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Barbara Bush Hasn't Learned Yet
By Colleen Parro
RNC/Life Committee
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By Colleen Parro
RNC/Life Committee
Former First Lady Barbara Bush, in a December 20, 1999 interview on ABC's This Week, said "I don't think it [abortion] should be in the national platform." She followed up by saying, "There's nothing a president can do about it anyway . . ." Given her 12 long years in the Reagan-Bush administrations, that was an incredibly uninformed statement.
It is not known how her remarks were received by George W. Bush. But they were a departure from her former policy. During her husband's service as vice-president and president, Mrs. Bush was careful not to express her real feelings about the right to life, and it was only after they left the White House that she showed her abortion-choice colors.
As we move toward the 2000 presidential election, it is important for all of us to focus on exactly what a President can do about abortion. And there is a lot he can do. Just look at what Bill Clinton has done to promote the agenda of the abortion industry and turn that around!
The President can nominate pro-life candidates for the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. He can require that his Cabinet officers respect the sanctity of life, with particular emphasis on the Departments of Health and Human Services and State. The President can announce that he will veto appropriations bills that have one dime of taxpayers' money in them for abortion or abortion-related services, without exception. He can see to it that State Department officials in no way participate in the promotion of population control programs in foreign countries. He can ensure that the United States delegation to the United Nations be made up of people who believe in the right to life and refuse to participate in population control efforts sponsored by the U.N..
The President can rescind every pro-abortion executive order issued by Bill Clinton. He can issue his own executive orders to stop experimentation on human embryos and on the bodies and organs of aborted babies. He can accompany this with a concerted effort to pass legislation outlawing those practices, whether funded with private or federal taxpayers' money. He can see to it that the National Institutes of Health is run by professionals who respect human life. He can call for legislation that would ban the cloning of human beings, genetic manipulation, and tampering with the human gene pool.
The President can use the "bully pulpit" of the presidency to call for a restoration of a Culture of Life in America. His White House can initiate pro-life legislation. He can use the Constitutional powers of the executive branch to urge Congress to pass a human life amendment, and extend 14th Amendment protection to unborn babies from conception.
The next President of the United States will preside over public policies that will very possibly determine the fate of mankind. This is the era of the human genome project, and of historic discoveries in reproductive technology and biomedicine which can be used for great good or unspeakable evil.
That is what the President can do about abortion in particular and the right to life in general. Let's hope George W. Bush, should he be elected to the Presidency, won't listen to his mother on this one.
Please visit our web site at http://www.rnclife.org . Thank you.
The city of Milan will pay $520 each month to women on low incomes who decide to keep their babies rather than have an abortion for financial reasons, Italian newspapers reported on Thursday.
"Our aim is to safeguard the maternity of needy people and to avoid abortions for economic reasons,'' Girolamo Sirchia, head of social services in Milan, was quoted as saying in La Repubblica.
La Republica and other newspapers said the measure, proposed by center-right parties in the local government, would apply to women living in Milan for at least one year. Abortion was legalized in largely Roman Catholic Italy in 1978 and upheld in a referendum in 1981.
The local city hall said that from January it would pay women for three years, provided they do not have an abortion. To qualify, women must have an annual net income of under $29,000 and a psychologist's certificate attesting to an abortion being approved on economic grounds.
Sirchia called the offer experimental. "The aim is to look after the maternity of the poor and needy,'' he said. [Infonet]
Two people, termed as abortion practitioners, were arrested in Poland in their offices just after performing abortions.
Abortions are illegal in Poland unless for rare situations but when the state deems an abortion necessary, law mandates it be done in a hospital.
Poland lists rape, incest or if the baby is "irreparably damages" for reasons to kill the child.
Neither person has been identified in the reports but a police spokesperson stated it is the first time Polish police have arrested anyone in the act of completing an illegal abortion.
Such arrests usually come after the fact and are based on witness accounts or other evidence.
For a short time, while Poland was a Solidarity-government, abortion was outlawed. The move was tied to the fact that Poland is predominantly a Roman Catholic country. A subsequent government of former communists introduced pro-abortion provisions in 1996.
By Steven Ertelt
The remains of 36 unborn children, all aborted during the first trimester of pregnancy, were unearthed from a shallow grave on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Police, acting on a tip, found the childrens' bodies in three large bags behind an Ocean Springs, Misissippi business on Monday.
J.R. Brock, owner of Timeless Treasures in Ocean Springs, told police one of his employees buried the unborn children after he found the remains in a Styrofoam cooler.
Ocean Springs Det. Capt. Kerry Belk said Wednesday that Brock told investigators the cooler was among the contents of a storage center he had purchased at auction last summer. No charges have been filed.
The attorney for the man who found the aborted children said Thursday the unit also contained office equipment marked with the name of Joseph Booker, who had, at one time,formed abortions in the area.
"We are 100 percent pro-life, and if we had known that the storage items we were buying were from an abortion doctor, we would have never bought them to begin with," said attorney James L. Farrior III, who represents businessman J.R. Brock.
Ocean Springs police would not confirm that the aborted children may have belonged to Booker and said Thursday they are still investigating . They haven't charged anyone, in part because they are unsure whether a crime has been committed.
Booker, who operated the now-defunct Gulf Coast Women's Clinic is scheduled to report to prison in January for filing a false federal income tax return. He pleaded guilty earlier this year and faces five months in prison, five months house arrest and $3,000 in fines and taxes. Booker couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
According to his attorney, Brock did not know he was asking his employee to bury aborted children when they came across the garbage bag in the cooler. "A worker said he found something in an ice chest that stank and (Brock) just said, 'Get rid of it,' " Farrior said.
Brock and his wife, who helped him run the business, are very upset by the developments in the case. "They had no idea," Farrior said. "The haven't been able to sleep this week. It's kind of a ghastly thing, and they are cooperating with the police."
Brock, 65, is retired from real estate and is owner of the shop where he dabbles in antiques. Timeless Treasures sells items such as used motors and knickknacks. He has lived in Ocean Springs for about four years.
Some Ocean Springs residents said Thursday that they are shocked and troubled by the discovery.
Ed Decker, pastor of Grace Independent Baptist Church, which is next to Timeless Treasures, said someone burying the aborted children, especially so close to the church, "bothers me greatly."
Decker plans to discuss the incident with his congregation Sunday. He will stress the value of human life and the importance of "keeping an eye on the children (while on church grounds) because we don't know what' going on next door to us."
A North Dakota abortuary has been slapped with a lawsuit by a pro-life counselor, Amy Jo Mattson, on grounds the mill, Red River Women's Clinic, deliberately misled women who were having abortions at that site. The abortuary handed out literature to the women stating that there was no medical evidence that an abortion can cause a higher rate of contracting breast cancer. Where that information came from is possibly a larger story in the future.
The liberal media have tried to ignore the fact that women who have had abortions, especially if it is the first pregnancy for the woman, have a higher rate of breast cancer. [CoR Newsletter, 1998] The brochure, distributed by the abortuary, stated that the information given by pro-life activists warning of the danger was false and there was no connection between abortion and breast cancer.
Since there is hard reseach data showing the dangers, the abortuary broke an important North Dakota law by not only "falsely advertising" information on abortion but the mill also violated another law. State law requires that clients be given information on the medical risks associated with abortion.
This case promises to be a bigger issue than one abortuary though. A successful lawsuit against any abortuary would help protect women and children in the future but a possible connection to a huge abortion organization would be even more effective. The Red River Women's Clinic referred all inquiries about the case to the National Abortion Federation (NAF) who provided the mill with the false information.
The NAF states on their website that there is "no link between abortion and later development of breast cancer." And though NAF admits there was one study that did show a 50% higher rate of breast cancer in women who aborted their child, they chose to ignore the fact that 38 out of 46 studies prove the abortion-breast cancer link.
The Catholic Diocese of Fargo Pro-Life coordinator, Rachelle Sauvageau, expressed the diocese's support of the pending lawsuit, "This suit is necessary to allow women to protect their own health and well-being. Our concern for women compels us to defend them against the false claims that abortion is not harmful to a woman's health, be it emotional, physical or spiritual."
Dr. Spencer Berry, a family physician in Fargo, agrees: "I have examined the medical research supporting the claim that abortion increases breast cancer risk, and it is clear to me that the statement in the Red River Women's Clinic pamphlet is very misleading."
Patricia Larson, R.N., L.S.W., director of the Women's Care Clinic, a local crisis pregnancy center, stated: "Any woman in a crisis pregnancy is entitled to know that abortion may increase her risk of developing breast cancer in the future. It is wrong to withhold this information from women or to deny its existence."
The executive director and attorney for the North Dakota Catholic Conference, Christopher Dodson, believes any woman who has received an abortion and was not told of the possible link between induced abortion and breast cancer might be able to sue the clinic that performed the procedure.
For more information regarding this case, please contact John Kindley, Esq. at (847) 662-3303.
According to the Red River Women's Clinic pamphlet distributed to prospective abortion patients in Fargo, North Dakota, "Anti-abortion activists claim that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer and endangers future childbearing. None of these claims are supported by medical research or established medical organizations." (Emphasis original.)
The suit alleges that this statement is misleading and constitutes false advertising. There is substantial medical research in peer-reviewed journals which supports the claim that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Twenty-six out of thirty-two published studies worldwide and twelve out of thirteen studies in the United States support the claim that induced abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.
North Dakota law forbids placing before the pubic assertions, representations and statements of fact which are untrue, deceptive or misleading. (See NDCC 51-12-01.)
The Plaintiff requests that the Red River Women's Clinic be forbidden from distributing the misleading brochure and from any further advertising of the false claim that medical research does not support the claim that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer.
By Sue Widemark
Tipper Gore and Mrs Bradley, in campaigning for husbands Al Gore and Bill Bradley, recently spoke at a National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) dinner. Mrs. Gore reaffirmed her husband's strongly pro-choice position and told the dinner attendees that, if Bill Clinton had not won the election in 1992, then abortion might have been made illegal.
Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Bradley brought taped messages from Al Gore. On the tape, Gore, flanked by an American flag, cautioned that if he and President Clinton hadn't won in 1992, legalized abortion could have been outlawed. "This could very well be the anniversary of Roe's demise," he said.
A wonderful idea for our expectant families is to consider naming your baby before birth. We met a beautiful family via the Internet that is expecting a son, which they have already named, Max, for Maximilian Kolbe.
They continually refer to the child in the womb by name. At first I did not realize the power behind this practice. This week we found out that Max was is distress and a Cercerian Section was scheduled two weeks before he was due, and it truly took on a new meaning to pray for this child in the womb whom we felt we had already met!
By naming your child and referring to him or her by name, you will be doing one power pro-life action - reminding people that your Max, or Joe, or Janie is already here! They are not an "it" but a wonderful bundle of personality to whom people can easily relate. - K.S.
Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
It is not likely that those who are pushing the chemical abortion technique RU-486 will be any more eager to fully educate the public about this procedure than they are in regard to surgical abortion. Let's take a moment, then, to pick up the slack.
* RU-486 has been known to harm and kill women. Its long-range effects on women and their born children are still unknown. They won't be known until at least a generation has passed. The New Republic in a 1986 article said that the entire first generation of users will be the guinea pigs. We may be dealing with a chemical time-bomb. * RU-486 has no proven purpose or benefit except to kill a developing child in the womb. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, upon investigating other claimed benefits of the drug, has said that those claims are built on very shaky scientific ground.
* RU-486 does not privatize or simplify abortion. In countries where it is used, multiple visits to the facility are required. The drug is not taken home, but administered only on the premises, where emergency medical equipment is ready to deal with side-effects. The woman must return 48 hours later to take the prostaglandin. Another visit is required to verify that the child is in fact gone.
* Where does the child go? The RU-486 process makes this an open question The child may be expelled at any time, any place, and the mother is more likely to see her tiny, dead baby. Edouard Sakiz, as president of the Roussel-Uclaf company that made the drug, says that using it is "an appalling psychological ordeal ... It is not at all easy to use."
* RU-486 will not and cannot replace all surgical abortions. One reason is that it can only be used in a small window of the pregnancy (5-7 weeks, or at most 5-9 weeks). In France, furthermore, only 25-30% of women seeking abortion choose the RU-486 method.
Let us make it clear to physicians who are willing to prescribe this technique that cases in which children are born with deformities because of failed RU-486 abortions will not go unnoticed.
One nurse who took part in RU-486 testing saw the surgical dishes with the expelled embryos, and said, "It was like looking at a little row of people...It was very upsetting...I hope I never, never have to do it again." Don't we all?
While Nebraska holds the national interest in a United States Supreme Court case involving the banning of partial-birth abortions (PBA), the state is still in the grips of arguments over fetal tissue research. [Cor Newsletter, November, 1999] George Will addressed the issue in his syndicated column, January 20, explaining the difference of "generalized" specialized cells used in scientific research.
All cells in a human body contain the individual's full DNA—the genetic code. But as the body grows from conception on, a cellular division of labor begins. Cells begin to differentiate, extinguishing, so to speak, all the DNA other than that pertinent to each cell's particular function—as blood, bone, muscle, etc. However, undifferentiated cells—the early progenitors or ancestors of all other cells in the subsequent body—are well-described as "biological jacks-of-all-trades." They can differentiate to form many types of cells. The scientific prognosis is that undifferentiated cells will one day be used to treat a variety of diseases (e.g. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, HIV-induced dementia) and injuries (e.g. stroke, spinal cord injuries) by producing new tissues.In an act of astonishing civic obtuseness, the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha established a relationship with an abortionist to supply aborted fetuses as sources of cells. The center even gave the abortionist an honorific association with the center, which he advertised on his Web site.
Though the research that was being done was legal, the abhorence of using pre-born children in any form sent off fireworks at pro-life organizations as well as the state governor's office. Gov. Johanns supports the scientific reaearch, not with the use of the anborted child but rather rather the cells from children who have died from miscarriages or from placenta blood.
For the time being he medical center states itwill try to acquire all cells from sources other than elective abortions. The word used in their statement, "try" is worrisome and evasive. This story probably isn't a closed issue yet. - K.S.
A January 14 Associated Press story by by Richard Carelli reported that "The justices said they will review a Nebraska law that made it [partial-birth abortion] a crime for doctors to perform such abortions. A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of that law, calling it unconstitutional.
Nearly identical laws have been enacted by 30 states, but courts have blocked enforcement of most of them. Congress enacted a federal ban on partial-birth abortions but President Clinton vetoed it.
The court has not issued a major abortion ruling since 1992 when it reaffirmed the core holding of its 1973 decision in a case called Roe vs. Wade. That landmark decision said women have a constitutional right to end their pregnancies.
Although the legal controversy swirls around a specific procedure, far more may be at stake. Abortion-rights advocates say the court's eventual decision could broadly safeguard - or dramatically erode - abortion rights, depending on what state legislatures can consider when regulating abortions. - K.S.
Janet Benshoof (abortion-rights advocate) Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
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"A constitutional crisis is calling out for a remedy. What's at issue is whether a woman's interest in her health can be trumped by a state legislature's moral and political statement about a fetus."
James Bopp Jr., General Counsel, NRTL Committee
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"The case is important because it will set the outer limit of the so-called right to abortion, but it is not a challenge to Roe vs. Wade."
Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns
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"I feel strongly that states should have the right to legislate in the area of partial-birth abortion. It's a barbaric procedure that I hope is brought to an end."
State Attorney General Don Stenberg
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"It shocks the conscience that in the United States of America a human child can be literally pulled from the womb and cruelly killed by having his or her skull punctured and brain suctioned out."
A January 26 Reuters report, concerning McCain, showed that the media does know right from wrong!
The report stated, "McCain, leading Bush narrowly in New Hampshire opinion polls, stepped into the abortion minefield on Wednesday by saying in answer to a reporter's question that if his daughter became pregnant, she would decide whether to have the baby. He later backtracked, saying this would be a family
decision.
Thank you so much for publishing the picture of Samuel and the letter from his parents. Sadly, so many times the news covers the sensational, or gives us quick bits of news. We are often left wondering what the end of the story is!You are providing a wonderful news source for pro-lifers in Arizona!
Mary Ellen Jamison
Tucson, AZ
My wife was shocked when she picked up the CoR Newsletter and read about the aborted baby body parts! Unfortunately she is one of the "problem people" we pro-lifers have to contend with, in convincing them babies are more important than a "woman's choice."
I truly can not understand her attitude - she was never put in a position of poverty because of our beautiful three children. Perhaps she has "bought" the garbage that the wacky feminists are throwing around.
Perhaps she and others will realize the horrible truth about abortion by finding out the truth by sneaking a peek at your Newsletter.
And please print my name in case you choose to print my letter! When she reads the issue my letter is printed in, she'll "hear me out" before she knows it's me!
Mike Arnold
Tulsa, OKI know that Children of the Rosary does not support any specific presidential contender! But, thank you so much for printing the speech by Alan Keyes in the December issue.
There is no question he is a man of high morals and has never changed his position. I pray some day we will see him as President of the United States.
I know there are many men who are wonderful pro-lifers. I only wish they had the courage of Mr. Keyes and speak out loudly in defense of the babies!
Please keep Mr. Keyes in your prayers as I keep Children of the Rosary in my prayers!
Susie Grimes
Sedona, AZ
I was at the prayer vigil on Christmas Eve and I can not thank you enough for providing a highly spiritual event!
Later that day, as I attended midnight Mass, I felt a totally new understanding of Christ's birth in a cave. I thought of those women who feel so alone that they think abortion is the only way out. I pray they could feel even just a bit of Christ's love for us as I felt during the vigil and at Mass.
Please keep me on your mailing list! I have included a donation to help you with your work.
Tammy Evans
Phoenix, AZ
We are old customers with Lifeline Long Distance Company, which offers pro-life groups fundraising with no hassles.
Call Lifeline at 1-800-493-2002 if you are interested, and be sure to give them Children of the Rosary's identification number: 45766. They will be happy to answer all your questions.
As we look at the last year's projects and finances, it is amazing what has been accomplished because of your generosity! We had many events, sent out even more Newsletters and began two new projects, namely the bill board and supporting the television commercials for women in crisis pregnancies.
We will continue with all the projects and pray you will be as generous or even more so this year.
Consider sending a donation to CoR to add your friend or family to the mailing list. Your donation goes directly to trying to end abortion and education about the horrors of abortion.
By Sue Widemark
A newswire article announced that our country has 13 times the teen birth rate of the Netherlands, 25 times the gonorrhea rate of Germany, three times the teen abortion rate of France, and U.S. teens begin having sex earlier than European teens.
"How can this be?" asked the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which recently claimed that a survey of theirs showed that at least 33 percent of 'sex education programs' in the US do not mention condoms or abortion.
Advocates for Youth's president, James Wagoner, has the answer: "Despite high numbers of teen births, HIV infection and teen abortion rates, young people are being denied critical information about contraception that could protect their health and save their lives."
In other words, MORE sex education is needed, say the 'experts.'
The article goes on to say that the teens in OTHER countries have less abortions because they have a "healthier attitude about sex." "Healthier," by the way, means more promiscuous sex and more contraception.
They ignore, of course, that even Planned Parenthood admitted that 60 or more percent of abortions happen due to failed contraception. Details, just details.
In all of this, abstinance being the BEST sexual attitude to have for teens is not being mentioned. Abstinance may make teens healthy but it doesn't sell contraception, and that would hurt Planned Parenthood, which makes over 120 million bucks a year from the sale of the birth control pill.
[Source: US Newswire, December 15]
Jesus said to his disciples: "None of those who cry out, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of God but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
"Anyone who hears my words and puts them into practice is like the wise man who built his house on rock. When the rainy season set in, the torrents came and the winds blew and buffeted his house. It did not collapse; it had been solidly set on rock. Anyone who hears my words but does not put them into practice is like the foolish man who built his house on sandy ground. The rains fell, the torrents came, the winds blew and lashed against his house. It collapsed under all this and was completely ruined." - Mt 7, 21. 24-27
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