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DID YOU KNOW?
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Senator Sam Brownback, a pro-life Kansas Republican, is co-sponsor of a Bill which is designed to help reduce the number of abortions of babies with Down’s Syndrome and other conditions. The Senate has approved the Bill ~ in September 2008 ~ Up to now, doctors left parents with few options when confronted with the prospects of a disabled unborn child. This legislation would require giving families who receive a Down’s Syndrome or any other condition pre-natally, or up to a year after birth, pertinent helpful information. This would include information about the condition and connections to support services and networks that could offer help in raising a disabled child. It is hoped that the Bill will help reduce the number of abortions.Lifenews.com
Americans received good news back in January 2008 when new figures were published by Planned Parenthood. Lifenews.com highlighted the fact that abortions nationwide had fallen to their lowest point in 30 years! The figures revealed a declineof 25% since 1990. According to the CDC this decline has had an effect on the infant mortality rate, because abortion increases the riskof premature births in future pregnancies.New figures from the CDC show that the infant mortality at 6.86 per 1,000 live births – a drop compared tot he 6.89 rates in 2000 and 7.57 rate in 1995. It also shows the long term consequence of abortion as the CDC noted, “The percentage of infant deaths that were ‘preterm-related’ increased from 34.6% in 2000 to 36.5% in 2005.” Abortion is linked to subsequent premature births, and premature births often lead to a higher infant mortality. In a French study undertaken in May 2005 it was shown that induced abortion can increase the risk of premature birth in subsequent pregnancies by as much as 70%. Because it is known that abortions can damage the lining of the uterus, where unborn children grow and develop, it is also quite common for these embryos to be lost through miscarriage.
Marie Stopes Internationalin a campaign for “full access to legal, voluntary, safe and affordable abortions as part of comprehensive health care” around the world only managed to collect 500 signatures on an online petition. The campaign had been sponsored by the groups IPAS and U.K. based ‘Abortion Rights’. It had been launched in London in October 2007 at an event held in conjunction with the UN & UNICEF. Samantha Singson had a detailed look at those who had signed and found that 20% of the signatures are from employees of the sponsoring organization! LifeInfonet.
‘Dave’s Digest’ The birth control pill, a chemical abortifacient, disturbs the natural selection process, by which a woman identifies her perfect match, a recent study conducted at the University of Liverpool shows. This is significant data. We’ve known for a long time that birth control ruins marriages and leaves families emotionally devastated; now we know there’s apparently a biological reason for it. Birth control pills are duping women into falling for the wrong men!
The study reported by “The Times” on August 13th found that ‘the pill’ disturbs one of the primary ways women find compatible mates: odour attraction. Women are naturally attracted to men with dissimilar, complementary genes that are identified through their scent. ‘The pill’ disrupts this process and makes women attracted to men with genes similar to their own.When women go off ‘the pill’ their attraction to their partners is often decreased. They realize they’ve picked the wrong man! And we wonder why the divorce rate is so high?“Not only could similarity in couples lead to infertility problems, but it could ultimately lead to the breakdown of relationships when women stop using ‘the pill’, as odour perception plays a significant role in maintaining attraction to partners,” said Dr. Craig Roberts, the study’s lead researcher. Source: (stopp@all.otg)
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ARE WE ROBBING SOCIETY?
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Dan and Julie Zanoza from the U.S.A. are haunted by this question. What makes them ask it? Well, 30 years ago they made a joint decision to abort a baby. They know that decision will haunt them for all their lives.
Besides taking a human life, they feel that aborting a child is robbing society. They ask themselves every day how many doctors, teachers, poets and engineers will the world miss because of abortion? Maybe one of the 50 million babies in the U.S.A. could have discovered a cure for cancer or A.I.D.S.? How many handicapped children have our culture missed and who could have taught us compassion and patience? Are we a different society because one out of three children, perfect or not, weren’t given the chance to survive? Can it be said that the world is a better place because they were killed?
They asked a friend, “If by some miracle you knew that a pregnant woman’s child would one day find a cure for Alzheimer’s, would you still believe a woman has a right to choose?~ LifeNews.com
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IS ABORTION A WOMAN’S ISSUE?
~ SHOULD MEN STAY OUT OF THE DEBATE?
By Brian Kemper (LifeNews.com)
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I often get E-mails and messages telling me that I should stay out of the ‘abortion issue’ because I am a man. I’ve been told that I have no business getting involved since I can never get pregnant. Some even go so far as to tell me that, if men could get pregnant, we would make abortion a sacrament.
The problem with this argument is that it’s meant to detract from the key issue of personhood. Most arguments you will hear from the pro-abortion side are simply rabbit trails meant to steer clear of the personhood fight; it is still just one part of the culture of death and the destruction of personhood.
This is not just about women, either. It’s about everyone involved including the mother, the father and the baby. To think that the mother of the child being killed is the only one who has any right to an opinion is absurd. Unfortunately men, who call themselves pro-life, often use this argument. They say that while they are pro-life, they have no business telling a woman not to kill her child. Imagine if the rest of the world had the same attitude during the Nazi holocaust?
“We are not Germans so we have no right telling them not to kill other people.” That is an insane argument! No one could agree with a statement like that. To know about the killing of an innocent person and do nothing about it because it was ‘none of your business’ -- how absurd! Right now it is extremely popular to stand up and be a voice in Darfur. Should we tell people to mind their own business because we’re not from there and therefore have no right to an opinion? Or should we not be worried about the blatant human rights violations going on in China simply because we are not Chinese?
Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”’
The evil of killing children has triumphed in America for 35 years and in Britain for 40 years.
This triumph, I believe, has been fuelled by the apathy and denial of this generation.
Have you noticed how popular superhero movies are right now? We love to see Spiderman or Batman take out the bad guys as we cheer them on from the sidelines. We teach our kids that crime doesn’t pay. I wonder what kind of lesson we teach them when we ourselves ignore evil because it’s “none of our business”? We know what is happening in abortion mills and doctors’ offices every day. We know that little boys and girls are being destroyed in the name of choice as we turn a blind eye. Some people are waiting for politicians to step up, as if they are going to be like Superman and swoop down to rescue the children right before the doctor’s suction machine destroys them.
As a man, as a father, and as a human I will not stay out of the ‘abortion issue’. It is not a women’s issue. We must see it for what it is: the killing of innocent human persons. It is our fellow humans facing genocide.
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PARENTS DID NOT LISTEN TO DOCTORS!
By Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor 04.08.08
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Opponents of assisted suicide have always said that legalizing the grisly practice would lead to euthanasia, where patients would be killed without their request or consent. A Wyoming man, who was formerly brain dead and comatose, is glad that his parents didn’t listen to doctors, who suggested taking his life.
Kevin Monk suffered both severe physical and brain injuries when he was involved in an automobile accident eight years ago. The 25 year old went into a coma after the impact of the accident and had no brain function for 18 days afterwards.
Monk spent 3 months in a coma and during that time, he told the Casper Star Tribune, that his physicians apparently tried to talk his parents into taking his life. “Some of the doctors told Mum and Dad just to pull the plug” Monk said, upset to learn that now he is recovering from his injuries. “Doctors are there to heal, not to give up!”
Monk’s mother Janice also told the paper about the prompting by doctors and incorrect diagnosis that her son would never recover and be in a persistent vegetative state. “We heard that for months,” Janice stated. “From every place we went, they told us he’d never be anything but a vegetable.”
Wesley J. Smith, author and attorney, who specializes in end-of-life issues, warned about this attitude that it, is better to die than live cognitively disabled when he wrote his book “Culture of Death” in 2001. “I was accused of being alarmist, but in the years since, this trend has only gotten worse,” Wesley Smith said. “It really does seem to me that my warning was spot on.”
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