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Dear Friends For Life, Britain gives bad advice. A Fox News story published online details that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is now requiring that all women considering abortion be told that most women do not suffer any psychological harm after abortion and that "abortion is generally safer then continuing a pregnancy to term". Dishearting results show that teens are suffering more from abortions. In a study entitled, "Detrimental Effects of Adolescent Abortions," by A. Sobie and D. Reardon, comparing to adult women, teens are:
• Two to four times more likely to commit suicide.
• More likely to develop psychological problems, including paranoia, drug abuse, psychotic delusions and projection of their problems into others.
• More likely to have trouble in relationships.
• Are generally in need of more counseling and guidance regarding abortion.
• Are nearly three times more likely to be admitted to a mental health hospital. The good news is that Teen Births are beginning to hit record lows. In 2009, among girls aged fifteen through nineteen, the birthrate fell to 39 births per 1,000 teens. This is the lowest level in the 70 years during which records have been kept and is an additional 6% decline from the previous year. Numbers are now down in 16 of the last 18 years. In closing, a special "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to a set of twins who are celebrating their first birthday. This set of conjoined twins, born sharing a liver and a malformed heart, have now celebrated their first birthday. They cannot be separated and they are not candidates for a heart transplant. In spite of this they have continued to live and are now breathing without assistance. God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(A Thought) "Any Christian who is intellectually alive and is at the same time obviously convinced of the truth of his religion, administers a shock to the confidence of the progressives, the secularists, and the ideologues. He is not likely to convert them, but he shakes their confidence in the inevitability of the secularist outlook and in the stupidity of the religious view of life." - Christopher Dawson
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Lifeissues.net Newsletter #533
July 10, 2011
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2. Gay Marriage and the Next Gulag
3. Down syndrome advocates to international court: prenatal screening a crime against humanity
4. Prizes for getting sterilized: India offers chance at a car, blenders
5. Women Having Abortions Up Premature Birth Risk 34% Next Time
6. UN Agencies Push for Abortion Rights Under Pretext of Sex Selection
7. UN Agency Youth Program Calling for Access to Abortion
8. Map: Which Countries Use the Death Penalty?
9. Death Penalty Popular in China
10. Swiss back off restrictions on assisted suicide
11. IVF babies aborted
12. At the Bottom of the Slippery Slope
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(HEA): "What is the Pro-Life Catholic View of Human Embryo Adoption?" - It has been estimated that there are as many as half a million frozen IVF embryos in fertility clinics across the United States waiting to continue their lives. Some are abandoned or forgotten. What should be done about them?
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ITEM #1: Stem Cells Cure for AIDS?
Success fighting the dreaded virus - and another that helps get a New York Yankee back in the lineup. So why no media attention?
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ITEM #2: Gay Marriage and the Next Gulag The writing is on the wall. Gay marriage is the lie that will create the next Gulag. Indeed, gay marriage is the perfect totalitarian wedge, not least in a country like the United States, which has been capable of believing itself uniquely dedicated to liberty even in the midst of slavery and abortion.
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ITEM #3: Down syndrome advocates to international court: prenatal screening a crime against humanity
A group of advocates for individuals with Down syndrome has complained to an international human rights court that New Zealand’s prenatal screening program effectively targets disabled children for systematic eradication through abortion.
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ITEM #4: Prizes for getting sterilized: India offers chance at a car, blenders
A health official in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajastan, 155 miles west of New Delhi, has come up with a new scheme to convince people to get sterilized: offer them a chance to win a car, or a motorbike, or a blender.
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ITEM #5: Women Having Abortions Up Premature Birth Risk 34% Next Time
A new study conducted in the United Kingdom finds women who have abortions are 34 percent more likely to deliver a baby prematurely when they become pregnant the next time and to suffer from other pregnancy complications.
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ITEM #6: UN Agencies Push for Abortion Rights Under Pretext of Sex Selection
A recent United Nations inter-agency statement on imbalanced sex ratios calls for unrestricted access to abortion as a human right. The statement recognizes that sex-selective abortion is a form of gender discrimination against girls and women, but nonetheless proclaims that ensuring access to services for safe abortion is crucial.
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ITEM #7 UN Agency Youth Program Calling for Access to Abortion
A major UN agency youth program envisions abortion and decriminalized "sex work" for young people ahead of the UN Youth Conference. In preparation for the UN Youth Conference set to take place in New York in late July, Y-PEER --- the youth program of the UN Population Fund --- released a statement calling for the realization of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and "rights" (SRHR) through legislation, policies, and programs at all levels of government.
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ITEM #8: Map: Which Countries Use the Death Penalty?
The club of prisoner-executing nations is an inauspicious one. You've got the world's great dictatorships and autocracies (Iran, Zimbabwe, China, North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Cuba, Belarus), it's most failed and failing states (Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Congo, Chad, Yemen, Guinea, Bangladesh), not to mention the entire Middle East save Israel.
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ITEM #9: Death Penalty Popular in China
Despite government efforts to curb the number of people it puts to death, China continues to execute more people than the rest of the world combined, and corporal punishment remains popular among the citizenry.
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ITEM #10: Swiss back off restrictions on assisted suicide
The government will not introduce specific regulations on organised assisted suicide, but will extend measures to boost palliative care and suicide prevention.
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ITEM #11: IVF babies aborted
More than 700 women have had abortions while pregnant through IVF, Britain’s fertility watchdog has revealed, writes Matthew Davis.
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ITEM #12: At the Bottom of the Slippery Slope
Once society accepts euthanasia/organ harvesting, we will soon see agitation to pay seriously disabled or dying people for their organs, a policy that Kevorkian once advocated. Utilitarian boosters of such a course will argue that paying people will save society money on long-term care and allow disabled persons the satisfaction of benefiting society, while leaving a nice bundle for family, friends, or a charitable cause.
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