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Rock For Life is asking music buyers to beware of what they are supporting with their music purchases this Christmas season. Consumers are urged not to purchase music from artists who help raise money and support for the abortion industry. Rock For Life has compiled a list of different artists who support the abortion industry. The list at Rock for Life includes artists such as Rage Against The Machine, Jewel, Korn, Ani DiFranco, Madonna, Melissa Etheridge, Carrie Newcomer, Joan Osborne, Primus, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cher, Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Santana, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush and many more. 

The Medical Post of Dec. 7, 199 contains an article by Colleen Clements, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y who writes about having had an abortion before Roe v Wade. Clements dispels the myth of ‘coat-hanger abortions’ saying: “Let’s eliminate the “coat-hanger” spin-doctoring right away. It was not necessary to have a coat-hanger abortion, even before Roe vs. Wade, and the risks of an illegal abortion were not as high as they are portrayed in modern propaganda. (Pro-Life E-News)

Yesterday the Ohio State Board of Education unanimously adopted a resolution requiring public schools to emphasize abstinence as the only 100 percent effective protection against unwanted pregnancy and transmission of the AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases. (Beacon Journal) 

The Times of England reports today that one in three American schools teaches that abstaining from sexual intercourse is the only appropriate way to behave, while lessons on contraceptives are decreasing in popularity. 

On Wednesday the British government condemned euthanasia via withdrawal of nutrition and hydration from patients.  Responding to calls for comment on the police investigation of over 60 cases of elderly patients being starved to death in hospitals, junior health minister Lord Hunt said, “We would utterly condemn circumstances in which older people were being deprived of food and drink.” 

Catholic World News reports today that Poland’s lower house of Parliament on Thursday passed a new bill that outlaws hard-core pornography.  While the bill is expected to pass the upper house, “ex”-Communist president Aleksander Kwasniewski has not indicated whether he will sign the law.