abortion
MISSOURI: The Missouri house and senate voted to override Governor Carnahan’s veto of the Infant’s Protection Act, which protects all children “partially born or born” except in a case of “a physician using procedures consistent with the usual and customary standards of medical practice to save the life of the mother during pregnancy or birth or to save the life of any unborn or partially born child of the same pregnancy.” And the bill states, in section 6, “This section shall not apply to any person who performs or attempts to perform a legal abortion if the act that causes the death is performed prior to the child being partially born, even though the death of the child occurs as a result of the abortion after the child is partially born.” The bill has been challenged in court.
The Missouri house and senate voted to override Governor Carnahan’s veto of the Infant’s Protection Act, which protects all children “partially born or born” except in a case of “a physician using procedures consistent with the usual and customary standards of medical practice to save the life of the mother during pregnancy or birth or to save the life of any unborn or partially born child of the same pregnancy.” And the bill states, in section 6, “This section shall not apply to any person who performs or attempts to perform a legal abortion if the act that causes the death is performed prior to the child being partially born, even though the death of the child occurs as a result of the abortion after the child is partially born.” The bill has been challenged in court.
(Reading: “A New Law Barring a Type of Abortion Is Roiling Missouri,” New York Times, 8/18/99; or contact Missouri Right to Life)
birth control
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
Comment: Clearly this study was not unbiased.
(Reading: “Low Dose Oral Contraceptives and Quality of Life,” Contraception, 1999:59:287-291)
USER ATTITUDES: In his recent study of 1,303 women, Bjorn Oddens does nothing to mask his disdain for natural methods of spacing children. In analyzing mood changes among women using various family planning methods, he writes, “It was striking to observe that the highest rates of negative mood changes were reported with regard to the less reliable methods [i.e., condoms and NFP], feeling tense, restless, anxious, and less relaxed.” He terms these “psychological side effects” and notes the highest rate of satisfaction among women either sterilized or using the pill.
(Reading: “Women’s Satisfaction with Birth Control,” Contraception, 1999:59:277-286)
congress
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
(Reading: “Abortion Forces Square Off over Fetus Protection Bill,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/12/99; e-mail “>Mr. Johnson)
imposed death [euthanasia, assisted suicide]
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
(Reading: 9/7/99 letter to Judie Brown from J. P. Stanton, Pro-Life Union Inc., http://www.chooselifepa.org; “Saving a Life vs. Honoring a Will,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/21/99)
WILL TO LIVE: Researchers studying 585 patients who were admitted for palliative care between November 1993 and May 1995 have determined that the most critical changes in attitude regarding the will to live involve depression, anxiety, shortness of breath and sense of well being. They conclude that those considering legislation enabling active euthanasia must consider “a sustained wish to die” and “better palliative care for patients approaching death.”
(Reading: “Will to Live in the Terminally Ill,” The Lancet, 354:9/4/99:816-819)
in vitro fertilization
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
COMMENT: Researchers were not clear about the fate of those tiny boys and girls who did not become part of the implantation phase. We can assume they died.
(Reading: “Development and Integration of an Extended Embryo Culture Program,” Fertility and Sterility, 72:3:418-422)
morning after pill
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
(Reading: “Teenage After-Sex Pill Backed by Carey,” The Times (U.K.), 9/9/99)
physicians
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmerweb site)
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmer web site)
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmer web site)
politics
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
BUSH/WHITMAN? Fred Barnes commented “If George W. Bush is elected president, she’ll [Whitman] be in the cabinet,” and upon hearing how Bush was handing abortion, Whitman said he is handling it “just right.”
(Reading: National Journal Group Inc. Hotline, 9/8/99, p. 19; for subscription information contact: 1501 M. Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005; RNC/Life FaxNotes, 9/10/99)
selective reduction
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
(Reading: “Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction in Cases of Threatened Abortion of Triplets,” Fertility and Sterility, 72:3:423-426)
stem cell research
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
(Reading: “Association Adopts Position on Stem Cell Research,” Advances, 19:3:4)
CULTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: In a letter to Congress, COLF president Bob Best urges a continuation of the Congressional ban on federally-funded experimentation on human embryos “to safeguard against any possible attempts to re-interpret the law or any possible attempts to fund such experimentation despite the law.”
(Reading: 8/5/99 letter to Congress)
web news
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
zinger
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
(Reading: “Punishing Accidents, Ignoring Murder,” Texas Straight Talk, 9/20/99)
reflection for prayer
Augustine, as quoted in Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. VI, p. 1357:
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
MISSOURI: The Missouri house and senate voted to override Governor Carnahan’s veto of the Infant’s Protection Act, which protects all children “partially born or born” except in a case of “a physician using procedures consistent with the usual and customary standards of medical practice to save the life of the mother during pregnancy or birth or to save the life of any unborn or partially born child of the same pregnancy.” And the bill states, in section 6, “This section shall not apply to any person who performs or attempts to perform a legal abortion if the act that causes the death is performed prior to the child being partially born, even though the death of the child occurs as a result of the abortion after the child is partially born.” The bill has been challenged in court.
The Missouri house and senate voted to override Governor Carnahan’s veto of the Infant’s Protection Act, which protects all children “partially born or born” except in a case of “a physician using procedures consistent with the usual and customary standards of medical practice to save the life of the mother during pregnancy or birth or to save the life of any unborn or partially born child of the same pregnancy.” And the bill states, in section 6, “This section shall not apply to any person who performs or attempts to perform a legal abortion if the act that causes the death is performed prior to the child being partially born, even though the death of the child occurs as a result of the abortion after the child is partially born.” The bill has been challenged in court.
(Reading: “A New Law Barring a Type of Abortion Is Roiling Missouri,” New York Times, 8/18/99; or contact Missouri Right to Life)
birth control
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
Comment: Clearly this study was not unbiased.
(Reading: “Low Dose Oral Contraceptives and Quality of Life,” Contraception, 1999:59:287-291)
USER ATTITUDES: In his recent study of 1,303 women, Bjorn Oddens does nothing to mask his disdain for natural methods of spacing children. In analyzing mood changes among women using various family planning methods, he writes, “It was striking to observe that the highest rates of negative mood changes were reported with regard to the less reliable methods [i.e., condoms and NFP], feeling tense, restless, anxious, and less relaxed.” He terms these “psychological side effects” and notes the highest rate of satisfaction among women either sterilized or using the pill.
(Reading: “Women’s Satisfaction with Birth Control,” Contraception, 1999:59:277-286)
congress
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
(Reading: “Abortion Forces Square Off over Fetus Protection Bill,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/12/99; e-mail “>Mr. Johnson)
imposed death [euthanasia, assisted suicide]
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
(Reading: 9/7/99 letter to Judie Brown from J. P. Stanton, Pro-Life Union Inc., http://www.chooselifepa.org; “Saving a Life vs. Honoring a Will,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/21/99)
WILL TO LIVE: Researchers studying 585 patients who were admitted for palliative care between November 1993 and May 1995 have determined that the most critical changes in attitude regarding the will to live involve depression, anxiety, shortness of breath and sense of well being. They conclude that those considering legislation enabling active euthanasia must consider “a sustained wish to die” and “better palliative care for patients approaching death.”
(Reading: “Will to Live in the Terminally Ill,” The Lancet, 354:9/4/99:816-819)
in vitro fertilization
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
COMMENT: Researchers were not clear about the fate of those tiny boys and girls who did not become part of the implantation phase. We can assume they died.
(Reading: “Development and Integration of an Extended Embryo Culture Program,” Fertility and Sterility, 72:3:418-422)
morning after pill
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
(Reading: “Teenage After-Sex Pill Backed by Carey,” The Times (U.K.), 9/9/99)
physicians
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmerweb site)
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmer web site)
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmer web site)
politics
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
BUSH/WHITMAN? Fred Barnes commented “If George W. Bush is elected president, she’ll [Whitman] be in the cabinet,” and upon hearing how Bush was handing abortion, Whitman said he is handling it “just right.”
(Reading: National Journal Group Inc. Hotline, 9/8/99, p. 19; for subscription information contact: 1501 M. Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005; RNC/Life FaxNotes, 9/10/99)
selective reduction
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
(Reading: “Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction in Cases of Threatened Abortion of Triplets,” Fertility and Sterility, 72:3:423-426)
stem cell research
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
(Reading: “Association Adopts Position on Stem Cell Research,” Advances, 19:3:4)
CULTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: In a letter to Congress, COLF president Bob Best urges a continuation of the Congressional ban on federally-funded experimentation on human embryos “to safeguard against any possible attempts to re-interpret the law or any possible attempts to fund such experimentation despite the law.”
(Reading: 8/5/99 letter to Congress)
web news
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
zinger
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
(Reading: “Punishing Accidents, Ignoring Murder,” Texas Straight Talk, 9/20/99)
reflection for prayer
Augustine, as quoted in Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. VI, p. 1357:
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
MISSOURI: The Missouri house and senate voted to override Governor Carnahan’s veto of the Infant’s Protection Act, which protects all children “partially born or born” except in a case of “a physician using procedures consistent with the usual and customary standards of medical practice to save the life of the mother during pregnancy or birth or to save the life of any unborn or partially born child of the same pregnancy.” And the bill states, in section 6, “This section shall not apply to any person who performs or attempts to perform a legal abortion if the act that causes the death is performed prior to the child being partially born, even though the death of the child occurs as a result of the abortion after the child is partially born.” The bill has been challenged in court.
(Reading: “A New Law Barring a Type of Abortion Is Roiling Missouri,” New York Times, 8/18/99; or contact Missouri Right to Life)
birth control
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
QUALITY OF LIFE: Examining how women rate “Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction,” researchers funded by Organon, a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the Mercilon birth control pill, discovered total satisfaction, and comment that “the absence of fear of an unwanted pregnancy” was a pivotal factor.
Comment: Clearly this study was not unbiased.
(Reading: “Low Dose Oral Contraceptives and Quality of Life,” Contraception, 1999:59:287-291)
USER ATTITUDES: In his recent study of 1,303 women, Bjorn Oddens does nothing to mask his disdain for natural methods of spacing children. In analyzing mood changes among women using various family planning methods, he writes, “It was striking to observe that the highest rates of negative mood changes were reported with regard to the less reliable methods [i.e., condoms and NFP], feeling tense, restless, anxious, and less relaxed.” He terms these “psychological side effects” and notes the highest rate of satisfaction among women either sterilized or using the pill.
(Reading: “Women’s Satisfaction with Birth Control,” Contraception, 1999:59:277-286)
congress
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT (H.R. 2436): “The bill explicitly excludes any abortion to which the woman consents,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right-to-Life Committee, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We just want to see justice be done on behalf of the child.”
(Reading: “Abortion Forces Square Off over Fetus Protection Bill,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/12/99; e-mail “>Mr. Johnson)
imposed death [euthanasia, assisted suicide]
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
PENNSYLVANIA: Former abortionist Marshall Klavan’s estate is suing the Crozer-Chester hospital for not following Klavan’s instructions and allowing him to die. Klavan had signed a living will, but because he had attempted suicide, the emergency room staff of the hospital where he practiced resuscitated him. In the hospital’s motion to dismiss charges against them, hospital attorney Sprague wrote that the life-saving procedures used “should not be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. Society has not yet reached the point where medical caregivers’ well-meaning efforts to save a professional colleague’s life are regarded as indecent, atrocious and intolerable.”
(Reading: 9/7/99 letter to Judie Brown from J. P. Stanton, Pro-Life Union Inc., http://www.chooselifepa.org; “Saving a Life vs. Honoring a Will,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/21/99)
WILL TO LIVE: Researchers studying 585 patients who were admitted for palliative care between November 1993 and May 1995 have determined that the most critical changes in attitude regarding the will to live involve depression, anxiety, shortness of breath and sense of well being. They conclude that those considering legislation enabling active euthanasia must consider “a sustained wish to die” and “better palliative care for patients approaching death.”
(Reading: “Will to Live in the Terminally Ill,” The Lancet, 354:9/4/99:816-819)
in vitro fertilization
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
EMBRYO CULTURES: Researchers, using embryos donated to them, have shown that a culture process that allows the tiny baby to grow to the eight-cell stage results in a more successful implantation rate, while at the same time revealing that those embryos implanted will continue to live.
COMMENT: Researchers were not clear about the fate of those tiny boys and girls who did not become part of the implantation phase. We can assume they died.
(Reading: “Development and Integration of an Extended Embryo Culture Program,” Fertility and Sterility, 72:3:418-422)
morning after pill
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
GREAT BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, endorsed the morning after pill for teens but did say “it was quite wrong to offer the morning-after pill merely as an antidote to pregnancy,” according to news reports.
(Reading: “Teenage After-Sex Pill Backed by Carey,” The Times (U.K.), 9/9/99)
physicians
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmerweb site)
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmer web site)
CAN YOU HELP? Pharmacist Karen Brauer is helping Katherine Dowling, M.D., identify members of the medical profession who have been discriminated against because of their pro-life views. If you can help or have recommendations for those who have stories to tell, please e-mail “>Karen Brauer, who is forwarding material to Dr. Dowling with complete confidentiality. And, visit Karen’s Hoosier Pharmer web site)
politics
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
ALAN KEYES: Keyes supporters in New Hampshire are offering a free audio tape of Mr. Keyes. Send a request including your mailing address to “>Jerry Avila.
BUSH/WHITMAN? Fred Barnes commented “If George W. Bush is elected president, she’ll [Whitman] be in the cabinet,” and upon hearing how Bush was handing abortion, Whitman said he is handling it “just right.”
(Reading: National Journal Group Inc. Hotline, 9/8/99, p. 19; for subscription information contact: 1501 M. Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005; RNC/Life FaxNotes, 9/10/99)
selective reduction
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
THREATENED ABORTION: Researchers in Tel Aviv found that patients who underwent first trimester multi-fetal pregnancy reduction where triplets were involved and when uterine bleeding occurred exhibited a higher abortion rate (miscarriage), lower twin birth weights and premature labor. They conclude: “In patients with moderate to heavy bleeding, selective feticide remains questionable and should be performed with caution until further studies are completed.”
(Reading: “Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction in Cases of Threatened Abortion of Triplets,” Fertility and Sterility, 72:3:423-426)
stem cell research
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCATION: “In keeping with its mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association opposes any ban on federal funding for human stem cell research, provided that appropriate ethical and oversight guidelines are in place.”
(Reading: “Association Adopts Position on Stem Cell Research,” Advances, 19:3:4)
CULTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: In a letter to Congress, COLF president Bob Best urges a continuation of the Congressional ban on federally-funded experimentation on human embryos “to safeguard against any possible attempts to re-interpret the law or any possible attempts to fund such experimentation despite the law.”
(Reading: 8/5/99 letter to Congress)
web news
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
DONAL O’MATHUNA: Now available on a special site, outstanding articles on many areas of ethical concern, including human suffering, abortion and prayer; and for his excellent analysis of the ethical problems with destructive human embryonic research for the harvesting of stem cells, see Stem Cell Research and the Moral Status of Human Embryos.
zinger
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT: From U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): “It is certainly the case that a person who harms or causes the death of an unborn child should suffer the consequences, but in this legislation the application is artificial and arbitrary. It is okay for one person to kill a baby if they have the letters ‘M.D.’ after their name, but not if they were in a fight with the expectant mother?”
(Reading: “Punishing Accidents, Ignoring Murder,” Texas Straight Talk, 9/20/99)
reflection for prayer
Augustine, as quoted in Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. VI, p. 1357:
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.