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Dear Friends for Life,
NEW RESEARCH RELEASED: Finds Teen Girls are New Target of Sexual Exploitation on TV -- New research from the Parents Television Council's "4 Every Girl Campaign" found that underage female characters on primetime broadcast television are more likely to be presented in sexually exploitative scenes than adult women, and the appearance of underage female characters in a sexually exploitative scene increased the probability that the scene would be presented as humorous.
Study results revealed that out of 238 scripted episodes which aired during the study period, 150 episodes (63%) contained sexual content in scenes that were associated with females and 33% of the episodes contained sexual content that rose to the level of sexual exploitation.
Download and read full Sexploitation Report: http://w2.parentstv.org/
Read Press Release (July 9, 2013): http://w2.parentstv.org/Main/
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "Why is abortion unacceptable at any phase in the development of an embryo?"
God-given human life is God's own property; it is sacred from the first moment of its existence and not under the control of any human being. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you" (Jer 1:5).
God alone is Lord over life and death. Not even "my" life belongs to me. Every child, from the moment of conception on, has a right to life. From his earliest beginnings an unborn human being is a separate person, and no one can infringe upon his rights, not the State, not the doctor, and not even the mother. The Church's clarity about this is not a lack of compassion; she means, rather, to point out the irreparable harm that is inflicted on the child who is killed in abortion and on his parents and on society as a whole. Protecting innocent human life is one of the noblest tasks of the State. If a State evades this responsibility, it undermines the foundations of a rule of law. - [CCC 2270-2274].
July 21, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. The Father Who is There
2. The Church and population control
3. The Sexual Revolution and its Victims - part one
4. Teaching my younger sister about sex and love
5. French, Catholic And Proud: Gay Marriage Battle Fuels New Kind Of Youth Revolution
6. On contraception and the coming violence: Interview with Pope's personal theologian
7. The Issue Of "Gay Marriage"
8. Taipei launches the alarm: increasingly young people at-risk of AIDS
9. Live-in Lovers Have Half Of All Abortions
10. People Who Say They Want Abortion "safe And Legal" Don't Seem Too Concerned About The "safe" Part
11. Same-sex parenting: child abuse?
12. 4-part Series Examines Harms of Pornography
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ITEM #1: The Father Who is There
Of course, giving a child your full attention, especially more than one, can be taxing. In a very real sense, it is a sacrifice and it will cost you. It may leave you exhausted, but it will never leave you unhappy. No material gift can replace the love of a father given with a generous heart, and you will be repaid with rewards so great that it will make your sacrifices seem insignificant.
******************************
ITEM #2: The Church and population control
Until fairly recently in human history, controlling fertility was a non-issue. This was because sexuality (and fertility, which arose from it) was seen as a force of nature, a sacred and mysterious force, not to be tampered with. It is only with the rise of science and technology that societies have sought to plan, determine and control how men and women mate, whether or not they should have offspring, and how many.
******************************
ITEM #3: The Sexual Revolution and its Victims - part one
Always the matter is couched in terms of rights, or individual desires - what I want, what I may pursue. That this sexual laissez-faire destroys the common good, by undermining families and rotting whole neighborhoods from within, seems not to matter. Honest sociologists can give us the numbers, of children growing up without fathers or mothers, of the incidence of venereal diseases, of births out of wedlock, of delinquency and crime.
******************************
ITEM #4: Teaching my younger sister about sex and love
Countering "going to do it anyway."
******************************
ITEM #5: French, Catholic And Proud: Gay Marriage Battle Fuels New Kind Of Youth Revolution
Disgusted by the "spirit of May '68" the new generation of French Catholics isn't shy about taking on what they see as the moral wasteland that has taken over the country's establishment.
******************************
ITEM #6: On contraception and the coming violence: Interview with Pope's personal theologian
"I think clearly we can see that the economic crisis which we are observing in the western world is a direct consequence of 1968, of the rejection of Humanae Vitae (the encylical that reiterated the Catholic teaching against contraception), of the rejection of the Church's teaching, and the approval of the sexual revolution, which has caused a demographic crash."
******************************
ITEM #7 The Issue Of "Gay Marriage"
"Homosexual "marriage" is a moral and philosophical impossibility, in that it violates God's law (as given in Scripture and the teaching of the Church), and contradicts or prevents one of the fundamental ends of marriage - the procreation of children.
******************************
ITEM #8: Taipei launches the alarm: increasingly young people at-risk of AIDS
The government publishes data on new HIV infections, which have tripled in 10 years. Although the absolute numbers remain low, fortunately, civil society and the Church are launching the "zero tolerance" towards risk behaviour.
******************************
ITEM #9: Live-in Lovers Have Half Of All Abortions
Half of all abortions are now carried out on unmarried women who are living with a partner, official figures revealed yesterday. The share of terminations performed on cohabitees has trebled in a decade.
******************************
ITEM #10: People Who Say They Want Abortion "safe And Legal" Don't Seem Too Concerned About The "safe" Part
Many of you are aware that last week the Texas Legislature passed historic legislation that significantly limits abortion in Texas and shows that the claim of the "Pro-Choice" abortion advocates that they mere want abortion "safe and legal." For the Texas Law places significant requirements that so-called "clinics" must meet basic medical requirements and certification. All of these requirements will significantly enhance women's safety from unsafe and shoddy medical practices all too common in abortion "clinics."
******************************
ITEM #11: Same-sex parenting: child abuse?
One of the worst parts of abuse is society's refusal to see the injustice.
******************************
Part 1: Ubiquitous assailant: The dangerous unasked questions surrounding pornography
Part 2: Second-hand porn: the spreading circle of damage
Part 3: Legal leverage: Laws to fight pornography aren't being used, anti-porn activists say
Part 4: Trauma and recovery: 2 couples claw back from porn addiction
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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/
NEW RESEARCH RELEASED: Finds Teen Girls are New Target of Sexual Exploitation on TV -- New research from the Parents Television Council's "4 Every Girl Campaign" found that underage female characters on primetime broadcast television are more likely to be presented in sexually exploitative scenes than adult women, and the appearance of underage female characters in a sexually exploitative scene increased the probability that the scene would be presented as humorous.
Study results revealed that out of 238 scripted episodes which aired during the study period, 150 episodes (63%) contained sexual content in scenes that were associated with females and 33% of the episodes contained sexual content that rose to the level of sexual exploitation.
Download and read full Sexploitation Report: http://w2.parentstv.org/
Read Press Release (July 9, 2013): http://w2.parentstv.org/Main/
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "Why is abortion unacceptable at any phase in the development of an embryo?"
God-given human life is God's own property; it is sacred from the first moment of its existence and not under the control of any human being. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you" (Jer 1:5).
God alone is Lord over life and death. Not even "my" life belongs to me. Every child, from the moment of conception on, has a right to life. From his earliest beginnings an unborn human being is a separate person, and no one can infringe upon his rights, not the State, not the doctor, and not even the mother. The Church's clarity about this is not a lack of compassion; she means, rather, to point out the irreparable harm that is inflicted on the child who is killed in abortion and on his parents and on society as a whole. Protecting innocent human life is one of the noblest tasks of the State. If a State evades this responsibility, it undermines the foundations of a rule of law. - [CCC 2270-2274].
*---*(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!)
******************************July 21, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. The Father Who is There
2. The Church and population control
3. The Sexual Revolution and its Victims - part one
4. Teaching my younger sister about sex and love
5. French, Catholic And Proud: Gay Marriage Battle Fuels New Kind Of Youth Revolution
6. On contraception and the coming violence: Interview with Pope's personal theologian
7. The Issue Of "Gay Marriage"
8. Taipei launches the alarm: increasingly young people at-risk of AIDS
9. Live-in Lovers Have Half Of All Abortions
10. People Who Say They Want Abortion "safe And Legal" Don't Seem Too Concerned About The "safe" Part
11. Same-sex parenting: child abuse?
12. 4-part Series Examines Harms of Pornography
******************************
*****************************
ITEM #1: The Father Who is There
Of course, giving a child your full attention, especially more than one, can be taxing. In a very real sense, it is a sacrifice and it will cost you. It may leave you exhausted, but it will never leave you unhappy. No material gift can replace the love of a father given with a generous heart, and you will be repaid with rewards so great that it will make your sacrifices seem insignificant.
******************************
ITEM #2: The Church and population control
Until fairly recently in human history, controlling fertility was a non-issue. This was because sexuality (and fertility, which arose from it) was seen as a force of nature, a sacred and mysterious force, not to be tampered with. It is only with the rise of science and technology that societies have sought to plan, determine and control how men and women mate, whether or not they should have offspring, and how many.
******************************
ITEM #3: The Sexual Revolution and its Victims - part one
Always the matter is couched in terms of rights, or individual desires - what I want, what I may pursue. That this sexual laissez-faire destroys the common good, by undermining families and rotting whole neighborhoods from within, seems not to matter. Honest sociologists can give us the numbers, of children growing up without fathers or mothers, of the incidence of venereal diseases, of births out of wedlock, of delinquency and crime.
******************************
ITEM #4: Teaching my younger sister about sex and love
Countering "going to do it anyway."
******************************
ITEM #5: French, Catholic And Proud: Gay Marriage Battle Fuels New Kind Of Youth Revolution
Disgusted by the "spirit of May '68" the new generation of French Catholics isn't shy about taking on what they see as the moral wasteland that has taken over the country's establishment.
******************************
ITEM #6: On contraception and the coming violence: Interview with Pope's personal theologian
"I think clearly we can see that the economic crisis which we are observing in the western world is a direct consequence of 1968, of the rejection of Humanae Vitae (the encylical that reiterated the Catholic teaching against contraception), of the rejection of the Church's teaching, and the approval of the sexual revolution, which has caused a demographic crash."
******************************
ITEM #7 The Issue Of "Gay Marriage"
"Homosexual "marriage" is a moral and philosophical impossibility, in that it violates God's law (as given in Scripture and the teaching of the Church), and contradicts or prevents one of the fundamental ends of marriage - the procreation of children.
******************************
ITEM #8: Taipei launches the alarm: increasingly young people at-risk of AIDS
The government publishes data on new HIV infections, which have tripled in 10 years. Although the absolute numbers remain low, fortunately, civil society and the Church are launching the "zero tolerance" towards risk behaviour.
******************************
ITEM #9: Live-in Lovers Have Half Of All Abortions
Half of all abortions are now carried out on unmarried women who are living with a partner, official figures revealed yesterday. The share of terminations performed on cohabitees has trebled in a decade.
******************************
ITEM #10: People Who Say They Want Abortion "safe And Legal" Don't Seem Too Concerned About The "safe" Part
Many of you are aware that last week the Texas Legislature passed historic legislation that significantly limits abortion in Texas and shows that the claim of the "Pro-Choice" abortion advocates that they mere want abortion "safe and legal." For the Texas Law places significant requirements that so-called "clinics" must meet basic medical requirements and certification. All of these requirements will significantly enhance women's safety from unsafe and shoddy medical practices all too common in abortion "clinics."
******************************
ITEM #11: Same-sex parenting: child abuse?
One of the worst parts of abuse is society's refusal to see the injustice.
******************************
Part 1: Ubiquitous assailant: The dangerous unasked questions surrounding pornography
Part 2: Second-hand porn: the spreading circle of damage
Part 3: Legal leverage: Laws to fight pornography aren't being used, anti-porn activists say
Part 4: Trauma and recovery: 2 couples claw back from porn addiction
*****************************
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/
