Monday, April 16, 2012
 | God's handiwork: The heavenly
assignment of a special child  By Diane Pierce
Celebrate Life
My husband and I walked into the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit with only one thing on our minds: our 12-day-old son, Joseph. Nine days earlier, we'd been told that our dreams of watching our only child take his first steps, hearing him call us Mommy and Daddy, and cheering him when he hit a baseball
would never be realized. He'd been diagnosed with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a disorder occurring worldwide in less than 2,800 births per year. It's caused by part of the fourth chromosome breaking off, but since neither heredity nor environment had caused this, we wondered why we'd given birth to a child with an illness so rare that doctors described it as akin to being "struck by lightning."
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HEADLINES | 
|  LifeSiteNews Women can expect to live longer with each child they bear, a pattern especially noticeable for those with many children, according to Australian researchers, who nonetheless said that women shouldn't have too many children because large families are bad for the environment. The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday reported the results of a study by researchers at the University of New South Wales, which analyzed 1,200 women over the age of 60 since 1988. Women with six or more children were found to be 40 percent less likely to die during the 16-year follow-up period than women with no children, an expectancy that increased predictably with each child they bore. Researchers said that, although it was not known exactly why children increased life expectancy, the results corresponded to the findings of studies in other countries as well. |
|  Bloomberg Businessweek Bayer AG (BAYN), Germany's largest drugmaker, will pay at least $110 million to settle about 500 lawsuits over claims that its Yasmin line of birth-control pills caused blood clots, in the first resolution of cases over the product, people familiar with the agreements said. Officials of Bayer, based in Leverkusen, Germany, agreed to pay an average of about $220,000 a case to resolve the claims that its Yasmin and Yaz contraceptives caused sometimes fatal clots that can lead to heart attacks and strokes, two people familiar with the settlement said. The people sought anonymity because the accords haven't been made public. |
|  Multinational prayer event for unborn babies
St. Michael the Archangel Organization
The multinational One Million Rosaries for Unborn Babies, scheduled for May 4-6, continues to take shape. Saint Michael the Archangel Organization recently received registration forms from China, India, Finland, Italy, Malta and Taiwan. In all, registration forms have been received from almost 30 nations. Why should we pray at least one million Rosaries for unborn babies? There are a number of answers, including the fact that unborn babies have been the victims of the worst massacre in the history of mankind. Within the last 50 or so years, hundreds of millions of unborn human persons (and perhaps billions) have been killed surgically and non-surgically. And, it should be pointed out clearly: This abominable crime continues to happen.
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