Archive for May, 2013
The “Back Alley” Simply Moved to Main Street
Source: TooManyAborted.com
Abortion activists love their folklore. Women. Hangers. Millions of deaths. None of it’s true, but it sure sounds scary in a sound bite. Planned Parenthood’s own Medical Director, Dr. Mary Calderone, in a 1959 article decrying the lack of social acceptance of abortion declared: “Abortion is no longer a dangerous procedure…90% of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians. Many of these physicians are in good standing in their communities.”
The Radiance Foundation exposes the mythology of “back alley” abortions
Canadian research group sees demographic caused economic collapse of Asian nations including China
Source LifeSiteNews.com
In its quarterly examination of the economic outlook for the world’s major economies, the Conference Board of Canada identifies rapidly aging populations coupled with well-below-replacement-level birth rates in the Asia-Pacific region as indicators that the once powerful economies of these countries are headed toward economic collapse.
“Productivity gains and a large, young working-age population have done much to boost Asian economic growth over the past three decades. But Asia’s demographic dividend is quickly coming to an end. Due to fewer births and longer life expectancies, the average age of the population in Asia is increasing rapidly,” says Kip Beckman, principal economist and author of the Conference Board’s World Outlook-Spring 2013. (more…)
Action Alert: Stand Up for Conscience Protection TODAY!
Stand Up for Conscience Protection TODAY!
From John F. Brehany, Ph.D., S.T.L.
Executive Director and Ethicist
Catholic Medical Association
The Obama administration is continuing its attacks on conscience rights and religious freedom, and Congress is not hearing from enough American citizens that this is an important issue. It is essential that we step up and make our voices heard TODAY! Today, there is a concerted effort to rally people across the nation to speak out on this issue.
Here is what we ask you to do:
- Contact your elected representatives in the House and Senate. Tell them you are concerned about lack of protection for conscience rights and religious freedom — particularly in health care — and ask them to co-sponsor and vote for legislation that will provide effective protections;
- Post this Action Alert on your FaceBook page TODAY and send it to all your FaceBook Friends;
- Post this Action Alert on Twitter TODAY and forward tweets on the subject. #ConscienceProtection #ReligiousFreedom.
If we do not defend conscience rights and religious freedom, for ourselves and future generations, we will lose them, because there are powerful, determined people who want to take these profound goods away from us. TAKE ACTION NOW, TODAY!
Thank you.
John F. Brehany, Ph.D., S.T.L.
Executive Director and Ethicist
Catholic Medical Association
In Christ,
Press Conference: Abortion and the impact on Black America
Abortion & the Impact on Black America ……is there a Gosnell in your Community?
With host: Star Parker
Tuesday: May 14th, 2013
Sponsored by Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), in conjunction with ministry partners:
- ProtectingBlackLife.org
- National Black Pro-life Union
- Black Pro-Life Coalition
Attending
- Leading Black Pastors from across the nation
- Prominent Lawmakers from Capitol Hill
Press Conference: 9:30am – 11:00am
National Press Club
529 14th St., NW, 13th Floor
Washington. DC 20045
202-662-7500
Legislative Briefing: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
The Capitol Hill Club
300 First St., SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-484-4590
For more information contact
Lonnie Poindexter, Lonnie@urbancure.org
Mitt Romney steers Southern Virginia University grads to family and God
by
David Ress
Source: Roanoke.com
BUENA VISTA — With a word of thanks to Southern Virginia University students who pitched in on his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney invited the school’s 145th class to dive wholeheartedly into life to raise families and serve God.
“Hundreds of you gave up vacation time to help a candidate for president, for which I owe you deeply. Thank you so much,” he said.
But he didn’t come to talk politics to the small college where most share his Mormon faith.
In only his second public speech since losing the election, Romney set his theme by quoting a verse from the Gospel of Luke when Jesus advised fishermen who had failed to catch anything to head farther out and launch their boat into deeper waters to set his theme. (more…)
Abortion, Contraception Consequences on Display in Gosnell’s ‘house of horrors’
By Bishop James Conley
Our news outlets are not known for their squeamish attitude toward violence. On the contrary, reporters are often criticized for fixating on violence, exploiting it as fodder for the 24-hour news cycle.
We rarely see journalists shying away from a gruesome case. Yet, the media has been reluctant to cover the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell – a Philadelphia abortionist accused of committing unspeakable crimes at his “Women’s Medical Center.” (more…)
Vatican Cardinal: ‘Individual bishops’, not just conferences must fight culture of death
ROME, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishops of the world must, as individuals, take the lead in combating the Culture of Death, and not wait for the national conferences, Cardinal Raymond Burke told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview yesterday.
“It should be emphasized that the individual bishop has a responsibility in this matter. Sometimes what happens is the individual bishops are unwilling to do anything because they wait for the national bishops’ conference to take the lead.”
Warning against some of the bureaucratic trends of “truth by committee” in the Church’s organisation, Cardinal Burke said, “Simply by the way these conferences work, it can be years before some kind of effective direction is given, and then oftentimes because this direction is discussed and debated, it can get very watered down.”
Philippines archdiocese to distribute pro-life, pro-family candidates list
MANILA, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With less than three weeks until the May 13 elections in the Philippines, one of the country’s largest Catholic archdioceses has prepared a list of candidates that have publicly taken a stand on the side of church teaching on pro-life and pro-family issues.
Speaking on the Mornings@ANC TV show, Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles said the decision to distribute sample ballots containing names of candidates who are “one with the church on controversial issues,” came in response to requests from Catholics to the archdioceses for guidance.
“The people are asking to be told,” said the archbishop. “The others have made the choice but many want to know who are the right persons, so we make it available. We're starting to do that now.”
He said that the list of acceptable candidates was created after consultations with lay leaders, who ranked candidates according to their stand on abortion, divorce, the new reproductive-health law, and protection of the environment.
Only vote for politicians who oppose abortion, divorce, gay ‘marriage’: Filipino archbishop
DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines, April 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Filipino prelate has issued a pastoral letter encouraging Catholics to support only those candidates in the forthcoming election who “declare a categorical and clear NO to divorce, abortion, euthanasia, total birth control and homosexual marriages”
Most Rev. Socrates B. Villegas, the archbishop of the archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, said that while the Church does not interfere in elections by endorsing candidates, it does offer guidance to voters to examine the candidates “from the viewpoint of faith and with the mind of the Church enlightened by the values of the Gospel.”
The archbishop offered ten concrete moral guidelines to the faithful in the light of which to consider the candidates, with the admonition that “If Jesus would vote, for whom would he vote? Vote like Jesus. If you cannot find Jesus from among the candidates just make sure you do not make Judas or Barabbas win.”
Public Library of Science: H1N1 vaccine increased incidence of Incurable Neurologic disease in an exceptionally large number of Finnish children
Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a leading journal created in 2003 to rival existing elite journals such as Science and Nature.
In 2012 PLOS reported the increased incidence of a serious neurologic disorder called Narcolepsy.
Annual incidence of narcolepsy by age group and year of diagnosis.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033723.g003 (Adapted from PLOS)
As it is depicted in the chart adults were not affected but children were seriously affected. The most injured were the 11-16 y group (in red).
How serious is narcolepsy. A report from Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent from Reuters UK of January of 2013 tells the story of Emelie.
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