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Friday January 7, 2005
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Print- World Youth Day German Cardinal Compares Abortion to Jewish Holocaust
- Pro-Life Costa Rica Under Fire from Abortion Advocates to Reverse Its IVF Ban
- Authors of Finnish Study Fail to Report Relationship Between Increased Suicides and Abortion
- US Cardinal Says Pro-Abortion Stance an "Impoverished Standard" for Determining Suitability of Judicial Candidates
- Schindlers Ask Court to Void Order Removing Terri Schiavo's Assisted Feeding
- Report Says Homosexual U.S. Attorneys Complicit in "Frightening" Charges Against Christian Protesters
- Newfoundland Mayor Resigns Marriage Commissioner Privilege
- Toronto Catholic School Alumnae Association Invites Pro-Abort MP to Speak at Awards Ceremony
- LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes - January 7, 2005
World Youth Day German Cardinal Compares Abortion to Jewish Holocaust
TODAY'S HEADLINES
COLOGNE, January 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, who will host the upcoming 2005 World Youth Day, compared abortion to the Nazi holocaust in his sermon for the January 6 commemoration of the Epiphany, commemorating the visit of the three Kings of the East to the infant Jesus.
Cardinal Meisner said, "first there was Herod, who ordered the children of Bethlehem to be killed, then there was Hitler and Stalin among others, and today unborn children are being killed in their millions".
The comparison was immediately condemned by the pro-abortion Green party and the Social Democrats who demanded the Cardinal apologize for his insult to the holocaust victims, reports Deutsche Welle. In addition, the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, told the German publication Spiegel that the Cardinal should "distance himself immediately from the unacceptable comparison."
However, a spokesman for the Cardinal replied to the outrageous accusations saying, "The Cardinal made a connection between abortion and major crimes in history. He did not denigrate the Jews, but denounced the crimes of Hitler and Stalin."
Pro-lifers have long known that the comparison between the Nazi holocaust and the abortion holocaust is very effective since it brings home the truth that abortion, like the Nazi holocaust, involves the killing of numerous innocent human beings. The vehement condemnation of the comparison by pro-abortion groups appears to have emphasized its effectiveness.
The Pro-Life Encyclopedia notes that it may be said that the abortion holocaust "is far worse than the Nazi Holocaust, not only in sheer numbers of deaths, but in the fact that tens of millions of women have had their consciences deadened to the point that they want to abort their children for convenience."
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Back to TopPro-Life Costa Rica Under Fire from Abortion Advocates to Reverse Its IVF Ban
SAN JOSE, January 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) In March 2000, Costa Rica became the only country in North or South America to prohibit in vitro fertilization. The Costa Rican constitution protects human life from conception to natural death. IVF is a procedure that necessitates the killing of many of the embryos created for the process.
Since the court decision that banned IVF, the Costa Rican government has been under constant fire for its pro-life policies. Now a group of eleven complainants and their doctor, Delia Ribas, will take the government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to force the government to overturn the law.
On December 10th, the New York based abortion advocacy organization, the Center for Reproductive Rights, added its legal and financial support to the case. The Center's website says that the case could affect laws regarding IVF all over North and South America.
Whatever the outcome, the case will reveal the threats posed by numerous international treaties that promote abortion and anti-family policies. The challenge will be taken out of the country in an attempt to overturn existing laws to conform to the anti-life agenda of the Cairo and Beijing UN conventions.
Costa Rica's pro-life efforts have not been confined to its own country. The Costa Rican delegation attempted to introduce a complete ban on human cloning at the United Nations this past fall. Seventy-six percent of Costa Rica's population is Catholic. International pro-abortion organizations have recognized that countries with a strong Catholic culture present the greatest threat to their population control goals.
Read LifeSiteNews.com special publication:
The Inherent Racism of Population Control
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/040518a.html
Read Previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage of Costa Rica's pro-life stand:
Costa Rica High Court Declares In-Vitro Fertilization Unconstitutional
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/oct/00101801.html
United Nations Human Rights Chief Pressures Costa Rican President Over Abortion Language
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/sep/02090502.html
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Authors of Finnish Study Fail to Report Relationship Between Increased Suicides and Abortion
January 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The December 2004 edition of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG) has published a letter to the editor from Dr. Nathan J. Hoeldtke of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, pointing out the failure by authors of a Finnish study to report the relationship between abortion and increased incidence of suicide.
The 2004 study, Pregnancy-associated mortality after birth, spontaneous abortion, or induced abortion in Finland, failed to take into account the higher risk of death by intentional accident after abortion. Abortion advocates routinely scoff at any suggestion of long-term emotional effects of abortion and claim that it is more dangerous to carry a pregnancy to term.
In his letter, Dr. Hoeldtke says, for unclear reasons, the authors excluded deaths from unintentional accidental injuries and intentional injuries in their analysis of pregnancy-associated mortality. The author of the Finnish study showed in previous research that a post-abortive woman abortion is 6 times more likely to die from suicide (intentional injury) than women who give birth, and 3 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
Dr. Hoeldtke continued that "A woman obtaining an induced abortion appears to be at increased risk for dying from violent causes in the near future, including suicide. The stark reality underlying these statistics would seem to represent a significant public health concern that warrants further investigation".
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US Cardinal Says Pro-Abortion Stance an "Impoverished Standard" for Determining Suitability of Judicial Candidates
WASHINGTON, January 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Archbishop of Baltimore, Cardinal William Keeler, wrote to members of the U.S. Senate Thursday in anticipation of their being called upon to advise on and consent to presidential nominations for the Federal bench, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the letter, Cardinal Keeler rejected the view that "nominees who oppose the purposeful taking of innocent human life" are "unfit for judicial office in the United States." "By any measure," he said, "support for the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is an impoverished standard for assessing judicial ability."
"Insisting that judicial nominees support abortion throughout pregnancy is wrong," he wrote. "When considering nominees the Senate should not allow itself to be held captive to such an unfair and unreasonable standard."
Cardinal Keeler is Chairman of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Read the full letter on-line at: http://www.earnedmedia.org/usbc3.htm
Schindlers Ask Court to Void Order Removing Terri Schiavo's Assisted Feeding
PINELLAS PARK, Florida, January 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The parents of brain-disabled Terri Schiavo filed a new court motion Thursday, asking that Terri's feeding tube not be removed, as ordered by a judge in November, arguing that their daughter has been denied due legal process.
"In reviewing the many boxes of court filings," said Attorney David Gibbs III, who is now representing the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Schindler, "we cannot find a single instance where Terri was afforded the right of every American to have a lawyer who would represent her own interests. Her parents have an attorney. Her husband has an attorney; but Terri has never had an attorney who could attempt to communicate with her and could represent her interests while her parents and husband battle over whether she should live or die."
Gibbs and associate Barbara Weller visited Schiavo Christmas eve with the Schindler's, commenting that Schiavo was "very much alive and responsive," as reported by LifeSiteNews.com Wednesday.
The new motion also argues that the courts have applied the wrong law to statements Terri allegedly made in the mid-1980s that she would not want to live on life support. Her parents vehemently deny that Terri ever made such statements.
However, says Gibbs, "even if she did, in the 1980s under Florida law, assisted feeding was not considered to be life support." Therefore, the motion argues, whatever Terri may or may not have said about not wanting life support, she could never have meant that she would now want to have her assisted feeding discontinued.
Finally, the Schindlers' motion argues that the courts in this case have violated the constitutional separation of powers. By acting as judge, law-maker, and proxy-guardian, the Schindler's emphasize, the court is intruding into the roles of the legislative and executive branches of the Florida government. In so doing, they conclude, it has shed the neutral and objective judicial function to which Mrs. Schiavo is entitled and which is required by law.
See previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Terri Schiavo "Very Much Alive and Responsive" according to Schindler Attorneys
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/05010501.html
Report Says Homosexual U.S. Attorneys Complicit in "Frightening" Charges Against Christian Protesters
TUPELO, Mi., January 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A source from the U.S. Justice Department reported to WorldNetDaily that homosexual attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division attended a homosexual event called "OutFest" in Philadelphia last October and advised police who arrested 11 Christians at the event.
After a judge saw video footage of four of the Christians quoting Bible verses, they were bound for trial and now face up to 47 years in prison. They were charged with three felony (criminal conspiracy, ethnic intimidation, and riot) and five misdemeanor charges while the city of Philadelphia has labeled the Bible as hate speech.
According to the WorldNetDaily report, the DOJ attorneys may have recommended to police that the Christians be charged with "ethnic intimidation" under Pennsylvania's new "hate crimes" law. The DOJ employee who spoke to WorldNetDaily on condition of anonymity says that, due to the homosexual U.S. attorneys' involvement, it is unlikely the DOJ will take up the cause of those now facing criminal charges.
Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the AFA Center for Law & Policy, defends the arrested Christians and says the report of DOJ attorneys' involvement on the scene should trouble all who are following the case.
"This case is historic for all the wrong reasons, and now it turns out that Department of Justice attorneys attended 'Outfest' and may have advised the city on what charges to bring," Fahling said. "I am stunned."
"It has been made abundantly clear that my clients will never get justice from Philadelphia, and now it looks like they won't get it out of Washington, D.C. either. This is not an erosion of our rights under the Constitution; it is an earthquake that has swallowed them whole."
Fahling is asking the DOJ to open a criminal probe into the case.
"I believe the only way to overcome that possible bias is to get a public outcry on such a scale that it cannot be ignored by those higher up in the Department," Fahling said.
Newfoundland Mayor Resigns Marriage Commissioner Privilege
DEER LAKE, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Harold Ball, the mayor of the Newfoundland community of Deer Lake, has resigned his position as a marriage counsellor, rather than be compelled to perform same-sex "marriages."
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Newfoundland Mayors Say they Won't Marry Homosexuals, Even if Court Says So
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04121705.html
Toronto Catholic School Alumnae Association Invites Pro-Abort MP to Speak at Awards Ceremony
TORONTO, January 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Loretto Abbey School is a prestigious Toronto Catholic high school for girls whose website claims that the students come to know the mind of Christ in religion class. However it is unclear how well the lessons of the Catholic religion have been conveyed to some former students who now form the executive of the Loretto Alumnae Association and have invited Jean Augustine, a militantly pro-abortion, "Catholic" Liberal MP to be a speaker at their awards event on January 21st.
The Alumnae Association website announces that the Order of Mary Ward will be given to three Loretto sisters and one lay woman with Augustine giving the keynote address. LifeSiteNews.com attempted to contact the members of the committee of the Alumnae Association but calls were not returned by press time.
Jean Augustine, the Liberal MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, and a former Toronto Catholic school principal, is a supporter of abortion, third-world population control, contraception, and homosexual marriage. She was one of the candidates parachuted into her Toronto riding in the 1993 federal election by Jean Chretien in order to defeat a pro-life candidate. Augustine is the Founding Chair of the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population & Development, a group of legislators in support of the population control initiatives at the United Nations including China's brutally coercive one-child policy.
Although the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has collectively maintained a resolute silence on the issue, the US bishops recently instituted a policy that pro-abortion politicians calling themselves Catholic may not be given a public forum at Catholic institutions.
Julie Grando, the president of the Alumnae Association, can be reached at
http://www.lorettoalumnae.ca/news.htm
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes - January 7, 2005
Birth statistics reflect Arizona Hispanic boom
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/04/state1446ES...
China to make sex-selective abortions a crime
http://www.itv.com/news/index_219083.html
Pope Condemns 'Vile' Trafficking of Children
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7254258
Buying the 'big lie' of church-state separation
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42268
UK Christians Burn TV Licenses Over Springer Opera
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=1&u=/nm/20050107/...
More Hollywood Snubs of Gibson's 'Passion'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/1/6/153719.shtml
Oliver Stone Blames His Flop on Christians
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/1/6/84823.shtml
The Army's Gender War
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/donnelly200501070750.asp
New attorneys maneuver to save Terri Schiavo
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42273
Microsoft debuts AntiSpyware, removal tool for malicious software to follow
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050106_194007.html
A First-Hand Account of What Goes on Inside a Chula Vista Abortion Clinic
http://www.sdnewsnotes.com/ed/articles/2005/0501mv.htm
Police target Boston 'slave trade': Task force takes aim at human trafficking
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=62087
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