ALL PRO-LIFE TODAY 11/9/2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 CCHD: Evidence, Dismissals, and Clarifications        Imaging buying an apple from an orchard, biting into it, and discovering that the apple is full of worms. You'd be upset, wouldn't you? In fact, you'd probably take the apple to the farmer, point out that the apple is full of worms, show him your receipt, and ask for a refund. Now imagine that instead of making amends, the farmer started telling you about how his staff is thoroughly committed to picking only the best apples and that his orchard has a rigorous policy in place to make sure that apples with worms are not sold from his orchard. I imagine that you'd be furious! The fact of the matter is that this is the general modus operandi of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) when it responds to charges that its grantees are involved in the promotion of the culture of death.                       [ Read the full article here. ]                                                                                                                                                       HEADLINES Pregnancy center opens next door to Planned Parenthood Life News              In Idaho, Brandi Swindell and local pro-life advocates have opened a new pregnancy center next door to a Planned Parenthood abortion business. Stanton Healthcare Services has opened to prevent teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with life-affirming options in an environment that promotes physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Church gives hope to women who have had abortions, says cardinal Catholic News Agency On whether or not the Church condemns women who undergo the procedure, Cardinal Rivera insisted that the Church instead has "a message of reconciliation and mercy" for them. "The Church, like the good mother she is, knows that abortion gravely harms women. For this reason she offers them, above all forgiveness, the ointment that cures the wounds caused by abortion," he said. "But she also offers them accompaniment so that they can forgive themselves and overcome the well-known symptoms of the trauma of abortion, which some call post-abortion stress syndrome and which those who promote abortion try to cover up," the cardinal added.           Proposal made at Vatican for US adult stem cell commission Catholic News Agency    At the Vatican today, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson urged President Obama to establish a commission to support adult stem cell research. Thompson says he wants a body created within the National Institutes of Health that will "be able to use the resources that we have in America to really put regenerative medicine into the forefront of therapies creating new breakthroughs in disease control."