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Volume 20, Number 6
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November/December 2009
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Finland – Abortion Complications 20%
Looking at all abortions, surgical and chemical, performed up to two months of gestation in Finland over six years, a new study in the October 2009,
Journal of Ob and Gyn, showed that 20% of the women using the abortion pill suffered at least one
significant complication while 4% reported two or more major complications.
Honduras, No Morning-After Pill
In November, a new law took effect in Honduras.
It prohibits the consumption and marketing of the morning-after pill in this small Central American country.
Largest Pro-Life March
In October, a massive pro-life crowd in Madrid marched to protest plans for further abortion legalization. Madrid’s regional government estimated the number of attendees at 1.2 million.
The UK’s BBC guessed over 1 million.
Argentina Restricts RU 486
A new law in Argentina would restrict the sale of RU 486. It can be legally used to prevent gastric ulcers,
but has been illegally used to produce abortions.
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Scotland – Morning-After Pill?
There is a move afoot to give secondary school nurses the authority to give the morning-after pill. The idea is to cut the teenage pregnancy rate. A spokesman for the church in Scotland however said, “The morning-after pill is like the equivalent of putting an ambulance
at the foot of a cliff instead of putting a fence at the top.”
Nigeria
Voting 13 – 1, the legislature of the state of Imo rejected abortion. The national Nigerian newspaper, This Day, called this
a “victory of the superiority of the Imo cultural values over the new global Western cultural revolution.”
The Largest March Ever in the Netherlands
The annual Dutch March for Life in December was the largest since it began 17 years ago. More than 700 people participated. The silent march along the 2 km long route through the city of
Amsterdam ended with a church service and was most impressive.
Costa Rica – 50,000 March
In this tiny country, 50,000 people marched in November to tell its politicians to “defend all human life from conception to natural death,
and that marriage and the family continue to be protected in law.”
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Britain – Doctors Oppose Assisted-Suicide
In a breath of fresh air, the British Medical Association reaffirmed its opposition to assisted-suicide at its recent annual conference.
It also rejected a call to prevent prosecuting doctors who break the law by participating in assisted-suicide.
IPPF Demands Sweeping Sexual Rights
The International Planned Parenthood Federation has issued another document declaring that governments are obligated to guarantee sweeping “sexual rights” including abortion, “sexual freedom” and “comprehensive sexuality education.” They call it an intricate component of human rights.
Yes, we have heard this before.
China’s “Demographic Divident” Will Soon Fade
Over the past decades in China working-age people made up a large part of the population while retired and under-age people, a small fraction. The country has enjoyed an endless supply of labor along with a light pension burden. Thus its abundant labor and high savings ratio became a dynamic source of economic growth. However, it will soon face a slowly aging population beginning in 2015.
After that it will have to increasingly rely on quality of its workforce rather than quantity.
Obama Signs Huge Abortion Bill
The bill is a 1.1 trillion dollar spending package. It will allow tax money to be spent to fund abortions in the District of Columbia. This had been forbidden. It provides 55 million dollars for the U.N.F.P.A. to help support their coerced abortion and sterilization, one-child policy in China. It provides 648 million dollars for “international family planning.” This goes to abortion advocacy groups and abortion providers overseas. Human Life International has condemned this saying that it has “opened up the flood gates for murderous population controllers to use every means necessary to
eliminate the weakest and poorest in developing nations.”
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4th Pro-Life World Congress
This Congress has issued a statement, the “Declaration of Saragossa.” It condemns the slaughter of the unborn by abortion. Comparing the 6-12 million legal deaths in Nazi concentration camps, which was genocide, to the 800 million deaths by means of legal abortions in the countries of the world that have authorized it, it states that,
for its numbers and extension, abortion constitutes a crime against humanity, a “mega genocide.”
Africa
The African National Catholic Synod opposes abortion protocol. Concluding its nationwide meeting, the Catholic Synod Fathers have called for opposition to the
Maputo Protocol which is permissive on abortion.
Japan’s Population is Declining
Japan’s birth rate is 1.4 children per woman in her lifetime, while 2.1 are needed to replace current population. It has 127 million people, but in another 40 years, this will be 95. Further today there are 3 workers for each retiree.
In 40 years, it will be 1.5. Clearly, Japan is on a collision course with disaster.
Teen Abortions Increase in Spain
The Institute for Family Policy reports that 50% of pregnancies in teenage girls in Spain are now aborted. The morning-after pill has not stopped this increase. The increase in abortions seems to be directly related to promotion of this drug.
The Institute called the government’s policy “erroneous and outdated.”
WHO Reports Shown to be False
C-FAM’s international research group has shown that the WHO’s guidelines to U.N. member states allow nations to collect faulty data and then to use it to pressure countries to legalize abortion. Besides detail on this, it notes “quasi legal rather than scientifically based definitions used to define maternal health.” E.g. it notes that U.N. documents equate safe abortion to legal abortion and unsafe abortion to illegal abortion.
There is much more.
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Pro-Life Victory in Ireland
Pro-lifers in Northern Ireland achieved a major court victory as the Belfast High Court has ordered the recall of health guidelines that would have undermined and effectively overturned its pro-life laws. Abortion remains a criminal offense in Northern Ireland. Those who challenged the regulation called it misleading, legally inaccurate,
and said it would have brought abortion-on-demand by “bureaucratic stealth.”
Spain, Pro-Abortion Law Looms
In its Congress of Deputies, a bill legalizing abortion on demand up to 14 weeks was approved, 184-158.
The measure now goes to the Senate.
Mexico, More States Pro-Life
The state of Vera Cruz has amended its state constitution to protect life from conception. It joins 16 other Mexican states and sets the stage for
a possible amendment to the federal constitution.
Nipple Piercing Equals Breast Feeding Problems
In the JAMA, June 24, is a report of three patients who as adolescents had nipple piercing which apparently lead to some duct obstruction and a resultant minimal amount
of milk being expressed, even with frequent breast pumping, thus limiting breast feeding.
“Catholic” Politicians – No Communion
Being Catholic is apparently a privilege, not a right, and denying its basic teachings removes you from membership. When the Pope, then Cardinal Ratzinger, was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, he stated that: “Worthiness to receive Holy Communion by a Catholic politician, who votes for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws, after being duly instructed and warned, said politician ‘must’ be denied Communion.” More recently, Cardinal Canizares head of the Congregation for Divine Worship has said, “The strongest words are found in St. Paul: ‘One who goes to the Eucharist and is not duly prepared eats his own condemnation.’”
The Cardinal stated that this is the strongest thing that can be said.
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Legal Abortion Laws are Hazardous to Mother’s Health
In direct contradistinction to the common pro-abortion claim that restrictive laws cause more maternal deaths, let’s look at recent statistics. The nation with strongest pro-life laws, Ireland is first with one death for every 100,000 live births. Equally restrictive, Poland has 8 deaths. In the U.S. with virtually no restrictions but excellent medical care we have 17 deaths.
South Africa has the most liberal abortion law in Africa and has 400 deaths for 100,000 live births.
Two-thirds of Abortion Centers Have Closed
Operation Rescue has released an extensive research report showing that the number of abortion facilities continues to dwindle as Americans become more pro-life. In 1991, it estimates there were 2,200 abortion clinics in the U.S. Today, there are 713. The only negative part of this report is the fact that Planned Parenthood, while continuing to close some of its abortuaries,
it is also continuing to build a few new mega-centers.
U.S. - Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than…
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s latest report in 2005, abortion killed over 203,000 blacks in the 36 states and two additional cities, New York and District of Columbia, which reported abortions by race. During that same year 198,000 blacks died from heart disease, cancers, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide and lower respiratory diseases combined.
These were the seven leading causes of deaths for black Americans that year.
Peru
The Peruvian Constitutional Court has banned the free distribution of the so-called emergency contraceptive pill on the basis that it is an abortifacient. When taken one or two days before having sex, it can prevent ovulation and therefore pregnancy. But when taken after having sex, if conception has occurred, it prevents the one-week-old living human embryo from planting in the nutrient lining of the woman’s womb.
Clearly, this is an abortion effect.
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The “Pill” Increases Stroke
Loyola University Health System Neurologist reports that oral contraceptives almost exactly double the
risk of stroke from 4.4 to 8.5 strokes per 100,000 women.
Another Pro-Abortion Myth Exploded
Reporting in the journal, Public Health, Dr. Priscilla Coleman, professor at Bowling Green University, Ohio, along with Dr. Vincent Rue and Dr. Catherine Coyle debunk the fact that many women believe that abortion will contribute to maintaining a good relationship with the baby’s father. They state that, “For both men and women the experience of abortion in a previous relationship was related to negative outcomes in the current relationship and further of an increase in intimate partner violence.” Specifically, it found an increase of 116% of arguing when discussing future children, an increase in domestic violence of 196%, more arguments about money in 75%, about the man’s relatives in 80%, about her relatives in 99%, more jealousy in 96%, and more conflict about drugs in 386%. All of these factors suggest that abortion may play a
substantially greater role in the cause of many relationship problems.
Lithuania Condemned
The European Parliament has voted 349-218 to condemn Lithuania for her “law on the protection of minors.” This law was passed in June, vetoed by Lithuania’s president and then overridden by its Parliament. The law takes effect in March. It will punish anyone who promotes “homosexual, bisexual,
or polygamous relations” among children 17 and under.
No to Euthanasia in France
The French National Assembly in November rejected an attempt to legalize euthanasia by a vote of 326 – 202.
This solidly rejects any attempt to follow the example of its northern neighbors, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
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Pre-Term Births Increase Death Rate
A U.S. government report states that premature births are the main reason that the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries. In the U.S., one of eight births is a preemie, compared to Northern Europe where it is one in eighteen. Poor prenatal care, maternal obesity, smoking, previous cesarean section, and induced labor, are among the reasons listed. Strangely, this report omits previous induced abortion,
which has been shown to increase prematurity by at least one-third.
Adult Stem Cells Help Heart Attacks
In the Dec. 8, 2009, Journal of American College of Cardiology, a report on a ten university study shows a definite benefit to heart attack patients by the use of intravenous injection of adult stem cells.
The cells migrated to the damaged heart and began repair.
Adult Stem Cells Cure Sickle Cell Anemia
Adult stem cells have been used successfully to treat children with sickle cell anemia.
Now in a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it is reported that adults can also be successfully treated.
According to this research 9 out of 10 patients, three years later, were cured of the disease.
New Abortion Risks Confirmed
Research at the University of Toronto, published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, demonstrated that induced abortions significantly increase the risk of having a premature or underweight baby in the future. If she has had one abortion, the increase risk of having a low birth rate baby is 72% and premature birth is 93%.
Further, each subsequent abortion increases her risk. This study reviewed 37 abortion studies from around the world.
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