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July 3, 2009

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Why Pro-Lifers Oppose "Family Planning" To Reduce Abortion: Pro-Life Leader Jill Stanek Explains
I'm often asked by pro-choice friends why pro-lifers oppose sex education, family planning, and contraception. Don't those approaches reduce unintended pregnancy and therefore the numbers of abortions? It's a question at the heart of efforts to achieve "common ground" on abortion.

China Babies 'sold For Adoption'
Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.

Al-Qaida-linked Thugs Now Executing Children
Mother watches sons being dragged away

News Agencies Gagging 'gay' Factor In Boy's Rape
News coverage of a Duke University official accused of raping his adopted 5-year-old son and offering the child to someone else is apparently lacking what some say is a key piece of information: the fact the alleged perpetrator is a homosexual who lives with another "gay" man.

980,000 Unsafe Abortions Carried Out Each Year, 90% Involving Married Women
While society refuses to discuss the medical aspects of the issue focusing instead on morality and religion, an estimated 980,000 unsafe abortions are carried out in Pakistan every year, with 90 per cent of them involving married women.

Delhi HC Invokes Nehru, Legalises Gay Sex
New Delhi In a victory for gay rights activists, the Delhi High Court legalised homosexual acts among consenting adults holding that the 149-year-old law making it a criminal offence is violative of fundamental rights and not punishable.

Diabetes Type 2 Helped By Adult Stem Cells In Research Study
Dr. Roberto Fernandez Vina is scheduled to present a stem cell research study in which he helped improve Diabetes Type 2 patients with their own Adult Stem Cells and followed up on them for 3 years! The stem cell treatment and therapy was a great success.

North Korean Food Need 'critical'
North Korea is facing a "critical" food shortage, especially for children, the UN's food agency has said.

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Ethical Perspectives

New! Abortion in Canadian Literature:
Comparisons with American Literature and Canada's Unique Contributions

Jeff J. Koloze
Perhaps the absence of critical discussion about abortion in Canadian literature can be attributed to greater attention to other themes which have occupied writers since the foundation of the country; one hopes that the absence of critical commentary on abortion is not due to squeamishness or lack of interest. Perhaps the absence is a symptom of a more serious literary illness: evidence of a national literature which still has not yet "arrived." Critics have suggested that such an inherent inferiority complex controlled late in the nineteenth century and continued until the first third of the twentieth.

New! Reprogramming Stem Cells - or Pro-Lifers Minds?

Debi Vinnedge
In November 2007, two scientists Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and Dr. James Thomson published their studies describing a new stem cell technique that produced embryonic-like stem cells by simply reprogramming adult skin cells.1 Immediately, several bioethicists and pro-life leaders touted the iPS - or "induced pluripotent stem" cells to be an ethical alternative to embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. For if one could produce embryonic stem cells without destroying innocent human beings that would end the ethics debates once and for all. Or would it?

New! The Return of Anti-People Propaganda
A Comment on the "Return of the Population Growth Factor."

Steven Mosher
Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals, is a mishmash of justifications for the powerful of the world to continue to dictate the fertility of the powerless. It is even illustrated, in Science magazine's summary of the report, with a picture of a starving African child, presumably to drive home the authors' view that there are already too many Africans.

Contraception and Catholic Teaching

Donald DeMarco
A good marriage is the basis for a good family. Since the family remains the fundamental unit of society, a good marriage plays an immense and indispensable role in providing essential benefits for society. The future of humanity passes through the husbands and wives whose invocations of life confer upon them the status of fathers and mothers. The quality of today's marriage is crucial to the quality of life for the next generation.

Grief Responses from Induced Abortion
Thomas W. Strahan, J.D.

A.I.R.V.S.C.
Two studies on grief reactions relating to induced abortion are summarized in this Newsletter. One study describes pre-abortion and short-term post-abortion reactions. The other study describes long term reactions. These studies did attempt to use objective test methods and criteria to measure the multifaceted aspects of grief. This factor alone separates them from the vast majority of psychological studies reported in the literature.

An Overview of Chimeras and Hybrids

Tara Seyfer
The ancient Greeks used the term to refer to a mythical creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. Other chimeras included the faun (part man, part goat) and the minotaur (part man, part bull). Many chimeras inspired fear; for example, the minotaur lived in a labyrinth of caves and ate the flesh of men. Today, the word chimera evokes different fears, involving the ethical ramifications of experiments mixing humans and other species. There are two types of interspecies mixes: hybrids and chimeras.

Irving Comments: Dr. Stojkovic and IVF Serbia

Irving News Comments
Dr. Miodrag Stojkovic's efforts to bring IVF to Serbia should be closely scrutinized by the government and by the people for any possible violations of a woman's informed consent.

A Catholic bishop's interview confuses the already confused

Barbara Kralis
The bishop's inaction against pro-abortion politicians leads some to wonder why we need to pay for a 'Conference of Bishops' or an expensive USCCB organization, with hundreds of employees at their massive Washington, D.C. headquarters, when they have decided to each go their own way, agree to do their own governing and discipline regardless of what the Pope and Canon Law mandates?