A pro-life approach to suicide prevention  By Mary Meehan
Pro-lifers have been valiant in the long struggle against doctor-assisted suicide. Although they have lost battles in Oregon, Washington, and Montana, they have held the line in other states. Strong coalitions across political and religious lines have been one key to that success. Another key: promoting better care of people who have severe disabilities, better pain control, and good hospice care.
But what about other kinds of suicide? What about the lonely and depressed widower who is tempted to do himself in? The mental patient who wants to leap from a bridge or high building? The drug addict who contemplates death by overdose? Despondent teenagers who think about hanging themselves? All of these folks need help, too!
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 Obama admin widens abortifacient birth control mandate to college students
LifeSiteNews
In a move that is likely to reignite the ire of religious leaders, late Friday afternoon the Obama administration announced a proposal that would require universities, including religious universities, to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs to their students, as well as their employees, without a co-pay. This appears to significantly widen the originally-announced HHS mandate, which had only applied to employees.
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 Obama admin OKs using aborted babies' brains in lab tests
Life News
The Obama administration is getting grief from a pro-life group for approving an experiment using the remains of the bodies of unborn children victimized in abortion for research in U.S. laboratories. Scott Fischbach, the director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, uncovered the information showing a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses brain tissue from aborted unborn babies to treat macular degeneration. StemCells Inc. will inject fetal brain stem cells into the eyes of up to 16 patients to study the cells' effect on vision.
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 Charge: U.S. selling aborted baby body parts
One News Now
Even though the practice is a criminal offense, one pro-lifer asserts that body parts are being harvested from aborted babies and used for research purposes in the U.S. and abroad. After an investigation by Life Dynamics revealed the practice, Investigate Magazine, a New Zealand-based current affairs publication from a conservative Christian standpoint, went on to determine that a Maryland brokerage firm has been arranging the sale of parts of American aborted babies to the University of Auckland medical school in New Zealand for experiments. |
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