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Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.lifeissues.net)
My computer here in Singapore stopped suddenly while sending out this newsletter. I do not know the cause. I will try sending again. Some of you will be receiving two. Please forgive the inconvenience. If the computer is cut off again, I will wait till I get to India to send this email. Thank you.
Since I will be participating in a HLI conference and be out of the country for three weeks. This newsletter will be sent two weeks early. Hope to back on time schedule with the next newsletter for Nov. 21st. Much thanks.
There are many euthanasia deaths in Belgium. After one year of operation, the Belgium government has announced that 203 people were killed by euthanasia in that country in its first year of operation. Several hundred doctors attended the recent national medical meeting there. An informal consensus was that there could be an actual figure of 1,000 deaths. A leading pro-death spokesman, in response to this, has asked that the practice be expanded to include teenagers and more disabled persons.
Are stem cells treating diabetes? According to the BBC, 23rd August, researches at Toronto University researchers have used pancreatic stem cells to treat diabetes in adult mice. Obviously, with this success the next step would be to treat diabetic humans. Best we tell this to the financial sponsors of research in embryonic stem cells. The chance for embryonic cells curing diabetes is at this point only a fantasy. Here, however, we have
non-embryonic or adult stem cells already curing diabetes in research animals. Keep it up guys!
Have a nice weekend,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
UN on Cloning
Since the UN debate last month on banning human cloning, discussions have continued with UN delegations to garner support for the Costa Rican proposal to ban all human cloning. The committee charged with this issue is close to a vote on the proposal, probably late this week. Many of the UN delegates are undecided and need encouragement from their home countries to support a ban on all human cloning. Passage of the Costa Rican proposal would be a strong signal that the world will not countenance the creation and destruction of human life for experiments.
We should encourage our global friends that protecting human life and human dignity is of critical importance, and pray for passage of the proposal. Action items: Primarily prayer! 1) Anything we can do in terms of our own international contacts to encourage the home countries to signal their UN delegation to vote with Costa Rica. 2) We should also press the White House & State Dept. to put actions to their own words, and bring their pressure to bear on countries to line up with Costa Rica.
Additional Resources:
Contacting the White House
Contacting the U.S. Department of State
Human Cloning: The Abuse of Science
A Dutch lesson for Canada
Lorne Gunter
Columnist/Editorial Writer, National Post & Columnist Edmonton Journal
Source: National Post: Section: Editorials: Page A19: Mon. 15 Nov. 2004
Tele: (780) 916-0719
Fax: (780) 481-4735
E-mail: lgunter@shaw.ca
Address: 132 Quesnell Crescent NW, Edmonton, AB T5R 5P2
Bravo to the Dutch for recognizing that the assimilation of immigrants and refugees is preferable to multiculturalism and political correctness.
A sea change has occurred in the Netherlands in the past few years. The famously liberal Dutch citizenry, and a goodly number in officialdom, have come to recognize that too much acquiescence to the customs and traditions of immigrants and refugees has led to civil strife.
The prevailing sentiment among the majority of Dutch voters now is that their national immigration policy has made insufficient demands on newcomers to respect the foundations of Dutch law and culture. In particular, a large and growing Muslim community has been encouraged by official diversity programs to remain both detached from mainstream Dutch culture and hostile to it.
It has taken two gruesome political murders to jolt the Dutch from their previous cult-like devotion to tolerance.
Tolerance had become a civil religion among the Dutch before the assassinations of politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002 and filmmaker Theo van Gogh earlier this month. Fortuyn was not murdered by Muslims, but rather by a fanatic leftist, environmentalist, and animal-rights activist outraged by Fortuyn's opposition to Muslim immigration. Volkert van der Graaf shot
Fortuyn dead in the middle of the last Dutch election.
At the time of his death, Fortuyn was widely described as a right-wing populist, because reporters and editors assume the only politicians opposed to immigration and multiculturalism are on the right. But Fortuyn was a flamboyantly gay sociologist long active in the Partij van de Arbeid, the Dutch social democratic party. What distressed him about the rapid increase in the Muslim population was the threat rigid Muslims posed to his nation's liberal traditions. They were antagonistic to Holland's acceptance of same-sex rights, the sex trade and recreational drug use.
Similarly, Van Gogh was killed for producing a left-of-centre film exposing Muslim discrimination against women. Van Gogh's alleged murderer is a Muslim, as are his six alleged accomplices.
And the filmmaker's death was especially grisly: Shot several times at close range, but (apparently) deliberately left alive, his throat was then slashed as he pleaded for his life. Finally, Koranic verses and exhortations that Islam would crush the Netherlands and Western Europe were pegged to his corpse's chest by the knife used almost to decapitate him.
Even before this second killing, the Dutch had taken bold steps to end Muslim immigrants' self-imposed isolation and to reduce the security threat from the most radical Islamists in the country. Imams at Dutch mosques -- most of whom are Arab-born, and many of whom are financed by radical Middle Eastern Muslims and preach virulently anti-Western sermons -- were being compelled by the government to take Dutch lessons. These clerics were
advocating an end to Dutch society without even being able to speak the native language well enough to understand events around them.
Authorities are also pondering the closure of Muslim schools and the transfer of students to public schools to get them away from teachers and curricula antagonistic of Western values.
Within the next three years, too, Dutch immigration officials intend to deport all 26,000 unsuccessful refugee claimants still at large and return them to their home countries -- even if they have stable jobs and Dutch-born children.
As is the case here, the biggest problem with radicals in the Dutch Muslim community is among bogus refugee claimants, not legitimate immigrants.
Is there a lesson in this for Canada? Probably. At the very least, a cautionary tale. In the past decade, our Muslim population has risen more than 130%. Muslims comprise the fastest growing religious group in Canada with more than 100,000 adherents.
And it is recently arrived Muslims who are the most likely to be filled with the hateful, anti-Western teaching that is booming in the Middle East. Long-standing Canadian Muslims are largely as peaceful as they claim to be.
There is also mounting evidence that a growing number of Canadian mosques and Islamic schools have come under the control of Saudi-funded Wahhabis and other radical Islamists. In April, 2002, a crowd of 1,000 or more, many from a Calgary mosque funded by the Saudi royals, marched through that city's downtown chanting "Death to the Jews." At a recent conference in Ottawa on the advent of shariah -- Islamic law -- in Canada, one delegate, a moderate Muslim and university professor, estimated that 90% of the new mosques
constructed in Canada since 1990 were Wahhabi-dominated.
A Vancouver imam was recently revealed preaching venomous anti-Semitic and anti-Western dogma after one of his flock was shot dead in Chechnya fighting for Muslim extremists against Russian troops.
Judy Sgro, Canada's Immigration Minister, announced this week that Ottawa will get tougher with bogus refugee claimants. This would be the best place to start. Both CSIS and the RCMP insist most of the jihadis who have entered Canada in the past decade have come as false refugees.
Sgro's task will not be easy. An earlier attempt by the Liberals to reform our refugee rules, in 1995, ran aground on protests from refugee lawyers who have developed lucrative practices defending refugee claimants at public expense and opposition from the ethnic political leaders many Liberals rely on for re-election.
But if Canada is to be spared the Netherlands' upheaval, Sgro must be serious, and she must succeed.
Abortion/Breast Cancer Link
Dear Friends:
Have you benefited from the information provided by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer?
Have you or a loved one profited from the knowledge that breast cancer can be prevented through the avoidance of certain risk factors including abortion and hormonal contraceptives? Have you or someone you love benefited from the risk reduction strategies available on the coalition's website? Do you know of any pregnant adolescents or young women who've been encouraged not to make the life-altering choice of abortion because of the scientific information offered by the coalition?
Women from around the world depend on the coalition's up-to-date information about research and public policy. This was only made possible through your generous contributions over the years, and I want you to know that I am deeply grateful for your help. However, the coalition cannot continue to do this important work of saving lives without your ongoing partnership in this endeavor, as well as your vigorous support.
The coalition's budget is quite low. As the end of the tax year approaches, I urge you to please consider giving generously to aid this crucial work.
I'd like to review with you only a few of the coalition's and my accomplishments during the past year:
1) Thirteen press releases were distributed on U.S. Newswire, three of which were distributed in two nations - the U.S. and Great Britain.
2) Eve Sanchez Silver, a Latina advisor, medical research analyst and popular speaker for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation resigned because she read a coalition press release (May 21, 2004) criticizing Komen for its gifts to Planned Parenthood.
3) Forty-five interviews were offered to radio talk show hosts and U.S. and European journalists.
4) An European speaking tour included speaking engagements before doctors, nurses, bioethicists, leaders of women's groups, members of parliament, journalists and others.
5) Two nationwide television interviews were provided.
6) The Chicagoland Women's Expo featured a Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer booth.
7) More than 6,500 crisis pregnancy centers received letters that included a sample coalition brochure and a copy of a press release from Women's Injury Network announcing the settlement of the first abortion-breast cancer malpractice lawsuit in the U.S.
Two weeks ago, I offered a presentation in a Social Studies class at a public high school where I discussed public policy and the scientific research and showed part of the video, "The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link." The teacher literally gushed with enthusiasm over my presentation and invited me to return for Women's History Month.
Next week, coalition board member and mammography educator Jeanette Joyce and I will be flying to a southwestern state for a television interview. It will be my third television interview on the abortion-breast cancer link this year. This will involve some added expenses for the coalition. I sincerely hope you can help us out.
I am literally pleading for your help. Please send your tax-deductible gift to the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. Credit card donations can be made at the following link. Abortion / Breast Cancer.
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/041109/index.htm. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Women's Injury Network
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
Polycarp Research Institute
This newsletter can be viewed online at:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/041109/index.htm
Remember The International Day of Prayer, November 21st
Right now around the world over 200 million are suffering for their faith. On
November 21, 2004, join with Christians all over Canada and in over 130
countries to stand with our suffering sisters and brothers and pray for God's
peace and grace in the midst of suffering and hostility; pray for the physical
needs and safety of suffering Christians and their families; pray for the
persecutors; and thank God for His faithfulness in the midst of tribulation.
Whether you are a pastor, mission coordinator, cell group leader, or an individual with a heart for prayer, IDOP Canada has compiled resources that can help your congregation, group, or friends pray effectively for the persecuted church on the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) and throughout the year.
The Voice of the Martyrs prayer update reminds us: Persecuted Christians need our prayers. We can sometimes be overwhelmed by the evil in the world, yet often, and with the help of our prayers, the darkest times can result in incredible triumphs in the lives of our suffering brothers and sisters. Pray for the persecuted Church, November 21, 2004.
Kinsey Corrupts the Culture -- Even from the Grave!
Kinsey: Let's Talk About Sex
This controvertial film is an outrage to decent morality and Christian ethics. This link contains graphic language and should not be viewed by children. If you wish to read the article you may do so by clicking on the link below.
The film, starring Liam Neeson as the notorious sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, is the latest attempt by the liberal media elite to trash Judeo-Christian values and glorify sexual perversion. Kinsey is a full-frontal assault on God's plan for human sexuality.
For further information click on this link: Kinsey Corrupts the Culture
A jury's decision last week to acquit Evelyn Martens, an executive member of the Right to Die Society, on charges of helping two women take their own lives clears up an important "grey area" in Canada's law banning assisted suicides, the Globe and Mail reported Saturday. Prosecutors alleged that she had counselled both women on euthanasia and had given them so-called "exit bags" with which to commit suicide.
"It sends a clear message that by being with someone [who is committing suicide] and by comforting them, you do not commit a criminal act," Martin Frith with the national pro-euthanasia group Dying With Dignity, told the Globe and Mail. "And that's very important," added defense counsel Catherine Tyhurst, "not only to lawyers or those accused, but also to members of the public, who, I believe, until this refinement of the law, were in a state of understandable uncertainty over what conduct is and is not assisting in a suicide."
Palliative care nurse Beverly Welsh with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, on the other hand, hopes the verdict will be appealed. "We don't want to see an accumulation of cases like this that will be used to try to change the law," she said. Ian Gentles, research director of the Toronto-based De Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, also cautions that "a request for suicide is often a cry for help. Quite often people asking to commit suicide are depressed or mentally ill and what they really need is help to get over their depression." [Read more]
Pro-Marriage Bill IntroducedThe chances appear good that the House of Commons will be asked for the third time in five years to debate the definition of marriage, CanWest News Service reported recently. Last week, rookie New Brunswick Conservative MP Rob Moore introduced a private member's bill - C-268 - which affirms marriage as the union of one man and one woman. It also affirms the rights of churches and other religious organizations to perform marriage ceremonies as they see fit.
Moore says he brought forward the legislation because he believes the government would prefer to let the Supreme Court settle the issue of legalizing gay marriage. The court is expected to rule sometime next spring on whether or not draft government legislation allowing homosexuals to marry is constitutional.
"It's only right that Canadians through their duly elected representatives have some kind of input on this major social policy change that the Liberals have tried to force through," Moore told CanWest. And while he suspects that "many members of Parliament probably don't want to confront" this issue, "it is something that Canadians expect us to confront." In fact, Moore is convinced that "mainstream Canada is opposed" to changing the definition of marriage. [Read more]
Call to Action:
Two private members' bills have recently been tabled that would define marriage as being "between one man and one woman." On October 15, 2004, Member of Parliament David Chatters tabled Bill C-213, and on November 5, 2004 Member of Parliament Rob Moore tabled Bill C-268; both bills protect the traditional definition of marriage. As these bills must be approved by the Subcommittee on Private Members Business (SMEM) before the House of Commons can vote on them, it is very important for the members of the committee to hear from people like you that support marriage. Please get in touch with the Subcommittee by writing, e-mailing, or phoning the members to let him know your support of these two very important bills.
News Release - Liberal Government to Churches - "Shut up or you're out of Business!"
OTTAWA – Together in the House of Commons, Brian Fitzpatrick, MP for Prince Albert and Jeff Watson, MP for Essex called on the Liberal Government to stop threatening the Roman Catholic and Evangelical Churches’ charitable statuses for expressing their constitutionally protected rights of freedom speech and freedom of religion.
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Research conducted at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children appears to confirm the potential of adult stem cells to someday yield treatments for spinal cord injuries, strokes, Parkinson's disease and other nervous system disorders, the Toronto Sun reported Monday.
The findings are published in the journal Nature Cell Biology. If further research proves that adult stem cells do in fact possess this ability to heal, they would provide a non-controversial alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells, which can only be retrieved through the destruction of human embryos. Adult stem cells, which can be extracted from a patient's skin, can even generate some fat, muscle, bone and cartilage cells. Using a person's own cells would also eliminate the risk of the body rejecting foreign, transplanted cells.
"If we could do something that would make a difference clinically, we should be putting our resources into this," Principal investigator Dr. Freda Miller, a senior scientist in development biology in the Sick Kids Research Institute, told the Sun. "The whole goal was to find an accessible, adult source of stem cells for the nervous system." [Read more]
Fr. Frank Pavone Addresses Arch of Triumph Banquet, Defends Political Activity Charges
To: National Desk
Contact: Laurence D. Behr, Executive Director, Ass'n for the Arch of Triumph, 716-856-1300, ldbehr@archoftriumph.org
BUFFALO, NY, Nov. 16 /Christian Wire Services/ -- Father Frank A. Pavone, Director of Priests for Life, was honored for his dedication to the pro-life cause at a banquet held near Buffalo, NY on Sunday, Nov. 14, by the Association for the Arch of Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and International Shrine of the Holy Innocents, a lay Catholic association that is working to erect the world’s tallest monument as a tribute to Mary, and the triumph of her Immaculate Heart which she prophesied at Fatima in 1917.
The evening commenced with a reenactment the Coronation of the Western Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which occurred in Buffalo’s cathedral on December 8, 1947. That statue had been commissioned by Fatima seer Sister Lucia, and sent by her with Blue Army founder, the late John Haffert, to travel across America. According to Haffert’s autobiography, “To Shake the World,” Cardinal Spellman of New York did not want the statue to be entering America through New York City. Haffert therefore brought it through Ontario and into the Buffalo Diocese. Buffalo’s then Bishop John O’Hara placed a golden crown upon the statue, enthroned upon a special altar in the cathedral, in a colorful ceremony attended by thousands. At the banquet, as in 1947, a Knights of Columbus color corps processed with a replica of the original statue, placing it beneath a triumphal arch of flowers. It was crowned, while the overflow crowd of over 500 sang “Hail Holy Queen,” by Marlene Behr, wife of Laurence D. Behr, the Buffalo, NY attorney and pro-life activist who heads the Arch of Triumph association.
Behr then explained the origins of the Arch project in a compelling dream he had in September 2000, of a “Shrine of the Golden Arch of St. Mary.” He defended the Church’s special veneration of Mary, and proposed that Mary’s revelation at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, “Jesus wishes to establish in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart,” is consistent with many prophecies concerning Mary, and her important part in God’s plan for the salvation of the world, beginning in Genesis and Exodus and running throughout Scripture, up to the “woman clothed with the sun, with a crown of twelve stars upon her head and the moon beneath her feet,” of Revelations 12:1.
Behr said that the proposed triumphal arch’s purpose is to promote awareness of and devotion to Mary’s Immaculate Heart, as a means to lead the world closer to Christ and bring about the end of abortion, just as the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531 swiftly ended the Aztec practice of human sacrifice. Behr claims an increasing number of supporters for the proposed Arch shrine, across the U.S.A. and Canada, and worldwide. The group maintains a Web site, www.archoftriumph.org, and a toll free information number, 1-866-205-6512.
In his address, Father Pavone responded to an article appearing in the November 9 Buffalo News, that reported his visit there and stated that in the pre-election season, “Pavone and other conservative religious leaders did the kind of work normally associated with political parties.” The Buffalo News noted that “Priests for Life gave talks in churches and parish centers, organized conference calls with local get-out-the-vote leaders, and set up transportation for elderly voters.” The article discussed charges filed with the IRS against Priests for Life and other Catholic groups, as well as two archdioceses (Denver and St. Louis), by the group calling itself “Catholics for a Free Choice,” claiming that such activities amount to partisan politicking, and asking the IRS to revoke Priests for Life’s tax-exempt status.
Father Pavone commented, “I continue to be amazed that some people seem to think it is inappropriate for the Church to speak up against baby killing—dismembering a child. I am not ashamed to appear to be opposed to a party that says it is okay to crush the heads of babies. Something is very wrong when one’s loyalty to a political party is greater than one’s loyalty to God and fundamental human rights.” Pavone insisted, “If anyone threatens me with a report to the IRS, I say to them, ‘Bring them in—we will bring them in ourselves,’” adding: “We still have the freedom of expression in this country and the best way to protect it is to exercise it without fear. We have the right to speak up against injustice, no matter whom we offend.” He said that “if the political parties and candidates swap positions tomorrow on the fundamental right to life issue, our message would not change,” which he said proves that Priests for Life does not support a political party. Pavone stated: “We have a message that goes far beyond any political party—we have a message that is eternal and reaches from one end of the universe to the other: That every human life is a manifestation of the glory of God, and that an attack on any human life is an attack on God Himself.”
Respecting the proposed Marian Arch of Triumph and Holy Innocents shrine, Pavone said, “One reason I have wanted to support the Arch of Triumph project from the beginning--a very simple reason--is that the pro-life message in the many different ways it is conveyed is often very easy to ignore. We will never reach the numbers of people we have to reach and convert, if reaching them depends on their voluntary consent. We have to go beyond that. Imagine once this massive structure is standing there, and so many people who have no intention of thinking about life and the sacredness of life, or the Blessed Virgin Mary, or even God Himself, nevertheless will be confronted with this massive structure. We have to reach the unwilling audience, because there are things they need to know that they may not even know that they need to know, but they need it nevertheless.” He said, “The apostles, after the Holy Spirit came upon them at Pentecost, did not sit in the Upper Room and note in their appointment books the people who were going to come knocking at their door in the Upper Room. They went out from the Upper Room and into the places where the people were, and preached on the public streets and the public sidewalks, and got on ships and they went to places--they did not wait for the people to come to them.”
Father Pavone urged his audience to educate themselves using available pro-life resources, so as to reply convincingly to the pro-abortionists’ “very few worn-out, tired and disproven arguments.” He also suggested that the annual Life Chain Sunday event held in many cities could easily become a monthly event, even if it is not large, citing testimonies of women who changed their minds about having an abortion because they saw the signs on Life Chain Sunday asking them not to kill their children.
Behr presented Father Pavone with an award in recognition, for his “selfless, courageous and persevering advocacy on behalf of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society--the unborn, the sick, and the elderly.
Laurence D. Behr, Executive Director, Ass'n for the Arch of Triumph
Of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Int'l Shrine of the Holy Innocents, Inc.,
A NY Non-profit 501(c)(3) Corporation
Birth Control Pill Heart Disease
PFLI (pfli@pfli.org) Has Recommended a News Story to you From LifeSite News
October 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Beginning early last week hundreds of news outlets around the world reported that a new study had shown that using oral chemical contraceptives reduced the risk of heart attack.
The UK's Telegraph wrote, "Women who take the Pill are protecting themselves against cancer and heart disease." The Hindustan Times of India reported, "new research claims that the tablets, on the contrary, reduce chances of heart attacks." Health 24.com of South Africa ran the headline, "Pill cuts heart disease risk."
One BC pharmacist, Christina Alarcon of Canada's Pharmacists for Life called one manufacturer of the drugs, Wyeth Ayerst, asking for a copy of the 'study' and was told there was no study to send. Alarcon pointed out that the claim that women who take oral contraceptives have lower instances of heart disease is deceptive. "Doctors don't normally prescribe oral contraceptives to women with a history of heart disease anyway. So of course looking at the data of women who take the pill will show that most of them have a lower history of heart disease, their doctors wouldn't give it to them otherwise."
Closer examination shows the 'study' is actually not a new independent study but a reassessment of statistical data drawn from the US Women's Health Initiative, a 15 year examination of the effects of hormone treatments on rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis, in postmenopausal women. The information that made headlines last week was composited by a team of analysts from Wayne State University headed by Dr. Rahi Victory.
The new report was not conducted with the normal rigorous controls of a double-blind, placebo-controlled scientific study and has not been published in any peer-reviewed scientific journals. The research was presented at the conference of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Philadelphia and no information has been made public as to who funded it.
Alarcon said, "The journalists, especially in the Canadian press, took verbatim what was released and didn't ask any questions."
The full text of the story is available at:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04102509.html