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Dear Friends for Life,Gender imbalance grows alarmingly. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has reported that sex selection abortion and a culture preference for boys will result in 24 million men unable to find wives to 2020. It reports that for every 100 girls born in China a 119 boys are born and in some areas the ratio is as high as 130. At least in Shanghai, the danger of this baby-bust has resulted in a new rule that couples there may now have a second child."Two More Women Dead" - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has reported that two more women in the U.S. have died from the use of the abortion drug, RU 486. This report is in the New England Journal of Medicine.Induced Abortion and Premature Births: The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists has stated that, "There are currently 114 studies in the literature, all showing a statistically significant association between induced abortion and subsequent pre-term birth. A new report in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology from Dr. Jay Iams at Ohio State University most recently has confirmed this, stating that contrary to common belief, population based studies have found that elective pregnancy terminations in the first and second trimester are associated with a very small but real increase in the risk of subsequent spontaneous birth.God Bless, ******************************************************* ITEM #1: Shock: 41% of New York City Pregnancies End in Abortion ITEM #3: Widely hailed stem cell breakthrough could cause genetic problems According to a government tally, 9.2 million abortions were performed in 2008, up from 7.6 million in 2007. But the count only includes hospitals, and state media report the total could be as high as 13 million. If accurate, that would give China among the highest abortion rates in the world. **************************************** That Designer Genes aims at a popular audience is telling. It tells a story of the exciting and uncertain future of genetic enhancement in the tradition of Disney's Jiminy Cricket. However, what guidance it provides comes not from conscience, but from technological possibilities offered in the interest of consumer demand. What passes for moral counsel is mere reassurance that the customer is king. If C.S. Lewis is right to fear scientists who speak as though their technical training as scientists provides grounds for moral authority, one ought to be more fearful of scientists who, speaking out of their scientific expertise, assure us with full moral authority that there is no moral authority. Just relax while the anesthetic takes effect. **************************************** ITEM #7 Where Did I Come From? It's No Longer a Simple Question Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has written a challenging article that should provoke introspection among all those who are struggling against the culture of death. As my friend, Professor Dianne Irving, wrote in an e-mail, "How many people reading this excellent article clearly understand that the disastrous moral conundrum depicted here could have never developed over the decades without purposefully falsifying the human embryology of the early human embryo-the very starting point for any legitimate public policy making or laws/regulations, philosophical or theological evaluations, correct formation of conscience, etc. -and making it grossly politically incorrect to even dare to question the massive scientific fraud involved?" **************************************** ITEM #8: Facing Terminal Illnesses Realistically ******************************************************* In the article, we argue that as a moral reality, marriage is the union of a man and a woman who make a permanent and exclusive commitment to each other of the type that is naturally fulfilled by bearing and rearing children together, and renewed by acts that constitute the behavioral part of the process of reproduction. We further argue that there are decisive principled as well as prudential reasons for the state to enshrine this understanding of marriage in its positive law, and to resist the call to recognize as marriages the sexual unions of same-sex partners. ITEM #11: Can Immunology Corroborate the Two-in-One-Flesh Image in Genesis?Science, which is immune to political or fashionable trends, bears witness to the unique nature of the conjugal bond between a man and a woman. ITEM #12: Artificial Insemination: A Religious PerspectiveThese days there is much writing - books, articles, reviews, and monographs - in the medical and lay press, concerning this subject from the moral, legal, religious, medical, psychological, sociological, genetic and other standpoints. From the standpoint of many couples, the begetting of children is understood as almost a right of marriage. There is Biblical evidence, from a Jewish perspective, that barrenness is understood to be a source of shame for a couple, particularly on the part of the mother. Sarah, Abraham's wife, was barren until she was in her nineties before giving birth to Isaac and Jacob's wife, Rachel, told her husband, "Give me children or I will die!" (Gen. 30:1) She eventually gave birth to two sons, Joseph and Benjamin.For clear thinking about crucial issues, visit LifeIssues.net
Jerry Novotny, OMI(A Thought) "Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." - Samuel Johnson****************************************
Lifeissues.net Newsletter #508
January 16, 2011
****************************************(TABLE OF CONTENTS):1. 41% of NY City Pregnancies End in Abortion
2. A right to a child?
3. Stem cell breakthrough cause genetic problems
4. Becoming Nana
5. Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted
6. Designer Genes
7. Where Did I Come From? No Longer a Simple Question
8. Facing Terminal Illnesses Realistically
9. Reflections on the Death of a Loved One
10. What is Marriage?
11. Can Immunology affirm Two-in-One-Flesh Image in Gen.?
12. Artificial Insemination: A Religious Perspective
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(Christmas in Asia): "Disabled Chinese Orphans Threatened by Government" - A U.S.-based organization that advocates for Catholics in China is warning that an orphanage for disabled children might be taken over by the Chinese government as a punishment of the bishop who founded the care home.
A new statistic released by the New York City health department is shocking pro-life advocates across the country today as it shows 41 percent of pregnancies end in abortion. That compares with the figure of about 20 percent of pregnancies nationwide ending in abortions, as the abortion rate has been reduced over the last two decades from one in three to one in five pregnancies resulting in an abortion and the destruction of human life.
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ITEM #2: A right to a child?The argument now is no longer about whether there is such a thing as a right to acquire a child, but whether the state should pay for sex selection in vitro fertilization "treatments" after the couple has already aborted unwanted twin boys.
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New research has shown that there may be problems after all with a stem cell breakthrough that was hailed recently as a solution to the embryonic stem cell conundrum. A team, led by stem cell scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and The Scripps Research Institute, found that the same genetic abnormalities that occur in human embryonic stem cell lines are found in induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) lines.
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ITEM #4: Becoming NanaSpeaking of infertility, this is a lovely story of adoption.
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ITEM #5: Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted
In modern times, dying is more and more often portrayed as a cold, clinical reality to be kept at arm's length, relegated to the closed doors of a hospital, almost hermetically sealed from the rest of our lives. When it comes to the event itself, we diligently work to avoid confronting it, addressing it, or acknowledging it.
ITEM #9: Reflections on the Death of a Loved One
Why is the death of a loved one so painful an experience?
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ITEM #10: What is Marriage?
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