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Monday, November 29, 2010
ALL Pro-Life Today: Economics of Life-Taking ... When Isn't It Murder?
The value of a human person does not cease when that person becomes sick or unable to care for himself. Yet there are many who feel that people who suffer or who are in extreme pain must want to die-or should be helped to die. They feel this is often done to preserve the person's dignity. But there is no dignity in murder. There is no dignity in having the life God gave you snuffed out early. Today's commentary examines the horrors of euthanasia and one man's extraordinary will to live despite his suffering.
Operation Rescue: Pediatricians Upset With Haskell’s New Abortion Location
There is no record that Haskell’s Sharonville mill is licensed by the State as required by law
Sharonville, Ohio – One group of Ohio pediatricians are very upset with their new neighbor. Late-term abortionist Martin Haskell has closed his Cincinnati, Ohio, abortion clinic and reopened in the community of Sharonville, about twelve miles to the north – right next to Liberty Sharonville Pediatrics. In fact, parents will now have to enter a common driveway and pass by Haskell’s surgical abortion mill in order to get the Pediatrician’s office.
Dr. Steve Brinn, M.D., was so upset that he wrote a letter to the editor that appeared in the Cincinnati Inquirer on Saturday, November 27, 2010, expressing his opposition to the abortion business.
“Imagine our shock and disbelief, when we learned that an abortion clinic was opening in the building 50-feet from our front door. Why would a clinic performing abortions be so insensitive to a group practice treating children for 31 years?” wrote Dr. Brinn.
He continued, “To have a group of OB/GYN doctors terminating fetuses just outside our door, to force our mothers and their babies drive through a common driveway, driving by the front of an abortion clinic, in order to park in our lot to have their babies cared for is an atrocity. We are here to prevent infant diseases, and they are here to end infant lives. We may not have the legal right to get them to move but we will do anything in our power to vocalize our personal disgust with their mission.”
Haskell is perhaps best known for his claim, however false, that he invented the gruesome and now illegal Partial Birth Abortion procedure. Today, a modified version of that procedure that exploits a loophole in the PBA ban is in wide use by Haskell and other late-term abortionists.
Haskell closed his long-time Cincinnati location near the University of Ohio to open up in the industrial community of Sharonville. Ironically, it was Haskell’s Dayton location that ran afoul of the law, refusing to comply with a state law that required abortion clinics to be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers and have a transfer agreement with a local hospital. Haskell’s Dayton mill has no such transfer agreement, and after years of legal wrangling, the State capitulated, granting Haskell a “variance” that allows him to operate without meeting the legal requirements that other clinics must meet.
Haskell’s newest location in Sharonville is not listed as a licensed ambulatory surgical center on the Ohio Department of Health website, even though a receptionist told one of Operation Rescue’s undercover investigators that the Sharonville clinic is a surgical center.
Public opposition to Haskell’s late-term mill is far from an isolated incident. Last week, public opposition led Council Bluffs, Iowa, to ban the selling of city-owned property to abortion businesses after abortionist Leroy Carhart threatened to open a late-term abortion mill there. Pro-lifers also successfully blocked Carhart from opening an abortion clinic in Kansas.
“It is shameful that Ohio has placed the profit interests of abortionists ahead of the health and safety of women. We applaud Dr. Brinn’s brave stand in defense of children and encourage him to pursue all legal avenues to run Haskell’s abortion business out of town,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “With prayer and public support, we know these efforts can be successful.”
Learn More: Read Operation Rescue’s 3-Part Exposé on Haskell
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BENEDICT XVI: "THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION OF THE LORD AND THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE ARE INTIMATELY CONNECTED" Pregnant Virgin. In Pinacoteca, Vatican Museum
During his Homily for the Vigil of Nascent Life on November 27, Pope Benedict speaks of the connection between the unborn and Christ's time in the womb: "The beginning of the liturgical year helps us to relive the expectation of God made flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary, God who makes himself small, He becomes a child, it speaks to us of the coming of a God who is near, who wanted to experience the life of man, from the very beginning, to save it completely, fully. And so the mystery of the Incarnation of the Lord and the beginning of human life are intimately connected and in harmony with each other within the one saving plan of God, the Lord of life of each and every one of us. The Incarnation reveals to us, with intense light and in an amazing way, that every human life has an incomparable, a most elevated dignity." Later in the Homily he states: "With regard to the embryo in the womb, science itself highlights its autonomy capable of interaction with the mother, the coordination of biological processes, the continuity of development, the growing complexity of the organism. This is not an accumulation of biological material, but a new living being, dynamic and wonderfully ordered, a new unique human being. So was Jesus in Mary's womb, so it was for all of us in our mother's womb. With the ancient Christian writer Tertullian we can say: " he who will be a man is already one" (Apologeticum IX, 8), there is no reason not to consider him a person from conception." He closes the Homily by entrusting the unborn to Our Lady who bore Jesus, our Savior in her womb: "To the Virgin Mary, who welcomed the Son of God made man with faith, with her maternal womb, with loving care, with nurturing support and vibrant with love, we entrust our commitment and prayer in favour of unborn life ." To read the entire homily click here
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Coalition for the Homeless: Orlando-area family is the face of homelessness in America
Melissa Ruman admits that the incident was kind of funny.
A panhandler had stopped her in front of the Orlando Public Library and asked her for money.
To a passer-by, the scene probably was unremarkable: a disheveled street-dweller asking an attractive, well-dressed 32-year-old woman for help.
Except for one thing: They were both homeless.
Read this story here: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/holiday/os-holiday-fund-homeless...
Saturday, November 27, 2010
At vespers service, Pope urges respect for embryos
via usatoday.com
Pope Benedict XVI called Saturday for politicians, the media and world leaders to show more respect for human life at its earliest stages, saying embryos aren't just biological material but dynamic, autonomous individuals.
Continue reading here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-11-27-pope-human-life_N.htm?csp=34...:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)
Friday, November 26, 2010
LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 11/26/10
LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Friday, November 26, 2010
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• United States Sees 53 Million Abortions Since Roe in 1973
• Survey: 300 Doctors Do Late Abortions, 140 When Baby Feels Pain
• Women Should Know Abortion Linked to Premature Birth
• Canadian Woman in Forced Abortion Ordeal, Parliament Votes on Bill Soon
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• New Jersey Planned Parenthood Biz Closes Another Center
• Abortion Backers Science Resides in the Dark Ages
• Abortion Vote Couple Should Join Christians Seeing Value in The Unborn
• United Nations Partners With NGOs to Push Abortion in Africa
• Pro-Abortion CEDAW Treaty Lacks Support in Senate Hearing
• Pro-Life Advocates Bury Babies Found in Maryland Abortion Center Raid
• British Pro-Life Group Upset by White Paper on Sex Education
• European Court to Decide if German Woman Has Assisted Suicide Right
• Portland Planned Parenthood Finishes Tax-Funded Effort to Build Abortion Center
• Alaska Planned Parenthood Lawsuit Ignores Will of the People
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United States Sees 53 Million Abortions Since Roe in 1973
In January, the National Right to Life Committee provided a new analysis of the total number of abortions done in the 37 years since the Roe v. Wade decision.
The Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling allowing virtually unlimited abortions at any time throughout pregnancy in January 1973. The NRLC analysis found that 52 million unborn children had been killed in abortions as of January.
The analysis also found that the best estimate for the current number of annual abortions in the United States involving both the surgical abortion procedure as well as the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 is 1.2 million.
As a result, the United States likely passed the 53 million abortion mark on November 1 the day before Americans went to the polls to vote in a pro-life House majority and target President Barack Obama s pro-abortion allies for defeat.
Obama has done everything in his power to advance abortion and continue that pro-abortion legacy of the Supreme Court, including naming two more pro-abortion jurists in Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. He has also expanded that 53 million abortions by authorizing abortion funding in various instances and decreasing funds for abstinence education. Full story at LifeNews.com
Survey: 300 Doctors Do Late Abortions, 140 When Baby Feels Pain
The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research organization previously affiliated with Planned Parenthood, released a study in 2008 titled Abortion in the United States: Incidence and Access to Services, 2005.
The study found there were at least 1,787 abortion doctors in the United States but it revealed stark numbers when it comes to those who do abortions later in pregnancy.
Of the 1,787, the study found that [t]wenty percent of providers offered abortions after 20 weeks [LMP], and only 8% at 24 weeks [LMP].
Though the numbers seem small, that translates to at least 300 doctors who who will perform abortions after 20 weeks LMP like LeRoy Carhart and, of those, 140 willing to perform abortions at 24 weeks LMP.
Mary Balch, an attorney who handle state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee, says the numbers are important because mainstream media outlets have attempted to make it appear there are very few practitioners willing to do late or late-term abortions. Full story at LifeNews.com
Women Should Know Abortion Linked to Premature Birth
Yet most people including women at risk of abortion and their loved ones are unaware that abortion has been linked to an increased risk of preterm birth among subsequently born babies.
In a paper published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2009, a Canadian research team examined data from 37 studies and found that having a prior abortion increased the risk of subsequent preterm birth by 35 percent, while having more than one prior abortion increased the risk by 93 percent.1 (Preterm birth is defined as a birth that takes place before 37 weeks gestation.)
In other words, children whose mothers had a previous abortion were more likely to be born prematurely, putting them at greater risk for problems such as low-birth weight (which has been linked to physical and developmental problems), epilepsy, autism, mental retardation2 and cerebral palsy. A research team looking at data from 2002 estimated that prior abortions led to 1,096 cases of cerebral palsy among babies born prematurely that year.3 Full story at LifeNews.com
Canadian Woman in Forced Abortion Ordeal, Parliament Votes on Bill Soon
The court hearing comes just weeks before members of the Canadian Parliament are slated to hold the second hour of debate on a bill addressing coerced abortions.
Melinda Morin told the court she had no choice but to resort to deadly violence when she was forced to defend herself from Barry Neil Godwin when he became enraged by her decision to refuse an abortion.
I was telling him I didn t want to go through with the abortion, Morin said, according to the Edmonton Sun, adding that she told her boyfriend she planned to raise the child herself. He didn t want a kid out there that was his. He was upset, he wanted me to have an abortion. There was no way around it.
Morin says she tried to leave her apartment but Godwin wouldn t let her. Full story at LifeNews.com
New Jersey Planned Parenthood Biz Closes Another Center
The announcement was lost in the news that the state Assembly passed a bill on Monday in an attempt to restore the funds, though Christie is expected to veto that bill as well.
Also on Monday, Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey announced that it would be closing its Dover, New Jersey center. Although the facility did not do abortions it makes abortion referrals like all Planned Parenthood centers do to its abortion clinics.
We sincerely regret the impact that this decision will have on the Dover community and individuals in this service area, said Triste Brooks, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey, according to NJ.com. Our Dover Health Center has been providing much-needed reproductive health care services to this community for over forty years. Full story at LifeNews.com
Abortion Backers Science Resides in the Dark Ages
by Luis Zaffirini
Consider how far modern medicine is removed from the practice of medicine in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided. Unfortunately, pro-abortionists are stuck in the past. Way in the past.
I recently read a pro-abortion blog, arguing against an upcoming speaking engagement with a local pro-life college group.
The writer said, given that the idea that a zygote is a human being only dates to two hundred years ago with the Catholic Church, it is hard to imagine what they mean by human rights beginning when human life begins. What should we say? Full story at LifeNews.com
Abortion Vote Couple Should Join Christians Seeing Value in The Unborn
Before the couple finally revealed the site was a hoax, comments on the site indicate that many took it very seriously. Its casual approach to such a life and death decision was shocking but believable to many. Over one million visitors voted and the controversial web site became an international story.
Stories like these detailing our culture s twisted views of unborn human life continue to become more and more disturbing. Yet despite a steady and often demoralizing stream of reports chronicling the downward spiral of our culture s regard for human life, unborn children always seem to find a way to voice their humanity from the womb.
Pete and Alisha s baby is so active they have named him or her Wiggles, and the baby seems to be trying everything to make the world take notice. In recently posted 17-week ultrasound photos, Wiggles appears to be waving and giving a thumbs-up sign. Full story at LifeNews.com
United Nations Partners With NGOs to Push Abortion in Africa
Conference participants insisted that access to safe and legal abortion is central to reducing maternal mortality, and attacked organized religion and restrictive laws as being obstacles to preventing maternal deaths.
Aissatou Gaye of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) delivered the keynote address. Gaye stressed that restrictive policies and laws were major contributors to unsafe abortion, since most unsafe abortions occur where abortion is illegal.
Gaye lamented the fact that many African countries still have restrictive abortion laws: Despite the fact that the Beijing Platform for Action called on countries as long ago as 1995 to review laws that discriminate against women which restrictive abortion laws clearly do, since men cannot get pregnant very little change has happened in this arena. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Pro-Abortion CEDAW Treaty Lacks Support in Senate Hearing
Senator Dick Durbin was the only senator present, save for a brief cameo by one other, which led one observer to remark that the hearing was nothing more than a dog and pony show.
Despite longstanding and widespread opposition in the U.S. to the thirty year-old treaty, the hearing was decidedly one-sided, as five of the six speakers spoke in favor of ratification.
The hearing was held to promote the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The CEDAW treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter but has never been ratified by the U.S., and has not even been voted on by the full Senate, which would require a two-thirds majority for ratification. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Advocates Bury Babies Found in Maryland Abortion Center Raid
In response to an abortion facility raid which yielded thirty-five bodies of abortion children, pro-lifers in Cecil County seek to bring dignity to their short lives. The unborn children were buried in a funeral ceremony at the Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Cherry Hill, Cecil County.
Reverend Joe Piekarski of Immaculate Conception Parish worked with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to have the bodies released to the church for a proper burial. Each unborn child was individually named by the church. Full story at LifeNews.com.
British Pro-Life Group Upset by White Paper on Sex Education
The British government released a White Paper on Schools yesterday that is troubling the pro-life group SPUC.
The organization says the government s approach to sex and relationships education included in the White Paper is deeply concerning.
The Schools White Paper refers to high-quality sex and relationships education, apparently ignoring the corrupting and depraved kind of lessons to which very many children are now subjected, Paul Tully, the general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said. Full story at LifeNews.com.
Portland Planned Parenthood Finishes Tax-Funded Effort to Build Abortion Center
The $12.5 million fundraising campaign that was responsible for building the new Planned Parenthood abortion facility in a historically African-American neighborhood in Portland has come to a close. Full story at LifeNews.com.
Alaska Planned Parenthood Lawsuit Ignores Will of the People
Like a pesky fly that keeps buzzing around and won t go away, Planned Parenthood has once again proven that it cares less about the will of the Alaskan public. Full story at LifeNews.com.
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Mark Mallett: The Pope, a Condom, and the Purification of the Church
via markmallett.com
TRULY, if one does not understand the days we live in, the recent firestorm over the Pope’s condom remarks could leave the faith of many shaken. But I believe it’s part of God’s plan today, part of His divine action in the purification of His Church and eventually the whole world:
For it is time for the judgment to begin with the household of God… (1 Peter 4:17)
Continue reading here: http://www.markmallett.com/blog/2010/11/the-pope-a-condom-and-the-purificatio...
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