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Pro-Life News
Briefs
Week of October 4, 2007
MILLIONS
OF AMERICANS WILL AIR THEIR PRO-LIFE VIEWS ON ABORTION AT LIFECHAIN
Washington,
DC -- Every October, millions of Americans brave the cold fall air
in hundreds of cities and towns across the country to present a silent
witness against abortion in the annual LifeChain. This year, thousands
of towns across the U.S., and Canada, will feature these prayerful
demonstrations. Holding signs such as "Abortion Hurts Women"
and "Abortion Kills Children," participants in the LifeChain
have been counted on every year to remind their communities that
abortion has two victims. This
year marks the 20th year for the national LifeChain and the event is
Sunday afternoon from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m local time in every city that
participates. Other
slogans on the professionally-printed signs include "Adoption - the
Loving Option," "Life - the First Inalienable Right,"
"Pray to End Abortion," "El Aborto Mata Ninos," and
"Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation." Source:
LifeNews, October 4, 2007.
Washington, DC -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Thursday that one of her first actions if she wins the 2008 election will be reversing President Bush's protections on embryonic stem cell research. Bush has twice vetoed bills that would force taxpayers to fund the research, which requires the destruction of human life. Bush also put in place a policy in August 2001 that prevents federal funding of any new embryonic stem cell research and, instead, concentrates most federal money in the area of adult stem cells. Those are the cells that have shown the most promise in treating patients, as embryonic stem cell research has encountered significant problems such as immune system rejection issues. Still, she called the limits and protections Bush has instituted a "ban on hope." "The Bush administration has declared war on science," Clinton claimed in an address to the Carnegie Institution for Science. "When I am president, scientific integrity will not be the exception it will be the rule." Source: LifeNews, October 4, 2007.
CLINTON,
GIULIANI RACE TO LEADS IN NEW NATIONAL POLL, ROMNEY LEADS IN STATES
Washington, DC -- A new poll sponsored by the Washington Post and
ABC News has pro-abortion presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and
Rudy Giuliani racing to stronger leads nationwide. Surveys in the top
primary states give the advantage to Clinton on the Democratic side, but
they show Mitt Romney leading in most of the early GOP contests. The
Post/ABC poll has former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani leading all
candidates with the support of 34 percent of Republicans and far ahead
of former Sen. Fred Thompson, who stands at 17 percent. The
survey has Arizona Sen. John McCain at 12 percent and former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 11 percent. Other
Republican polls during the month of September have Giuliani leading by
anywhere from two to eleven percent over his rivals but a new Rasmussen
Reports survey also released Wednesday shows Thompson ahead by two
points over the ex-mayor and Romney in third place instead of fourth.
Despite
the new poll, surveys in leading primary states show Mitt Romney
continues to outpace his opponents. Source:
LifeNews, October 4, 2007.
CATHOLIC
BISHOP SAYS GUIDELINES NEEDED FOR COMMUNION, PRO-ABORTION POLLS
Washington,
DC -- A Catholic bishop who made national headlines yesterday with
comments saying he would deny communion to pro-abortion Republican
presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has gone further. Archbishop
Raymond Burke of St. Louis says the nation's Catholic bishops should
establish guidelines for a national policy. Burke
expressed his views in an essay that appeared in Periodica De Re
Canonica, published by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
The
Catholic leader says parish priests should ensure that everyone takes
communion in a worthy manner, with no one taking it if they have
publicly stood against the pro-life beliefs of the Catholic Church.
Source:
Life News, October 4, 2007
DEMOCRATS
TRUST HILLARY CLINTON OVER OBAMA, EDWARDS ON HANDLING ABORTION
Washington,
DC -- A new Gallup poll finds an overwhelming majority of Democrats
say they trust pro-abortion New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to handle the
issue of abortion. She obtains much higher support on the issue from
Democrats in the survey than pro-abortion rivals Barack Obama and John
Edwards. Sen.
Hillary Clinton, who currently leads the Democratic race for the 2008
presidential nomination by more than 20 percentage points according to
two recent polls. Part
of the lead is explained in a new Gallup survey which shows Democrats
perceive Clinton as the best prepared of the top three Democratic
contenders to handle 13 of 17 different challenges that could face the
next president. On
abortion, 61 percent of the Democrats polled say they trust Clinton
while just 14 percent say Obama would best handle the issue and 11
percent for Edwards. Source:
Life News, October 4, 2007
LIBERALS
LIE, CHILDREN DIE
Townhall
Column by Kevin McCullough -- At
this very moment one of the most liberal organizations in our nation has
fraudulent papers before a court in the Midwest awaiting permission to
begin the systematic slaughter of innocent children on Tuesday. Using
false pretense, misdirected answers on applications, and fraudulent
forms Planned Parenthood is awaiting word to see if it will be allowed
to open a super-butchery in Aurora, Illinois this coming Tuesday. The
situation highlights a new trend for the tax-payer subsidized
organization that is now resorting to lying to municipalities and their
populations in order to set up shop, hack women's uteruses and slice
children's bodies like lunchmeat. Some of the children just inches from
birth. The way it works is first they set-up a phony name for a phony
company. In the Aurora, Illinois case they filed their fraudulent
permits under the name of Gemini Office Management Corporation.
Pretending to be a neutral landlord, they then asserted on the forms
requesting the construction permits that the "tenant is
unknown." With the municipality duped, the residents of
Aurora feel betrayed. Several reports have emanated from the region
demonstrating that even people who do not normally protest abortion
publicly are outraged and feel that they have been lied to. And they
should feel this way, because they have. Source: Townhall,
September 16, 2007. Note:
Kevin McCullough is heard daily in New York City, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware on WMCA 570 at 2pm.
PRO-ABORTION
GROUPS DECEIVE LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS, HISPANIC LEADER SAYS
Washington, DC -- A pro-abortion group based in the United States
has released a new report claiming that pro-life laws in Latin American
countries, specifically Nicaragua, are hurting women. However, a leading
Hispanic activist says abortion advocacy groups located outside the
region are deceiving Latino people. Abortion
advocates have been successful in getting Mexico City to legalize
abortion and they are targeting nations like Nicaragua, Brazil, and
others to weaken their pro-life laws. On
Tuesday, the U.S.-based pro-abortion group Human Rights Watch released a
report on Tuesday claiming the complete abortion ban Nicaragua has
adopted is causing human rights abuses. The
group's new report, titled “Over Their Dead Bodies," supposedly
documents how the abortion ban has made women afraid to seek legal
reproductive health services. Raimundo
Rojas, the Hispanic outreach director for National Right to Life, tells
LifeNews.com that's not the case. "Those
of us who regularly do battle with the extremist pro-abortion groups
such as the Catholics for a Free Choice and groups heralded by
mainstream media as legitimate watch dog groups such as Human Rights
Watch have sadly learned that we have to take every thing coming from
them not just with a grain of salt, but quite possibly an entire salt
mine," Rojas said. "The
numbers and statistics and stories now being promulgated by these
people, who have as much disdain for the truth as they do human life,
has to be weighed against their last big putsch in Latin America when
they waved the banner of injustice over one Carmen Clamico," Rojas
added. Source:
Life News, October 4, 2007
ABORTION
PREDICTS BREAST CANCER BETTER THAN OTHER FACTORS, STUDY SHOWS
London,
England -- A new study published in the Journal of American
Physicians and Surgeons yesterday finds that abortion is the best
predictor of whether women will contract breast cancer. Abortion also is
a better indicator of future breast cancer issue than six other commonly
used factors. Patrick
Carroll of the Pension and Population Research Institute in London
conducted this new study and showed that countries with higher abortion
rates, such as England & Wales, could expect a substantial increase
in breast cancer incidence. "Induced
abortion is found to be the best predictor, and fertility is also a
useful predictor," he writes. "The increase in breast cancer
incidence appears to be best explained by an increase in abortion rates,
especially nulliparous abortions, and lower fertility." Source:
Life News, October 4, 2004
New York, NY-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long been one of the most staunch abortion advocates in the country, going as far as requiring all medical students there to learn how to do abortions. Now the businesses executive is accused of fostering a climate of pregnancy discrimination at his financial information company. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg saying he has fostered and condoned "systemic, top-down discrimination against female employees." Three women who are high-level executives at Bloomberg brought the pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against the mayor. Tanys Lancaster, Janet Loures and Jill Patricot said they were subjected to unfair demotions and decreased compensation and were denied advancement after becoming pregnant. Source: Life News, October 4, 2004
PRO-LIFE
GROUP RELEASES LIST OF PRO-ABORTION LOCAL BUSINESSES TO BOYCOTT
Washington,
DC -- A pro-life group that has successfully led a national boycott
of businesses that provide charitable contributions to Planned
Parenthood has released a list of local businesses that do the same
thing. The boycotts have cost the nation's largest abortion business
millions in donations. Life
Decisions International on Wednesday told LifeNews.com that the list of
local pro-abortion businesses comes at the request of pro-life people
who want to have a more local impact. "The
local/regional boycott List identifies companies that do business in a
limited area," LDI president Douglas Scott said. "We
urge pro-life people to take a local approach. These are businesses that
may operate in your home town or in your state/province," he
explained. "It is important that pro-life people let the owners of
these establishments know how disappointed they are by the owners'
philanthropic choices." Source: Life
News, September 20, 2007