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Further Betrayal Of The Children
By Bishop Fred Henry
Sun Media – October 2, 2005
In January 2004, The American College of Pediatricians concluded: "The research literature on child- rearing by homosexual parents is limited.
"The environment in which children are reared is absolutely critical to their development. Given the current body of research, the American College of Pediatricians believes it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, neither by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation. This position is rooted in the best available science."(Human Parenting: Is It Time for Change?)
Despite the benefit of such social scientific evidence, and without adequate democratic deliberation and the normal process of judicial appeals, our federal government has repudiated the historic definition of marriage in favour of social re-engineering.
Their approach imposes uniformity in the name of equality, which means pursuing the erosion of marriage and the family by belittling the importance of the union of a woman and a man, a wife and a husband, a mother and a father.
The educational impact of laws on attitudes is undeniable. If Canadian law must henceforth teach marriage is the union of two persons, a majority of Canadians face the risk of a serious threat to their freedom of conscience, religion and expression through the imposition of an"orthodoxy"that is contrary to their values.
Same-sex marriage proponents use the language of openness, tolerance and diversity, yet the foreseeable effect of their success will be to usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.
In view of the passage of same-sex marriage legislation, must a majority of parents accept it as inevitable, that schools and the media will transmit a vision of marriage contrary to their own?
It will be argued that the Charter of Rights and the new law on same-sex marriages compel public schools to teach their students the moral equivalency of heterosexual and homosexual relations and marriages. Furthermore, to the extent that these concepts are explored in health and physical education classes, the exploration must be equivalent. The argument will be that any other approach would be discriminatory and contrary to the equality rights under s.15 (1) of the Charter and the numerous court cases that have led to the passage of Bill C-38.
The impact of the social re-engineering is bound to filter down to school classrooms.
Ordinary words such as 'husband' and 'wife' will be replaced by 'partner' and 'spouse.'
Children will have to be taught about homosexual acts.
Every person and every religion that disagrees will be labelled as bigoted and openly discriminated against and dragged before Human Rights Commissions. Parents who complain will be branded as homophobes and their children will suffer.
A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has begun hearing a case filed by a same-sex couple.
The complaint filed against the B.C. Ministry of Education in 1999, alleges that the ministry's curriculum does not adequately "address issues of sexual orientation.” The claim is made that "there is systemic discrimination through omission and suppression of queer issues in the whole of the curriculum."
To focus the human rights complaint, the complainants have selected the Social Studies curriculum for Grades 8 to 10 as an example of the discrimination.
They would like to see the curriculum changed to include: "Queer history and historical figures, the presences of positive queer role models – past and present, the contributions made by queers to various epochs, societies and civilization, and legal issues relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered people, same sex marriage and adoption."
Pro-family groups have raised the concern that permitting explicitly homosexual material in the curriculum would promote homosexuality as a normative and safe lifestyle option.
The complainants also desire to ensure the material is mandatory. If successful, the case would strip parents of the right to pull their children from the offensive portion of the curriculum.
Traditionally, only those matters on which there was a large measure of consensus in society would be taught in the public school system. The rest was left to the home, church or to other institutions.
The adoption of a new constitutional norm means, in respect of homosexuality at least, this strategy is to be abandoned and students confronted on the issues.
Consider Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36. The Supreme Court struck down the decision of a B.C. school board to refuse approval for three books presenting positive images of same-sex families for use in junior kindergarten and Grade 1.
The refusal was on the basis a significant number of parents and others in the school district would consider them incompatible or inconsistent with their moral and religious beliefs on same-sex relationships.
The case marked a significant moment in the debate about parental rights in education.
Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin said that: "Parental views, however, important, cannot override the imperative placed upon the British Columbia public schools to mirror the diversity of the community and teach tolerance and understanding of difference."
In effect, therefore, it is parental views that are to be overridden by the new state religion to the detriment of children.
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Henry_Bishop_Fred/2005/10/01/1244369.html
*Catholic Organization for Life and Family Opposes Canadian Euthanasia Bill C-407*
By Terry Vanderheyden
OTTAWA, November 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, has come out strongly condemning proposed legislation to legalize euthanasia in Canada.
In a letter to all Members of Parliament and Senators, COLF emphasized that Bill C-407 “clearly contradicts fundamental Canadian values and constitutes a real threat to the most vulnerable members of our society.”
COLF called elected representatives to reject Bill C-407 and instead encourage the government to devote more resources to home care, palliative care and research on pain control. “It is necessary to eliminate the suffering and not the patient, the pain and not the dying person,” a release emphasized. “A government which authorizes the murder of some of its citizens associates its country with a practice unworthy of a civilized nation.”
Read COLF’s new brochure —Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Urgent Questions!— that answers 14 key questions and illuminates the true human meaning of the words “compassion” and “dignity.”
Copies of this brochure are available from the COLF offices at 2500 Don Reid Drive, Ottawa, ON K1H 2J2. Tel.: (613) 241-9461, ext. 161; Fax: (613) 241-9048; E-mail: ocvfcolf@cccb.ca
COLF is co-sponsored by the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus.
New Birth-Control Pill Promises Freedom From Periods, PMS – Wed, 19 Oct 2005
From: "Tony Gosgnach" gosgnach@lifesite.net
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:08:59 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051018/HPILL18/TPHealth/?query=birth+control
New birth-control pill promises freedom from periods, PMS
By ANDRÉ PICARD – Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Page A23 – Public Health Reporter
No more periods. And no more PMS.
That is what the next generation of birth-control pill is promising women.
Yesterday, the first scientific data were released for a low-dose contraceptive that is taken daily and, unlike traditional versions of the Pill, does not feature any dummy pills or days that are skipped to allow a menstrual period.
The new drug, a product of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals that will be marketed under the brand name Anya in Canada, has not yet been approved by Health Canada.
But experts have no doubt that it will be a hit.
"There will be a segment of the population that will be happy not to have a period," said Dr. Robert Reid, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Queen's University in Kingston.
In fact, he said, the new drug will simply formalize a practice that is popular among women, particularly those who suffer from premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea (painful periods).
The method, called continuous use, involves taking the first 21 pills in a pack, throwing out the last seven (which are placebos, or dummy pills) and starting a new pack immediately.
Research released yesterday at the joint meeting in Montreal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, showed that the drug has a similar safety profile to other oral contraceptives and the added advantage of virtually eliminating the symptoms of PMS.
"In the PMS group, symptoms improved quickly and significantly," said Dr. Ellen Freeman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Women with lesser "cycle-related symptoms," and those who suffered from menstrual cramps also benefited from the new version of the Pill, she said. All the benefit came from "levelling the hormonal fluctuations" – notably by suppressing menstruation, Dr. Freeman said.
Another study presented yesterday showed that the low-dose contraceptive effectively suppressed ovulation and, just as importantly, that ovulation resumed after women stopped taking the drug.
Dr. Julia Johnson, director of reproductive endocrinology and fertility at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., presented data based on more than 2,100 women. She found the new version of the Pill was 98-per-cent effective at preventing pregnancy – meaning 19 women became pregnant during the study, a rate comparable to most oral contraceptives.
By three months, all the women taking the drug had stopped having menstrual periods, though there was some breakthrough bleeding and spotting, both common with continuous-use contraceptives.
Dr. Johnson said her research showed that women who took the new drug did not, compared to users of the traditional birth-control pill, experience changes in weight, blood pressure or liver function. The risk of blood clots, a risk factor with all birth-control pills, was similar.
More than $300-million in prescription contraceptives are sold in Canada each year, and that does not include over-the-counter products like condoms.
The sale of birth-control pills for contraception was only legalized in Canada in 1969. Today, as a third generation of women begins taking the Pill, it remains the single most popular method of contraception. An estimated 43 per cent of sexually active women use the contraceptive pill, and about 85 per cent of women have taken the Pill at some time.
Over the years, the level of hormones in birth-control pills has been reduced dramatically. The new version of the Pill, for example, will contain only 90 micrograms of levonorgestrel and 20 micrograms of ethinyl estradiol.
While most women take birth-control pills for contraceptive purposes, they are also used commonly to regulate menstrual bleeding and pain related to menstruation. Taking the Pill also reduces the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer.
Morality in Media Asks Amazon.com to Withdraw a DVD Described as '4 Hours of Hard-Core Porn'
To: National Desk
Contact: Edward A. Hynes, Morality in Media <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>,
570-775-1724
NEW YORK, Nov. 2, /Christian Wire Service <http://www.christianwireservice.com/>/
-- Morality in Media has expressed concern to Amazon.com about a DVD posted
for sale at the Amazon.com web site. The DVD, "Hardly Old Enough,"
is described in the listing as "4 hours of hard-core porn."
The DVD is included in a list of "Barbie" items offered by the Internet retailer. The company's listing says the "Hardly Old Enough" DVD is "currently not available."
Morality in Media's concerns were expressed in a letter sent Tuesday, November 1, to Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos by MIM vice president Edward A. Hynes. Text of the letter follows.
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November 1, 2005
Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
Amazon.com Inc.
1200 12th Avenue South
Suite 1200
Seattle, WA 98144-2734
Re: Sale of self-described "hard-core porn" in Barbie doll DVD list
Dear Mr. Bezos:
An Amazon.com list of "Barbie" doll DVDs for sale also includes a DVD titled "Hardly Old Enough," which is described on Amazon.com as "4 hours of hard-core porn. These girls are ready to become serious sluts! So young you'll feel weird! XXX Action!"
I am not a lawyer, but from that description, "Hardly Old Enough" could be legally obscene, and if the "Hardly" DVD is obscene, Amazon.com's knowing promotion of it could result in criminal charges under federal obscenity laws.
The sale of this video also violates Amazon.com's own "Prohibited Content" policy, which includes the following language:
*Is My Item Allowed at Amazon.com?*
Amazon.com Auctions and zShops adhere to a community standard that's probably about what you expect in your own community...Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the items we prohibit.
Pornography. Pornography; X-rated movies; home porn; hard-core material, including magazines, that depict graphic sexual acts; amateur porn; soiled undergarments; sexual aid devices; and "adult-only" novelty items that are primarily sold through adult-only novelty stores and erotic boutiques are not permitted...
The blatant offer to sell "hard-core porn" is outrageous in itself. Offering the hard-core porn on a list that includes Barbie doll DVDs that attract youngsters makes it especially egregious.
Amazon.com is behaving like Internet pornographers who lure the unwary by using misleading domain names.
I have eleven grandchildren, six of them girls. I am also a Vice President of Morality in Media, Inc., a non-profit organization founded in 1962 to protect society and children from pornography through enforcement of obscenity and related laws.
I checked out "Hardly Old Enough" – #18 on Amazon.com's "Barbie" DVD list – after two people called MIM on October 20th and October 21st to complain about it. We suggested that the callers make complaints to you, but as of today, #18 is still listed among "Barbie" DVDs.
Number 18 has nothing to do with Barbie dolls. The box cover for "Hardly Old Enough" shows photos of three young women, one exposing her buttocks, another fondling her bare breasts, and a third possibly engaging in oral sex (the photo isn't clear).
On the off chance that the photos don't make the sordid point sufficiently clear, the cover copy says it all, repeating some of the language Amazon.com included in the product description:
"These Girls are ready to become SERIOUS SLUTS!!!"
"18½ BARELY LEGAL!!"
It gets worse.
Amazon's practice is to invite visitors to "tell us what you think. Write a review of this item…" Amazon also provides an opportunity for youngsters to offer their opinion, and, unbelievably, they make no exception for "Hardly Old Enough." I clicked my way into the review process and found this immediately:
"Under 13? Use our Kids' Review Form."
At the form, waiting for "kids" who have volunteered to review "four hours of hard-core porn," I found this piece of absurd self-righteousness:
Amazon.com cares about children's privacy on the Internet. But we also care about freedom of expression and the exchange of ideas in a safe environment. That's why we've created this separate form for those under the age of 13. When children under 13 submit reviews for their favorite items, we won't ask for names or e-mail addresses, but we'll still enable them to share their opinions.
Amazon's hypocrisy continues with a list of what not to include in a review. On that list I found, "profanity, obscenities, or spiteful remarks."
So, here we have Amazon.com, promoter of the self-described hard-core porn DVD, "Hardly Old Enough," telling the world, in effect, "We'll have none of that dirty talk, please."
Out of respect for the law, for your customers, and for your published corporate policy, you have an obligation to remove "Hardly Old Enough" from your product offering, immediately.
Sincerely,
Edward A. Hynes
Vice President
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COTLER WANTS DISCUSSION ON ASSISTED SUICIDE
Justice Minister Irwin Cotler is unwilling to shut the door on Canada one day legalizing assisted suicide, the Ottawa Citizen reported last week.
“I think we need to look at what is being done in other jurisdictions, other countries, which have started to look at that and see if we can come up with the kind of law that might enjoy a consensus,” he told the Citizen.
Cotler made his comments following the first hour of debate on October 31 by members of Parliament on C-407, a private member’s bill by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde. It would amend the Criminal Code to make it no longer a crime for a “medical practitioner” to help anyone over 18 who was terminally ill or in unrelieved suffering who had twice expressed a desire to commit suicide.
A further hour of debate on C-407 is set for sometime in early December before MPs hold a free vote on whether to approve it in principle.
Cotler has already indicated to Liberal MPs that the government does not support the bill. As the Montreal Gazette noted, Paul Macklin, Cotler’s parliamentary secretary, stated during last week’s debate that the bill is too broad in scope and lacks sufficient safeguards.
“The bill would not only apply to terminally ill patients but also to persons who suffer from severe physical or mental pain without any prospect of relief,” he said. “Theoretically, persons who suffer from depression could request assistance in dying and those who aid them would not be found criminally liable if the conditions of the bill were respected.”
But another reason for this opposition could be the government’s unwillingness to make assisted suicide an election issue
“At this point, given the divisions that exist, given that this issue is fraught with so many layers of complexity . . . I think we need to be careful as to how we proceed,” said Cotler.
Conservative MP Jason Kenney, on the other hand, warned MPs against even taking what he believes would be just the first step to legalized murder.
“That was nowhere more evident than in Nazi Germany . . . where in the 1930s, beginning on the grounds of compassionate treatment of the mentally ill and the severely infirm, euthanasia was unleashed,” he said. “Passive euthanasia became active euthanasia and active euthanasia became an entire cult of eugenics. We know what kind of horror and human tragedy that resulted in.”
Calgary Sun editor Licia Corbella, citing two reports that revealed how hundreds of people have died in the Netherlands without their consent, urges Canada to not buy into the lie that that allowing euthanasia won’t harm society. “So-called right-to-die advocates often claim euthanasia is an issue of "choice." But the experience in the Netherlands shows that when voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide are accepted practice, an alarming number of people end up having no choice at all – ever again.”
MEDIA MAKES KIDS SEXUALLY ACTIVE: STUDY
“Soft porn” – sexually suggestive content on television, in music videos and in some mainstream advertising – is directly influencing teenagers to become sexually active at an earlier age, the Montreal Gazette reported.
McGill University child psychologist Rina Gupta says teens are being “bombarded” with a staggering amount of sexual content. Compared to even just a few years ago, she told the Gazette, these images “are much more intense and more complex and confusing – primarily in the music videos” – which can include everything from “faux lesbianism” to virtual pornography.
“It really creates things in the minds of young people about what things should be like, sexually,” said Gupta. “. . . In my private practice, it’s exceptionally clear they’re being influenced.”
Recent studies underscore Gupta’s concerns.
A study published last year by the American Academy of Pediatrics in the journal Pediatrics concluded that about two-thirds of all television shows contain sexual content that could lead to “precocious adolescent sex.”
In fact, a separate study by the RAND Corporation found that the more sexual content teens watch on TV, the “more likely [they are] to initiate intercourse in the following year.” A 2003 paper by the Canadian Pediatric Society also determined that the media is where two-thirds of young people learn about sex.
Montreal school guidance counsellor Gisele Bazergui worries that teens lack the emotional maturity to handle the consequences of trying to assimilate these images by becoming sexually active.
“[Adolescence] is a rite of passage, about figuring out who you are, about building connections and relationships,” she said. “I think adolescents are skipping over that period. Now they’re thrown into the whole sexual arena, not really having the emotional tools to deal with it.”
Last year, an analysis by Focus on the Family Canada of the content offered in primetime—7 p.m. to 10 p.m.— by the country’s four main broadcast networks found on average nearly 20 “offences” per hour pertaining to violence, sexual content, indecent clothing, obscenities, illicit drug use and the promotion of drugs.
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Maternal Mortality Not Helped By Condoms: A new U.N. Fund for Population Activities document, their annual report on maternal mortality worldwide, reports that the most important means of reducing maternal morality is adequate medical care. This reports contradicts their long time strategy of claiming that contraceptives and abortion will reduce maternal mortality. Even though it admits this, the UNFPA still insists that the use of contraceptives would save mother's lives.
U.S. Teen Pregnancy/Abortion Rates Drop: Using data from the US Government's National Center for Health Statistics, and the Alan Guttmacher (Planned Parenthood) abortion survey, and comparing them over the last decades, statistics show that the US teen pregnancy, birth & abortion rates have been declining annually for ten straight years.
The national teen pregnancy rate fell 2% between 1999 and 2000. Calculating it over ten years, from 1990 to 2000, the drop has been 28%. The pregnancy rate among black teenagers was even more pronounced; it dropped 32% between 1990 and 2000. The all-time high of abortions among pregnant teenage girls was in the late 1980's when there were 44 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. According to this recent study, there are now 24 abortions per 1,000 teenage women.
The US teen birthrate in 2000 was 48 births per 1,000 teenage girls. The all-time
high had been in 1991 when it was 62 births. Not surprisingly, pro-abortion
groups gave credit to "increased use of contraceptives," although
there are no studies to back this up and no evidence to point toward it. Pro-life
groups proudly announced that this was largely the result of the new abstinence
programs that have been spreading like wildfire across the United States.
God Bless and enjoy the beautiful Autumn colors this weekend.
Jerry Novotny, OMI
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"Scientists and bioethicists often complain that society is becoming anti-science. But perhaps the real problem is that many biotechnology boosters increasingly act as if popular beliefs about the wrongness of human cloning are irrelevant, indeed, that only the views of the privileged caste of scientists should count." -- Wesley J. Smith, lawyer and author
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #250
November 6, 2005
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Children Hardest Hit By HIV/Aids
2. Requests Flood Stem Cell Hub
3. Japan Suspends Death Penalty
4. Court: It does take a village when it comes to sexuality
5. Abuse risk linked to abortion
6. IVF defects higher than expected
7. Cambodia: 'Euthanasia tourism' sparks outrage!
8. Victims of genetic discrimination
9. Congress Holds Hearings on Pain Unborn Children Feel During Abortions
10. Number of U.S. Unwed Mothers Reaches All-Time High
11. Palliative Care "Killing me softly"
12. Missouri Stem Cell Petition: Voters Can Push the Logic of Stowers Institute's Quirky 'Science'
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ITEM #1. Children Hardest Hit By HIV/Aids
Malawi joined the rest of the world on Monday last week in the launch of an initiative with the theme 'Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS'. The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman and UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot, all in a joint statement noted that every minute a child dies of an AIDS-related illness.
Children are the hardest hit by HIV/AIDS and, as a result the United Nations Children Fund together with UNAIDS felt the need to launch a global campaign to invigorate action for the millions of children affected by the pandemic.
The three UN officials noted that while a child becomes infected with HIV every minute, four young people aged 15-24 also become infected with HIV. In addition, an estimated 15 million children have lost at least a parent to AIDS.
"Nearly 25 years into the pandemic, help is reaching less than 10 percent of the children affected by HIV/AIDS, leaving too many children to grow up alone, grow up too fast or not grow up at all," said Annan, adding, "simply put, AIDS is wreaking havoc on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)." UNICEF Resident Representative to Malawi Aida Girma said eight out of 10 children (80%), which the three officials spoke about live in sub-Saharan Africa and that by 2025, 20 million children would be missing one or both of their parents because of AIDS.
She said 46% of new infections are amongst young people aged 15 to 24 years and in 2003 it was estimated that 70,000 children under the age of 15 were living with HIV/AIDS. "Every year, close to 40,000 newborn babies get infected with HIV through mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT) in this country [and] of the estimated one million orphans in Malawi, 500,000 have lost one or both of their parents to AIDS," said Girma.
Read entire article at allAfrica.com: http://allafrica.com/stories/200511020016.html
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ITEM #2. Requests Flood Stem Cell Hub
Pinning their hopes on cloning technology to overcome their hard-to-treat diseases,
about 3,500 patients applied to participate in research by a global stem cell
center on Tuesday, the first day it accepted applications.
The World Stem Cell Hub, led by South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk,
aims to help those suffering from ailments such as Parkinson's disease or damaged
spinal cords and who are willing to offer their skin tissue for research.
Officials have said it doesn't mean the beginning of clinical tests or treatment,
yet applications still surged Tuesday, overloading the center's Web site with
requests for information. The center has not set a deadline for applications
or decided when trials will begin.
By the end of the day, some 3,500 applications had been received via the Internet,
telephone, fax and in person, said Lim Jong-pil, an official at the research
center at Seoul National University Hospital. No foreigners submitted applications,
although the center is open to them, Lim said.
COMMENT: It's already turning into a booming business; however, not even one case using embryonic stem cells has yet produced a cure..... Experimenting by killing tiny innocent human life in "hope" of finding a cure to save another human life is unethical and shows the lack of any moral guidelines among our scientists. Preying on the weak adds fuel to unhuman strange behaviour. What was condemned during the Nazi Era is know an accepted behaviour!!
View full text at ABC News: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/01/health/main999260.shtml
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ITEM #3. Japan Suspends Death Penalty
Japan's new justice minister says he will suspend the death penalty, a move
that would leave the United States as the only major industrialised country
to practice capital punishment.
Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura, who was appointed Monday in a cabinet reshuffle
after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's re-election, said he would not sign
any execution orders because of his personal philosophy, Kyodo news agency said.
Japan has come under intense international criticism over its executions.
It gives prisoners only several hours' notice before hanging them and does not
forewarn the family, as a way of preventing last-minute appeals.
View full text at World News Australia: http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=124261®ion=2
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ITEM #4. Court: It does take a village when it comes to sexuality
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday against parents who sued their local school district after their elementary-age children were given a sexually charged survey, saying there is "no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children."
The three-judge panel of the full court further ruled that parents "have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students."
Six parents sued the Palmdale, Calif., School District after finding out their kids had been asked a series of sexual questions in class. They included asking the children about the frequency of:
Touching my private parts too much
Thinking about having sex
Thinking about touching other people's private parts
Thinking about sex when I don't want to
Washing myself because I feel dirty on the inside
Not trusting people because they might want sex
Getting scared or upset when I think about sex
Having sex feelings in my body
Can't stop thinking about sex
Getting upset when people talk about sex
Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote the opinion for the court [.pdf document]. Referring to the fact the parents lost their case at the district-court level, Reinhardt wrote:
We agree [with the previous ruling], and hold that there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children, either independent of their right to direct the upbringing and education of their children or encompassed by it. We also hold that parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students. Finally, we hold that the defendants' actions were rationally related to a legitimate state purpose.
Carrie Gordon Earll is director of issue analysis with Focus on the Family Action.
"Anyone who wonders why pro-family organizations like ours have been so concerned about activist courts only has to look at this case," Earll said in a statement. "The 9th Circuit did more than rule against parents who were upset that their elementary-school-aged children were being asked explicit questions about sex in class. They told all parents they have no right to protest what public schools tell their children."
For article and more information see WorldNetDaily.com: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47195
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ITEM #5. Abuse risk linked to abortion
Women who have abortions are significantly more likely to physically abuse their children than women who do not have abortions, said a study by a research group and professors at Bowling Green State University.
Compared with mothers with no history of induced abortion, those who had undergone
the procedure were found to have a 144 percent greater risk of physically abusing
their children, said the study, published by the medical journal Acta Paediatrica.
Women with pregnancy loss in general -- including abortion, stillbirth and miscarriage
-- were found to be 99 percent more likely to commit child abuse.
View entire article at The Washington Times: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040623-114523-2522r.htm
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ITEM #6. IVF defects higher than expected
Many eggs used for IVF carry genetic errors that can cause miscarriage, even those from young women, experts say.
Given the findings of three US studies presented at a fertility meeting in Montreal, some believe all eggs used for IVF should be screened for defects.
UK fertility guidelines recommend such screening only for women over 35 or women who have had repeated miscarriages or failed IVF attempts.
The screening involves testing a single cell from a three-day-old embryo.
View full article at BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4355928.stm
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ITEM #7. 'Euthanasia tourism' sparks outrage!
Websites advocating 'euthanasia tourism' allegedly posted by a US national from a sleepy Cambodian town have sparked outrage and confusion as businesses and the government debate what action to take.
The family and friends of a British national have already alleged that the twin sites were directly linked to a 47-year-old woman's suicide in September in Kampot, about 180 km from the capital, following the break-up of a relationship.
At least 20 business owners in the tourist town have signed a petition and forwarded it to the provincial government demanding the sites be closed because they damage the reputation of Cambodia and its developing tourism industry.
The provincial police, the ministry of interior and the ministry of tourism all said this week they were aware of the problem but were confused about what they could do as the problem was so unusual and new to Cambodia.
View full article at HindustanTimes.com: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7242_1536173,00180008.htm
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ITEM #8. Victims of genetic discrimination
Evidence is growing that employers and insurers are discriminating against
people whose genes make them susceptible to serious diseases.
In the most complete survey yet of possible discrimination, around 1 in 12 people
who have taken a genetic test said they had been disadvantaged as a result?
for example, by being denied appropriate life insurance.
The survey is part of the pioneering Genetic Discrimination Project, which is
attempting to document the extent of genetic discrimination in Australia and
help any victims seek redress. A team led by Kristine Barlow-Stewart, who heads
the Centre for Genetics Education in Sydney, analysed questionnaires filled
in by more than 1000 people who had taken predictive tests for serious diseases,
such as neurodegenerative disorders and cancer.
Initial results show that more respondents felt they had benefited from the
test than claimed to have lost out, Barlow-Stewart told a meeting of the American
Society of Human Genetics in Salt Lake City, Utah, last week. But disturbingly,
87 people - 7.3 per cent of the sample - said they had suffered specific instances
of negative treatment. Similar findings have emerged from previous surveys,
but employers and insurers have felt able to dismiss such complaints as spurious
because the past studies were anonymous and few cases ended up in court or before
a tribunal.
View full text at EurekAlert:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/ns-vog110205.php
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ITEM #9. Congress Holds Hearings on Pain Unborn Children Feel During Abortions
While most of Washington is focused on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge
Samuel Alito or other political issues, members of a House committee on Tuesday
held a hearing on legislation regarding the pain unborn children feel during
abortions.
Rep Steve Chabot, a pro-life Republican, chaired the meeting of the House Judiciary
subcommittee on the Constitution that examined the Unborn Child Pain Awareness
Act.
"This would require that a woman who is ready to have an abortion, that she is provided with information telling her about the pain that the unborn baby will feel," he said.
"Until we can get a Supreme Court that is willing to look at this issue and reverse Roe v Wade, there are other things that we can do to help protect unborn, innocent life in this country and this bill is one of those things," Chabot added.
View entire article at LifeNews.com;
http://www.lifenews.com/nat1755.html
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ITEM #10. Number of U.S. Unwed Mothers Reaches All-Time High
(LifeSiteNews.com) - The percentage of women who are unmarried when they have children has reached a record high according to statistics released by the US Centers for Disease Control and PreventionÕs National Center for Health Statistics.
The statistics for 2004, released Friday, revealed that 35.7 percent of all births were to unmarried women and that the percentage of unmarried mothers increased for all ages and races. The increase translates to almost 1.5 million children being born were to unwed mothers last year, up significantly - four percent - from 2003.
Over half of births to women in their early twenties and nearly three in 10 births to women aged 25Ð29 were to unmarried mothers, while four out of five teenage women who gave birth were unwed.
"It's really unfair to children," said Rutgers University sociologist David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project, according to a USA TODAY report. "It means more children are going to grow up without mothers and fathers."
Popenoe and his group at Rutgers confirmed that the increased prevalence of unwed mothers is bad news for children. Swedish researchers documented that children raised by single parents are twice as likely to suffer from psychiatric problems, suicide and other injuries as those raised in intact two-parent homes.
US data suggested children reared by one birth parent are twice as likely to drop out of school or become teenage parents, regardless of a parentÕs education credentials. They're also one-and-a-half times more likely to be jobless after leaving school.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Census Data Reveals Children Need a Mum and a Dad
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/04031903.html
Former Rocker Geldof says Two Parents Ideal Way to Raise Children
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04100711.html
Children Of Single Parents Have Poorer Health, Swedish Study Says
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/jan/03012806.html
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ITEM #11. Palliative Care "Killing me softly"
Palliative care is the care given to those who are in imminent danger of death.
To 'palliate' is to lessen the suffering of a dying person. There is much debate
today as to how this should be done. The term "dying," properly understood,
applies to a person whose death may reasonably be expected to occur within,
at most, 48 hours. There is also, however, much debate about the meaning given
to the word "imminent." The major factors spurring these debates are
the judgments made by many about "quality of life," whether a certain
kind of life is "worth living," and also about the "cost effectiveness"
of keeping a person whose life is deemed to be "not worth living."
View full text at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/she/she_04palliativecare.html
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ITEM #12. Missouri Stem Cell Petition: Voters Can Push the Logic of Stowers Institute's Quirky 'Science'
At last heavy Republican political weight in Missouri is bearing down on and exposing the obvious desperation and downright fraud involved in the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, sponsored by the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures (a twin-battle using many of the same people, the same "businesses", the same fake "science", the same fake PR as in the embattled California Stem Cell Initiative created recently by their Proposition 71). Rep. Emery's two excellent and latest short commentaries are copied below.
Since many refuse or don't want to wade through the voluminous scientific references involved in these debates, what I would like to attempt instead for the sake of conscientious voters is to very briefly summarize the critical accurate scientific points, and then simply push the logic of Neaves' quirky "science" a little further, observing where else such an "initiative" would lead the good State of Missouri on many other life -- or if you prefer, "bioethics" -- issues as well.
The bottom scientific line is that Rep. Emery acknowledges the objective scientific fact (in concert with the international nomenclature on human embryology) that the immediate product of both sexual and asexual human reproduction is a new innocent living human being -- and thus his/her life should be equally protected by Missouri law from its beginning. On the other hand, Mr. Neaves, president and CEO of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, MO, "believes" that there is a new innocent living human being there only if he/she is the result of sexual human reproduction -- and only if implanted, fully formed, and able to think and rationalize as an adult. - Dianne N. Irving, Ph.D.
View Dr. Irving's full commentary, followed by article:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_107missouripetition.html
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes
Analysts up prediction of attendees at November 12 march in Spain to 2 million
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5362
Bush meets Dalai Lama, ignoring China's objections
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20051109/2005-11-09T210849Z_01_SPI976107_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CHINA-TIBET-USA-DC.html
TV Is Full of Sex, Sex, Sex: Study
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/11/09/entertainment/e051311S04.DTL
US Senate Committee to Hold Pornography Hearing
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0038523.cfm
NDP's Layton calls for February election
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/09/layton-election051109.html
Harper wavers on vote - May not join NDP in bid to defeat government
http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=04aa03e3-e25c-4724-8017-71d70c3b93b0
Bishop wrong in claiming US Catholics are turning to Anglican Church, says
Catholic League
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5360
Fox News Channel documentary on "global warming," provides only liberal
take after lecture from Al Gore
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=SpecialReportsarchive200511SPE20051109a.html
Assembly measure would have doctors tell of fetal pain
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/nov05/369192.asp
Islamic Terrorism: The Root Causes
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20117
Catholic Voters A Key Constituency
http://www.forbes.com/home/2005/11/08/catholics-elections-oxford-cx_1109oxford_catholics.htmlc
Bill Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes to Software Industry
http://news.com.com/Gates+memo+warns+of++disruptive+changes/2100-1014_3-5940792.html?tag=nl
Schools Dropping Scouting Sponsorships, Fearing Lawsuits
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=87483
CWA Salutes Mainers Who Worked Hard In Attempt to Overturn Special Homosexual
Right
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9420/MEDIA/misc/index.htm
Let gays wed, says top British woman judge
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=YKUM4U21V05O5QFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/09/nhale09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/09/ixportal.html
New CBS News President McManus: “I Don't See” Any Liberal Bias On CBS News
http://newsbusters.org/node/2754
Bring On the Seminary Inquisition
http://www.crisismagazine.com/editorsview.htm
War Without End: A Brief History of the Muslim Conquests
http://www.crisismagazine.com/feature2.htm
Layton says he's ready to topple government
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051108/martin_layton_051108/20051108?hub=TopStories
A teenage boy died of blood poisoning after getting his lip pierced
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Online Petition To Stop Bill C-407 Is Now Up And Running
We are receiving a strong response from across Canada.
Please promote the online petition as soon as possible to enable us to inform our government leaders of our opposition to Bill C-407.
Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
1-877-439-3348
'Mercy Killing' Bill Must Be Snuffed
Society focuses on so-called rights while forgetting its responsibilities – By Bishop Fred Henry
On June 15 Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde filed a bill in the House of Commons that aims to modify the Criminal Code to give Canadians the "right to die with dignity."
Tomorrow, the Commons will debate Bill C-407, which is, in fact a new attempt to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.
One of the misguided reasons for the current attractiveness of this kind of legislation is the exaggerated role personal autonomy has come to play in human consciousness today.
Derived from the enlightenment movement of the 18th century, personal autonomy has erroneously developed into a concept that stresses so-called rights but forgets about responsibilities.
While the notion of patient autonomy has become an appropriate corrective on physician paternalism, which too long dominated the physician-patient relationship, it has nevertheless been carried to improper extremes.
The dying patient, like all human beings, is a person in relationship. The patient has responsibilities to others and to society. In our society, we have much to learn about our interdependence, about duties to family and the human community, from Asian, Native and some European cultures. It is characteristic of these cultures that important decisions in life are never made by the individual alone, but in the context of family and generally with special regard for the wisdom of the elders in the community.
The issue is one of pressing interest and concern but also widespread confusion.
A major cause of the confusion is what George Orwell in his essay, "Politics and the English Language," calls the language of "euphemisms, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." Some of the language used in the euthanasia debate appears "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder acceptable, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
The rhetoric of "choice," "aid-in-dying," "compassion," "a new medical treatment," "self-determination," "autonomy," and "death with dignity" tend to cover up the reality euthanasia means a human life is deliberately destroyed at the hands of an-other, in many cases at the
hands of a loved one or a supposed professional healer.
This proposed legislation would reverse the reigning medical ethic, which for more than two millennia has insisted that doctors must heal and never kill. Legalizing physician-assisted suicide would irreparably damage the doctor-patient relationship. The patient's trust in the
doctor's whole-hearted devotion to the patient's best interests will be hard to sustain once doctors are licensed to kill. Furthermore, such legislation would put undue stress on the conscience of the physician pressured by patients and others to take part in killing.
The unmistakable issue is the intentional killing of a human being. It has nothing to do with natural death or dignity, and everything to do with killing.
We are not discussing letting someone die. A number of distinctions are necessary.
Euthanasia is not respecting a patient's refusal of treatment at any time in the course of treatment. Medical tradition and practice clearly distinguish between refusal of medical intervention and intentionally causing death by euthanasia.
Euthanasia is not discontinuing treatment when it serves no therapeutic purpose or the patient requests treatment to cease; nor is it abstaining from medically futile treatment.
All treatments that impose undue burdens on the patient without overriding benefits or that simply provide no benefits may justifiably be withheld or withdrawn. In making such decisions, the judgment is about the worth of treatment, not about the worth of lives.
The provision of adequate medicines to control pain is not euthanasia. The administration of high doses of painkillers and sedatives to terminally ill patients may lead to a shortening of their lives. It is, however, morally acceptable to administer such drugs in doses linked to their painkilling or sedative effects, and not to the termination of life.
It is not correct to call this "euthanasia" because there is no intention to shorten a patient's life.
Those favouring assisted-suicide have not given adequate attention to palliative care. The goal of palliative care is to give comfort and thereby enable the dying to live while dying. Letting life ebb away can in no way be equated with active euthanasia.
Allowing a person to die is a world removed from giving a lethal injection.
Palliative care also aims at assuaging the suffering of terminal patients. Often they feel helpless, lonely, in the way, and a burden to others. With empathy, comfort care, and affirmation, palliative care-givers accompany patients in their suffering and by their kindness
and compassion help the patient maintain a sense of worth and a feeling of belonging, and move from depression to hope.
The legislation of aid-in-dying would pose a threat to the elderly, the infirm, handicapped newborns and to all members of society unable to look after their own best interests. This kind of legislation says to them: "you're not important; you're not needed; in fact, you are a burden to others."
Canadian citizens should be assured that their dignity at every stage of life is recognized by government as important. They must be reassured by government their needs will be met humanely.
They must be shown true compassion in the care they receive from society, not through death-dealing, but by being looked after in a life-giving way.
As Canadians, we all have a duty to speak up for the rights and dignity of every citizen.
In short, it is Bill C-407 that must die!
Have a letter for the editor? E-mail it to webmaster@calgarysun.com
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Henry_Bishop_Fred/2005/10/29/1284390.html
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) - Nov. 7, 2005
B.C. man gets insider Grit e-mails by mistake
Credit card numbers, plan to discredit Tory candidates revealed
By Peter O'Neil, CanWest News Service
OTTAWA - An exasperated B.C. businessman has gone public with misdirected
e-mails he regularly receives detailing inside information from the Liberal
government, which included party tactics and sensitive data such as credit
card numbers. Bill Sadar's final straw, he said, was an e-mail last week
outlining a scheme involving Ruth Thorkelson, one of Prime Minister Paul
Martin's closest political advisers, aimed at discrediting two of
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's star candidates. Thorkelson, who left
her post as Martin's deputy chief of staff in August, sent a message to
Liberal MP Judi Longfield outlining plans to leak to "a friendly media
outlet" accusations Tory candidates Jim Flaherty and John Baird are
violating the Canada Elections Act. Thorkelson proposed that Longfield,
whose Ontario seat of Whitby-Oshawa is being challenged by Flaherty, issue a
news release the day after the leak to take advantage of the controversy.
The e-mail, however, ended up in Sadar's computer because Thorkelson copied
her plan to John Brodhead, a political aide to Infrastructure Minister John
Godfrey. Sadar's problem is he has owned, since 1999, a domain called
www.infrastructure.ca, which is close to Infrastructure Canada's
www.infrastructure.gc.ca People such as Thorkelson who forget to include the
gc - for Government of Canada - end up sending their e-mails to Sadar.
"Today I got some guy asking someone else for lunch. You know, I get a
variety. I get baby pictures, I get jokes, I get lunch dates, I get Liberal
announcements. I get all kinds of crap," Sadar said. "What pushed
me over
the edge was the Thorkelson thing. That was too much for me. I don't want to
see that crap and I don't like it, because it sounded underhanded. "I don't
like the way they do business that way. I guess I'm slightly influenced by
the Gomery thing that's going on."
Thorkelson's briefing note says Flaherty and Baird, Tory members of the
Ontario provincial legislature, are "flouting the intention of the Canadian
Elections Act" because they are campaigning federally while remaining on
the
provincial payroll. "It is also ethically unconscionable."
Elections Canada spokesperson Adrien Cantin said both men are within the law
because they don't become official federal candidates until the election is
called. But both Thorkelson and Longfield said in separate interviews Friday
they believe the two Tories are violating the law's "spirit." Thorkelson,
who said she is now helping members of Parliament and candidates as a
volunteer, said she doesn't share Sadar's perception her tactics are
under-handed. "I can't really comment on what this guy thinks of it, but
civilians have a different view of politics than we do."
Sadar, who has twice written to Godfrey on the matter, has been trying for
six months to negotiate an agreement to sell his domain name to Ottawa. He
has been commended repeatedly by an Infrastructure Canada bureaucrat for his
patience while that bureaucrat sought approval for the purchase. The
negotiations began when Sadar received an e-mail in May with two American
Express credit card numbers from Infrastructure Canada. He said he feared a
potential credit card fraud might be wrongly traced to him. Eventually
Antoine Lagarec, Infrastructure Canada's manager of security and corporate
administration, wrote to Sadar on July 28, 2005 stating he has sent a
briefing note to senior officials recommending the purchase of the domain.
"Our intent is still to resolve this matter as appropriately as possible
for
both parties," he wrote, adding he appreciated Sadar's patience. But a
possible deal fell through when Lagarec said he could only offer Sadar
$5,000. Sadar, a contractor specializing in road construction and materials
testing, wants to set up an e-commerce site using the domain name, which he
said is ideal for his line of work. He said the domain is worth $70,000 but
asked Ottawa for $50,000. In his Oct. 21 letter to Godfrey he dropped his
offer by half, to $25,000, but received no reply.
(Vancouver Sun)
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