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Volume 18, Number 5
UNICEF Promotes Abortion
This UN Children's Fund, which persistently denies that it supports abortion in any way, is now on record supporting a new global initiative that calls for world wide legal abortion. As usual, this is marketed as a campaign to raise awareness on maternal and child health. The groups sponsoring this include WHO, UNFPA, IPPF, The Gates Foundation, and a variety of federal agencies,
all of which are aggressively pro-abortion.
Dominican Republic and Abortion
There is a major move afoot to legalize abortion in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic. In response to this, the local Catholic Church has initiated a large-scale offensive. Two hundred and sixty Catholic Churches will hold coordinated anti-abortion protests all on the same day. This will include signs on public sidewalks and thoroughfares. It will involve preaching in the churches. Further, a human chain will completely encircle the Capitol building and Catholics throughout the nation will turn their headlights on during the day to symbolize their protection for the unborn and rejection of abortion. It will conclude with a March for Life through the capital city, including singers, and other artists showing works of art, pro-life works, and performing. Pro-lifers have stated that if legalization occurs, the Dominican Republic will become the slaughterhouse of the Caribbean.
We wish them well.
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September/October 2007
Slovakia - Abortion Law
The Health Ministry in Slovakia had proposed a law that would have forced all hospitals to provide abortions. In response to this, the local right-to-life group, Pravo Na Zivot waged a relentless campaign to awaken Slovakian citizens to the violence of abortion. It placed 500 graphic abortion billboards across the nation and in transportation networks. In response to this,
the Health Ministry retreated and rescinded the law completely.
Nicaragua Bans All Abortions
Despite intense UN intimidation, and despite countries like Sweden threatening to cut off all aid, the Nicaraguan Congress has voted 66-3 to renew their law, totally banning induced abortions.
The President has signed the bill.
Australia - Aboriginal Families Collapsing
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced an effort to stem a devastating societal breakdown within Australia's aboriginal communities, noting widespread alcohol and substance abuse, gambling, violence, and frequent and brutal sexual abuse of children at young ages. He has unveiled a plan, which will ban alcohol and pornography from aboriginal lands and will insure that 50% of
all welfare checks are spent only on food and other necessities.
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France - A Baby Boom
Many nations with declining birth rates have attempted various subsidies to encourage more births. France seems to have so far been the only successful one. It heavily subsidizes pregnancy and childcare. A working woman who quits to have her child still gets 80% of her salary during her sixteen- week maternity leave. When she goes back to work, she gets subsidized childcare costing as little as $300 a month. Some do not have to return to their jobs until the toddler turns three years old. A woman with three minor children gets the equivalent of $400 a month in benefits. All of this has jacked up the French birth rate to almost two children per women, which is sharply above that of Western Europe, Canada, Australia,
and is approximately equal to the birth rate in the United States.
Irish Population Is Up
Due to a combination of increased life expectancy and the second highest birth rate in Western Europe, the Irish population is increasing. Irish women have an average of 1.9 children with only France and Malta being higher. A troubling statistic is
that over one-third of all births in Ireland are now illegitimate.
UN - Again Global Population Irreversible
In a UN report updated from 2002, the UN states that the aging global population would have serious worldwide consequences in the near future. It blamed this on low fertility and increased longevity. Typically, it did not even mention the connection with contraception, abortion, and sterilization. It stated that the population aging is "unprecedented, a process without parallel in the history of humanity." People over 60 years will soon outnumber children, and by 2050 will be one-third of the population in the developed regions, with underdeveloped nations progressively approaching that percent. Today's medium worldwide age is 28. It will rise to 38. The oldest nation now, Japan, has a medium age of 43. The youngest is Uganda at 15. It stated that this trend would profoundly affect every area of human life, economical, political and social.
Older people who were 8% of the population 50 years ago will rise to
22% by 2050.
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Time Off to Make a Baby
The Russian region of Ulyanovsk has declared a holiday allowing its citizens to time off from work to conceive a child. It will award prizes to those who give birth exactly nine months later. This is the third year for such a contest and the number of
participants and prizes has increased each year.
Britain - Abortion Increased
In 1969, the first full year after abortion was legalized, there were 55,000 abortions in Britain.
Last year there were 214,000.
Maputo Plan Through African Union Deceptive
A document called The Maputo Plan of Action was approved in a special session of African Union health ministers one year ago. It directly calls for legal abortion. Pro-aborts are pushing it as a consensus document, which is not true. The UN's Friday Fax details that the African Union's heads of states have never approved the document, and that trickery and deception were used by the UN Population Fund and others to push for the "ratification" of this document under false pretenses. This treaty has been ratified by 21 African countries, but it is a Trojan horse. Its promoters claim it increases women's rights and fights female genitalia mutilation. Actually, it is a blueprint for
legalizing abortion and penalizing the traditional family in all of
Africa.
Poland Birth Rate Up - Population Down
In the last few years there have been more births than deaths in Poland. However, a large number of Poles have emigrated seeking work in Western Europe.
The net result is a population of 38,000,000 and shrinking.
Wrong Twin Killed
A major abortion debate has erupted in Italy. A mother, pregnant with twins, reported doctors to authorities when they killed her
healthy unborn baby and left the handicapped twin alive.
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China Crack Down on Births
Rather than in any way modifying their One-Child Policy, the Chinese government has now increased fines for couples who violate this Policy. The fines will be escalated if their income is greater. Calls had been heard for a relaxation, because of its effect of creating an aging population and a gender imbalance. However, we are told that there is not the slightest doubt that the One-Child Policy will continue to be enforced. Nationwide in China, six males are born for every five females and forecasts have been made by demographers that in another ten years 37 million men will be unable to find wives.
The figure today stands at 18 million.
Close Call in Uruguay
Once again Uruguay came within one vote of legalizing abortion. In their last legislative session two years ago, a proposal to legalize abortion had been defeated at the last minute by a very narrow margin, and this has happened again. A pro-abortion bill had stalled on a vote of 15 to 15. Because of the tie a second vote was taken. Two pro-abortion legislators changed on this second vote to vote pro-life and the measure was defeated.
And so the babies in Uruguay are safe for at least another one
or two years.
Amnesty International Now Promotes Sodomy
After recently enshrining abortion as a human right, Amnesty International has now gone further down the road to degeneracy by targeting nations that criminalize sodomy as "grave violators of human rights."
They began with Nicaragua.
If Abortion Is Illegal, Will Women Die?
Ireland has been an international test market on this question. Abortion there has always been illegal. For a recent three-year period, Ireland reported the lowest maternal death rate in the world. During the same period, the maternal death rate in Britain was five times as high. Abortion in Britain has been legal for almost four decades.
The statistics are from the World Health Organization.
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New UK Prime Minister Brown No Help
Mr. Gordon Brown, the UK's new prime minister, has appointed several pro-abortion people to ministries that relate to the protection and supervision of human life. Unfortunately,
this may predict that there will be no actual pro-life reform
of the abortion law.
Abortions Not Morally Acceptable
A poll by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, considered the most pro-abortion daily in the country, has revealed the results of a national poll. It found that only 3% of the Brazilian people consider abortion to be "morally acceptable"
while 87% completely reject it.
Amniocentesis Kills Babies
A new analysis by Dr. H. Meire published in the
British Medical Ultrasound Society Journal reported an alarming fall out. The risk of amniocentesis to the unborn has always been known and has hovered at approximately one dead baby for every one hundred amniocentesis done. Now he calculates the cost of locating a Down syndrome baby in the womb. According to his calculations, 160 healthy babies are lost for every 50 Down syndrome cases detected by amniocentesis. As we know, upwards of 80% of such affected babies then are directly killed by abortion.
But this is the first time the actual toll of normal babies has
been publicized.
New Sex Test Kit Available
On the Internet from DNA Worldwide, one can now obtain the pink or blue early test kit, which tests the blood of the mother to check for male Y chromosome in the unborn baby's DNA. It claims that it can reveal the sex of the baby in the first six weeks of pregnancy, and is done on a finger stick sample of blood. Pro-life leaders and medical professionals are rightly concerned about this,
as it almost certainly will lead to more sex selection abortions.
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Mouse Stem Cells Pluripotent
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have announced that they have reprogrammed mature mouse skin cells into cells that are indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells. These were pluripotent and exhibited all of the same criteria that define embryonic stem cells, including the ability to give rise to live mice. Published in the June 2007 issue of
Nature, this research has been independently confirmed by
scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles.
Europe - Stem Cell Controversy
A coalition of nations led by Germany has been working to block funding for embryonic stem cell research. Italy and several other nations strongly support this effort. Sweden, the UK, and others favor open research and open exchange across all European nations. A compromise has been proposed that EU money would not directly fund the killing of
embryonic human life. Let's wait and see.
Fetal Abnormality Abortion and Live Birth
The British Journal of Ob-Gyn has published a study regarding abortion for fetal abnormality. They analyzed a ten-year period of time during which there were over 600,000 births in the United Kingdom. Among these there was a total of 3,189 cases of "termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormally." Of this number, they report 102 live births. They note "survival duration was a median of 80 minutes, with six cases surviving six hours or more." Clearly, all of these newborn children died. There is no mention of any type of post partum resuscitation or other care.
We assume they were left to die on their own.
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Germans Subsidize Adult Stem Cells
The German government has announced that it will allocate 5 million euros for non-embryonic adult stem cell research. Since 2002,
the production of embryonic stem cells has been banned in Germany.
New Study Implicates Abortion Breast Cancer Link
In the October issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, there is an article on this link. It shows that among seven risk factors for breast cancer, abortion is "the best predictor." Also useful were the issues of fertility and previous pregnancies. This study predicts that countries such as England, with high abortion rates, can expect a substantial increase in breast cancer incidence in a few years. Where abortion rates are very low, i.e. Ireland, it predicts a much smaller increase in breast cancer. In countries where a decline in abortion is taking place,
it predicts a middle ground.
Deaths Occurring with HPV Vaccine
In the year since it has been introduced the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine given to young girls has been associated with at least five deaths
and over 3,500 adverse reactions.
Anencephaly Baby Ten Months Old
Anencephaly is a congenital abnormality. Babies born with this condition have no cerebral hemispheres, i.e. the large portion of a normal brain. They are born with only the basal portions, the brain stem. These children are commonly either born dead or die almost immediately after birth, but some have survived longer. It looks like the record now is a little girl from Rio de Janeiro, who is now ten months old, and weighs 25 pounds. She is active, recognizes her mother, and cries when she is not carried.
She is beginning to swallow liquids.
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J.C. Willke, President,
International Right to Life Fed.
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Cincinnati,
Ohio 45239 USA
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