LifeZine No. 523: 11th Sep 07
The ‘Utter Hypocrisy’ of State Agencies Exposed
“It is a scandal that the HSE (Health Services Executive) routinely arranges and funds the abortion of Irish unborn children in the UK. This is a corruption of medicine and ethics.” So said Rachel Kenny writing in the current edition of the Irish family newspaper, “Alive!” The Government must ensure that the HSE fulfils its constitutional obligation and does everything possible to preserve human life, she said. But it is not only the HSE which fails to protect the right to life of the unborn, she argued. It is not only the HSE who is facilitating abortions. “Yet another State financed body—the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA)—lists abortion as a ‘positive option’”, she noted. Consequently, she said, “The radical reform of the HSE and the CPA is urgently needed if we are to build a welcoming society for expectant mothers and their unborn children”. Alive! September. Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Irish Study Gives 'Yo-yo' Weight Warning to Mothers
Women who gain or lose substantial amounts of weight between pregnancies could put themselves and their unborn babies at risk, according to Irish specialists. Researchers warned that fluctuating weight increases the risk of dangerously high blood pressure and diabetes in the mother as well as a greater chance of stillbirth. The authors of the study, Jennifer Walsh, a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Coombe Women's Hospital, Dublin, and Deirdre Murphy, Professor of Obstetrics at Trinity College Dublin, said, "There is growing concern on the one hand about an epidemic of obesity, and on the other about a culture that promotes 'size zero' as desirable, irrespective of a woman's natural build. Pregnancy is one of the most nutritionally demanding periods of a woman's life, with an adequate supply of nutrients essential to support foetal well-being and growth." BBC. CLICK TO READ MORE.....
UK Abortion Industry Plans October Conference on Abortion Laws
Abortion advocates in England are planning an international conference this month to promote the widening of UK abortion laws. They hope the conference will result in a new effort to end the requirement that two physicians must be required to sign off on abortions. They also want a revision of the national abortion law that will allow licensed nurses or midwives to do early abortions or to give women the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug. Marie Stopes International, one of the leading abortion businesses in the UK, is the main sponsor of the Global Safe Abortion Conference that will involve 13 organisations. Tony Kerridge, a spokesman for the abortion industry, said the desired changes in the law "are what we feel is a minimal requirement to modernise the law and bring it into the 21st century". LifeNews.com. CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Pro-Life Students Protest at China's Embassy
UK pro-life students organised a demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy in London last week protesting against forced abortions and sterilisations carried out under China's one-child policy. The silent demonstration drew attention to the killing of unborn children and the plight of women coerced or forced into abortion and sterilisation. Leaflets describing the brutal methods used to enforce policy were handed to passers-by. Demonstrators drew attention to the persecution of Mao Henfang and Chen Guangcheng, both of whom have been imprisoned for campaigning against the one-child policy in China. The target of the protest was not only the Chinese government but also the British and European authorities who they claim are complicit in the one-child policy by their financial and moral support. LifeNews.com. END.
Vatican Refers to 'Eugenics Culture’ after Abortion of Wrong Twin
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a botched abortion that the Vatican described as the result of a “culture of perfection” resembling Nazi eugenics. Italy is embroiled in a bitter controversy after it emerged that a surgeon had accidentally aborted a healthy baby instead of its twin who had Down’s Syndrome. The abortion—on a 38-year-old woman 18 weeks into her pregnancy—was performed at the San Paolo hospital in Milan in June but has only now come to light. The baby with Down’s Syndrome was also aborted subsequently. The revelation has reignited the debate in Italy over abortion which was legalised in 1978. The law allows abortions of healthy babies up to the 90th day of pregnancy, though abortions can be performed at a later stage if there is a risk to the life of the mother or the baby is malformed. The Times. CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Aging Global Population is ‘Profound’ and ‘Irreversible’—UN Report
The United Nations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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) recently released its global population estimates, revealing an alarming population shift that will have serious worldwide consequences within the near future. While blaming the problem on lowered fertility and increased longevity, the report fails to make the connection with contraception, abortion and sterilisation. The 2007 report is an updated version of the 2002 "World Population Aging" report that was published during the Second World Assembly on Aging. Following the demographic trends from 1950 to 2005, the report notes that the population aging is "unprecedented, a process without parallel in the history of humanity". The population trend profoundly affects every area of human life-economic, political and social and is "irreversible", the report claims. The report notes, "Unprecedented change is right now transforming many societies." Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....