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News Items
- March for Life Victoria BC You Tube
- The Climb to Power and Influence by Homosexuals
in Canada
Through the Liberal Government
- Christian Horizon Decision
of the Ontario Human Rights Commission
highlights ongoing confusions and need for strong backbones in response
- Obama vs. The Right to Life some interesting
points.
- Demographic Winter: the decline of the human
family
- Press Conference Against Pornography hitting
the nail on the head.
- Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #371
- Good News: Adult Stem Cells Save Athlete from
Amputation
- New Book From Steve Mosher Explodes the Pro-Abortion
Myth of Overpopulation
- May 13, 2008 Christian Government Website News
- Teens stay informed
on pro-life issues.
- Pregnancy
Resource Group Asks High Court to Encourage Doctors to be Honest with
Patients Considering Abortion
Newsletter
Archive
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1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1O8lneEaR8
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2.
The Climb to Power and Influence by Homosexuals in Canada
Through the Liberal Government
"A cunning and calculated campaign" during the past ten years
By C. Gwendolyn Landolt
National Vice President
REAL Women of Canada
Over the past ten years, Canadians have experienced a revolution in regard to
the homosexual issue. This revolution, whereby homosexuals, who, according to
the 003 census, consist of approximately one per cent of the population, have
acquired enormous power and influence in this country. These new-found rights
of homosexuals have priority over other basic rights, such as freedom of religion,
speech, belief etc.
This has not been accomplished by the will of the public, but rather by a number
of other factors, such as the one-sided promotion of the homosexual issue in
the secular media, judicial activism, and the decisions of human rights tribunals.
However, even these significant institutions could not have brought about the
homosexual revolution by themselves.
The real engine behind the success of the movement was the federal Liberal
government, which undertook a cunning and calculated campaign to achieve recognition
and rights for homosexuals during the past ten years. It was a long, insidious
but successful campaign, achieved step by step, largely accomplished out of
view of the Canadian public.
The Liberal Governments Step by Step Campaign to Legitimize Homosexuality
in Canada
Prime Minister Trudeau:
The first step in the calculated campaign by the Liberal government actually
began long ago, in 1969, by Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when he amended
the Criminal Code to decriminalize homosexual acts for those 21 years of age
and over. In 1987, the Criminal Code was again amended, this time, to lower
the age of consent for homosexual acts to 18 years of age.
Mr. Trudeau was famous (infamous) for his statement that theres no place
for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. He went on to state that Whats
done in private between adults doesnt concern the Criminal Code. However,
the decriminalizing of homosexual acts for those over 21 years of age had the
opposite effect of what he claimed he intended. The decriminalizing of homosexual
acts for those 21 years and older, provided state approval, for the first time,
for homosexual acts to take place, whether in the bedrooms, bathhouses, or even
the parks of this nation.
Since then, a succession of Liberal Ministers of Justice have pulled the strings,
privately and publicly, as well as financially, to further the homosexual cause.
These actions commenced with Justice Minister Allan Rock (1993 1997); followed
by Anne McLellan (1997 2002); Martin Cauchon (2002 2003); and Irwin Cotler
(2003 2006).
The support for the homosexual agenda by this succession of Liberal Justice
Ministers was carried out with the full approval of both Prime Minister Jean
Chretien and Prime Minister Paul Martin.
To read further, go to:
Tuesday February 20, 2007 http://wwwlifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/feb/070220a.html
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3. Christian Horizon Decision of the Ontario Human Rights
Commission
highlights ongoing confusions
and need for strong backbones in response
----- Original Message -----
From: Centre for Cultural Renewal
To: bobeva@vaxxine.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:59 PM
Subject: CentreNews - May 13, 2008
Christian Horizon Decision of the Ontario Human Rights Commission highlights
ongoing confusions and need for strong backbones in response
In this preliminary article (the Centre plans on preparing a LexView on the
Tribunal's Reasons for Judgment) Iain Benson points out that attacks on the
public role and nature of religion are not new. He suggests that firm responses
are called for when groups are threatened by "privatization." Other
examples cited in the article, show how firm responses have, in the past, led
to proper results through law or administrative action. Part of Politics can
be firm stances on the part of threatened organizations.
CentreArticle VOL 158
National Post quotes Centre in article on Religious Faith and Medical Practice
In an excellent article on religious faith in relation to medical practice,
one which highlighted a conference held recently in Toronto involving the Canadian
Catholic Bioethics Institute and at which Iain Benson gave a keynote talk (on
the nature of the "secular"), Charles Lewis quotes a variety of groups
and individuals including the Centre for Cultural Renewal. We are thankful for
the permission to reprint this article for those who may not have seen it when
it first ran in the National Post on the Front Page of the Saturday edition
April 26, 2008.
CentreArticle VOL 157
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4. Obama vs.
The Right to Life
BY The Editors
May 18-24, 2008 Issue | Posted 5/13/08 at 10:49 AM
Its important for Americans to know exactly where Barack Obama stands on abortion,
because abortion is more than just a "Catholic issue." It's one of
the fundamental issues Americans should be most concerned about.
The United States was founded on the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, and Americans have spent the past two centuries since trying
to live up to those founding principles. First came disagreements over the pursuit
of happiness religious and economic liberty. Then, over slavery. Todays big
battle is over the most important right: the right to life.
Obamas votes and official positions deny the right to life to three categories
of human beings: the unborn, the accidentally born and, at least in one case,
the adult unfit. Lets look at each.
/The Unborn/
Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., understood how the right to life
is fundamental. I and my deceased children are victims of abortion, she has
said. The /Roe v. Wade/ decision has adversely affected the lives of my entire
family. I pray often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to
abort my baby.
Obama's position on the question rejects her view.
When the Supreme Court, citing experiences like Kings, decided that a federal
ban on partial-birth abortion would not violate the Constitution, Obama said
he strongly disagreed with the court. Partial-birth abortion is the barbaric
procedure in which a doctor kills a child with scissors while the child is being
born. Obama vows to keep the practice legal.
Obama once described why he thinks abortion should be legal through all nine
months of a womans pregnancy.
Whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the
Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what were
really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds
of protections that would be provided to a child, a 9-month old child that was
delivered to term, he said. That determination then, essentially, if it was
accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place.
How could Obama be so opposed to the right to life? He may have let slip one
reason at a March Town Hall meeting in Pennsylvania.
Look, Ive got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old, Obama said. If
they make a mistake, I dont want them punished with a baby.
He thinks unwanted children, by their very existence, are an unacceptable
imposition.
/Accidental Infants/
This brings us to the next category of human being Obama says has no intrinsic
right to life: Babies born accidentally while a doctor attempts to kill them
by abortion.
This is a necessary consequence of Obamas embrace of abortion throughout all
nine months of pregnancy. Most of us know parents who have cared for preemies
premature babies, born too soon. With the abortion industrys wide-scale attempts
to kill American premies and nearly due children, some will be born alive accidentally.
Whistleblower Jill Stanek, a Chicago nurse, described the practice of killing
babies in what is now known as live-birth abortion. Illinois tried to stop
the practice. But in 2002, as state legislator there, Obama voted against the
Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies who were accidentally
born alive during attempts to abort them.
I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a soiled
utility room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived,
Stanek told the U.S. Congress, describing one such case. He was too weak to
move very much, expending any energy he had trying to breathe. Toward the end
he was so quiet that I couldnt tell if he was still alive unless I held him
up to the light to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall.
After Staneks testimony even N.Y. Democrat Jerrold Nadler, who says he is
as pro-choice as anybody on earth supported and spoke in favor of the bill.
But for the abortion industry and Obama, opposing the right to life has meant
uncompromising dedication to a counter-principle. For Obama, protecting the
unstated principle unwanted children do not have the right to life is the
only way abortion can remain legal. That has led him to exclude another category
of human being from the right to life: the unfit.
/Terri Schiavo/
In a recent debate, Obama said the vote he most regrets was his vote to save
Terri Schiavos life. Her husband, Michael, wanted Terri dead, even though she
was alert and responsive to nurses and family members. He had married again,
had a new child with a new woman, and he wanted Terri dead.
When a judge granted his request, Congress and President Bush attempted to
intervene to save her life, and not just to save her life, but to stop the dangerous
precedent. They failed. Now Obama says they shouldnt have tried.
Thus, he started by rejecting the right to life of unwanted children and now
rejects the right to life of an unwanted woman.
Obama not only opposes the right to life, his opposition is his highest priority.
The first thing Id do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act, he
told Planned Parenthood last July. That would make America more friendly to
the abortion industry than any other country in the world.
/America's Creed/
The idea that there is a creed at the heart of America was best expressed by
Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. Four score and seven years ago,
he said, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
He called the Civil War a test as to whether any nation, so conceived and so
dedicated, can long endure.
America is still undergoing that test.
But, like a reverse Lincoln, a new man from Illinois seeks the presidency,
one who is engaged in a battle /against/ the proposition that all men are created
equal, and endowed by their Creator with the right to life.
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5. Canadian
Centre for Policy Studies
Newsletter - May 16, 2008
Commentary
The harm in 'harm reduction'
Margret Kopala
Health Minister Tony Clement recently announced new funding for drug treatment
facilities in Vancouver but, understandably, he didn't comment on Insite because
its future is now before the courts. Hearings over jurisdiction of Vancouver's
safe injection facility concluded in a B.C. Supreme Court on May 7 and though
a judgment is due in early June, appeals are probable, as is an injunction to
keep the facility open past June 30 when its exemption under federal drug laws
expires. Read more .
Returning surplus to taxpayers is good policy
John Williamson
Following the Bank of Canadas downward revision of the countrys growth rate
in 2008 there is alarm in some quarters the federal budget will soon tip from
surplus to deficit. This anxiety is welcome because it signals a public consensus
in Canada that did not exist 15 years ago when the norm was deficit financing.
Today, voters take a dim view of any politician willing to run deficits, no
matter how small. We are a nation of deficit hawks. Read more .
Studies and Reports
Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family
One of the most ominous events of modern times is quietly unfolding before our
eyes.
Social scientists and economists are warning that we are headed toward a demographic
crisis, the dangers of which are far more imminent than global warming and at
least as severe. And yet, despite the overwhelming evidence, political correctness
prevents policy-makers from even discussing the problem, let alone considering
solutions.
Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family promises to blow the lid
off of political correctness , explaining in chilling detail how this crisis
has come about and what it means for the future.
Drawing on leading experts from around the world demographers, economists,
sociologists, psychologists, parliamentarians and diplomats this ground-breaking
documentary sheds light on how the deconstruction of the family has put the
social and economic well-being of societies at risk.
Universally recognized to be the single most significant contributing factor
to the increase in crime and poverty, it is now clear that the deconstruction
of the family is also jeopardizing important social programs like pensions and
health care. Meanwhile, in a desperate attempt to overcome the catastrophic
reduction in birthrates, developed countries are adopting predatory immigration
policies that threaten to shatter their own existing cultural consensus and
undermine the economic and social progress of developing countries as well.
Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family relies exclusively on the
vast body of scientific evidence collected by sociologists, demographers, economists
and other experts to make its case, avoiding the pitfalls inherent in moral
arguments. It is an absolute must have for anyone concerned about the future
of the family, and the future of humanity itself.
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6. CWA to
Hold Press Conference Against Pornography
Contact: Natalie Bell, Media Coordinator, Concerned Women for America <http://www.cwfa.org/>,
202-488-7000 ext. 126
WASHINGTON, May 16 /Christian Newswire <http://www.christiannewswire.com/>/
-- Pornography continues to pollute our nation, filling the shelves of "adult"
stores with raunchy DVDs and videos, and saturating our TVs and the Internet
with filth. The U.S. Department of Justice's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
needs to crack down and enforce our federal obscenity laws with vigor.
Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), said "Obscenity
invades our public and private lives, a result of law enforcement officials
choosing not to vigorously prosecute obscenity offenses. The Supreme Court has
ruled that communities can decide what is appropriate, summarized in the famous
definition, 'I know pornography when I see it.' Americans are not given the
chance in their role as juries to uphold community standards if prosecutors
refuse to bring charges. We can see the results of being dismissive of obscenity
laws. Now it's time to see what can be accomplished by respecting the law. Our
culture will thrive when boundaries of decency are in place. Children will be
allowed to be innocent and women will not be as vulnerable to violence and degradation.
What prosecutor would be against that?"
Dr. Janice Crouse, Director and Senior Fellow of CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute,
said "Obscenity and sex trafficking go hand-in-hand. We know that titillation
only increases cravings and with some people the deviant images drive the viewer
to become a predator. If there is demand for children to be used sexually, that
demand will be met by ruthless traffickers. If a pedophile wants to travel to
another country to abuse children, the trafficking networks help them find locations
and victims. Many pimps and traffickers use pornography to initiate their victims
into their life of sexual slavery. If we do not enforce obscenity laws stringently,
the ripple effect it has on the rest of the culture leads to a tidal wave of
degradation and destruction."
Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues at CWA, said "The days
of looking the other way are over. It's high time the welfare of families and
children takes a greater priority within the Department of Justice than in previous
years. The American people have spoken. The pornography plague on our culture
can no longer be ignored. Federal obscenity laws are already on the books, they
need only be enforced."h.h.w
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7. Greetings from LifeIssues.net
(www.lifeissues.net)
Dear Friends for Life,
The UK Reproductive Bill is called "Terrifying". The British Parliament
is considering a bill that will allow for the creation of human-animal embryos.
It also would abolish the requirement for a father for in vitro fertilization,
allowing the screening of embryos for "serious medical conditions"
and their creation as a source of genetically matched issue for treatment of
siblings. More recently, its Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority has
granted British scientists licenses to produce cloned human embryos, to create
an embryo with two genetic mothers, to do eugenic "screening" of embryos;
and to allow women to be able to donate their ova to research projects. A pro-life
spokesperson called these proposals "terrifying."
Cloned Human Animal Hybrid Embryos have been created. Britain's Newcastle University
has succeeded in creating a human-cow cloned embryo, which lived for three days
in their labs. This occurred after the British government issued them a license
to do this.
Stem Cells Help Alzheimer's: Alzheimer's disease has been thought to be totally
resistant to treatment as it is a multi-cellular disease with multiple pathologic
causes. Accordingly, a report at the University of South Florida in the journal,
Stem Cells and Development, is extremely interesting. They gave low-dose infusions
of human umbilical cord adult stem cells to mice with Alzheimer's like disease
with some improvement. This is a very early study but let's pray that this is
a start.
God Bless
Jerry Novotny, OMI
Thought: If people contemplate and really see the sanctity of life, their "quality
of life" arguments fall away and they will understand that we are here
to care for each other, not to kill each other. Caring, and not convenience,
is the sign of a civilized and just society! -Ron Panzer
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #371
May 18, 2008
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Food warning for Indian children
2. News About Genetically Altered Embryo Points to Human Cloning Concerns
3. More and More Seeing that "The Pill Kills"
4. Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Palliative Care
5. Want to Avoid Arthritis? Breastfeed, Have More Children and Donft Take
the Pill
6. F.D.A. Delays Clinical Trial of Embryonic Stem Cells
7. The only ones: how China's single-child policy doubled the agony of parents
8. Do Embryos Have Souls?
9. New Outreach Casts Wider Net For After Abortion Care
10. Arizona Nursing Board Votes to Allow Nurses to Do Surgical Abortions
11. Catholic leader takes embryo fight to YouTube
12. Miss. Supreme Court To Hear Hospice Overdose Case
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(FOCUS ON ASIA): "Yet more tragedy for Myanmar" - The tragedy that
is Myanmar worsens. A country that was once Southeast Asia's richest and most
promising has steadily deteriorated. It is now a corrupt military-run tyranny,
an economic basket case and an international pariah. The man-made disaster in
Myanmar was horribly compounded this month when cyclone Nargis hit, claiming
tens of thousands of lives and leaving a swath of destruction that threatens
hundreds of thousands - perhaps millions - more. http://www.worldpress.org/link.cfm?http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/japantimes/~3/288947176/ed20080513a1.html
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ITEM #1. Food warning for Indian children
More than 1.5m children in India are at risk of becoming malnourished because
of rising global food prices, the UN children's charity, Unicef, says.
View full article at BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7398750.stm
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ITEM #2. News About Genetically Altered Embryo Points to Human Cloning Concerns
News about the first supposedly genetically altered human embryo is generating
headlines from across the world. While the scientists involved in the project
defend their work and deflect concerns, bioethicists say it presents a host
of concerns about moving towards full-fledged human cloning.
View full article at LifeNews.com:
http://lifeissues.net/control_panel/news_info.php
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ITEM #3. More and More Seeing that "The Pill Kills"
Major pro-life organizations American Life League, Pro-Life Wisconsin, and
Pharmacists for Life International, are joining forces to protest the birth
control pill on the 43rd anniversary of the landmark Griswold vs. Connecticut
Supreme Court decision that decriminalized the pill's use.
View full text at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051209.html
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ITEM #4. Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Palliative Care
Anyone who cares about the proper practice of medicine should be up in arms
about the assisted-suicide movementfs attempt to make hospice and palliative
sedation stalking horses for backdoor assisted suicide.
View full article at First Things:
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1069
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ITEM #5. Want to Avoid Arthritis? Breastfeed, Have More Children and Donft
Take the Pill
New research at Malm University Hospital has revealed that mothers who have
more children and especially those who breastfeed their babies have a significantly
lowered risk of arthritis later in life. Use of oral contraceptives, on the
other hand, is of no benefit.
To learn more see LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051512.html
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ITEM #6. F.D.A. Delays Clinical Trial of Embryonic Stem Cells
The Geron Corporation announced Wednesday that its plans to begin the first
clinical trial using embryonic stem cells had been delayed by federal regulators.
The company, based in Menlo Park, Calif., had planned to begin a human trial
soon to test its stem cell compound in patients with spinal cord injuries.
See the full article at NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/business/15stem.html?_r=3&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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ITEM #7. The only ones: how China's single-child policy doubled the agony of
parents
Outliving your offspring is an unbearable prospect, but the death of a child
takes on an especially horrific dimension for many of the parents of child victims
of the Sichuan earthquake, an edge of intolerable cruelty. Under the one-child
policy, most families are limited to one child. The worst natural disaster to
hit China in 30 years has brought the spotlight to bear on one of the country's
most controversial policies of social engineering, and highlighted how this
policy puts unbearable pressure on many families in contemporary China.
Full article at The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-only-ones-how-chinas-singlechild-policy-doubled-the-agony-of-parents-828306.html
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ITEM #8. Do Embryos Have Souls?
Some scientists and philosophers will attempt to argue that if an early embryo
might not yet have received its immortal soul from God, it must be OK to destroy
that embryo for research since he or she would not yet be a person. But it would
actually be the reverse; that is to say, it would be more immoral to destroy
an embryo that had not yet received an immortal soul than to destroy an ensouled
embryo. Why? Because the immortal soul is the principle by which that person
could come to an eternal destiny with God in heaven, so the one who destroyed
the embryo, in this scenario, would preclude that young human from ever receiving
an immortal soul (or becoming a person) and making his or her way to God.
This would be the gravest of evils, as the stem cell researcher would forcibly
derail the entire eternal design of God over that unique and unrepeatable person,
via an action that would be, in some sense, worse than murder. The human person,
then, even in his or her most incipient form as an embryonic human being, must
always be safeguarded in an absolute and unconditional way, and speculation
about the timing of personhood cannot alter this fundamental truth.
Full Article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0116.htm
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ITEM #9. New Outreach Casts Wider Net For After Abortion Care
America's churches are filled with worshippers who have been deeply affected
by an abortion experience. The Alan Guttmacher Institute reports that one in
every three women will have had an abortion by age 45. Forty-three percent of
women who obtain abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% as Catholic.
This means that the majority of people who attend services every Sunday have
personally experienced abortion or know someone whose life has been touched
by an abortion.
View entire text at Christian Newswire:
http://christiannewswire.com/news/959196592.html
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ITEM #10. Arizona Nursing Board Votes to Allow Nurses to Do Surgical Abortions
The Arizona Board of Nursing voted Wednesday to put women's health at risk
by allowing nurse practitioners to do surgical abortions. The panel concluded
that nurses with the right training can do aspirations abortions -- suction
abortions where the baby is killed and sucked out of the mother's uterus.
View entire text at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/state3232.html
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ITEM #11. Catholic leader takes embryo fight to YouTube
In the clip he says: "What concerns us in particular is the possibility
of animal - human hybrids being produced.
"This is something which causes us tremendous concern because we are dealing
with life, human life, at its very beginnings and the possibility if mixing
up human life and animal life at its beginnings. This quite simply is abhorrent
to us as Catholic Christians and consequently we wanted to draw the attention
of our people to this aspect of the bill at the very beginning."
The clip also shows the cardinal denying he is against scientific research
and he reveals he has agreed to become an organ donor. He adds: "Let me
state very clearly, that I am not against medical science or research into aspects
of seeking cures for these terrible disease which affect so many of us
"But what I am against is using human life to seek cures for these diseases.
View entire text from Telegraph.co.uk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584550/Catholic-leader-takes-embryo-fight-to-YouTube.html
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ITEM #12. Miss. Supreme Court To Hear Hospice Overdose Case
COMMENT: This reporter has been covering the case of a women who was sent to
hospice on the "diagnosis" of cancer, and when an autopsy was later
done, it was found she had no cancer. She died of an overdose of Dilaudid, an
opioid medication which acts somewhat like morphine. I spoke with the reporter
last week and provided him with background information on hospice, opioids and
what is going on in our nation.
Intentionally misdiagnosing a patient with a bogus label such as "cancer"
is a common ploy used in order to get a patient into hospice, and then killed.
What happened in this case is not known. why the patient was wrongly labeled
as having cancer is the real question. And we have jad many complaints over
the years of patients who did NOT have cancer who were labeled as having cancer,
sent to hospice, who died shortly after entering hospice, and then autopsies
showed no cancer.
Obviously, in any case, the hospice does not diagnose patients and must rely
on the diagnosis from the experts.
Pain which is not well-managed with an opioid may respond to other medications,
such as anti-spasmodic medications (if pain is due to severe intestinal cramping/spasms.
I have seen cases where morphine did nothing for pain, and nurses were just
raising the dose up and up. I called the doctor for an order of an antispasmodic
and once administered, the pain subsided within 20 minutes! No morphine was
needed at all.
Good clinical judgment is necessary to provide appropriate care. Opioids are
not always the best for all types of pain and every good hospice nurse knows
that. Simply increasing dosages of the wrong medication obviously does no good,
and can cause death.
Why the patient was given a diagnosis of cancer when there was no evidence
to support that is the real issue. But the case is ongoing. We will have to
watch this to see what happens.
Ron Panzer
Hospice Patients Alliance
http://www.hospicepatients.org
View entire article taken from SunHerald.com:
http://www.sunherald.com/306/story/551730-p2.html
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support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people
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8.Good News: Adult Stem Cells Save Athlete from Amputation
In March, Andre Lampkin, 20, was facing the amputation of his legs and arms.
But an experimental treatment using his own stem cells to stimulate tissue growth
is giving the former wide receiver hope after meningitis damaged his limbs.
The Star-Telegram of Fort Worth, Texas, reported that two weeks after treatment,
the soles of his feet and palms of his hands are softening, his circulation
has improved and his right foot is moving.
Dr. Zannos Grekos conducted the experimental treatment in the Dominican Republic
because it is not approved in the U.S.
"It looks like we have already saved his legs and arms," Grekos told
the Star-Telegram. "Now we're hoping to save most of each foot and his
hands."
Grekos also has used adult stem cells to treat patients for cardiovascular,
lung and kidney problems.
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New Book From Steve Mosher Explodes the Pro-Abortion Myth of Overpopulation
by Colin Mason
April 29, 2008
LifeNews.com Note: Colin Mason is the director of media production for the Population
Research Institute, an organization that tracks population issues and monitors
abortion and demographics on an international scale.
As the very first line of Steven Mosher's latest book reads, we have all grown
up "on a poisonous diet of overpopulation propaganda."
Mosher's book, Population Control-Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, is, first
and foremost, an answer to the allegation that the human race is inexorably
multiplying, hell-bent toward a giant demographic cliff like so many lemmings.
The numbers show that the world is not, has never been, nor ever shall be,
overpopulated. In fact, according to the world's experts -- even the ones advocating
population control -- birthrates around the world are dropping at a precipitous
rate.
The book thus torpedoes the lifeboat scenario, which argued that in order to
survive, we had to throw some of the earth's passengers overboard.
But it is much more than this. The history of the population control movement
is replete with human rights abuses. Those who were made to walk the plank of
abortion, sterilization, and contraception -- all for the supposed good of humanity
-- have some horrific tales to tell.
The first chapters of Mosher's book describe the history of the population
control movement, and how it is has never been the scientific, intelligent or
cultural phenomenon it styles itself to be.
Rather, this movement was started and sustained by figures like Thomas Malthus,
Margaret Sanger, John D. Rockefeller, and Hugh Moore, who led a contentious
movement dominated by cultural elitism, racial hysteria and ignorance. As Mosher
pointedly argues, their legacy has cost millions their lives and tens of millions
more their basic rights.
"Human rights are nonnegotiable, or they are not rights at all,"
contends Mosher. "Abuses of basic rights, such as the right to bear children,
cannot be expunged by reference to any calculus of costs versus benefits, any
more than comparable violations of other basic human rights can be explained
away, excused, or justified by reference to a supposedly larger social good."
The book explains exactly how the population control movement continues to
violate these basic rights, in the pursuit for a false "good" -- fewer
children.
Population Control-Real Costs, Illusory Benefits is, first and foremost, an
answer to the allegation that the human race is inexorably multiplying.
Mosher lays out the China Model, based on China's one-child policy, and how
population programs everywhere draw on its tactics. Nigeria provides an apt
case study of how Western population controllers continue to strong-arm national
governments into implementing abusive policies, policies that undermine the
basic rights and freedoms of their people.
But the population controllers not only run roughshod over human rights for
the sake of the supposed "greater good" of population decline (the
chapter "Human Rights and Reproductive Wrongs includes a detailed, annotated
list of human rights abuses perpetuated in the name of population control),
they also sap primary health care programs and marginalize real health needs.
For example, because of the time and money wasted on unwanted and unnecessary
contraceptives and abortifacient devices, malaria runs rampant in Africa. Developing
countries end up with thousands of health clinics that literally carry nothing
but contraceptives while people die from treatable diseases.
Neither do population control programs provide any real benefits.
Its "benefits" are mere illusions designed to dupe developing nations
into submitting to an elitist, western agenda. Population control, writes Mosher,
is just that: control. Organizations like the UNFPA, far from being "here
to help," have in fact been bearers of death to our less developed neighbors.
Population Control does not simply outline the problems; it proposes a solution
as well. Mosher dedicates his final chapter to possible ways that developed
nations can avoid the demographic disaster that now threatens. Small tax credits
and paltry child subsidies are not nearly enough. Young couples, he argues,
need to be sheltered from taxes altogether.And population control programs needed
to be ended as soon as possible.
Mosher ends by quoting the late Julian Simon: Human beings are the ultimate
resource."
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May 13, 2008 Christian Government Website News
Supplement to last week's Views and News
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Freedom's Death Chamber
April 15, 2008
[OHRC Christian Horizons decision] Heintz v. Christian Horizons, 2008
April 25, 2008
[OHRC press release on Christian Horizons decision with link to the decision]
May 2, 2008
Mark Steyn on CTV's Mike Duffy Live
By Ezra Levant
National Post - May 2, 2008
Minister warns of 'illiberal' attacks on free speech
By Kevin Libin
May 3, 2008
Ezra in Wonderland
By Ezra Levant
The Globe & Mail - May 3, 2008
Mr. Harper: Tame these commissions
By Rex Murphy
May 4, 2008
Jews for free speech
By Ezra Levant
May 6, 2008
Maclean's to Mohamed Elmasry: see you in court
By Ezra Levant
The Toronto Sun - May 7, 2008
Human Rights Commission is out of control
By Christina Blizzard, Sun Media
CBC - May 7, 2008
Ont.-funded Christian group to appeal part of ruling by human rights tribunal
May 7, 2008
Another cabinet minister criticizes Canadian Islamic Congress, CHRC
By Ezra Levant
The Chronicle-Herald - May 9, 2008
Hate allegation made against Herald cartoon
By John Gillis
Yellowknifer - May 9, 2008
Volunteers have rights too; NWT Human Rights Commission director says volunteer
groups fall under act
By Herb Mathisen, Northern News Services
May 10, 2008
Lee Richardson, freedom fighter!
By Ezra Levant
National Post - May 10, 2008
Mark Steyn in thick of heated debate
By Joseph Brean
May 12, 2008
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson finally weighs in on section 13
By Ezra Levant
Homosexual activism
May 1, 2008
[Tiny homosexual population is much more politically active]
By Kerry Eleveld
May 2, 2008
Poll Shows Less Than 3 Percent of Americans are Gay
LifeSiteNews.com - May 1, 2008
Eminent Psychiatrist Says Homosexuality is a Disorder that Can be Cured
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
The Independent - April 19, 2008
Insurers criticised for attitude to gay men
April 12, 2008
Harper? Homophobic? One of his top cabinet ministers is gay
By Stephen Maher
Financial Post - April 18, 2008
Pink Money Talks; Exploring new avenues to tap the latent gay market
By Hollie Shaw
April 30, 2008
Australia to remove gay discrimination in more than 100 laws
BBC News - April 29, 2008
Sisters lose European tax battle [Elderly pair wanted same rights as gay couples]
By Richard Savill
LifeSiteNews.com - April 26, 2008
Moscow Government Warns Homosexuals not to Organize "Gay" Demonstrations
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
April 27, 2008
Gay Sikhs: Youre not alone
By Paula Carlson, Surrey North Delta Leader
The Daily Telegraph - April 23, 2008
Plans to ban gay jokes rejected by the Lords
By Rosa Prince
Our children need protection
Newsday.com - May 9, 2008
Girls basketball coach gets 7-year term for [lesbian] sex assault
LifeSiteNews.com - May 8, 2008
North Carolina Appeals Court Upholds Joint Custody for Separated Lesbian Couple
By Michael Baggot
May 6, 2008
Surrogate mothers fulfilling gay men's parenthood dreams
National Post - May 12, 2008
Teacher faces child-porn and soliciting charges
By Brenda Branswell, Canwest News Service
Montreal Gazette - May 5, 2008
For teachers, L now stands for 'litigation'; The trend of parents suing teachers
spawns new rules for the school system
By Freda Lewkowicz
Maclean's - April 30, 2008
[Parents groom daughter for pedophilic interest]
FROM THE EDITORS
The Ottawa Citizen - May 11, 2008
The rise of the single mother
By Margret Kopala
Environmentalism vs. humanity and the family
April 21, 2008
Large Families Aren't Dooming the Planet, Says 'Demographic Winter' Producer
April 23, 2008
"Plant Dignity"
LifeSiteNews.com - April 28, 2008
Swiss Grant Rights to Animals, Consider Same for Plants - Liberalize Abortion
Laws
By Michael Baggot
Toronto Sun - April 26, 2008
Life matters more than planet on which humans dwell
By Michael Coren
National Post - April 8, 2008
Hug the Earth, kill the humans
By Barbara Kay
National Post - April 19, 2008
Scarier living through chemistry; Thanks largely to Rachel Carson, the spectre
of cancer has sown an irrational fear of chemicals
By Dan Gardner
Financial Post - April 25, 2008
Bioperversity [- Species extinction scam expands, sends people to jail]
By Peter Foster
April 29, 2008
Global Warming: The Left's Latest War on the Family
By Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.com
National Review Online - April 26, 2008
[Killing people to save the world!]
By Mark Steyn
MichNews.com - April 21, 2008
It's not about saving the planet; it's about control
By Vincent Gioia
The Register - May 2, 2008
Warming or Cooling? How NASA is Manipulating Climate Data
By Steven Goddard
Financial Post - May 3, 2008
The opinionator; At Wikipedia, one man engineers the debate on global warming,
and shapes it to his views
By Lawrence Solomon
The New American - March 31, 2008
[Interview - Weather Channel Founder doesn't buy in to global warming scam]
By William F. Jasper
Wall Street Journal - May 2, 2008
['Green' Energy Requires Vast Amounts of Land]
May 6, 2008
Environmentalists Still Can't Get It Right
By Walter E. Williams
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Teens stay informed on pro-life issues.
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Pregnancy Resource Group Asks High Court to Encourage Doctors to be Honest with
Patients Considering Abortion
Contact: Virginia A. Cline, Heartbeat International, 614-885-7577
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 19 /Christian Newswire/ -- Heartbeat International joins
a "friend of the court" brief in support of Rosa Acuna's petition.
On Friday, Acuna's attorney Harold Cassidy filed a petition asking the U.S.
Supreme Court to reverse the egregious New Jersey Supreme Court decision in
the case of Rosa Acuna v. Sheldon C. Turkish, MD.
"As an association dedicated to helping women, we call on the U.S. Supreme
Court to reverse the New Jersey Court's precedent and to require abortionists
to provide medically accurate details about the gestational development of a
human baby," said Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D.
"The facts are a baby's heart begins beating at 21 days and brain waves
can be measured at six weeks. Women deserve the truth."
With Acuna v. Turkish, the New Jersey High Court set the legal precedent that
a doctor can legally deceive a woman considering abortion. The ruling held that
a doctor who performs an abortion has no responsibility to present precise biological
information to a woman about her unborn child or the abortion procedure risks.
"When a woman comes into a Heartbeat center seeking abortion information,
she wants to know what is happening with and in her body. We tell her about
abortion procedures and show her fetal models or pictures of fetal development,"
said Hartshorn. "A doctor should have the responsibility of explaining
human development to his patient. She has a right to be fully informed before
she submits to an abortion procedure. The woman's health risks increase without
this information."
Turkish told Rosa Acuna that she should not "be stupid" because the
only thing being removed was "just blood." Turkish testified that
he routinely tells women it is "just some tissue." By any standard
these statements are false and misleading.
Heartbeat International and its affiliates advocate for the safe reproductive
health and well-being of women. Abortion is not a medical "treatment"
that can improve a woman's health. Women seen in Heartbeat's pregnancy centers
testify daily to the painful physical and emotional effects of abortion.
Heartbeat International, founded in 1971, is an interdenominational Christian
association of nearly 1,100 pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, non-profit
adoption agencies, and medical clinics in 48 states and 42 countries. Heartbeat
provides www.OptionLine.org (800-395-HELP), a joint venture with Care Net, to
connect callers with a local pregnancy center for the help they need. Each month
our national call center responds to approximately 20,000 contacts.
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