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Dear Friends For Life, Did you know that 90% of all pregnancies in the United States with a Down's Syndrome diagnosis are terminated by abortion? And the statistics are just as grim for most of the rest of the world. Data from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register in the United Kingdom indicates that from 1989 to 2006 the proportion of women choosing to terminate a pregnancy following prenatal diagnosis of Down's Syndrome has remained constant at around 92%. [Human-Animal Hybrid Forbidden] In the U.S. state of Ohio, the Senate approved a bill supported by pro-life groups that would ban human cloning and human-animal hybrids. This is when DNA from animals and humans is being intermixed in laboratory experimentation. Hopefully, such a law will prevent such abuse. Let’s hope other states and nations act on this idea. God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
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Lifeissues.net Newsletter #520
April 10 2011
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2. India Combats Sex-selective Abortion
3. Aging Is Not A Disease
4. Sexting: One 14-Year-Old Girl’s Nightmarish Story
5. Culture Of Death: Elderly Belgian Couple Euthanized Together
6. China May Switch To Two-Child Forced Abortion Policy In 2015
7. Asia 'falling short' in HIV treatment
8. More Action Needed for HIV-Positive Children in Asia
9. Planned Parenthood: So Accustomed to Lies
10. US birthrate falls below replacement level
11. High malnutrition alarms Church
12. Who Should Decide How Children are Educated?
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(Focus on Asia): "Caritas Japan quake appeal in full swing" -Catholics in southern Vietnam are contributing and encouraging others to contribute to an ongoing Caritas campaign to provide spiritual and material support to earthquake victims in Japan.
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ITEM #1: Death Penalty Statistics, Country By Country
The latest capital punishment statistics are out. Find out who uses the death penalty today.
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ITEM #2: India Combats Sex-selective Abortion As Gender Ratio Loses Balance To try to restore balance, several Indian states have announced incentives for the birth of baby girls and have criminalized sex-selective abortions. Also read: India: bishop denounces sex-selective abortions
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ITEM #3: Aging Is Not A Disease
Our posterity deserve their time as we are having ours. Helping us to live better as we age is one thing. But to treat it as a disease to be "cured," in the Aubrey de Gray sense, so that we are ever young, is quite another. I think it is important that we face our ultimate fates maturely so that when we "thin out," as Woody Allen once put it, we are thought well of.
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ITEM #4: Sexting: One 14-Year-Old Girl’s Nightmarish Story
Sexting, or sending sexual text messages to friends, is a surprisingly common phenomenon among the youth. As of 2009, about 20% of teens admitted to "sexting," according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned.
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ITEM #5: Culture Of Death: Elderly Belgian Couple Euthanized Together
This is what the culture of death looks like. An elderly couple didn’t want to live without each other. So, they received a joint euthanasia. Apparently the local community knew they were planning it, as you will see by playing the embed above. From the "euthanasia expert" quoted in the story:
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ITEM #6: China May Switch To Two-Child Forced Abortion Policy In 2015
Chinese officials at the annual meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Congress early last month discussed the idea of "relaxing" the one-child family planning policy that has resulted in forced abortions, coercive sterilizations and other human rights abuses.
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ITEM #7 Asia 'falling short' in HIV treatment
UNAIDS estimates across Asia some five million people are living with HIV, little changed from five years earlier. There are some 360,000 people newly infected with HIV in 2009 from 450,000 in 2001, a fall of 20 per cent.
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ITEM #8: More Action Needed for HIV-Positive Children in Asia
According to the Regional Director for the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) East Asia and the Pacific wing, Anupama Rao Singh, only 44% of children in Asia who require anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to treat HIV/AIDS are getting them.
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ITEM #9: Planned Parenthood: So Accustomed to Lies
upporters of abortion have always had a difficult relationship with the truth. When debate first erupted about partial-birth abortion, the industry at first claimed that there was no such procedure. Forced to retreat from that lie, they claimed that the procedure was exceedingly rare. When that line was exposed as false, they insisted that it was only performed to save the lives of pregnant women or in the case of severe fetal abnormality. That wasn't true either.
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ITEM #10: US birthrate falls below replacement level; 41% of births to single mothers
The birthrate in the United States has fallen to 2.01 children per woman, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1.
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ITEM #11: High malnutrition alarms Church
Cases among women and children rising as family behavior fails to improve.****************************************
ITEM #12: Who Should Decide How Children are Educated?
Who has the primary responsibility for making critical decisions about the education of school-aged children? Their parents? Or government and the school system it operates?*****************************
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