LifeZine No. 601: 18th Jun 08
Family & Life Extends a Warm Welcome to New ‘LifeZine’ Readers
Welcome to this, the 601st edition of “LifeZine”. The Directors, Staff and Volunteers of Family & Life would like to extend warm greetings to you and your loved ones this Summer. For those of you who are new readers, “LifeZine” replaced “Irish Pro-Life News” and is designed in a new web-based format. This change is part of Family & Life’s decision to renovate its e-mail and website projects in an strategic effort to reach more people using a professional and interactive format. The improvements to “LifeZine” are part of the organisation’s commitment to enhance the quality of the service for our existing readers as well as our determination to reach a wider audience. “This effort is all about creating and putting a greater awareness of fundamental life issues into the minds and hearts of an Irish and global audience”, said David Manly, Director of Family & Life. As with “Irish Pro-Life News”, “LifeZine” is published bi-weekly. We welcome all comments and suggestions. Please ask friends and/or family to register by sending them the following link: CLICK TO READ MORE..... Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Irish Catholic Bishops' Statement on Marriage
At their June meeting recently, the Irish Catholic Bishops addressed the issue of the Christian theology of marriage. In view of recent suggestions that our society should redefine the nature of marriage, sometimes made by individuals or institutions that claim support from Christian ideals, the Bishops reiterated that marriage presupposes the mutuality and complementarity of the sexes. Christian tradition holds that sexual differentiation is intrinsic to our understanding of the sacrament of marriage, they argued. The bishops’ pointed out that marriage involves more than the commitment of two people to each other. Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....
UK Archbishop Calls for Bioethics Commission
In the aftermath of the recent UK parliamentary votes on abortion and embryology, the Archbishop of Westminster has repeated his call for a national bioethics commission. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor praised the quality of the House of Commons debate and said a commission would "serve the common good simply through continuing dialogue and exploration". Ethics needed to keep pace with science, he said. The Church did not impose her views and what mattered was: "the appeal to reason and intellectual argument...” The Cardinal observed, "The idea of 'viability', prominent in the debate, is a concept dependent on the availability of resources and technology; not one that is able to found a moral distinction between a life that is worth our respect and protection and one that is not." Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Expectant Parents of Quads Refuse ‘Selective Abortion’
A British couple that are expecting naturally conceived quads have refused so-called “selective abortion”. Michael Wing, the father, is quoted as saying that such intervention could lead to the deaths of all the children. Expectant mother, Mrs Emma Wing, of Devon, says she wants nature to take its course. Selective abortion is touted as intending to increase the survival chances of the babies who are not killed. Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Polish Volleyball Champion Sacrificed Her Life for Unborn Child
An expectant mother in Poland who was diagnosed with terminal leukaemia postponed a bone marrow transplant for the sake of her unborn baby. The late Mrs Agata Mróz, a champion sportswoman, gave birth to a daughter in April and died on June 4 aged 26. She was widely praised for her stance and has been given a posthumous award by Polands's president. Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....
Abortion Industry's Obscene Profits
In a recent report, LifeNews.com highlighted the tax-subsidized abortion industry in the USA. In April, the annual report for Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that the abortion giant had a total income of $1.02 billion -- with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers contribute more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. That's a third of Planned Parenthood's budget. And what do Americans get for those government incentives? In 2006 alone, 289,750 abortions! According to report, the executives of Planned Parenthood have so far “escaped government scrutiny and public accountability for their predatory behaviour, dangerous medical practices, deception and deadly windfall”. Details: CLICK TO READ MORE.....