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Dear Friends for Life,
Broken Link: Last week, the link to ITEM #8 was broken for the article: "Why not buy and sell embryos, ask scholars in NEJM". The correct link is: http://lifeissues.net/writers/
American Life League has released a major new video report entitled "Planned Parenthood's Corporate Carnage". The report demonstrates that abortionist Kermit Gosnell is not an isolated incident. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion chain in America. Its latest annual report reveals that it committed over 332,000 abortions last year and received half of its $1 billion dollar budget from government subsidies at taxpayer expense. Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/
Also there is an online poll asking: Should Michigan allow physician assisted suicide? You will find the question at the bottom of the article. Please vote:
http://www.
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "In
a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the
function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and
enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our
midst." - C.S. Lewis.
May 26, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. G.K. Chesterton: It's Not Gay, and It's Not Marriage
2. Fetuses found to have memories
3. Harvard Debate Stresses Meaning and Purpose of Marriage
4. Four Surreal Scenes
5. Redefining Marriage: A Battle Hundreds of Years in the Making
6. The War on HIV
7. Scientists Claim They Have Cloned Human Embryos for Stem Cells
8. Daughters without fathers in early childhood more prone to teenage depression: study
9. Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
10. Mother's Cuddles Bring Premature Baby Back To Life Two Hours After Death
11. Kids start watching online porn as young as 6, flirt with cyberspace strangers by 8: survey
12. Infanticide and the Rational Soul, Part I: Michael Tooley and the Denial of Personhood
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ITEM #1: G.K. Chesterton: It's Not Gay, and It's Not Marriage
Chesterton was so consistently right in his pronouncements and prophecies because he understood that anything that attacked the family was bad for society. That is why he spoke out against eugenics and contraception, against divorce and "free love" (another term he disliked because of its dishonesty), but also against wage slavery and compulsory state-sponsored education and mothers hiring other people to do what mothers were designed to do themselves. It is safe to say that Chesterton stood up against every trend and fad that plagues us today because every one of those trends and fads undermines the family.
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ITEM #2: Fetuses found to have memories
The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.
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ITEM #3: Harvard Debate Stresses Meaning and Purpose of Marriage
Governments typically do not regulate intimate relationships such as friendships, he noted. Marriage is an exception, he said, because it is an institution that offers key services to society, namely the provision, care and education of a new generation of citizens. It is because of "the social need to promote those stabilizing norms" that governments oversee marriage, he explained.
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ITEM #4: Four Surreal Scenes
How is it that someone cannot see that abortion is wrong - wickedly wrong, horribly wrong, gruesomely wrong? How can there be anyone who does not know that a woman pregnant is a woman "with child," and that abortion, by "terminating the pregnancy," has destroyed a human life, an innocent baby human?
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ITEM #5: Redefining Marriage: A Battle Hundreds of Years in the Making
It is not to be wondered that "marriage," divorced from its social obligations, its orientation towards the future, and from its direction towards the other instead of the self, has now come to be demanded for same-sex couples. This is as regrettable as it was predictable.
******************************
ITEM #6: The War on HIV
For years, the twin totems of sexual tolerance and cost effectiveness meant that the West's approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic was to hand out condoms, withhold judgment about risky behavior, and watch Africans die.
******************************
ITEM #7 Scientists Claim They Have Cloned Human Embryos for Stem Cells
Researchers in Oregon claimed they have succeeded in producing cloned human embryos and obtained their embryonic stem cells.
******************************
ITEM #8: Daughters without fathers in early childhood more prone to teenage depression: study
Girls whose fathers were absent during the first five years of life are more likely than girls whose fathers become absent later in life (5-10 years old) to develop depressive symptoms in adolescence, or than boys in both age groups (0-5 and 5-10), even after a range of factors was taken into account, according to a new study.
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ITEM #9: Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
Human cloning "treats human beings as products," O'Malley said on behalf of the bishops, "manufactured to order to suit other people's wishes. ... A technical advance in human cloning is not progress for humanity but its opposite."
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ITEM #10: Mother's Cuddles Bring Premature Baby Back To Life Two Hours After Death
Having given up on a miracle, Mrs Ogg unwrapped the baby from his blanket and held him against her skin. And then an extraordinary thing happened.
******************************
ITEM #11: Kids start watching online porn as young as 6, flirt with cyberspace strangers by 8: survey
A recent study of 19,000 parents by online security company Bitdefender has found that children as young as six are watching online pornography, and by eight, they're flirting in real-time with strangers on the internet.
******************************
The GM argument for killing infants, as shocking as it sounds, is nothing more than a variation of a weak and weary but common philosophical argument going back to the 1980s denying that fetuses and newborns are "persons."
Infanticide and the Rational Soul, Part II: Michael Tooley and the Denial of Personhood
I proceeded to introduce an argument of Michael Tooley's against fetal and infant personhood found in the May 2013 issue. Tooley argues that since the concept of an immaterial soul is unsound, any argument against killing fetuses and infants that depends on the existence of such a soul is also unsound.
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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.
To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations to:
** Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI
** LifeIssues.net, Editor
** Akebono-cho 1-15-9
** Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
(or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824)
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Contact EDITOR:
Jerry Novotny, OMI
Akebono-cho 1-15-9
Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
[tel/fax: 088-843-0406]
[email: jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp]
["Due to volume of spam received, we're asking you not to reply to this message but instead send all correspondence to jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp. Thank you! Editor"]
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Websites by Editor:
English LifeIssues Site: http://www.lifeissues.net,
Japanese LifeIssues Site: http://www.japan-lifeissues.ne
HIV/AIDS Site: http://capcha.org
OMI Japan/Korea Site: http://omijapankorea.net/
Broken Link: Last week, the link to ITEM #8 was broken for the article: "Why not buy and sell embryos, ask scholars in NEJM". The correct link is: http://lifeissues.net/writers/
American Life League has released a major new video report entitled "Planned Parenthood's Corporate Carnage". The report demonstrates that abortionist Kermit Gosnell is not an isolated incident. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion chain in America. Its latest annual report reveals that it committed over 332,000 abortions last year and received half of its $1 billion dollar budget from government subsidies at taxpayer expense. Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/
Also there is an online poll asking: Should Michigan allow physician assisted suicide? You will find the question at the bottom of the article. Please vote:
http://www.
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "In
a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the
function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and
enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our
midst." - C.S. Lewis.
*---*(Due to volume of spam received, do not reply to this message but instead send all emails to jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp. Thank you!)
******************************May 26, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. G.K. Chesterton: It's Not Gay, and It's Not Marriage
2. Fetuses found to have memories
3. Harvard Debate Stresses Meaning and Purpose of Marriage
4. Four Surreal Scenes
5. Redefining Marriage: A Battle Hundreds of Years in the Making
6. The War on HIV
7. Scientists Claim They Have Cloned Human Embryos for Stem Cells
8. Daughters without fathers in early childhood more prone to teenage depression: study
9. Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
10. Mother's Cuddles Bring Premature Baby Back To Life Two Hours After Death
11. Kids start watching online porn as young as 6, flirt with cyberspace strangers by 8: survey
12. Infanticide and the Rational Soul, Part I: Michael Tooley and the Denial of Personhood
******************************
******************************
ITEM #1: G.K. Chesterton: It's Not Gay, and It's Not Marriage
Chesterton was so consistently right in his pronouncements and prophecies because he understood that anything that attacked the family was bad for society. That is why he spoke out against eugenics and contraception, against divorce and "free love" (another term he disliked because of its dishonesty), but also against wage slavery and compulsory state-sponsored education and mothers hiring other people to do what mothers were designed to do themselves. It is safe to say that Chesterton stood up against every trend and fad that plagues us today because every one of those trends and fads undermines the family.
******************************
ITEM #2: Fetuses found to have memories
The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.
******************************
ITEM #3: Harvard Debate Stresses Meaning and Purpose of Marriage
Governments typically do not regulate intimate relationships such as friendships, he noted. Marriage is an exception, he said, because it is an institution that offers key services to society, namely the provision, care and education of a new generation of citizens. It is because of "the social need to promote those stabilizing norms" that governments oversee marriage, he explained.
******************************
ITEM #4: Four Surreal Scenes
How is it that someone cannot see that abortion is wrong - wickedly wrong, horribly wrong, gruesomely wrong? How can there be anyone who does not know that a woman pregnant is a woman "with child," and that abortion, by "terminating the pregnancy," has destroyed a human life, an innocent baby human?
******************************
ITEM #5: Redefining Marriage: A Battle Hundreds of Years in the Making
It is not to be wondered that "marriage," divorced from its social obligations, its orientation towards the future, and from its direction towards the other instead of the self, has now come to be demanded for same-sex couples. This is as regrettable as it was predictable.
******************************
ITEM #6: The War on HIV
For years, the twin totems of sexual tolerance and cost effectiveness meant that the West's approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic was to hand out condoms, withhold judgment about risky behavior, and watch Africans die.
******************************
ITEM #7 Scientists Claim They Have Cloned Human Embryos for Stem Cells
Researchers in Oregon claimed they have succeeded in producing cloned human embryos and obtained their embryonic stem cells.
******************************
ITEM #8: Daughters without fathers in early childhood more prone to teenage depression: study
Girls whose fathers were absent during the first five years of life are more likely than girls whose fathers become absent later in life (5-10 years old) to develop depressive symptoms in adolescence, or than boys in both age groups (0-5 and 5-10), even after a range of factors was taken into account, according to a new study.
******************************
ITEM #9: Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections
Human cloning "treats human beings as products," O'Malley said on behalf of the bishops, "manufactured to order to suit other people's wishes. ... A technical advance in human cloning is not progress for humanity but its opposite."
******************************
ITEM #10: Mother's Cuddles Bring Premature Baby Back To Life Two Hours After Death
Having given up on a miracle, Mrs Ogg unwrapped the baby from his blanket and held him against her skin. And then an extraordinary thing happened.
******************************
ITEM #11: Kids start watching online porn as young as 6, flirt with cyberspace strangers by 8: survey
A recent study of 19,000 parents by online security company Bitdefender has found that children as young as six are watching online pornography, and by eight, they're flirting in real-time with strangers on the internet.
******************************
The GM argument for killing infants, as shocking as it sounds, is nothing more than a variation of a weak and weary but common philosophical argument going back to the 1980s denying that fetuses and newborns are "persons."
Infanticide and the Rational Soul, Part II: Michael Tooley and the Denial of Personhood
I proceeded to introduce an argument of Michael Tooley's against fetal and infant personhood found in the May 2013 issue. Tooley argues that since the concept of an immaterial soul is unsound, any argument against killing fetuses and infants that depends on the existence of such a soul is also unsound.
*****************************
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.
To become a supportive Missionary participant for this Asian project, kindly send your donations to:
** Fr. Jerry Novotny, OMI
** LifeIssues.net, Editor
** Akebono-cho 1-15-9
** Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
(or transfer donation directly to ProLife bank account: Jerome Novotny, Shikoku Bank, Asakura Branch, No. 102-1-0080824)
------------------------------
Get a weekly dose of clear thinking: subscribe to our free Lifeissues newsletter! Sign up at www.LifeIssues.net. Pass this free service to your friends and various groups.
------------------------------
Contact EDITOR:
Jerry Novotny, OMI
Akebono-cho 1-15-9
Kochi City, Japan, 780-8072
[tel/fax: 088-843-0406]
[email: jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp]
["Due to volume of spam received, we're asking you not to reply to this message but instead send all correspondence to jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp. Thank you! Editor"]
------------------------------
Websites by Editor:
English LifeIssues Site: http://www.lifeissues.net,
Japanese LifeIssues Site: http://www.japan-lifeissues.ne
HIV/AIDS Site: http://capcha.org
OMI Japan/Korea Site: http://omijapankorea.net/
