Dear Friends for Life,
Guess what? Cohabitation increases divorce. Dr. P. J. Smock, professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, has published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, a new study on cohabitation in the United States. The result is "From the perspective of many young adults, marrying without living together first seems rather foolish and is increasingly becoming the first co-residential union formed among young adults. This number has doubled in the last two decades. Approximately half of couples who cohabit marry within three years; however, such couples have over five times the risk of experiencing their parents' separation than of those who did not live together until marriage. This failure was more prevalent in white than in black or Hispanic couples."
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(Quote) "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." - Mother Teresa
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #489
August 29, 2010
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Changing Behavior Real Key to Stopping AIDS
2. Abortion 'triples breast cancer risk': Fourth study finds terminations linked to disease
3. Procuring Organs "Over My Dead Body?"
4. The troubling truth about egg freezing: It's expensive, medically risky and only FIVE babies have been born in Britain as a result
5. Facing Death in Solidarity and Hope
6. Aids experts call for month of sex abstinence
7. A Demographic Disaster
8. HIV on the rise in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - UNICEF
9. Call to Action: Cancer Needs to Be Addressed in Developing Countries
10. Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain
11. Remembering the Pill
12. I Once Was Blind: Adult Stem Cell Therapy Heals Blind Eyes AND Respects Human Life
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(Focus on Asia): "Indonesians face Malaysia death penalty mostly for drug crimes" - The Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed that 177 Indonesians imprisoned in Malaysia had been charged with crimes which carry a maximum sentence of death, mostly for drug crimes. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/08/26/indonesians-face-malaysia-death-penalty-mostly-drug-crimes.html
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ITEM #1. Changing Behavior Real Key to Stopping AIDS
To ensure that people could still enjoy the fruits of the sexual revolution, while reducing the infection rate, the patently false term "safe sex" was coined to describe sex with a condom. The only truly safe sex is that engaged in by mutually monogamous uninfected partners. Today's term for intercourse with a condom is "safer sex," an even more pronounced misnomer, as if that were safer than truly safe sex. But in the reality of naked biology, sex with a condom is, at best, less safe sex, with unprotected intercourse with other than with a mutual monogamous uninfected partner, being unsafe sex.
View full article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0151.htm
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ITEM #2. Abortion 'triples breast cancer risk': Fourth study finds terminations linked to disease
An abortion can triple a woman's risk of developing breast cancer in later life, researchers say. A team of scientists made the claim while carrying out research into how breastfeeding can protect women from developing the killer disease.
View full article at Mail Online:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1288955/Abortion-triple-risk-breast-cancer.html?ITO=1490
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ITEM #3. Procuring Organs "Over My Dead Body?"
Residents of the state have been debating a legislative measure, put forward by a state lawmaker that would automatically enroll all residents as organ donors. The law would rely on what is termed "presumed consent" and allow for the harvesting of a deceased resident's body parts unless that resident had specifically opted out of "donating" in this way when signing up for a driver's license. This approach to organ procurement raises significant ethical concerns.
View full article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0152.htm
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ITEM #4. The troubling truth about egg freezing: It's expensive, medically risky and only FIVE babies have been born in Britain as a result
In the end, of course, not even science can compete with the prospect of a healthy young woman conceiving naturally. The most disturbing question of all then is why so many women are putting off motherhood and, when it is too late, regretting that they did so.
View full article at Mail Online:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1290995/The-troubling-truth-egg-freezing-Its-expensive-medically-risky-FIVE-babies-born-Britain-result.html?printingPage=true
*Additional Article: Hundreds of IVF embryos donated 'without consent'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7902308/Hundreds-of-IVF-embryos-donated-without-consent.html
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ITEM #5. Facing Death in Solidarity and Hope
When I make presentations on end-of-life decision making, I sometimes have audience members approach me afterwards with comments like, "You know, Father, when my mom died 6 years ago, and I look back on it, I'm not sure my brothers and I made the right decisions about her care."
View full article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0153.htm
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ITEM #6. Aids experts call for month of sex abstinence
Leading experts fighting the world's worst Aids epidemic have called on African leaders to head a month-long sexual abstinence campaign, saying it could reduce new infections.
Researchers Alan Whiteside and Justin Parkhurst cite scientific evidence that due to "viral-load spikes", a newly infected person is most likely to transmit HIV in the month after they were exposed to it. Up to 45pc of HIV transmissions result from sex during the highly infectious "spikes" period.
View full article at The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/04/hiv-abstinence-aids-africa
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ITEM #7. A Demographic Disaster
The Chinese government is now studying the consequences of its one-child policy.
Article is located at The Catholic World Report:
http://catholicworldreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:a-demographic-disaster&catid=53:cwr2010&Itemid=70
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ITEM #8. HIV on the rise in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - UNICEF
A report recently released by UNICEF shows that an underground HIV epidemic is building up at an alarming rate in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Among the factors that have been recognized as contributing to the rapid spread of HIV in the region are pervasive drug use, high-risk sexual behaviors, and a strong social stigma that impedes people from searching for information to protect themselves or from seeking treatment, the report said.
Article can be found at POC:
http://thepoc.net/breaking-news/health/9468-hiv-on-the-rise-in-eastern-europe-and-central-asiaunicef.html
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ITEM #9. Call to Action: Cancer Needs to Be Addressed in Developing Countries
Cancer is often considered to be a "rich man's burden," in that it is believed to primarily affect people living in wealthy nations. That is a myth that needs to be corrected.
Cancer is now a leading cause of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries, according to a report published online August 13 in the Lancet. Nearly two thirds of the 7.6 million cancer-related deaths occur in developing nations.
View entire article at Medscape Today:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/727444
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ITEM #10. Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain
The EU is considering proposals from Belgian undertakers to be allowed to dissolve dead bodies in caustic solutions.
View entire text at Mail Online:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1292778/Belgium-considers-proposals-dissolve-bodies-flush-sewage-systems.html#
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ITEM #11. Remembering the Pill
Imagine: the very occasion of celebrating the Pill's legacy to the world also brings a strong sense that the fruits have not been unalloyed, and even that the Pill might have seen its best days behind it.
View entire text at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0154.htm
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ITEM #12. I Once Was Blind: Adult Stem Cell Therapy Heals Blind Eyes AND Respects Human Life
Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs abound. Human embryology and developmental biology affirm that a human embryo is not distinct in kind from a human being, but a human being at an early stage of development.
View entire text at Catholic Online:
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=37125
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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. All prior email Newsletters Archives are located online at http://lifeissues.net/newsletters/mojo.cgi?flavor=archive&list=lifenews&start=0
3. 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
4. BECOME INVOLVED: Several years ago Fr. Jerry created a project entitled, "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia". The project appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is centered 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 information about no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.
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