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Sen. Lott - When Did You Turn Pro-abortion?

By Katherine Sabelko

Trent Lott, Senate Majority Leader, so-called pro-life Republican was interviewed on Meet the Press, March 26, an NBC Sunday television program. This exchange came at the close of the interview:

Tim Russert asked Senator Lott "Who is going to win the Oscars?"

Sen. Lott responded, "Well, I saw the Cider House Rules, I enjoyed that tremendously."

Tim Russert asked, Best picture?"
Sen. Lott said again, "It was great, a great movie."

For more, click...

Aborted Baby Tissue For Vaccines

By Katherine Sabelko

A shadowed cannibalization has entered our world of wonder drugs and miracle cures. We knew that aborted baby tissue is being used to find a possible cure for Parkenson's Disease, although all testing that has been done showed that approach has failed. We had published information years ago that the vaccine used for Rubella has its roots in the use of aborted baby tissue. We have now have a list of vaccines that the drug companies list that are connected with the use of aborted baby tissue. For more, click...

Wondrous Whopper from 'Pro-Choice' Gloria Steinem

By Mike Richmond

Gloria Steinem asserted that Adolf Hitler was anti-abortion. One target of the Nazi forced sterilization was deaf Germans.

For a detailed account of the Nazi sterilization and murder campaign against deaf Germans, read Crying Hands (Horst Biesold, 1999). Biesold is a retired professor and teacher of deaf students who now lives in Bremen, Germany. Chapter 4 of his book is devoted to forced abortions against the deaf. Only three paragraphs from this chapter are needed to demolish the Steinem delusion that Hitler and the Nazis were anti-abortion: For more, click...

Where We Stand

By Len Mensil
Center For Arizona Policy

Sen. John McCain has made the impact of the "Religious Right" a major talking point in recent days. While CAP cannot endorse or oppose candidates for public office, we do think it is important to defend the right of Christians to participate in the public policy process. I was quoted in Wednesday's Tribune on this subject. For more, click...

CoR Donation Update

VirtueMedia would like to share some good news that blossomed as a result of COR's monthly generosity to VirtueMedia!

We were blessed with an incredible deal for television commercials. For $3,300 we will run the You Have Options spot commercials 54 times, and the Hope and Healing spot 24 times from March 27 through April 16 on KTVK-TV 3. Television viewing is particularly heavy this time of year.

The spots will air on Monday through Wednesday and on Saturday and Sunday . We could not have done this without the help of COR, since you are by far the major contributor to this lifesaving effort!

Please pray for our Lord to shower His Love and Mercy on the viewers during this commercial blitz!

Yours in Christ,
Tom Peterson
VirtueMedia

New Study Links Abortion to Subsequent Substance Abuse

By David C. Reardon, Ph.D.

Women who have an abortion are five times more likely to report subsequent substance abuse compared to women who carry to term, according to a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. For more, click...

Letters To The Editor

Thank you for reprinting the article on classroom sex education and including it in your December Newsletter.

More than 20 years ago, when our children were in elementary school, my husband and I did our best to alert other parents and pastors to the evils of classroom sex education. We were baffled by the disregard for the statements of opposition to sex education put forth by the magisterium since the reign of Pope Pius XI. For more, click...

A Special Message From Latinos For Life

By Sylvia Jiménez
Coordinator, Latinos for Life and Family

A catalog of Spanish materials is now available in a bilingual (Spanish / English) format. This catalog is up on the website: http://www.vidahumana.org. To obtain a printed copy along with free samples of our materials, please contact Latinos for Life and Family office, Human Life International's outreach to US Hispanics 45 SW 71 Ave., Miami, FL 33144 (305) 260-0525; Fax. (305) 260-0595

The Hispanic population is growing so quickly in the U.S. that the U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2005, it will surpass that of African Americans to become the nation's largest minority group. We in the pro-life movement need to do what we can to reach out to Hispanics, who are traditionally pro-life. "Latinos for Life and Family" was established for that very purpose, to equip and help pro-lifers share the pro-life message with Hispanics. For more, click...

RU-486 in Limbo

Abortion advocates were upset when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter to the U.S. patent holder of the abortion drug, RU-486, outlining some unresolved questions it had with the drug. The FDA had been expected to give RU-486 its final approval early this year, but the letter -- which the FDA has refused to elaborate on -- cast some doubt on those predictions. [Lutherans For Life]

Priests For Life Warn Catholic Politicians

A national pro-life association for Catholic priests today warned politicians that being pro-abortion in their policy stances is not an option for Catholics. Priests for Life said the US bishops had been clear on the issue in a November 1998 statement. "As Americans, as Catholics and as pastors of our people, we write therefore today to call our fellow citizens back to our country's founding principles, and most especially to renew our national respect for the rights of those who are unborn, weak, disabled, and terminally ill," the bishops wrote. For more, click...

Presidential Candidates on Abortion

Three days a week, The Associated Press picks an issue and asks all the presidential candidates a question about it. They were asked this question: Should abortion laws be changed and, if so, what is the most pressing change that should be made? For the candidates responses, click...

Are You Really for Choice?

By Lisa Marie Contini

I address the following to all who profess to embrace the pro-choice philosophy. It is not my intention to attempt to sway you with my pro-life convictions or with scientific facts about preborn life. You already know those arguments, and it is unlikely that hearing them once more would alter your position.

I must admit that for a long time I was convinced that "choice" was just an obscure euphemism to disguise the ugly nature of abortion. After all, abortion is a painful, bloody, hideous procedure. No woman really wants an abortion the way she wants a new dress or a new hairstyle. Women sitting in abortion clinics anticipating their turn are not happily awaiting the big moment. Rather, most of the women that freely choose abortion do so because none of the remaining options offer a realistic, tenable solution to their dilemma, or at least so they believe. If they knew of something feasible and more attractive than abortion, desperate women would probably choose that instead, and avoid the whole bloody, painful abortion ordeal. For more, click...

Horror In The Heartland - An Update

Partial-Birth Abortion Case Update

Washington DC -- More than 100 groups and individuals - ranging from physicians and clergy to pro-life advocates and state officials - have joined to file legal briefs supporting Nebraska's fight in the U.S.. Supreme Court to ban partial-birth abortions. For more, click...

Disney Pushes the Occult And Contraception

Many people are questioning the agenda that Disney presents in its movies and cartoons. It is through its movies, cartoons and characters, that Disney indoctrinates our youth, at a very early age on the occult, homosexuality, and abortion.

Their Sunday evening Disney movie, Life-Sized, deals with showing children how to become involved in the occult. Within the first 10 minutes of the "family" movie, you see how a pre-teen girl finds out about witchcraft on the Internet, learns where kids can buy items of the occult at the back of bookstores, and how to do spells. Disney clearly is encouraging children to learn about spells, witchcraft, signs, etc. For more, click...

"When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, He goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunder bolts. Instead, He has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts; the greatest forces in the world are babies."
--author unknown

Pro-Aborts Storm Church

More than twenty activists stormed into Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, in Montreal, on March 7, burning homemade crosses, spray painting altars and walls, blaspheming, throwing condoms and attempting to overturn the tabernacle all the while calling for the "right" to abortion. Police arrested three women in their 20s, a girl younger than 18 and three men in their 20s, charging them with illegal assembly. They were released on a promise to appear in court. The police refused to name the criminals. The police did say that two of the people arrested will also be charged with assault against police officers, and another with obstruction. For more, click...

Pro-Life Literature Sparks Debate at Iowa State University

Iowa State University (ISU) students who feast at residence hall dining services often eat with tabletents [folded cards with a message or name] in front of them, which promote everything from campus groups to government of the student body elections.

However, some changes may be in store due to a negative reaction from some ISU diners about the content of a recent tabletent that promoted a pro-life message.

The tent, which had a non-graphic flier titled "2 Heathers," was sponsored by the campus organization Young Americans Foundation (YAF). Through illustrations, it detailed the birthing choices of two mothers.

One mother murdered her child after birth and was sentenced to prison. The other "Heather" opted for a partial-birth abortion and was rewarded for her choice. For more, click...