Tag Archives: Global: Sanctity of Life

LifeSiteNews.com: LifeSiteNews reporter and managing director Steve Jalsevac was live-blogging and taking photos from the Mogentaler abortion mill on Hillsdale Ave in Toronto this morning as pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was arrested.

WorldNetDaily: A woman who originally came to the United States for a marriage arranged by her family stayed after being abandoned at the altar, because of the humiliation she would have faced on her return to China. Later, she met someone else, married and now has a family.

ADF attorney Michael J. Norton at the American Thinker: So, apparently, the groups that are cajoling the Beckhams would be praising them if they’d only availed themselves of “family planning” and killed their child in the womb. That’s how twisted things get when people exchange worshiping the Creator with worshiping the creation instead

AP: President Barack Obama is moving to strengthen the United States’ ability to prevent mass atrocities abroad, and tightening immigration rules to ensure that human rights violators don’t enter the country.

LifeNews.com: 63 million women are missing from Asia. That is the entire female population of the United States.

TheStar.com: A dying woman is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to fast track her lawsuit so she can have a doctor-assisted suicide, reopening a debate that was last famously battled in the courts almost 20 years ago.

LifeSiteNews.com: An opinion poll conducted by the Een Vandaag Institution of 800 general medical practitioners shows that there is a broad acceptance of the practice of euthanasia and a general willingness among Dutch doctors to offer euthanasia to people in their care.

LifeSiteNews.com: Amnesty International is demanding the “right” to kill unborn children conceived by rape in Nicaragua, according to international media sources.

WSJ.com: So when Mr. and Mrs. Beckham welcomed their fourth child this month, the appropriate response seemed either to congratulate them or—better yet—to say nothing at all and let them get on with their lives, as they have largely done for everyone else. That proved too much for Simon Ross, the chief executive of the British nonprofit group Population Matters, which sees “overpopulation” as a culprit in everything from African famine to resource scarcity to poverty to climate change

CNS News on Fox Nation: Y-PEER, a youth initiative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has issued a call to make access to abortion and contraception an international human right for children as young as 10 years old.

John Smeaton, SPUC director: A new ruling by a English high court judge allowing euthanasia by omission is worrying, coming at the same time as another high court judge considers the M case.

LifeNews.com: The National Health Service in England is increasingly rationing standard operations that patients may have normally taken for granted — in a move that worries bioethicists in the United States.

Spiegel (translation by Google): Berlin pays money parents and fathers invents months – yet the effect is close to zero: German couples are hardly convincing, to have more children. Because work and family in this country are difficult to reconcile. The way in which other countries?

Catholic News Agency (CNA): Katherine Nikas, who worked with the coalition as part of the Alliance Defense Fund’s Blackstone Legal Fellowship, said it was “incredible to see the amount of young people who are actually on our side – the young people who wanted a different voice, who stood up for family values.” Nikas said she has found that many members of her generation are “tired of the pain and the heartache of just having abortions pushed at us and condoms thrown at us.”

LifeNews.com: The one-child policy in China has resulted in more than just forced abortions and sterilizations — it has led to massive cases of child trafficking as families attempt to buy children.

LifeSiteNews.com: Pope Benedict XVI has appointed three strong pro-life and orthodox bishops in Quebec in the last two weeks. The appointments appear to confirm the beginning of a massive sea change for the province in the wake of Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s appointment as head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.

LifeSiteNews.com: Katherine Nikas, a Blackstone intern with the Alliance Defense Fund, said that the statement’s initial reception at the General Assembly was very encouraging. “It was incredible to see the amount of young people actually on our side,” said Nikas, adding that the statement filled a sorely unmet need.“We’re tired of the pain and the heartache of just having abortions pushed on us and condoms thrown at us.”

LifeNews.com: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is warning members of the U.S. House that she will personally urge pro-abortion President Barack Obama to veto a State Department funding bill over cuts to groups that perform and promote abortions.

Center for Reproductive Rights: Pushing back against recent efforts by opponents of reproductive rights to reimpose the Global Gag Rule, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that the Center for Reproductive Rights says will protect U.S.-supported family planning groups overseas against politicized attacks.

Department of Health figures show that over 30 embryos are created for every successful IVF implantation in a woman.

The Christian Institute: A baby boy has defied the odds to be born as the country’s most premature twin, even though his mother was advised to abort him shortly before his birth.

LifeSiteNews.com: A survey of medical students in Britain, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, has found that almost half believe doctors should be free to exercise their right of conscience in refusing to perform any procedure to which they object on moral, cultural or religious grounds – a finding that has the country’s leading abortion providers worried.

LifeSiteNews.com: A coalition of religious and conservative groups in Colombia have collected a mind-boggling four million signatures in favor of a pro-life amendment to the nation’s constitution, according to the Spanish-language Catholic news agency ACI Prensa.

Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.

LifeNews.com: A ruling by a judge in Graz, Austria is a case of blatant persecution of pro-lifers, says Human Life International president Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula.

Guardian.co.uk: Half a million girls a year are being aborted in India, equal to the total number of girls born in the UK. The scale of sex selection in Asia is extraordinary, yet it has not attracted the attention it deserves in the west. This is the age of “missing women” – an estimated 30 to 70 million of them. The number of girls born has dropped significantly because of sex selective abortions, and the sex imbalance has been aggravated by higher mortality rates as boys receive better care.

LifeSiteNews: After a five-year legal battle, a pro-life group in the United Kingdom has succeeded in obtaining detailed statistics about eugenic abortions from the UK’s Department of Health (DoH).

LifeSiteNews: Europe’s ongoing economic crisis is due to more far-reaching problems than credit and massive national debt, said the head of the Vatican bank. The “true origin of the current economic crisis” is Europe’s aging population and low birth rate, according to Ettore Gotti Tedeschi.

AP: Earlier this month officials said 25 out of the 122 female prisoners were being held for killing or attempting to kill their children.

LifeNews.com: Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering an appropriations bill that would, in part, restore the Mexico City Policy preventing the funding of groups that promote or perform abortions overseas.

LifeSiteNews.com: Following a successful petition drive by pro-life groups, the Swiss government will be forced to hold a national referendum on the public funding of abortion, after deciding in April to continue paying for the deadly procedures.

The Christian Institute: A mother’s application to end the life of her incapacitated daughter is being heard by the Court of Protection, in a case which could shift the law on euthanasia.

LifeSiteNews: Mexico’s National Pro-Life Committee (Provida), the country’s largest and most prominent pro-life organization, has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission regarding the mass murder of unborn children currently taking place in the nation’s Federal District. Currently abortion is legal, and financed, during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City.

LifeSiteNews: A leading fertility clinic in Hong Kong revealed this week that they aborted two embryonic children after clinicians had implanted them in the wrong woman. The Victory A.R.T. Laboratory realized the mix-up quickly and, according to the BBC, then had the embryos “taken out and discarded.”

Chuck Colson at Life News: Thus, as Hvistendahl tells us, “proponents of population control began talking about” sex selection. Ehrlich wrote in The Population Bomb that “if a simple method could be found to guarantee that first-born children were males . . . then population control problems in many areas would be somewhat eased.

LifeNews:In Poland, a nation-wide grassroots effort has lead to the proposal of bold, new legislation aimed at removing all exceptions to the country’s abortion laws thus protecting children from the moment of conception.

LifeNews.com: A new report issued in the United Kingdom alleges that two abortion businesses, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) and Marie Stopes International (MSI), are pressuring women into having abortions.

LifeSiteNews.com: This week, the lower house of the Italian legislature voted 278-205 to pass a bill that would definitively exclude the possibility of starving and dehydrating vulnerable patients to death. The Advance Directives Bill opens with a specific prohibition of euthanasia or assisted suicide and requires that patients not be denied food and hydration.

LifeSiteNews.com: For £20 Brits can buy a chance to win a baby in a lottery sponsored by a fertility charity, a move that has been decried by ethicists as just more evidence that children have been reduced to commodities by the artificial reproduction industry.

The Christian Institute: Health warnings are set to be placed on abortion adverts in Russia – where over a million abortions were carried out in 2008.

LifeNews.com: Headlines regarding the Casey Anthony tot mom murder trial are giving way to news of mothers who have sacrificed dearly for their children.

The Iona Institute : Instead of accepting at face value that the interpretation of UN conventions by UN committees is authoritative either in international or in Irish law, Ireland should instead strongly challenge those committees where their interpretations depart from both the text and the spirit of the various treaties.

LifeSiteNews.com: The lower house of Italy’s parliament has voted to prohibit the starvation and dehydration of patients in a move that is seen as a response to the killing of Eluana Englaro in 2009.

NCRegister.com (7/8): The pressure has been “intense and sustained,” said Piero Tozzi, global senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a U.S.-based group that monitors religious liberty . . . Tozzi also noted UNFPA’s bankrolling of a controversial “Adolescent Reproductive Health Program” that was halted in court last year after parental-rights activists brought a court action to halt the sex-ed program that they said encouraged promiscuity and violated parental rights.

After an emotional debate, German lawmakers voted Thursday to allow a procedure that looks for genetic disorders in embryos before they are implanted in the womb.

LifeNews.com: UN agencies have stepped up funding of International Planned Parenthood Federation despite an economic downturn and increasing government reticence to fund the organization over abortion.

Telegraph: A law stripping sperm donors of their right to anonymity has resulted in couples being forced to wait 18 months for infertility treatment.

LifeSiteNews.com: Adoption is a “golden option” that should be offered to pregnant teenage girls and women unable to raise their child, says the UK’s new Government Ministerial Advisor on adoption.

Catholic Culture: he lower house of Russia’ parliament, the Duma, has approved legislation that will require all abortion advertisements to include warnings about the risks to the mother’s health.

Christian Concern: A new IVF ‘lottery’, set to be launched this month, will allow members of the public to ‘win’ a baby after purchasing a £20 ticket online.

God Discussion: Also appearing at the Familiokratos Coalition Conference was Roger Kiska, legal counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group that says there is no constitutional separation of church and state, as well as a number of speakers from the European Parliament and international “pro-family” activists.

LifeNews.com: A new study conducted in the United Kingdom finds women who have abortions are 34 percent more likely to deliver a baby prematurely when they become pregnant the next time and to suffer from other pregnancy complications. Sohinee Bhattacharya, who led the research at the University of Aberdeen . . .

LifeSiteNews.com: Right to Life New Zealand (RTLNZ) revealed that they have joined their name to the complaint in a press release Tuesday. The complaint is being lodged at the International Criminal Court in The Hague by a group of thirty-seven parents or siblings who have a family member with Down syndrome.

LifeNews.com: A new campaign is placing emphasis on lobbying the Chinese embassy in Washington on behalf of Chen Guangcheng, a blind attorney who was jailed for years for his part in exposing a brutal campaign of forced abortions.

Raymond Ibrahim at the Middle East Forum: One may argue that rape is a phenomenon that affects every society, yet the fact that most women raped in Pakistan come from the mere 2% Christian minority speaks for itself.

Fr. John Flynn at Zenit: In 2005, French demographer Christophe Guilmoto calculated that if Asia’s birth ratio had remained at its natural level the continent should have an additional 163 million females. This is more than the entire female population of the United States, Hvistendahl noted.

Christian Concern: THE UK’s leading professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists has declared its full support for an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill, tabled by Nadine Dorries MP and Rt Hon Frank Field MP. If passed, women considering abortion would have a legal right to independent, non-compulsory counselling.

LifeSiteNews.com: Thursday’s debate on a citizens’ bill to totally ban abortion in Poland saw over 40 Polish parliamentarians from numerous parties take to the floor to support the measure, giving powerful, and often extremely personal statements.

LifeNews.com: A recent United Nations inter-agency statement on imbalanced sex ratios calls for unrestricted access to abortion as a human right.

Familiokratos Coalition on the Christian Newswire: Roger Kiska, legal counsel Alliance Defense Fund, talked on the Sovereignty of Member States and the Legal aspects of Hungary’s new Constitution, which protects life from the moment of conception and enshrines the concept of the natural family.

LifeNews.com: The numbers reveal, thousands of babies victimized by abortion merely because they were mentally or physically disabled — including 500 abortions done on unborn children who have Down syndrome. In total, 2,290 abortions were done on disabled babies with 147 done after 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Singh, Narendra Vikram, Patenting of the Stem Cell and Ethical Issue Involved (December 2, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1857432

LifeSiteNews.com: A massive grassroots campaign in Poland to implement a total ban on abortion witnessed an important victory Friday as the lower house of the Polish parliament fought off a first round of voting intended to scrap the historic bill.

Guardian.co.uk: The Swiss government has dropped a plan to impose stricter rules for assisted suicide.

LifeSiteNews.com (includes video): On June 27, 2011, the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) will be driving home its message—literally. Starting Monday, CCBR will cruise Central Alberta highways and community streets (including Airdrie, Red Deer, Camrose, and Edmonton) with an 11-meter long box-bodied truck with billboards showing aborted human beings. Their week-long tour is called the “Reproductive ‘Choice’ Campaign.”

LifeSiteNews.com: After a lengthy process, the French Parliament has adopted a revision of the 1999 bioethics law, introducing several changes that will make embryo research and eugenic prenatal screening easier to perform. However, some of the worst aspects of the law as initially submitted by the government and specialized commissions of the National Assembly and the Senate were finally voted down after protracted discussions.

LifeSiteNews.com: Despite intense foreign pressure, Costa Rica rejected a bid to overturn its decade-long ban on in vitro fertilization last week.

LifeSiteNews.com: In the bluntest possible terms, Cardinal Pell said in an open letter, “We might shoot a dying dog, but no human, no matter how old or sick, is just an animal. It is wrong to kill innocent human life.”

LifeSiteNews.com: Given the precipitous decline in the birthrates of European countries, all anti-natal programs funded by the United States should immediately be replaced by pro-natal programs, one top population expert recently told the U.S. Senate.

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Spain’s government is systematically violating the conscience rights of health care workers on abortion, says a group of legal experts that is now taking action to restore those rights.

In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that’s as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events. Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark.

The Christian Institute: Offering free morning-after pills (MAPs) in Wales has had little impact on teenage pregnancy, a BBC documentary has revealed.

The Guardian: In 1979 China signed a $50m four-year deal with a UN body designed to help it control its spiralling population through family planning. It was the largest foreign aid package Beijing had accepted in almost 20 years.

Mail Online: John Lawrenson, 80, and his wife Caroline, 70, who had cancer, arranged the pact after researching how to commit suicide on the internet.

LifeSiteNews.com: French parents are being pressured by the medical system to kill their Down syndrome children in the womb, resulting in a 96% abortion rate in such cases, according to activists.