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1. The Battle For The Culture Is Not For The Weary – August 27, 2008
2. Commentary – 10% More Reported Cases Of Euthanasia In Netherlands – August 26, 2008
3. Conservative Party Of Canada Kills Unborn Victims Of Crime Act – August 25, 2008
4. Epp Statement In Response To Government’s Alternative Proposal To C-484 – August 28, 2008
5. Letter To The Minister Of Heritage – August 20, 2008
6. Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #385 – August 24, 2008
7. Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #386 – August 31, 2008
8. Life Issues Institute – August 27, 2008
9. OMA Fears Intrusion Into MDs' Beliefs – August 23, 2008

 

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1. The Battle For The Culture Is Not For The Weary – August 27, 2008

From Christian Government: www.christiangovernment.ca

The Battle for the culture is not for the weary.

– The battle for cultural reform requires perseverance –
– Everything worth doing is worth doing well–

Do not be weary in well-doing (Galatians 6:9; II Thessalonians 3:13)

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse." – Walt Disney

"To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize." – Mark Victor Hansen

"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand." – Robert Vallett

"When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value." – Jim Rohn

"One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration." – Jim Rohn

"Make it a rule...never to lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day." – Charles Kingsley

"The turning point toward change and action is not the infilling of the mind but the exercising of the will." – Chris Widener

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." – Thomas Edison

"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus motivation equals realization." – Denis Waitley

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." – Leo F. Buscaglia

How long should you try? Until. – Jim Rohn

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http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/08/10-percent-more-cases-of-euthanasia.html
 
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Commentary: 10 percent more reported cases of euthanasia in 2007 in the Netherlands – By Alex Schadenberg; Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The number of reported cases of euthanasia in 2007 has increased by 10 percent in the Netherlands.

In 2007 the Regional Euthanasia Review Committees received 2120 euthanasia reports, which is up from 1923 reported cases in 2006.

Euthanasia as defined in the Netherlands only includes voluntary actions that are requested by a person who is competent. Any intentional action that causes the death of a person who is incompetent or involuntary are not counted as acts of euthanasia but rather deaths without explicit request.

The report that is published in the Magazine of the Right to Die – NL (NVVE) does not include the number of assisted suicide deaths or the number of deaths without explicit request.

It was reported that there were approximately 550 deaths without request in 2005 and approximately 400 assisted suicide deaths.

It must be noted that these are the number of reported cases. There has been a long-standing problem with under-reporting in the Netherlands.

There were three reported cases that did not fulfill the requirements of the Dutch law. Those cases were reported to the Inspection of Health Care. There is no indication that the three cases resulted in any punishment.

Experts had anticipated that the actual number of reports would decrease because of the increase in deaths by terminal sedation and dehydration. The report from the NVVE does not include the estimated number of cases of terminal sedation and dehydration.

The highest number of reported cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands was in 2000 (2123) with the lowest number of reported cases in 2003 (1815).

There is no explanation in the report as to why the euthanasia rate has increased in the Netherlands.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
info@epcc.ca
http://www.epcc.ca
http://www.alexschadenberg.blogspot.com

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3. Conservative Party Of Canada Kills Unborn Victims Of Crime Act – August 25, 2008

With Gutless Alternative – Government legislation to mirror proposals on the issue by pro-abortionists – John-Henry Westen

Conservative Party of Canada Kills Unborn Victims of Crime Act with Gutless Alternative
Government legislation to mirror proposals on the issue by pro-abortionists

By John-Henry Westen

OTTAWA, August 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In news, which came as a shock within and without the Conservative Party of Canada this afternoon, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has announced that the Conservative Government will introduce legislation to bolster penalties for those who assault pregnant women. The legislation will in effect kill the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, a private members bill with wide public and legislative support that would have recognized in law the separate life of unborn children – at least those who are 'wanted' or intended by the mother for birth.

Conservative MP Ken Epp's private member's bill would ensure that a criminal would receive separate punishment for killing an unborn child in a violent attack on a pregnant mother. Even though the bill explicitly excluded consensual abortion and acts or omissions by the pregnant woman, the Conservative Government fell prey to the arguments of abortion activists who saw any foetal rights, even of 'wanted' children, as an assault on abortion.

According to Nicholson, the upcoming Conservative bill would add the fact of a woman's pregnancy to the list of 'aggravating factors' which must be considered when sentencing criminals. The proposal is in fact nearly identical to a Liberal private member's bill, which was proposed in May by pro-abortion Liberal MP Brent St. Denis.

In his announcement of the measure, Nicholson noted that the Conservatives accepted the arguments of abortion activists. "We've heard criticisms from across the country, including representative from the medical community, that Ken Epp's bill could be interpreted that Mr. Epp's bill as presently drafted could be interpreted as instilling foetal rights," he said.

"Let me be clear, our government will not reopen the debate on abortion," added Nicholson who in the past was recognized as one of the more heroic and reliably pro-life Conservative MPs. "For this reason, and in the context of the government's tackling crime agenda, I'm announcing that the government will introduce legislation that will punish criminals who commit violence against pregnant women but do so in a way that leaves no room for the introduction of foetal rights."

This is the second time this year that Nicholson has betrayed and shocked Canada's social conservatives. In May he presented the Conservative government Justice Department's 50-page defence of the notorious subsection 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act that has permitted major assaults on freedom of expression and freedom of religion by the Human Rights commission kangaroo courts.

When asked if Epp was even told of the new legislation, Nicholson indicated Epp was not informed, or consulted on the matter, saying only that he would find out with everyone else.

While Ken Epp did not immediately respond to the announcement, his remarks on the Liberal private member's bill proposed in May would apply equally to the Conservative proposal.

"I am very disappointed he has fallen victim to the scare tactics of special interests groups who refuse to stand by pregnant women who want their unborn babies protected in law," said Ken Epp responding to St. Denis' proposal. "Why have increased penalties for attacks on pregnant women if the baby doesn't matter?" Mr. Epp asked. "Either the unborn child matters so that attacks on pregnant women are more heinous, in which case Bill C-484 is a direct recognition of that reality; or the child doesn't matter, in which case we don't need any new law – the current provisions in the Criminal Code cover the violence to the woman."

Epp's further comments on St. Denis' bill suggested it was little more than political posturing. A criticism that, it seems, would apply equally to the Conservative Government proposal. "Besides, my legal advisors and the Justice Department have assured me that pregnancy is already deemed an aggravating factor for sentencing purposes, as part of our case law," Mr. Epp said. "And I have also been assured that C-484 will not change that. But if all we do is increase the penalty for attacking a pregnant woman without creating a separate offence for harming or killing her child, then we reinforce the offensive notion that the child's fate is irrelevant. But the child's death is very relevant to the mother (and other family members) who want her baby to live. As Mary Talbot, mother of Olivia Talbot and grandmother of Lane Jr. told the media, 'It's two people who died that day? I certainly put two people in a coffin.'"

Mr. Epp concluded, "What right does anyone have to deny a pregnant woman the right to have the child she has chosen to bring to term protected in law? I can't imagine any pregnant woman feeling that justice has been served if the person who brutally and intentionally killed the baby in her womb simply gets a stiffer sentence for assaulting her. What he did was wrong, not because she was pregnant, but because he killed her baby! The "alternative" Mr. St. Denis is proposing does not recognize her baby's death. It does not address the horrible loss and grieving that mother feels. It's not good enough for a caring society like Canada. Victims' families and Canadians in general are crying out for justice! Let us not delay in doing the right thing and pass C-484 into law."

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4. Epp Statement In Response To Government’s Alternative Proposal To C-484 – August 28, 2008

Ken Epp, MP – Edmonton, ‘Sherwood Park’

Epp Statement in Response to Government’s ‘Alternative’ Proposal to C-484

For Immediate Release – August 26, 2008

(Ottawa) – “An orchestrated campaign against my Private Members Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, has now been followed by the government’s announcement that they will unveil new legislation that will include a victim’s pregnancy as an aggravating factor when judges consider sentencing offenders. The government is proposing this as an alternative to Bill C-484.”

“In my view, it is unfortunate that they have made this decision. My Bill was carefully worded to ensure women’s freedom to choose abortion would be completely respected and physicians who perform abortions would be completely protected. What is disappointing is that the government appears to have bowed to pressure from a number of interest groups including abortion rights groups and some medical organizations.”

“Abortion supporters welcomed the introduction in May of Liberal MP Brent St. Denis? Private Members Bill, C-543, which appears to be very similar to what the government is now proposing. Indeed, such a law was actually suggested by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada last November. What I said when C-543 was introduced, I will say again: why have increased penalties for attacks on pregnant women if the not-yet-born baby doesn’t matter? Either that child matters so that attacks on pregnant women are more heinous, in which case Bill C-484 is a direct recognition of that reality; or that child doesn’t matter, in which case we don’t need any new law,” the current provisions in the Criminal Code already cover the violence against the woman.

“The saddest thing of all is that the government Bill likely adds nothing that doesn’t already exist in law. My own legal advisors and the Justice Department have assured me that pregnancy is already deemed an aggravating factor for sentencing purposes, as part of our case law.”

“By simply treating pregnancy as an aggravating factor without recognizing a second victim in the crime, we reinforce the offensive notion that the unborn child’s fate is irrelevant. But the child’s death is very relevant to the mother (and other family members) who want her baby to live. As Mary Talbot, mother of Olivia Talbot and grandmother of Lane Jr. told the media, ‘It’s two people who died that day. I certainly put two people in a coffin.’”

“Does the Minister now tell Mary that, during the violent attack on Olivia and Lane Jr., her grandson was just an aggravating factor? That the brutal attack didn’t really lead to the death of Olivia’s not-yet-born but very much wanted baby boy. Lane Jr. was deliberately killed that day. At the trial, Olivia’s murderer told the court he shot Olivia in the abdomen to get the baby.”

“I can’t imagine any pregnant woman feeling that justice has been served if the person who brutally and intentionally killed the baby in her womb simply gets a stiffer sentence for assaulting her, without being charged with a separate offence specifically for intentionally killing her child. What he did was wrong, not simply because she was pregnant, but because he intentionally killed her baby. The alternative, which the government is now proposing, does not even recognize her baby’s death. It does not address the horrible loss and grieving that mother and her family feels. It’s just not good enough for a caring society like Canada.”

“I know the critics of C-484 will continue to spread misinformation. But I continue to hope that thoughtful, everyday Canadians, not influenced by political agendas or strident ideology, will continue to support C-484, and about 70% of Canadians do, including the vast majority of women across the country. I hope they will continue to contact their MPs, now more than ever, and encourage them to continue to support a compassionate and just response to the horrible loss experienced by pregnant women who lose their not-yet-born babies in a violent attack. And I hope, as a result, MPs, regardless of party affiliation, will have the courage to vote in favour of Bill C-484 at Third Reading.”

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For More Information, contact: Ken Epp, MP (780) 467-4944, http://www.kenepp.com/.

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5. Letter To The Minister Of Heritage – August 20, 2008

Please write your own letter to the Minister of Heritage, addressing it to the address below (postage free).

August 20, 2008

Hon. Josée Verner; Minister of Canadian Heritage; Les Terrasses de la Chaudière, 12th Floor; 15 Eddy Street; Gatineau, Quebec; K1A 0M5

Dear Minister Verner,

I am extremely disturbed by media reports in recent days about the CRTC’s approval of a pornographic television program out of Alberta (see attached articles).

One Ottawa Citizen article reported that "the CRTC received no intervention in connection with the application, which was initially launched in October 2007." Many Canadians are saying that the recent news reports are the first time they’ve heard about this program and the CRTC application. This raises serious questions about the reliability of the CRTC’s application process and the way the CRTC promotes the public input aspect of that process.

People are rightly asking exactly what it is about a pornographic program that is 50% Canadian content that makes the content unique. One person suggested that the uniqueness was in relation to the objectification and debasement of women, the titillating notion that one of the “actresses” might be your next-door neighbour!

You will recall that Canadians greatly appreciated the Conservative Party for our successful campaign against the Liberal Party’s special treatment for immigrants coming into Canada to work as strippers. Canadians appreciate a party that works against the abuse and objectification of women.

You also know that a decision like this does not take place in a vacuum. Applications by companies offering good programming have been denied or have faced an uphill battle to receive CRTC approval in recent years. Fox News comes to mind, as do EWTN and Radio Maria. When such programming has such a hard time being approved for a Canadian audience, it is astonishing that this kind of filth receives approval so easily. Such decisions do nothing to mitigate the impression that the CRTC places ideology above objective criteria in its decisions about what programming it will approve for Canadian consumption.

I hope there is something you can do to rectify the unacceptable decision made by the CRTC to grant a license to the Alberta-based company Real Productions’ pornographic program, Northern Peaks, giving it access to Canadian airwaves.

Yours sincerely,

Maurice Vellacott, MP

August 15, 2008
CRTC approves first homegrown adult entertainment TV channel: Northern Peaks
Allison Jones, THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - Move over "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and "Corner Gas."

The newest frontier in a push for Canadian content is decidedly less family friendly.

Canada's broadcast regulator has given the green light for the country's first adult television channel with "significant" homegrown content - called Northern Peaks.

It would be a national, English-language pay television service from Edmonton-based Real Productions.

According to the company it would be "Canada's first adult video channel offering significant Canadian adult content," the CRTC decision states.

"The applicant indicated that it would also air the adult versions of Real Productions' cable television series and produce its own adult movies, events and series."

Real Productions' website states it is a "premier adult video production company specializing in unique amateur XXX and swinger videos."

"What makes us unique?" it says.

"Simply, our ability to find lovely women who have never appeared in an adult video in their lives and tape them in fully explicit action with amateur male performers!"

But before getting its broadcast licence, Northern Peaks must first find at least one licensed provider to distribute its channel within three years from Wednesday, when the CRTC decision was issued. It was approved as a "Category 2" pay television service, which means it doesn't have guaranteed distribution rates, so it must negotiate with providers.

The licence go-ahead also comes with several conditions attached, including that at least half of the broadcast day and evening broadcast must be domestic content.

There are also certain categories the shows on Northern Peaks must fall under, such as: long-form documentary, dramatic series, comedy series, specials, miniseries, made-for-TV movies, feature films, game shows, general entertainment and human interest.

The CRTC also stipulates that a certain portion of the pay channels revenues must be invested in Canadian programs.

On its application, Real Productions said $1 million in expenditures will go toward acquiring Canadian programming in the first year of its licence.

Starting in the second year and in every subsequent year, the company said it will dedicate a minimum of 65 per cent of its gross revenue to the acquisition of Canadian programming.

The commission said no parties sought to intervene with the application.

Northern Peaks would also have to ensure it close captions all of its programs.

The licence expires Aug. 31, 2014.

© The Canadian Press, 2008

Financial Post - August 14, 2008
Films with local stars 'a real turn on'
Grant Surridge

An Edmonton-based adult film producer has won federal government approval for a new pornography channel with an unusual twist: half of the content is to be Canadian.

Shaun Donnelly's Real Productions received the OK from the CRTC on Wednesday to operate a digital cable channel -- called Northern Peaks -- that is billed as "Canada's first adult video channel programming significant Canadian content."

"There seems to be quite a market for Canadian adult content right now and of course there isn't a lot of supply," Mr. Donnelly said yesterday from the set of a show he is shooting for Playboy TV outside of Edmonton.

Real Productions, based in the Edmonton suburb of Sherwood Park, says it owns the largest library of Canadian-made pornography at more than 200 titles.

According to the conditions of the licence, Northern Peaks must devote 50% of its broadcast time to Canadian productions.

A CRTC spokesperson said yesterday that to the best of his knowledge, it is the highest Canadian content level ever for an adult channel.

Mr. Donnelly said he was required to offer to as little as 15% Canadian content to appease regulators.

But because he wants "to legitimately be Canada's adult channel," he started at half Canadian.

He said there is a huge unfulfilled market in Canada for local porn. Beginning last year he began getting calls from cable companies looking to license his Canadian productions.

"I've always found there's a real turn-on to watching and knowing it's people you could run into in the grocery store," he said.

He said every carrier he has spoken to has expressed interest, and all are reviewing the Northern Peaks application. He would not reveal which carriers he has approached.

Industry observers expressed surprise yesterday at the large amount of Canadian content Northern Peaks is offering at start-up, saying that often Canadian programming is not a selling point when approaching cable and satellite companies to carry a unproven digital channel.

Northern Peaks will likely be offered high in the triple digits on the channel dial, and be available for a monthly subscription fee.

Proposed series in the application to the CRTC include one shot entirely on location at a small adult video store in Kamloops, B.C., and one in which "Canada's sexiest thirty-somethings show off their skills in a series that proves Canada is cougar country."

Last December, the CRTC approved a French-language digital channel called Vanessa, operated by Montreal-based Sex Shop Television. The license required only 20% Canadian programming. In 2003, the CRTC approved Hustler Canada, which airs primarily foreign content.

Category 2 channels must negotiate rates and carriage on Canada's cable and satellite television distributors, and receiving a license is no guarantee that cable or satellite companies will pick up the channel.

Owners of such licenses can face a tough slog of several years before getting carriage.

"We are always interested in offering new channels and would evaluate this opportunity," a Rogers spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.

Mr. Donnelly said he is aiming to get carriage by early next year.

Mr. Donnelly produces pornography for a variety of international media in Western Canada. He created The Boy Next Door for Playboy TV and Make Me a Porn Star for British television.

In addition to hardcore pornography, he says he is big on "making fun of the porn industry," and that Northern Peaks will feature tongue-in-cheek reality programming that shows the "ridiculous" side of the business.

Calgary Herald - August 15, 2008
New porn channel lets Canadians strut their stuff
Ashleigh Patterson

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadians who may have become tired of being passed over as porn stars will have a new, home-grown outlet to showcase their erotic talents.

Federal regulators have granted Alberta-based Real Productions approval to launch a new digital pornography channel, which promises to serve up at least 50 percent domestic content.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the Category 2 pay-television service on Wednesday, allowing Northern Peaks to become "Canada's first adult video channel offering significant Canadian adult content."

"I think as Canadians there is a bit of a tiredness in seeing all American stuff," Shaun Donnelly, president of Real Productions, said during an interview on Friday.

"There is always that thrill for something that is local and you get the sense that these are people you can meet at the supermarket."

The CRTC only required 15 percent Canadian content, but Northern Peaks agreed to provide "not less than 50 percent of the broadcast day and not less than 50 percent of the evening broadcast period to Canadian programming," according to the license.

"We want to be Canada's adult channel and I think to do that, 15 percent wouldn't cut it," Donnelly said.

Real Productions boasts the largest collection of Canadian adult-themed content in the country with more than 200 film titles and 75 television episodes in its library.

The regulator stipulated the license will only be issued once Real Productions enters into an agreement with at least one licensed distributor.

Donnelly, who has also produced television programs for Playboy TV in the U.S. and Granada Television in Britain, said all five major Canadian cable and satellite carriers have expressed interest in hosting the channel and are reviewing the proposal.

"I've been in touch with the cable companies throughout the process and went ahead with it based on the interest we had," he said

Northern Peaks will be restricted to certain types of programming including long-form documentaries, dramatic series, feature films, game shows, mini-series, sitcoms and made-for-TV movies.

The CRTC received no interventions in connection with the application, which was initially launched in October 2007.

(Reporting by Ashleigh Patterson; editing by Rob Wilson)

© Reuters 2008

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6. Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #385 – August 24, 2008

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

Dear Friends for Life,

The Philippine "Culture of Life" struggle continues. With the aid of untold amounts of money from overseas groups, legislation called The Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2007 is being debated in the Philippine Parliament. It would create a new "Commission on Population." This would "encourage" families to have only two children. It would promote abortifacient drugs, including the IUD and the pill. It would require all public and private health care providers to provide surgical sterilization. It would require mandatory "age appropriate" sex education, starting in the 5th grade and running through high school. In effect, it would allow Planned Parenthood type sexual permissiveness across this Catholic nation. The bishops there have protested strongly, stating that this would create a culture of death. Its president, Gloria Arroyo, does oppose this. One bishop has issued a pastoral letter stating that politicians who support this are forbidden to receive Holy Communion within his diocese, stating that the use of the phrase, "reproductive health" would, in effect, allow abortion 'on demand' nationwide. Let's watch this closely.

Medecins sans Frontieres is Pro Abortion: Sometimes known as Doctors without Borders, this organization claims to follow the Hippocratic Oath. However in December 2005, it stated that, "In cases of sexual violence, it could be a matter of giving antibiotic treatment to combat a sexually transmitted infection, giving prophylactic treatment to prevent HIV infection, providing medicine to avoid pregnancy (morning-after-pill), and performing an abortion..." Such a position definitely does not follow this ancient Oath, which specifically forbids a doctor to kill his patient.

God Bless; Jerry Novotny, OMI

Thought: "If people contemplate and really see the sanctity of life, their "quality of life" arguments fall away and they will understand that we are here to care for each other, not to kill each other. Caring, and not convenience, is the sign of a civilized and just society!" – Ron Panzer

Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #385 – August 24, 2008

Table Of Contents:
1. When Does An Infant's Life End?
2. New England Journal of Medicine: 'Brain Death' is not Death - Organ Donors are Alive
3. Premature baby 'comes back to life'
4. Abortion is always wrong
5. Contraception Is Never Abortion? It Depends on What the Meaning of "Pregnant" Is
6. New Study From Norway Substantiates Link Between Abortion and Depression
7. Scientific breakthrough! No embryonic stem cells needed
8. Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth
9. Mental health risk of abortion wrongly denied
10. Life: Emergency Caesarean saves baby after mother is attacked by burglars as she slept / Unborn Baby Saved By Surgeons After Bus Crash Horror
11. African American Pro-Life Leader Tells Barack Obama: No We Can't OK Abortion
12. UN World Health Organization Circumvents Abortion Laws in Bangladesh

Focus On Asia: "49 infants dead; Indian congressmen says clinical trials must stop" - The revelation that 49 infants died during clinical trials in India has sparked anger among the nation's congress, with some calling for all studies to be stopped while investigations take place despite the trials having an infant mortality rate (IMR) below the national average.

http://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Clinical-Development/49-infants-dead-Indian-congressmen-says-clinical-trials-must-stop/?c=6CbP6dMqxKCxddcNsAibrA%3D%3D%20OutSourcingPharma

Item #1. When Does An Infant's Life End?
Doctors are locked in debate over a new approach to infant heart transplants, in which surgeons remove the organs of babies before they are declared brain dead.

Some say the approach saves lives by providing more viable organs to babies who have a chance at survival. But others say the practice devalues one life to try and save another.

The protocol, known as transplantation after declaration of cardio-circulatory death (DCD), allows for the transfer of organs following the stoppage of the heart, rather than brain death. In cases where the parents choose not to resuscitate, their infant's organs could be removed about a minute-and-a-half after the heart stops beating.

View full article at ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5575170&page=1

Item #2. New England Journal Of Medicine: 'Brain Death' Is Not Death - Organ Donors Are Alive
In an article that is sure to rock the world of organ donation, the highly respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published an article which backs up the objections of various pro-life groups, as well as some scientists and physicians, to certain types of organ donation which involve the removal of vital organs from patients believed to be dead. The problem, say the authors of the NEJM article, is that in many cases these patients may not be dead at all.

View full article at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081406.html

Item #3. Premature Baby 'Comes Back To Life'
A couple from Kafr Yasif in the Galilee received the shock of their lives Monday when the wife's miscarried 610-gram foetus, which had been declared dead five hours earlier, was found to be breathing.

View article at The Jerusalem Post: http://lifeissues.net/control_panel/news_info.php

Item #4. Abortion Is Always Wrong
The politician's song has been sung so often for so long that it sounds quite logical - and even many fervent pro-lifers believe it. "I'm absolutely against abortion," they insist, "except, of course, in cases of rape and incest." They argue that is it somehow "compassionate" to offer the woman who is the victim of criminal activity the opportunity to eliminate the results of an immoral attack. The ultimate question, however, is "What about the baby?"

View full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://lifeissues.net/writers/brown/brown_15abortionwrong.html

Item #5. Contraception Is Never Abortion? It Depends On What The Meaning Of "Pregnant" Is
Abortion advocates are up in arms about new federal regulations to protect pro-life health care providers.

To learn more see LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mos/mos_124meaningpregnant.html

Item #6. New Study From Norway Substantiates Link Between Abortion And Depression
New research from Norway substantiates previous studies showing a link between abortion and mental health problems such as depression. This new research, conducted by Dr. Willy Pedersen, was recently published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, a peer-reviewed medical journal.

See the full article at LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/int865.html

Item #7. Scientific Breakthrough! No Embryonic Stem Cells Needed
The argument for embryonic stem cells as the potential solution for a vast array of human diseases has taken another significant hit with the successful testing of an adult cell that can match tissues in the heart, lung, liver, pancreas, blood vessels, brain, muscle, bone and fat. The San Francisco research and development company Medistem Inc. says its newest tests reveal the cell can regenerate failed blood vessels, allowing a restoration of health in limbs once given no alternative but amputation.

Full article at WorldNetDaily:
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73028

Item #8. Japanese Create Stem Cells From Wisdom Teeth
Japanese scientists said Friday they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth, opening another way to study deadly diseases without the ethical controversy of using embryos.

Full Article at Physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news138604253.html

Item #9. Mental Health Risk Of Abortion Wrongly Denied
A member of the American Psychological Association has criticised that organisation's survey of the effects of abortion on women's mental health, saying it is politically motivated and bad science. The project concluded that a single early abortion did not increase the likelihood of significant mental problems. Dr Rachel M MacNair, research director for Consistent Life, Missouri, and an official reviewer of the report, points out that the task force's conclusion was based on a single British study. Furthermore, that research actually found a higher incidence of drug overdose among women who had had abortions. Dr MacNair writes: "'[S]cience' means what the [association] says it means, rather than what those of us trained in a university might have been taught. ... [C]iting only one study in support of a politically-desired conclusion cannot be explained in any other way than a politically-motivated exercise.

View entire text at SPUC:
http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2008/08/major-report-on-mental-effects-of.html

Item #10. Life: Emergency Caesarean Saves Baby After Mother Is Attacked By Burglars As She Slept / Unborn Baby Saved By Surgeons After Bus Crash Horror
The child of a mother in Wales who was attacked at home was saved by being delivered by caesarean section. Ms Nerys Price was hit on the head by car thieves when she was due to give birth in two weeks. [Daily Mail] An unborn child was saved by emergency caesarean in New York after his mother had been hit by a bus. Mrs Donnette Sanz died soon after the accident but Sean Michael is expected to survive. [Evening Standard]

View entire text at Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045965/Emergency-Caesarean-saves-baby-mother-attacked-burglars-slept.html?ITO=1490

View entire text at Evening Standard:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23538014-details/article.do?ito=newsnow&

Item #11. African American Pro-Life Leader Tells Barack Obama: No We Can't OK Abortion
An African-American pro-life leader has a message for Barack Obama that plays off on the informal theme that has become a chant at his rallies: No we can't. For Day Gardner, that means the black community can't continue supporting abortion and how it racially targets black Americans.

Gardner has talked before about how abortion businesses unfairly target minority communities and how black women have abortions at much higher rates than white women or Hispanics.

But Gardner says the last straw for her is the recent controversy surrounding Obama's votes in the Illinois legislature against bills that would have protected babies who survive botched abortions.

"Barack Obama is an extremist who, in supporting what amounts to infanticide, would like to see all of us stand idle--twiddling our thumbs as unplanned children, who are born alive, die this terrible death," she told LifeNews.com Thursday.

"We must realize this is definitely part of Mr. Obama's plan for America," Gardner explains. "But it is definitely not mine. In my America, all voices shout, 'No We Can't!' and 'No We Won't!'"

View entire text at LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/nat4170.html

Item #12. Un World Health Organization Circumvents Abortion Laws In Bangladesh
A fund of $2.73 million, which was established with funding from the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation and in partnership with the government of Bangladesh and non-governmental organizations working on menstrual regulation, will support projects over a four-year period starting this year.

Since there may not be an actual pregnancy to terminate, menstrual regulation is sometimes available in countries that prohibit abortion.

If the woman was pregnant at the time the menstrual extraction is performed, the evidence of an abortion is either destroyed during the procedure or easily disposed of. Menstrual regulation is sometimes regarded as a cross between "foresight contraception" and "hindsight abortion."

View entire text at LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/int889.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 no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp . To become a 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: Jerry Novotny, OMI; Akebono-cho 1-15-9; Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072; Tel/Fax: 088-843-0406; E-Mail:jerry@lifeissues.net.

Websites by Editor:
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Dear Friends for Life,

U.S Catholic Bishops Oppose Research on Human Embryos - While making it clear that they have no problem with non-embryonic adult stem cell research, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have issued a long-awaited statement saying embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) is immoral.

"Harvesting these embryonic stem cells involves the deliberate killing of innocent human beings, a gravely immoral act," the statement says. "Direct attacks on innocent human life are always gravely wrong. Yet some researchers, ethicists, and policy makers claim that we may directly kill innocent embryonic human beings as if they were mere objects of research - and even that we should make taxpayers complicit in killing through use of public funds." "Thus, while human life is threatened in many ways in our society, the destruction of human embryos for stem cell research confronts us with the issue of respect for life in a stark new way." "As believers who recognize each human life as the gift of an infinitely loving god, we insist that every human being, however small or seemingly insignificant, matters to God," the Bishops said.

God Bless, Jerry Novotny, OMI

Thoughts: "Never forget that you were once an embryo."

"The Church has always taught that human life deserves respect from its very beginning and that procured abortion is a grave moral evil. In the Middle Ages, uninformed and inadequate theories about embryology led some theologians to speculate that specifically human life capable of receiving an immortal soul may not exist until a few weeks into pregnancy. While in canon law these theories led to a distinction in penalties between very early and later abortions, the Church's moral teaching never justified or permitted abortion at any stage of development." – Cincinnati RTL 8/26/08

Lifeissues.Net Newsletter #386 – August 31, 2008

Table Of Contents:
1. Planned Parenthood Targets Blacks
2. New Study Shows More Abortion-Related Health Risks
3. Mums 'Accept Natural Birth Risks'
4. Death Penalty Continues In Most Asian Countries
5. EU Pension Time-Bomb Ticks As Population Ages
6. Ageing Population 'May Bankrupt Budget'
7. Bishops Respond To House Speaker Pelosi's Misrepresentation Of Church Teaching Against Abortion
8. 10 Percent More Reported Cases Of Euthanasia In 2007 In The Netherlands
9. Archbishop Urges Argentineans To Protect The Family And Human Life
10.  Condoms, STD, Teenagers, And International Case Studies Showing Condom Ineffectiveness Against HIV/AIDS
11. Age Concern Charity Warns That Old People Going Hungry In Hospital
12. Denver Archbishop: Planned Parenthood Offends Minorities

Focus On Asia: "Vietnam floods 'leave 100 dead'"

Item #1. Planned Parenthood Targets Blacks
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which overturned most state and federal laws outlawing or restricting abortion, an estimated 48,6 million babies have been aborted, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In particular, blacks are disproportionately impacted by abortion. Is Planned Parenthood deliberately acting to reduce the black population? Is it practicing a form of eugenics?

View full article at The Washington Times:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/25/planned-parenthood-targets-blacks/

Item #2. New Study Shows More Abortion-Related Health Risks
A new study released by the National Center for Health Statistics in Canada shows that premature babies account for a growing proportion of infant deaths. When linked with previous studies, it tends to show that women who have had abortions are more likely to bear children who die as infants or suffer from severe health issues. National Right to Life Committee spokesman Randall O'Bannon believes the abortion link is obvious. Dr. O'Bannon notes that most people do not understand how really serious abortion is.

View full article at OneNewsNow:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=224766

Item #3. Mums 'Accept Natural Birth Risks'
First-time mothers-to-be will accept greater risks than clinicians for a natural birth, research suggests.

View article at BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7576544.stm

Item #4. Death Penalty Continues In Most Asian Countries
Asia alone represents 60 per cent of the world's population and 95 per cent of this population lives in a country where death penalty is still awarded. But there are facts too: 27 countries have already abolished the death penalty in law or in practice while 14 countries continue to carry out executions.

Significant changes are taking place in some of these countries. Japan, for instance, has increased the rate of executions, while others are moving towards abolition. For example, Taiwan, has suspended executions since 2005, and South Korea has not carried out executions for ten years. Amnesty International classified South Korea as abolitionist in practice. Others, like the Philippines, in 2006, abolished capital punishment for all crimes.

View full article at World.Merinews:
http://world.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=139939

Item #5. EU Pension Time-bomb Ticks As Population Ages
The European Union's population is set to reach 506 million by 2060 when there will be only two people of working age for every person aged 65 or more, the EU statistical office said on Tuesday.

Policymakers are bracing themselves for a big rise in the number of pensioners putting a strain on public finances as people live longer and there are proportionately fewer people of working age, even with net migration.

Currently there four people of working age for every person of 65 or more.

The combined population of the 27-nation area will peak in 2035 at 521 million, compared with 495 million in January this year, with deaths outnumbering births from 2015, Eurostat said.

The strongest population growth will be in Cyprus, up 66 percent by 2060, Ireland, up 53 percent, Luxembourg, up 52 percent, and Britain, up 25 percent.

To learn more see Reuters:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKLQ19426620080826

Item #6. Ageing Population 'May Bankrupt Budget'
"The ageing crisis in Australia is a far greater crisis than climate change," National Seniors Australia chairman Everald Compton said in Adelaide.

"If action isn't taken now to plan for the financial crisis that's going to occur, by the year 2030 the ageing population of Australia will bankrupt the federal budget.

See the full article at smh.com.au:
http://news.smh.com.au/national/ageing-population-may-bankrupt-budget-20080826-42ix.html

Item #7. Bishops Respond To House Speaker Pelosi's Misrepresentation Of Church Teaching Against Abortion
Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, have issued the following statement:

In the course of a "Meet the Press" interview on abortion and other public issues on August 24, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi misrepresented the history and nature of the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church against abortion.

In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law." (No. 2271)

In the Middle Ages, uninformed and inadequate theories about embryology led some theologians to speculate that specifically human life capable of receiving an immortal soul may not exist until a few weeks into pregnancy. While in canon law these theories led to a distinction in penalties between very early and later abortions, the Church's moral teaching never justified or permitted abortion at any stage of development.

Full article at USCCB: http://www.usccb.org/

Item #8. 10 Percent More Reported Cases Of Euthanasia In 2007 In The Netherlands
It was reported that there were approximately 550 deaths without request in 2005 and approximately 400 assisted suicide deaths.

It must be noted that these are the number of reported cases. There has been a long-standing problem with under-reporting in the Netherlands.

Full Article at LifeSiteNews.com: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082611.html

Item #9. Archbishop Urges Argentineans To Protect The Family And Human Life
Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata called on Argentineans this week to create "a true clamour" in response to the culture of death that has been moving to attack the innocent and destroy the fundamental roots of society in the legislative arena.

During his weekly program, the archbishop referred to legislative attempts by the government to grant pensions to homosexuals whose "spouses" have died.

"Are there not other more serious injustices that need to be addressed?" he asked. "It would not be strange in this context to see an assault on the Civil Code in order to change the definition of marriage and therefore of the family founded upon it," the archbishop continued.

View entire text at CNA: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13640

Item #10.  Condoms, STD, Teenagers, And International Case Studies Showing Condom Ineffectiveness Against HIV/AIDS
Due to the highly charged aspects of the issues related to contraception (i.e., school-based clinics, the teen pregnancy "epidemic," and the spread of AIDS), there is much conflicting information on the effectiveness of the most commonly-used non-permanent true contraceptive method in the world – the male condom – at preventing pregnancy, AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases.

In order to conduct an intelligent conversation on this topic, we must first review a few basic facts.

View entire text at LifeIssues.net: http://lifeissues.net/writers/clo/clo_03condomresource1.html

Item #11. Age Concern Charity Warns That Old People Going Hungry In Hospital
Elderly people go hungry in British state hospitals, according to an Age Concern survey, which found that more than half such patients risked malnutrition. Many health trusts had failed to introduce procedures for ensuring that staff fed patients who needed help at mealtimes.

View entire text at Telegraph.co.uk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2613024/Age-Concern-charity-warns-that-old-people-going-hungry-in-hospital.html

Item #12. Denver Archbishop: Planned Parenthood Offends Minorities
"Here's the first truth," he said. "Society has an obligation – and Christians have a Gospel duty – to provide adequate and compassionate support for unwed and abandoned mothers; women facing unintended pregnancies; and women struggling with the aftermath of an abortion. It's not enough to talk about 'pro-life politics.' The label 'pro-life' demands that we work to ensure social policies that will protect young woman and families, and help them generously in their need.

"Here's the second truth. Killing an unborn child is never the right answer to a woman's or society's problems. Acts of violence create a culture of violence – and abortion is the most intimate form of violence there is. It wounds the woman, it kills the unborn child and it poisons the roots of justice and charity that bind us all into one human family."

View entire text at EWTN News: ttp://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=90665

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 no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp . To become a 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.

Websites by Editor:
English LifeIssues Site:http://www.lifeissues.net,
Japanese LifeIssues Site:http://www.japan-lifeissues.net,
OMI Site:http://www.omijapankorea.net/index.html.

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8. Life Issues Institute – August 27, 2008

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9. OMA Fears Intrusion Into MDs' Beliefs – August 23, 2008

Regulators draft policy to remove nod to religion

Charles Lewis, National Post  Published: Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Ontario Medical Association wants the licensing body for doctors in the province to change a controversial document that could strip doctors of their right to exercise freedom of religion when making decisions in their medical practices.

The document by the licensing body, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, is believed to have been sparked by a letter from the Ontario Human Rights Commission that said doctors' practising their religious beliefs could have a discriminatory impact on patients.

Yesterday, Dr. Ken Arnold, president of the OMA, said in a statement, "The OMA has watched closely the work being undertaken by the [College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario] with respect to human rights. Our position has always been that in considering the rights of patients, we must also take into account the rights and freedoms of physicians.

"The OMA believes that some parts of the draft policy require clarification and need amendment. The [college's] proposed policy is generating concern with some in the medical community in Ontario and requires clarification. We will be forwarding our recommendations to the [college] shortly requesting that they amend their policy."

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario recently released a draft document on a potential new code of conduct for physicians.

Continued: http://www.financialpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=743272

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