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National Director, Priests for Life 30-Jul-2001 -- EWTN Pro-Family News
You don’t hear much about it, but the fact is that Roe vs. Wade did not simply give a woman the right to an abortion. It placed on the physician the responsibility to insure the safety of the woman who gets an abortion.
And that's where the supporters of Roe vs. Wade fail to implement Roe vs. Wade.
Abortion remains the most unregulated surgical industry in the nation. Some 90% of abortions are not performed in hospitals, but rather in "clinics" which most states exempt from regulation. In fact, in the vast majority of states, veterinary clinics are more regulated than abortion clinics.
Just look at the laws that are or are not on the books. First of all, an abortionist does not have to have a specialty in OB-GYN. Rather, your abortionist may be a urologist, an allergist, or a plastic surgeon. What, furthermore, are the licensing requirements for the staff of abortion clinics? Usually, there are none. How about regulations regarding the presence of emergency medical equipment in the clinic, in case a complication should arise, or the laws governing how such an emergency should be handled? Let me know when you find such laws.
The question, of course, is why is abortion so unregulated? After all, if abortion is a legitimate medical procedure, should it not follow the same standards as other legitimate medical procedures?
The beginning of an answer may be found in the kinds of people who do abortions. Face it, one does not spend years of effort and tens of thousands of dollars to become a doctor in order to be known as an abortionist. Three decades of legalization have not taken the stigma out of abortion. "Fewer and fewer physicians wish to perform abortions" (Journal of Medical Ethics, Volume 22, 1996).
As a result, this area of "medical" practice remains as shady as it ever was, and attracts the losers and washouts of the medical community. I know many of those that used to perform abortions and no longer do. Some, in fact, posed as doctors without having spent a day in medical school. Others testify that they never sterilized the instruments. And stories of sexual abuse in abortion clinics abound. This, remember, is taking place in legal abortion clinics.
So what are we in the pro-life community asking? We are calling for a full investigation of what is going on in abortion clinics. Nobody knows how many abuses are happening, but the more you look, the more you find. Furthermore, we call for more states to exercise their Constitutionally protected right to regulate abortion clinics. We are also calling on the "pro-choice" groups to be honest. Being in favor of women's rights and health should include action to insure that clinics protect women against the malpractice of unscrupulous abortionists. After all, if you care about the exploitation of women, you care about it no matter who is doing the exploiting.
Contact Priests for Life at PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY
10314; Tel: 888-PFL-3448, 718-980-4400; Fax: 718-980-6515;
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=17679
TORONTO WORLD YOUTH DAY EVENT ADDRESSED BY JUSTIN TRUDEAU
Trudeau's comments about rejecting "old men with old ideas" cause concern
TORONTO, July 30, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Justin Trudeau, a son of recently deceased former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was a featured speaker at a major kick-off event for the World Youth Day to be held in Toronto on July 27, 2002. Trudeau received loud cheers for his speech which ended with comments that caused concern among some of the youth in the crowd preparing to receive Pope John-Paul II next year. The July 29 Toronto Star reported that "Trudeau recounted his struggles with the strict tenets of Catholicism". He slowly started to rediscover his own religion and said "Church isn't about rules. It's about guidance" He urged the youth present to reject "old men with old ideas. It's time to change our world and it starts tonight."
Justin's father, Pierre Trudeau, practiced his own very personal brand of Catholicism which allowed him to justify making changes in law and policy that greatly helped to cripple Canada's Christian moral culture. Pierre Trudeau's changes co-operated with other forces to bring about a rapid increase in abortions, divorces and homosexual activism in Canada and brought about a general liberal social revolution. Some pro-life, pro-family leaders fear that his sons may share their father's views and be recruited by influential persons to continue the very destructive Trudeau social revolution.
See Pierre Trudeau, Father of Canada's Permissive Society
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/oct/001003a.html
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010730.html#5
QUEBEC ABORTUARY DROPS CASE AGAINST PRO-LIFE GROUP
Pamphlet about numerous deaths resulting from legal Canadian abortions is factual
HULL, QUE., July 24, 2001 (LSN.ca) - La Clinique des femmes de l'Outaouais (Hull region women's clinic), a Quebec abortion mill, officially withdrew its legal action against the pro-life group Respect de la Vie Outaouais (RVO) yesterday. The abortuary was contesting a pamphlet by RVO noting that one in 25 women "are hospitalized up to 7 days after legally induced abortion in Canada."
On February 16, 2001, the women's clinic served RVO with a legal action filed with la Cour supérieure du Québec in which the clinic accused the RVO of "irreparable damages" caused to its business by the RVO pamphlet. The clinic alleged that the pamphlet was " fallacious, morbid and alarmist" and presented in support of its claim a Statistics Canada table where the complication rate given in the body of the text was "1.1%".
RVO, however, demonstrated to the court that the women's clinic chose not to mention that the endnotes of the same table specify that the rates only represent hospital cases. Moreover, RVO submitted Statistics Canada evidence noting that a full third of abortions are practised in clinics and only 75% of hospitals report abortions to the Statistics Canada Therapeutic Abortions database, with only a limited number of those declaring their medical complications and only "immediate" complications are taken into account.
RVO obtained a custom tabulation from Statistics Canada extracted from the "Hospital Morbidity" database that shows 1 out of 25 women is hospitalized up to 7 days after legally induced abortion in Canada with the diagnostic code "Complications from legally induced abortion". In the Statistics Canada article entitled "Second-trimester abortions: Trends and medical complications", it is stated that, at 20-24 weeks'gestation (genetic abortions), the risk of serious complications, including death, reach 22%.
RVO urges Canada to require informed consent for abortions. The group insists that women know all the risks and consequences of abortion (e.g. death; complications; breast cancer; infertility; miscarriage; premature birth; ectopic pregnancy; suicide; etc.) as well as alternatives (adoption, pregnancy support and family support).
To contact RVO or obtain its pamphlets email:
ibegin@magma.ca
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010724.html#2
POPE COUNSELS BUSH NOT TO APPROVE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH
VATICAN, July 23, 2001 (LSN.ca) - President George Bush met today with Pope John Paul II at the pope's summer residence Castel Gandolfo. After their private discussions, lasting about 35 minutes, the Pope and the President made short public remarks.
Recognizing the struggle facing the president over the matter of stem cell research, the Pope stressed the gravity of the decision. The "area in which political and moral choices have the gravest consequences for the future of civilization concerns the most fundamental of human rights, the right to life itself," said the Pope. The pope stressed that with stem cell research involving human embryos, those embryos are "destined to destruction in the process." Abortion is accompanied by a "coarsening of consciences," said the pope, which leads to acceptance of "related evils" such as euthanasia, infanticide, destructive experimentation with human embryos. He urged America to be an example to the world by rejecting "the assault on innocent human life in the womb" and "show the world the path to a truly humane future."
In his public remarks to the pope, President Bush praised him
with an altered rendition of the Prayer of St. Francis. "Where
there is oppression, you speak of human rights. Where there is
poverty, you speak of justice and hope.," said Bush. "Above
all," said Bush, "you have carried the message of the
Gospel into 126 nations, and into the Third Millennium, always
with courage and confidence." See the full speeches from the
White House at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/07/20010723-11.html
Poll: Support for Abortion Declining
A recent poll by ABC News and Beliefnet suggests that support for legal abortion is slipping in the U.S. More than half of all Americans surveyed -- or 52 percent -- say that abortion should be legal in most cases. But that is down from 59 percent in 1995. Those in the pro-life movement believe the poll accurately reflects a pro-life trend. Laura Echevarria, with National Right to Life, said the numbers, at least, are heading in the right direction. "It's been a long haul and I think we have a long haul in front of us," Echevarria said. "But I think we're going to see that change, to turn this back into a culture of life." Former abortion clinic owner Carol Everett, who now is part of the pro-life Heidi Group in Austin, Texas, credits a new approach and a growing number of pro-life centers to the turnaround. She said the pro-life community has become more progressive and businesslike, communicating that it also exists to help women. "We opened 10 new Women's Resource Centers/Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the first five months of this year," Everett said. "We're seeing that we must go beyond just a pregnancy test and lay counseling. We are now doing sonograms, and some places are even able to offer full medical care." Echevarria believes support for abortion is eroding because more Americans are becoming aware of what it really entails. "I think prior to the partial-birth abortion debate, many Americans thought (abortion) was available only under rare or extreme circumstances, and now they've found out it's legal in all circumstances, for any reason, throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Americans, I think, are disgusted with that." Echevarria backs her view with surveys done at National Right to Life that indicate a small, but steady, decline in support for abortion year after year. The poll also found that those who identified themselves as "Christians" tended to support abortion. But those who called themselves "evangelical" opposed it two-to-one.
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0016862.html
Newer Contraceptive Pill Linked to Fatal Blood Clots
LONDON, JULY 20, 2001 (Zenit.org).- Women taking newer, third-generation contraceptive pills face a higher risk of potentially fatal blood clots, a study confirms, according to the Telegraph. Dutch researchers found that these pills, which caused a health scare in the mid-1990s, almost doubled the risk of deep vein thrombosis. The risk was greatest among first-time users. They were more than three times more likely to develop the clots than were the women using older contraceptive pills. The findings, in the British Medical Journal, support studies which have shown that deep vein thrombosis in third-generation pill users was 25 cases per 100,000 women compared with 15 per 100,000 among users of older pills. Third-generation pills were at the center of a scare in 1995 when the British government warned that seven brands containing gestodene or desogestrel increased risk of thrombosis. The scare caused the proportion of women taking them to fall from 54% to 14% and resulted in an extra 10,000 abortions the following year, the Telegraph said. The team, from the University Medical Center in Utrecht, Netherlands, looked at the results of studies examining the links between thrombosis and the contraceptive pill.
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=8339
UPDATE ON 7 CHILDREN TAKEN FROM AYLMER CHRISTIAN FAMILY
AYLMER, ON, July 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The case of a Christian family whose 7 children aged 6 to 14 were taken from their home by the Children's Aid Society and police on July 4 because of spanking has sent shockwaves throughout Canada. Pro-family groups - Canada Family Action Coalition and REAL Women spoke with the press to condemn the tactics of the CAS, which in this case seem extreme. New developments in the case include the setting up of a website, for the family's case as well as a defense fund for their support. Moreover, famed Canadian author William Gairdner, best known for his work "The War Against the Family", has written authorities to protest the CAS "in what appears to be an unjustified legal childnapping".
A website www.childrentaken.com was set up by the Church of God, where the family worships. The website enables people to email all the seven children and send them words of encouragement. Initially the website named the family and provided photos of the happy children, however Aylmer Deputy Police Chief Andre Reymer sent an email to the Church ordering the "site and its contents be terminated immediately" noting that the law forbade identifying information on the family to be published. The site was shut down and revised so as to obscure the photos of the children and remove the family's name to comply with the law.
The Aylmer Children Legal Defence Fund has been established to offer support to the family. Donations are accepted at all Bank of Montreal branches in Canada or can be sent to Family Legal Defense Fund - P.O. Box 82 - Aylmer, Ontario N5H 2R8.
At the hearing the parents were granted access to the children two times a week for three hours at a time in their home. The church pastor was forbidden any contact with the children and they were not allowed to attend any of the church's services.
In a letter to police and social workers involved in the case,
Gairdner urged authorities to "reconsider their hasty
actions." Gairdner wrote: "Canada is currently passing
though a phase of "abuse hysteria" in which increasing
numbers of ordinary human relations that have endured for
millennia and served society's families, and nations very well,
are under public scrutiny and suspicion. This is creating a
bizarre public mood in which teachers are afraid to discipline
unruly and violent students, indeed, are often attacked by such
students; parents are afraid to spank their children when clearly
justified, and are often sworn at and vulgarized by them; and
public servants, such as the police - who ought to be devoting
themselves to the real crimes in our midst such as breaking and
entering, fraud, rape, and murder - are caught in the middle,
pawns of zealous public authorities and lower level bureaucrats
or social workers on a mission to purify society." See
related coverage from LifeSite
http://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/july/010706.html#1
http://lsn.ca/ldn/2001/july/010709.html#1
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010713.html#1
Lesbian gives birth to brother's baby
A 51-year-old lesbian has given birth to her brother's baby after IVF treatment in America...It comes just weeks after a 62-year-old woman became France's oldest mother by using her brother's sperm to father a child. The American woman, who is in a long term lesbian relationship had "long desired to be pregnant", according to doctors. But she did not want to have a heterosexual relationship. Doctors at Columbia University carried out the IVF treatment, so she could "bear a child of common ancestry to herself", it was reported in the Internet medical journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online.
The menopausal woman was successfully implanted with a donor egg conceived by her brother's sperm after a previous attempt failed, and gave birth to a healthy baby.
The brother, who already has two children, has signed up to a legal agreement which states he will look after the child if his sister dies or becomes seriously disabled.
Campaigners in the UK have reacted with anger at the procedure, with a pro-life charity calling it "deplorable". Jack Scarisbrick. national chairman of LIFE, said: "This kind of manufacturing of human life is completely unacceptable. "Children are not commodities to be created in this way."
for more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1437000/1437012.stm
CANADA TEAMS WITH UN TO TARGET GUATEMALA FOR ABORTION ADVOCACY
OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Canada has put two million dollars into a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) campaign targeting Guatemala for chemical abortion advocacy. The five-year project, according to CIDA, aims for "Increased demand, supply, access and quality of reproductive health services, including contraceptives, in Guatemala." Moreover the plan aims to promote a change in law advocating population control. The CIDA document lists as one of its components for support: "advocacy for a law on population and development."
Mercedes Wilson, formerly the official delegate of Guatemala to the United Nations, told LifeSite "it is horrible that Canadian taxpayers are going to pay for something that will do so much harm to our country."
Mrs. Wilson said that UNFPA's activities in the largely Catholic country are to promote abortifacient birth control pills (such as morning after pills) and to advocate for the decriminalization of abortion. Wilson noted, "in the poor countries we don't have the hospitals or facilities to deal with the complications of these abortifacients."
The CIDA release notes that the "UNFPA will work in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other relevant ministries to address the key constraints that have prevented the Health Ministry from meeting the large unmet demand for reproductive health services." Wilson noted that the new government in Guatemala led by President Tortillo is destroying the Guatemalan culture. Wilson called it the "most corrupt government Guatemala has ever had."
Referring to the population control component of the UNFPA plan, Wilson said "the West has taken everything away from poor countries. The last thing we have left is our children and our faith. The West is taking away our faith and now our children - our means of social security."
See the CIDA release on the UNFPA Guatemala project:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/852562900065549a852562
50006cbb1a/88adb217c056956285256a84004378e3?OpenDocument
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010710.html#1
BUSH TELLS PRESS THAT HE BELIEVES
LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) - White House press secretary
Ari Fleischer was bombarded with questions from the media this
week regarding President Bush's eagerly awaited decision on
embryonic stem cell research. At a press conference yesterday
where the bulk of the questions centered around stem cells,
Fleisher confirmed that he was asked by reporters Monday "when
the President believed that life begins." Fleisher did not
respond immediately but sent an email to reporters later that day
indicating that the President believed life beings "at
conception."
One reporter yesterday asked if the President continues to believe that in light of the meetings he has had with scientists and other interested parties over the last few days. Fleisher responded, "Yes."
Fleischer said that there was no available timetable on the forthcoming decision. He indicated that the President has not yet made a decision on the issue and his private consultations are ongoing.
See the whole press briefing at:
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0711-133.html
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010712.html#1
BUSH MOVE TO RECOGNIZE UNBORN CHILD
CAUSES FUROR AMONG CANADIAN PRO-ABORTS
OTTAWA, July 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Newspapers across Canada
featured stories today reporting that "the anti-abortion
United States government is having an effect north of the border."
The frenzy was initiated last week when the Bush administration
drafted a policy to allow states to cover "unborn children"
under the Children's Health Insurance Program.
While pro-lifers are hopeful that pro-life measures in the US will encourage similar legislation in Canada, pro-abortion activists are worried that a pro-life victory in the US would embolden pro-lifers in Canada. Both pro-lifers and those opposed to life recognize that the influence of the United States on the policies of other governments is substantial, particularly for those governments in close proximity to the US.
A Canadian Press story carried by the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and other Canadian papers quotes Campaign Life Coalition's Mary-Ellen Douglas as saying the Bush move "will help to peel the scales from people's eyes, stop the denial of reality and the killing of the pre-born." Douglas noted pro-lifers in Canada are watching the legislation closely since, "whatever happens in the United States usually happens in Canada."
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010710.html#4
CALIFORNIA COURT RULES
CATHOLIC CHARITIES MUST PAY FOR CHEMICAL ABORTION
LOS ANGELES, July 4, 2001 (LSN.ca) - A California
State appellate court ruled Monday that a new California law
requiring Catholic Charities to provide contraception and
abortion chemicals to women who receive health insurance coverage
does not violate religious freedom. Arthur Scotland, presiding
justice of the three-judge Court of Appeal panel in Sacramento,
revealed that he and the other justices accepted the pro-abortion
ideology that not providing abortifacient birth control pills
discriminates against women. Catholic Charities is not required
to support the principle of contraception, but "having
chosen to provide employee health insurance coverage with
prescription drug benefits, it simply is required to provide
benefits that do not discriminate against women," said
Scotland.
Commenting on the ruling, Judie Brown, president of American Life League said "the rights of California Catholics to freely practice their religious beliefs have been flagrantly violated. In California, so-called 'diverse' lifestyles are welcomed -- but not if you are a practicing Catholic." Brown concluded, "the court's ruling is an act of hypocrisy and judicial tyranny which must be overturned."
See the coverage of the ruling at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/03/MN146663.DTL
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/july/010704.html#4
Fr. Frank Pavone National Director, Priests for Life
In our system of government, courts do not make law. Rather, people do, through their elected representatives. This is what constitutes our freedom and our self- governance. This is also the reason why elections are so important, and why participation in elections is an integral part of preserving and exercising our freedom. When we participate in elections, questions of ideology matter precisely because we are choosing the people who, in our name, will make the laws on a wide range of issues. As long as the people make the laws, the people are free. The courts, meanwhile, exist to apply the laws to cases that come before them.
But what happens when the people no longer make the laws? What happens when judges take this power to themselves, and invent new laws that are not in the Constitution -- such as the "right to abortion"?
What happens then is that the people are no longer free. In such a case, as Thomas L. Jipping of the Free Congress Foundation recently pointed out, "We can have all the elections we want, our legislators can pass all the statutes they want, we can amend the Constitution a thousand times, and none of it will mean anything because judges have taken the power to make law away from us."
We are at a time when all of this is more important than ever. The President has the responsibility, under the Constitution, to make nominations of judges, and the US Senate has the responsibility to vote on their confirmation. In most cases, these judges serve for life, and have the final word on cases that touch on the most fundamental moral questions of our lives.
A key duty, therefore, is to contact our Senators, and ask them to confirm only Justices who will strictly uphold the Constitution as already written. The Constitution is not an evolving document with a new meaning for every generation. It is, instead, a foundational document which is meant to insure a stable government, and the protection of the rights of the people under a system of carefully balanced powers.
Yet we are currently off balance as judges around the country write their own laws from the bench. This should be the key point in the public discussion about the nomination and confirmation of judges. What matters more than where the nominee stands on particular ideologies is how the nominee sees his/her role as a judge. Is it to create new laws, or to apply the laws that the people have created? If the latter, then the judge's personal ideologies won't matter.
If we press this argument for what it is, namely, whether the people will continue to be their own rulers or not, we will win a broad coalition of support even from people who do not share our position on specific issues, but who are perceptive enough to realize that when people disagree on issues, the people themselves should resolve the disagreements through the legislative process, rather than be subject to the views of unelected judges.
Contact Priests for Life at PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY 10314; Tel: 888- PFL-3448, 718-980-4400;
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=16898
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