moral dictates."
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10. Phony Illinois Parental Notice Bill Puts Teens' Health at Risk - March 12, 2007
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Mar. 7 /Christian Newswire/ - The 'Adolescent Health Care Safety Act,' HB 317, (sponsored by Rep. John Fritchey) is a misnamed bill that puts teenagers' health at risk. It enables teenagers to have abortions behind their parents' backs. Instead of notifying their parents, teens can notify a sibling, grandparent, aunt, uncle, clergyman, social worker, doctor, counselor, etc.
Because of the immaturity of the adolescent anatomy, teenagers who have abortions fall into a high-risk group for breast cancer and subsequent premature births. [3,4,5,6,7,8]
Last year, the Institute of Medicine included "prior first trimester abortion" as a risk factor for premature birth. [1] Premature birth is associated with cerebral palsy for children and breast cancer for mothers.
On its website, Planned Parenthood of Australia lists some health risks of abortion, including accepted risk factors for premature birth (infection and cervical and uterine anomaly), suicide, Asherman's syndrome, impaired fertility (a risk factor for breast cancer), etc. [2]
Cancer groups admit that an early first full term pregnancy reduces risk considerably. Consequently, even Dr. Lynn Rosenberg of Boston Medical School, an expert witness for the Center for Reproductive Rights agreed during testimony in 1999 that the young woman who has an abortion has a higher risk than the one who has a baby. [9]
"Parents are the best health care decision-makers for their children," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. "They alone have a comprehensive knowledge of the family's health history."
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
References can be viewed online at:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/070307/index.htm
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To: National & State Desks
Contact: Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 847-421-4000
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Forward this press release to another reporter or news producer:
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11. Pilgrimage - Departing In May 2007 - Posted November 6, 2006
Sponsored by CLC NS.
Departing May 6th, 2007 (7 days)
Motor coach transportation (Air Conditioned). Accommodations for 6 nights, 1
dinner, 6 breakfasts and portage - Travel Insurance Available.
Triple Occupancy $529.00 / person
Twin Occupancy $629.00 / person
Single Occupancy $829.00 / person
All Taxes included.
May 6
Leave NS for Edmundston, NB with stay at the Days Inn. Lunch enroute not included.
May 7
Breakfast included. Travel to Quebec City and Beaupré. Stop at Albert
Gilles Copper Art Museum allow yourself to be seduced by "The Life of Christ"
in 50 hand wrought silver panels (15 years of labour). Check into the Basilica
Inn. Time for prayer and tour sanctuary and attend mass.
May 8
Breakfast included. Travel to Trois-Rivières, and overnight at the Madonna
Inn. Evening dinner and breakfast at the Inn are included. Evening Mass and
weather permitting, participate at the candlelight procession and the
Way of the Cross.
May 9
Morning mass. After included breakfast motor to Ottawa. Afternoon arrival at
Welome Inn. 7:30 pm Pro-life Mass at St. Theresa's followed by a Candlelight
Vigil at 9PM.
May 10
Breakfast included. Meet at Notre Dame Cathedral for 10 am Mass. Gather on Parliament
Hill for 10th Annual March for Life, which begins at 1:30 pm. Silent No More
presentation at 2:45 pm. There is a cocktail and Rose Dinner Banquet at Ottawa
congress Hall at 6 pm. Tickets are not included in package and will have to
be ordered separately. Time permitting either today or on Friday a visit to
Sts. Peter and St. Paul Melkite Church.
May 11
After breakfast included. depart for Montreal, Quebec City and with a late afternoon
arrival at Edmundston, NB at Days Inn.
May 12
Depart to NS after included breakfast. Expect late afternoon arrival in Halifax.
Contact for information and reservations, contact Herm at 1 902 864 1464 or Evangeline Tours PO Box 1149, Middleton, NS B0S 1P0 Don Kelly at Tel. 1-902-825-4506 Toll Free 1 -866-765-2725.
http://www.clcns.com/ or http://www.evangelinechartertours.com/
12. Pro-Family Win Against Mandatory Sex Disease Shot For Girls - March 18, 2007
Pro-Family Advocates Win Skirmish for Parents' Rights on Mandatory Sex Disease
Shot for Girls as Young as Nine
SACRAMENTO, Mar. 14 /Christian Newswire/ - Pro-family advocacy groups
won a battle in a heated skirmish over whether parents ought to have a say-so
about a mandatory vaccination for HPV (human papilloma virus) proposed by California
Assembly Member Ed Hernandez (D) through Assembly Bill 16.
After a flurry of testimony and written analyses by the groups, the bill was
voluntarily tabled by Dr. Hernandez after approval and motion by the Chairman
of the Assembly Health Committee during yesterday's hearing. A vote on AB16,
following anticipated amendments consistent with the concerns of parents- rights
advocates, will take place in April of this year. The Assembly Health Committee
consists of 15 members, most of whom are Democrats.
Representatives of Traditional Values Coalition, Campaign for Children and
Families, Pro-Family Law Center, California Family Council, Capitol Resource
Institute, and Dr. Angela Griffiths all testified in opposition to the bill
which would have mandated vaccination for HPV, a sexually transmitted disease,
before a girl could move on to the seventh grade. The California Catholic Conference
and others also weighed in on the issue through written opposition. The unprecedented
mandate was proposed to be applicable to all private and public schools and
Merck Pharmaceuticals was and is pushing the use of the vaccine for girls as
young as nine. Merck would have likely made billions had the vaccine been forced
onto California families by legislative mandate.
Among other things pointed out by the groups, the Pro- Family Law Center stated
in its written legislative
analysis that, "According to information published by the CDC and
Merck Pharmaceuticals, it appears that Gardisil was only tested worldwide on
approximately 25,000 people between the ages of 9 and 26. According to the American
College of Pediatricians, the vaccine was tested on only 1121 girls between
the ages of 9 and 15. Furthermore, testing on males has not yet been completed.
As such, it is very likely that the HPV strain- specific vaccine has not been
tested on a study group that could render fully accurate predictions about the
effect of the HPV vaccine on pre-pubescent American children or on girls who
have not otherwise fully matured. As such, it seems rather obvious that you
should not be using children as 'guinea pigs' with respect to their reproductive
health. If you must use this mass experiment with Gardisil as a way of dealing
with HPV, our stated concerns about the scope of information provided to parents
are all the more obvious."
PFLC president, Rich Ackerman testified to the Committee that, "I will
not allow my daughter to be a guinea pig for the state. As a parent, I am entitled
to full disclosure as to the risks presented by this vaccine that has only been
out on the market for a year."
Ackerman further states, "I am so incredibly happy that California's pro-family
organizations were able to come together as a cohesive unit and find a way to
reach both sides of the political aisle on parents' rights, informed consent
rights, and patient/child safety issues. We still have a voice in government
and it was heard in unison today." PFLC's analyses can be found at www.profamilylawcenter.com.
13. SkyAngel - Christian And Family TV & Radio Channels - February 15, 2007
I hope everyone recalls an email sent re: SkyAngel in Canada, well here is a sample of what they are doing in relation to the Super Bowl. - Herm
Athletes in Action Super Bowl Breakfast Outreach to Air Super Bowl Sunday in U.S. and Canada on Sky Angel TV Service's Special Events Network, Angel Two Sky Angel to broadcast other AIA sports outreach events in the coming days, weeks and months, including Legends of the Hardwood, NBA All-Star Breakfast, Night of Champions and Legends of the Rodeo
NAPLES, Fla., Feb. 1 /Christian Newswire/ - Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy and Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr will take center stage at the 2007 Super Bowl Breakfast telecast airing multiple times throughout the day this Super Bowl Sunday, February 4, on Sky Angel's Angel Two network.
Angel Two is among the 30-plus Christian and family TV and radio channels carried on the Sky Angel direct-to-home satellite service http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ho7og7bab.0.bth8asbab.tuqepibab.948&ts=S0229&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyangel.com%2F serving the continental U.S. Angel Two is also carried on Sky Angel's new Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ho7og7bab.0.nfto78bab.tuqepibab.948&ts=S0229&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyangel-iptv.com%2F recently launched in Canada. Owned and operated by Sky Angel, Angel Two was created to host special faith-based events, including conferences, documentaries and debates.
The NFL(TM)-sanctioned Super Bowl Breakfast http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ho7og7bab.0.hfyqg7bab.tuqepibab.948&ts=S0229&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superbowlbreakfast.com%2F
is sponsored by Athletes in Action
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(AIA), the sports outreach ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. Now in its
20th year, the event is held in the Super Bowl host city during Super Bowl week
and showcases life stories and personal faith testimonies of Dungy, Starr, and
football stars from both Super Bowl teams. A highlight of the breakfast is the
presentation of the Bart Starr Award to a current NFL player who exemplifies
outstanding character and leadership in the home, on the field, and in the community.
Sky Angel will air the 2007 Super Bowl Breakfast this Sunday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT with encore broadcasts before and after the Super Bowl game at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT and 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. The event will re-air Sunday, February 18, at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT.
Sky Angel will also be broadcasting other Athletes in Action sports outreach events in the coming weeks and months on its Angel Two network, including NBA(TM) All-Star Breakfast on February 25; Legends of the Hardwood on April 1; and Night of Champions on May 18, 19 and 20. In addition, an encore presentation of last December's 2006 Pro-Rodeo Breakfast, a.k.a. Legends of the Rodeo, will be airing this Sunday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, on Angel Two.
Christian Newswire
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14. Top Ten Objections To Sex Selection - March 18, 2007
Top Ten Objections to Sex Selection, by Jennifer Lahl.
Recently Dr. Edgar Dahl, spokesman for the German Society for Reproductive Medicine wrote about the 10 most common objections to sex selection and why he feels they are far from conclusive. His article, published in Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Vol. 14, Suppl. 1 2007 is in response to the recommendation that the British Parliament ought to outlaw sex selection except for the most serious medical reasons. The UK Department of Health concluded that social sex selection should be outlawed while sex selection for serious genetically sex linked diseases should be permitted.
Dahl lists these 10 reasons against sex selection which he refutes along the
way:
I found many faults with Dahl's perspective on sex selection. Besides the fact
that his arguments distinctly ignore the welfare of the child, I was amazed
in his confidence in our ability to control and legislate the desires of parents
to keep selecting more and different traits in our children. The fact that he
suggests we could draw legal lines here
but not on social sex selection is rather naïve! May I suggest one reason
against sex selection. It is an affront to the dignity of the child, to be viewed
as something which is made, manufactured or willed by others. A child created
in the image of the parents shows that we have lost our understanding that we
are begotten
and not made.
15. TV Ads For NS To Begin March 20th - February 27, 2007
TV ads supporting and promoting Adoption ready to go. All parameters have been met, and you can be sure there were many. Here's how it all happened. We talked about TV promotion for life for many years and realized that a budget of 20,000 to 30,000 dollars are necessary for a minimum campaign, based on knowledge from other areas and our TV promotions several years ago with election ads encouraging people to vote pro-life.
Fruition began 22 1/2 years ago with a Gala Dinner held at the WTC with the
Soda Shoppe Gang for entertainment, dinner and silent auction. The dinner was
held under the banner of Positive Options for Women as the name Campaign Life
conjures up political overtones. The proceeds from this dinner were donated
to the JPII (John Paul II Media Institute) on the proviso they would produce
the ads. It has always been an idea
promoted by a board member that the ads would involve local people with local
stories.
The JPII institute along with people from CLC, POW and the community came forward
with their story of adoption and powerful it is. You'll love the ads: abortion
is not mentioned. The ads are to begin March 20th on the Oprah Winfrey Show
and followed on the Dr. Phil Show on ATV. The ads will cover mainline Nova Scotia.
The ads will run on Tues and Thurs on week 1, followed by Mon, Wed, Fri on the
week following
with spots on Alive at Five until the middle of May.
A gracious donor has come forward to make this possible and any funds beyond the budget will be kept in trust for future ads planned for the future. The ads will appear with credits to the JPII Media Center.
A tremendous thank-you and prayers answered to all of our supporters for this magnificent project. It has been said and it is true, that one picketer outside a facility that is doing abortion can change the direction of a young mother towards life. So too it will be with this advertising. One child can make a difference. One only has to look at Gianna Jennsen who survived a saline abortion, and for myself, my grandfather who intervened with his 17-year-old daughter, my mother.
Thanks and God Bless for He is great.
On behalf of CLC Board Members - Herm Wills
16. Why The Heavy Hand In Promoting The HPV Vaccine? - March 18, 2007
Steven W. Mosher, President
PRI Weekly Briefing
9 March 2007
Vol. 9, No. 10
Notes on the HPV Vaccine - By Joseph A. D'Agostino
The efforts to force all American girls to receive a new, unnecessary vaccine with unknown long-term side effects seem to have lost much of their momentum for now. Merck has dropped its campaign to convince states to mandate the vaccine for sixth-grade girls before they can enter school, and strong public resistance has appeared in many states. This curious episode in the history of American public health is likely to be repeated many times over the next decade or two as the health profession grapples with the ever-rising rates of sexually transmitted disease in this country.
Some states are still moving forward with mandatory plans, but generally with allowing parents to opt out of the vaccination program. Even Canada's provinces have so far decided not to distribute the vaccine at government expense.
Forty-five years ago, only two sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were known to have firm footholds in the American population, and they were largely confined to high-risk populations such as prostitutes and sailors. Today, there are at least 26.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of those and is very widespread among sexually active girls and women. Scientists think that the four strains (there are others) of HPV included in Merck's vaccine cause 70% of cervical cancer cases and 90% of the genital warts in the United States. So what's the problem with giving this vaccine to girls?
First, it implicitly normalizes the abnormal state of modern girls'
self-destructive sexual practices. It says that girls as young as 11
could be sleeping around and must receive this vaccine, called Gardasil, for
protection. Rather than spend hundreds of millions on injecting everyone with
this HPV vaccine, a better strategy would be to tackle the culture of promiscuity
instead, especially since Gardasil will do nothing to combat all the other dangerous
STDs girls and women can catch.
Second, like most medical treatments, Gardasil has side effects. National Vaccine Information Center analyst Vicky Debold, RN, Ph.D., says, "The most frequent serious health events after Gardasil shots are neurological symptoms. These young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision, slurred speech, fainting, involuntary contraction of limbs, muscle weakness, tingling and numbness in the hands and feet and joint pain. Some of the girls have lost consciousness during what appear to be seizures." NVIC says that 82 adverse event reports have been filed between July 2006 and January 2007 for Gardasil, suggesting that serious side effects are rare but hardly unheard of.
Third, no one knows what long-term ill effects Gardasil could cause. It is simply too new, and untried in a large population.
The most curious thing about Gardasil was the attempt to force it on 11- and 12-year-old girls across the country. Why was something so new, so relatively untested, with unknown long-term effects so quickly adopted as mandatory by some such as Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R.)? Virginia's Gov. Tim Kaine (D.) is also considering mandating it. Both states will allow for parents to opt their children out.
Obviously, there are the lobbyist connections and campaign cash drug companies have. But there is a more fundamental problem: The assumption that youth sexual promiscuity is here to stay and fierce measures must be taken to combat the resulting diseases, and caution cannot be afforded when a promising new treatment comes along. Would that such energy be directed at keeping pornography away from minors or high school students of opposite sexes away from each other when not chaperoned. These measures would combat all STDs at once and reduce teen pregnancy as well.
It might make sense for parents who believe their girls are at high risk of sexual activity to give their daughters the vaccine, and for girls and young women who intend to sleep around to take it (hopefully, at later ages than 12). Then ten or so years down the road, after the vaccine's effects are better known, perhaps the health profession might encourage - 'not mandate' - more widespread use of the vaccine.
But this cautious, common-sense course was not pursued. Instead, the top-down heavy hand came into play immediately. This attitude of our political class and medical establishment does not bode well for future efforts to combat the rising tide of sexual infections among American youth.
Joseph A. D'Agostino is Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute.
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17. Zell Miller On Abortion, Over 45 Million Killed - March 18, 2007
In Canada the rate is 410 per day or 105,000 a year. In NS, with its small population, there have been 33,519 abortions since 1989 up until 2003 and 2,692,327 from 1970 until 2003 in Canada, which is more than the total population of Atlantic Canada. Comments: Good report!
Zell
Miller: Abortion Killed Over 45 Million
Former Sen. Zell Miller says abortion has claimed the lives of more than 45
million Americans since 1973, and is to blame for manpower shortages in the
U.S. military and the looming Social Security crisis.
"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?" Miller asked during a recent fund-raiser in Macon, Ga. "Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We're too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973."
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending
our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social
Security," Miller said, according to LifeSiteNews.com. "Still, we
watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable
that a nation under God would allow this."
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