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Hawaii Four-0 – Mercator
This week a committee of the Hawaii Senate voted to shelve a bill for physician-assisted suicide after listening to emotional public testimony. Here are some of the stories.
Idaho Legislation to Make Assisted Suicide a Felony – Wesley J. Smith
‘We Are Living in the Midst of the Greatest Human Genocide in the History of Humanity,’ Rep. Franks Says of Legalized Abortion
Activists Who Investigate Planned Parenthood Are Doing What Law Enforcement Has Failed to Do – Rep. Chris Smith
“The way that law enforcement often apprehends criminals is through sting operations…What Lila Rose and Live Action has done is a sting operation, and that’s why I would reiterate this: It’s an engraved invitation for law enforcement to cease its looking askance at [Planned Parenthood’s] exploitation of young girls and to begin investigating these abortion clinics run by Planned Parenthood and others,” said Smith.
CBS Evening News Finally Covers Planned Parenthood Sting, NBC and ABC Still Ignore
Two radical Planned Parenthood bills filed in Mass. Legislature
To require condom training, abortion counseling, sexual orientation issues – and more – for schoolchildren!
Donald Trump, pro-life convert? – Jill Stanek
When a pro-lifer such as Dick Durbin or Jesse Jackson converts to pro-abortion, the dark side welcomes them. How much better should pro-lifers respond when a pro-abort sees the light? I recognize there are also those converting for political expediency, but so what? Why not encourage and strengthen them on their decision? And if they vote the way we want them to, is their motivation critical?
American Life League is urging the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to dissolve its relationship with the Catholic Health Association
“It’s clear that CHA is more interested in politics and money than maintaining Catholic teaching,” said Michael Hichborn, director of American Life League’s project, Defend the Faith.
Pelosi vows huge fight against GOP over abortion – Washington Post
…on a conference call with bloggers just now, she unleashed a slashing attack on the House GOP’s new anti-abortion push that may churn up emotions on both sides. Pelosi described the GOP push as the “most radical assault” on women’s reproductive rights “in our lifetimes.” And she was equally blunt in her assessment of right-wing assaults on family planning.
The Hidden Moral Dangers of Organ Donation
…there is so much pressure on people to donate organs without adequate information about the realities of the procedures involved that many “donors” are not really donors at all. Donation requires consent to the gift. Many people, including Catholics, have no idea they are signing up to have someone kill them to harvest their organs. It sounds harsh, of course, but it is often exactly the case.
…what is unknown to many is that organs are often and routinely taken from patients who are still alive; very often the organs taken are necessary to preserve the “donor’s” life. The main problem here is that the medical community relies upon a definition of death that is not really death.
CIRM Celebrates Funding Luxury Stem Cell Buildings As California Disintegrates – Wesley J. Smith
The $123 million facility is headquarters to UCSF’s stem cell center, called the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research about 20% of the cost was paid for with borrowed money on the credit card of Californians, the same ones who are watching the rest of their state fall apart like an unreinforced brick chimney in an 8.0 earthquake. MediCal kidney dialysis patients may loose coverage for their life saving treatment. But the CIRM keeps borrowing from the impecunious to pay for its fat salaries and luxurious buildings and then celebrates the luxury.
Bone Marrow Adult Stem Cells Disappoint in Treating Heart Attack Injuries – Wesley J. Smith
Early human trials with adult stem cells extracted from bone marrow have not worked as well as hoped…the results, she says, were a mixed bag. The treatment appeared to be safe, but patients had only transient improvement. “People went from being very sick to a little less sick,
The State of NaProTechnology – Catholic World Report Special Report
This countercultural challenge to mainstream reproductive medicine quietly but significantly grows.