abortion
COMPLICATIONS FOR TEENS: The Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social ChangeMarch/April newsletter addresses “differential adverse impact on teenagers who undergo induced abortion.”
adolescent sexuality
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON TEENAGERS: The Clinton White House hosted its first-ever conference on teens. The conference material is on the White House web site. One recommended web site link, “After School,” is particularly interesting since it directly links to Planned Parenthood’s Teen Wire. Taxpayers, of course, subsidized the entire conference.
birth control pill
BREAST CANCER: Homefirst Health Services reports, “The evidence is overwhelming that estrogen is intimately connected to the development of most breast cancers. Estrogen encourages breast cells to divide more often and more rapidly. Thus, if a mutation (inherited or triggered by a carcinogen) lies imbedded in the DNA, cancer cells are more likely to proliferate when high estrogen levels are present. Breast cancer rates in women have increased in tandem with the widespread use of birth control pills and estrogen replacement therapy, both of which increase the amount of estrogen circulating in a woman’s body over her lifetime.”
(Reading: “Estrogen the Common Link to Breast Cancer,” Homefirst Family Health Forum newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 6, subscription only.)
clinical trials
FERTILE WOMEN: Researchers argue that current requirements for drug trials requiring women to be in some cases excluded if they are fertile, but not using contraception, discriminates based on their fertility. “Equitable research restrictions must be based on actual risk to individual women not the potential risk to a potential fetus.” And, “The effort to control one’s choice regarding exposure of fetuses will ultimately fail, as it lies with the actions of the subject . male or female. That decision, and the decision of a woman or family to consider abortion, is based on values and circumstances that individual investigators cannot fully understand, and so they must depend on the individual to deliberate and choose.”
(Reading: “Contraceptive Requirements for Clinical Research,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6/00, pp. 861-866)
down syndrome
REFINED SCREENING: Yale researchers have discovered “a new Down syndrome biochemical marker” which “combined with ultrasound biometry had a high screening efficiency in a high-risk group.”
(Reading: “Urine Hyperglycosylated hCG Plus Ultrasound Biometry for Detection of Down Syndrome in the Second Trimester in a High-Risk Population,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6/00, pp. 889-894)
emergency abortion (“contraception”) a.k.a. medical abortion
CLARIFICATION: Because American Life League recognizes the fact that the emergency is a baby, we will no longer refer to the pills that kill as emergency contraception; they are emergency abortion pills.
LIE: The College of Pharmacists of British Columbia provides questions and answers for pharmacists who are asked about emergency (morning after) abortion pills. A citation is made from a 1997 New England Journal of Medicine article, which states, “The prevention of pregnancy before implantation is contraception and not abortion. Intervention within 72 hours after intercourse cannot possibly amount to abortion, because implantation is not achieved until at least seven days after ovulation and the egg is capable of being fertilized for only 24 hours.”
COMMENT: A human being – a person – begins at the beginning: fertilization!
(Reading: May 2000 College of Pharmacists of B.C. memorandum; “Drug Therapy: Emergency Postcoital Contraception,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 10/9/97, paid subscribers only)
eugenics
TECHNO-EUGENICS E-MAIL NEWSLETTER: The most recent issue covers the “Enhancing the Human” seminar held at UCLA this past May where “human germline enhancement” was discussed. The same edition reports on physicist Freeman Dyson, who claims that “wealthy parents will be able to buy what they consider superior genes for their babies. Within a few generations, the children of the rich and poor could become separate species.”
(Reading: Techno-Eugenics E-mail Newsletter #9, 6/12/00; for a subscription contact “>Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D.)
gay rights
WHITE HOUSE: President Clinton proclaims June 2000 “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” For the text of the proclamation see the White House web site.
gobbledygook
VATICAN SPOKESPERSON’S BLOOPER: Kathryn Hoomkwap of Nigeria, Vatican representative at the recent Beijing+5 conference, is reported to have said, “the Holy See reaffirms its BELIEF [emphasis added] that life begins at conception and that every human life must be protected from the earliest moment to the end of the life cycle.”
CORRECTION: We are certain Hoomkwap meant to say that the Holy See KNOWS, since the balance of her statement is a scientific fact, not a religious belief, as Professor Dianne Irving points out.
(Reading: “U. N. Women’s Blueprint Builds on Beijing Conference,” Reuters, 6/9/00)
infanticide
CANADA: The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons drafted rules governing when a physician may euthanize seriously deformed newborn infants. If approved, “physicians will be able to inject the heart of the fetus with a fatal dose of sodium chloride so when it is induced it will not be born live. This is already done in selective termination . when women expecting multiple births want the number reduced.”
COMMENT: And it is already done in the United States.
(Reading: “Fatal Injection OK’d for Malformed Fetuses,” Calgary Herald, 6/6/00; the guidelines are available upon request.)
media
VATICAN DOCUMENT: “Ethics in Communications,” promulgated by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, emphasizes “the final goal of any work in the domain of public opinion should be service to the human person and the community.”
politics
“GORE-Y” IDEA.PASS IT ON: The Knox County chapter of Tennessee Right to Life will run ads presenting the drawings of exactly what occurs during a partial birth abortion. The ads will run every Sunday from late September until the Sunday prior to the November election. On that Sunday, since the organization cannot endorse a political candidate, outside supporters will run the same ad, but with the message, “Do you want a president that supports this? Al Gore supports partial birth abortion!!!” You are invited to learn more, and perhaps adopt this project in your area. Contact “>Dorothy Terheyden of Tennessee Right to Life.
pregnancy
MULTIPLE GESTATION: A meta-analysis of more than 885,000 pregnancies registered in a Latin American study identified 15,484 multiple gestations. Researchers found that “the risk of preterm labor was almost four times greater among multiple than singleton gestations,” and increased rates of Cesarean deliveries and maternal death were also noted. The study had limitations according to researchers, and “the accuracy of specific diagnoses registered in our database also has not been extensively checked and only local medical record verifications were done.”
COMMENT: Why publish the study if not to plant ideas for additional reasons why women with more than one baby should consider selective reduction?
(Reading: “Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Multiple Gestations,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6/00. pp. 899-904)
rape and incest
VICTIMS and VICTORS: A new book edited by David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa and Amy Sobie shares the truth about the flawed thinking that condones abortion in cases of rape and incest. The book focuses on 192 women who actually became pregnant after sexual assault and now state that abortion after such an attack is injurious. To order, call Acorn Books at (217) 525-8202 or visit “Substance Abuse Linked to Abortion.” Price per copy is $11.95; bulk prices available.
united nations
WOMENWATCH: For updates on what the feminists are doing see this site.
zinger
FROZEN EMBRYOS AND MOTHERHOOD: According to news reports, a recent New Jersey Appeals Court ruling (J.B. v M.B., 20-2-3909) argues that “a woman cannot be forced to become a mother against her will and is free to destroy frozen embryos left in limbo after her divorce.”
COMMENT: These seven embryonic children are her children and she is their mother! What’s Limbo got to do with it?
(Reading: “Court Says Ex-Wife Gets Custody of Frozen Embryos,” Association Press, 6/1/00; J.B. vs M.B court decision; also see Carolyn Gargaro’s analytical commentary on the case.)
reflection for prayer
So stand your ground, with truth a belt round your waist, and uprightness a breastplate, wearing for shoes on your feet the eagerness to spread the gospel of peace and always carrying the shield of faith so that you can use it to quench the burning arrows of the Evil One. And then you must take salvation as your helmet and the sword of the Spirit, that is, the word of God.
-Ephesians 6:14-17
COMPLICATIONS FOR TEENS: The Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social ChangeMarch/April newsletter addresses “differential adverse impact on teenagers who undergo induced abortion.”
adolescent sexuality
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON TEENAGERS: The Clinton White House hosted its first-ever conference on teens. The conference material is on the White House web site. One recommended web site link, “After School,” is particularly interesting since it directly links to Planned Parenthood’s Teen Wire. Taxpayers, of course, subsidized the entire conference.
birth control pill
BREAST CANCER: Homefirst Health Services reports, “The evidence is overwhelming that estrogen is intimately connected to the development of most breast cancers. Estrogen encourages breast cells to divide more often and more rapidly. Thus, if a mutation (inherited or triggered by a carcinogen) lies imbedded in the DNA, cancer cells are more likely to proliferate when high estrogen levels are present. Breast cancer rates in women have increased in tandem with the widespread use of birth control pills and estrogen replacement therapy, both of which increase the amount of estrogen circulating in a woman’s body over her lifetime.”
(Reading: “Estrogen the Common Link to Breast Cancer,” Homefirst Family Health Forum newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 6, subscription only.)
clinical trials
FERTILE WOMEN: Researchers argue that current requirements for drug trials requiring women to be in some cases excluded if they are fertile, but not using contraception, discriminates based on their fertility. “Equitable research restrictions must be based on actual risk to individual women not the potential risk to a potential fetus.” And, “The effort to control one’s choice regarding exposure of fetuses will ultimately fail, as it lies with the actions of the subject . male or female. That decision, and the decision of a woman or family to consider abortion, is based on values and circumstances that individual investigators cannot fully understand, and so they must depend on the individual to deliberate and choose.”
(Reading: “Contraceptive Requirements for Clinical Research,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6/00, pp. 861-866)
down syndrome
REFINED SCREENING: Yale researchers have discovered “a new Down syndrome biochemical marker” which “combined with ultrasound biometry had a high screening efficiency in a high-risk group.”
(Reading: “Urine Hyperglycosylated hCG Plus Ultrasound Biometry for Detection of Down Syndrome in the Second Trimester in a High-Risk Population,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6/00, pp. 889-894)
emergency abortion (“contraception”) a.k.a. medical abortion
CLARIFICATION: Because American Life League recognizes the fact that the emergency is a baby, we will no longer refer to the pills that kill as emergency contraception; they are emergency abortion pills.
LIE: The College of Pharmacists of British Columbia provides questions and answers for pharmacists who are asked about emergency (morning after) abortion pills. A citation is made from a 1997 New England Journal of Medicine article, which states, “The prevention of pregnancy before implantation is contraception and not abortion. Intervention within 72 hours after intercourse cannot possibly amount to abortion, because implantation is not achieved until at least seven days after ovulation and the egg is capable of being fertilized for only 24 hours.”
COMMENT: A human being – a person – begins at the beginning: fertilization!
(Reading: May 2000 College of Pharmacists of B.C. memorandum; “Drug Therapy: Emergency Postcoital Contraception,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 10/9/97, paid subscribers only)
eugenics
TECHNO-EUGENICS E-MAIL NEWSLETTER: The most recent issue covers the “Enhancing the Human” seminar held at UCLA this past May where “human germline enhancement” was discussed. The same edition reports on physicist Freeman Dyson, who claims that “wealthy parents will be able to buy what they consider superior genes for their babies. Within a few generations, the children of the rich and poor could become separate species.”
(Reading: Techno-Eugenics E-mail Newsletter #9, 6/12/00; for a subscription contact “>Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D.)
gay rights
WHITE HOUSE: President Clinton proclaims June 2000 “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” For the text of the proclamation see the White House web site.
gobbledygook
VATICAN SPOKESPERSON’S BLOOPER: Kathryn Hoomkwap of Nigeria, Vatican representative at the recent Beijing+5 conference, is reported to have said, “the Holy See reaffirms its BELIEF [emphasis added] that life begins at conception and that every human life must be protected from the earliest moment to the end of the life cycle.”
CORRECTION: We are certain Hoomkwap meant to say that the Holy See KNOWS, since the balance of her statement is a scientific fact, not a religious belief, as Professor Dianne Irving points out.
(Reading: “U. N. Women’s Blueprint Builds on Beijing Conference,” Reuters, 6/9/00)
infanticide
CANADA: The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons drafted rules governing when a physician may euthanize seriously deformed newborn infants. If approved, “physicians will be able to inject the heart of the fetus with a fatal dose of sodium chloride so when it is induced it will not be born live. This is already done in selective termination . when women expecting multiple births want the number reduced.”
COMMENT: And it is already done in the United States.
(Reading: “Fatal Injection OK’d for Malformed Fetuses,” Calgary Herald, 6/6/00; the guidelines are available upon request.)
media
VATICAN DOCUMENT: “Ethics in Communications,” promulgated by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, emphasizes “the final goal of any work in the domain of public opinion should be service to the human person and the community.”
politics
“GORE-Y” IDEA.PASS IT ON: The Knox County chapter of Tennessee Right to Life will run ads presenting the drawings of exactly what occurs during a partial birth abortion. The ads will run every Sunday from late September until the Sunday prior to the November election. On that Sunday, since the organization cannot endorse a political candidate, outside supporters will run the same ad, but with the message, “Do you want a president that supports this? Al Gore supports partial birth abortion!!!” You are invited to learn more, and perhaps adopt this project in your area. Contact “>Dorothy Terheyden of Tennessee Right to Life.
pregnancy
MULTIPLE GESTATION: A meta-analysis of more than 885,000 pregnancies registered in a Latin American study identified 15,484 multiple gestations. Researchers found that “the risk of preterm labor was almost four times greater among multiple than singleton gestations,” and increased rates of Cesarean deliveries and maternal death were also noted. The study had limitations according to researchers, and “the accuracy of specific diagnoses registered in our database also has not been extensively checked and only local medical record verifications were done.”
COMMENT: Why publish the study if not to plant ideas for additional reasons why women with more than one baby should consider selective reduction?
(Reading: “Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Multiple Gestations,” Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6/00. pp. 899-904)
rape and incest
VICTIMS and VICTORS: A new book edited by David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa and Amy Sobie shares the truth about the flawed thinking that condones abortion in cases of rape and incest. The book focuses on 192 women who actually became pregnant after sexual assault and now state that abortion after such an attack is injurious. To order, call Acorn Books at (217) 525-8202 or visit “Substance Abuse Linked to Abortion.” Price per copy is $11.95; bulk prices available.
united nations
WOMENWATCH: For updates on what the feminists are doing see this site.
zinger
FROZEN EMBRYOS AND MOTHERHOOD: According to news reports, a recent New Jersey Appeals Court ruling (J.B. v M.B., 20-2-3909) argues that “a woman cannot be forced to become a mother against her will and is free to destroy frozen embryos left in limbo after her divorce.”
COMMENT: These seven embryonic children are her children and she is their mother! What’s Limbo got to do with it?
(Reading: “Court Says Ex-Wife Gets Custody of Frozen Embryos,” Association Press, 6/1/00; J.B. vs M.B court decision; also see Carolyn Gargaro’s analytical commentary on the case.)
reflection for prayer
So stand your ground, with truth a belt round your waist, and uprightness a breastplate, wearing for shoes on your feet the eagerness to spread the gospel of peace and always carrying the shield of faith so that you can use it to quench the burning arrows of the Evil One. And then you must take salvation as your helmet and the sword of the Spirit, that is, the word of God.
-Ephesians 6:14-17