abortion
HUGH DOWNS SAYS: “I should say, in an attempt to avoid brickbats from both sides, that neither can say, ‘If you’re not with us you’re against us’; because to each I say ‘I’m with you’-in the pro-life camp to the extent that I believe a fertilized ovum is a human being, and in the pro-choice camp in my firm belief that the choice should always be with the woman who finds herself pregnant.”
“I should say, in an attempt to avoid brickbats from both sides, that neither can say, ‘If you’re not with us you’re against us’; because to each I say ‘I’m with you’-in the pro-life camp to the extent that I believe a fertilized ovum is a human being, and in the pro-choice camp in my firm belief that the choice should always be with the woman who finds herself pregnant.”
(Reading: “A Tacit Gag Order,” ABC News)
LOUISIANA: The largest abortion provider in the state of Louisiana closed down its facility on September 23. Causeway Medical Center had been sued in 1992 for malpractice, a case that resulted, in 1998, in a settlement of $400,000 with the victim in the case. Lawyers for the woman point out that not one penny of the settlement has been paid.
(Reading: “Questions Surround Clinic’s Closing,” 9/23/99, “Lawsuit May Be Behind Clinic Closing,” WWL-TV News, 9/23/99)
activism
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarland at 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarlandat 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarlandat 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
birth control pill
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
(Reading: “Admission for Mortality from Primary Venous Thromboembolism in Women of Fertile Age in Denmark,” 1977-95; British Medical Journal, 9/25/99, pp. 820-821)
cloning
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
embryonic babies/persons
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
COMMENT: Caplan’s callous disregard for the integrity of the human being,-the person-is despicable.
(Reading: “Stem Cell Therapy Raises Ethical issues,” MSNBC News)
fetal tissue transplant
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
(Reading: Lawrence F. Roberge, M.S., “Transplantation of Aborted Fetal Eggs (Ovum): A Short Analysis“; Andy Coghlan, “Immature Eggs Seed a Revolution,” New Scientist, 2/24/96)
heroes
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
(Reading: “Cool and Unusual,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/26/99; Hero’s site)
human experimentation
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
(Reading: “Drug Trials: County May Resume Experiments on Mentally Ill,” LA Weekly, 9/3/99; “The Ethics of Experimental Drug Testing,” The Tidings)
CHIMPANZEES! Citizens for Responsible Care and Research reports that the Department of Agriculture has taken action against the Frederick Coulston Foundation-one of five federally funded chimpanzee research centers-for inadequate veterinary care. But, as documented by the Boston Globe, one in every 138 human subjects in schizophrenia drug research dies. Yet no such action is being taken against human research foundations and institutions.
(Reading: “Foundation Agrees to Give up 300 Research Chimps,” New York Times, 9/14/99; CIRCARE Update, 9/14/99)
imposed death
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dyingbooklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dying booklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dying booklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
(Reading: “The Hemlock Shop” 1999 catalogue)
sexually transmitted disease
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
(Reading: “The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Epidemic: Condoms Don’t Work,”)
stem cell research
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
NEW RESOURCES: Dianne Irving, Ph.D., “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Are Official Positions Based on Scientific Fraud?“; Richard Doerflinger, “The political ‘Science’ of Embryo Research“)
web news
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
NETHERLANDS: Cry for Life of Holland has a powerful web sight, and the organization also issues news updates on abortion, euthanasia, pornography and drugs.
you
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
zinger
The following quote from a 1972 Louisiana court decision was cited in Roe v. Wade:The meaning of the term ‘human being’ is a relative one which depends on the purpose for which the term is being defined. To the scientist a ‘human being’ may be no more than union of sperm and egg; to the poet or to society as a whole the term may connote something else. Science at best marks the outermost limits of life; it cannot tell us nearly so well what a human being is, as it can what a human being definitely is not. The Romans, for example, practiced infanticide with indifference. No doubt the science of the Romans regarded the infant as a human being; but can one say the Romans did?(Reading: James F. Bohan, The House of Atreus: Abortion as a Human Rights Issue, c 1999, Praeger Publishers, pp. 16-17)
reflection for prayer
The wicked man is always certain that he is invincible. But, O God, how can we withstand you? If one solitary soul has all the powers of hell and the world against it, it need fear nothing if it has abandoned itself to the order of God.
-Jean-Pierre de Caussade
HUGH DOWNS SAYS: “I should say, in an attempt to avoid brickbats from both sides, that neither can say, ‘If you’re not with us you’re against us’; because to each I say ‘I’m with you’-in the pro-life camp to the extent that I believe a fertilized ovum is a human being, and in the pro-choice camp in my firm belief that the choice should always be with the woman who finds herself pregnant.”
“I should say, in an attempt to avoid brickbats from both sides, that neither can say, ‘If you’re not with us you’re against us’; because to each I say ‘I’m with you’-in the pro-life camp to the extent that I believe a fertilized ovum is a human being, and in the pro-choice camp in my firm belief that the choice should always be with the woman who finds herself pregnant.”
(Reading: “A Tacit Gag Order,” ABC News)
LOUISIANA: The largest abortion provider in the state of Louisiana closed down its facility on September 23. Causeway Medical Center had been sued in 1992 for malpractice, a case that resulted, in 1998, in a settlement of $400,000 with the victim in the case. Lawyers for the woman point out that not one penny of the settlement has been paid.
(Reading: “Questions Surround Clinic’s Closing,” 9/23/99, “Lawsuit May Be Behind Clinic Closing,” WWL-TV News, 9/23/99)
activism
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarland at 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarlandat 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarlandat 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
birth control pill
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
(Reading: “Admission for Mortality from Primary Venous Thromboembolism in Women of Fertile Age in Denmark,” 1977-95; British Medical Journal, 9/25/99, pp. 820-821)
cloning
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
embryonic babies/persons
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
COMMENT: Caplan’s callous disregard for the integrity of the human being,-the person-is despicable.
(Reading: “Stem Cell Therapy Raises Ethical issues,” MSNBC News)
fetal tissue transplant
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
(Reading: Lawrence F. Roberge, M.S., “Transplantation of Aborted Fetal Eggs (Ovum): A Short Analysis“; Andy Coghlan, “Immature Eggs Seed a Revolution,” New Scientist, 2/24/96)
heroes
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
(Reading: “Cool and Unusual,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/26/99; Hero’s site)
human experimentation
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
(Reading: “Drug Trials: County May Resume Experiments on Mentally Ill,” LA Weekly, 9/3/99; “The Ethics of Experimental Drug Testing,” The Tidings)
CHIMPANZEES! Citizens for Responsible Care and Research reports that the Department of Agriculture has taken action against the Frederick Coulston Foundation-one of five federally funded chimpanzee research centers-for inadequate veterinary care. But, as documented by the Boston Globe, one in every 138 human subjects in schizophrenia drug research dies. Yet no such action is being taken against human research foundations and institutions.
(Reading: “Foundation Agrees to Give up 300 Research Chimps,” New York Times, 9/14/99; CIRCARE Update, 9/14/99)
imposed death
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dyingbooklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dying booklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dying booklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
(Reading: “The Hemlock Shop” 1999 catalogue)
sexually transmitted disease
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
(Reading: “The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Epidemic: Condoms Don’t Work,”)
stem cell research
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
NEW RESOURCES: Dianne Irving, Ph.D., “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Are Official Positions Based on Scientific Fraud?“; Richard Doerflinger, “The political ‘Science’ of Embryo Research“)
web news
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
NETHERLANDS: Cry for Life of Holland has a powerful web sight, and the organization also issues news updates on abortion, euthanasia, pornography and drugs.
you
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
zinger
The following quote from a 1972 Louisiana court decision was cited in Roe v. Wade:
The meaning of the term ‘human being’ is a relative one which depends on the purpose for which the term is being defined. To the scientist a ‘human being’ may be no more than union of sperm and egg; to the poet or to society as a whole the term may connote something else. Science at best marks the outermost limits of life; it cannot tell us nearly so well what a human being is, as it can what a human being definitely is not. The Romans, for example, practiced infanticide with indifference. No doubt the science of the Romans regarded the infant as a human being; but can one say the Romans did?
(Reading: James F. Bohan, The House of Atreus: Abortion as a Human Rights Issue, c 1999, Praeger Publishers, pp. 16-17)
reflection for prayer
The wicked man is always certain that he is invincible. But, O God, how can we withstand you? If one solitary soul has all the powers of hell and the world against it, it need fear nothing if it has abandoned itself to the order of God.
-Jean-Pierre de Caussade
HUGH DOWNS SAYS: “I should say, in an attempt to avoid brickbats from both sides, that neither can say, ‘If you’re not with us you’re against us’; because to each I say ‘I’m with you’-in the pro-life camp to the extent that I believe a fertilized ovum is a human being, and in the pro-choice camp in my firm belief that the choice should always be with the woman who finds herself pregnant.”
(Reading: “A Tacit Gag Order,” ABC News)
LOUISIANA: The largest abortion provider in the state of Louisiana closed down its facility on September 23. Causeway Medical Center had been sued in 1992 for malpractice, a case that resulted, in 1998, in a settlement of $400,000 with the victim in the case. Lawyers for the woman point out that not one penny of the settlement has been paid.
(Reading: “Questions Surround Clinic’s Closing,” 9/23/99, “Lawsuit May Be Behind Clinic Closing,” WWL-TV News, 9/23/99)
activism
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarland at 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarlandat 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
SAY SO MARCH: Black pastors have united in planning a march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., setting the number of marchers at 1,452 to represented the exact number of black children aborted every day in the United States. The march will occur between October 9 and October 11. For details, contact “>Paulette Roseboro, 301-249-1153. To schedule an interview with Damon Owens, the Say So March spokesman, contact “>Robert McFarlandat 202-546-3000, ext.434; See LEARN for additional info.
birth control pill
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
BLOOD CLOTS: Researchers studying admission rates for venous thromboembolism (blood clotting) in Denmark for people aged 15-49 during 1977-1993 found an increase among those women who were using third-generation birth control pills. The researchers warn that the numbers are small and that more study is needed.
(Reading: “Admission for Mortality from Primary Venous Thromboembolism in Women of Fertile Age in Denmark,” 1977-95; British Medical Journal, 9/25/99, pp. 820-821)
cloning
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
NEW MAGAZINE: Ian Wilmut has launched a new journal that will include papers on stem cells, germ line genetic engineering, tissue regeneration, and other scientific subjects. Subscription rate is $129.00 per year.
embryonic babies/persons
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
CAPLAN: Well-known bioethicist Arthur Kaplan writes that the frozen embryonic baby “will never become a human being.” And, he says, “It is one thing to create embryos for research but morally different to use what was made for another reason but is now to be destroyed.”
COMMENT: Caplan’s callous disregard for the integrity of the human being,-the person-is despicable.
(Reading: “Stem Cell Therapy Raises Ethical issues,” MSNBC News)
fetal tissue transplant
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
GOSDEN: Controversial scientist Roger Gosden, who is about to join the staff of McGill University’s Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, is no stranger to human experimentation involving aborted boys and girls. In 1994, Lawrence Roberge wrote concerning Gosden’s use of aborted babies in research, “Clearly, Dr. Gosden’s work is an attempt to recover some ‘good’ (via the tissue transplantation to cure a health disorder) out of the ‘evil’ (the abortion). But, this is deceptive thinking as no real good can come from the murder of unborn babies.”
(Reading: Lawrence F. Roberge, M.S., “Transplantation of Aborted Fetal Eggs (Ovum): A Short Analysis“; Andy Coghlan, “Immature Eggs Seed a Revolution,” New Scientist, 2/24/96)
heroes
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
GREAT BRITAIN: 13-year-old Hero Joy Nightingale suffers from a neurological disorder that has had deleterious effects on her muscular movements. Hero has not been deterred and hosts her own web site, “From the Window,” which features poems and “hero’s blunt talk about being disabled.” The site recently won the Australian Childnet International award.
(Reading: “Cool and Unusual,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/26/99; Hero’s site)
human experimentation
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is considering a proposal to allow testing of experimental drugs on more than 2,000 gravely disabled patients under its care. The proposal, if approved, would end a five-year moratorium on such practices. As Father John Coleman of Loyola Marymount recently said, “You can never sacrifice an individual for some abstract statistical common good.”
(Reading: “Drug Trials: County May Resume Experiments on Mentally Ill,” LA Weekly, 9/3/99; “The Ethics of Experimental Drug Testing,” The Tidings)
CHIMPANZEES! Citizens for Responsible Care and Research reports that the Department of Agriculture has taken action against the Frederick Coulston Foundation-one of five federally funded chimpanzee research centers-for inadequate veterinary care. But, as documented by the Boston Globe, one in every 138 human subjects in schizophrenia drug research dies. Yet no such action is being taken against human research foundations and institutions.
(Reading: “Foundation Agrees to Give up 300 Research Chimps,” New York Times, 9/14/99; CIRCARE Update, 9/14/99)
imposed death
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dyingbooklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dying booklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Hemlock Society publishes a catalogue which includes a Choice in Dying booklet on do-not-resuscitate orders, and an ERGO! pamphlet entitled “Self-deliverance from an End-stage Terminal Illness by Use of a Plastic Bag.”
(Reading: “The Hemlock Shop” 1999 catalogue)
sexually transmitted disease
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
CONDOM FAILURE: A new Family Research Council report indicates that condoms fail to protect against HPV: “Condoms, whether used correctly and consistently or not, do not prevent the spread of HPV [human papillomavirus].”
(Reading: “The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Epidemic: Condoms Don’t Work,”)
stem cell research
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
DO NO HARM COALITION: Please check out the organized effort by scientists and others to oppose the ghoulish practice of destroying embryonic babies for research and experimentation.
NEW RESOURCES: Dianne Irving, Ph.D., “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Are Official Positions Based on Scientific Fraud?“; Richard Doerflinger, “The political ‘Science’ of Embryo Research“)
web news
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
ADOPTING FROZEN EMBRYONIC BABIES: Christian Adoption and Family Services of California now has a special program for placement of frozen embryonic babies called Snowflakes.
NETHERLANDS: Cry for Life of Holland has a powerful web sight, and the organization also issues news updates on abortion, euthanasia, pornography and drugs.
you
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
INSPIRATIONAL: Multiple sclerosis victim Mary Drahos writes of loving Christ through suffering in her new book, “The Healing Power of Hope.”
zinger
The following quote from a 1972 Louisiana court decision was cited in Roe v. Wade:
The meaning of the term ‘human being’ is a relative one which depends on the purpose for which the term is being defined. To the scientist a ‘human being’ may be no more than union of sperm and egg; to the poet or to society as a whole the term may connote something else. Science at best marks the outermost limits of life; it cannot tell us nearly so well what a human being is, as it can what a human being definitely is not. The Romans, for example, practiced infanticide with indifference. No doubt the science of the Romans regarded the infant as a human being; but can one say the Romans did?
(Reading: James F. Bohan, The House of Atreus: Abortion as a Human Rights Issue, c 1999, Praeger Publishers, pp. 16-17)
reflection for prayer
The wicked man is always certain that he is invincible. But, O God, how can we withstand you? If one solitary soul has all the powers of hell and the world against it, it need fear nothing if it has abandoned itself to the order of God.
-Jean-Pierre de Caussade