Dear Readers,
The US election – what happened, why did it go this way and what do life and family loving Americans do now? We have much to report to better arm you for the days ahead for your role in the culture wars.
One huge victory was the passage of California Proposition 8. The importance of that vote cannot be overemphasized. It also puts the lie to the claims that the culture wars are over and Obama won because Americans are no longer interested in social conservative principles. McCain lost for a number of reasons, one being that the big wheels in the Republican Party did not emphasize social conservatism enough and McCain was not seen as having those issues as a personal high priority.
The Vatican sponsored conference on organ donation is one of the more puzzling developments that we have encountered in recent years. It is a big story, but so far hardly any media, including pro-life and conservative media, have touched it. “Why?” is the big question.
LifeSiteNews has published a great number of positive reports on Vatican statements, conferences and actions over the years, but this conference is far outside the usual mold. The organ transplant industry itself is involved, which should send all kinds of warning signals.
Distinguished members of the Pontifical Academy For Life who have grave ethical concerns about how organs are harvested have been ignored and were all left off the original invitation list for the current meeting. The report agreed upon by the participants in a previous conference on the issue and which reflected serious concerns about organ harvesting practices was suppressed by the then Vatican Secretary of State. It was never made public. This was extremely unusual.
All we do know for certain is that the public has no idea how brain death and its many different definitions is determined and tested and the public is especially in the dark about the ghoulish aspects of organ harvesting, including the fact that in most cases, the donor must be kept alive almost up to the point of carving out the body parts for most parts to be useful. And there is more that we have discovered that would curl your hair.
Let’s hope that full public disclosure on all aspects of organ harvesting, including how skilled organ industry negotiators are given the sole authority at hospitals to talk to family members after death has been declared, becomes one recommendation that comes out of the Vatican conference.
For life, family and truth,
Steve Jalsevac
LifeSiteNews.com