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Abortion Debate Remains Heated Despite Attempts To Keep It Out Of Election – September 21, 2008

Gardasil Is Not Fully Evaluated For Safety – September 20, 2008

'Human Rights' VS. Basic Freedoms – September 19, 2008

Lifeissues.net Newsletter #389 – September 21, 2008

LifeSiteNews.com – September 19, 2008

The Party's Over – September 19, 2008

Report On A Senior UN Official’s Salute To Population Control – September 21, 2008

Wasn't This Battle Was Won At The Second World War? – September 19, 2008

Which Political Candidates Will Work To Curtail The Power Of Our Human Rights Commissions? – September 20, 2008

Youth Crime Is At Historically High Levels – September 18, 2008

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1. Abortion Debate Remains Heated Despite Attempts To Keep It Out Of Election – September 21, 2008

OTTAWA – Abortion remains a heated subject, despite the attempts of the Conservative Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to keep it out of the federal election.
http://www.canadianchristianity.com/nationalupdates/080918abortion.html

2. Gardasil Is Not Fully Evaluated For Safety – September 20, 2008

Story by By Jakki Jeffs

Analysis of four sets of documents released by the US FDA, including patent and licensing memoranda, test reports for the vaccine, and the final briefing document, 8,864 official adverse reaction reports and a transcript of Merck's May 18, 2006, meeting with the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee where the vaccine received a unanimous vote – obtained under the US Freedom and Information Act – shows the following:

Gardasil is a prophylactic (medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease), preventative vaccine and will not treat pre-existing HPV infection. It is not a cancer vaccine or cure.

Gardasil is marketed as a vaccine that prevents cancer, but it" ...has not been evaluated for the potential to cause carcinogenicity (the ability or tendency to produce cancer) or genotoxicity" (deleterious action on a cell genetic material affecting its integrity.)

Gardasil is not 100 per cent effective against all HPVs. It is designed to protect against only four strains of human papilloma virus, even though there are more than 30 strains, including at least 15 that can cause cancer.

While Gardasil is the most expensive vaccine ever to be recommended by the FDA, its long-term effectiveness is unknown and could be as brief as only two to three years.

During testing, an aluminum-containing placebo was used. Aluminum can cause permanent cell damage and is a reactive placebo (it can artificially increase the appearance of safety of an experimental drug or vaccine in a clinical trial) unlike most saline placebos. This means that tests of Gardasil may not have given an accurate picture of safety levels.

Although some states are considering making it mandatory for young girls to get the Gardasil vaccine, it has been tested only with one other vaccine commonly given to children. There are 10 commonly administered adolescent vaccines.

Gardasil is still in the testing stages, and will not be fully evaluated for safety until September 2009. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (US) shows that as many as eighteen people have died after receiving Gardasil.

A special report released by the Judicial Watch at the end of June is available. This report has been sent to every public officer of health and subsidiary office and every member of provincial parliament.

Our provincial association, Alliance for Life Ontario, will be accumulating the data for Ontario over the next few weeks and will make that report available also. Please visit www.JudicialWatch.org.

Jakki Jeffs, Alliance for Life Ontario

3. 'Human Rights' VS. Basic Freedoms – September 19, 2008

Father Raymond J. De Souza, National Post Published: Friday, September 19, 2008

A timely intervention has prevented the cancer from metastasizing, but aggressive treatment is still needed.

The diagnosis is by now well known: From their privileged place within the body politic, Canada's various human rights commissions have gone from legitimately fighting discrimination to attacking Canadian liberties.

There was a real danger of metastasis, as the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) attempted to spread its corruption to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). The timely intervention came from the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and other public voices. The patient, though – the Canadian public – is still infected with human rights commissions that are compromising our most fundamental liberties, including freedom of conscience, of religion, of speech and of the press.

The issue was physicians' natural right to refuse to perform services they consider professionally unwise, morally unsound or religiously illicit. Over the summer, the CPSO proposed new policies that would have circumscribed those rights at the urging of the OHRC.

Doctors and other health care professionals, being free citizens and responsible professionals, have never been forced to violate their conscience. But we learned long ago that the OHRC doesn't much care for fundamental freedoms. Having pronounced its desire earlier this year to convict Maclean's magazine for publishing a 2006 excerpt from a Mark Steyn book that is critical of radical Islam, the OHRC cast its empire-building gaze toward the medical profession.

The OHRC, possessing investigative, judicial and penal powers, already is more than capable of grinding up a doctor who, say, thinks it unwise to prescribe birth control pills to a young teenage girl (a trifecta – gender, age and marital status discrimination!). Given the examples it used in its submission to the CPSO, the OHRC is looking forward to prosecuting doctors who might recommend psychiatric consultation for a "transgendered" patient who, in the learned medical opinion of the commission, does not require it. And it takes little imagination to figure out what OHRC bureaucrats are lusting after more than anything else: penalizing a doctor for not facilitating an abortion.

In the OHRC's world, the doctor disappears entirely as a moral actor and accredited professional, reduced simply to an unthinking agent of the patient's wishes. One might as well throw out the Hippocratic Oath and simply command doctors to do whatever they are told – not by a medical body, but by a human rights commission.

The OHRC invited the CPSO to pile on, recommending that the accrediting body for Ontario physicians threaten doctors with professional-misconduct penalties for running afoul of the OHRC. And shockingly enough, the CPSO was ready to go along with it.

Facing fierce opposition, the CPSO yesterday backed down substantially, deleting the proposals that most clearly violated doctors' conscience rights. Some of the replacement language is worryingly ambiguous, but for the most part the cancer of the OHRC has not spread into the professional college.

Yet the whole episode shows how diseased the human-rights situation is in Canada. A self-respecting, confident CPSO would have slapped down the OHRC for seeking to meddle in professional standards, and told it in no uncertain terms that doctors' human rights were not going to be abrogated by anyone, even the OHRC.

It was left to the OMA to slap down the CPSO – the doctors' professional association taking the accrediting college to the public woodshed. The OMA was blunt: "It should never be professional misconduct for an Ontario physician to act in accordance with his or her religious beliefs." And in case the CPSO didn't get it, the OMA advised that the policy proposal be dropped outright – not amended, not redrafted, not referred for further discussion, but simply rejected.

Good for the OMA for not advocating some middle way between a healthy recognition of human rights and the diseased approach of the OHRC. But more aggressive confrontation of the OHRC's overreaching is necessary. It is not enough just to prevent the cancer from spreading, which is what was achieved yesterday. It needs to be eliminated.

Professional groups such as the OMA – those representing writers and clergy, for example – have been sounding the alarm on the human rights commissions for some time now. There needs to be a corresponding sense of urgency from Canadian governments, whose statutes sustain human rights commissions. Provincial ministers of justice have been largely silent. The federal minister of justice, Robert Nicholson, a good man who surely knows better, has been disconcertingly reserved in regard to the abuses taking place on his watch. The federal government's irresponsibly lackadaisical approach sends signals to otherwise respectable bodies, like the CPSO, that the OHRC and similar bodies are not to be challenged.

That needs to change – otherwise we shall eventually be whistling past the graveyard of Canadian liberty. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=805384&p=2

4. Lifeissues.net Newsletter #389 – September 21, 2008

Greetings from LifeIssues.net (www.lifeissues.net)

Dear Friends for Life,

IVF fails in older women. According to researchers at Aberdeen University, Scotland, in-vitro fertilization success rates are approximately 30% at age 30, but drop to only 1% at age 44.

In Scotland, abortions increase. Its abortion rate has continued to rise alarmingly. Earlier health officials had claimed that increasing sex education, increasing access to contraception for younger teenagers and the wider availability of the morning-after-pill would reduce the pregnancy rate. Exactly the opposite has happened, vindicating the Catholic Cardinal's prediction that such methods only throw fuel on the fire.

Fiji – Where are our children? Fiji's Council of Social Services has stated that family planning policies need to be revised because of a significant drop in the number of students entering school. They would encourage population growth and have called for a reduction in the use of condoms.

God Bless, Jerry Novotny, OMI

Quote of the Week – "Once you permit the killing of the unborn child, there will be no stopping. There will be no age limit. You are setting off a chain reaction that will eventually make you the victim. Your children will kill you because you permitted the killing of their brothers and sisters. Your children will kill you because they will not want to support you in your old age. Your children will kill you for your homes and estates. If a doctor will take money for killing the innocent in the womb, he will kill you with a needle when paid by your children. This is the terrible nightmare you are creating for the future." – Dr. R. A. Gallop

Lifeissues.net Newsletter #389 – September 21, 2008

Table Of Contents:
1. Japan's Over-70 Population Hits Record High
2. Post-Abortion Grief Very Real, Experts Say
3. Reuters Examines Teen Celebrity Abstinence Pledges
4. Pope Benedict XVI Urges Catholics To Oppose Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide
5. Australia Issues First Licence To Clone Human Embryos
6. HEALTH: Goal To Halt AIDS By 2015 Recedes Further
7. Warning On AIDS In Asia-Pacific
8. The Need To "Say It"
9. Reforming Health Care To Protect Parents' Rights
10. Ideally, Choice Is Informed
11. How Blood From Babies' Umbilical Cords Can Save The Life Of Other Adults
12. Study Shows Parental Involvement Laws Reduce Abortions From 19-31 Percent

Focus On Children: "Pro-Life Memorial Day: October 6, 2008" – 49,640,766 preborn children have been murdered by abortion since Roe v. Wade. Join us in remembering these lost children by holding a vigil and spread the word in your community. Visit http://www.prolifememorialday.com to find out what you can do.

Item #1. Japan's Over-70 Population Hits Record High
Japan's population of people over 70 years old has exceeded 20 million for the first time, the government said Sunday, highlighting a growing demographic dilemma in the world's second-biggest economy. The 20.17 million people above 70 represent 15.8 percent of Japan's total population, up from 15.3 percent the previous year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The number of those over age 65 also hit a record 28.19 million, accounting for 22.1 percent of the population. Faced with low birth rates and long life spans, Japan is aging more quickly than any other economic power.

View full article at Herald Tribune Asia Pacific:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/14/asia/AS-Japan-Aging.php

Item #2. Post-Abortion Grief Very Real, Experts Say
Psychologists refute claim terminating life doesn't emotionally scar men, women.

View full article at WorldNetDaily:
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74872

Item #3. Reuters Examines Teen Celebrity Abstinence Pledges
Reuters on Friday reported on the impact of teen celebrities wearing rings signifying a pledge to remain abstinent until they are married. The rings were the subject of a comment made by Russell Brand, host of this year's MTV Video Music Awards, about the pop group the Jonas Brothers, who are among tens of thousands of teens who wear purity rings as a sign of their promise to remain virgins until marriage. Brand's jibe at the Jonas Brothers elicited a response from "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks, who also wears a so-called "purity ring," according to Reuters.

View article at national partnership for women & families:
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr012=lgr4hjewz1.app7b&abbr=daily2_&page=NewsArticle&id=13307&security=1201&news_iv_ctrl=-1

Item #4. Pope Benedict XVI Urges Catholics To Oppose Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide
Pope Benedict XVI reminded Catholics to oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide in a Mass he conducted in France on Monday. He urged people to accept death "at the hour chosen by God," rather than succumb to the pressure or temptation of taking one's own life or that of another. The message is important in Europe, where the Netherlands and Belgium have legalized euthanasia and Switzerland is tolerant of suicide clinics. The leader of the Catholic Church urged people to rely on Goid's help to get through troubled times, illness, or disease that may compel them to want to take their own life.

View full article at LifeNews.com): http://www.lifenews.com/bio2572.html

Item #5. Australia Issues First Licence To Clone Human Embryos
The Australian government has issued its first licence allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to try and obtain embryonic stem cells. The in vitro fertilization firm Sydney IVF was granted the licence and reportedly has access to 7,200 human eggs for its research. If the firm is successful it would be a world first, the Australian government's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), which granted the licence, said on Wednesday.

To learn more see globeandmail.com:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.waustclones0917/BNStory/International/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp
Item #6. HEALTH: Goal To Halt AIDS By 2015 Recedes Further
What if HIV/AIDS was just another chronic disease instead of a widespread epidemic? This could be the case if the world community takes serious action, according to Human Rights Watch and other activists. But today, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on HIV/AIDS is nowhere near being realised.

See the full article at Inter Press Service News Agency:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43894

Item #7. Warning On AIDS In Asia-Pacific
Papua New Guinea has the highest incidence of HIV in the Pacific region - about 64,000 people, or 2% of the adult population -and experts have warned that epidemics in South-East Asia, including in Thailand and Vietnam, are raging unchecked.

Full article at theage.com.au:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/warning-on-aids-in-asiapacific-20080917-4ip4.html

Item #8. The Need To "Say It"
Synopsis: There is probably a greater need now than in any other period in the 20th century to have the concrete moral implications of the gospel spelled out in very clear and unambiguous terms; for children cannot hope to play a game of baseball without foul lines and a determinate set of rules, and before they can begin to play, they have to know where are the foul lines and just what those rules are.

Full Article at LifeIssues.net: http://lifeissues.net/writers/mcm/mcm_86need.html

Item #9. Reforming Health Care To Protect Parents' Rights
In pursuing health care reform, federal and state policymakers alike need to respect and protect parental rights and responsibilities. Currently, they are not doing so.

A 14-year-old grade-school girl in Kentucky arrives at the local health clinic seeking birth control. Who should decide whether she receives it? The doctor? The girl? Or her parents? The state legislature says that the girl is not even old enough to consent to sexual activity. Yet public officials, under authorization from Congress, have written rules that allow the girl to enrol in one of a number of federal programs, and this federal law would overrule state law and prohibit the clinic from informing her parents.

View entire text at The Heritage Foundation:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/bg2181.cfm

Item #10. Ideally, Choice Is Informed
Several years ago, I attended a meeting of single women who were getting pregnant through in-vitro fertilization.

I was taken aback when one – who had wanted a child for years – announced she would abort her son if he had Down syndrome.

View entire text at The Washington Post:
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/sep/18/ideally-choice-is-informed/

Item #11. How Blood From Babies' Umbilical Cords Can Save The Life Of Other Adults
A woman in England with leukaemia is being treated with umbilical cord blood, according to a newspaper feature which marks the opening this week of a repository for such material. Ms Lita Jempson, who received chemotherapy, says she feels much better. The Anthony Nolan Trust, which is hosting the tissue bank, says that it could help the 400 people in Britain for whom a bone marrow donor cannot be found. Our source suggests umbilical cells could be used also to grow body parts in the laboratory.

View entire text at Mail Online:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1056300/How-blood-babies-umbilical-cords-save-life-adults.html

Item #12. Study Shows Parental Involvement Laws Reduce Abortions From 19-31 Percent
Political candidates who support legal abortion have been changing their rhetoric in recent years. Indeed, during the current election cycle, a number of pro-choice candidates, including Barack Obama, have expressed an interest in lowering the incidence of abortion. Such statements present a unique opportunity for the pro-life movement.

Indeed, pro-lifers should insist that these candidates support pro-life parental-involvement laws. Such laws enjoy broad support and unlike other laws limiting abortion, they can be easily justified as a parental-rights issue. Furthermore, my recent study for the Family Research Council provides evidence that well designed parental-involvement laws have been surprisingly effective at reducing abortion rates among minors.

View entire text at LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/state3492.html

You Can Change Society:
1. Be Informed: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. Visit Lifeissues.net Website for insights into current Life Issues www.lifeissues.net.
2. Pray Daily: for the courage to be God's presence in society and to strongly support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14.
3. Become Involved: "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia" is a project, which appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is placed on reaching Asian Catholic Major Seminaries, Universities, Parishes, Hospitals and Family/Pro Life related groups. The lectures place emphasis on "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues' Trends and Challenges". For inquires about free Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp . To help as an active supportive Missionary participant for this project in Asia, kindly send your donations directly to: Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI; LifeIssues.net, Editor; Akebono-cho 1-15-9; Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072; (or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824).

Contact Editor: Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI; LifeIssues.net, Editor; Akebono-cho 1-15-9; Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072; Tel/Fax: 088-843-0406; E-Mail: jerry@lifeissues.net.

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5. LifeSiteNews.com – September 19, 2008

LifeSiteNews Commentary for September 20, 2008
Sarah Palin News Highlights 5 – The Hate Gets Even More Hateful
Canadian Election News Briefs
LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for September 19, 2008

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LifeSiteNews Commentary for September 20, 2008

Dear readers,

The following video link is a must see for every North American as the US and Canadian elections approach. And even though its focused on American Catholics it is being sent out by Christians of all denominations in Canada and the United States because of its awesome and powerful message to vote for life, faith and family.

Click here now to view it and then send it to all your contacts:
http://www.catholicvote.com/

Also, we compiled another Palin News Highlights today. It is hard to believe, but the hatred against Palin has actually gotten worse. Some of these items are mind-boggling. LifeSiteNews is not reporting all this as a partisan effort or an effort to direct votes in to a particular person. The reaction to Sarah Palin is truly an extraordinary news and social phenomenon related to the life and family issues. It must be reported.

Palin has inadvertently drawn out into the open an underlying widespread hatred of normalcy that explains a great deal of why the fight for the protection of life and the family has been do difficult and also why the culture has become so corrupt. The attempts by Canadian medical societies to force doctors to violate their consciences and recent actions by the anti human rights kangaroo courts also come from the same irrational hatred.

The word's “evil possession” are not so far off the mark. That is, the hatred of things normal that is being shown against what Sarah Palin represents appears to indicate many people not in control of themselves but rather "possessed" by an intense, irrational hatred which some would call possession by evil. That is what Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan alluded to after observing the first wave of reactions to Sarah Palin's first speech with McCain.
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122059352189503479.html?mod=todays_columnists)
The antidote to hate is love, but true love is not the wimpy, politically correct cowardice of those who abhor stating objective truths and cannot bear confrontation, struggle or taking difficult, but necessary actions. We have had decades of that ruling our societies and look where it has brought us.

True love is bold (while charitable) and willing to take risks and endure criticism for the good of all, as well as for the individuals who need loving correction and guidance the most. That appears to be the response needed to the hateful howling and raging that Sarah Palin has drawn out. The movers of California Proposition 8 are showing true love. The rapidly growing 40 days movement is also a true love action.

Carl Anderson's bold, public challenge to Joe Biden is the right response. Same goes for those individual bishops who have recently strongly countered the irrational comments of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi on the Catholic Church's teaching on abortion. That kind of long overdue leadership by these bishops is what is needed.

However, many others must join in and even stronger actions must be taken – not just words. Come election time the voters should act on what in the end are really the most important issues that affect our culture over the long term. The video link at the beginning of this article compellingly reveals what those are.

Steve Jalsevac
John-Henry Westen
LifeSiteNews.com

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Sarah Palin News Highlights 5 – The Hate Gets Even More Hateful

Writer suggests her downs baby should have been aborted: another warns Sarah might be “gang-raped” is she comes to NY

Compiled by Steve Jalsevac – September 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)

‘I am Sarah, watch me act’ – Barbara Kay, National Post: But win or lose the election, Sarah Palin has already altered the cultural landscape of America, possibly of the Western world. In years to come, social archaeologists will mark her speech as the official beginning of an end to the gender wars, and, one hopes, a return to trust and collaboration between the sexes.

In her single calculated comment about women, she said, “This is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.” “Got that? It wasn't Gloria Steinem that put me on this podium. It was my made-in-small-town-America traditional social values combined with old-fashioned patriotism and Alaska-instilled pioneerism.” http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=780679&p=2

Feminist “intense rage” in response to Palin – New York Sun “Senator McCain's selection of Governor Palin is sparking intense reactions from some New Yorkers, who report being driven to fits of rage and even all-consuming panic.”

“All of my women friends, a week ago Monday, were on the verge of throwing themselves out windows,” an author and political activist, Nancy Kricorian of Manhattan, said... “Every woman I know was in high hysteria over this. Everyone was just beside themselves with terror that this woman could be our president our potential next president.”

A posting on a New York-based Web site for women, Jezebel.com, spoke of unbridled anger. “What I feel for her privately could be described as violent, nay, murderous, rage,” an associate editor at Jezebel, Jessica Grose, wrote just after the Republican convention wrapped up. “When Palin spoke on Wednesday night, my head almost exploded from the incandescent anger boiling in my skull.”

“When I see people crowing about her ‘acceptable’ speech last Wednesday... I literally want to vomit with rage," a comment from Anibundel said. “I am shocked by the depths of my hatred for this woman,” another commenter, CJWeimar, wrote.

“A psychiatrist and conservative blogger, Patricia Santy, said the strong emotional reactions are driven by Mrs. Palin's differing with the left-leaning political agenda of many feminists. "Their entire image of themselves is based on the fact that they are paving the way for women. What do they see? Women getting ahead, women being empowered who don't agree with them,” Dr. Santy said.
http://www.nysun.com/national/palin-pick-puts-many-women-on-the-verge/86241/?print=1861281221

Columnist's Labelling Palin Backers 'White Trash' Spurs Review At CBC The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as ‘white trash,’ compared the vice presidential candidate to a ‘porn actress’ and called her daughter’s boyfriend a ‘redneck’ and ‘ratboy’. Mallick ...trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a ‘frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.’
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18/columnists-labeling-palin-backers-white-trash-spurs-review-at-canadian-tv/

lively video of fox news interview with Canadian columnist David Warren about the Mallick column
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/20956228/white_trash_vote.htm?q=David+Warren

Should Sarah Palin come to NY after Sandra Bernhard's warning? Sandra Bernhard issued a vulgar hate-speech against Gov. Sarah Palin during a performance of her new one-woman show in Washington D.C., warning her to stay away from Manhattan. Bernhard refers to her as “Uncle Woman” and even goes to the extremes and says that she will not be invited in Manhattan where she might be “gang-raped” by her "big black brothers.”
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/should-sarah-palin-come-after-sandra-bernhard-039-warning.htm

Trig Palin a financial burden who should have been aborted “In stunningly self-centered, cruel fashion, Nicholas Provenzo, writer for the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism suggests that Sarah Palin’s decision to give birth to a child with Down Syndrome, is a financial burden that others are forced to suffer with.”

He Wrote: “A parent has a moral obligation to provide for his or her children until these children are equipped to provide for themselves. Because a person afflicted with Down syndrome is only capable of being marginally productive (if at all) and requires constant care and supervision, unless a parent enjoys the wealth to provide for the lifetime of assistance that their child will require, they are essentially stranding the cost of their child's life upon others.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2008/09/17/objectivist-writer-trig-palin-financial-burden-who-should-have-been-abo

Palin and leftist hate “Instead of destroying Palin’s credibility, Democrats and their supporters have been ruining their own. Not only have their attacks done nothing to stop the electrifying effect Palin has had on the McCain campaign but they may well propel the ticket to the White House. It’s doubtful that McCain could have envisioned this turn of events when he first selected Palin as his running mate.”
http://www.crossactionnews.com/articles/view/palin-and-leftist-hate-

Andrew Greeley: Evangelical mobs to burn books if McCain wins
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/09/18/andrew-greeley-evangelical-mobs-burn-books-if-mccain-wins

CBS ‘early show’ focuses on Palin ‘trooper-gate,’ leaves out key facts Never went further to explained that “new e-mail evidence corroborates Palin’s reason for firing Monegan or to describe the political motivations of those leading the investigation. ...e-mails actually back up Palin's claim that Monegan was fired because of insubordination over budget issues”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2008/09/17/cbs-early-show-focuses-palin-trooper-gate-leaves-out-key-facts

Michelle Obama: don't vote because 'she's cute Michelle Obama is part of a concerted effort involving her husband, his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to neutralize the appeal that Palin has brought to John McCain's ticket for some female voters. – Townhall
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/09/18/michelle_obama_dont_vote_because_shes_cute

The gender-bending Palins – WorldNetDaily So is Todd Palin ready to be “first lady?” If Sarah assumes a vice-presidential role, then by her own admission, Todd will become a stay-at-home househusband. Praised as virtuous by desperate conservatives, Sarah and Todd Palin fit nicely into today's modern version of Christianity where true masculinity in the form of family leadership is absent, and women abdicate feminine roles in the home. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75519

Anatomy of fraud at ABC: the ‘missing’ Sarah Palin video
http://jewishworldreview.com/0908/silver091708.php3

Sarah and Oprah – the spiritual and moral contrast
http://solvinglight.com/blog/sarah-and-oprah/

Churchgoing Catholics returning to GOP fold “Observant Catholics are returning to the Republican fold now that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has joined the GOP ticket – a shift that looks to be more enduring than a post-convention bounce. If the trend sticks, it will mark a partial setback for Democrats and the Obama campaign, who have vied vigorously for the pivotal votes of Roman Catholics."
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/09/18/churchgoing-catholics-returning-to-gop-fold/

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Canadian Election News Briefs
Compiled by Steve Jalsevac – September 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)

Gay community united in stance against PM: poll – National Post “While gay men tend to vote Liberal and lesbians back the NDP, Canada's homosexual population is united in its opposition to the Conservatives, according to a new report.” “The hostility there is dramatic... these are numbers that are worse than the NDP gets in much of the country.”

“The survey found those who identified themselves as gay were more likely to be students and under the age of 35 compared with the general population. In addition, the gay population tended to be concentrated in major cities such as Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Few lived in communities with fewer than 100,000 people.”

“The report also found that nearly 40% of gay voters cited morality issues such as same-sex marriage as well as abortion as their top concern in the last election, compared with less than 10% of the straight population.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=780579

‘Human Rights’ vs. basic freedoms – Father Raymond J. De Souza, National Post

“The federal minister of justice, Robert Nicholson, a good man who surely knows better, has been disconcertingly reserved in regard to the abuses taking place on his watch. The federal government's irresponsibly lackadaisical approach...”
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=4eb1a5f7-c495-4855-b1fb-e6190ded68a3&p=2

The funniest election this year – Human Events Stephane Dion isn’t just running for Prime Minister of Canada. He gives the impression he’s campaigning to be King of the World, complete with campaign ads featuring him speaking in front of the United Nations symbol.

So if you grow tired of all the US election drama, you can always turn your attention to the dark comedy playing out on the Canadian political stage. Limited engagement only, until October 14th but well worth the price of admission (still free, even with the exchange rate).
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28609

Editorial: Obama's America is Canada “What kind of "change” does Barack Obama want? He seeks to transform America into Canada. Mr. Obama is not proposing “new politics,” but is a champion of the well-known, already enacted policies in the Great White North. ...voters should examine the Canadian record. Canada is on the whole a gentler, softer and more liberal nation: but there is also less freedom, opportunity, prosperity, competition and dynamism.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/29/obamas-america-is-canada/

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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for September 19, 2008

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Woody Allen declares, “It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080919193927.ite7zfed&show_article=1

NPR Reports: ‘Non-Partisan’ NOW Endorses Obama – Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jacob-s-lybbert/2008/09/17/shocker-now-snubs-palin-endorses-obama

“CNN Continues to Push Line that McCain Lied about Sex Ed. But the McCain ad is correct” – Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/robert-knight/2008/09/17/cnn-continues-push-obama-line-mccain-lied-about-sex-ed

ABC Grills McCains on Abortion; Skipped Issue with Obamas – Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/09/17/abc-grills-mccains-abortion-skipped-issue-obamas

McCain Shifts His Position on Stem Cells – In response to a questionnaire, the McCain campaign indicated a McCain administration would continue the present limitations on research instituted by President Bush and would seek to outlaw somatic cell transfer completely.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=McCain-Shifts-His-Position-on-Stem-Cells.html&Itemid=102

Shoving abortion down doctors' throats – Barbara Kay, National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=795002

Australia issues first licence to clone human embryos
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.waustclones0917/BNStory/International/home
Down Syndrome Tests Risky for All Babies, Study Shows
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35993

Ron Paul Discusses Financial Turmoil and the Fed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyggN9DVu8

Is America in China's wallet?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=256182

“The world is about to take a major leftwards lurch. Welcome to the 21st century’s first bout of soft-socialism.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/edmund_conway/blog/2008/09/19/five_ways_the_financial_crisis_is_already_changing_the_world

Oprah and All Her Works and All Her Empty Promises – “easily one of the most spiritually bankrupt people in America and also one of the most shockingly popular. How does a New Age con artist like Oprah get so many people to literally adore her?” – Fr. Thomos Euteneuer http://www.hli.org/sl_2008-09-19.html

Vatican Official Defends Evolution Against ‘Useless’ Creationism
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424942,00.html

Aide: Pope Favours Dialogue with Islam
http://catholic.net/index.php?option=dedestaca&id=253

Iran's Apostasy Death Penalty Raises U.S. Concern
http://christianpost.com/article/20080919/iran-s-apostasy-death-penalty-raises-u-s-concern.htm

We Are Losing Europe to Islam
http://townhall.com/Columnists/DianaWest/2008/09/18/we_are_losing_europe_to_islam?page=full%60
‘Everybody’ Encouraged to Watch New Radical Islam Documentary
http://christianpost.com/article/20080918/-everybody-encouraged-to-watch-new-radical-islam-documentary.htm

Hindu radicals set fire to Jabalpur cathedral, threaten new attacks in Madhya Pradesh
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13269&size=A

“Oops! Nets Wrong On Warming; Arctic Ice Still There. It's only been a couple months when the networks were screaming about Arctic ice disappearing this summer. And, no surprise, they were entirely wrong. By 1.74 million square miles” – Newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/dan-gainor/2008/09/18/oops-nets-wrong-warming-arctic-ice-still-there

England's Conservatives have smashed through the 50 per cent barrier in the polls for the first time since Margaret Thatcher's heyday
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Brown-shock-as-support-for.4503231.jp

Tylenol use may raise asthma risk in children
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/hl_nm/asthma_painkiller_dc;_ylt=An9r8ZCtpJi5SrYJFBUKNaADW7oF
Protecting marriage to protect children
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-blankenhorn19-2008sep19,0,6057126.story

Newsweek's 'Invisible' Elderly Gays Story Transparent Plug for Same-Sex Marriage
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/09/18/newsweeks-invisible-elderly-gays-story-transparent-plug-same-sex-marri

How I Overcame 30 Years of Homosexuality – From The Journal of James Hartline
http://jameshartlinereport.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-i-overcame-30-years-of.html

200 discuss high school for gay, lesbian, transgender youth in Chicago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-gay-school-19-sep19,0,6183632.story

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6. The Party's Over – September 19, 2008

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28616#c1
Patrick J. Buchanan
The Party's Over by Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Patrick%20J.+Buchanan

The Crash of 2008, which is now wiping out trillions of dollars of our people's wealth, is, like the Crash of 1929, likely to mark the end of one era and the onset of another.

The new era will see a more sober and much diminished America. The "Omnipower" and "Indispensable Nation" we heard about in all the hubris and braggadocio following our Cold War victory is history.

Seizing on the crisis, the left says we are witnessing the failure of market economics, a failure of conservatism.

This is nonsense. What we are witnessing is the collapse of Gordon Gecko ("Greed Is Good!") capitalism. What we are witnessing is what happens to a prodigal nation that ignores history, and forgets and abandons the philosophy and principles that made it great.

A true conservative cherishes prudence and believes in fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets and a self-reliant republic. He believes in saving for retirement and a rainy day, in deferred gratification, in not buying on credit what you cannot afford, in living within your means.

Is that really what got Wall Street and us into this mess – that we followed too religiously the gospel of Robert Taft and Russell Kirk?

"Government must save us!" cries the left, as ever. Yet, who got us into this mess if not the government – the Fed with its easy money, Bush with his profligate spending, and Congress and the SEC by liberating Wall Street and failing to step in and stop the drunken orgy?

For years, we Americans have spent more than we earned. We save nothing. Credit card debt, consumer debt, auto debt, mortgage debt, corporate debt – all are at record levels. And with pensions and savings being wiped out, much of that debt will never be repaid.

Our standard of living is inevitably going to fall. For foreigners will not forever buy our bonds or lend us more money if they rightly fear that they will be paid back, if at all, in cheaper dollars.

We are going to have to learn to live again without our means.

The party's over

Up through World War II, we followed the Hamiltonian idea that America must remain economically independent of the world in order to remain politically independent.

But this generation decided that was yesterday's bromide and we must march bravely forward into a Global Economy, where we all depend on one another. American companies morphed into "global companies" and moved plants and factories to Mexico, Asia, China and India, and we began buying more cheaply from abroad what we used to make at home: shoes, clothes, bikes, cars, radios, TVs, planes, computers.

As the trade deficits began inexorably to rise to 6 percent of GDP, we began vast borrowing from abroad to continue buying from abroad.

At home, propelled by tax cuts, war in Iraq and an explosion in social spending, surpluses vanished and deficits reappeared and began to rise. The dollar began to sink, and gold began to soar.

Yet, still, the promises of the politicians come. Barack Obama will give us national health insurance and tax cuts for all but that 2 percent of the nation that already carries 50 percent of the federal income tax load.

John McCain is going to cut taxes, expand the military, move NATO into Georgia and Ukraine, confront Russia and force Iran to stop enriching uranium or "bomb, bomb, bomb," with Joe Lieberman as wartime consigliere.

Who are we kidding?

What we are witnessing today is how empires end.

The Last Superpower is unable to defend its borders, protect its currency, win its wars or balance its budget. Medicare and Social Security are headed for the cliff with unfunded liabilities in the tens of trillions of dollars.

What we are witnessing today is nothing less than a Katrina-like failure of government, of our political class, and of democracy itself, casting a cloud over the viability and longevity of the system.

Notice who is managing the crisis. Not our elected leaders. Nancy Pelosi says she had nothing to do with it. Congress is paralyzed and heading home. President Bush is nowhere to be seen.

Hank Paulson of Goldman Sachs and Ben Bernanke of the Fed chose to bail out Bear Sterns but let Lehman go under. They decided to nationalize Fannie and Freddie at a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of billions, putting the U.S. government behind $5 trillion in mortgages. They decided to buy AIG with $85 billion rather than see the insurance giant sink beneath the waves.

An unelected financial elite is now entrusted with the assignment of getting us out of a disaster into which an unelected financial elite plunged the nation. We are just spectators.

What the Greatest Generation handed down to us – the richest, most powerful, most self-sufficient republic in history, with the highest standard of living any nation had ever achieved – the baby boomers, oblivious and self-indulgent to the end, have frittered away.

Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, "The Death of the West,"
http://www.amazon.com/Death-West-Populations-Immigrant-Civilization/dp/0312285485,

"The Great Betrayal," http://www.hebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=C4860

"A Republic, Not an Empire"
http://www.hebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=C5368>/ and

"Where the Right Went Wrong."
http://www.hebookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6536>/

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7. Report On A Senior UN Official’s Salute To Population Control – September 21, 2008

Dear Colleague,

Today we report on a senior UN official’s thinly-disguised salute to population control on the 40th anniversary of the publication of Paul Erlich’s alarmist manifesto The Population Bomb. She combines this with a call for “destigmatizing” – in other words, “legitimizing” – sodomy, intravenous drug use and prostitution.

We also give you a heads up on what to expect this Fall from the United Nations General Assembly, where a push to expand homosexual and abortion rights is anticipated. As always, the Friday Fax will keep you informed.

Spread the word.

Yours sincerely,

Austin Ruse, President

More… http://www.c-fam.org

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8. Wasn't This Battle Was Won At The Second World War? – September 19, 2008

Manitoba Physicians College Also Considering Restricting Freedom of Conscience – By John Jalsevac

September 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) may implement a policy similar to the controversial Ontario proposal that would have restricted physicians' freedom of conscience and religion. News of the plan for Manitoba doctors was disclosed earlier this week in a briefing note to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).

According to the briefing note The Manitoba College, in an official response to the CPSO's draft policy, provided "positive feedback." The CPSM "indicated that it has been dealing with similar issues, and may amend its Discrimination in Access to Physicians policy (currently in development), to accord with our draft policy," reads the CPSO's briefing note.

In particular, the CPSM expressed its desire to emulate "the requirements for physicians to provide information about clinical options to patients, and assist patients in accessing care." The CPSO draft policy would have required physicians to provide medical services or to refer for those services, even if the physician disagreed with them on grounds of conscience.

The policy that the Manitoba College of Physicians has expressed its desire to emulate, however, was significantly revised last week, in response to widespread concerns. The CPSO received in excess of 1300 responses to its proposed policy, most of which vehemently opposed it, arguing that it was an unacceptable violation of the freedoms of conscience and religion of physicians.

The revised CPSO document excised some of the most controversial passages from the draft policy, including the passage that explicitly warned physicians that "it may be necessary" to "set aside their personal beliefs." It also removed a passage that threatened physicians who refused to perform certain medical services or procedures for reasons of conscience with being found guilty of "professional misconduct."

There is no reference to the plans to amend its own policies on the CPSM website.

To contact the CPSM:

The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Manitoba
1000 - 1661 Portage Ave; Winnipeg MB; R3J 3T7; PH: (204) 774-4344; Fax: (204) 774-0750; Toll Free (In Manitoba): (877) 774-4344; E-mail: cpsm@cpsm.mb.ca

See related LifeSiteNews.com Coverage:

Ontario Physicians College Backs Away from Controversial Conscience-Restriction Policy
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08091809.html

9. Which Political Candidates Will Work To Curtail The Power Of Our Human Rights Commissions? – September 20, 2008

By Dorothy Pape
St. Catharines Standard
Saturday, September 20, 2008

The media seems quiet about this latest attempt by our misnamed human rights commissions to contradict constitutional rights.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission surreptitiously told the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario that its members' freedom of conscience must now be sacrificed to meet the demands of their patients. The college meekly prepared a draft dictating how its members should act, and warning they may otherwise be subject to professional misconduct. (Though they would in fact be breaking their Hippocratic oath and the 1948 Declaration of Geneva.)

Those with a moral conscience have never refused to treat urgent medical cases – only healthy people wanting abortions, same-sex couples wanting artificially-made pregnancies, requests for euthanasia.

I've read that with the shortage of family doctors, they now ask for a medical history of those seeking to be patients, and choose those they prefer. Why should some doctors be forbidden to refuse to perform what they regard as slaughtering future healthy Canadian citizens, while others can refuse to treat the obese, tobacco addicts or whatever? St. Catharines is short of doctors. How foolish to force them away to practise somewhere other than Ontario!

Our Conservative MP Rick Dykstra has already been active investigating the undemocratic activities of other human rights commissions. I hope all political candidates now will seek to curtail the powers of these unruly commissions to ensure we have a functional and equal pluralism in Canada.

Dorothy Pape
St. Catharines, ON

10. Youth Crime Is At Historically High Levels – September 18, 2008

Canadian Centre for Policy Studies
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Policy Briefing

Youth Crime Is At Historically High Levels – By Gary Mauser, PhD – September 18, 2008

While the Canadian media fixates on issues like pooping puffins and campaign missteps, important issues are being left unexplored in the current election. One of those issues ought to be crime, particularly violent crime among youth. Unfortunately, even the most recent killing spree in Toronto has not been enough to prompt a serious debate.

True, Liberal leader Stephane Dion did propose banning "military assault weapons", but he had to backtrack when he discovered that these weapons are already banned. Apparently he really meant semi-automatic rifles that just looked scary.

It's not clear to me why people are so fixated on firearms. Knives are the weapon of choice for more murderers than guns, after all. 190 people were shot and 210 were stabbed to death in Canada in 2006.

In any event, the Prime Minister's response to the Dion proposal made more sense and, I believe, resonated with more Canadians. He said that keeping violent and repeat offenders in prison longer will do more to protect Canadians than banning yet another type of firearm.

This leads to the question of whether violent crime is increasing or decreasing. The answer to this question is: it depends.

The first rule in statistics is to make sure you know what you are counting. Critics of the Conservatives' effort to crack down on criminals are fudging the truth when they argue that there is no problem because crime rates are falling. It's true that total crime rates have dropped 32% since they peaked in the early 1990s, but this almost entirely due to the decline in minor and non-violent crimes. Violent crime rates also fell – 12 % between the early 1990s and 2007 – but as with the overall decline in crime, this statistic is also misleading because it lumps together all "violent" crime without differentiating between types.

A more detailed analysis reveals all too clearly that while total crime rates have dropped, the rate of serious crime – and particularly serious /violent/ crimes – has increased in the past five years.

Recent homicide rates (2004 through 2007) are 10% higher than they were back in 2003. What is worse is that crime by teenagers – or "youths" in the Stats Can argot – has shot up alarmingly. In fact, the homicide rate in 2006 for youth was the highest ever measured. The 2007 youth homicide rate (3.0 per 100,000 youths) slid slightly from 2006 (3.3), but it is now "only" the second highest since record keeping began in 1961. This is hardly anything to cheer about.

Ideological liberals and their political supporters play on this confusion to defend the excessive leniency that has typified Canada's approach to crime for the past 40 years. This is irresponsible, not just because it endangers an unsuspecting populace, but because it sweeps serious problems under the rug, thus preventing us from even debating the issues.

In response to the public's concerns, the Conservatives have strengthened bail provisions for those accused of serious violent crimes and introduced measures for increasing sentences for dangerous and high-risk violent offenders. But even though it’s obvious that locking up violent criminals will reduce crime rates, this point continues to escape some.

Liberal commentators are quick to worry about the potential costs of imprisoning criminals, but they ignore the costs of crime borne by victims. Yes, prison costs taxpayers more than does probation or house arrest, but victims pay the costs of criminal violence in blighted lives. In a study done a decade ago, Brantingham and Easton (1998) found that, in as much as one could estimate financial costs, criminal violence cost Canadian victims $15 billion in 1996. This did not include costs to taxpayers incurred by government, such as police, courts or prisons, all too often augmented by the fact that the "system" is having to process the same offenders again and again.

Justice policy should be based on solid research not superficial media commentary. To do that, we need to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative approaches. Fortunately, that's just what the Americans have been doing for the past few decades. Can we as Canadians swallow our pride (briefly) to examine what they have found?

Violent crime rates have fallen faster in the US than they have in Canada. Between 1991 and 2007, the overall violent crime rate fell 38% in the US, but only 12% in Canada. This plunge is also evident in homicide rates, down 43% for the same period.

Criminologists have been studying this drop, which was unexpected, with some attention over the past decade. Especially illuminating is the research conducted by Marvel and Moody (1997). In their time-series studies, they found strong results at the national level affirming that expanding prison populations of serious or violent offenders is convincingly tied to reducing violent crime rates. These results were later confirmed by Kovandzic, et al (2004).

The research suggests that imprisoning violent criminals is effective in protecting the public. Indeed, increasing the number of serious offenders who are incarcerated acts to reduce violent crime rates. This effect is especially pronounced with homicide rates. Marvel and Moody’s research found that for every 10% increase in prison population, homicide rates have dropped by 13% in the US over the past decade.

Cracking down on violent criminals works. So far, the Conservatives seem to be the only ones who get it.

Gary Mauser is a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies.

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