Dear Friends for Life, Adult Stem Cells create MS remissions. Twenty-four patients with aggressive multiple sclerosis had stem cells harvested from their own blood. Then their immune system was destroyed by chemotherapy. Finally, the stem cells were reintroduced into their body. In effect, this "rebooted" the immune system of these patients. It was hoped that these stem cells would rebuild the patient's immune system so that it would no longer attack the nervous system. Apparently, this happened, as most of the twenty-four patients are now in long-term remission. "Abolish Religious Freedom Rights?" In what may be the first test of the new legal situation under the Lisbon Treaty, the U.N. European Commission has said that absolutely no exemptions can be allowed in antidiscrimination laws, even for religious conscience. It has demanded that the British abolish laws protecting religious freedom rights with regards to sexual orientation. Current laws in England allow religious groups to refuse to employ a homosexual to avoid "conflicting with the strongly held religious convictions of a significant number of the religion's followers." In China the gender imbalance is worsening. The normal radio of sex at birth is approximately 105 males for every 100 females. A new study reports that the ratio is now 120 males for every 100 females. Males under the age of 20 now exceed females by more than 32 million. According to the report this is attributed almost entirely to couples' decisions to abort female fetuses. God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI (Quote) "All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - J.R.R. Tolkien ****************************** ********** Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #494 October 3, 2010 ****************************** **********
(TABLE OF CONTENTS): 1. Japan OK Globally on HIV, Not at Home 2. Today's Challenges to Marriage and the Family 3. Microbiologist: Hundreds of Studies Confirm Abortion-Breast Cancer Link 4. One in five US gays HIV infected: study 5. New Study Claiming Abortion Not Linked With Teen Depression Full of Problems 6. Ten Years Later, RU 486 Abortion Drug Killed One Million Children, Hurt Women 7. Philippines President Says Government Will Provide Contraceptives to the Poor 8. Scientists overcome hurdles to stem cell alternatives 9. Abstinence education: breaking into the Chinese market 10. Catholic Schools In Singapore Forced To Present Condom-Promoting Sex-Ed Program 11. The Abiding Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 12. The Importance of Prayer ****************************** ************************* (Focus on Asia): "Human trafficking issue raised with India" - "Of the 28 million people around the world that the UN considers human slaves, the UN recognises that most live in India and most are Dalit. Today, Dalits are the largest number of people categorised as modern-day slaves, so we really cannot have a discussion about human trafficking and not look at India and regard the problem of the Dalits," said Beryl D'souza, Operation Mercy India foundation. http://www.worldpress.org/link.cfm?http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/americas/Human-trafficking-issue-raised-with-India-US-official/Article1-606846.aspx ****************************** ************************* ITEM #1. Japan OK Globally on HIV, Not at Home Japan is at the forefront in helping fight HIV globally, the executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in Tokyo said earlier this month. In addition, Japan is the fourth largest donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, notes Michel Sidibe, who was meeting with nongovernmental organizations and authorities on his first official visit to the country. However, Japan could lend more support to local NGOs reaching at-risk populations domestically, such as sex workers, migrants, and men who have sex with men, Sidibe points out. View full article at hivplusmag.com:
http://www.hivplusmag.com/NewsStory.asp?id=22009&sd=09/22/2010 ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #2. Today's Challenges to Marriage and the Family It is commonplace to qualify Western society of today as permissive. Effectively, in the matters of social mores, sexuality, and marriage, we are well within a permissive society where subjective or partial values are exalted, values that in reality are not experienced at an ethical level. Among them, absolute individual liberty, well-being under its hedonistic form (the search for the greatest possible pleasure), or still the casting off of moral constraints; within the sphere of the affective life, only immediate emotion, affective well-being and physical desire are so considered to be constitutive of the nature of love. A strict separation is worked between liberty and nature. Eventually, this contributes to the destruction of the structural and foundational link between marriage and family. View full article at Zenit:
http://lifeissues.net/control_panel/news_info.php ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #3. Microbiologist: Hundreds of Studies Confirm Abortion-Breast Cancer Link A microbiologist says there are so many published studies confirming the link between induced abortion and breast cancer that he plans to publish one every day on his blog until he's mentioned them all. It will take Dr. Gerard Nadal so many weeks to cover them all, the blogging will continue until early next year. View full article at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6718.html ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #4. One in five US gays HIV infected: study One in five gay men living in 21 major US cities are infected with the AIDS virus and nearly half are unaware of it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a study. The CDC said that from 2005 to 2008 HIV infection among gays increased 17 percent. Nineteen percent of "men who have sex with men" are HIV positive and 44 percent of those men are unaware of their infection, said the CDC study of more than 8,000 gays published Thursday in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. View full article at AFP:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVTR7nM7E_1PcvR6GWATj56WNwuw ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #5. New Study Claiming Abortion Not Linked With Teen Depression Full of Problems Priscilla Coleman, a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green University, tells LifeNews.com the study contains several problems. Coleman says its publication in a journal run by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, a former arm of the Planned Parenthood abortion business, means the study is "hardly unbiased." View full article at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6728.html ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #6. Ten Years Later, RU 486 Abortion Drug Killed One Million Children, Hurt Women This weekend marked the tenth anniversary of the Clinton administration approving the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug that has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn children and hurt women. The drug has killed at least eight women in the United States and dozens around the world. View full article at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6729.html ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #7. Philippines President Says Government Will Provide Contraceptives to the Poor Church spokesman says Aquino is 'selling out the Filipino soul' for American dollars. Article is located at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10092707.html ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #8. Scientists overcome hurdles to stem cell alternatives Scientists have invented an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a long-sought step toward bypassing the moral morass surrounding one of the most promising fields in medicine. Article can be found at Post Business:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093003211.html?nav=emailpage ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #9. Abstinence education: breaking into the Chinese market There is an interesting alignment of seemingly quite different stars in China: Christian-inspired abstinence education and official population policy. View entire article at MercatorNet:
http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/7934/ ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #10. Catholic Schools In Singapore Forced To Present Condom-Promoting Sex-Ed Program A report by Singapore Catholic News says that a sexuality-education program based on Catholic moral principles that has been used in the country for 23 years has been replaced by a Ministry of Education program. The new program, which is mandated for both secular and religious schools, heavily promotes the use of condoms to high school and junior college students. View entire text at LifeSiteNews.com:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10093006.html ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #11. The Abiding Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The devastation in both cases was overwhelming. Faced with this threat of "prompt and utter destruction," Japan unconditionally surrendered within a week. View entire text at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/social_justice/sj0235.htm ------------------------------ ----------- ITEM #12. The Importance of Prayer If we don't acquire the habit of prayer, old age is going to be one difficult and painful ordeal for us. If a person has an interior life, then life restricted to a hospital or an old age home is not such a horrible prospect, because that person's joy comes from communing with God in the very depths of his or her soul. Such souls are never alone, because they know intimately the God who dwells deep within them. They sense the presence of God within themselves. View full article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0997.htm See also: Teaching Parishioners to Pray
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0999.htm Living within the truth
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/persecution/pch0257.htm ****************************** ************************** 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. To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations 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) ------------------------------ Get a weekly dose of clear thinking: subscribe to our free Lifeissues newsletter! Sign up at www.LifeIssues.net. Pass this free service to your friends and various groups. ------------------------------ Contact EDITOR: Jerry Novotny, OMI Akebono-cho 1-15-9 Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072 [tel/fax: 088-843-0406] [email: jerry@lifeissues.net (or) jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp] ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------
