Jerry Novotny, OMI (Quote) "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank **************************************** Lifeissues.net Newsletter #497 October 24, 2010 ****************************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS): 1. Defending children against eroticised adult culture 2. How Pornography and Drugs Change Your Brain 3. Sex, Lies And Videotape 4. Only Half Of Belgium’s Euthanasia Cases Are Reported 5. HIV/AIDS Status Grim In Australia: Experts 6. Caregivers Needed For Aging Population 7. How Does Induced Abortion Raise Breast Cancer Risk? 8. Forced abortions for Chinese women 9. Pro-homosexual corporate 'blackmail' 10. Archbishop criticizes United Nations for failing to respect life 11. Brazilian cardinal: abortion is not a right 12. Contraception: The Bitter Pill
******************************************************* (Focus on Asia): "Australia and New Zealand’s relations with India are coming under strain" => Australia and New Zealand have a reputation as welcoming countries - as the thousands of Britons who migrate Down Under each year could attest. But the countries' relationship with another source of skilled migrants - India - is becoming less friendly by the day. http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/70012,news-comment,news-politics,india-unimpressed-by-racist-jokes-in-australia-and-new-zealand-paul-henry
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ITEM #1: Defending children against eroticised adult culture
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/als/als_01defendingchildren.html **************************************** ITEM #2: How Pornography and Drugs Change Your Brain While we must continue to fight the good fight legally and societally, we are way beyond avoidance as our only defense. Pornography wants you, it wants your husband or wife, it wants your son and daughter, your grandchildren, and your in-laws. It doesn't share well, and it doesn't leave easily. It is a cruel master, and seeks more slaves. View full article at LifeIssues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/hil/hil_01brain.html ****************************************
ITEM #3: Sex, Lies And Videotape After any suicide, the survivors search their souls for its meaning and what they might have done to prevent it. The recent tragedy of a young man diving off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate posted a sexual video of him is no exception. Advocates of greater acceptance of same sex sexual activity have seized upon this case as ammunition for their cause. But I believe viewing this incident through a wider lens will benefit young people generally, not just those who experience same sex attraction. For the last 40 years, adult society has steadily pummeled young people with the message that "sex is no big deal." This case proves once and for all, that this claim is false. Adult society should stop sending this message, in all its forms. View full article at Ruth Institue:
http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/10/16/sex-lies-and-videotape/ ****************************************
ITEM #4: Only Half Of Belgium’s Euthanasia Cases Are Reported Only half of all euthanasia cases inBelgium are reported, according to a study in the BMJ. Euthanasia has been legal since 2002 and three biennial reports have been published about allreported cases of euthanasia. No cases of abuse have ever been found. However, Belgian academics wondered whether there might be abuses in unreported cases. There were. View full article at BioEdge:
http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9248/#comments Read more: Reporting of euthanasia in medical practice in Flanders, Belgium: cross sectional analysis of reported and unreported cases by BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c5174.full **************************************** ITEM #5: HIV/AIDS Status Grim In Australia: Experts Reports show that most Australians are complacent about getting AIDS. They feel that unless a person is homosexual or an injecting drug user or a sex worker, they are not at risk. View full article at The Medical News:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20101019/HIVAIDS-status-grim-in-Australia-Experts.aspx
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ITEM #6: Caregivers Needed For Aging Population
http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-10/583112.html
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http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/2/Cancer/how_does_induced_abortion_raise_breast_cancer_risk_102020100651.html
**************************************** ITEM #8: Forced abortions for Chinese women China's one-child policy leads to an estimated 13 million reported abortions every year, with many of those ordered by the authorities enforcing the system. Article can be found at Asia-Pacific:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/10/201010208145793266.html
**************************************** ITEM #9: Pro-homosexual corporate 'blackmail' The Human Rights Campaign, a prominent pro-homosexual group, isn't satisfied with benefits already being offered by 337 major American businesses to their homosexual employees. View entire article at OneNewsNow:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=1211136
**************************************** ITEM #10: Archbishop criticizes United Nations for failing to respect life Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, Argentina has criticized the United Nations for spreading ideologies that fail to respect fundamental human rights and the family. In his weekly television program, "Keys to a Better World," Archbishop Aguer pointed to the cultural changes that are taking place in Argentina through laws put forth by the self-proclaimed "progressive" minority. One such change took place in July, when the country legalized same-sex "marriage." The archbishop said these ideas are part of a global plan that is based at "the United Nations and a series of its satellite organizations." View entire article at CNA:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-criticizes-united-nations-for-failing-to-respect-life/ **************************************** ITEM #11: Brazilian cardinal: abortion is not a right
The cardinal explained in his article that "There are also those who claim this is a human right." However, he asked, is "taking the lives of innocent and defenseless human beings a human right?" Responding to the argument that a woman has a right to do what she wants with her body, Cardinal Scherer said, "The baby a woman carries in her womb is not part of her body, but it is another body, different from hers." "Women received their nature from God: the beauty and gratifying mission of conceiving and welcoming human life, of making it live in the world, of supporting and protecting this fragile and beautiful life," he continued. View full article at CNA:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/brazilian-cardinal-abortion-is-not-a-right/
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Each month, to test our courage, my wife Lisa and I stand before an auditorium full of couples about to marry in the Catholic Church and explain to them the Church's teachings about sexuality. The crowd is generally not happy to be there. Many are not Catholic and few, needless to say, want to hear what the Church has to say about sex and contraception. They've heard it already on the afternoon talk shows from renegade nuns. The challenge is to put the cultural coordinates back to where they were seventy years ago. Until 1930, not only did every Christian denomination teach that contraception is wrong, but even the mainstream of media and politics did not approve of it. What we have to do is persuade them that getting rid of their pills and diaphragms will actually make them happier. View full article at Inside Catholic:
http://www.insidecatholic.com/feature/contraception-the-bitter-pill.html
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