abortion
CANADA: Claiming that therapeutic abortion is “one of the safest operations currently available,” Dr. Garson Romalis, a Canadian abortionist who was shot in 1995, complains that abortion needs to be taught in more residency training programs and in more medical schools. He writes, “It is axiomatic that contraception is preferable to abortion, but despite the widespread availability of contraception, contraceptive methods fail, and patients fail to use contraceptives.” He also writes, “any discussion of abortion would be incomplete if we did not mention emergency contraception.”
(Reading: “Current Abortion Management,” BC Medical Journal, 12/99, pp. 552-554; “Applause for Dr.Romalis,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 5/5/98)
NEBRASKA: Amid the debate over the use of ten-week-old aborted babies’ brain tissue for research purposes, it is of interest that LeRoy H. Carhart, M.D., an abortionist since 1973, has been working closely with the University of Nebraska. He operates the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska. He is also “the only Nebraska doctor allowed to perform dangerous drug-induced abortions as part of a national study.”
(Reading: “Most Regents at NU Say They Support Controversial Research,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 12/10/99; “Nebraska: State Sees Increase in Abortions in 1998,” CNS Information Services, 3/8/99; Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska)
adolescent sexuality
AMA: The Council on Scientific Affairs for the American Medical Association recommends (Resolution 416,A-98) that adolescents who are “sexually experienced and need information to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and STD” should have access to sex education and distribution of condoms in schools.
(Reading: “Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs,” CSA Report 7-1-99, available by fax or first class mail only, phone: 512-328-6268; for a detailed outline of condom failure: Condom Fact Sheet; detailed analysis exposing the hazards of sex education: STOPP [Stop Planned Parenthood International])
birth control pill
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM: A recent study points out that oral contraceptive treatment has the potential of diminishing the efficacy of the anticoagulant action of activated protein C (APC). This could explain the increased risk of venous thromboembolism in Pill users though a final conclusion “remains to be established.”
(Reading: “Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives and Acquired Resistance to Activated Protein C: A Randomized Cross-Over Study,” The Lancet, 12/11/99, pp. 2036-2040)
century in review
CONGRESS: Planned Parenthood’s Responsible Choices network published a listing of 1999 in review. It offers a few revelations for those who thought 1999 was a good year for pro-life politics in Congress. The UNFPA is still receiving money, even though it is involved in Chinese population control. Title X of the Public Health Service Act, a funnel to Planned Parenthood, received an “historic $24 million increase.” The flawed partial birth abortion bill was defeated in the Senate when the Senate attempted to override the Clinton veto. And President Clinton exercised his power to make sure that the “global gag rule” [Congressional language that would have forbidden recipients of federal funding overseas from promoting or performing abortion] did not take effect. The penalty for his decision was a mere three percent reduction in taxpayer dollars made available to the anti-life population control movement. They will still receive in excess of $350 million.
(Reading: “Happy Holidays to Our Planned Parenthood Responsible Choices Activists” update, 12/17/99)
ROE V. WADE REALLY DUMB: Arkansas columnist Bradley Gitz chose the “10 dumbest ideas in American politics in the 20th century.” Among the top ten, number six is Roe vs. Wade, which Gitz describes as “the most logically unintelligible example of legal reasoning since Dred Scott.”
(Reading: “Ten Really Dumb Ideas,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 12/10/99)
condoms
DUAL METHOD USE: Researchers comment that “condom use overall is substantially less than that needed to protect women and men against sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV).” They recommend that steps be taken to understand why “levels of dual method use are low and how they can be increased.”
(Reading: “Determinants of Trends in Condom Use in the United States, 1988-1995,” Family Planning Perspectives, 11-12/99, pp. 264-271)
EFFICACY: A research team has reported that “consistent use of condoms provides protection from HIV. The level of protection approximates 87 percent with a range depending upon the incidence among condom nonusers.”
COMMENT: Accordingly, at a minimum and noting the author’s caveats, 13 percent of condom users will contract AIDS and die! A new form of Russian roulette?
(Reading: “The Effectiveness of Condoms in Reducing Heterosexual Transmission of HIV,” Family Planning Perspectives, 11-12/99, pp. 272-279)
fetal surgery
TEXAS: Dr. Roger Wallace of El Paso performed fetal surgery that cleared the bladder of a baby boy still in the womb and expected to be born in approximately twenty weeks. Dr. Wallace pointed out that fetal surgeries could save dozens of El Paso babies, and that he is developing a full-scale fetal surgery program at Providence Hospital in El Paso.
(Reading: “Unborn Child Gets Rare Lifesaving Survey,” El Paso Times, 12/11/99)
fetal tissue research
LEGAL: An analysis of the research currently being conducted at the University of Nebraska and the University of Iowa points out that: “The National Institutes of Health awarded 288 grants during 1998 and 1999 for research involving human fetal tissue.” It is further pointed out that “elective abortions” provide the material needed for such research.
(Reading: “U of I Uses Fetal Cells in Research,” Omaha World, 12/14/99)
PARKINSON’S DISEASE #1: In the fall 1999 edition of the Parkinson’s Regional Report (a division of American Parkinson’s Disease Association), support is provided for the use of “fetal midbrain tissue” collected at six to nine weeks gestational age. Comments can be sent to Kim Furlan, editor, Parkinson’s Regional Report, Seton Medical Center, 1900 Sullivan Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE #2: Joan Samuelson, president of Parkinson’s Action Network Foundation, testified before Congress with actor Michael J. Fox in favor of using embryonic stem cells and other material obtained from destroyed babies. Comments can be sent to Ms. Samuelson via the Parkinson’s Action Network Foundation web site.
health care
FAMILY CAREGIVERS: A study of family caregivers and their health finds that emotional strain is “an independent risk factor for mortality among elderly spousal caregivers.” Among recommendations made, institutionalizing the patient and engaging a permanent alternate caregiver are options.
(Reading: “Caregiving as a Risk Factor for Mortality,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 12/15/99, pp. 2215-2219)
imposed death
“COMPASSIONATE” KILLING: Dr. Marcia Angell writes in opposition to the Congressional proposal known as the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999, that if the Supreme Court does not ultimately find this bill unconstitutional, “Congress will have done great harm–to dying patients, both those who want the option of physician-assisted suicide and those who simply want their suffering relieved, and to their physicians, who should be able to offer compassionate care without fear of reprisal.” It should be noted that the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 has not passed Congress.
(Reading: “Caring for the Dying – Congressional Mischief,” New England Journal of Medicine, 12/16/99, pp. 1923-1924)
population control
SAFE MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE: Maurice King comments that even though some researchers believe that “the widespread distribution of contraceptives is no longer recognized as the best method of lowering maternal mortality,” it all depends. “If we change the denominator from babies to their mothers, family planning becomes the most effective method of reducing maternal mortality.” The decline in actual fertility, he argues, is the goal.
COMMENT: King perhaps views the baby as a disease.
(Reading: “Safe Motherhood,” The Lancet, 12/11/99, pp. 2085-2086)
you
ABORTION AND BREAST CANCER: Contact “>Joel Brind, Ph.D., for a subscription to the ABC Quarterly Update. Annual subscription fee is $45.00. Checks can be sent to The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, 9 Vasser St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
reflection for prayer
Thou has made us for thyself and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
CANADA: Claiming that therapeutic abortion is “one of the safest operations currently available,” Dr. Garson Romalis, a Canadian abortionist who was shot in 1995, complains that abortion needs to be taught in more residency training programs and in more medical schools. He writes, “It is axiomatic that contraception is preferable to abortion, but despite the widespread availability of contraception, contraceptive methods fail, and patients fail to use contraceptives.” He also writes, “any discussion of abortion would be incomplete if we did not mention emergency contraception.”
(Reading: “Current Abortion Management,” BC Medical Journal, 12/99, pp. 552-554; “Applause for Dr.Romalis,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 5/5/98)
NEBRASKA: Amid the debate over the use of ten-week-old aborted babies’ brain tissue for research purposes, it is of interest that LeRoy H. Carhart, M.D., an abortionist since 1973, has been working closely with the University of Nebraska. He operates the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska. He is also “the only Nebraska doctor allowed to perform dangerous drug-induced abortions as part of a national study.”
(Reading: “Most Regents at NU Say They Support Controversial Research,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 12/10/99; “Nebraska: State Sees Increase in Abortions in 1998,” CNS Information Services, 3/8/99; Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska)
adolescent sexuality
AMA: The Council on Scientific Affairs for the American Medical Association recommends (Resolution 416,A-98) that adolescents who are “sexually experienced and need information to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and STD” should have access to sex education and distribution of condoms in schools.
(Reading: “Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs,” CSA Report 7-1-99, available by fax or first class mail only, phone: 512-328-6268; for a detailed outline of condom failure: Condom Fact Sheet; detailed analysis exposing the hazards of sex education: STOPP [Stop Planned Parenthood International])
birth control pill
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM: A recent study points out that oral contraceptive treatment has the potential of diminishing the efficacy of the anticoagulant action of activated protein C (APC). This could explain the increased risk of venous thromboembolism in Pill users though a final conclusion “remains to be established.”
(Reading: “Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives and Acquired Resistance to Activated Protein C: A Randomized Cross-Over Study,” The Lancet, 12/11/99, pp. 2036-2040)
century in review
CONGRESS: Planned Parenthood’s Responsible Choices network published a listing of 1999 in review. It offers a few revelations for those who thought 1999 was a good year for pro-life politics in Congress. The UNFPA is still receiving money, even though it is involved in Chinese population control. Title X of the Public Health Service Act, a funnel to Planned Parenthood, received an “historic $24 million increase.” The flawed partial birth abortion bill was defeated in the Senate when the Senate attempted to override the Clinton veto. And President Clinton exercised his power to make sure that the “global gag rule” [Congressional language that would have forbidden recipients of federal funding overseas from promoting or performing abortion] did not take effect. The penalty for his decision was a mere three percent reduction in taxpayer dollars made available to the anti-life population control movement. They will still receive in excess of $350 million.
(Reading: “Happy Holidays to Our Planned Parenthood Responsible Choices Activists” update, 12/17/99)
ROE V. WADE REALLY DUMB: Arkansas columnist Bradley Gitz chose the “10 dumbest ideas in American politics in the 20th century.” Among the top ten, number six is Roe vs. Wade, which Gitz describes as “the most logically unintelligible example of legal reasoning since Dred Scott.”
(Reading: “Ten Really Dumb Ideas,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 12/10/99)
condoms
DUAL METHOD USE: Researchers comment that “condom use overall is substantially less than that needed to protect women and men against sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV).” They recommend that steps be taken to understand why “levels of dual method use are low and how they can be increased.”
(Reading: “Determinants of Trends in Condom Use in the United States, 1988-1995,” Family Planning Perspectives, 11-12/99, pp. 264-271)
EFFICACY: A research team has reported that “consistent use of condoms provides protection from HIV. The level of protection approximates 87 percent with a range depending upon the incidence among condom nonusers.”
COMMENT: Accordingly, at a minimum and noting the author’s caveats, 13 percent of condom users will contract AIDS and die! A new form of Russian roulette?
(Reading: “The Effectiveness of Condoms in Reducing Heterosexual Transmission of HIV,” Family Planning Perspectives, 11-12/99, pp. 272-279)
fetal surgery
TEXAS: Dr. Roger Wallace of El Paso performed fetal surgery that cleared the bladder of a baby boy still in the womb and expected to be born in approximately twenty weeks. Dr. Wallace pointed out that fetal surgeries could save dozens of El Paso babies, and that he is developing a full-scale fetal surgery program at Providence Hospital in El Paso.
(Reading: “Unborn Child Gets Rare Lifesaving Survey,” El Paso Times, 12/11/99)
fetal tissue research
LEGAL: An analysis of the research currently being conducted at the University of Nebraska and the University of Iowa points out that: “The National Institutes of Health awarded 288 grants during 1998 and 1999 for research involving human fetal tissue.” It is further pointed out that “elective abortions” provide the material needed for such research.
(Reading: “U of I Uses Fetal Cells in Research,” Omaha World, 12/14/99)
PARKINSON’S DISEASE #1: In the fall 1999 edition of the Parkinson’s Regional Report (a division of American Parkinson’s Disease Association), support is provided for the use of “fetal midbrain tissue” collected at six to nine weeks gestational age. Comments can be sent to Kim Furlan, editor, Parkinson’s Regional Report, Seton Medical Center, 1900 Sullivan Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE #2: Joan Samuelson, president of Parkinson’s Action Network Foundation, testified before Congress with actor Michael J. Fox in favor of using embryonic stem cells and other material obtained from destroyed babies. Comments can be sent to Ms. Samuelson via the Parkinson’s Action Network Foundation web site.
health care
FAMILY CAREGIVERS: A study of family caregivers and their health finds that emotional strain is “an independent risk factor for mortality among elderly spousal caregivers.” Among recommendations made, institutionalizing the patient and engaging a permanent alternate caregiver are options.
(Reading: “Caregiving as a Risk Factor for Mortality,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 12/15/99, pp. 2215-2219)
imposed death
“COMPASSIONATE” KILLING: Dr. Marcia Angell writes in opposition to the Congressional proposal known as the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999, that if the Supreme Court does not ultimately find this bill unconstitutional, “Congress will have done great harm–to dying patients, both those who want the option of physician-assisted suicide and those who simply want their suffering relieved, and to their physicians, who should be able to offer compassionate care without fear of reprisal.” It should be noted that the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 has not passed Congress.
(Reading: “Caring for the Dying – Congressional Mischief,” New England Journal of Medicine, 12/16/99, pp. 1923-1924)
population control
SAFE MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE: Maurice King comments that even though some researchers believe that “the widespread distribution of contraceptives is no longer recognized as the best method of lowering maternal mortality,” it all depends. “If we change the denominator from babies to their mothers, family planning becomes the most effective method of reducing maternal mortality.” The decline in actual fertility, he argues, is the goal.
COMMENT: King perhaps views the baby as a disease.
(Reading: “Safe Motherhood,” The Lancet, 12/11/99, pp. 2085-2086)
you
ABORTION AND BREAST CANCER: Contact “>Joel Brind, Ph.D., for a subscription to the ABC Quarterly Update. Annual subscription fee is $45.00. Checks can be sent to The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, 9 Vasser St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
reflection for prayer
Thou has made us for thyself and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
CANADA: Claiming that therapeutic abortion is “one of the safest operations currently available,” Dr. Garson Romalis, a Canadian abortionist who was shot in 1995, complains that abortion needs to be taught in more residency training programs and in more medical schools. He writes, “It is axiomatic that contraception is preferable to abortion, but despite the widespread availability of contraception, contraceptive methods fail, and patients fail to use contraceptives.” He also writes, “any discussion of abortion would be incomplete if we did not mention emergency contraception.”
(Reading: “Current Abortion Management,” BC Medical Journal, 12/99, pp. 552-554; “Applause for Dr.Romalis,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 5/5/98)
NEBRASKA: Amid the debate over the use of ten-week-old aborted babies’ brain tissue for research purposes, it is of interest that LeRoy H. Carhart, M.D., an abortionist since 1973, has been working closely with the University of Nebraska. He operates the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska. He is also “the only Nebraska doctor allowed to perform dangerous drug-induced abortions as part of a national study.”
(Reading: “Most Regents at NU Say They Support Controversial Research,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 12/10/99; “Nebraska: State Sees Increase in Abortions in 1998,” CNS Information Services, 3/8/99; Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska)
adolescent sexuality
AMA: The Council on Scientific Affairs for the American Medical Association recommends (Resolution 416,A-98) that adolescents who are “sexually experienced and need information to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and STD” should have access to sex education and distribution of condoms in schools.
(Reading: “Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs,” CSA Report 7-1-99, available by fax or first class mail only, phone: 512-328-6268; for a detailed outline of condom failure: Condom Fact Sheet; detailed analysis exposing the hazards of sex education: STOPP [Stop Planned Parenthood International])
birth control pill
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM: A recent study points out that oral contraceptive treatment has the potential of diminishing the efficacy of the anticoagulant action of activated protein C (APC). This could explain the increased risk of venous thromboembolism in Pill users though a final conclusion “remains to be established.”
(Reading: “Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives and Acquired Resistance to Activated Protein C: A Randomized Cross-Over Study,” The Lancet, 12/11/99, pp. 2036-2040)
century in review
CONGRESS: Planned Parenthood’s Responsible Choices network published a listing of 1999 in review. It offers a few revelations for those who thought 1999 was a good year for pro-life politics in Congress. The UNFPA is still receiving money, even though it is involved in Chinese population control. Title X of the Public Health Service Act, a funnel to Planned Parenthood, received an “historic $24 million increase.” The flawed partial birth abortion bill was defeated in the Senate when the Senate attempted to override the Clinton veto. And President Clinton exercised his power to make sure that the “global gag rule” [Congressional language that would have forbidden recipients of federal funding overseas from promoting or performing abortion] did not take effect. The penalty for his decision was a mere three percent reduction in taxpayer dollars made available to the anti-life population control movement. They will still receive in excess of $350 million.
(Reading: “Happy Holidays to Our Planned Parenthood Responsible Choices Activists” update, 12/17/99)
ROE V. WADE REALLY DUMB: Arkansas columnist Bradley Gitz chose the “10 dumbest ideas in American politics in the 20th century.” Among the top ten, number six is Roe vs. Wade, which Gitz describes as “the most logically unintelligible example of legal reasoning since Dred Scott.”
(Reading: “Ten Really Dumb Ideas,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 12/10/99)
condoms
DUAL METHOD USE: Researchers comment that “condom use overall is substantially less than that needed to protect women and men against sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV).” They recommend that steps be taken to understand why “levels of dual method use are low and how they can be increased.”
(Reading: “Determinants of Trends in Condom Use in the United States, 1988-1995,” Family Planning Perspectives, 11-12/99, pp. 264-271)
EFFICACY: A research team has reported that “consistent use of condoms provides protection from HIV. The level of protection approximates 87 percent with a range depending upon the incidence among condom nonusers.”
COMMENT: Accordingly, at a minimum and noting the author’s caveats, 13 percent of condom users will contract AIDS and die! A new form of Russian roulette?
(Reading: “The Effectiveness of Condoms in Reducing Heterosexual Transmission of HIV,” Family Planning Perspectives, 11-12/99, pp. 272-279)
fetal surgery
TEXAS: Dr. Roger Wallace of El Paso performed fetal surgery that cleared the bladder of a baby boy still in the womb and expected to be born in approximately twenty weeks. Dr. Wallace pointed out that fetal surgeries could save dozens of El Paso babies, and that he is developing a full-scale fetal surgery program at Providence Hospital in El Paso.
(Reading: “Unborn Child Gets Rare Lifesaving Survey,” El Paso Times, 12/11/99)
fetal tissue research
LEGAL: An analysis of the research currently being conducted at the University of Nebraska and the University of Iowa points out that: “The National Institutes of Health awarded 288 grants during 1998 and 1999 for research involving human fetal tissue.” It is further pointed out that “elective abortions” provide the material needed for such research.
(Reading: “U of I Uses Fetal Cells in Research,” Omaha World, 12/14/99)
PARKINSON’S DISEASE #1: In the fall 1999 edition of the Parkinson’s Regional Report (a division of American Parkinson’s Disease Association), support is provided for the use of “fetal midbrain tissue” collected at six to nine weeks gestational age. Comments can be sent to Kim Furlan, editor, Parkinson’s Regional Report, Seton Medical Center, 1900 Sullivan Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE #2: Joan Samuelson, president of Parkinson’s Action Network Foundation, testified before Congress with actor Michael J. Fox in favor of using embryonic stem cells and other material obtained from destroyed babies. Comments can be sent to Ms. Samuelson via the Parkinson’s Action Network Foundation web site.
health care
FAMILY CAREGIVERS: A study of family caregivers and their health finds that emotional strain is “an independent risk factor for mortality among elderly spousal caregivers.” Among recommendations made, institutionalizing the patient and engaging a permanent alternate caregiver are options.
(Reading: “Caregiving as a Risk Factor for Mortality,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 12/15/99, pp. 2215-2219)
imposed death
“COMPASSIONATE” KILLING: Dr. Marcia Angell writes in opposition to the Congressional proposal known as the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999, that if the Supreme Court does not ultimately find this bill unconstitutional, “Congress will have done great harm–to dying patients, both those who want the option of physician-assisted suicide and those who simply want their suffering relieved, and to their physicians, who should be able to offer compassionate care without fear of reprisal.” It should be noted that the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 has not passed Congress.
(Reading: “Caring for the Dying – Congressional Mischief,” New England Journal of Medicine, 12/16/99, pp. 1923-1924)
population control
SAFE MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE: Maurice King comments that even though some researchers believe that “the widespread distribution of contraceptives is no longer recognized as the best method of lowering maternal mortality,” it all depends. “If we change the denominator from babies to their mothers, family planning becomes the most effective method of reducing maternal mortality.” The decline in actual fertility, he argues, is the goal.
COMMENT: King perhaps views the baby as a disease.
(Reading: “Safe Motherhood,” The Lancet, 12/11/99, pp. 2085-2086)
you
ABORTION AND BREAST CANCER: Contact “>Joel Brind, Ph.D., for a subscription to the ABC Quarterly Update. Annual subscription fee is $45.00. Checks can be sent to The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, 9 Vasser St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
reflection for prayer
Thou has made us for thyself and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in thee.