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American Psychological Association: Remove All Sexualized Images of Women in Media

Meta Analysis finds Sexualized Ads, TV, Music Videos, Billboards, Harm Girls' Mental Health

WASHINGTON, DC, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A report of the American Psychological Association (APA) released today found evidence that the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls' self-image and healthy development.

To complete the report, the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls studied published research on the content and effects of virtually every form of media, including television, music videos, music lyrics, magazines, movies, video games and the Internet.  They also examined recent advertising campaigns and merchandising of products aimed toward girls.

Sexualization was defined by the task force as occurring when a person's value comes only from her/his sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics, and when a person is sexually objectified, e.g., made into a thing for another's sexual use.

Examples of the sexualization of girls in all forms of media including visual media and other forms of media such as music lyrics abound.  And, according to the report, have likely increased in number as "new media" have been created and access to media has become omnipresent.  The influence and attitudes of parents, siblings, and friends can also add to the pressures of sexualization.

"The consequences of the sexualization of girls in media today are very real and are likely to be a negative influence on girls' healthy development," says Eileen L. Zurbriggen, PhD, chair of the APA Task Force and associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "We have ample evidence to conclude that sexualization has negative effects in a variety of domains, including cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, and healthy sexual development."

Research evidence shows that the sexualization of girls negatively affects girls and young women across a variety of health domains:

Cognitive and Emotional Consequences: Sexualization and objectification undermine a person's confidence in and comfort with her own body, leading to emotional and self-image problems, such as shame and anxiety.

Mental and Physical Health: Research links sexualization with three of the most common mental health problems diagnosed in girls and women-eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression or depressed mood.

Sexual Development: Research suggests that the sexualization of girls has negative consequences on girls' ability to develop a healthy sexual self-image.

According to the task force report, parents can play a major role in contributing to the sexualization of their daughters or can play a protective and educative role. The APA report calls on parents, school officials, and all health professionals to be alert for the potential impact of sexualization on girls and young women. Schools, the APA says, should teach media literacy skills to all students and should include information on the negative effects of the sexualization of girls in media literacy and sex education programs.

"As a society, we need to replace all of these sexualized images with ones showing girls in positive settings-ones that show the uniqueness and competence of girls," states Dr. Zurbriggen. "The goal should be to deliver messages to all adolescents-boys and girls-that lead to healthy sexual development."

See the APA's full report online here
http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualizationrep.pdf

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Study: Women Who Donate Eggs For Fertility Research Face Loss of Life and Limb

34 women suffered severe reactions to hormone-stimulating drugs for egg extraction

By Peter J. Smith

LONDON, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Powerful drugs given to women egg-donors to harvest their eggs can cause paralysis, limb amputation and death warns a new study by Italian experts. The warning comes from researchers at the University of Padua just days before the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is expected to endorse a controversial new policy allowing doctors to pay healthy women for harvesting their eggs for research purposes.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the scientists at the University of Padua discovered in their study that 34 women suffered severe reactions to the hormone-stimulating drugs, which increase the number of eggs for extraction. Most of these women had previously enjoyed good health prior to the fertility treatment. An analysis of doctors' reports since the early 1990s revealed to the researchers that 60 per cent of the accidents involved blood clots in the head and neck.

The study, published in the journal Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, concludes that the occurrence of the number of side effects would rise as the number of assisted reproduction techniques increased. Among all women undergoing infertility treatment, one in 10 will suffer milder forms of an adverse reaction called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), while 1 percent will be at risk for life-threatening blood disorders.

The study complements a growing body of research raising concerns about the effect of the high doses of hormones in egg-retrieval drugs on the health and safety of women, especially the development of some kinds of cancer.

However, the HFEA is expected to approve Wednesday the recommendations of its influential Ethics and Law Committee, which has privately advocated the authority permit doctors and stem-cell researchers to pay women volunteers for harvesting their eggs. "The potential scientific gains outweigh the objections," one source closely involved in the decision told The Observer, a British newspaper.

The authority would permit women to donate for "altruistic reasons" and be paid £250 plus travel expenses. The eggs would then be used in human cloning techniques to conceive a human embryo, who would be allowed to grow for 14 days before being killed for his stem-cells.

Josephine Quintavalle, from Comment on Reproductive Ethics, accused the HFEA of "losing sight of their duty to the welfare of patients".

"This should be their first and only duty, not collecting eggs for research that has nothing to do with infertility," she told the Telegraph. "The risk of a young woman dying as a result of these experiments, is really not a chance that anyone should be taking."

Donna Dickenson, emeritus professor of medical ethics and humanities at the University of London and one of Britain's leading experts on the issue warned The Observer that the government's eggs-for-cash scheme could lure many poor women into undergoing such a painful, invasive, and possibly dangerous medical procedure.

"The HFEA could be unwittingly opening the door to barter or sale of eggs, including women in Britain as well as abroad, even though it is saying that women doing this would do so for purely altruistic reasons," said Dickenson.

"The sum of £250 would still be enough of an inducement for women from eastern Europe, for example, to come to Britain to sell their eggs. That's clearly turning eggs into an object of trade and that's disturbing. Once the principle of egg donation for research is established, it will become harder to prohibit paid egg donation."

Related coverage from LifeSiteNews.com:

UK Fertility Authority Proposes Allowing Egg Donation as Embryonic Stem Cell Source
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021406.html

Researchers Begin to Clamor for Payment of Ova, Despite Unstudied Risks
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Barely Studied Risks of Egg-Donation Come Under Scrutiny
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Feminist Revolutionary Warns of Exploitation of Women with Cloning Research
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/mar/05030303.html

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On 90th Anniversary of Fatima Will Portugal Lose the Catholic Faith and Legalize Abortion?

Portugal’s birthrate now stands at meager 1.5 children per woman

By Joseph A. D’Agostino

FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, February 19, 2007 (pop.org/LifeSiteNews.com) -The global hand of the human extermination movement has taken hold of Portugal, a small country that has long had a low birthrate.  Only four nations in Europe offer strong protection in law for unborn children: Ireland, Portugal, Poland, and Malta.  The European Union and the pro-abortion organizations it generously funds, along with the United Nations and others, have been trying for decades to get these EU members to conform to their abortion orthodoxy.  Now, in the wake of a failed referendum last Sunday, they are on the verge of succeeding in one of those nations.

The referendum legalizing abortion-on-demand in the first 10 weeks received the approval of 59% of voters and the disapproval of only 41%. Yet, since so few voters showed up to vote—turnout was only 44%--the referendum failed.  No matter.  Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates says he will use the referendum to justify what he has long wanted to do anyway, and get a law through parliament legalizing abortion in the first 10 weeks.  This unwise leader plans to do so by July.

In this 90th anniversary of the appearance of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal may be about to turn her back on the Catholic Faith and life itself.  The legalization of abortion would only be another symptom of Portugal’s terminal decline, another signpost on her way to eternal oblivion. Portugal’s birthrate dropped below replacement level over 20 years ago and now stands at a meager 1.5 children per woman.  An astonishing 30% of Portuguese will be 65 or over by 2050, way up from 17% today—and that assumes that Portugal’s birthrate will start rising by 2015, a questionable prediction.  More likely, it will continue downward, making Portugal’s median age 54 by 2050 (right now, it’s an already-high 38).

So, setting moral principle aside, is this the time to legalize abortions of convenience in Portugal?  Portuguese law already allows abortions for the health of the mother and for rape.  The birthrate is suicidally low. Portuguese women can and do pop over the border to Spain for abortions, anyway.  What rational reason can there be for making abortion-on-demand a priority in this dying land?

Some “yes” voters for the referendum may have been confused by the government’s publicity campaign, which emphasized ending unsafe illegal abortions that sometimes result in the mother’s death.  The government argued that since these abortions occur anyway, they may as well be safely regulated and taxed.  And some pro-legalization campaigners argued that legalization would reduce the number of abortions, though that has been proven historically false.

"We believe that those that voted ‘yes’ to relax the abortion laws were in fact voting against illegal abortions, we in the Church support that,” said Carlos Azevedo, Church spokesman in Portugal.  “What we want to see is improved education among the young and improved support for mothers."

Yet it is hard to believe that with a strong pro-life campaign in Portugal spreading the word, most of the 59% who voted yes don’t favor liberalizing abortion laws.  But it’s possible that enough people were confused and too lazy to vote that only a minority of all Portuguese voters really favors what the referendum does.

“The favorable result for the 'yes' is a sign of accentuated cultural mutation by the Portuguese people, which we have to confront with realism,” said the Portuguese bishops’ conference in a statement.  It
blamed “the globalization of ways of thinking and opinions by the media” and said, “We appeal to doctors and health professionals not to hesitate in turning to the statute of 'conscientious objector' that the law
guarantees.”

The Dean of the College of Medicine of Portugal said that its Code of Ethics says life begins at conception and thus he expected most doctors to refuse to perform abortions.  However, abortionists haven’t wasted any time, already promising to build a $3.5 million abortion clinic in Lisbon.

Sadly, the supposedly pro-life leader of the primary opposition party in Portugal, Luis Marques Mendes of the Social Democratic Party, has already caved, saying he will not fight abortion legalization now that the referendum received a majority of those who voted.  Instead, in the mantra of conservative politicians everywhere, he wants to extract a small concession or two from the Left.  “The will of the Portuguese must be respected,” he said.  “It's important to include in the final version of the new law a compulsory period of counseling for the woman who is thinking of having an abortion.”

Portugal’s president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, is close to Marques Mendes and could veto a new law.  Yet the main political opposition in parliament is giving up before the parliamentary battle has even begun.

But there is still hope.  Pro-lifers in Portugal organized to fight the referendum and can remain organized to fight the bill in parliament. Hopefully, they will understand the reality that in this fallen world, politicians respond weakly to appeals based on principle—-“Defend life!”—-and more strongly to threats—-“Vote against this or we’ll vote against you.”

The Left never gives up.  Portugal voted down an abortion referendum in 1998, so they tried again this year.  They did the same with divorce in Ireland until they won there.  We must take the same attitude, remembering the promise made at Fatima: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

Joseph A. D'Agostino is Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute.

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Homosexual Scandal in Anglican Church Puts Spotlight on Discussions of Reuniting with Catholics

By Gudrun Schultz
LONDON, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Leaders in the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches are giving increasing consideration to the possibility of reuniting as one church under the leadership of the Pope, according to a London Times report today titled, Churches back plan to unite under Pope. However, Catholic World News responds today that the Catholic and Anglican bishops who co-chair a commission on the issue have issued a statement rejecting the Times analysis. According to CWN the prelates say the newspaper report "misrepresents" the intentions and "sensationalises" the conclusions of the statement on which the Times story is based and which, they also emphasise, "does not suggest an immediate move toward reunion".

The 42-page first statement published by an international commission of Anglicans and Roman Catholics considering possible unification was obtained by The Times. The statement is under consideration by the Vatican, which will soon issue a formal response.

The report or statement, titled, Growing Together in Unity and Mission, was drafted by the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, chaired by the Right Rev. David Beetge, an Anglican bishop from South Africa, and the Most Rev. John Bathersby, the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia. The commission began in 2000, initiated by the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, and Cardinal Edward Cassidy, who was then head of the Vatican’s Council for Christian Unity. The goal of the commission was to seek ways to move forward towards unity between the churches, through “common life and mission.”

Leaders in the world-wide Anglican Communion are gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this week in ongoing debate on the gathering crisis in the Church over homosexual ordination and the ordination of women to the priesthood. The divisive issues have led to warnings of a coming schism if a resolution is not reached soon. Led by the Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, strongly orthodox members of the Anglican Communion have said they will be forced to break ranks with elements in the Western Church that have adopted liberal doctrines opposed to the teaching of Christianity.

The divisions run deep in the Anglican Communion and there is a good possibility that the meetings will not be able to produce a reconciliation. Twice during the meetings seven of the archbishops opposing liberalism said they would not receive communion--a symbol of unity--together with the rest of the primates.

Of three central points of conflict between the Catholic and Anglican churches, two would be largely resolved in the event of a split in the Anglican Communion--the issue of homosexuality and of the ordination of women to the priesthood, since most of the Anglican communities that object to homosexual ordination are also faithful to the traditional prohibition against ordaining women. 

The issue of the Pope’s universal leadership--the original source of the split between the Church of England and Rome--has remained one of the strongest sticking points in efforts to achieve Anglican reunion with the Catholic Church. That factor may be lessening, the report suggests, as some Anglicans begin to welcome the concept of a unified leadership under the guidance of the Bishop of Rome.

“The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the ministry of the Bishop of Rome [the Pope] as universal primate is in accordance with Christ’s will for the Church and an essential element of maintaining it in unity and truth.”

“We urge Anglicans and Roman Catholics to explore together how the ministry of the Bishop of Rome might be offered and received in order to assist our Communions to grow towards full, ecclesial communion.”

Both churches are urged to include public prayers for the issue in liturgical celebrations, with Anglican congregations asked to pray for the Pope and Catholics for the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The document recommends the denominations begin inviting one another to attend annual collegial and synodical gatherings and conferences to facilitate greater understanding between the churches.

Pope Benedict XVI, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, communicated support to the US Anglican Church at the time of the struggles following the ordination of homosexual Gene Robinson as a Bishop. As well, Rome accepted married priests from the Church of England into the Catholic priesthood following internal upheaval in the church over the decision to ordain women into the Anglican priesthood.

See coverage by The Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1403702.ece

See related LifeSiteNews coverage:

Anglican Pope, Dual Magisterium - Anything to Save the Comm-Union
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06052305.html

Archbishop of Canterbury Fears Coming Anglican Schism over Homosexuality
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jan/07010904.html

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Girl Suffers Forced Abortion in Italy

Minors have no “right to choose” life in Catholic nation

By Peter J. Smith

TURIN, Italy, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Italian judge ordered a 13 year-old girl to undergo an abortion, despite the girl's pleas to let her keep her child reports the Italian news agency, La Stampa.

The girl, Valentina, had become pregnant by her 15 year-old boyfriend, however rather than let her choose to keep her child, her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was ruining her life by becoming a mother.

"You cannot hold this child ... you must abort, and father will never have to know,” Valentina's mother told her, saying that she did not have the money to support the child.

Despite Valentina's repeated attempts to make her parents understand she wanted to choose to keep her baby, the case went to the Court of Minors. Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo then issued the ruling to abort Valentina's child.

Under Italian law, a minor may not decide whether to keep or abort her child, and may be forced by her guardians or parents to undergo an abortion.

However, the abortion has meant nothing less than disaster for Valentina, who was confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin after the abortion for wanting to commit suicide.

“You have made me kill, and now I kill myself, I kill myself”, cried Valentina.  "I do not want here to be," Valentina repeated. "I am not crazy, I am only evil like a dog for what my parents and the judges have obliged to make to me."

The case of Valentina is an egregious case of forced abortion in Italy, where one would expect that a woman‘s “right to choose” would mean the possibility of choosing life. However, the silence of purportedly "pro-choice" feminist groups has been deafening thus far over 13 year-old Valentina's forced abortion, despite her very own choice that her body should carry life.

To respectfully protest the Italian authorities:

Italian Embassy in U.S.
3000 Whitehaven Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20008
Tel (202) 612-4400
Fax (202) 518-2154
Italian Embassy in Ottawa

275 Slater Street, 21st Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H9
CANADA
t. +1.613.232.2401
f. +1.613.233.1484
email:

Italian Justice Ministry
Via Arenula, 70 - 00186 ROME
Tel: 06.68851
Web Site: http://www.giustizia.it
Email:


See original story (in Italian) in La Stampa:

Obbligata ad abortire a 13 anni
http://www.lastampa.it/Torino/cmsSezioni/cronaca/200702articoli/1641girata.asp

La madre: non ho i soldi, devi abortire
http://www.lastampa.it/Torino/cmsSezioni/cronaca/200702articoli/1647girata.asp

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Westminster Diocese Offers Monthly Masses for Homosexual Catholics

Final draft of document authorizing the events has been approved by Vatican

By Hilary White
 
LONDON, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop’s Council of the Diocese of Westminster, England has approved a regular Mass to be offered on behalf of homosexuals who are attempting to live up to the moral law of chastity. The Mass is to be celebrated twice a month at Our Lady of the Assumption parish at which the diocese’ says it wants to provide “pastoral care for homosexual Catholics living in London.”
 
A statement from the Westminster diocese, home of the Catholic primate of England and Wales, Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, says, “The Church’s pastoral outreach recognises that baptized persons with a homosexual inclination continue to look to the Church for a place where they might live in authentic human integrity and holiness of life.”
 
Although such pastoral outreach by dioceses in the US and Canada typically have been little more than fronts for gay political activism, some UK Catholics are cautiously optimistic that the Westminster Masses will be in support of Catholic doctrine.
 
Local news source, Catholic Action UK (CAUK), reports that the Masses will be celebrated by priests selected by the diocese, not by gay activist groups and that the final draft of the document authorizing the events has been approved by the Vatican, albeit with some wrangling over the wording of the text.
 
CAUK reports, “It should be noted that the new arrangements represent a victory for faithful Catholics who have been voicing their concerns about the previous arrangements for many years. Specifically, the Archdiocese seems to be seeking to take control of the Masses, to prevent their being hijacked by groups explicitly or implicitly opposed to Church teaching.”
 
CAUK is still cautious, however, asking whether the intention of the Mass will be to provide a spiritual home to dissenters and their clerical supporters, and whether those who are “giving public scandal” by their publicly acknowledged and unrepented homosexual activity will be given Holy Communion.
 
The group cautions, “What…is the point of drawing Catholics of a particular sexual orientation away from their parishes, for worship as a group?”

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More from Looney England - Councillor Accused of “Heterosexism” for Suggesting Family-Sized Homes

By Hilary White

CAMBRIDGE, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former mayor of Cambridge, England, John Hipkin, is demanding an apology and a retraction after being accused publicly of “heterosexism” for suggesting that more homes need to be built to accommodate families.

Hipkin wondered aloud at a planning meeting last fall whether the preference of housing developers for one and two bedroom homes was not “putting huge pressure of a contraceptive nature on this city.”

Hipkin said at the time, “People presumably start off single or young marrieds and have children, don't they? Where are they going to go?”

The Daily Telegraph reports that a complaint was lodged by a homosexual activist group who said that his remarks betrayed heterosexism, defined as “unintentional discrimination towards or against non-heterosexuals due to cultural bias.”

Hipkin, a Liberal Democrat councillor for the university town reacted with outrage and said his comments in no way were “a plan to deny gays a home.”

Calling the complaint a “slur on his character,” Hipkin said, “Such an allegation runs contrary to all the things I think I am. I have spent my life opposing homophobia, sexism, racism - all forms of discrimination.”

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McCain's Rejection of Roe v. Wade Seems As Wobbly as His Rejection of Gay "Marriage"

Commentary by John-Henry Westen

WASHINGTON, DC, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Normally the news of a prominent politician switching from support for abortion to deciding in favour of the right to life is great news. However, when this occurs in a Republican presidential candidate with a track record of flip flopping on life and family issues suspicions are rightfully aroused.

Speaking in South Carolina this weekend, Senator John McCain said that he opposed the Roe v Wade decision which allowed abortion in the United States.  "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator stated, reports MSNBC.

Speaking on Roe v Wade in 2000, McCain told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I'd love to see a point where it is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."

It seems that McCain's flip flops come fast and furious, and are best predicted by whatever way the political wind is blowing at the time.  A startling example happened last October when McCain appeared on CNN's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

To Matthews' query, "Should gay marriage be allowed?," McCain replied, "I think that gay marriage should be allowed, if there's a ceremony kind of thing, if you want to call it that.  I don't have any problem with that, but I do believe in preserving the sanctity of a union between man and woman."

Significantly, later in the program, after a commercial break during which McCain received some advice from his public relations man John Weaver, McCain revisited the topic as an interjection.  "Could I just mention one other thing?," he added after replying briefly to a question on farming.  "On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe that people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal."

Boos resounded from the audience, and if Vanity Fair's reporter who was on hand is to be believed, McCain was most displeased with the advice he received from Weaver.

McCain's voting record on life issues is also checkered.  Last summer he voted in favour of public funding for embryonic stem cell research.

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