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News Items
- A Post Turtle – October 8, 2008
- A Pro-Life Free-Speech Heroine Walks Free – October 8, 2008
- Bad Science vs. Beautiful Babies – October 8, 2008
- Buying Halloween Treats – October 8, 2008
- EFC Comments On Unheralded Pro-Life Victory – October 8, 2008
- In Russia 64% Of Pregnancies End In Abortion – October 8, 2008
- Layton Insult - Daycare Reduces Violence – October 8, 2008
- Lifeissues.Net Newsletter 391 – October 8, 2008
- Real Life Lesson In Demographics – October 8, 2008
- Skin Cells Turned Into Stem Cells - Breakthrough Is Step Toward Regenerative Medicine – October 8, 2008
- This Election - What Churches Can And Cannot Do – October 8, 2008
- Tragic Story - Mom Acquitted In Baby's Death – October 8, 2008
- US Government Cuts Off Supplies To Marie Stopes International – October 8, 2008
- Video Catches Planned Parenthood Covering Up Statutory Rape – October 8, 2008
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1. A Post Turtle – October 8, 2008
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old rancher, whose hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Stéphane Dion and his bid to become our Prime Minister.
The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Dion is a 'Post Turtle'".
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.
The old rancher said:
"When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'Post Turtle'".
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain:
"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb jerk put him up there to begin with!"
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2. A Pro-Life Free-Speech Heroine Walks Free – October 8, 2008
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=e80513cc-f872-4f2b-909b-255dd94c3bec&p=2 - A pro-life free-speech heroine walks free
Nigel Hannaford
Calgary Herald
Saturday, October 04, 2008
This could be a free speech story, or a pro-life story, or just a story about plain old perseverance. You decide. Earlier this year, abortion provider Henry Morgentaler got his Order of Canada. A lot of people hated the idea, but whether or not one approves of what he was doing – full disclosure, I do not – one has to concede he believed in it strongly enough to go to jail, rather than yield. If you agree with him, he's a brave man. If you don't agree with him, you should still allow he has the courage of his convictions, and this martyr factor is part of what makes him so appealing to his supporters.
What then shall we say of pro-life activist Linda Gibbons, who has spent 75 months of the last 14 years in jail for protesting Morgentaler's trade? After all, it's a mirror image. When abortion was against the law, one man challenged it and in the end, was acclaimed for it. Then the law changed. Not only did abortion on demand become legal, it also became illegal in many places to stand outside clinics where they were done, to say, 'this is wrong.' In Toronto, it became illegal to stand near the door, whether you said anything or not. Responding to this obvious limitation of free-speech rights, pro-lifers refer to these bubble zones as speech-free zones.
But, Gibbons was just as sure abortion was wrong, as Morgentaler was that it was right. So she kept showing up, being arrested, going to jail, and because she wouldn't promise not to go back to her spot on the sidewalk, stayed there for years.
It is important to understand Gibbons, a frail woman of 60 who reportedly weighs all of 100 lbs, is totally non-violent. On none of the dozen occasions she was arrested, did she resist. She would, however, speak to women entering the clinic.
The need to care for elderly parents took her off the front line for a few years, but eventually she was back, silently walking up and down outside a Toronto abortion clinic. As on other occasions, she was charged with obstructing a peace officer.
This past Tuesday though, and unlike former occasions, she was acquitted. A Toronto provincial court judge decided her non-violence and non-resistance could not be construed as obstructing a peace officer in the performance of his duties.
The judge added that a charge of disobeying a court order might have stuck, but as that wasn't the charge, home she went. That's an interesting development by the way: Should she be so charged, she could have a jury trial.
Who knows what 12 of her peers might make of it? After all, even if they were not pro-lifers, they would have to consider some of the ironies here.
There's the free speech aspect, for instance. If she was a union militant involved in a strike, she could be as shrill as she liked.
In this country, police stand back while truckers get their windows smashed. So what exactly is the problem if she quietly approaches a woman heading to an abortion clinic? Ah, says the other side, nobody should interfere with another's health care.
True. But the woman is pregnant, not sick. Given the bloody reality of abortion, asking somebody if they really know what they're up to seems fair.
In fact, it should be the law. In a piece he wrote about Gibbons several years ago, columnist Michael Coren spoke of meeting a woman with a beautiful little girl, who Gibbons had talked out of an abortion right at the clinic. That three-year-old sweetie owes her life to one thing that Linda Gibbons spoke to her mother.
Then there's the penalty.
Whenever the peaceable Gibbons was sentenced, she'd get six months. Then, she'd end up in a cell with a woman doing half that for a violent assault.
How smart is that? Or just? Gibbons then, as much as Morgentaler, has the courage of her convictions. The difference between her courage and Morgentaler's though, is that he was swimming with a changing tide that would sweep him ashore.
She is not. That she goes on, without the comfort of a cheering section in press and Parliament, says a lot about her faith.
As occasional Herald contributor Andrea Mrozek puts it, for all the pro-choice fear mongering about pro-lifers wanting to send women to jail, there's only one woman in jail in this country on this issue – and it's because she's pro-life.
Well, for now she's out. I don't know her, but I think I like Linda Gibbons. Talk about sticking to your guns: 14 years, no less.
No Order of Canada for her, of course. They're just for people who swim in the right direction.
But, whether as a pro-lifer, or a free-speecher, she deserves one.
(nhannaford@theherald.canwest.com)
© The Calgary Herald 2008
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3. Bad Science vs. Beautiful Babies – October 8, 2008
World Net Daily
Bad science versus beautiful babies
Posted: September 22, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008
The outright loathing often displayed for Todd and Sarah Palin's refusal to abort Trig Palin and to welcome their surprise grandchild begins, in many ways in the 1950s.
After winning World War II, Americans saluted life, babies, pregnancy and large families. Other, more urbane nations often mocked us as a "child-centered" society. We were.
Children in big families generally had to learn to share and work, was the idea. These youngsters would become adult taxpayers, men and women who would build, support and protect America.
By the late 1950s however, women who saw motherhood as service to society and who dreamed of scores of little kids to nurture, were suddenly caught in the crosshairs.
A new wind had blown in from academe. Chic "mental health" professionals were suddenly sneering at homemakers, even part-time working moms, accusing them of "momism" and "smother love," that was producing weak sons and aggressive daughters.
I had been ignoring the sneering columns in the press and ladies magazines about motherhood being parasitical and wasting women's talent. I had four great daughters and worked part time as a songwriter and television performer.
Wherever my "little women" and I wandered, we were greeted by admiring glances and benevolent looks. That changed so suddenly I can remember the day I saw motherhood mutate from reverence to resentment.
It was August 1963. I had dismissed the doomsday warnings in the press that overpopulation was going to cause starvation and famine. As I walked down a grassy slope holding my littlest child's hand, an irate voice behind me shouted, "Don't you know how to prevent that?"
I turned and knew those glaring eyes and spiteful words were meant for me. I should have "prevented" one, or all of my four daughters.
Almost overnight I started to hear censure of my reproductive behaviour. Even the public body language subtly changed. Few folks smiled upon my happy little troupe any longer.
Continued... http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75863
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4. Buying Halloween Treats – October 8, 2008
Please read the packages carefully if you are buying Halloween candy at your local supermarket. UNICEF has cancelled its trick or treat boxes for children but many candy manufacturers are supporting UNICEF through their sales. UNICEF does much good work in developing countries but unfortunately, it also supports the pro-abortion agenda of many United Nations organizations and International Planned Parenthood. Go to http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.604/pub_detail.aspto read about their most recent involvement promoting abortion. Many of the bags of chocolate bars and other treats available now in stores for Halloween have a small UNICEF logo on the package. See the September issue of The Rose for a sample of the logo. (It is online at http://www.albertaprolife.com.
See story on page 9.) Please avoid these treats and if you might want to write the manufacturer and tell them why you did not buy their product. Also, many schools will be doing UNICEF projects for Halloween so you might want to keep tabs your school’s Halloween projects over the next few weeks.
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5. EFC Comments On Unheralded Pro-Life Victory – October 8, 2008
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
EFC COMMENTS ON UNHERALDED PRO-LIFE VICTORY
EFC Vice-President Don Hutchinson, responsible for the Centre for Faith and Public Life, and the EFC’s general legal counsel, comments in his webitorial on the recent media release announcing settlement of the lawsuit in the case of First Place Pregnancy Centre vs. Planned Parenthood Ottawa.
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6. In Russia 64% Of Pregnancies End In Abortion – October 8, 2008
250,000 Women/Year Left Infertile From Abortion Complications
Alarmingly high abortion rates in Russia are leaving an increasing number of women infertile, said Marina Tarasova, deputy head of the St. Petersburg Research Institute For Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at an international conference on Monday. The St. Petersburg Times reported that with 64 percent of Russian women procuring abortions, 200,000 to 250,000 women each year are stripped of their biological ability to procreate because of permanent effects from the procedure.
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7. Layton Insult - Daycare Reduces Violence – October 8, 2008
FROM THE Montreal Gazette ON NDP DAYCARE FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT:
He also said it would offer support for children at key moments and serve as a preventive measure against violence.
"Good child care (and) after-school programs give our children the help that they need, identify the problems that they face, so that they can make choices that don't lead them down the wrong path, for example violence in the school yard," Layton said.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=f8cbaba2-1a15-4589-be56-ab70cae2b0ce
As I write I am breastfeeding my peaceful baby.
The Montreal Gazette reports the NDP's Jack Layton saying that daycare centre care will reduce violence, clearly implying that parental care leads to violent kids.
Layton's sentiments echo the 2006 statement by Liberal MP Carolyn Kennedy: that we will need to build more prisons if we don't build more daycare centres.
This flies in the face of the mounting evidence: more time spent in daycare centres leads to more children having higher levels of behaviour problems – including "cruelty". The extremely rigorous childcare study by the NICHD in the US found that this negative behaviour continues at least until grade 6, and happens regardless of the quality of the care.
A peer-reviewed study of Quebec found more reported behavioural problems there after the $5-a-day daycare program started.
After over 30 years of near-universal institutional childcare in Sweden, domestic violence against women is increasing, contrary to the goal of greater 'gender equity' children's stress (cortisol) level increase with time in daycare centre.
Layton's statement is profoundly insulting to the parents of the 90% of children 0-12 not in daycare centres.
This is even worse than last week's insult. Last Friday, Layton's press secretary, Ian Capstick, retorted, "That's poppycock and you know it!" when I said, "every mother is a working mother". He twice claimed that it was "just semantics" when I said the definition of childcare must include parental childcare.
Helen Ward,
President
Kids First Parent Association of Canada
www.kidsfirstcanada.org
604-291-0088
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8. Lifeissues.Net Newsletter 391 – October 8, 2008
http://lifeissues.net/newsletters/mojo.cgi?flavor=archive&id=20081002173729&list=lifenews
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9. Real Life Lesson In Demographics – October 8, 2008
Real Life Lesson in Demographics – so important with inflation about to hit big time.
Demographics are destiny... Take a look at this article from today's National Post. The Ontario Teachers' Federation's pension fund is in major deficit situation and they only have 1.6 teachers today for every person taking a pension, and schools are closing as people have less children and other people move out of the public system – HOME SCHOOLERS and PRIVATE SCHOOLERS – which means they will have to fire more teachers, which means even less people paying into the pension plan. I'd be watching this trend so nobody is caught by surprise by a possible new impetus to ban home-schooling in order to try to pad the # of students needing government edyukashun.
Financial Post – Oct. 2, 2008
Teachers alter index formula; $12.7B Deficit; Cost-of-living increases to be reduced – By Karen Mazurkewich
Ontario teachers can no longer expect full inflation protection on their pensions by 2010. Faced with a huge deficit, the Ontario Teachers' Federation (OTF) and the government of Ontario have decided to change the way their pension fund is indexed. Currently, Ontario teachers' pensions are fully protected against any cost-of-living changes. Now the partners of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan – the union and the government – have decided to alter the indexing formula in an effort to eliminate their $12.7-billion deficit. Instead of giving retirees automatic cost-of-living increases, future increases for pension credit earned after 2009 could drop to 50%, depending on the status of OTPP's assets.
The partners decided to modify the fully indexed pensions after it became clear that increasing contributions could not keep the pension fund out of the red. Despite raising contributions in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the new $6.1-billion infusion was simply used to wipe out OTPP's 2005 shortfall. The hike did not make a dent in the current deficit, which is estimated at $12.7-billion.
"The current state of the market had nothing to do with this," said Jim Leech, president and chief executive of OTPP. The liabilities are due to the maturation of the plan. The main driver is a drop in interest rates, which has reduced bond yields. In the early 1990s, real-return government bonds, the backbone of the plans, generated a fixed 4.5% return plus inflation. These rates of return are down to 1.6% – closer to historic averages – which means the plan needs more money today to pay out in the future. Every decrease of one percentage point in interest rates increases the cost of a pension plan by 20%. Adding to OTTP's woes is the fact that there are only 1.6 working teachers for every retiree, and higher life expectancies. Earlier actuarial models had predicted liabilities were distorted and the liabilities had to be recalibrated.
"As a result, [our partners] came to the conclusion that the prudent thing to do was to take some of the risk out of the plan by introducing conditional inflation protection," Mr. Leech said.
OTPP is not the only pension fund facing tough choices. Defined-benefit pension plans with fully indexed funds are becoming an endangered species. At one time, more than 70% of all companies supported such plans, but increasingly, private companies have moved toward defined-contribution plans that do not offer guaranteed benefits. "We are calling this the shifting burden," said Randy Ambrosie, president of AGF Funds Inc. "Individual Canadians are now left with the responsibility of managing their retirements... and that has created an uncertainty." Even public pension funds are morphing. In addition to OTPP, more public pension funds have embraced conditional indexing, including the British Columbia Teachers' Federation, the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union, Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan and the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan.
Mr. Leech said the introduction of conditional inflation protection could mean possible changes to how the fund is managed. "Right now, the equity component of our asset mix is probably down to 42% to 43% today, which is one of the most conservative asset mixes of funds today," he said. "Now that they've taken some of the risk out, it allows us to have a less conservative asset mix."
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Skin Cells Turned Into Stem Cells - Breakthrough Is Step Toward Regenerative Medicine – October 8, 2008
Reuters
Friday, September 26, 2008
Researchers have developed a safer way to make powerful stem cells from ordinary skin cells, taking one more step toward so-called regenerative medicine.
They used a common cold virus to carry transformative genes into ordinary mouse cells, making them look and act like embryonic stem cells.
If the same can be done with human cells, it may offer a safe way to test cell therapy to treat diseases such as sickle cell anaemia or Parkinson's, according to a report by Konrad Hochedlinger of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the journal Science on Thursday.
Stem cells are the body's master cells, giving rise to all the tissues, organs and blood. Embryonic stem cells are considered the most powerful kinds of stem cells, as they have the potential to give rise to any type of tissue.
But they are difficult to make, requiring the use of an embryo or cloning technology. Many people also object to their use and several countries, including the United States, limit funding for such experiments.
In the past year, several teams of scientists have reported finding a handful of genes that can transform ordinary skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, which in turn look and act like embryonic stem cells.
Retroviruses have been used to get these genes into the cells because they integrate their own genetic material into the cells they infect. This can be dangerous and can cause tumours and other effects.
Hochedlinger's team used a much more harmless virus, called an adenovirus, to carry the required transformative genes into the cells.
"The nice thing about adenoviruses . . . is they deliver proteins inside the cells but they will never, ever integrate their DNA into the cells," Hochedlinger said.
As the cells divide, they dilute the virus until it disappears, he said. But the genetic changes remain.
© The Calgary Herald 2008
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11. This Election - What Churches Can And Cannot Do – October 8, 2008
In an effort to encourage congregations to become active this election and correct misconceptions regarding church involvement in political activity the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) www.evangelicalfellowship.ca –
http://www.1clicklobbyist.ca/sendstudionx/link.php?M=351512&N=58&L=278has prepared a helpful “Election Kit” with guidelines for church engagement.
The complete kit can be downloaded here:
http://www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=6101
http://www.1clicklobbyist.ca/sendstudionx/link.php?M=351512&N=58&L=276
(Including information on holding an all candidates meeting.)
Here are some of the key points from the kit:
“Churches are charities that serve the common good. The government has specific guidelines that outline the allowable political activities of charities” which do not threaten their charitable status.
The key principle is that “as a charitable institution, a church must be non-partisan.”
“In other words, a church may not endorse a particular candidate or political party, or use its resources to support a candidate or party (even if they attend your own church).”
What Churches Can Do
1. “Churches are free to provide information on issues of interest or concern that flow from Biblical teaching, as long as the church does not link its views to any party or candidate.”
2. “A church is also allowed to publish how all Members of Parliament voted on a given issue.”
3. “Churches may invite all candidates to speak at the same event or service where the church meets. Churches can also organize an all-candidates debate.”
(Download the EFC All Candidates Meeting Kit here:
http://www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=6100
http://www.1clicklobbyist.ca/sendstudionx/link.php?M=351512&N=58&L=277)
4. “Church members are encouraged to get to know the candidates, pray for them, and ask about issues of interest or concern. It is highly beneficial for members to become involved in the electoral process and to vote.”
5. “Church staff, volunteers or members of a church are free to engage in political activity outside the church, on their own time or with their own money.”
6. Churches may “share information about all-candidates meetings and encourage people to vote!”
What Churches May Not Do:
- “Invite candidates to speak at different times, or at separate events or services.
- Highlight or publish how /one/ particular party or candidate voted on a given issue.
- Promote or oppose /any one/ candidate or party.
- Post signs for a candidate or political party on church property.
- Encourage its members to vote for a particular candidate or party.
- Endorse a candidate or party from the pulpit.
- Link its views on issues of concern with those of a particular party or candidate.”
To view the Government Guidelines regarding charities and political activities see:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/chrts/plcy/cps/cps-022-eng.html
http://www.1clicklobbyist.ca/sendstudionx/link.php?M=351512&N=58&L=281
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12. Tragic Story - Mom Acquitted In Baby's Death – October 8, 2008
Toronto Star
Mom acquitted in baby's death TheStar.com - GTA - Mom acquitted in baby's death
Charged with concealing dead infant, woman cleared after judge alters word in Criminal Code
September 26, 2008
Bob Mitchell, Staff Reporter
A Toronto woman has been acquitted of a charge of concealing a dead baby after a judge struck down a single word in a section of the Criminal Code.
Ivana Levkovic, 26, a former Mississauga stripper, had been scheduled to stand trial Monday in a Brampton courtroom.
"Thank God ... the truth is finally out," a happy Levkovic said yesterday outside court.
She was charged under a section that states it's a criminal offence to give birth to a baby, and then conceal its birth, regardless if it died "before, during or after" birth.
Lawyer Michael Moon challenged the law, under the view the section "criminalized" a woman's decision to conceal the fact she was pregnant and either had a stillborn baby, a miscarriage or an abortion.
Crown prosecutor Scott Latimer never alleged the baby had ever been alive. "No finding was made as to whether the child died before, during or after birth" during the autopsy and the cause of death was listed as "undetermined," Latimer told the court in requesting that Justice Casey Hill acquit the defendant.
He told Justice Hill he would not be able to produce evidence to "support" the indictment.
Latimer said the Crown believes it could establish all of the essential elements of the case "save for one."
"Given the decomposition of the body at the time of the discovery, we cannot establish the child died during or after birth," he told court.
Justice Hill's decision to remove the word "before" from the offence isn't binding on the rest of Canada or even Ontario although judges faced with similar cases would examine his ruling carefully.
His decision would only become law in Ontario, and not necessarily in other provinces, if the Ontario Court of Appeal rules similarly.
At this stage, no decision has been made as to whether the ruling will be appealed by the Crown.
"The Crown Law office of the Attorney General ministry is carefully reviewing the trial judge's earlier decision to determine whether there is a legal basis upon which to launch an appeal," ministry spokesperson Brendan Crawley said.
Levkovic turned herself in four days after Peel police revealed a superintendent had found a badly decomposed baby's body in a duffle bag on a balcony of a Mississauga apartment in April 2006. The discovery was made two days after Levkovic and other tenants moved out of the unit, court heard.
Levkovic admitted to police the dead baby was hers, and forensic testing confirmed it, Latimer said.
"She was in the apartment alone when she fell and had the baby there in the apartment," Latimer said. "She placed the child in a bag and put it on the balcony."
Levkovic has been on bail since October 2006 and could have faced a sentence of up to two years in jail had she been convicted at trial.
She remains before the Toronto courts on charges of concealing a body and neglecting to obtain assistance in childbirth in a separate incident. Toronto Police laid the charges after her arrest in Peel.
In the Toronto case, police said Levkovic gave birth to a live baby in 2002 or 2003. They alleged the infant was stored in a freezer until being dumped in the Humber River in January 2005.
The body has never been found. The person who contacted police with the allegation and who is alleged to have dumped the body in the river, has since died.
Moon hopes the Toronto charges will also soon be withdrawn.
"There is no evidence there ever was a baby, never mind that it was disposed of," Moon said.
Levkovic denies ever having a child in Toronto. She had been working as an exotic dancer at the Million Dollar Saloon when she delivered the baby in Mississauga.
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13. US Government Cuts Off Supplies To Marie Stopes International – October 8, 2008
By Samantha Singson
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) According the news reports, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has issued a new directive requiring several African countries to stop providing United States-funded contraceptives to Marie Stopes International (MSI), one of the world’s leading abortion providers.
USAID decided to take action and pull support for MSI in Africa because of the organization’s collaboration with China’s draconian population program.
Under US law, any organization that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization” is prohibited from receiving American foreign aid. This law, also known as the Kemp-Kasten amendment, has been used since 2002 to deny funding to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
The possibility that other complicit groups would also be affected was hinted at by the US State Department a few weeks ago when it once more withheld funds from UNFPA.
The US government informed Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe that it did not want any USAID-funded contraceptives to be provided to Marie Stopes International.
The AP reports that the US does not give any direct assistance to MSI, but that the organization is a leading family planning health provider in Africa and one of several distributors of US-donated contraceptive commodities, like condoms and intrauterine devices.
MSI chief executive Dana Hovig denied the allegations of cooperating with forced abortions in China, stating, “To the contrary, MSI is one of the few organizations that has worked over the past decade to increase the availability of voluntary, client-centered family planning services in China.” He blasted the USAID decision as “purely political and dangerous to the lives of women.”
The US State Department and USAID have said that the directive only affects MSI and that the same amount of US-donated contraceptives would be distributed in the African nations by other groups.
Marie Stopes has been a long-time advocate for abortion rights worldwide. For the past year, MSI has been collecting signatures for their “Global Safe Abortion” campaign, which demands “for women’s access to legal, safe abortion to be recognized as a fundamental human right.” Pro-life initiatives to counter MSI’s campaign have also been launched.
For more news, visit us at: http://www.c-fam.org/.
Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
Editor in Chief – Austin Ruse
Managing Editor – Piero Tozzi
Assistant Managing Editor – Hannah Russo
Chief Correspondent – Samantha Singson
Contributor – Susan Yoshihara
© Copyright 2008 Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required.
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14. Video Catches Planned Parenthood Covering Up Statutory Rape – October 8, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students for Life of America (SFLA) has released a video exposing two Planned Parenthood clinics in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina covering up statutory rape of young girls. To view the video, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkakpcWSyWY
In June of 2008, two college women volunteering for Students for Life of America entered two clinics in North Carolina posing as underage girls, 15 and 14, who just had unprotected sex with their mother's live-in boyfriend who was in his 30s. Each girl told the clinic workers that he suggested she come get the morning the Morning After Pill. According to N.C. Gen. Statue 7B-301 and 7B-101, this information was enough to trigger North Carolina statutory rape reporting laws, obligating any person who learned of this story to report the crime to authorities.
In both visits, Planned Parenthood staffers acknowledged that what was happening to the girls was statutory rape and in one case even repeatedly admitted that they were required to report the incident.
However, after the visits, Students for Life of America filed North Carolina Public Records Requests to find out if the Planned Parenthood locations had reported the crimes. SFLA has obtained and posted documents, which show that the crimes were not reported to authorities in either Charlotte or Winston-Salem. To view the reports from police department authorities, go here:
http://www.studentsforlife.org/index.php/plannedparenthoodinvestigation/
In addition to covering up the statutory rape of these young girls by failing to report, both Planned Parenthoods were willing to help them get on birth control without their parents' knowledge, which would prolong the abuse while covering evidence. One staffer in Charlotte even said to the girl, "You can do it now," and set an appointment for the minor to obtain birth control the following week.
Further, both clinics told the girls that anyone over the age of 18 could simply go to a drug store and buy the Morning After Pill for them, giving the girls' rapists a tool to further cover their crime of rape.
SFLA's Executive Director, Kristan Hawkins commented on the videos today saying, "These videos are simply shocking. That Planned Parenthood staffers acknowledged the girls were being raped and then did not report the crime is horrific. They allowed these girls to go home to their rapists and even confirmed that their rapists could get the Morning After Pill for them to cover their crimes."
Tom McClusky, Vice President of Government Affairs for the Family Research Council, responded to the investigation, "As long as Planned Parenthood puts their fealty to abortion on demand above protecting young girls from statutory rapists then investigations such as the ones done by SFL will be needed."
To view the video, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkakpcWSyWY
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