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"RES IPSA LOQUITUR"

GS

Fellow Patriot,

I feel like our culture has forgotten—or ignored—some very important and basic lessons when it comes to the development of human life.

Our society has been infected by an anti-life ideology, treating its most vulnerable members as disposable objects. Abortion that was once thought of as a last resort in a medical emergency has become the new normal.

Medicine tells us that life begins at the moment of conception. It also tells us when an unborn baby develops a heartbeat, brainwaves, and nervous system. Yet, despite all of this, the unborn are not treated as though they are alive or even human.

As a surgeon, I have operated on infants pre-birth. I can assure you that they are very much alive.

Life is a precious gift that has been given to us from our creator. No person is disposable, and every life is precious according to Him.

I believe that everyone deserves life, even those who have been denied this right by our society. I believe that together we can make a difference and bring dignity and a voice to the unborn. I also believe that I'm not alone in this belief.

I believe that you believe that too.

I've started working with a group of like-minded individuals who are looking to change our culture. We want to build a society that values life but that takes people like you and I making a commitment.

The first step is clearly stating what we believe and what we are willing to do to protect the lives of the unborn. Will you join me today and stand up for those who cannot do it for themselves?

I've created a new pro-life pledge; I'd love your support. Would you read the pledge below to see if you align with our shared goals and are willing to commit to fighting for the lives of the unborn?

https://offers.americancornerstone.org/pro-life-statement/

Regards,

Dr. Ben Carson
Founder & Chairman
American Cornerstone Institute

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Bishops’ Leader Confirms Catholics Must Vote Pro-Life

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YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT "ABORTION"? LET'S TALK ABOUT ABORTION.

"ABORTION". "A PREMATURE BIRTH THAT OCCURS BEFORE THE FETUS CAN SURVIVE".
When done intentionally by the mother, it is either a "killing" or "murder" of a human being.
Human life occurs at the moment of conception. Long gone are the days when "18 weeks' or 'Quickening" were the accepted criteria for "human life" - out of ignorance.

Abortions have been with us since the earliest days of the Holy Bible and its subjects.
See: "The Catholic Church and Abortion", by Fr. William Saunders, (in Arlington Herald") for an excellent summary of the subject during the last several thousand years.

The frequency of Abortions has always been a marker for the level of Immorality in a population. It is at its highest level now and since the breakdown of social order beginning in the 1960's. It has also tracked the drive for freedom and equality for women, the developing weakness of men, and the confusion introduced by "gender".

"Roe v. Wade" never declared Abortion legitimately to be Constitutional. It was from its passage and since then until recently a travesty of Law, Morality and Medicine.
It's place under the Law should reside in this Republic at the State level, despite its illigitimacy in Morality and in Medicine, as long as large segments of the population continue to support this irresponsibility. In no way is Abortion a right to "Health" or to "self-control of a woman's own body". A woman's pregnant body is no longer just "her own".

Nevertheless, even a large number of Catholic women support that tripe and the Presidential candidate who drives that position. What scandal!
See: "What's Driving Catholic Support For Harris?", by Peter Laffin (in National Catholic Register September 22 - October 5, 2024, pA1).

Both women and men should accept their equal responsibility for this issue - and for other ways of dealing with it.

Meanwhile, neither women nor men should make this issue a controlling factor in how they vote this November - in the most consequential election of the last 50 years.

GS

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Pope Francis: “Doing an Abortion is Killing a Human Being”

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AND WHY IS THE ENTIRE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY NOT SAYING THE SAME THING?

GS

Pastor Says Christians Can’t Vote for Kamala’s Abortion Agenda

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USING "WOMEN'S HEALTH" AND "REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH" TO TRY TO "JUSTIFY" ABORTION IS NOT JUST HYPOCRACY. IT IS EVIL.

GS

This isn't over ... yet

Fellow Patriot,

I feel like our culture has forgotten—or ignored—some very important and basic lessons when it comes to the development of human life.

Our society has been infected by an anti-life ideology, treating its most vulnerable members as disposable objects. Abortion that was once thought of as a last resort in a medical emergency has become the new normal.

Medicine tells us that life begins at the moment of conception. It also tells us when an unborn baby develops a heartbeat, brainwaves, and nervous system. Yet, despite all of this, the unborn are not treated as though they are alive or even human.

As a surgeon, I have operated on infants pre-birth. I can assure you that they are very much alive.

Life is a precious gift that has been given to us from our creator. No person is disposable, and every life is precious according to Him.

I believe that everyone deserves life, even those who have been denied this right by our society. I believe that together we can make a difference and bring dignity and a voice to the unborn. I also believe that I'm not alone in this belief.

I believe that you believe that too.

I've started working with a group of like-minded individuals who are looking to change our culture. We want to build a society that values life but that takes people like you and I making a commitment.

The first step is clearly stating what we believe and what we are willing to do to protect the lives of the unborn. Will you join me today and stand up for those who cannot do it for themselves?

I've created a new pro-life pledge; I'd love your support. Would you read the pledge below to see if you align with our shared goals and are willing to commit to fighting for the lives of the unborn?

https://offers.americancornerstone.org/pro-life-statement/

Regards,

Dr. Ben Carson
Founder & Chairman
American Cornerstone Institute

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"VENGEANCE IS MINE. I SHALL REPAY" SAYETH THE LORD. (Romans ll).

GS

Under Tim Walz, Babies Born Alive in Botched Abortions Were Left to Die

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When Does Life Begin? The Doctor Is In Answers this Question

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THIS IS THE MOST PRINCIPLED, LAWFUL AND COURAGEOUS STATEMENT MADE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND BY A POLITICAL PARTY.
Now all that is missing is the EXCOMMUNICATION OF JOE BIDEN.

GS

Republican Party Committee Adopts Pro-Life Platform

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April 8, 2024 Trump Statement on IVF and Abortion

Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving and
healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder.
That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America. Like
the overwhelming majority of Americans, including the vast majority of Republicans, conservatives,
Christians and pro-life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to
have a precious baby. What could be more beautiful or better than that.

Today I’m pleased that the Alabama Legislature has acted very quickly and passed legislation that
preserves the availability of IVF in Alabama. They really did a great and fast job. The Republican Party
should always be on the side of the miracle of life and the side of mothers, fathers, their beautiful babies,
and that’s what we are. IVF is an important part of that, and our great Republican Party will always be
with you in your quest for the ultimate joy in life.

Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights, especially since I was
proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and,
in fact, demanded be ended: Roe v. Wade. They wanted it ended. It must be remembered that the
Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the
ninth month. The concept of having an abortion in the later months, and even execution after birth — and
that’s exactly what it is. The baby is born, the baby is executed after birth — is unacceptable, and almost
everyone agrees with that.

My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint. The states will
determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In
this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks
or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day this
is all about the will of the people. You must follow your heart, or in many cases your religion or your
faith. Do what’s right for your family and do what’s right for yourself, do what’s for your children, do
what’s right for our country, and vote. So important to vote. At the end of the day it’s all about will of the
people. That’s where we are right now, and that’s what we want. The will of the people.

I want to thank the six justices — Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett
Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — incredible people, for having the courage to allow
this long-term, hard-fought battle to finally end. This 50 year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the
federal hands and brought it into the hearts, minds and vote of the people in each state. It was really
something. Now it’s up to the states to do the right thing.

Like Ronald Reagan, I am strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. You
must follow your heart on this issue, but remember, you must also win elections to restore our culture and
in fact to have our country, which is currently and very sadly a nation in decline. Our nation needs help. It
needs unity, it needs all of us to work closely together. Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative,
everyone. We have to work together. We have to bring our nation back from the brink, and that’s where it
is. It’s at the brink. And we will. We will do it. I promise you, we will do it.

Always go by your heart, but we must win. We have to win. We are a failing nation, but we can be a
failing nation no longer. We will make our nation great. We will make our nation greater than ever before.
Thank you very much.

My Response to Trump April 8 Statement on IVF and Abortion

On April 8, 2024, former President Donald J. Trump made an important statement on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and abortion. Although the media did not really pick up on it, the initial part of the statement (see the full text attached), was devoted exclusively to Trump’s support for IVF. While Trump’s purported goal to support strong healthy families and "to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies" is laudable, it is an axiom of ethics that the end never justifies the means. IVF can never be morally justified or permitted, insofar as it involves the destruction of innocent human beings (embryos) and because it denies the natural right of a child to be conceived in the marital embrace of its mother and father.

Trump did not cite any specific polling data, but if his assertion that the overwhelming majority of Americans supports IVF is true, I would say that the support is largely based on emotion rather than the result of a thorough examination of the complex ethical issues surrounding IVF. Simply put, IVF is not a morally acceptable means of promoting babies and families. (That being said, it is important to note that all children are made in the image and likeness of God, regardless of the circumstances of their conception.)

In his statement, Trump then launched into a “clarification” of his position on abortion. He took credit for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which he said now shifts the issue of abortion entirely to the states and “the will of the people.” He also expresssed his strong support for the exceptions of “rape, incest and life of the mother.”

I believe Trump accurately described the legal status of abortion today, which is eerily similar to that of slavery immediately prior to the Civil War. His shift in messaging was clearly an effort to distance himself from the perceived political liability of taking an anti-abortion stance. However, the current status quo of relegating an immutable human right to the “will of the people” is unsustainable. It risks tearing the country apart and can only be resolved by recognizing, judicially and/or legislatively, the inherent right to life of every human being as the supreme law of the land. (We are witnessing exciting developments that give us great hope that the recognition of constitutional personhood will come sooner rather than later.)

Trump’s statement on the “exceptions” could be an acknowledgment of political reality while opposing all abortions. Or it could be a position that children simply do not have the right to life in cases of rape, incest or life of the mother. Given Trump’s other comments on the topic, it sounds to me more like the latter. What it means is that Trump supports the intrinsic evil of abortion in at least some situations.

Despite his purported deference to states’ rights, Trump criticized the abortion law that was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court this past Tuesday as going too far. That law is similar to laws in a dozen or so other states. Trump has shown us very clearly that his policy positions on the right to life issue are driven by politics rather than principle. This is deeply disappointing given his words at the 47th Annual March for Life in 2020, "All of us here today understand an eternal truth: Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God.”

A candidate who compromises on fundamental moral values renders himself unfit for public office. In the words of Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, “Every elected official on any level of government, who takes a position in which they fail to recognize and work for the protection of the right to life dishonors the very meaning of their office. Because you can’t be a public servant, if you fail to tell the difference between serving the public and killing the public.”

Yours for life,
Gerald (Gerry) Yeung

Let's start with what I believe.

I believe that human life - and personhood - begin at conception, the union of sperm and ovum.
I believe that there should be a Federal Law of Personhood enacted declaring the above...and thus protecting the conceptus/human being under the U.S. Constitution.
I believe that Abortion is the taking of a human life and should be always illegal Except to protect the Life of the mother. Here I do not support the exclusions of Rape or Incest. Those are not the fault or negligence of either baby or mother. There are other solutions in those cases.
Here I believe that that the current reality of IVF runs counter to the above, benefited partially by the "saving" of the other fertilized ova or by donation to another recipient.

What i know is that the strong majority of voters in this country do Not believe in the above...and that they would vote down the candidacy of anyone who so declared,,,thus eliminating any chance for anyone to enter Government to try to change the status quo. I myself believe that I lost the State Senate race in 1990 largely for being clear on Abortion,

Mr. Yeung is clear in his frustration with the above state of affairs. But he should give credence to the above state of affairs in this Democracy.
President Trump has no such problem. See his next-to-final paragraph of his own statement.

If Mr. Yeung seeks more clarity and consistency, he should question the Cardinals of his and our Church. When is Joe Biden going to be Excommunicated?

GS

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"IS ANYBODY THERE? DOES ANYBODY CARE?"

GS

Musk Predicts - Civilization's Collapse

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Did he really just mock the Sign of the Cross?!?

Joe Biden is either stupid, senile, or has decided to go “all in” on his new abortion religion.

Or maybe all of the above!

Biden made the Sign of the Cross as a fellow Democrat was attacking Florida’s pro-life laws — at an abortion rally!

We aren’t stupid. We know when we are being mocked.

Biden disgraced every Christian believer in America… including his own purported Catholic faith.

Joe Biden is now fully committed to the new left-wing dogma of abortion on demand, for any reason.

Joe Biden’s abuse of our faith cannot go unanswered. That’s why we are prepping a massive ad campaign to make sure every Catholic in America understands what just happened.

Especially those Catholics that live in states that will decide the outcome of the election this November, including: Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

The Sign of the Cross for abortion?

Every Catholic deserves to know the truth.

P.S. These attacks on our Faith are not slowing down. The pressure is only going to build as we race toward Election Day. Which is why the best way to help us fight back is to become a CatholicVote Champion. It’s super simple!

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IT'S ALL HEARTBREAKING. REGARDING THE LOST CHILDREN AND REGARDING THE LOST ADULTS.

GS

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

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• Planned Parenthood Made $2 Billion Killing Babies in Abortions, It Doesn’t Need Our Tax Money
• Biden Admin Report Tries to Exonerate FBI for Targeting Pro-Life Catholics
• Kansas Gov Laura Kelly Vetoes Bill to Support Adoptive Families, But Promotes Abortions Up to Birth

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• Trump Leads Biden in Latest Presidential Polls as America Struggles
• British MP Pushes Measure to Legalize Abortions Up to Birth in UK
• Couple Chooses Life for Disabled Baby Despite Pressure to Have Abortion
• Leftist Democrats Release Radical Pro-Abortion Agenda for a 2nd Biden Term
• Scroll Down for Several More Pro-Life News Stories

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"TRUE, TRUE, AND RELATED".

GS

Trump on abortion

President Trump released a video statement on abortion today.

His statement was both praised and criticized by pro-life groups.

In his message, he did not back any federal abortion ban, and instead said abortion laws should be set by the states. Trump also affirmed his support for the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, while calling out Joe Biden and his extremism.

I have been in regular contact with senior advisors to the Trump campaign. We’ve made clear what Catholics believe in principle while acknowledging the need for prudence given the electoral landscape. We can never compromise our principles. But we can, as St. John Paul II explained, work to limit the harm of unjust laws, or lessen their negative consequences, even if we cannot achieve the entirety of our long-term goals.

The question remains: How do we win elections and save as many children as possible?

Ultimately, while regulations or bans on abortion may be necessary, we have pushed our political leaders and the pro-life movement to focus on what we support rather than just what we oppose. That means standing true on principle, but also avoiding the media’s lies about abortion “bans.”

The abortion industry has ravaged the landscape for 50 years. The sexual revolution has done enormous damage. Women are in the middle, exploited by Biden and Democrats, and told abortion is the only answer. That’s a lie.

We need to proudly champion a Culture of Life.

While the reality of federal legislation to regulate or limit abortion remains a challenge, the answer is not to surrender at the federal level. Instead, our government must act to promote the gift of life, and celebrate and do everything possible to help pregnant mothers who choose to keep their children.

If Joe Biden and the Democrats can spend billions of dollars on the abortion industry, it’s time to level the playing field and provide comparable resources to the pro-life movement. Things like support for pregnancy resource centers, maternity counseling, subsidies for alternatives to abortion, including adoption, and so much more. Every corner of government should be resourced to help promote and support women keeping their children.

And it’s not just about the terrible injustice of abortion. America needs more children. A nation that isn’t having children is a nation in decline. And we are below replacement already. Indeed, but for immigration, we would be sliding down the demographic death spiral now underway in Europe and Asia, where the population of once-thriving nations is in serious decline.

Here is the statement I released to the media in response to Trump’s statement:

The federal government cannot abandon women and children exploited by abortion. Leaving abortion policy to the states is not sufficient.

While federal legislation on abortion policy is challenging at present, we are confident that a Trump administration will be staffed with pro-life personnel committed to pro-life policies, including conscience rights, limits on taxpayer funding of abortion, and protections for pro-life states.

Furthermore, no woman should face an unexpected pregnancy alone. We believe a new whole-of-government approach encouraging and supporting pregnant women to keep their children can be advanced under a new Trump administration.

President Trump’s latest statement on abortion reflects the electoral minefield created by Democrat abortion fanaticism. The fact remains that pro-life voters need to win elections to protect mothers and children.

Further, Democrats are now preparing a billion-dollar election year barrage with radical abortion as its centerpiece. While Trump did not commit to any specific pro-life policies, he notably will not stand in the way of states that have acted to protect innocent children from the violent abortion industry.

President Trump rightfully praised the end of Roe v. Wade, and applauded the courage of those Supreme Court justices by name that courageously overturned that decision. He also exposed the shocking extremism of “Catholic” Joe Biden, who supports abortion for any reason, including painful late term abortion.

With your help, we will continue to press President Trump and all our leaders to do everything possible to defend and protect life.

Political posturing aside, the contrast between Joe Biden and the Democrats and President Trump is unmistakable.

Pro-life voters have only one option in November.

Brian

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AND WHERE ARE ALL OF OUR OTHER CARDINALS ON THIS FOUNDATIONAL MATTER?

GS

Catholic Cardinal Urges Americans to Reject Joe Biden’s “Murderous” Abortion Agenda

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OF ALL THE PROBLEMS FACING OUR AMERICAN LEADERSHP AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE QUESTION OF ABORTION REMAINS THE MOST INTRACTIBLE.

The information presented in this Study demonstrates that Americans are critically engaged in trying to solve this problem.
The vast majority are not mindless, soulless. irresponsible.
And in this effort, the Catholic Church must remain the TRUE NORTH, in its position and in its actions. No equivocation. No vacillation.

GS

Prolife Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life issued the following press release today about a new national Priests for Life/McLaughlin poll of likely voters, probing how the abortion issue impacts the 2024 elections, both in terms of candidates and ballot initiatives. Frank is currently attending the CPAC Convention taking place in National Harbor, Maryland, and is speaking with media there about he significance of this poll.

New Poll Reveals American Voters Care about “Culture of Life” and Pro-Life Values

Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election

Summary: Results from a new poll conducted by McLaughlin and Priests for Life show underlying pro-life sentiment among American voters and widespread bipartisan disapproval for current political leadership. National Director of Priests for Life Frank Pavone is calling for an open and honest debate on abortion, as results show a desire by voters to return to conservative principles in the upcoming presidential election.

Titusville, FL, February 22, 2024 – As the nation approaches a pivotal 2024 presidential election, results from a newly-conducted poll by McLaughlin & Associates, in partnership with leading pro-life organization Priests for Life, offer critical insight into American voters’ current priorities, steadfast values, and stance on key issues like abortion.

Notably, poll results reveal a majority bipartisan consensus that the country is not headed in the right direction, general disillusionment with current political leadership, and an underlying “culture of life” in American society that conflicts with widespread narratives from the pro-choice movement.

“This presidential election holds major significance as the first to take place since the overturning of Roe v. Wade,” said Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. “As our political leaders actively address the issue of abortion, we at Priests for Life felt the need to provide them with an update on where Americans stand on the issue, and how it impacts their voting decision. The results can encourage candidates not to run away from this issue.

“We also wanted to provide insight into the types of messaging that might encourage voters to reject the extreme abortion measures in some states that seek to amend their constitutions to include abortion rights,” Pavone added.

Key findings of the poll:

Culture of Life

Poll data shows that there is an underlying pro-life culture in America on a personal level:

36% of respondents feel abortion is one of the most important issues affecting their vote.
85% support financial, medical, and emotional assistance for women facing unplanned pregnancies.
81% support reducing legal and financial barriers to adoption and foster care.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of respondents say it’s good when the mother decides to keep the child and raise the baby themselves, or make an adoption plan.
By a margin of 61% to 24%, voters would support a pro-life candidate who permits some exceptions, but works to assist moms to choose life, rather than a candidate who does not support any limits on abortion.
Only a small percentage of respondents (21%) support an extremist pro-abortion position of abortion being available anywhere, at any time.
77% of voters support ensuring faith-based organizations can help provide services to pregnant women and young mothers.

Political Climate & Public Sentiment

Poll data shows a majority of Americans disapprove of current political leadership and direction of the country:

71% of voters feel the country is heading down the wrong track.
Notably, a majority of Democrat voters (52%), feel the country is heading in the wrong direction.
61% of voters disapprove of President Biden.
Similarly, 57% of voters disapprove of Vice President Harris.

Presidential Candidate Preference and Congressional Approval Ratings

Donald Trump leads incumbent Joe Biden 46% to 44%, suggesting a desire for a return to more conservative principles and values.
The generic approval ratings for Congress show a 48% to 43% lead for the GOP, indicating a general preference for a change in political leadership.

*Political Affiliation of Poll Respondents
36% Democrat
36% Republican
28% Independent/Other

More detailed information about the poll conducted by Priests for Life and McLaughlin & Associates can be requested from Media@PriestsForLife.org.

“This poll underscores how vital it is to have an honest debate about abortion in our country,” added Pavone. “It is crucial for our political leaders and presidential candidates to recognize that most Americans want less abortion, not more. These results can guide them and others to engage in meaningful conversation, while having compassion for different perspectives, and hopefully save lives.”

Frank Pavone will be in attendance at CPAC 2024, taking place in Washington, D.C., through Feb 24, 2024. For media inquiries, please contact Leslie at Media@PriestsForLife.org.

Priests for Life

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IT IS TIME FOR POPE FRANCIS TO EXCOMMUNICATE BIDEN.

GS

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• Joe Biden: If Democrats Win Control of Congress, I’ll Sign Bill for Abortions Up to Birth
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REGARDING "ASSISTED SUICIDE", HERE IS A PHYSICIAN, A FATHER AND A MORAL MAN WORTHY OF THOSE TITLES.
And his diagnosis of the problem is RIGHT ON TARGET.

GS

Pope applauds pro-life leader after key Italian vote on assisted suicide

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"VENGEANCE IS MINE. I SHALL REPAY" sayeth the LORD. (Romans ll).
Meanwhile, each of us has a role to play.

GS

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• 65,464,760 Babies Have Been Killed in Abortions Since Roe v. Wade in 1973
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• Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland Will Receive National Pro-Life Award
• Joe Biden is Radically Pro-Abortion and Must be Defeated

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• Diaper Company Puts Elon Musk’s Pro-Life Quote on a Times Square Billboard
• Joe Biden’s Number One Issue is Abortion Because Liberals Think Killing Babies Equals Freedom
• People Couldn’t be “Pro-Choice” on Slavery and They Can’t be “Pro-Choice” on Abortion
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WHAT A SHAME. WHAT A SIN.
"Vengeance is Mine. I Shall Repay, sayeth The Lord". (Romans ll).

GS

Abortion Was the Leading Cause of Death Worldwide in 2023, Killing 73 Million People

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REGARDING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ABORTION:
In my opinion, anyone convicted of such acts should be excommunicated.
And any Public Official who publicly espouses abortion should be denied Holy Communion.

ENOUGH OF ANY CHURCH EQUIVOCATION ON THIS MATTER OF HUMAN LIFE AND DEATH.

GS

Ahead of key abortion vote, Ohio archdiocese reports growing vandalism

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When God Created Man, complete with Free Will and with the guidance of the Ten Commandments, He also created Heaven and Hell...to accommodate the Choices of Man.
AND HERE WE ARE....

GS

The Groups behind Ohio's Issue 1 Favor Child Trans Surgeries, Abortion, Prostitution, and Open Borders

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WITH A MORAL AND ETHICAL VOTE ON THIS FOUNDATIONAL ISSUE, YOU WILL ALSO BE VOTING FOR AMERICA'S POLITICAL HEALTH.

GS

Virginia Bishop: Catholic Voters Must Choose Between Good and Evil

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It’s been eight years since a pro-life investigative journalist released secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood and other abortion profiteers discussing how the organs of unborn babies are harvested and sold to tissue brokers, who then resell the parts to research organizations. The only charges brought in the case were against the pro-lifer, David Daleiden, his colleague Sandra Merritt and a few other pro-lifers. As the new Supreme Court term opens in a two weeks, Daleiden’s attorneys at the Thomas More Society hope the justices will agree to review the case. ProLife Prime Time News anchors Theresa Watson and Leslie Palma this week interview Thomas More’s Peter Breen about the case.
Also on the show this week:
•    Former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards has kept a fairly low profile since stepping away from her million-dollar-a-year job in 2018. But now she’s back in the news with the launch of an artificial intelligence Chatbot that will help women find abortion providers and abortion pills.
•    A woman diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain cancer refused to abort her unborn child, as doctors recommended. That baby, Gracey, will turn one next month. Her mom, Tasha Kann, has been given less than a year to live.
•    Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a 76-year-old Republican, has decided not to seek re-election in 2024, saying he wants to make way for a new generation of leaders.
•    Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone and other members of the Pastoral Team spent a busy summer on the road. Anthony Visone will report on all their travels
•    Some political columnists think Joe Biden could vastly improve his re-election prospects if he does just one thing: Dump the wildly unpopular vice president, Kamala Harris.
ProLife PrimeTime News airs every Friday at 9 p.m. ET at EndAbortion.TV and all the social media platforms linked from there. You also can watch it right now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eibxm5m3Y4.
Sincerely,

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

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"YES, BUT..."

Here the "But" overwhelms the "Yes".
Abortion, from conception, is the intentional killing of a human being.
Except in cases of self-defense...including to save the Life of the mother...that is Murder.

Now let's talk about how to avoid and to mitigate the effects of this Disaster for all involved.
This Must include the position of the Catholic Church with regard to non-abortifacient contraception
and with regard to the "Unitive" function of all sex acts including between committed married couples.

NOW LET'S TALK.

GS

GOP Rep APPLAUDS Nikki Haley's Unique Take On Abortion

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THESE ARE NEITHER "...THE BEST OF TIMES...." NOR "...THE WORST OF TIMES...."

For GOD CREATED Man in charge of his own Destiny: Immortal, with Free Will, capable of the greatest Good and the greatest Evil, and with the ability to choose Heaven or Hell for all Eternity.

What follows is a beautiful description of One Option.

And then there is the other: "Vengeance Is Mine; I Shall Repay"...Sayeth The LORD". (ROMANS II).

GS

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THE ABOMINATION OF ABORTION HAS BEEN WITH US SINCE BIBLICAL TIMES.

Its deliberation did certainly not begin aborning a bastard...with neither Legal or Medical or Moral father
in Roe v. Wade.
Now comes an informative article that brings the discussion up to date with Dobbs and with its effect on
the 2022 mid-term elections.

See: "The Court Wrestles With Rights", by Daniel Henninger (in WSJ recently).

Like Death and Taxes, this subject will always be with us, especially given the Catholic Church's continuing
position - even relating to stable married couples - against even non-abortifacient birth control and regarding
the "Unitive Function of Sex".

GS

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ONE YEAR AFTER THE USSC "DOBBS DECISION" ERASING THE "ROE V. WADE" LEGAL AND MORAL TRAVESTY,
more and more Americans are starting to think through their position on this most personal and foundational human choice: the Sanctity of Human Life.

GS

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They Said Overturning Roe Would Kill Women. One Year After Dobbs, No Women Died as a Result

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SOME GOOD, AMID A LOT OF EVIL.

GS

SUNDAY, April 10, 2022

SLAVERY: AMERICA'S CANCER IN ITS FIRST TWO CENTURIES.

ABORTION: AMERICA'S CANCER IN ITS SECOND TWO CENTURIES.
(See: "Supreme Court's Upcoming Abortion Ruling Will Spark Questions On Legality, Access" (in ctmirror.org, April 10, 2022)

BEWARE: Historically, democracies have generally survived no more than four centuries before rotting from within.

GS

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FACT: IT WAS POPE JOHN PAUL, HIS POLISH COUNTRYMEN, PRESIDENT REAGAN'S UNWAVERING "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH",
and the cooperation of these two giants that brought down the USSR. And, of course, we all PRAYED TO GOD!.

We need that approach again now.

GS

For almost 70 years, the Soviet Union dominated much of Eurasia.

This inhuman ideology swept the world and held it hostage, leaving many hopeless.

Hopeless, that is, until Pope John Paul returned to his home country Poland—then under communist rule—, knelt, and kissed the Polish ground. That moment was arguably the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.

In an official (state-enforced) atheistic country, it was surprising to many to see over a third of Poland’s population gather to see Pope John Paul’s arrival.

The Pope rebuked the atheistic stance of the Soviet Union when he said "at any longitude or latitude of geography, the exclusion of Christ from the history of man is an act against man."

This was the start of a chain reaction, Patriot. Religion was the undoing of the Soviet Union.

Now, I’m concerned with spiritual leaders in the United States embracing new forms of socialism under Critical Theories.

That’s why I created the Acton Institute. The Acton Institute is the only organization dedicated to promoting a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.

The Acton Institute is striving to reach spiritual leaders across the country and work with them, helping them learn the true horrors of communism and socialism, as well as how important a free market is to lift people out of poverty.

Together we can prevent religion and faith from being pushed out of our daily lives and being replaced with the false deity of socialism.

Patriot, I am personally asking you to support the Acton Institute. Will you donate $5, $25, $50, or any generous amount to protect our religious freedom? Click here to donate.

The Acton Institute believes that:

“Protection of religious liberty – the first freedom – is essential to any free society. The freedom of conscience is an inalienable human right given by our Creator and protected by law.”

As religious leaders work to influence and help their communities, it is up to us to support them in their mission.

Our trainings, seminars, and journals are an intersection between free-market principles and faith.

I am asking for your help today to expand our programs and teach more pastors about the economics and morality behind free markets.

Patriot, will you join me in supporting spiritual leaders and the freedom of faith? Click any link below to support the Acton Institute today.

Together, we can save our spiritual life in America from falling into the hands of socialists.

Thank you,

Rev. Robert A. Sirico
President Emeritus
Acton Institute

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A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR IN THESE ACTIONS.
Meanwhile, pray for the USSC.

GS

Today is the Day of the Unborn Child!! See Fr. Frank Pavone's article below for more information about this special day.

One of the pro-life events in observance of the Day of the Unborn Child is the International Gift of Life Walk in New York City. Please keep the participants, including a busload of marchers from Westchester-Putnam RIght to Life, in your prayers.

Also, Mary's Crusade for Life begins today, the same day on which Pope Francis, in union with the Catholic bishops, will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. For more information, visit lifecrusade.org.

May God bless you all - and may He bless our unborn brothers and sisters everywhere!!

Yours for life,
Gerald (Gerry) Yeung

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Something to Celebrate: The Day of the Unborn Child

By Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
3/21/2022
Published in Marriage & Family

In 1995, then-Pope John Paul II published his encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation. It was not a coincidence he chose that day.

This feast marks the moment at which the Incarnation took place. At Mary's "Fiat," God began existing in a human nature - a human nature at the earliest stages of its development within Mary's body. God's incarnation began as an unborn child. Nine months to the day later we celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas.

"Mary's consent at the Annunciation and her motherhood stand at the very beginning of the mystery of life which Christ came to bestow on humanity," the pope noted in the encyclical.

It's also no coincidence that March 25 was chosen as the Day of the Unborn Child, a day we recommit ourselves to love and serve the weakest among us.

The Day of the Unborn Child has been officially established in many nations, in some cases by the Church and in other cases by the civil government. Elsewhere, the day is observed by individuals, families, and organizations.

The celebration of March 25 as the Day of the Unborn Child was first recognized in El Salvador in 1993 and has grown rapidly. In 2003, the first Provida International Congress in Madrid with representation from over 20 countries in Europe and the Americas institutionalized March 25th as International Day of Life. Since then, the day has grown in popularity. The countries recognizing it include Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Panama, Peru, Slovakia, Cuba, Austria, Philippines and Romania.

Observance of the day in the United States has been carried by pro-life groups. Priests for Life has organized a coalition of dozens of national pro-life leaders to publicize and promote the Day of the Unborn Child. In our joint statement (see www.DayOfTheUnborn.com), we suggest several ways that individuals, families and church groups can observe the day, even at this last minute, including:

- Spiritually adopt an unborn child and pray for him and his mother for nine months.

- Offer a Mass, Holy Hour or a prayer vigil for life.

- Pray outside an abortion clinic. The 40 Days for Life Campaign is a good way to get involved this way.

- Host a pro-life movie night for friends and family members.

People also can pray, individually or together, a prayer I wrote to the Unborn Child Jesus:

Redeemer in the Womb

Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you that when Mary, your Mother, said "Yes" at the Annunciation, You took our human nature upon Yourself. You shared our life and death, our childhood and adulthood.

You also shared our time in the womb. While still God, while worshiped and adored by the angels, while Almighty and filling every part of the universe, You dwelt for nine months in the womb of Mary. You were our Redeemer in the womb, our God who was a preborn child.

Lord Jesus, we ask You to bless and protect the children who today are in their mothers' womb. Save them from the danger of abortion.

Give their mothers the strength, like Mary, to say "Yes" to you. Give them grace to sacrifice themselves, in body and soul, for their children.

Help all people to recognize in the preborn child a brother, a sister, saved by You, our Redeemer in the womb, who live and reign forever and ever. Amen.

The United States has a pro-life movement to which the rest of the world looks up. Let's continue to lead the way, by celebrating with vigor the Day of the Unborn Child!

Father Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life and the national pastoral director of Rachel's Vineyard Ministries and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. The books he has authored include Abolishing Abortion and Proclaiming the Message of Life.

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A PLEA...FOR LIFE.

GS

From the Desk of Dr. Ben Carson:

Hello,
I feel like our culture has forgotten—or ignored—some very important and basic lessons when it comes to the development of human life.
Our society has been infected by an anti-life ideology, treating its most vulnerable members as disposable objects. Abortion that was once thought of as a last resort in a medical emergency has become the new normal.
Medicine tells us that life begins at the moment of conception. It also tells us when an unborn baby develops a heartbeat, brainwaves, and nervous system. Yet, despite all of this, the unborn are not treated as though they are alive or even human.
As a surgeon, I have operated on infants pre-birth. I can assure you that they are very much alive.

Dr. Ben Carson, Founder and Chairman of American Cornerstone Institute
Life is a precious gift that has been given to us from our creator. No person is disposable, and every life is precious according to Him.
I believe that everyone deserves life, even those who have been denied this right by our society. I believe that together we can make a difference and bring dignity and a voice to the unborn. I also believe that I’m not alone in this belief.
I believe that you believe that too.
I’ve started working with a group of like-minded individuals who are looking to change our culture. We want to build a society that values life but that takes people like you and I making a commitment.
The first step is clearly stating what we believe and what we are willing to do to protect the lives of the unborn. Will you join me today and stand up for those who cannot do it for themselves?
I’ve created a new pro-life pledge; I’d love your support. Would you read the pledge below to see if you align with our shared goals and are willing to commit to fighting for the lives of the unborn?

https://offers.americancornerstone.org/pro-life-statement/

Regards,
Dr. Ben Carson
Founder & Chairman
American Cornerstone Institute

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...AND PRAY AS YOU'VE NEVER PRAYED BEFORE.

Today marks a SOLEMN DAY for our nation – the grim anniversary of Roe v. Wade – when the Supreme Court manufactured a "right" to abortion.

49 years and over 60 million babies who have paid the ultimate price later, we continue to mourn. But we also redouble our efforts to defend life. Never have we been closer to overturning Roe v. Wade.

But as President Biden defends the abortion industry at the Supreme Court and uses your tax dollars to expand abortion, it is clear that the ACLJ is needed now more than ever. We are the LAST LINE OF DEFENSE in court.

We've filed 3 critical amicus briefs at the Supreme Court (our most EVER) to overturn Roe v. Wade and defend countless babies. We're involved in multiple new cases around the country to defeat the abortion industry and save babies.

THIS is the moment. Let's make this the LAST anniversary of Roe.

We can help SAVE BABIES' LIVES. But we face a daunting challenge. We urgently need your tax-deductible support.

Momentum for life is building as the Supreme Court JUST refused to block the Texas abortion ban for a SECOND TIME. But the fight is far from over.
Planned Parenthood is still literally celebrating.

The Roe v. Wade decision enabled it and other abortionists to build billion-dollar empires from taking the lives of unborn babies.
This horrific day is no cause for celebration. At the ACLJ, we are directly involved in a case at the Supreme Court that could strike down Roe v. Wade and trigger a chain reaction across the country and save countless babies.

The ACLJ has filed THREE CRITICAL BRIEFS in the Supreme Court case that could undo Roe v. Wade and spell disaster for the abortion industry.
Abortion is not healthcare, and it is not a right listed anywhere in the Constitution. And each of our briefs pointed out exactly that, among the many other legal fallacies of Roe v. Wade.

Afghanistan was just designated the most dangerous country for Christians in the world by a leading persecution watch group. President Biden's weakness and incompetence allowed the Taliban to return to power, putting innocent Christians in extreme danger.

We filed a lawsuit against FOUR Biden Agencies over their abandonment of Afghan Christians, but the Biden Administration just asked the court for more time to respond.
Christians in Afghanistan don't have more time. They need protection NOW.

From Build Back Better to an attempt to take over elections, this week saw major losses for the Biden Administration. During a press conference, President Biden cast doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming 2022 elections. And the President all but invited Russia to invade Ukraine.

God Bless,
The ACLJ Team

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• 63,459,781 Babies Have Been Killed in Abortions Since Roe v. Wade in 1973
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AND THE DRUM-BEAT GOES ON...THE PLAGUE OF THE MODERN WORLD.

"Vengeance is Mine. I shall repay, sayeth The Lord". (Romans II).

GS

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• Pro-Abortion Group Complains 2021 Was the “Worst Year for Abortion in Almost Half a Century”

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JUST SO YOU KNOW....

"VENGEANCE IS MINE. I SHALL REPAY", sayeth The Lord. (Romans 2).

GS

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Top Stories
• 2021 Was a Record Pro-Life Year: 19 States Passed 106 Laws Saving Babies From Abortion
• Catholic Bishop: Illinois Gov is “Evil” for Signing Law Allowing Secret Abortions on Teens
• Ohio Gov Mike DeWine Signs Bill to Require Life-Saving Treatment for Babies Who Survive Abortions
• Liberals Call Texas Abortion Ban an Attack on Free Speech, But Abortions Permanently Silence Unborn Babies
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• Pro-Life Leader Sue Thayer Passes Away, Former Planned Parenthood Director Exposed Its Greedy Abortion Business
• Killing Babies for Profit: Planned Parenthood CEOs’ Salaries Jumped 89% Since 2011
• Planned Parenthood Endorses 200 Members of Congress in Desperate Bid to Keep Nancy Pelosi in Control
• Feminists Launch Campaign to Shuttle Women to Mexico for Abortions, Smuggle Dangerous Abortion Pills Into America
• Scroll Down for Several More Pro-Life News Stories

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ROE V WADE: AN ABOMINATION ALMOST AS GREAT AS THE ABORTION OF A HUMAN BEING ITSELF.

I have been saying and writing this ever since that result "emanated" from the bowels of the USSC in 1973.
That has not been the only execrable emanation from our national "supreme" Court since its founding. But it is the worst and the most consequential. And it certainly does not represent the "Will of the People".

To better understand what has actually been taking place in this vital matter - a matter of life and death - please read the following in toto. THEN MAKE AN EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE. Your eternal life may depend on the outcome.

"What Pro-Lifers Want", by William McGurn (in WSJ November 30, 2021, Opinion, p A19).

GS

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NO COMMENT...THAT'S PRINTABLE.

Or should I use someone else's comment that is printable:
"I HOPE THEY GET A PERMANENT CASE OF JOCK-ITCH."

GS

“I'll f***ing keep killing babies!”

That’s what a pro-abortion protester yelled at one of our pro-life leaders earlier this month as she stomped on and tore up our Cemetery of Innocents display – nearly 3,000 bright pink Christian crosses set up to commemorate the lives lost to abortion each day in America – at the Catholic St. Louis University in Missouri.

This was far from an isolated incident.

At the University of Texas-San Antonio, our pro-life leaders were spit on, yelled at, and hit in the face by pro-abortion radicals protesting our Cemetery of Innocents display.

At the University of San Diego, a pro-abortion mob tried to shut down my recent speaking event.

I could tell you thousands of stories like these our team has racked up across the nation.

As the saying goes, you know you’re over the target when you’re taking flak.

And in recent years, Students for Life has been taking a lot of flak.

The truth is, the Abortion Lobby and their foot soldiers know they’re losing the argument over abortion, so they’re resorting to anything – including violence to shut us up.

But with your support, we aren’t backing down.

george, as you may know, these next few weeks between now and the end of the year are the most critical of the entire year for Students for Life’s fundraising.

That’s why a handful of generous Students for Life supporters have stepped up to MATCH every gift that we receive by the #GivingTuesday (November 30th) deadline dollar-for-dollar up to $150,000!

So, will you please click here to make your most generous tax-deductible contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, or more right away?

Every gift will be instantly DOUBLED thanks to this $150,000 #GivingTuesday Matching Grant, so there’s never been a better time to give!

Pro-abortion protesters have become more radical than ever.

The days of the “safe, legal, and rare” LIE are long gone.

Now, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Hollywood, and pro-abortion members of the national media are encouraging young women to proudly “Shout Your Abortion” on social media.

And this week, I saw the hashtag #AbortionIsEssential trending on social media after a coordinated push by the Abortion Lobby.

But with your support, Students for Life is fighting back against this culture of death where it matters most: on America’s high school and college campuses.

You see, young women aged 18-24 are Planned Parenthood’s most coveted demographic because they obtain roughly HALF of all abortions every year in the United States.

Sadly, many young people today are fed pro-abortion propaganda from childhood by government schools, our culture, and the national media.

But when they see our displays – like the Cemetery of Innocents display I outlined above, or get to hold one of our preborn baby models in their hands, or see what a preborn baby really looks like at 15 weeks into a pregnancy in lifelike detail with our virtual reality goggles – their minds are INSTANTLY changed for life.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is, there are SOOO many more young people we need to reach with our pro-life message.

That’s why I’m praying you’ll please consider making a generous tax-deductible contribution before the deadline on our $150,000 #GivingTuesday Matching Grant.

With 1,250 active pro-life campus groups across the nation, no other pro-life organization is having more one-on-one conversations with the young people Planned Parenthood covets most than Students for Life of America.

And with your support for our $150,000 #GivingTuesday Matching Grant, Students for Life will continue to change minds and save lives by:
*** Reaching 1,350 on-campus chapters by the end of this spring semester.

Our Students for Life chapters are invaluable to helping us reach new young people for the pro-life cause, which is why pro-abortion students, faculty and administrators are going all out to stop our ability to speak out for life. But the more they try to muzzle our message, the stronger we become!

*** Training students on how to deal with censorship, pro-abortion threats, and cyber-bullying.

The University of Northern Iowa tried to stop us from forming a campus chapter, claiming we were a “hate group!” You’ve seen the recent protests my mere presence on campus has generated for my speaking tour. And I get texts on a daily basis from pro-life students who have their displays vandalized by pro-abortion radicals. We have to equip our students with how to deal with this kind of madness.

*** Hosting our Second National Pro-Life Summit this January.

As thousands of young people travel to Washington, D.C. for the National Pro-Life March in January, we’re hosting a robust day of training and fellowship for more than 2,000 young people and grassroots pro-life activists – and thousands more online. Our goal is to show them how to make an impact for life at the federal, state, and local level;

*** Kicking Planned Parenthood off Christian Campuses.

Sadly, Students for Life has identified more than two-dozen Christian colleges who currently maintain relationships with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. We can’t allow young Christians to be co-opted by Planned Parenthood if we’re ever going to end abortion in the United States. Our team is preparing to release a massive report on this right before Christmas.

*** Reaching more than 400,000 people through our “Campaign for Abortion Free Cities.”

We’ll knock on at least 396,000 doors, have 31,680 conversations, and form 85 church partnerships all designed to spread our pro-life message. We’ll be saving lives in the process, hurting Planned Parenthood’s bottom line massively. And fewer dollars for Planned Parenthood weakens their political power.

For Life,

Kristan Hawkins
President, Students for Life of America

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, September 26, 2021

"VENGEANCE IS MINE. I SHALL REPAY, SAYETH THE LORD". (ROMANS 2).

I have to keep reminding myself of this.

GS

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Top Stories

Democrats Block Amendment to Stop Infanticide, Care for Babies Born Alive After Abortions

House Democrats Pass Most Radical Pro-Abortion Bill Ever, Overturning Every Pro-Life Law Nationwide

Meet the Only Democrat to Vote Against Nancy Pelosi’s Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth

Nancy Pelosi Slams Catholic Bishop, Defends Abortion: “God Has Given Us a Free Will” to Kill Babies

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Catholic Bishop Rebukes Nancy Pelosi: Yes There is Free Will, “Give It to Unborn Babies Too”

New Congressional Bill Would Block Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandates

Nancy Pelosi: “Yeah I’m a Catholic,” But It’s Okay to Kill Babies in Abortions

Christian Web Designer Forced to Publish Web Sites Against Her Christian Faith

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Rapid Response for TUESDAY through THURSDAY, September 14 through 16, 2021

AS CLEAR AS CAN BE.

GS

Pope Francis Condemns Abortion: “Abortion is Murder. Human Life Has to be Respected”

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Rapid Response for FRIDAY, September 10, 2021

WE ARE ENTERING ANOTHER ERA OF CONTROL, DESTRUCTION AND DEATH.
We have been here before. It was called the 20th century.
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?

GS

Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose Speaks Out on Assisted Suicide

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Pro-Life News Report
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Top Stories

Whoopi Goldberg: It’s My Right as a Christian Parent to Have My Grandchild Killed in an Abortion
Joe Biden: “Next Republican Who Tells Me I’m Not Religious, I’ll Shove My Rosary Beads Down Their Throat”
Kamala Harris: Killing Babies in Abortions is a “Value We Hold Dear”
AOC is So Scientifically Inept She Calls Men “Menstruating Persons,” Thinks They Can Give Birth

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Planned Parenthood CEO: Saving Babies From Abortion is “Cruel,” Dismembering Them is OK
Angry Abortion Activists Vandalize Catholic Church After Texas Bans Abortion
Texas Abortion Clinic Director Celebrates Killing 67 Babies in Abortions in 17 Hours
Mother Teresa: “The Greatest Destroyer of Peace is Abortion”
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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, August 29, 2021

THIS *president IS A PRETENDER TO HIGH OFFICE AND ALSO TO *catholicism...
to his unending SHAME.

GS

Joe Biden Has Blood on His Hands

The world watched in horror this past week after more than a dozen American soldiers were killed and over a dozen were injured in Afghanistan. And now members of Congress and millions of Americans are calling on Joe Biden to resign or be impeached because of how he botched the withdrawal of American troops and people.

Biden botched it so badly it appears he gave little regard to these people's lives.

But for pro-life Americans, this is NOT surprising?

Why?

Because Joe Biden is already the most pro-abortion president in American history. He already has blood on his hands.

Biden has gone far past any president before him in terms of promoting abortion and forcing pro-life Americans to be a part of it. Like other presidents, Biden has made Americans fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business here in the United States and its abortion agenda across the globe. He's funded the UNFPA with our tax dollars, which supports population control in China. And he's overturned pro-life rules President Trump put in place to protect the conscience rights of pro-life medical professional.

But Biden is even more aggressively pro-abortion.

He is the first president to actively work with abortion activists in Congress to try to repeal the Hyde Amendment and the legislation he and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi put together is in the Senate and could make Americans fund hundreds of thousands of abortions every year.

LifeNews.com is on the front lines fighting Biden, Pelosi and their radical abortion agenda each and every day. Not only will LifeNews.com keep standing against their radical abortion policies, but we will work hard to replace them -- to take back Congress next year and take back the White House!

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Rapid Response for WEDNESDAY, August 11, 2021

WITH "EXECUTIVE ACTIONS" LIKE THIS AND THOSE AT THE NATIONAL BORDER,
the *Biden administration is rapidly becoming A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.

GS

Federal Court Blocks Biden Policy That Would Have Forced Christian Doctors to Do Abortions

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Rapid Response for MONDAY through FRIDAY, August 2 through 6, 2021

DAMNABLE, BY THE DAMNED. ONLY A USSC HOLDING THAT HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION, AND IS PROTECTED FROM THAT MOMENT, WILL SUFFICE.

GS

Subject: University Admits Harvesting Kidneys From Unborn Babies While Their Hearts are Still Beating

University Admits Harvesting Kidneys From Unborn Babies While Their Hearts are Still Beating
The University of Pittsburgh may have inadvertently provided more evidence this week that aborted babies may be being born alive and left to die so that their organs may be used for scientific research, according to the Center for Medical Progress.

https://www.lifenews.com/2021/08/05/university-admits-harvesting-kidneys-from-unborn-babies-while-their-hearts-are-still-beating/

LifeNews.com is a very good source of prolife info.

This is on the level of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

For Life,
Tom Byrne

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New Poll: 74% of Faithful Catholics Say Pro-Abortion Politicians Shouldn’t Request Communion

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Top Stories

President Trump Slams Joe Biden: “One of the Most Extreme and Radical Presidents We’ve Had”
Gov Ron DeSantis Condemns Abortion: We Must Do “Everything We Can to Protect the Unborn”
President Donald Trump Launches New Web Site to Communicate With Conservatives
Scientists Use Scalps From Aborted Babies to Create “Humanized Mice” and Fauci is Funding It

More Pro-Life News

Ted Cruz: Americans Don’t Want Biden and Harris and Their Radical Pro-Abortion Views
Scientists are Using Livers From Babies Killed in Second-Trimester Abortions for Research
Iowa Constitutional Amendment Would Declare There’s No Right to Kill Babies in Abortions
Planned Parenthood Wants to Keep Killing Babies Even Though Lubbock, Texas Voted to Ban Abortions
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Rapid Response for MONDAY and TUESDAY, January 11 and 12, 2021

THE STATE OF THE DISUNION.

GS

Missouri is the First Abortion-Free State After Last Abortion Center Stops Killing Babies

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Rapid Response for TUESDAY through THURSDAY, December 31, 2020

I RARELY POST A SOLICITATION...BUT THIS IS MORE THAN THAT.

This is my most harsh indictment, consistent with my Faith, on the
"dissembling miscreants" occupying many of our colleges...students, teachers and parents who subscribe to these actions.

GS

I’m worried, george.

You and I have made so much progress towards abolishing abortion over the last four years.

But now I’m afraid with the political winds shifting in Washington, D.C., the Abortion Lobby and their pals could be out for political payback.

You see, this fall, one of our campus groups at the University of Northern Iowa was labeled a “hate group” by the Student Government.

During the virtual meeting in which they BANNED our pro-life group from campus, one student senator stated, “There are opinions. And there are opinions that get people killed in many cases.”

But this student wasn’t speaking in defense of our group and the countless preborn babies that are put to death each day by abortion…quite the opposite!

He was attacking US for being pro-life and for wanting to SAVE preborn babies from abortion!

This is the type of madness I’m afraid we’re running into more and more on America’s campuses. The pro-abortion Left knows they’re losing the argument over abortion, so they’re trying to stop us from even being allowed to argue!

And they’ll stoop to any means necessary to shut us up and shut us down.

In fact, not long ago at a rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, one of our pro-life students was punched in the face by a pro-abortion protester simply for expressing her support of President Trump’s pick of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

We’ve faced bomb threats, violent assaults, vandalism, and been called every name in the book at the hands of pro-abortion protesters.

george, the pro-abortion radicals’ new blueprint is to slap the term “hate group” on our pro-life groups so they can justify censorship and even violence against us.

Today, I’m reaching out because my staff tells me you haven’t yet renewed your support for Students for Life for 2021.

If you already sent in your renewed support and I just missed it – thank you!

But if you haven’t yet done so, will you please click here to renew your support for Students for Life with your most generous contribution of $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, or more right away?

If you give before tonight’s deadline, your contribution will be automatically DOUBLED thanks to our $160,000 End of Year Matching Grant…so please hurry!

My goal is to DOUBLE DOWN on all of our critical programs in 2021. Your renewed support will help Students for Life:
*** Reach 1,325 on-campus chapters by the end of this spring semester. Our Students for Life chapters are invaluable to helping us reach new young people for the pro-life cause, which is why pro-abortion students, faculty and administrators are going all out to stop our ability to speak out for life. But the more they try to muzzle our message, the stronger we become!

*** Train students on how to deal with censorship and pro-abortion threats and cyber-bullying. As you may have seen, the University of Northern Iowa tried to stop us from forming a campus chapter, claiming we were a “hate group!” We have to arm our students to deal with this kind of madness;

*** Launch our #Stand4Life week of activism during the Roe v. Wade anniversary this January. This will hit 18+ cities across the country including Washington, D.C. We need a HUGE turnout this week to show the U.S. Supreme Court we’re insisting they act on Roe v. Wade;

*** Kick Planned Parenthood off campus. We’ve identified at least 54 Christian and Catholic colleges who have developed relationships with Planned Parenthood or promote abortion in other ways. After pressuring school administrators, 17 schools severed ties with the Abortion Goliath. But we won’t stop until 100% of Christian schools kick Planned Parenthood off campus; and

*** Expand on-campus showings of Unplanned. We’re hoping to show this film on 300 college campuses. This film exposes the TRUTH about the abortion monsters from the point of view of former Planned Parenthood director, Abby Johnson, who’s since become a pro-life activist.

Of course, unlike the butchers at Planned Parenthood, Students for Life doesn’t receive a dime in taxpayer money.

There are no Hollywood celebrities lining up to host black tie fundraisers and we certainly can’t count on the national media to give us a fair shake.

100% of our support comes from the voluntary gifts of pro-lifers like you.

So, george, will you please prayerfully consider renewing your support for 2021 by making your most generous end-of-year contribution possible?

As I mentioned, thanks to a handful of generous supporters, every dollar I can raise before MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, will be MATCHED dollar-for-dollar up to $160,000!

There’s no set renewal amount. Some supporters are giving as much as $1,000, $500, or $100.

If that’s too much right know, I understand it’s out of reach for many people. But I do hope you’ll at least consider matching our average gift of $38.

With the End of Year Matching Grant, a gift of $38 would really make $76 worth of impact!

Whatever you decide, please act right away. The End of Year deadline is rapidly approaching and I need to finalize all of our plans as we head into the New Year.

For Life,

Kristan Hawkins
President, Students for Life

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Rapid Response for TUESDAY, December 22, 2020

Vatican Says Coronavirus Vaccines “Morally Acceptable

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, September 18, 2020

ARE PEOPLE OF FAITH, OF ANY FAITH EXCEPT PERHAPS ISLAM, REALLY QUESTIONING THE POSITION, ACTIONS AND BONA FIDES OF PRESIDENT TRUMP REGARDING FAITH AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION?

On what planet have you been residing during the last four years?

GS

They had no idea

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Rapid Response for MONDAY, September 14, 2020

ANOTHER BLOW TO THE "DISSEMBLING MISCREANTS"
WHO SUPPORT ABORTION.

GS

President Trump Expands Order Defunding International Planned Parenthood

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Rapid Response for TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, September 1 and 2, 2020

WILL THIS NIGHTMARE EVER END?

GS

Catholic Priest: “You Cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat” Because Democrats are Pro-Abortion

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TUESDAY, April 28, 2020

'LEST WE FORGET:
This is face of the Democratic Party.

GS

To read the news, visit LifeNews.com.

Top Stories
• Joe Biden Calls Killing Babies in Abortions “Essential Health Care That Cannot be Delayed”
• Liberal Reporter to President Trump: Do You Deserve Re-Election After Killing 55,000 Americans?
• Hillary Clinton Endorses Pro-Abortion Joe Biden, Who Supports Abortions Up to Birth
• Catholic Bishop Slams Gov Gretchen Whitmer: Killing Babies in Abortions is Not “Life-Sustaining”

More Pro-Life News
• Tara Reade Slams Joe Biden: “You Claim to Champion Women’s Rights,” But You Sexually Assaulted Me
• Liberal Media Doesn’t Ask Women Who May be Joe Biden’s VP About Sexual Assault Allegations
• Governor Ralph Northam Ordered Churches Closed But Let Abortion Clinics Kill Babies
• Criminal Charges Dismissed Against Elderly Pro-Lifer for Praying Outside Abortion Clinic
• Scroll Down for Several More Pro-Life News Stories

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Rapid Resposne for SUNDAY, March 22, 2020

"PANDEMIC": YOU'VE HAD ONE FOR MANY DECADES.

GS

LifeNews.com

How extreme are radical abortion activists?

They are doing everything they can to exploit the coronavirus and kill more babies in abortions and force you to fund abortions with your tax dollars.

Last week, as members of Congress pushed for legislation to help Americans dealing with the virus and the negative economic fallout, pro-abortion Speaker Nancy Pelosi put together a stimulus bill that would have forced Americans to pay for killing babies in abortions.

President Trump's staff and pro-life lead

Here at LifeNews.com we immediately sounded the alarm and our news story on how Pelosi was caught reached millions of people and was shared almost half a million times on Facebook.

Thankfully, Pelosi was forced to back down and Congress eventually passed a bill with pro-life protections to make sure you aren't required to fund abortions!

Meanwhile, state after state is taking every precaution possible to protect Americans from getting the coronavirus. States like California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, and others have issued orders to stop elective surgeries to save medical staff and resources to treat patients diagnosed with the virus.

There is no more elective surgery that is complete and totally medically NOT necessary that killing a baby in an abortion!

LifeNews has uncovered and reported on how Planned Parenthood abortion clinics TODAY are defying those mandates and are continuing to kill innocent unborn children in abortions!

Thankfully, in a story LifeNews broke yesterday, the Ohio Attorney General has stepped up and is demanding that abortion clinics in his state stop killing babies because abortion is not necessary health care. But abortion clinics in every other state continue to kill unborn children.

Finally, three's Joe Biden.

While our families were beginning to deal with the virus last weekend beginning to understand the meaning of "social distancing," Joe Biden was telling Americans about his plans to expand abortion.

Biden wants to make you and me pay for millions of abortions. he wants to overturn every pro-life law nationwide that saves babies, and he wants to pack the Supreme Court with more pro-abortion judges.

Whether it's Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood or Joe Biden, pro-abortion extremists will stop at nothing to impose their abortion agenda on America -- even if that means exploiting and international health crisis to do so.

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I HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTED WITH THE PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS FOR DECADES.
I have been outraged with the leadership of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and their pro-abortion position for at least as long.
SHAME!
See the following article:
"The Ob-Gyn's Who Play Politics With Women"s Lives", by Christina Francis (in WSJ March 4, 2020, Opinion, pA17).

GS

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Rapid Response for SATURDAY, January 25, 2020

THERE ARE DIVISIONS AMONG CATHOLICS REGARDING SOME CATHOLIC DOCTRINES / "DOCTRINES". BUT THERE IS NO DIVISION REGARDING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH POSITION ON ABORTION BY ANY MEANS...NEVER, except to save the life of the mother!
ARE YOU A CATHOLIC...OR A MALIGN HYPOCRITE?

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP.

GS

President Trump becomes first president to attend March for Life

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Rapid Response for MONDAY, March 11, 2019

YES, CHRISTIANS...AND SO MANY MORE ARE NEEDED...

GS

I’m appalled. The Senate voted in favor of murdering freshly born babies.

The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, reintroduced to the Senate last week, failed by a vote of 53 to 44.

The Senate could not even come close to agreeing that born-alive babies do not deserve execution. In fact, all of the prominent Democratic 2020 Presidential hopefuls joined forces to block the act.

If I were taking our nation’s temperature, the thermometer would show that the fever just spiked. America is severely ill.

If we cannot protect babies with a law prohibiting the onslaught of infanticide, then we will be on the wrong side of history and it’s only a matter of time before our society slides into an irrepressible decline.

It’s clear, our moral compass as a nation is severely damaged. It’s bad enough that states like Vermont and Illinois are following the lead of New York by introducing bills that would permit abortion up until birth, and now we are killing babies OUTSIDE the womb.

The only remedy for our nation is for Christians to boldly rise up and take action.

There is a movement in our country that is spreading like cancer and it seeks to destroy biblical values.

This is why we MUST mobilize 90-million Christians now to stand for life! We cannot wait.

Our team at My Faith Votes has put together a three-part plan that’s going into effect now, but we need your donations to make it possible.
•    We’re leveraging leading Christian voices to create compelling videos for social media platforms and TV public service announcements to reach unengaged Christians to stand for life.
•    We’re organizing communication between Christians and their elected officials to keep the pressure on. They need to feel the power of 90-million Christians holding them accountable.
•    Lastly, My Faith Votes is working directly with the new pro-life film, Unplanned, releasing on March 29 to ensure every person who sees the movie has the ability to connect, engage and start taking action for life.
We must continue to oppose the evil that values the convenience of choice over the sanctity of life.

Will you please stand with us now to defend life? The abortion movement is so intense it’s gaining traction every single day, and it must be stopped.

United. We Stand.

Gov. Mike Huckabee
Honorary National Chairman

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Rapid Response for MONDAY and TUESDAY, February 25 and 26, 2019

WHAT CAN I SAY ON THIS SUBJECT THAT I HAVE NOT ALREADY SAID?
NOTHING. BUT I WILL KEEP SAYING IT.

Abortion is an Abomination, mainly the direct consequence of many women and ladies degenerating into simply soul-less genetic females, always the most dangerous of any species.
Now it is I who must say: "Wha Hoppen?"
Only God knows. "Vengeance Is Mine. I Shall Repay, Sayeth the Lord".

GS

Senate Democrats Block Bill to Stop Infanticide

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, February 17, 2019

CONTRARY TO THE FEVERED CHARGES OF SOME LEFTISTS,
it is the Left that is using tactics very reminiscent of the early years of the Nazi regime.
The latest is this, the indoctrination of young children.
WAKE UP, AMERICA.

GS

Planned Parenthood Grooms Toddlers In “Sexual Education”

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Rapid Response for WEDNESDAY, January 23, 2019

MORE NEWS YOU WON'T SEE OR HEAR IN THE "MAINSTREAM MEDIA".
Journalism is not yet dead, but its prognosis us very serious. Not much time left to treat this disease, before it becomes The Ministry of Propaganda.

GS

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Top Stories

New York Senate Passes Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth
Covington Catholic Forced to Close After Students and Staff Receive Death Threats
Planned Parenthood Celebrates 61 Million Abortions Under Roe, Wants Abortion Legal Up to Birth
Here’s The Response From Nick Sandmann of Covington Catholic High School “Correcting the Outright Lies”

More Pro-Life News

Pro-Life Teens Face Death Threats After Media, Liberals Falsely Smear Them as Racists
President Trump Supports Pro-Life Teens: “They’ve Become Symbols of Evil Fake News”
MSNBC Calls Pro-Life Teens Racist, Compares Them to Nazis and KKK
Pro-Life Teens Speak Out Against Media Smear Campaign: We’ve Been Doxxed and Threatened With Violence
Scroll Down for Several More Pro-Life News Stories

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY through TUESDAY, December 16 through 18, 2018

JUST SO YOU KNOW: THERE IS A GOD; AND THERE IS A HELL.

GS

Woman Says: I Aborted My 6th Baby at Age 35 to Focus on My Career and I Don’t Regret It

Trump’s Defunding Planned Parenthood of $50-60 Million. That Money May Go to Pregnancy Centers

Most Republicans Strongly Support Re-Electing President Donald Trump

Federal Judge Strikes Down Pro-Abortion Obamacare Entirely as Unconstitutional

Doctors Groups Release New Guidelines on When It’s Okay to Starve a Patient to Death

46 Reasons the Pro-Life Movement is Winning the Abortion Battle

Baby Born Three Months Premature After Parents Reject Abortion, Now She’s Going Home for Christmas

Pastor Slams Abortion in Passionate Post: It’s the “Greatest Atrocity of Our Time”

Trump Admin Stands Against UN Using Vague “Reproductive Health” Language to Promote Abortion

Actress Ashley Bratcher Becomes Passionately Pro-Life After Preparing for Latest Movie Role

Pro-Abortion Justice Ginsburg Recovers Fully From Fall That Left Three Fractured Ribs

Pro-Life Groups Want Trump to Fire NIH Chief Who Defended Research With Aborted Baby Parts

Planned Parenthood Video Tells Parents How to Tell Kids Where Babies Come From

Shocking Figures Show Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome Up 50%

Radical Environmentalists Accuse Everyone Else of Engaging in “Human Supremacy”

Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row as More Americans Commit Suicide

Just Because We Can Create Genetically Modified Babies Doesn’t Mean We Should

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, November 18, 2018

ABORTION: THE NUMBER 1 IMPEDIMENT TO A UNITED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Well over 70% of Americans are opposed to the intentional killing of a human being, from the moment of conception through natural death.
The USSC case of Roe v. Wade was a political Holding with no basis in Law, in Medicine, and in Morality/ Ethics.
Any (very unlikely) reversal of that obstruction of Justice would only turn the question back to the individual States.
The matter is meanwhile gradually returning to those individual States, as noted in the article by Ana Radelat (in http://www.ctmirror.org, Nov. 16, 2018): "Access Health Ct to Protest New Trump Abortion Proposal". In this process, pro-Abortionists are becoming ever more rabid in their lethal efforts. As evidence of what they have achieved already, see: "Induced Abortion By Woman's Age - New York State 2016 (PDF)", reproduced here.
Read it and Weep. And then get Very Angry...and Fight for the only position supportable in Law, in Medicine, and in Morality / Ethics.

GS

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GOD BLESS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION,
finally a bright spot in the swamp of immoral pro-abortionists.
"Vengeance Is Mine. I Shall Repay, Sayeth the Lord."

See "Trump Administration Proposes New Rule Requiring Separate Premium Bills For Abortion Coverage", by Mackenzie Rigg (in ctmirror.org, Nov. 8, 2018).

GS

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Rapid Response for MONDAY, November 5, 2018

NATIONAL ELECTIONS,NOVEMBER, 2018...JUST SO YOU KNOW.

GS

LifeNews.Com

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, October 14, 2018

"FEMALE" HYPOCRISY UNVEILED.

Not "ladies". Not "women". Just genetic females.

The abortion issue is the single most important issue dividing this nation and its people for nearly a century. And it was made worse by the USSC in "Roe v. Wade", a crass political decision totally devoid of medical, legal or moral basis.

In my opinion, the time has come for a grass-roots initiative to bring forth a Constitutional Convention to address a Constitutional Amendment declaring personhood for the fetus from the time of conception and protected under the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

Meanwhile, this one issue is tearing this nation apart, much as the issue of Slavery did in the 19th century. Did we learn anything from that experience? Or must we re-live it?

GS

Finally! New Planned Parenthood CEO Admits The Real Truth

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Rapid Response for TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, July 3 and 4, 2018

"40 STRAIGHT GALLUP POLLS:
Majority Says Abortion Should Be Illegal In All Or Most Cases",
by Terence P. Jeffreys (cnsnews.com, July 3, 2018).

ROE V. WADE (1973) was an abomination, then and now, unsupported in Medicine, in Law and in Ethics. It was and is raw politics, the 800 lb. gorilla sitting where it wants to sit. It could be over-ruled at any time as unconstitutional.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

GS

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Rapid Response for SATURDAY, June 23, 2018

DO YOU KNOW WHEN HUMAN LIFE BEGINS?
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you".
Jeremiah 1:4-10.

"Hear me, O coastlands,
listen, O distant peoples.
The Lord called me from birth,
from my mother's womb he gave me my name."
Isaiah 49:1-6.

ANY QUESTIONS?
"NOW GO, AND SIN NO MORE".

GS

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Rapid Response for MONDAY and TUESDAY, March 6 and 7, 2017

To Paraphrase:
"YOU WANT TO KNOW EVIL? CAN YOU TAKE KNOWING EVIL?"

GS

Democrats Kill Bill to Protect Babies Born Alive After Botched Abortions - LifeNews.Com

Meet the enemies of life, faith, and family

We are seven days away from one of the most dangerous meetings of the year; the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

I want you to meet the leaders of the organizations that are the most dangerous in the world to men, women, and children; the leaders of the organizations that will spend and direct hundreds of millions of dollars to spread the sexual revolution even to Christian and Muslim countries that do not want their poison.

Tewodros Melesse is Director-General of International Planned Parenthood Association. He is an economist educated at the Catholic University of Louvain, the font of much heresy in our world. Melesse and his organization are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths of unborn children and the spread of sexual immorality throughout Africa and much of the developing world.
Nancy Northrup is President & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a group of lawyers dedicated to forcing countries to accept abortion on demand and making governments pay for it, too. Her organization has been at the forefront of imposing baby-killing all over the world. If there is a lawsuit against your government in favor of baby-killing, Northrup and her crew are involved.

Help us stop their murderous agenda. Help us stop Nancy Northrup and Tewodros Melesse. Help us stop International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Center for Reproductive Rights, among the most murderous groups the world has ever known. And I am not exaggerating.

Pray right now for their defeat.

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Rapid Response for FRIDAY, October 16, 2015

"JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM".
"Justice is mine, sayeth The Lord. I shall repay." (From Romans).

GS

Planned Parenthood Turns 99 Today: Has Killed 7 Million Babies in Abortions - LifeNews.Com

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY through TUESDAY, March 8 through 10, 2015

THE ACA AND ABORTION. The duplicity never ends.

GS

Bishops: We Have Long Warned That Obamacare Covered Abortion - Zenit.Org

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, March 1, 2015

A LOGICAL AND REASONED POSITION ON "ASSISTED SUICIDE", to which I add my comment: HELL, NO!

GS

Conn. should again reject suicide bill - TheDay.Com

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, February 22, 2015

ABORTION AND BREAST CANCER, especially before a full-term delivery, which may be protective. The state of knowledge...and of pro-abortion hysteria at this time.

GS

Cool Heads Needed on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link - Zenit.Org

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Rapid Response for TUESDAY, September 9, 2014

I MUST KEEP REMINDING MYSELF:
'"JUSTICE IS MINE. I SHALL REPAY", sayeth The Lord". (Romans)

GS

September 10, 2:00 a.m.
Dear Friend of the Unborn,
Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. In a single day 51,000 men lost their lives.
Here’s a statistic you may not know. Those 51,000 deaths totaled the horrific 31% of the 157,289 men who fought on both sides that day.
Now consider this.
If those men had Down syndrome diagnosed in the womb, the death toll would have been 141,560. That is because 90% of children diagnosed in utero with Down syndrome are aborted.
The chances of living through childbirth with Down syndrome are substantially less than living through the horrors of Gettysburg.
Why?
Because folks are scared. They live in fear of seeing that knuckle fold on the ultra-sound pictures. I remember my wife and I were scared. You wonder, what if we get that diagnosis? We have faith in our lives and would have viewed it as a gift from God.
But others are not so blessed with faith and they will think immediately of having the child killed, torn limb from limb, more brutal than the deaths at Gettysburg.
We can fix that. How? By letting people know that children with Down syndrome are like all children, gifts from God send here to teach us about love, even more so!
On October 18, my friends and I are climbing on our bikes and riding 100 kilometers for a wonderful group founded precisely to make people know they have nothing to fear from a child or an adult with Down syndrome.
Best Buddies International is that group and they have my personal and my organization’s full endorsement.
Best Buddies is not pro-life like we are, that is explicitly pro-life, shouting it from the rooftops pro-life. They are quietly pro-life, helping people with Down syndrome live fuller and more meaningful lives and helping families come to know God’s gift that has been given to them.
We are an explicitly pro-life group and we take the pro-life message to these people.
Each year I make a pledge that if I win the individual fundraising title that I will make a pro-life speech. Each year for the past three years I have come in second place! I can’t seem to beat out a very wealthy banker! A good guy! But, I want to win so I can say this:
“My team and I ride for all those with Down syndrome and most especially we ride for with Down syndrome who never make it out of the womb. 90% of those children diagnosed in utero with Down syndrome are aborted. Best Buddies was founded to chase out fear and replace it with love. We ride for all of them.”
Short, simple, pro-life. I guarantee those good people do not know the deadly statistic I will tell them that day. It may change lives.
So, please help me raise money for this good charity. My immediate goal is $20,000 and I am halfway there. I suspect I will need to raise more like $30,000 to win.
In the mean time, will you please go to…
http://mydc2014.bestbuddieschallenge.org/austinruse and give as much as you are able! Fives, tens, and twenties get the job done. If someone has the means, $500 would be amazing and even more, if you can.
Help me make that pro-life speech on October 18. Go to
http://mydc2014.bestbuddieschallenge.org/austinruse and give. And please send this note to you mom and dad, your daughter and son, your grandma and grandpa. Don’t forget to send it to your neighbor, too.
Many many thanks. Pray for us, too!
Yours sincerely,
Austin Ruse
PS After my first letter last week something amazing happened. I received a letter from a congregation of poor nuns living in South America and they are praying for this ride! Let’s let them know that God hears them:
http://mydc2014.bestbuddieschallenge.org/austinruse

- Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute

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The Pro-Life Campaign That Is Closing Abortion Clinics - Zenit.Org

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Rapid Response for SATURDAY, July 5, 2014

REGARDING CALLS FOR "ASSISTED SUICIDE".

For an excellent summary, including a famous literary reference, of the position of the Medical Profession to this grossly inappropriate call to involve physicians, please see the article by my friend and colleague Michael M. Deren, M.D., Editor of Connecticut Medicine, The Journal of the Connecticut State Medical Society.

"Assisted Suicide: To Be or Not To Be", May 2014, Vol. 78, Number 5, p307.

GS

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Rapid Response for SUNDAY, February 23, 2014

MORE ABOUT ABORTION...AND THE "DISSEMBLING MISCREANTS" WHO SUPPORT IT.

GS

The 'Right' to Abortion and Its Consequences - Zenit.Org

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Here's a real-life dilemma with medical, legal and moral dimensions. My approach is as follows:

At the moment of conception, there are two human beings with rights.
At that moment, the mother loses some of her rights "to her body". This includes the right of "self-determination" articulated in an "Advanced Directive".
The exception is the right to protection, in the least invasive but effective method, of her physical life.
Even in the advanced state of medical science, "brain dead" is dead. Any further medical "treatment" is "futile", something that no physician is required - or even allowed - to render.
In the case of a pregnant woman who has died, leaving a demonstrably living human being in her womb, she becomes no different from an incubator for that child until or unless the child also dies or gets to a point where viability outside the womb is likely.
Any demonstrable deformities of the fetus considered incompatible with life outside the womb, like the absence of a functioning heart or brain, would make the above approach for the fetus also "futile".
All of the above is predicated on a legal standing of the conceptus - fetus as a "human person", a human being under a post-Civil War interpretation of the U.S. Constitution (ie. 100% human, not "3/5's).
Of course, that "standing" does not now exist.
Thus, the above moral / ethical approach will defer in a Court of Law to the current state of the applicable law, involving concepts of "self-determination" and "futility".

The key to this "gordian knot" must await a legal - legislative - Constitutional declaration of a conceptus as a human being, a human person with all and equal attendant rights. Will that ever occur?

GS

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RIGHTS DO NOT EXIST IN A VACUUM. THEY MUST BE CONSTANTLY ASSERTED.

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Religious Liberty at Risk

New Reports Point to Increasing Threats

By Father John Flynn, LC

ROME, SEPT. 28, 2012 (Zenit.org). - Two recent reports on religious liberty have amply documented the challenges believers face in practicing their faith.

The Texas-based Liberty Institute recently published “The Survey of Religious Hostility in America.” The introduction affirms that the Founding Fathers considered religious liberty as the “first freedom.”

“They understood that one’s right to worship God and follow his conscience according to the principles of his religious faith was foundational to civic tranquility,” the introduction stated.

The report went on to detail threats to religious liberty in such areas as the public display of nativity scenes, memorials to soldiers, and prayers at legislative assemblies. It noted that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has mandated that funerals for veterans at national cemeteries be completely secularized, even when the veteran or his family expressed a desire for a religious funeral.

The opposition to any form of religious expression goes to such extreme lengths as the case of Jonathan Morgan, a third-grader in Plano, Texas, who was told by school officials that he could not include a religious message in the goodie bags that he was bringing to the “Winter Party” to share with his classmates.

Then, there was the case of a Houston-area school district that banned any religious content in the Christmas and Valentine’s Day cards. The report said that: “When one student was asked what Easter meant to her, she was told that she could not say, “Jesus.”

Another case was that of an eleven-year-old student in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who was penalized for mentioning Jesus in a Christmas poetry assignment. His teacher asked him to submit a rewrite of the poem.

Work-related cases were also numerous. A Mount Sinai Hospital nurse was forced to participate in a late-term abortion against her conscience and religious convictions. She was threatened with termination and loss of license. The nurse lost in both the district court and the Second Circuit, the report noted.

The report contains brief summaries of hundreds of cases over the last two decades of attempts to silence any religious expression in the public square of religion.

Regions of the world

The second recent report came from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. They published their third report on religious liberty that looked at the period from mid-2009 to mid-2010.

It found that restrictions on religion increased not only in countries with a record of bad practice in matters of religious freedom, but also in hat began the year with high or very high restrictions, such as Indonesia and Nigeria, but also in many countries with a good record, such as Switzerland and the United States.

No less than 75% of the world’s population “lives in countries where governments, social groups or individuals restrict people’s ability to freely practice their faith,” the report stated.

According to the Pew Forum the share of countries with high or very high restrictions on religious beliefs and practices rose from 31% in the year ending in mid-2009 to 37% in the year ending in mid-2010.

Sub-Saharan Africa had the largest share of countries with increases in restrictions on religion, while Europe and the Americas had the lowest proportion of countries with greater restrictions.

Overall, in the report found that government restrictions were highest in the Middle East and North Africa. These two regions were also the ones with the highest level of social hostility to religious freedom.

Given that some of the most restrictive countries are very populous, the report noted that three-quarters of the world’s approximately 7 billion people live in countries with high government restrictions on religion or high social hostilities involving religion, up from 70% a year earlier.

More hostile countries

According to the report during the four years that the Pew Institute has been examining religious freedom the number of countries with very high government restrictions on religion rose from 10 in mid-2007 to 18 in mid-2010. Among the countries added were Afghanistan, Algeria, Indonesia, Russia, Syria and Tunisia.

Only two countries, Brunei and Turkey, were removed from the list.

Christians topped the list as the religious group most likely to face harassment. In the year ending in mid-2010, government or social harassment of Christians was reported in 111 countries; the previous high was 107 countries in the first year of the study.

They also came top of the list for the cumulative total of countries where harassment took place during the last four years, a total of 139 nations.

The hostility came from either government sources or individuals. Christians were harassed by government officials or organizations in 95 countries in the year ending in mid-2010 and by social groups or individuals in 77 countries.

Both reports point to worrying trends regarding religious liberty, above all for Christians, but also for other religions.

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The Dangers of Abortion

New Studies Reveal Risks

By Father John Flynn, LC

ROME, SEPT. 21, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Advocates of abortion often insist that it needs to be legal and readily available so as to reduce health risks for women. Some recent studies show, however, that abortion brings with it considerable risks.

Research in Finland published in the journal “Human Reproduction” collected data from all 300,858 first-time mothers in Finland between 1996 and 2008, LifeNews.com reported on Sept. 6. The results showed that women were three times more likely to have a very premature baby, born before 28 weeks, if they had had three or more abortions.

According to an analysis of the findings published by LifeNews.com and written by Dr. Peter Saunders, it is an important study, but by no means the first revealing such risks. He said there are “around 120 articles in the world literature already attesting to an association between abortion and premature birth.”

Nevertheless, the Finnish study carries a lot of weight due to the large number of women in it and also because it controlled for factors such as maternal age, socioeconomic level and various health factors.

Similar results were found in another study also recently published. Lead researcher Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Aberdeen, and his colleagues studied how differing methods of abortion affected the future likelihood of premature births, the Medical Daily Web site reported on Sept. 5.

They looked at the records of Scottish women from 1981 to 2007 and found that abortions increased the risk of giving birth prematurely in future pregnancies by an average of 37% compared to women who had never been pregnant before.

Complications

The study was presented at the British Science Festival. The risk of complications in future pregnancies rises with each abortion. As well, the research showed that having just one abortion brings with it a significant risk for the safety of later pregnancies.

We found that women who had an induced abortion in their first pregnancy were more at risk of maternal and perinatal risks in comparison with women who had had a live birth or no previous pregnancy, said Bhattacharya.

A further recent study, titled “Short and long term mortality rates associated with first pregnancy outcome: Population register based study for Denmark 1980–2004,” was published by David Reardon and Priscilla Coleman.

They looked at the records of 463,473 women who had their first pregnancy between 1980 and 2004, of whom 2,238 died. “In nearly all time periods examined, mortality rates associated with miscarriage or abortion of a first pregnancy were higher than those associated with birth,” according to a summary of the study published by the Medical Science Monitor.

Commenting on the risks of abortion for the Family Research Council, Jeanne Monahan pointed out that, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, at least 450 women have died in the United States as a result of abortion complications.

Monahan added that this is a low estimate because many states do not report abortion data. This includes California, which, she noted accounts for approximately one-fifth of all abortions in the United States.

She also commented on the risks from the use of chemical abortion, with the pharmaceutical RU-486. According to the Food and Drug Administration as of April 2011 (10 and a half years after RU-486 was approved in the U.S.), there were 2,207 adverse event reports on file with the government. This includes 612 hospitalizations, 339 blood transfusions and 11 deaths.

Maternal mortality

Additional information on the health risks of abortion came in an article published Sept. 6 by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. According to Wendy Wright a study from Sri Lanka found that in developing countries widespread misuse of abortion “has led to partial or septic abortion thereby increasing maternal mortality and morbidity.”

Further studies, carried out by the Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change, found that RU-486 has high complication rates, with greater medical risks to women in developing countries.

In Vietnam, for example, one in four women who used RU-486 had to subsequently undergo a surgical abortion due to an incomplete result from the pharmaceutical.

Wright put at 14 the number of women who have died in the United States as a result of using RU-486 since it was legalized.

Nevertheless, the push to make RU-486 available continues. In Australia until now only a small number of doctors were authorized to administer it, but now pharmacies will be able to sell it following a decision by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Australian newspaper reported Aug. 31.

In the past six years that RU-486 has been available in Australia, TGA figures show 792 cases of adverse events from the use of the drugs.

“Women facing un-supported pregnancy should be offered real choices by our society, not a dangerous chemical to poison their unborn child,” commented Wendy Francis for the Australian Christian Lobby. A valid point not only for Australia but for other countries as well.

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Another example of my observation: THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF LIARS: LIARS; DAMNED LIARS; AND THE GOVERNMENT, IN THIS CASE THE "WORLD GOVERNMENT" AS WELL AS OUR OWN.

GS

Disability Rights Treaty Loses U.S. Support Over Abortion

by Wendy Wright | LifeNews.com | 8/16/12 6:19 PM

Washington, DC (CFAM/LifeNews) — U.S. ratification of a UN treaty is stumbling due to a problem that has hounded the treaty since its beginning: does “sexual and reproductive health” include abortion?

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is encountering resistance from senators, congressmen and groups who fear it will undermine national sovereignty, that its vagueness will harm those it ought to protect like disabled pre-born babies, and intrude on established rights, such as those of parents.

A letter of opposition circulating among the leading American pro-life groups is expected to be delivered in the coming days to the U.S. Senate.

The letter explains how UN officials and advocates misuse UN documents to expand rights and pressure countries on abortion – despite an unambiguous record of UN member states rejecting abortion during the negotiations and adoption of these documents.

While the Disabilities Treaty is the first hard law treaty to include the term “sexual and reproductive health,” there is plenty of evidence that the drafters do not consider abortion a part of the definition. First, the term is used in the document only as a category of non-discrimination. Additionally, negotiators gave repeated assurances throughout the negotiations and adoption that the treaty does not include a right to abortion.

The Chairman of the negotiations called concerns over UN committees taking advantage of the phrase to mean abortion “invalid” because the delegates did not intend to create any new human rights. At another point the chairman polled the room, asking if anyone believed the proposed treaty created any new rights. No country said yes.

The chairman also stressed that the traveaux preparatoire (legislative history) would guide future interpretations of the treaty. A footnote was added to that text stating, “The Ad Hoc Committee notes that the use of the phrase ‘sexual and reproductive health services’ would not constitute recognition of any new international law obligations or human rights.”

When the UN General Assembly adopted the CRPD in 2006, fifteen nations stated that abortion is excluded from “sexual and reproductive health” or that the treaty does not create new rights. No nation contradicted this.

However concerns remain. Neither the legislative history nor the footnotes are actually in the document and therefore can easily be ignored.

What’s more, since the treaty came into force abortion advocates maintain the term includes abortion and that the treaty created a new right.

In 2010, UNFPA’s Thoraya Obaid told an audience that ”reproductive health” is a “right” that was most recently enshrined in the Disabilities treaty, which includes the phrase “sexual and reproductive health.”

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) trumpets the “(Disability Rights Convention) is the first comprehensive international human rights instrument to specifically identify the right to reproductive and sexual health as a human right.” CRR believes reproductive rights and health encompass abortion.

At UNFPA and CRR briefings with UN treaty committees, the agenda listed “denial of reproductive healthcare services, including abortion” among “reproductive rights violations.”

Attempts to “evolve” the definition prompted diplomats to reject “reproductive rights” at the Rio+20 summit because it has come to be “a code at the UN for abortion.”

This conflict was reflected at a U.S. Senate hearing in July on the disability treaty. Pro-abortion senators gutted an amendment clarifying the treaty is abortion-neutral, stating it was unnecessary. It is expected the U.S. Senate will vote on ratification sometime this Fall.

LifeNews Note: Wendy Wright writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group’s Friday Fax and is used with permission.

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DAMNABLE. BUT, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH THE LORD. I SHALL REPAY".

GS

Physicians reaffirm status of fetus
Life begins at birth, say MDs concerned about renewal of abortion debate
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News

The organization representing Canada's doctors says life begins when a baby emerges from its mother's womb.

Delegates to the Canadian Medical Association's annual general council meeting Wednesday supported keeping a section of the Criminal Code that declares a child becomes a human being at the moment of birth.

Their move comes after concerns a private member's motion in Parliament could be a back door to criminalizing abortion and the doctors who perform it.

Conservative MP Stephen Wood-worth tabled his motion this spring. It has been regarded as a move to reopen the abortion debate.

The motion seeks to create a House of Commons committee to review the Criminal Code section that declares a child becomes a human being "when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has continually said his government will not bring forward abortion legislation. With some top Conservative cabinet ministers saying they will vote against Woodworth's motion, it appears assured a death in the Commons when debate resumes in the fall.

"This attempt to modify the definition of a human being could legally recognize the fetus, which would give the fetus rights," said Montreal physician Dr. Genevieve Desbiens. "This constitutes a recriminalization, not only of abortion, but any form of contraception.

"We must ensure women seeking to terminate pregnancy and the doctors who support them and want to help them are not criminalized."

She said it's urgent for doctors to exert pressure on the government "so this motion has no chance of being passed and the debate is not reopened.

"I'm not asking if you are for or against abortion. I'm asking for you to recognize that women must retain their full and complete rights," she said to applause.

Ontario physician Dr. John Ludwig warned the group against "unintended consequences." He said the criminal code is "ancient and needs to be revised."

"If an assailant plunged a knife in the 38-week gestational belly of your spouse, we would all consider that murder. But the Criminal Code says that, because that fetus did not leave the body alive, it doesn't have any rights.

"We need a new policy that somewhat more balances the rights for women to have a therapeutic abortion when they wish, up to 20 weeks, and then protects the life of that child from 20 weeks on, once it's able to live on its own upon delivery from the womb."

Dr. Carole Williams, of Victoria, said the private member's motion "is a back door way for government to reopen Roe versus Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

"It's inappropriate to have government intervention into control of our-selves, our bodies and our children."

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Abortion does not improve women's reproductive health
Guttmacher Institute study grossly misrepresents data
By Denise Hunnell, MD

When the United States House of Representatives debated the Protect Life Act, a bill meant to ensure that no taxpayer money would fund abortions, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, proclaimed that passage of the bill would leave American women “dying on the floor” of American hospitals. Similarly expressing a concern for “women's health”, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, recently called on the United Nations Commission on Population and Development to endorse unfettered access to abortion for teenagers and even younger adolescents. In Trinidad, Minister of Gender, Youth, and Child Development Verna St. Rose Greaves, called for the legalization of abortion in Trinidad because of public health concerns.

Clearly, there is a widespread perception that optimal reproductive health for women includes access to abortion. Yet, where is the data that supports this view? Is this just another manufactured claim by the abortion industry to justify the inclusion of abortion in health care?

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research organization founded by Planned Parenthood, tried to bolster this position with a report on abortions in Colombia. This publication claimed that there were over 400,000 clandestine abortions annually in Colombia and at least one-third of these cases had significant medical complications. Their conclusions called for increased abortion 'services' in Colombia:

The study's findings make clear the need to remove institutional and bureaucratic obstacles for women seeking a legal procedure and ensure that health facilities with the capacity and mandate to provide safe and legal procedures do so,” says Cristina Villareal, director of Fundación Oriéntame and a coauthor of the report. “Six out of 10 health facilities in Colombia that have the capacity to provide postabortion care do not provide it, and about nine out of every 10 of these facilities do not offer legal abortion services.

While this study appears and claims to support the view that ready access to legal abortion improves women's health, a just released study by Dr. Elard Koch of Chile refutes this Guttmacher Institute report. Review of the methods for the calculation of clandestine abortions in Colombia reveal that the Guttmacher Institute relied on the opinions of health care workers to estimate the number of abortion procedures and complication rates.

In other words, there was no objective data. The translated abstract of Dr. Koch's article published in Ginecologia y Obstetricia de Mexico states:

There is no objective data based on real vital events, the whole estimate is based on imaginary numbers underlying mere opinions. Even as a public opinion survey, the sampling technique introduced serious selection bias in the gathering of information. Valid epidemiological methods using standardized rates, choosing the paradigmatic cases of Chile and Spain as standard populations, it was observed that Guttmacher Institute methodology overestimates more than 9 times the complications due to induced abortion in hospital discharges and more than 18 times the total number of induced abortions. In other Latin American countries where the same methodology was applied including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Dominican Republic, the number of induced abortions was also largely overestimated. These results call for caution with this type of reports that alarm public opinion.

Instead of relying on guesses and subjective opinions, one can actually assess the effect of abortion on women's reproductive health by analyzing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), a widely accepted indicator of women's health. If abortion were truly critical for the well-being of mothers, one would expect the maternal mortality rate to decrease with increased abortion availability and to increase as abortion is restricted.

Chile provides a natural laboratory for such an analysis. The country has kept extensive and detailed records of maternal morbidity and mortality for over fifty years. In addition, the country has implemented several distinct interventions including increasing skilled medical attendants for births, increasing the education of women, increasing the sanitation and overall level of care at medical facilities, and perhaps most significant for this discussion, the prohibition of abortion. The trends of the maternal mortality ratio can be evaluated both before and after each of these initiatives.

A recently published collaborative study by scientists from both the United States and Chile have used this objective data to demonstrate the effects of improved medical care, increased education of women, and abortion on maternal mortality. Their findings should provide the scientifically-based guidance needed to reduce maternal mortality in all developing countries.

The overall maternal mortality ratio in Chile from 1957 through 2007 decreased from 270 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births to 18.7 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births -. This is a decrease of 93.7%. The steepest declines were between the years 1965 and 1981. In 1965 Chile mandated a minimum of eight years of free education for all children. This resulted in the increase in the average years of schooling for women from 3.1 years in 1957 to 12 years in 2007. In addition, Chile markedly increased the percentage of deliveries that were aided by skilled medical attendants from 60.8% in 1957 to over 90% by 1980. By 1999, over 99% of births occurred in hospitals or maternity centers.

After 1981, the downward trend in maternal mortality continued, but the rate of decrease slowed. This is accounted for by the increasing number of women who delivered their first child over the age of 29. As Chilean women became more educated they delayed child bearing. This increased the number of maternal deaths due to underlying medical conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.

What happened to the maternal mortality trend after 1989 when Chile outlawed abortion? The Guttmacher Institute, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Nancy Pelosi would like us to believe that this move sent the rate of maternal deaths soaring. Instead, we saw the opposite: The truth is there was absolutely no such effect. In fact, the downward trend in maternal mortality continued with a decrease from 41.3 to 12.7 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. That is a 69% decrease in maternal mortality after the ban on abortion took effect.

The Guttmacher Institute calls into question the validity of the Chilean study by speculating that there is underreporting of abortion-related morbidity and mortality, but provide no evidence of such reporting errors. The authors of the Chilean study, however, have already addressed these concerns in their published article:

Considering the strict protocol for active epidemiological surveillance on maternal and infant mortality registry implemented in the early 1930s, it is unlikely that the observed reduction could be explained by unobserved illegal abortion deaths or misclassification for other causes. Currently any maternal death occurring in Chile is audited by the sanitary authority revising the clinical registries, interviewing the relatives, and the medical personnel under strict confidentiality rules for determining the primary cause of death.

This analysis of the Chilean experience provides persuasive evidence that the key to improving women's reproductive health begins with improved education. Women must also have access to skilled birth attendants and well-equipped and sanitary birthing centers. The Chilean study raises serious questions about the claims by government officials and other abortion advocates who say that abortion is a critical component of quality medical care for women. Initiatives that promote abortion for the health and well-being of women increasingly appear to be motivated by ideology and based on something other than science.

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Religious Rights and Freedom
Author: Pursuing Equality Can Result in Denying Equality
By Father John Flynn, LC

ROME, MAY 25, 2012 (Zenit.org).- In the light of the ongoing debate in the United States over religious freedom due to the health regulations obliging religious organizations to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients, a book published earlier this year provides some interesting reflections.

Roger Trigg, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, England, authored a book titled, “Equality, Freedom, and Religion,” (Oxford University Press).

There is, he said, an ongoing tug of war between demands for equality, the struggle for individual freedom, and religious freedom. Should beliefs important to individuals be protected if they challenge basic assumptions about equality? Why does religious freedom matter? How important is the right to freedom of religion compared with other rights and freedoms?

The drive to equality has sometimes led people to believe that any judgement by the state must never imply that some views are preferable to others, Trigg explained. Yet, he argued, state neutrality is impossible.

“In the context of religious freedom, no state can abdicate all responsibility to the extent of refusing to make judgements about the character of any religious belief,” he argued. For example, simply because human sacrifice is religiously motivated does not make it acceptable.

The demand for state neutrality can also lead to the view that there is no place for religion in the public sphere, he continued.

Secularism, he observed, is never neutral, but always takes a view about the proper place of religion and which principles are to guide the state. Compare, he commented, the secular states of France and Turkey, and the separation of church and state in the United States.

On the topic of freedom of conscience Trigg explained that conflicts arise when religion is pitted against rights, with religion often being sidelined. When apparent rights clash, he noted, there is often no middle ground and one side wins at the cost of the other.

Integral part

This is the wrong way to deal with such conflicts and Trigg maintained that: “Religious liberty is not contrary to human rights, but an integral part of our understanding of what human rights are.” Many, he observed, consider that religious liberty is crucial for all freedom.

Religion, Trigg commented, points to an alternative, and higher, source of authority than the state. While this makes if vulnerable, it also means it is all the more worthy of protection.

“The exaltation of the state, even if it is made to appear ‘the will of the people’, can crush the individual conscience. Thus public policy, in the name of eliminating discrimination and ensuring equality can result in a secular orthodoxy.”

British courts, Trigg said, have consistently refused to accommodate religious belief when faced with the demands of equality. Such a position, he accused, is based on a mistaken view about a hierarchy of rights and the epistemological status of religion.

Too often today, he noted, religious views are denigrated as being subjective and freedom of religion becomes reduced to freedom of worship. Why then, should religious views be protected, Trigg asked.

Religion is deeply rooted in human nature. This does not prove their truthfulness, but it does explain their centrality in human life. Religion is an integral part of what it is to be human, Trigg affirmed, and to ignore it or treat it as an individual choice of no social significance is a major underestimation of its power and significance.

Basic human good

Arbitrary restrictions on people’s religious freedom is like starving people or refusing them shelter, as religion is a basic human good. Some may wish the world were free of religion, and they should be allowed to make their case, Trigg said. They should not, however, impose this view on others or pretend that religion is of no concern in the public sphere.

Discounting religious principles in pursuit of equality treats some citizens and their interests as more important than others. “The pursuit of equality can itself produce a denial of that equality,” Trigg warned.

Therefore, when the priorities of a democratic country appear to run counter to the policies of religious institutions or to the conscience of individuals, every effort should be made to accommodate both, Trigg argued.

This applies not only to individuals but also to institutions. Religion needs institutions, which are seen by believers as repositories of truth and a means to pass on beliefs to future generations.

In the end, he concluded, public policy is always based on assumptions about what is important. Moreover, at root, such judgements will be implicitly philosophical, and even religious.

If we believe human rights matter then we must have a conception of human nature and in the West this has long been bound up with Christian principles. The challenge we now face, he explained, “is whether a strong conception of human dignity can survive long without the Christian roots that have undoubtedly nurtured it.”

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Let's see if the Church, the only Catholic organization with Standing to sue, does the right thing this time. GS

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US Bishops Decry Ruling on Abortifacients in Health Plans

Say Obama Decision Is 'Literally Unconscionable'

WASHINGTON, D.C., JAN. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The president of the U.S. episcopal conference says that a decision made by Barack Obama today is effectively a message that we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.

This was Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan's response to a decision to continue to demand that sterilization, abortifacients and contraception be included in virtually all health plans. Today's announcement means that this mandate and its very narrow exemption will not change at all; instead there will only be a delay in enforcement against some employers.

In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences, said Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a statement.

The cardinal-designate continued, To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their health care is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty.

The Health and Human Services (HHS) rule requires that sterilization and contraception -- including controversial abortifacients -- be included among preventive services coverage in almost every health care plan available to Americans.
The government should not force Americans to act as if pregnancy is a disease to be prevented at all costs, added Cardinal-designate Dolan.

At issue, the U.S. bishops and other religious leaders insist, is the survival of a cornerstone freedom that ensures respect for the conscience of Catholics and all other Americans.

This is nothing less than a direct attack on religion and First Amendment rights, said Franciscan Sister Jane Marie Klein, chairperson of the board at Franciscan Alliance, Inc., a system of 13 Catholic hospitals. I have hundreds of employees who will be upset and confused by this edict. I cannot understand it at all.

Daughter of Charity Sister Carol Keehan, president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, voiced disappointment with the decision. Catholic hospitals serve one out of six people who seek hospital care annually.

This was a missed opportunity to be clear on appropriate conscience protection, Sister Keehan said.

Cardinal-designate Dolan urged that the HHS mandate be overturned.

The Obama administration has now drawn an unprecedented line in the sand, he said. The Catholic bishops are committed to working with our fellow Americans to reform the law and change this unjust regulation. We will continue to study all the implications of this troubling decision.

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THE LAST SIX WORDS THAT CROSS AN ATHEIST'S MIND OR LIPS AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH: THANK GOD I DIED AN ATHEIST".

GS

A must read and great analogy of God vs Science. Enjoy

'Let me explain the problem science has with religion.'The atheist professor of
philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to
stand.

'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
'Yes sir, 'the student says.

'So you believe in God?'
'Absolutely.

Is God good?'

'Sure! God's good.'

'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'

'Yes'

'Are you good or evil?'

'The Bible says I'm evil.'

The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible! He considers for a moment.
'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure
him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'

'Yes sir, I would.'

'So you're good...!'

'I wouldn't say that.'

'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of
us would if we could. But God doesn't.'

The student does not answer, so the professor continues. 'He doesn't, does he?
My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to
heal him.. How is this Jesus good? Can you answer that one?'

The student remains silent.. 'No, you can't, can you?' the professor says. He
takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
'Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?'

'Er..yes,' the student says.

'Is Satan good?'

The student doesn't hesitate on this one. 'No.'

'Then where does Satan come from?'
The student falters. 'From God'

'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this
world?'

'Yes, sir..'

'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'

'Yes'

'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything, then
God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our
works define who we are, then God is evil.'

Again, the student has no answer. 'Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred?
Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?'

The student squirms on his feet. 'Yes.'

'So who created them?'

The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. 'Who
created them?' There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to
pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. 'Tell me,' he continues
onto another student. 'Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'
The student's voice betrays him and cracks. 'Yes, professor, I do.'

The old man stops pacing. 'Science says you have five senses you use to identify
and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'

'No sir. I've never seen Him.'

'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'

'No, sir, I have not..'

'Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you
ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?'

'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'

'Yet you still believe in him?'

'Yes'
'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science
says your God doesn't exist... What do you say to that, son?'

'Nothing,' the student replies.. 'I only have my faith.'

'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem science has with
God. There is no evidence, only faith.'

The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own.
'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'

'Yes.

'And is there such a thing as cold?'
'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
'No sir, there isn't.'

The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly
becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. 'You can have lots of heat,
even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat
or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit down to 458
degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the
lowest -458 degrees. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or
transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit
energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold
is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the
opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'

Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a
hammer.

'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'

'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation.. 'What is night if it isn't
darkness?'

'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of
something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light,
but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness,
isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness
isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'

The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a
good semester. 'So what point are you making, young man?'

'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start
with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'

The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. 'Flawed? Can you
explain how?'

'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains... 'You argue
that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are
viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir,
science can't even explain a thought.' 'It uses electricity and magnetism, but
has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the
opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a
substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.'
'Now tell me, professor.. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
monkey?'

'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of
course I do.'

'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'

The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the
argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.

'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even
prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your
opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'

The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has
subsided. 'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student,
let me give you an example of what I mean..' The student looks around the room.
'Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?' The
class breaks out into laughter. 'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the
professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's
brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of
empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,
with all due respect, sir.' 'So if science says you have no brain, how can we
trust your lectures, sir?'

Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face
unreadable. Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. 'I Guess
you'll have to take them on faith.'

'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,' the
student continues. 'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?' Now uncertain, the
professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it Everyday. It is in the daily
example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in The multitude of crime and violence
everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.'

To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not
exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness
and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did
not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's
love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat
or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'

The professor sat down.

If you read it all the way through and had a smile on your face when you
finished, mail to your friends and family with the title 'God vs. Science'

PS: the student was Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein wrote a book titled God vs. Science in 1921.

Rapid Response for SATURDAY, March 26, 2011

AND NOW...THE MODERN HOLOCAUST

What else can we call a nation-wide, systematic and intentional destruction of individuals for the sole reason that they exist and are "inconvenient" to the majority of their fellow human beings? Now add to that scenario the fact that the majority of those victims are of one ethnic group. What do you have? The abomination of ABORTION is what you have, where over 90,000 individuals were killed in New York City alone in 2010 - and where the large majority of those were Black babies. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the most dangerous place for a Black person to be is in the womb. And if those persons were as visible as Blacks were during the hundreds of years of slavery in this country, we would already have had a second Civil War.

Of all the most serious and divisive problems facing this country at this time, the most corrosive one, and the one most responsible for the seeming intractability of those problems is societal division over Abortion. Because it is the one most likely to engender contempt and even hatred between and among citizens on both sides of that issue - and of many other issues by extension.

That need not be. What is needed, besides a new realization of the primacy of Natural Law and a return to prayer, is elimination of the illegal involvement of the Federal government in the question via Roe v Wade and its progeny, and a return of the question to the States in this Republic. Barring that action, this country has entered a permanent period of Decline and Fall. It need not be.

GS

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Expendable Babies
Human Life as a Consumer Product

By Father John Flynn, LC

ROME, DEC. 19, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Abortion advocates have long argued for a woman's right to control her body and to be able to dispose of the unborn child if she wishes. In a bizarre decision, a Belgian court has extended that reasoning to say that a child has a right to be aborted.

A Belgian journal, "Revue Générale des Assurances et Responsabilités," has just published the decision handed down by the Brussels Court of Appeal on Sept. 21 regarding the case of a child born disabled after an erroneous prenatal diagnosis, according to the Gènéthique press review for Nov. 29-Dec. 3.

The court ruled that the child's parents could claim damages from the doctors who failed to detect the disability. They said that by making therapeutic abortion legal, the legislators intended to allow women to avoid giving birth to seriously handicapped children, "having regard not only to the interests of the mother, but also to those of the unborn child itself."

Thus, the judges considered that the child would have had the "right" to an abortion if his disability had been correctly diagnosed.

The report on the decision did not explain how the court could consider an unborn child to be able to be the subject of rights, and why that right was only one to be killed and not to live.

Good mother?

The increasingly common acceptance of the view that it is better to abort handicapped babies was taken a step further by British writer Virginia Ironside when she declared that she would be prepared to suffocate a child to end its suffering, the Daily Mail newspaper reported Oct. 5.

Her comments came during a BBC1 radio program "Sunday Morning Live." Ironside also said that aborting an unwanted or disabled baby, "is the act of a loving mother."

Her statements provoked widespread criticism. Peter Evans, speaking on behalf of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said: "For us to make judgments that people are not worth life, not worth the opportunity to live, is a very dangerous thing," the Daily Mail reported.

An accompanying article authored by Ian Birrell, the father of a disabled 16-year-old daughter, acknowledged the difficulties of caring for a handicapped child but also said that it was an intensely rewarding experience. He accused Ironside of revealing a mind-set all too common, namely that people with disabilities are inferior to others.

"Imagine the outcry if Ms Ironside had said black children or gay teenagers should be exterminated," Birrell commented.

Others, however, defended her. Guardian newspaper columnist Zoe Williams argued that she had a "valid point and was brave to make it," in an Oct. 5 article.

Williams declared that Ironside's argument was a crucial move because she had asserted the moral dimension of being pro-choice. This was a blow to what Williams describes as "the self-proclaimed moral superiority of the anti-abortionists."

The Sunday Times gave Virginia Ironside a chance to further explain her reasoning in an opinion piece published Oct. 10. She argued that mercy killings of elderly and sick people do occur and that judges usually take a lenient view of this. Extending this practice to the unborn or newly born is simply what a good mother would do, she said.

New test

The attitude of eliminating those considered unfit will be aided by new tests that make it easier to detect abnormalities. A blood test for pregnant women capable of detecting almost all genetic disorders has been developed, London's Time newspaper reported Dec. 9.

If more extensive trials confirm the preliminary results, the test could eventually replace more invasive and riskier techniques such as amniocentesis, that involves inserting a needle in the womb to take a sample of fetal tissue.

As well, the test can be used as early as the eighth week of pregnancy, well before procedures currently used, giving women longer to decide whether to have an abortion, the Times added.

Alasdair Palmer, commenting on the news in the Dec. 11 edition of the London-based Telegraph newspaper, said that tests such as this could have prevented people like him being born. Palmer, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, raised the concern of a possible increase in abortions of babies with genetic defects, including minor ones such as a cleft palate.

Down Syndrome babies are routinely aborted, he noted, and once you accept the mentality of this being an acceptable practice, it becomes difficult to draw a line. Should we abort those suffering from dyslexia, autism, or being exceptionally short, he asked.

"I cannot see any basis that would enable the law to specify, never mind enforce, a principle which says: this genetic defect is bad enough to mean that it would be better if the foetus was never born -- but this one isn't," Palmer reflected.

Even without the new test there has been a significant decline in the birth of children with genetic disorders, due to selective abortion. A lengthy report by the Associated Press, published Feb. 17, quoted Dr. Wendy Chung, clinical genetics chief at Columbia University, as saying that due to screening there are decreased rates of disorders such as Tay-sachs.

In recent years, testing for cystic fibrosis has increased, and in Massachusetts, for example, births of babies with the condition dropped from 29 in 2000 to only 10 in 2003.

In California, the Associated Press reported, Kaiser Permanente, a large health organization, offered prenatal screening. From 2006 to 2008, 87 couples with cystic fibrosis mutations agreed to have fetuses tested, and 23 were found to have the disease. Sixteen of the 17 fetuses projected to have the severest type of disease were aborted, as were four of the six fetuses projected to have less severe disease.

Sometimes couples opt for abortion even when there is no genetic problem, as the Canadian National Post newspaper reported Dec. 10.

When the wife of an un-named couple in Toronto was found to be expecting twins, they felt they could not cope with an extra two children in addition to the young child they already had. So they decided upon what is termed "selective reduction," and one of the twins was aborted.

The article quoted a New York obstetrician, Mark Evans, who is a specialist in this technique, and he said that many cases involve a couple on their second marriage who already have children and want just one more additional child.

Unique

"God loves each human being uniquely and profoundly," Benedict XVI declared in Feb. 13 speech to members of the Pontifical Academy For Life.

The Pope observed that bioethics is a crucial battleground in the struggle between the supremacy of technology and human moral responsibility. In this conflict it is vital to maintain the principle of human dignity as a source for the rights of persons.

"When respect for the dignity of the person is invoked, it is fundamental that it should be full, total and without restrictions other than those entailed in the recognition that it is always human life that is involved," he affirmed.

The Pontiff warned that history shows how dangerous the state can be when it claims to be the source and principle of ethics and legislates on matters affecting the person and society.

The slide from a right to abortion to the right to be aborted amply demonstrates the perils of abandoning fundamental ethical principles.

Billy Graham's Prayer [reportedly] For Our Nation
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'

Persistent Myths About Abortion, ZENIT News Agency

An important statement by one of the Church's clearest spokesmen. GS

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Archbishop Chaput Revisits Notre Dame Controversy
Says Cardinal Cottier May Have Underestimated Gravity

ROME, OCT. 7, 2009 (Zenit.org).- An article written by a top Vatican theologian may have missed the mark and underestimated the "gravity" of the decision made by the University of Notre Dame last spring to invite President Barack Obama to speak at commencement, says the archbishop of Denver.

Archbishop Charles Chaput said this in an article appearing Tuesday in the Italian daily Il Foglio.

The article, published in full by the Catholic News Agency, directly addressed an essay written by Cardinal Georges Cottier, a retired theologian of the Pontifical Household, and published in July by the Catholic magazine 30 Days.

Cardinal Cottier's article downplayed the disagreement voiced publicly by more than 80 bishops and 300,000 laypeople in the weeks leading up to the president's scheduled address, and praised Obama for what he termed his "humble realism."

"Regrettably and unintentionally, Cardinal Cottier's articulate essay undervalues the gravity of what happened at Notre Dame," Archbishop Chaput affirmed. "It also overvalues the consonance of President Obama's thinking with Catholic teaching."

The archbishop, noting that he speaks for himself, and not for all U.S. bishops, acknowledged that Cardinal Cottier's essay "made a valuable contribution to Catholic discussion of the new American president."

"Our faith connects us across borders," he added. "What happens in one nation may have an impact on many others. World opinion about America's leaders is not only appropriate; it should be welcomed."

Point of departure

The archbishop explained that the outcry against Obama's appearance at Notre Dame had less to do with a personal attack than a very real and fundamental disagreement with the president's "views on vital bioethical issues, including but not limited to abortion, differ sharply from Catholic teaching."

"Much is made, in some religious circles, of the President's sympathy for Catholic social teaching," the prelate explained. "But defense of the unborn child is a demand of social justice. There is no 'social justice' if the youngest and weakest among us can be legally killed. Good programs for the poor are vital, but they can never excuse this fundamental violation of human rights."

Archbishop Chaput also explained that the timing and nature of the invitation caused the conflict: "At a time when the American bishops as a body had already voiced strong concern about the new administration's abortion policies, Notre Dame not only made the president the centerpiece of its graduation events, but also granted him an honorary doctorate of laws -- this, despite his deeply troubling views on abortion law and related social issues."

But the "real source of Catholic frustration," said Archbishop Chaput, was that Notre Dame "ignored and violated the guidance of America's bishops" in a 2004 document that "urged Catholic institutions to refrain from honoring public officials who disagreed with Church teaching on grave matters."

"Thus, the fierce debate in American Catholic circles this spring over the Notre Dame honor for Mr. Obama was not finally about partisan politics," he explained. "It was about serious issues of Catholic belief, identity and witness -- triggered by Mr. Obama's views -- which Cardinal Cottier, writing from outside the American context, may have misunderstood."

Common connection

Archbishop Chaput also commented on the connection Cardinal Cottier made in his article between "President Obama's frequently stated search for political 'common ground' and the Catholic emphasis on pursing the 'common good.'"

"These goals -- seeking common ground and pursuing the common good -- can often coincide," the archbishop noted. "But they are not the same thing. They can sharply diverge in practice.

"So-called common ground abortion policies may actually attack the common good because they imply a false unity; they create a ledge of shared public agreement too narrow and too weak to sustain the weight of a real moral consensus. The common good is never served by tolerance for killing the weak -- beginning with the unborn."

Finally, the archbishop praised Cardinal Cottier for reminding "his readers of the mutual respect and cooperative spirit required by citizenship in a pluralist democracy."

"But pluralism is never an end in itself," Archbishop Chaput noted. "It is never an excuse for inaction.

"As President Obama himself acknowledged at Notre Dame, democracy depends for its health on people of conviction fighting hard in the public square for what they believe -- peacefully, legally but vigorously and without apologies."

Offerings by George A. Sprecace M.D., J.D.:

See also the What's Wrong and Right with the Catholic Church section
in The Catholic Church page of the Involved Citizen.

Rapid Response Posting for April 12, 2009, GS

Rapid Response Posting for January 11, 2009, GS

"The Stem Cell Research Issue"
by George A. Sprecace, M.D., J.D., The Day, TBD
"Stem Cell Issues Need More Debate: It's Abortion Wearing A Pretty Face"
by George A. Sprecace, M.D., J.D., The Day, Sunday, July 29, 2001

"Science Refutes Legal 'Roe v. Wade' Ruling"
by George A. Sprecace, M.D., J.D., The Day, Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Human Clones? Although the writer of the following article sounds like he may have no problem with abortion ("Stem-cell research, or therapeutic cloning, does not create a human life, does not create a sentient creature at all."), he provides vital information and insight into the latest - and most serious - deviant scientific activity that society will have to deal with
GS

Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Abortion with a Friendly Face, GS

The Reality of the Child in the Womb, GS

The following is a good recently published resource regarding one of the most thorny issues of them all: the ethical care of the permanently unconcious patient (ie. "persistent vegetative state"). GS

"Artificial Nutrition and Hydration and the Permanently Unconscious Patient" The Catholic Debate", Edited by Ronald P. Hamel and James J. Walter, Georgetown University Press, 2007. ISBN-13-978-1-5890-1178-6. (reviewed in Book and Media Reviews, JAMA, April 2, 2008, vol 299, No. 13, p1610).

Point and Counterpoint: Abortion and Alternatives

Article 1, for Sunday, March 18, 2006 Abortion and Alternatives	Article 2, for Sunday, April 2, 2006 What Abortion Is Not	Article 3, for Sunday, April 9, 2006 Alternatives To Abortion: Abstinence
Article 4, for Sunday, April 23, 2006 Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research	Article 5, for Sunday, April 30, 2006 Abortion And Alternatives: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly	Article 6, for Sunday, May 7, 2006 Some Background For End Of Life Discussions
Article 7, for Sunday, May 14, 2006 “After The Fact”: Post-Abortion Assistance to Women And Men	Article 8, for Sunday, May 21, 2006 Food And Hydration	Article 9, for Sunday, June 4, 2006 End Of Life Issues…So, What Do We Do?
Article 10, for Sunday, June 11, 2006 Of This And That…Here And Abroad	Article 11, for Sunday, June 18, 2006 Alternatives To Abortion: Adoption	Article 12, for Sunday, June 25, 2006 Euthanasia – Physician Assisted Suicide
Article 13, for Sunday, July 2, 2006 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly…A Sequel	Article 14, for Sunday, July 9, 2006 Palliative Sedation	Article 15, for Sunday, July 16, 2006 A Review…And Questions About Grey Areas
Article 16, for Sunday, August 20, 2006 Stem Cells – The Focus Of Much Research and “Hype”	Article 17, for Sunday, August 27, 2006 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly	Article 18, for Sunday, September 3, 2006 Politics And Stem Cells
Article 19, for Sunday, October 1, 2006 Respect For Life	Article 20, for Sunday, October 29, 2006 Respect For Life Issues	Article 21, for Sunday, November 26, 2006 The Election, And The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Article 22, for Sunday, December 31, 2006 The Past – And The Future	Article 23, for Sunday, January 28, 2007 Faith…And Religions	Article 24, for Sunday, February 25, 2007 A Brief Summary Of Jewish Medical Ethics: Rabbi Carl Astor
Article 25, for Sunday, March 25, 2007 Protestantism: Dr. Robert H. Bartlett	Article 26, for Sunday, May 20, 2007 Islam: Altaf Rasool, M.D.	Article 27, for Sunday, June 3, 2007 Islam: Mahmoud N. Mansour, Imam of New London Islamic Center
Article 28, for Sunday, June 24, 2007 Capital Punishment – The Death Penalty	Article 29, for Sunday, July 29, 2007 Clarification Of The Doctrine Of The Church Regarding Other Religions	Article 30, for Sunday, October 14, 2007 The Death Penalty: Politics, Economics and Morality
Article 31, for Sunday, November 25, 2007 Immigration: A Crisis All Immigrants And Citizens Share	Article 32, for Sunday, January 6, 2008 New Advances In Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research	Article 33, for Sunday, February 2, 2008 Sexual Orientation: Religion And Science
Article 34, for Sunday, March 9, 2008 Gay Marriage, or Civil Union, or What?	Article 35, for Sunday, May 25, 2008 Human Reproduction, Catholic Morality, and The “Plan B” Morass	Article 36, for Sunday, July 13, 2008 Catholics, Church, and Communication: "What we have here is a failure to communicate"
Article 37, for Sunday, August 31, 2008 Cross Not Optional, Says Benedict XVI - ZENIT News Agency	Article 38, for Sunday, September 7, 2008 History of Church Teaching on Abortion; US Bishops Issue Fact Sheet - ZENIT News Agency	Article 39, for Sunday, September 21, 2008 When Human Life Begins: Science, not politics or religion
Article 40, for Sunday, October 26, 2008

More Relevant Offerings:

"Cardinal: Let's At Least Make Abortion Rarer", ZENIT News Agency

"Intolerable Secularists", ZENIT News Agency

"The Hopeful Future in Bioethics", ZENIT News Agency

"Bioethicist Warns of Overreach...", ZENIT News Agency
"Human Embryos Not Objects, Say Europe's Bishops", ZENIT News Agency

"Biology's Chernobyl,"
        by Matt Ridley, WSJ Tuesday December 31, 2002, Opinion, p A14."
The "National Organization of Women (NOW)" recently announced that the election cycle for 2004 will prominently include a pitched battle to preserve abortion rights for women (i.e., killing their offspring) under the continuing cynical rubric "choice". Whose Choice? As in many other spheres of public interest, these "liberals" continue their articulate, arrogant and asinine assault on a moral nation. The editorial listed below is a further call to battle. OK, let's have at it!
GS

"The War Against Women,"
        New York Times, Jan. 12, 2003, Editorial, p.14

"Bush Declares Sanctity of Human Life Day,"
        Yahoo News, January 15, 2003

"Vatican Urges Catholic Politicians To Vote With Church,"
        by Victor L. Simpson, The Day, Jan 17, 2003

"VaticanCalls Catholic Politicians Into Line,"
        by Philip Pullella, Reuters, January 16, 2003

"Baby-Saving Made Easy,"
        by John Leo

Partial Birth Abortion...Infanticide -
"Partial-Sense Decision,"
        by John Leo