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Dear Friends for Life,
(Sad news from Indonesia): In this heavily populated Asian nation we now have a report of more than 2.6 million abortions each year. According to the Indonesia Islamic University this is a rate of 43 abortions for every 100 pregnancies delivered, which is about twice that of the United States.
(Wildly Overestimated): Representatives from ten African nations have called for legal abortions "in order to prevent deaths from illegal ones." They estimate that 30,000 women die from these in Africa every year. However, such figures are based on meager data and the extrapolation of a lot of assumptions. Typically, such a guess comes from an article, report or unpublished document. Typically these come from a pro-abortion organization, which raise questions as to its validity. A few confirmed abortion deaths in one area might be extrapolated to allegedly represent the number for an entire country. David Reardon of the Elliot Institute points that legalizing abortion doesn't make it any safer, that legal abortion only increases the number of women exposed to unsafe abortions. Legal abortion is also inherently unsafe. Further it is linked to higher rates of maternal deaths, premature delivery, handicapped newborns, depression, suicide, drug abuse and a host of other negative
problems.
(Global Aging): The U.S. National Institute on Aging notes that the world's population is aging at "an unprecedented rate" and that "within ten years for the first time in human history there will be more people over 65 than children under 5 in the world."
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(Quote) "Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons." -C.S. Lewis
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #450
November 22, 2009
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Swiss Move Closer to Clamping Down on Dignitas Suicide Parlour
2. 200-Fold Boost in Efficiency for Ethical Stem Cells
3. Archbishop Hilarion speaks out against euthanasia
4. Children and Porn: Always a Bad Combination
5. Unborn baby 'fighting for its life' during abortion
6. Does Having More Kids Mean More Happiness?
7. Family Group Opposes Playboy Cable Channel
8. Korea: Group wants abortion laws enforced
9. Study: Chinese Women with Abortions Have Statistically Significant 17% Increased Breast Cancer Risk -- Scientist Argues Researchers Underestimated Risk
10. Britain Has More Abortions Than Any Other European Country, Overtakes France
11. State of India's Children: An Unsettling Reality
12. Euthanasia: Memo to my children
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(FOCUS ON ASIA): "Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'" - A third of deaths in children under five in those countries are linked to poor diet, a report by Unicef suggests. It also reveals 195m children - one in three - have stunted growth, even though rates have fallen since 1990... An estimated 129m children are underweight... Experts warn that such a condition is often irreversible and effectively condemns children to a lifetime of poor health. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8353594.stm
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ITEM #1. Swiss Move Closer to Clamping Down on Dignitas Suicide Parlour
The Swiss government is considering restricting or even banning organised "assisted suicide" in an effort to reduce so-called "death tourism", according to the Irish Times. Swiss authorities want to ensure that euthanasia is a last resort for terminally ill people, amid fears that some are abusing the country's current laws on "assisted suicide".
View full article at Family and Life:
http://www.familyandlife.org/Abortion-and-Embryo/1351/9/12.html
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ITEM #2. 200-Fold Boost in Efficiency for Ethical Stem Cells
US researchers have found a way to increase dramatically the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue. It's a practical step forward in techniques for producing large numbers of stem cells without killing embryonic humans. Using three drug-like chemicals, the team made the procedure 200 times more efficient and twice as fast, the journal Nature Methods reported.
View full article at Family and Life:
http://www.familyandlife.org/Abortion-and-Embryo/1352/9/15.html
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ITEM #3. Archbishop Hilarion speaks out against euthanasia
"Euthanasia is a crime of man against himself and against society," he said. "From Christian point of view, neither birth, nor death depend on man: we shall die when the Lord summons us. A man who ends his life artificially or prematurely does not believe in the future life and responsibility for his actions. He ends his earthly life with bitter feelings and disappointment rather than with prayer and trust in God."
View full article at Byzantine, TX:
http://byztex.blogspot.com/2009/11/archbishop-hilarion-speaks-out-against.html
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ITEM #4. Children and Porn: Always a Bad Combination
This year's White Ribbons Against Pornography (WRAP) Week has officially begun. WRAP Week raises awareness about the dangers of pornography and educates the public about how pornography viewing becomes addictive. Sadly, many people think pornography is harmless and no big deal; the evidence tells a different story.
View full article at CWA:
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17928/BLI/pornography/index.htm%3E%3Cspan
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ITEM #5. Unborn baby 'fighting for its life' during abortion
A former affiliate director for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, says she decided she could no longer be part of the industry after she watched an ultrasound of a baby being aborted and realized it was fighting for its life.
View full article at WorldNetDaily:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115476
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ITEM #6. Does Having More Kids Mean More Happiness?
Hmmm, this feels like a "no duh" kind of scientific finding, but sadly, in today's world, it is shocking news: A recent study finds: For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household.
See the full article at Faith and Family:
http://www.faithandfamilylive.com/blog/having_more_kids_means_more_happiness#When:16:00:31Z
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ITEM #7. Family Group Opposes Playboy Cable Channel
The Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACT) is arguing that Chattanooga's Electric Power Board (EPB) should pull the plug on the Playboy channel. The EPB is selling cable TV and Internet access and included the sexually themed channel in the lineup. David Fowler, president of FACT, said the government entity should not be providing access to "indecent, obscene material."
Article is located at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/news.php?newsID=00026954&topic=
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ITEM #8. Korea: Group wants abortion laws enforced
Despite its notorious low birthrate, Korea sees some 350,000 abortions annually, only 100,000 fewer than the 450,000 babies typically born. To many, that's surprising. Abortion is prohibited in Korea except for exceptional cases. But the prohibition has hardly made a dent in the number of terminated pregnancies. Recently, Gynob, a Korean group of dozens of obstetricians in their 30s and 40s, launched a movement against abortion. The group's spokeswoman, Choi Anna, a practicing obstetrician, stands at the center of the drive.
Article can be found at JoongAng Daily:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2912405
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ITEM #9. Study: Chinese Women with Abortions Have Statistically Significant 17% Increased Breast Cancer Risk -- Scientist Argues Researchers Underestimated Risk
Chinese researchers Peng Xing and his colleagues conducted a case-control study in Northeast China examining reproductive factors associated with subtypes of breast cancer. They found a statistically significant overall odds ratio of 1.17 (17% increased breast cancer risk for all subtypes combined) among women with induced abortions.
Earlier this year, a Turkish study reported a statistically significant 66% increased risk for women with abortions. Both studies show that, when honest research is conducted outside the control of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and other Western governmental agencies or organizations tethered to abortion ideology and politics, the truth emerges that abortion raises risk.
View entire text at Christian Newswire:
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1329212145.html
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ITEM #10. Britain Has More Abortions Than Any Other European Country, Overtakes France
Great Britain now does more abortions annually than any other nation in Europe, with government figures showing it overtaking France even though France has a higher population. Britain now ranks sixth in the world in annual abortion figures behind China, the U.S., Russia, India and Japan.
View entire text at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/int1380.html
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ITEM #11. State of India's Children: An Unsettling Reality
Here is a sobering thought on the eve of Children's Day celebrated across India on Nov. 14. Despite the country's impressive economic growth trajectory and growing geopolitical heft, the benefits of that prosperity are not percolating down to its children who constitute a sizeable 30 percent of the country's 1.2 billion population.
Hence, 6,000 children die in India every day—a shocking 3,000 due to malnutrition—which Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh recently described as a "national shame"... In addition, 53 percent of Indian kids face sexual abuse. Of the 13 percent of all children engaged in labor in south Asia, India hosts more than half while 33 percent of Indian children consume alcohol and narcotics each day and half a million get hooked to these potentially dangerous substances every year.
View entire text at IPS:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49247
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ITEM #12. Euthanasia: Memo to my children
'I do not want to be bumped off.' I can't state the case more unequivocally than that. I don't care if I am a "burden" to you (you were once to me, that's how life works); I don't care how long it takes me to die, and how inconvenient that is to the medical system; and I don't care how selfless an example other parents are setting in graciously exiting the world for their dependents' sake before nature intended.
In particular, do not succumb to the now odiously-debased "dignity" argument you'll doubtless hear from euthanasia advocates.
Read my lips: Your mother does not want to be made to feel it is her duty to die before nature decrees, so that others may be freed from care and responsibility, a subtle shift that inevitably follows upon an established "right."
View entire text at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/euthanasia/eu0055.htm
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