abortion
LIFE OF THE MOTHER and BREAST CANCER: Researchers report that a “coincidental diagnosis of breast cancer in pregnancy averages one in 3000 pregnancies. The authors concluded that breast cancer can be treated safely with intensive chemotherapy during the second and third trimester of pregnancy.”
Researchers report that a “coincidental diagnosis of breast cancer in pregnancy averages one in 3000 pregnancies. The authors concluded that breast cancer can be treated safely with intensive chemotherapy during the second and third trimester of pregnancy.”
(Reading: “Management of Breast Cancer During Pregnancy Using a Standardized Protocol,” Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, reporting on Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 3/99, pp. 855-861; and search by volume and page number for the complete article which is currently on line.)
SOUTH AFRICA: Claude Newbury, M.D., president of Pro-Life of South Africa is waging a battle against pro-abortion forces in the government: “Despite the fact that our Constitution enshrines the ‘right to life,’ the killing of unborn children by abortion has been incorporated into the Constitution as a ‘Reproductive Right.’ During the first two years of the operation of the ‘Choice in Termination of Pregnancy Act’ about 110,000 children have been brutally murdered by abortion while held in detention in their mother’s wombs, and taxpayers have been forced to pay for the killing of these children in our public hospitals and clinics.” Newbury points to the irony of the President of South Africa promoting a fund to save children from child abuse during the same period.
(Reading: Claude Newbury, M.D., “Abortion in South Africa,” 10/1/99; contact “>Margrit Sokolic, Secretary, Pro-Life of South Africa)
chemical abortion [medical]
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
(Reading: “Effects of Castor Bean Extract and Ricin A-Chain on Ovulation and Implantation in Rabbits,” Contraception, 6/99, pp. 395-299)
EMERGENCY (MORNING AFTER) PILLS: The Alan Guttmacher Institute published a study on the acceptability of “emergency contraception” among 235 women who received the pills through a demonstration project conducted by 13 Kaiser Permanente offices in the San Diego area. When asked if they thought the pills should be available “over the counter” or in vending machines, six percent approved of vending machines, while 28 percent agreed with over the counter. The researchers comment: “Given the urgency for immediate access to this method, once a woman has had unprotected intercourse, and the method’s limited availability, the reasons why these women were reluctant to make the method more readily available need to be researched further, and more women need to be surveyed to see whether this response is truly representative.”
COMMENT: Why are the Planned Parenthood studies always focused on better marketing and higher revenues? The same studies never admit to the abortive action of these pills nor do they admit to serious and long-term side effects. (Reading: “Women’s Experience and Satisfaction with Emergency Contraception,” Family Planning Perspectives, 9-10/99, pp. 237-240, 260)
METHOTREXATE/MISOPROSTOL: Turkish researchers studied 108 women requesting elective termination of pregnancy and medical abortion. Broken into three groups, women were given either methotrexate or misoprostol, or methotrexate with misoprostol. The combination of the two drugs resulted in the highest “complete abortion rate.”
(Reading: “Methotrexate and Misoprostol Used Alone or in Combination for Early Abortion,” Contraception, 6/99, pp. 389-394)
fetal tissue
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
- “Beyond Abortion: A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation” by Suzanne Rini
- “Recycling Babies: The Practice of Fetal Tissue Research” by Judie Brown
- “Dead Baby Parts Business Booming,” Paul Likoudis
- NIH announcement of the availability of human fetal tissue from Alan G. Fantel, Ph.D., University of Washington in Seattle
- “Fetal Tissue and Embryo Research,” Gertrude Murphy, M.D.
- March 11, 1993 roll call vote in House and Senate approving the NIH Revitalization Act, which included approval for fetal tissue harvesting; available by mail from ALL
(Reading: “State Ban on Fetal Tissue Research Overturned,” Arizona Republic, 10/6/99; “Arizona Ban On Medical Use Of Fetal Tissue Is Unconstitutional,” CRLP press release)
human experimentation
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
(Reading: “Dying for a Cure,” U.S. News and World Report, 10/11/99)
population control
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
(Reading: Mona Charen, “The Population Explosion Fizzles,” 10/18/99)
prenatal testing
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
reproductive technology
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
(Reading: “Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” Fertility and Sterility, 10/99, pp. 595-598; ASRM Fact Sheet on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis)
zinger
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
(Reading: Roger Gosden, Designing Babies, p. 38)
reflection for prayer
Jeremiah 29:13: “You will seek me, and when you seek with your whole heart, you will find me.”
Augustine: “Desire unceasingly that life of happiness which is nothing if not eternal, and ask it of him who alone is able to give it.”
LIFE OF THE MOTHER and BREAST CANCER: Researchers report that a “coincidental diagnosis of breast cancer in pregnancy averages one in 3000 pregnancies. The authors concluded that breast cancer can be treated safely with intensive chemotherapy during the second and third trimester of pregnancy.”
Researchers report that a “coincidental diagnosis of breast cancer in pregnancy averages one in 3000 pregnancies. The authors concluded that breast cancer can be treated safely with intensive chemotherapy during the second and third trimester of pregnancy.”
(Reading: “Management of Breast Cancer During Pregnancy Using a Standardized Protocol,” Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, reporting on Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 3/99, pp. 855-861; and search by volume and page number for the complete article which is currently on line.)
SOUTH AFRICA: Claude Newbury, M.D., president of Pro-Life of South Africa is waging a battle against pro-abortion forces in the government: “Despite the fact that our Constitution enshrines the ‘right to life,’ the killing of unborn children by abortion has been incorporated into the Constitution as a ‘Reproductive Right.’ During the first two years of the operation of the ‘Choice in Termination of Pregnancy Act’ about 110,000 children have been brutally murdered by abortion while held in detention in their mother’s wombs, and taxpayers have been forced to pay for the killing of these children in our public hospitals and clinics.” Newbury points to the irony of the President of South Africa promoting a fund to save children from child abuse during the same period.
(Reading: Claude Newbury, M.D., “Abortion in South Africa,” 10/1/99; contact “>Margrit Sokolic, Secretary, Pro-Life of South Africa)
chemical abortion [medical]
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
(Reading: “Effects of Castor Bean Extract and Ricin A-Chain on Ovulation and Implantation in Rabbits,” Contraception, 6/99, pp. 395-299)
EMERGENCY (MORNING AFTER) PILLS: The Alan Guttmacher Institute published a study on the acceptability of “emergency contraception” among 235 women who received the pills through a demonstration project conducted by 13 Kaiser Permanente offices in the San Diego area. When asked if they thought the pills should be available “over the counter” or in vending machines, six percent approved of vending machines, while 28 percent agreed with over the counter. The researchers comment: “Given the urgency for immediate access to this method, once a woman has had unprotected intercourse, and the method’s limited availability, the reasons why these women were reluctant to make the method more readily available need to be researched further, and more women need to be surveyed to see whether this response is truly representative.”
COMMENT: Why are the Planned Parenthood studies always focused on better marketing and higher revenues? The same studies never admit to the abortive action of these pills nor do they admit to serious and long-term side effects. (Reading: “Women’s Experience and Satisfaction with Emergency Contraception,” Family Planning Perspectives, 9-10/99, pp. 237-240, 260)
METHOTREXATE/MISOPROSTOL: Turkish researchers studied 108 women requesting elective termination of pregnancy and medical abortion. Broken into three groups, women were given either methotrexate or misoprostol, or methotrexate with misoprostol. The combination of the two drugs resulted in the highest “complete abortion rate.”
(Reading: “Methotrexate and Misoprostol Used Alone or in Combination for Early Abortion,” Contraception, 6/99, pp. 389-394)
fetal tissue
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
- “Beyond Abortion: A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation” by Suzanne Rini
- “Recycling Babies: The Practice of Fetal Tissue Research” by Judie Brown
- “Dead Baby Parts Business Booming,” Paul Likoudis
- NIH announcement of the availability of human fetal tissue from Alan G. Fantel, Ph.D., University of Washington in Seattle
- “Fetal Tissue and Embryo Research,” Gertrude Murphy, M.D.
- March 11, 1993 roll call vote in House and Senate approving the NIH Revitalization Act, which included approval for fetal tissue harvesting; available by mail from ALL
(Reading: “State Ban on Fetal Tissue Research Overturned,” Arizona Republic, 10/6/99; “Arizona Ban On Medical Use Of Fetal Tissue Is Unconstitutional,” CRLP press release)
human experimentation
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
(Reading: “Dying for a Cure,” U.S. News and World Report, 10/11/99)
population control
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
(Reading: Mona Charen, “The Population Explosion Fizzles,” 10/18/99)
prenatal testing
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
reproductive technology
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
(Reading: “Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” Fertility and Sterility, 10/99, pp. 595-598; ASRM Fact Sheet on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis)
zinger
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
(Reading: Roger Gosden, Designing Babies, p. 38)
reflection for prayer
Jeremiah 29:13: “You will seek me, and when you seek with your whole heart, you will find me.”
Augustine: “Desire unceasingly that life of happiness which is nothing if not eternal, and ask it of him who alone is able to give it.”
LIFE OF THE MOTHER and BREAST CANCER: Researchers report that a “coincidental diagnosis of breast cancer in pregnancy averages one in 3000 pregnancies. The authors concluded that breast cancer can be treated safely with intensive chemotherapy during the second and third trimester of pregnancy.”
(Reading: “Management of Breast Cancer During Pregnancy Using a Standardized Protocol,” Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, reporting on Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 3/99, pp. 855-861; and search by volume and page number for the complete article which is currently on line.)
SOUTH AFRICA: Claude Newbury, M.D., president of Pro-Life of South Africa is waging a battle against pro-abortion forces in the government: “Despite the fact that our Constitution enshrines the ‘right to life,’ the killing of unborn children by abortion has been incorporated into the Constitution as a ‘Reproductive Right.’ During the first two years of the operation of the ‘Choice in Termination of Pregnancy Act’ about 110,000 children have been brutally murdered by abortion while held in detention in their mother’s wombs, and taxpayers have been forced to pay for the killing of these children in our public hospitals and clinics.” Newbury points to the irony of the President of South Africa promoting a fund to save children from child abuse during the same period.
(Reading: Claude Newbury, M.D., “Abortion in South Africa,” 10/1/99; contact “>Margrit Sokolic, Secretary, Pro-Life of South Africa)
chemical abortion [medical]
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
CASTOR BEAN and RICIN A-CHAIN: Jordanian researchers have shown that the medicinal plant castor bean can be successfully used to inhibit ovulation and implantation in rabbits. They report that the beans (seeds) have been used in many parts of the world as contraceptive agents. Researchers cautioned that the bean causes a potent reaction in rabbits and should not be used in humans.
(Reading: “Effects of Castor Bean Extract and Ricin A-Chain on Ovulation and Implantation in Rabbits,” Contraception, 6/99, pp. 395-299)
EMERGENCY (MORNING AFTER) PILLS: The Alan Guttmacher Institute published a study on the acceptability of “emergency contraception” among 235 women who received the pills through a demonstration project conducted by 13 Kaiser Permanente offices in the San Diego area. When asked if they thought the pills should be available “over the counter” or in vending machines, six percent approved of vending machines, while 28 percent agreed with over the counter. The researchers comment: “Given the urgency for immediate access to this method, once a woman has had unprotected intercourse, and the method’s limited availability, the reasons why these women were reluctant to make the method more readily available need to be researched further, and more women need to be surveyed to see whether this response is truly representative.”
COMMENT: Why are the Planned Parenthood studies always focused on better marketing and higher revenues? The same studies never admit to the abortive action of these pills nor do they admit to serious and long-term side effects. (Reading: “Women’s Experience and Satisfaction with Emergency Contraception,” Family Planning Perspectives, 9-10/99, pp. 237-240, 260)
METHOTREXATE/MISOPROSTOL: Turkish researchers studied 108 women requesting elective termination of pregnancy and medical abortion. Broken into three groups, women were given either methotrexate or misoprostol, or methotrexate with misoprostol. The combination of the two drugs resulted in the highest “complete abortion rate.”
(Reading: “Methotrexate and Misoprostol Used Alone or in Combination for Early Abortion,” Contraception, 6/99, pp. 389-394)
fetal tissue
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
HARVESTING: Recently a Tucson, Arizona federal judge ruled that the state’s ban on the use of fetal tissue for medical research was unconstitutional. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) challenged the ban in 1996, citing the Clinton Executive Order of 1993 that lifted the federal ban and claiming that patients with diseases like Parkinson’s were suffering from such a ban. The judge agreed. In an effort to keep an eye on the fact that the actual traffic in fetal tissue has been legal in the United States because there has never been a ban on non-federal dollars going for such research, we recommend the following:
- “Beyond Abortion: A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation” by Suzanne Rini
- “Recycling Babies: The Practice of Fetal Tissue Research” by Judie Brown
- “Dead Baby Parts Business Booming,” Paul Likoudis
- NIH announcement of the availability of human fetal tissue from Alan G. Fantel, Ph.D., University of Washington in Seattle
- “Fetal Tissue and Embryo Research,” Gertrude Murphy, M.D.
- March 11, 1993 roll call vote in House and Senate approving the NIH Revitalization Act, which included approval for fetal tissue harvesting; available by mail from ALL
(Reading: “State Ban on Fetal Tissue Research Overturned,” Arizona Republic, 10/6/99; “Arizona Ban On Medical Use Of Fetal Tissue Is Unconstitutional,” CRLP press release)
human experimentation
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
DOCUMENTED ABUSES: U.S. News and World Report reveals “the extent of rule-breaking in clinical trials is vast but hard to measure. The FDA’s record-keeping system does not make it possible to search for cancer trial audits.” The magazine reports hundreds of failures in the area of obtaining proper consent.
(Reading: “Dying for a Cure,” U.S. News and World Report, 10/11/99)
population control
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
FOOD GLUT? Mona Charen writes, “Even China has a problem with obesity. As Stephen Moore explained in the National Review: ‘Global food prices have fallen by half since 1950, even as population has doubled . . . Enough food is now grown in the world to provide each resident of the planet with almost 4 pounds of food per day.'”
(Reading: Mona Charen, “The Population Explosion Fizzles,” 10/18/99)
prenatal testing
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSE: The Orthodox Christian web site has prepared an all inclusive report, Picture Perfect, on prenatal testing and its use in targeting and destroying children diagnosed in the womb to have potential genetic disorders.
reproductive technology
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
ETHICAL TERMINATIONS: In an effort to make recommendations on the question of sex selection abortion and prenatal genetic diagnosis that can result in abortion, the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine attempted to balance “ethical concerns” that are at times in conflict with “the right to reproductive freedom . . . gender equality and justice in distribution of medical resources.” The final recommendations based on concern for gender equity included approval of sex selection when used to “prevent the transmission of serious genetic disease.” The committee does not approve of sex selection for non-medical reasons.
(Reading: “Sex Selection and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” Fertility and Sterility, 10/99, pp. 595-598; ASRM Fact Sheet on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis)
zinger
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
HUMAN BREEDING? “Never in the history of humanity have more people chosen to remain childless, which in biological terms, is a puzzling attitude for any animal to have. Fears about a dangerous, unstable world and the cult of the individual both erode the reproductive instinct. But although sometimes the urge to beget offspring goes underground, I doubt whether it is ever completely buried. It is not easy to penetrate the froth and social heterogeneity of modern life to discover the emotions and urges that made us successful breeders in the past.”
(Reading: Roger Gosden, Designing Babies, p. 38)
reflection for prayer
Jeremiah 29:13: “You will seek me, and when you seek with your whole heart, you will find me.”
Augustine: “Desire unceasingly that life of happiness which is nothing if not eternal, and ask it of him who alone is able to give it.”