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Dear Friends for Life,
While the mainstream media was absorbed with the shutdown, serious pro-lifers were discussing two reports:
1. Bob Unruh, of World Net Daily, discusses the explosive new report from Stop Planned Parenthood International which proves that, as Planned Parenthood leaves, teen pregnancy rates drop: http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/
CBS affiliate News Channel 10 in Texas explores the facts contained in Stop Planned Parenthood International's report: http://www.newschannel10.com/
2. Stephanie Block discusses American Life League's report on CRS: http://bellarmineforum.org/
Judie Brown and other pro-life leaders sign a declaration that they will not comply with any measure of Obamacare that requires them "to pay for abortion" or forces them "to willfully participate in the killing of innocent children": http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) - When the Church does not come out of itself to evangelize it becomes self-referential and then gets sick." - Pope Francis.
November 3, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Six quotes that reveal the truth about abortion
2. Parenthood gets better and better
3. Thousands Of Citizens In India Killed By Reckless Big Pharma Drug Trials
4. Japan Withdraws Support Of Controversial HPV Vaccine Over Safety Concerns
5. Selfish Convenience: Why People Abort Children With Down Syndrome
6. How to Treat Babies with Fatal Abnormalities?
7. Straight talk from Dr. Ben Carson on the war against babies
8. Planned Parenthood at 97 Years: 6,300,000 Babies Aborted, Billions in Profit
9. Who Has the Right to Live?
10. Marriage in the Church - What is Marriage?: Part V, VI. VII
11. Tasmanian euthanasia bill defeated, 13-11
12. An atheist identifies 'the central problem with the gay marriage agenda'
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(Abortion): "How the Pill Kills (video)" - "There is a mandate within Obamacare that insurance companies MUST provide free contraceptives to women as part of the required coverage. We think, then, that it is timely for us to call to your attention a video from one of our conferences. Dr. Angela Lanfranchi is a breast surgeon and clinical assistant professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr Lanfranchi heads up the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. She gives a riveting presentation of the scientific proof of how the birth control pill (hormonal contraception) kills."
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ITEM #1: Six quotes that reveal the truth about abortion
According to a poll done in 2011, 59% of Americans believe that abortion is wrong. A similar poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus in 2010 gave the number at 56%. So over half of all Americans believe that abortion is morally wrong.
******************************
ITEM #2: Parenthood gets better and better
My wife recently gave birth, and the experience of having three children is not breezy-easy, writes Ed West, as he reflects on a new book about the benefits of larger families.
******************************
ITEM #3: Thousands Of Citizens In India Killed By Reckless Big Pharma Drug Trials
The second largest country in the world, India, has become a hotbed of pharmaceutical fraud, as unscrupulous drug companies, mostly from the West, continue to use India's generally poorer populations as human guinea pigs in unethical and flat-out inhumane clinical trials. And India's Supreme Court is finally taking action against this massive organized crime ring by ordering India's health ministry to justify its approval of 162 global clinical trials to take place in the country.
******************************
ITEM #4: Japan Withdraws Support Of Controversial HPV Vaccine Over Safety Concerns
While jurisdictions throughout the Western world continue to promote the HPV vaccine, the Japanese government has pulled its support of the controversial drug and sent formal notifications to local health officials saying that it should not be administered until safety concerns are investigated.
******************************
ITEM #5: Selfish Convenience: Why People Abort Children With Down Syndrome
Abortion advocates often use birth defects as an excuse to justify late-term abortions. Down syndrome is one of the most common birth defects, and among women who receive a prenatal diagnosis, 9 out of 10 choose abortion - solely because their babies have an extra chromosome.
******************************
ITEM #6: How to Treat Babies with Fatal Abnormalities?
In the wake of two recent cases in Northern Ireland of women seeking abortions for children carrying a particular fatal foetal abnormality, Peter Saunders, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, has written a thought-provoking piece on the subject. He puts forward twenty reasons to reconsider advocating abortion for babies with anencephaly, inlcuding the discriminatory nature of permitting abortion for this condition, whilst not for other disabilities; the need to treat babies born with fatal abnormalities as dependent relatives, who should receive palliative care; and the harm to the mother of aborting a wanted cbabyhild at a late-stage, without the chance to say goodbye to their child. Saunders highlights the need consider again our attitudes towards disability- to return to a deeper understanding of inherent human dignity.
******************************
ITEM #7 Straight talk from Dr. Ben Carson on the war against babies
Let me tell you something: there's no war on women. You think about it, when a woman is pregnant, what happens? People get up, they give her their seat, they get out of the way, they say, "you can go first." There is great respect and love for pregnant women. There isn't a war on them. The war is on their babies! That's where the war is. Babies that cannot defend themselves.
******************************
ITEM #8: Planned Parenthood at 97 Years: 6,300,000 Babies Aborted, Billions in Profit
This week Planned Parenthood wished itself a Happy 97th Birthday. Its Facebook page and Twitter feed featured the image of a single candle, atop a frosted and sprinkled cupcake, with the following words: "97 years ago the first Planned Parenthood clinic opened in Brooklyn,New York. Today, we celebrate the 3 million patients that come to us every year for high-quality, affordable health care." The American Life League took the meme head-on, with a counter-candle and a counterfactual of its own: "Planned Parenthood is celebrating its 97th birthday. But the 6,300,000 babies aborted in its facilities won't even have one."
******************************
ITEM #9: Who Has the Right to Live?
Man is a rationalizing animal. There comes a point, however, when rationalizations become so threadbare that they cease to be serviceable.
******************************
ITEM #10: Marriage in the Church - What is Marriage?: Part V
Christ's words on marriage shock his contemporaries, they are uncompromising as we have seen, they steer humanity back to the course that was intended from the beginning. Not only does Christ clarify the unity and indissolubility of marriage, purifying the natural institution of all of the accompanying dross of centuries, but He literally recreates it. He elevates it to the state of a sacrament of the New Law, a grace-bearing and communicating sign.
Part I: What is Marriage?
Part II: Unitive and Procreative
Part III: Divorce: Challenges to Marriage
Part IV: Challenges to Marriage
Part V: Marriage in the Church - What is Marriage?
Part VI: An Image of Christ and His Church
Part VII: Married Life: A Path to Heaven
******************************
ITEM #11: Tasmanian euthanasia bill defeated, 13-11
As reported earlier, following 10 hours of grueling and emotionally-charged debate, the latest euthanasia & assisted suicide bill in Tasmania was defeated 13 votes to 11 in the State's Lower House on the evening of Thursday the 17th of October.
******************************
ITEM #12: An atheist identifies 'the central problem with the gay marriage agenda'
The central problem with the gay marriage agenda is not that at some point in the future an unwilling man of the cloth might be strong armed into giving his blessing to a gay union, but rather that it allows the state to do something that was traditionally considered beyond its purview: to redefine the meaning of marriage and, by extension, the meaning of the marital home, the family, and our most intimate relationships.
*****************************
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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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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English LifeIssues Site: http://www.lifeissues.net,
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HIV/AIDS Site: http://capcha.org
OMI Japan/Korea Site: http://omijapankorea.net/
1. Bob Unruh, of World Net Daily, discusses the explosive new report from Stop Planned Parenthood International which proves that, as Planned Parenthood leaves, teen pregnancy rates drop: http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/
CBS affiliate News Channel 10 in Texas explores the facts contained in Stop Planned Parenthood International's report: http://www.newschannel10.com/
2. Stephanie Block discusses American Life League's report on CRS: http://bellarmineforum.org/
Judie Brown and other pro-life leaders sign a declaration that they will not comply with any measure of Obamacare that requires them "to pay for abortion" or forces them "to willfully participate in the killing of innocent children": http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) - When the Church does not come out of itself to evangelize it becomes self-referential and then gets sick." - Pope Francis.
*---*(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!)
******************************November 3, 2013 ******************************
(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Six quotes that reveal the truth about abortion
2. Parenthood gets better and better
3. Thousands Of Citizens In India Killed By Reckless Big Pharma Drug Trials
4. Japan Withdraws Support Of Controversial HPV Vaccine Over Safety Concerns
5. Selfish Convenience: Why People Abort Children With Down Syndrome
6. How to Treat Babies with Fatal Abnormalities?
7. Straight talk from Dr. Ben Carson on the war against babies
8. Planned Parenthood at 97 Years: 6,300,000 Babies Aborted, Billions in Profit
9. Who Has the Right to Live?
10. Marriage in the Church - What is Marriage?: Part V, VI. VII
11. Tasmanian euthanasia bill defeated, 13-11
12. An atheist identifies 'the central problem with the gay marriage agenda'
******************************
(Abortion): "How the Pill Kills (video)" - "There is a mandate within Obamacare that insurance companies MUST provide free contraceptives to women as part of the required coverage. We think, then, that it is timely for us to call to your attention a video from one of our conferences. Dr. Angela Lanfranchi is a breast surgeon and clinical assistant professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr Lanfranchi heads up the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. She gives a riveting presentation of the scientific proof of how the birth control pill (hormonal contraception) kills."
*****************************
ITEM #1: Six quotes that reveal the truth about abortion
According to a poll done in 2011, 59% of Americans believe that abortion is wrong. A similar poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus in 2010 gave the number at 56%. So over half of all Americans believe that abortion is morally wrong.
******************************
ITEM #2: Parenthood gets better and better
My wife recently gave birth, and the experience of having three children is not breezy-easy, writes Ed West, as he reflects on a new book about the benefits of larger families.
******************************
ITEM #3: Thousands Of Citizens In India Killed By Reckless Big Pharma Drug Trials
The second largest country in the world, India, has become a hotbed of pharmaceutical fraud, as unscrupulous drug companies, mostly from the West, continue to use India's generally poorer populations as human guinea pigs in unethical and flat-out inhumane clinical trials. And India's Supreme Court is finally taking action against this massive organized crime ring by ordering India's health ministry to justify its approval of 162 global clinical trials to take place in the country.
******************************
ITEM #4: Japan Withdraws Support Of Controversial HPV Vaccine Over Safety Concerns
While jurisdictions throughout the Western world continue to promote the HPV vaccine, the Japanese government has pulled its support of the controversial drug and sent formal notifications to local health officials saying that it should not be administered until safety concerns are investigated.
******************************
ITEM #5: Selfish Convenience: Why People Abort Children With Down Syndrome
Abortion advocates often use birth defects as an excuse to justify late-term abortions. Down syndrome is one of the most common birth defects, and among women who receive a prenatal diagnosis, 9 out of 10 choose abortion - solely because their babies have an extra chromosome.
******************************
ITEM #6: How to Treat Babies with Fatal Abnormalities?
In the wake of two recent cases in Northern Ireland of women seeking abortions for children carrying a particular fatal foetal abnormality, Peter Saunders, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, has written a thought-provoking piece on the subject. He puts forward twenty reasons to reconsider advocating abortion for babies with anencephaly, inlcuding the discriminatory nature of permitting abortion for this condition, whilst not for other disabilities; the need to treat babies born with fatal abnormalities as dependent relatives, who should receive palliative care; and the harm to the mother of aborting a wanted cbabyhild at a late-stage, without the chance to say goodbye to their child. Saunders highlights the need consider again our attitudes towards disability- to return to a deeper understanding of inherent human dignity.
******************************
ITEM #7 Straight talk from Dr. Ben Carson on the war against babies
Let me tell you something: there's no war on women. You think about it, when a woman is pregnant, what happens? People get up, they give her their seat, they get out of the way, they say, "you can go first." There is great respect and love for pregnant women. There isn't a war on them. The war is on their babies! That's where the war is. Babies that cannot defend themselves.
******************************
ITEM #8: Planned Parenthood at 97 Years: 6,300,000 Babies Aborted, Billions in Profit
This week Planned Parenthood wished itself a Happy 97th Birthday. Its Facebook page and Twitter feed featured the image of a single candle, atop a frosted and sprinkled cupcake, with the following words: "97 years ago the first Planned Parenthood clinic opened in Brooklyn,New York. Today, we celebrate the 3 million patients that come to us every year for high-quality, affordable health care." The American Life League took the meme head-on, with a counter-candle and a counterfactual of its own: "Planned Parenthood is celebrating its 97th birthday. But the 6,300,000 babies aborted in its facilities won't even have one."
******************************
ITEM #9: Who Has the Right to Live?
Man is a rationalizing animal. There comes a point, however, when rationalizations become so threadbare that they cease to be serviceable.
******************************
ITEM #10: Marriage in the Church - What is Marriage?: Part V
Christ's words on marriage shock his contemporaries, they are uncompromising as we have seen, they steer humanity back to the course that was intended from the beginning. Not only does Christ clarify the unity and indissolubility of marriage, purifying the natural institution of all of the accompanying dross of centuries, but He literally recreates it. He elevates it to the state of a sacrament of the New Law, a grace-bearing and communicating sign.
Part I: What is Marriage?
Part II: Unitive and Procreative
Part III: Divorce: Challenges to Marriage
Part IV: Challenges to Marriage
Part V: Marriage in the Church - What is Marriage?
Part VI: An Image of Christ and His Church
Part VII: Married Life: A Path to Heaven
******************************
ITEM #11: Tasmanian euthanasia bill defeated, 13-11
As reported earlier, following 10 hours of grueling and emotionally-charged debate, the latest euthanasia & assisted suicide bill in Tasmania was defeated 13 votes to 11 in the State's Lower House on the evening of Thursday the 17th of October.
******************************
ITEM #12: An atheist identifies 'the central problem with the gay marriage agenda'
The central problem with the gay marriage agenda is not that at some point in the future an unwilling man of the cloth might be strong armed into giving his blessing to a gay union, but rather that it allows the state to do something that was traditionally considered beyond its purview: to redefine the meaning of marriage and, by extension, the meaning of the marital home, the family, and our most intimate relationships.
*****************************
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/
