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Dear Friends for Life,
Natural Family Planning is very "effective". Researchers from the University of Heidelberg studied 900 women and report in the journal, Human Reproduction. They found that the correct use of symptom thermal method, (STM), lead to a rate of 0.4 pregnancies per 100 women per year. They compared this to a consistent, skillful use of a barrier method such as a fresh condom, which had a pregnancy rate 0.6. Sex without contraception, during the fertile period, had a pregnancy rate of upwards from 7.5 pregnancies; however, many studies have found considerably higher percentages. The Couple to Couple League which teaches Natural Family Planning to married and engaged couples, said that "natural" and "contraception" are at "totally opposite ends of the spectrum." NFP is really fertility awareness and can be used to increase the chance of conceiving or temporarily delaying it.
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(Quote) "At the retreat, God gave me a peaceful mind and cleansed heart. I saw, touched, and held my child." - Martina, a Rachel's Vineyard retreatant.
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #479
June 20, 2010
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. The Cost of Contraception: Women's Health - Response to CNN
2. The Myth of 'Choice'
3. Dozens of teenage girls have had three abortions or more
4. Synthetic Life: The Danger of God-Like Pretensions
5. Holy See: Respect moral law to prevent spread of AIDS
6. Nicaragua again Rejects Foreign Pressure to Legalize Abortion
7. Gay Marriage
8. The New Morning-After Pill _ Another Killer
9. Abortion Activists Claim New "Right" to Maternal Health
10. Prisoners of the pill
11. Abstinence and Teen Pregnancy
12. Scientific Response to Criticism of the California Human Rights Amendment as "Protecting Fertilized Eggs
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(Recent Research): "Abortion Linked to Wide Range of Mental Health Disorders" - A survey of 5,877 women found that women who had abortions were at higher risk for various mental health disorders. Researchers studied 15 different mental health problems, including anxiety disorders (panic disorder, panic attacks, agoraphobia, post-traumatic stress disorder), mood disorders (bipolar disorder, mania, major depression) and substance abuse disorders. Abortion made a significant contribution for 12 out of the 15 disorders studied. - Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2008
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ITEM #1. The Cost of Contraception: Women's Health - Response to CNN
As a Registered Nurse and mother of 9, I am stunned at the mis-information found in Adam Sonfield's CNN article entitled: "What if Contraception were always covered?" Sonfield claims that there is overwhelming medical, social and economic benefit to contraception access. The complete opposite is true.
View full article at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10061003.html
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ITEM #2. The Myth of 'Choice'
An Illinois-based institute that studies the effects of abortion on women says that the politics of the abortion debate has obscured the fact that most abortions are unwanted or coerced, and many are forced. The Elliot Institute has updated a study on forced abortion in America. One aspect of the study focuses on the risks that women and girls often face when they refuse to have an abortion.
View full article at Family and Life:
http://www.familyandlife.org/Abortion-and-Embryo/1717/9/9.html
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ITEM #3. Dozens of teenage girls have had three abortions or more
Dozens of teenage girls have had three abortions or more, according to figures that campaigners say paint a profoundly depressing picture of modern Britain.
View full article at telegraph.co.uk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/7823317/Dozens-of-teenage-girls-have-had-three-abortions-or-more.html
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ITEM #4. Synthetic Life: The Danger of God-Like Pretensions
In May, headlines around the world proclaimed "Scientists Create Life!" The news prompted people to fantasize about a world in which, as one writer put it, we can "think about what sort of life-form we'd like to make - and then design and build it in much the same way we build a bridge or a car."
View full article at UnChoice:
http://www.theunchoice.com/Men/menoverlooked.htm
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ITEM #5. Holy See: Respect moral law to prevent spread of AIDS
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, has issued a statement calling upon nations to place greater emphasis on the moral law in their AIDS prevention efforts. The United Nations General Assembly is discussing the implementation of its 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.
"Given the significant engagement of Catholic Church-sponsored organizations in providing care in all parts of the world for those with HIV/AIDS, my delegation takes this occasion to note that the global community continues to be confronted by many obstacles in its efforts to respond adequately to this problem, for example, that 7,400 people become infected with HIV every day; that nearly four million people are currently receiving treatment, while 9.7 million people are still in need of such life-saving and life-prolonging interventions; and that for every two people who commence treatment, five more become infected," Archbishop Migliore noted.
View full article at Catholic Culture:
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6646
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ITEM #6. Nicaragua again Rejects Foreign Pressure to Legalize Abortion
Nicaragua, one of the few countries in the world to maintain a total ban on abortion, has again rejected pressure by foreign powers to liberalize its pro-life legislation. A report from proceedings at the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva reveals that 11 countries called for Nicarague to legalize abortion. Delegate Carlos Robelo, however, flatly refused to bow under pressure.
View full article at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10061506.html
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ITEM #7. Gay Marriage
Marriage is a public institution. Consequently, proposals that could harm the institution of marriage must be subjected to the same sort of objective analysis that we give any public policy question. Marriage is not just a private matter of emotion between two people. On the contrary, its success or failure has measurable impact on all of society. Rational analysis yields solid, objective reasons for limiting marriage to one man and one woman - reasons anyone can agree with on purely secular grounds.
Our analysis will show that prohibition of homosexual marriage is not just a "fairness" issue, nor does it require anyone to "force religious dogma" down anyone else's throat. Nor is it a manifestation of hatred, as proponents sometimes suggest.
Article is located at Catholic Answers,:
http://www.catholic.com/library/gay_marriage.asp
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ITEM #8. The New Morning-After Pill _ Another Killer
"EllaOne" is said to be more effective than Plan B, which is currently the only morning-after pill marketed in the USA. Plan B can kill a preborn child if his life has already begun but he has not yet implanted in his mother's womb.
Article can be found at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10061605.html
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ITEM #9. Abortion Activists Claim New "Right" to Maternal Health
At the United Nations (UN)-backed Women Deliver conference in Washington DC last week, abortion activists announced the achievement of a new international human right to maternal health just three years after launching a campaign to establish it. Advocates said that the new right requires nations to liberalize abortion laws and create numerous new bureaucracies, procedures and programs.
View entire two files at C-FAM:
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1649/pub_detail.asp
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ITEM #10. Prisoners of the pill
Mother's Day in the United States (and some other countries) had an ironic twist to it this year: the powers that be chose to observe May 9 as the fiftieth anniversary of the public debut of the contraceptive pill, the twentieth century's chief weapon against motherhood as a serious vocation.
View entire text at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/moy/moy_27prisonersofpill.html
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ITEM #11. Abstinence and Teen Pregnancy
Most Americans know that Duke University's Men's basketball team is the 2010 champion of college basketball. But few know that Dr. Monique Chireau, a Duke University expert in obstetrics and gynecology, is a champion of abstinence only programs as the way to help teenage girls forbear having sex, whether allegedly "safe" or "less unsafe," and as a result avoid getting pregnant and at the same time avoid contracting an STD or sexually transmitted disease.
View entire text at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/may/may_19abstinence.html
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ITEM #12. Scientific Response to Criticism of the California Human Rights Amendment as "Protecting Fertilized Eggs
A human embryo is a human being - not just a "cell" or a "bunch of cells"; not an "egg", and not a "pre-embryo". Yet it has been implied, even by the Attorney General of the State of California that this youngest of human beings is not a human being, but just "an egg", or just "a fertilized egg". This claim is not only ridiculous; it is also perpetrating erroneous and false science.
View entire text at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_175responsecalifornia.html
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