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Dear Friends For Life,
Mother's world falls apart after Planned Parenthood hides humanity of her childThe stinging tears and palpable heartbreak of a young woman deceived by Planned Parenthood say more than a book crammed with words ever could convey about the harm done to women when they are deprived of a glimpse of the humanity of their children before aborting them.
"I just got back from Planned Parenthood," a visibly distraught young lady says in a YouTube video posted on January 19. She had just picked up records from a Planned Parenthood abortion that happened six years earlier. She says Planned Parenthood falsified the records regarding her age at the time of the abortion.
Struggling to maintain her composure, she sifts through the abortion records until she finds the ultrasound report. It indicates that she was offered and took advantage of the opportunity to view the image of her son prior to the abortion. She flatly denies that.
Planned Parenthood throws out 'choice' with 6.3 million dead babies
After decades of couching the murder of the preborn in terms of a woman's choice, Planned Parenthood is throwing out the "choice" rhetoric with the dead babies. Having killed more than 6.3 million precious, innocent children in the name of choice - an amount equal to the combined population of Chicago and Los Angeles - the abortion giant has recently conducted enough focus groups and polls to realize that the "choice" horse cannot win the battle of words in today's culture.
Visit the following website for more info on Planned Parenthood tactics: www.stopp.org/.
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious." -Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
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Lifeissues.net Newsletter #614
February 13, 2013
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Pope to bishops: 'Be courageous' in face of 'extremely intolerant' secularism
2. Not 'War on Women,' 'War on Women's Fertility,' Scholar Says
3. Horrific Reports Of Cannibalism Breaking Out Of North Korea
4. Warning: Many childhood vaccines contain aborted human fetal protein, DNA
5. Koreans 'Biggest Clients of Prostitutes in Southeast Asia'
6. America's Baby Bust
7. Me of Little Faith
8. Please Step Back From the Assisted-Suicide Ledge
9. Is smoking immoral?
10. UN report renews 'family planning' advocacy
11. The Erosion of Ethics in Organ Transplantation
12. Marriage equality or the destruction of difference?
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(Life): "Pope offers support to pro-life initiative to give legal recognition to human embryos" - A new pro-life initiative seeks to give legal recognition to human fetuses within the European Union, as the campaign to collect more than a million signatures in support begins in several countries.
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ITEM #1: Pope to bishops: 'Be courageous' in face of 'extremely intolerant' secularism
"Inevitably," the pope said, faithful bishops will be "beaten by those who live lives opposed to the Gospel, and then we can be grateful for having been judged worthy to share in the passion of Christ".
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ITEM #2: Not 'War on Women,' 'War on Women's Fertility,' Scholar Says
There is not a "war on women," but there is a "war on women's fertility," Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist and president of the Ruth Institute, believes. Rather than view fertility as a problem to be solved, Morse argued Friday, fertility should be viewed as a gift from God. Colleges and labor markets should, therefore, adjust to the biological needs of women.
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ITEM #3: Horrific Reports Of Cannibalism Breaking Out Of North Korea
While it's certainly not the first allegation of cannibalism to come from North Korea, it's equally as disturbing as those that preceded it. Troubling reports of a rise in starvation - and cannibalism - have emerged inside of a nation that continues to be intensely-secretive and shut off from the wider global community. According to an independent outlet called Asia Press, North Koreans are so desperate that they are increasingly turning to corpses and even murdering their own children for food.
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ITEM #4: Warning: Many childhood vaccines contain aborted human fetal protein, DNA
According to the manufacturer-produced package inserts included with each vaccine batch, many vaccines are made with disturbing ingredients like aborted human fetal proteins, altered DNA material, and even genetically-modified (GM) human albumin.
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ITEM #5: Koreans 'Biggest Clients of Prostitutes in Southeast Asia'
The conclusion comes from research by the Korean Institute of Criminology that included field surveys in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines, study of UN reports and other relevant documents, interviews with local social workers and neighbors, and arrest records at local police stations. According to the KIC, social workers in those countries claim that Korean tourists outnumber all other nationalities in terms of the frequency of their visits to prostitutes. There are no hard data to support those claims, but a tally of tourists who frequent bars linked to prostitution and accounts of sex workers appear to confirm them.
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The nation's falling fertility rate is the root cause of many of our problems. And it's only getting worse.
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I talked with a young man (I'll call him Samuel) who had just exited from the abortion facility. He was a nice looking man, clean shaven, neatly dressed, in his 20's or 30's, strong. I thought I recalled talking to the couple when they entered and giving them literature. Now sitting in his car, he looked so sad... hurting... somber. But composed. He was smoking a cigarette (not unusual for the fathers to do that), but it didn't look to be something he did very much. She, the mother of his child, had just gone "to the back" (to the abortion room). Now the wait.
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ITEM #8: Please Step Back From the Assisted-Suicide Ledge
If physician-assisted suicide really represents a good choice, we need to ask: Why should only physicians be able to participate? Why should only physicians be allowed to undermine public trust in their profession through these kinds of death-dealing activities? Why not include police? If a sick person expresses a wish to die, the police could be notified, and an officer would arrive bearing a suitable firearm. He would load it with ammunition, cock the gun and place it on the bedside stand of the sick patient. After giving instruction on the best way to angle the barrel, the officer would depart, and the patient could then pick up the device and take it from there - police-assisted suicide.
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ITEM #9: Is smoking immoral?
What does the Catholic Church teach about the morality of smoking cigarettes? It certainly does not explicitly condemn smoking as intrinsically evil; indeed, it teaches that the use of tobacco could be temperate. The Catechism states: "The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine."(2290) This indicates that there could be some moderate use of tobacco that may be moral.
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ITEM #10: UN report renews 'family planning' advocacy
Now, the United Nations wants us all to pay for women's contraceptives - and make it just another of the universal human rights.
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ITEM #11: The Erosion of Ethics in Organ Transplantation
Organ donation can certainly be a supreme act of generosity.
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Important essay by philosopher Roger Scruton and policy thinker Philip Blond against gay marriage.
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YOU CAN CHANGE SOCIETY:
1. BE INFORMED: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. Visit Lifeissues.net Website for insights into current Life Issues www.lifeissues.net. Access to all prior Newsletters is located in the Archives on main page.
2. PRAY DAILY: for the courage to be God's presence in society and to strongly support those who are deemed "unworthy of life". "If My people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
3. BECOME INVOLVED: Several years ago Fr. Jerry created a project entitled, "Journey for Life into the Heart of Asia". The project appeals for donations to help finance plane travel for lectures and seminars to developing countries in Asia. Strong focus is centered on reaching Asian Catholic Major Seminaries, Universities, Parishes, Hospitals and Family/Pro Life related groups. The lectures place emphasis on "The Asian Family at Crossroads: Life Issues, Trends and Challenges".
For information about no-cost Pro Life Talks to your group in Asia: contact Fr. Jerry at jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp.
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