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San Francisco’s Pier 39: A different Sort of Pro-Life Picket – Jill Stanek
Those who traffic this blog regularly know I support pro-life protests that educate the public about abortion by displaying graphic images of aborted babies. Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust also believes in this approach, but on October 30 at San Francisco’s Pier 39 the group took a different tack. For 4 hours – in the rain – 20 of our youthful activists displayed huge, beautiful posters of miraculous preborn development and distributed so much literature they ran out… an uplifting change of pace.
https://www.jillstanek.com/2010/11/san-franciscos-pier-39-a-different-sort-of-of-pro-life-picket/
Planned Parenthood outreach group: “we are not going to try to use science”
https://liveaction.org/blog/planned-parenthood-outreach-group-we-are-not-going-to-try-to-use-science/
Planned Parenthood tries to get YouTube to pull embarrassing bloopers videos
https://www.jillstanek.com/2010/10/planned-parenthood-tries-to-get-youtube-to-pull-embarrassing-bloopers-videos/
Rep. Trent Franks Says Planned Parenthood More Corrupt Than ACORN
https://tucsoncitizen.com/in-the-aggregate/2010/09/20/rep-trent-franks-says-planned-parenthood-more-corrupt-than-acorn/
Younger generation increasingly pro-life
Polling data, record crowds at the 2009 and 2010 March for Life in Washington, and a steep increase in the number of student pro-life groups over the past four years provide evidence that those born between the late 1970s and late 1990s are more pro-life than the baby boomer generation.
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8138
Sarah Palin gave a very moving, personal, prolife speech in Kansas City last night. It was one of the best I've heard and I've heard plenty. Palin remained focused on the anti-abortion cause. She challenged audience members to help change American culture to one more focused on the sanctity of life. That means encouraging adoption and foster families. Sitting on the sidelines, Palin said, no longer is acceptable. Palin added, “We should be our brother and sister's keeper – not government.
https://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/13/2221700/palin-puts-personal-spin-on-abortion.html
A Nation Turns Away From Abortion
It's not true that abortion statistics are irreversible. Italy proves it. Abortion numbers and rates there have continued on a downward trend for over two decades. Abortion, which was legalized in Italy in 1978, reached a peak of 234,801 cases in 1982. In 2009, 116,933 abortions were performed, a decline of 3.6 percent from the previous year – a figure that for the first time was less than half the number in the peak year. The numbers have declined consistently for the last five years.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/a_nation_turns_away_from_abortion/
Famous Abortion Doctor Warns Against the Use of Condoms
https://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2010/11/famous-abortion-doctor-warns-against.html
ACLU Tries to Force Abortions on Catholic Hospitals
HHS is considering its request. But can it hold up in court?
https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/aclu-tries-to-force-abortions-on-catholic-hospitals/
83 year old Anne Nikol Gaylor helps women fund abortions”.
This “grandmother” has written 18,986 checks to pay for abortions in her leadership role with the “Womens Medical Fund” , recognized as a charity under both Wisconsin Law and the Internal Revenue Code.
https://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=37966
New Jersey Abortion Veto Override Fails
The attempt in the New Jersey Senate to override Governor Chris Christie's veto of the abortion-funding bill, otherwise known as the Women's Health and Family Planning Act, failed today
https://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/abortion-veto-override-fails-today
The word ‘fetus’ is offensive, dehumanizing and manipulative
A law professor at Oxford University argues that use of the word 'fetus' obscures our perception of moral reality.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_word_fetus_is_offensive_dehumanizing_and_manipulative/
Pro-lifers vs. relativism
https://hprweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=258&Itemid=63
Phillipine Information Agency – Zambo holds youth training on sexual and reproductive rights tilt
The 4-day activity will bring together Filipino youth activists who will use a youth, sexual and reproductive lens to analyze the National Development Plan (NDP) of the Philippines. Participants will gain knowledge on the NDP process and how to more effectively advocate for the integration of young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights into the national development framework.
https://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&r=&y=&mo=&fi=p100901.htm&no=48
What about IVF? The embryo technology that evangelicals don’t oppose
https://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/10/10/what_about_ivf/
IVF could double the risk of cerebral palsy, according to a study of more than 90,000 children.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8104989/IVF-could-double-risk-of-cerebral-palsy.html
Invisible dads: $3.3 billion fertility industry is creating a huge number of fatherless children
“An estimated 30,000-60,000 children are born each year through sperm donation—the product of a $3.3 billion fertility industry that does not have to keep strict records of births, reveal donor names, or regulate the number of children one sperm donor creates.
https://www.worldmag.com/articles/17154
Biological Colonialism at the Movies by Wesley J. Smith
HBO has a documentary out that apparently highlights the baby gestating industry that is growing in India
Two scenes from the HBO documentary Google Baby illustrate the injustice and heartbreak in the fertility tourism boom.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/11/03/biological-colonialism-at-the-movies/
Western Australia Nixes Euthanasia – Wesley J. Smith
A Contoversial bill that would have made WA the first state in Australia to legalise euthanasia has been defeated after MPs were given a conscience vote on the subject.
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7689
Chevalier in the fight for human dignity
France has just given its highest dignity to a courageous woman who battled locked-in syndrome and quadriplegia to fight for the disabled.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/chevalier_in_the_fight_for_human_dignity/
First conviction for human organ trafficking in Beijing
https://www.asianews.it/news-en/First-conviction-for-human-organ-trafficking-in-Beijing-19472.html