"Appalled" by the State of Arizona and Judge William Sargeant

By Katherine Sabelko

In an unprecedented action, His Excellency Thomas J. O'Brien, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, ordered all parishes to have his letter read at all Sunday Masses. His reference to Judge William Sargeant, who sent a 14-year-old girl out of state to have her 24-week-old child in the womb killed, and to Gov. Jane Hull was clear. The Bishop was "simply appalled by the court decisions, which circumvented the state laws,"  For more, including the Bishop's letter in full, click...

The company which accepts our cancelled stamps for fundraising is located in Indiana. It would be more efficient to send the cancelled stamps directly to our Indiana coordinator, Caroline Kenny.

Please mail your stamps (trimmed to 1/2 inch around the borders) to Carolyn Kenning, 10610 West 124th Avenue, Cedar Lake, IN., 46303.

Artificial Contraception is no solution for Abortion

Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago, expressed surprise over media attention because he participated in a prayer vigil in front of an abortuary in July.

"The Church always accompanies the dying with prayer," he said, "People die in an abortion clinic, and it is good to pray for them and for the living they leave behind."

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By Susan Martinuk

A medical breakthrough that has the potential to reverse menopause and extend a woman's ability to bear children for an indefinite period of time has created all kinds of chatter about the horrors of 70-year-old women having children.

Essentially, this procedure involves freezing young, healthy ovarian tissue and then re-implanting it later on in the woman's life. The young tissue would resume producing the woman's biological eggs and thereby delay or even reverse menopause. The health benefits are immediately obvious to women -- no more physical and emotional problems associated with declining ovarian function.

Young women who can have their healthy ovarian tissue removed, frozen and stored will also be able to revive their chances of childbirth later on. Fertile women undergoing cancer or medical treatments that could destroy ovarian function, yet still want to have children, could fall into this category.

But what about women who haven't had the chance to freeze their ovaries while they were still viable? Where will they get ovarian tissue? There are two options: young, fertile women who donate ovarian tissue or, a far more likely source, aborted female foetuses.

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By Bradley Mattes

In the August issue of Connector, [reported on in CoR August issue] Dr. Willke brought you the shocking news that the abortion industry is involved in the harvesting of organs and tissue of aborted babies. As part of a two-year, ongoing investigation, Life Dynamics interviewed "Kelly," one of a team of individuals who work closely with abortionists to provide a wide range of human fetal tissue to pharmaceutical, government and university laboratories. Further, evidence shows that they will sometimes instruct the abortionist as to which type of procedure should be performed on the woman to ensure that the desired tissue is delivered intact.

Kelly's interview detailed the ghastly and often illegal procedures used to obtain the desired lucrative baby body parts. For more, click...

The following letter appeared in the Dallas Morning News, May 2, 1999, by Marcy Musgrave, who is a junior at Texas A&M University.

MY GENERATION HAS SOME QUESTIONS

I am a member of the upcoming generation - the one after Generation X - that has yet to be given a name. So far, it appears that most people are rallying behind the idea of calling us Generation Next. I believe I know why. The older generations are hoping we will mindlessly assume our place as the "next" in line. That way, they won't have to explain why my generation has had to experience so much pain and heartache.

These questions don't represent only me but a whole generation that is struggling to grow up and make sense of this world. We all have questions; we all want explanations. People may label us Generation Next, but we are more appropriately Generation "Why?"

"Why did most of you lie when you made the vow of until death do us part?"

"Why do you fool yourselves into believing that divorce really is better for the kids in the long run?"

"Why do so many of you divorced parents spend more time with your new boyfriend or girlfriend than with your own children?"
"Why did you ever fall victim to the notion that kids are just as well off being raised by a complete stranger at a day care center than by their own mother or father?"

"Why do you look down on parents who decide to quit work and stay home to raise their children?"

"Why does the television do the most talking at family meals?"  For more, click...

Dear Children of the Rosary Staff, Thank you for your website.

I'm writing from the San Francisco Bay Area in No. California. I'd like to share with you a Purity Pledge that pre-married people, particularly youth, can make (this Pledge is from the Pure Love Alliance.)  For more, click...

Dear Friends, As we near the end of this millennium, ponder the question: "What has happened to our culture?" Our world has strayed so far from dependence on God that civilized society is falling apart.

We need help from Heaven if we are to see a return to sanity. Only when men and women have accepted God's Kingship over them, will nations have real peace, just laws, and a Culture of Life built on Love.  For more, click...

Dear Group, You continually surprise me! I have never experienced a group that has shown such fairness and truth in a publication and in actions.

I, like so many other people, was greatly disappointed in Bishop O'Brien for not standing up in St. Vincent de Paul's incident over bad boy Basha.

You rightly notified us of the situation and the lack of action by the Bishop.

Then I receive two e-mail announcements this month from your e-mail group praising the man!

Though I was very surprised, I was also pleased that you did not hesitate to give credit where credit is deserved!

Most groups, once they have closed the door on a public figure, do not have the guts to go back and open the door again.

Thank you for such fair reporting!

Thomas Klein
Casa Grande, AZ

Ed Note: Mr. Klien's reference to e-mail notification is a free service people can sign up for to receive last-minute news or action-needed reports. E-mail CoR at cor@childrenoftherosary.org if you wish to receive these types of notifications.

Thank you for sending me this news item about Bishop O'Brien's stand for pro-life.

I am Luhra Tivis Warren, a pro-life author and speaker. But back in 1988, I worked for George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas. He has been killing children in the 3rd trimester for almost 20 years now.

I am getting ready to take RCIA courses and hope to join the Church this year. I'm hoping to quit my analyst job at the Arkansas Dept. of and do pro-life work full-time. Please keep me in your prayers.
I am learning the rosary, but have trouble remembering all the Mysteries! Please keep me on your mailing and e-mail list.

Luhra Tivis Warren,
Little Rock AR.

Thank you & God bless you, your work, and all your associates. May God also especially bless your enemies with the descent of the Holy Spirit so that they, like St. Paul, can come down from their high horses & prostrate themselves before God & beg for forgiveness for themselves & for their neighbors that they have led so far into temptation. For more, click...

We just wanted to drop a line to thank you for your newsletter! We have supported your work for several years though we don't have an abortion mill in our area right now. Thank God!

Your newsletter is read from cover to cover as soon as we receive it. We have noticed that lately each month you use different layouts and columns. Congratulations! Most publications become very predictable and - sorry to say - boring to look at after awhile.

Bernie Mulhouse
Bozeman, MT

Ed. Note: Thanks goes in large part to Bob Novascone for his talent and his patience!

 For more, click...

"Once again Planned Parenthood has forced its brand of sex education on parents and children," said STOPP International Director Jim Sedlak.

Sedlak was reacting to the news that the governor of California has signed a new law creating new sex education standards for California's schools. The new standards were championed by Planned Parenthood in California.  For more, click...

The following article was printed in the UN Population Report, proclaiming the Vatican had backed away from its defense of the unborn child...

The Lies

Vatican "has accepted UN family planning", September 23, By Charles Clover, Environment Editor, UN Population Report, stated:

THE Vatican has given up attempts to stop the United Nations providing family planning for women in the poorest countries, a UN director said yesterday. Dr Nafis Sadik, of the UN Population Fund, said the Holy See had endorsed a five-year review of the plan for slowing world population growth. While the Roman Catholic Church continued to express its opposition to contraception, it had stopped trying to hold up proceedings by inserting reference to "natural methods" of birth control, Dr Sadik said....

Now the Truth

UNFPA head Dr. Nafis Sadik claimed on Wednesday that the Vatican has capitulated in its long-standing opposition to international family planning programs that include contraception and abortion. "This doesn't mean that the Church at the top has changed its position. But it is accepted that the international community has accepted that family planning is one of the human rights of women," said Sadik in a London speech.

In a statement expected sometime today, the Holy See will contradict Sadik's assertions. Veteran observers see Sadik's remarks as part of a continuing effort to undermine the Holy See's negotiating position at the UN.  For more, click...

Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall was famous for his words of inspiration from the floor of the Senate chamber. One of his favorite recitations was this poem by Josiah Gilbert Holland:

GOD, GIVE US MEN!
God, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue and damn
His treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.

The United States House of Representatives voted in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (HR 2436), a bill to recognize unborn children as victims of federally-prohibited crimes of violence. The bill passed 254-172, over objections from the White House.  For more, click...

Birth control pill identified as high risk factor

The World Conference on Breast Cancer took place in Ottawa July 26-31. Dr. Joel Brind, an expert on research which indicates a strong correlation between breast cancer and abortion, says that he was all but shut out of last year's conference. Not one to give up, he is attending again this year with the hope that he will be able to break through the wall of silence on this issue that appears to have been set up by the medical industry and feminist ideologues.  For more, click...

In a case that could have national implications, the Illinois attorney general's office has asked state health officials to investigate a Chicago-area hospital's practice of delivering second-trimester babies deemed "defective" in order to let them die.

The practice first came to light when "Jill," a nurse at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., claimed to have held one such baby in a warm blanket until it died.

"It's a different world, holding a person to die that you shouldn't be holding to die," said Jill, who asked to be identified only by her first name. "It's watching their chest, seeing if you can still see a heartbeat and looking at their fingers and their hands and they are fully formed."  For more, click...

Thus says the Lord: You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me. If I tell the wicked, "O wicked one, you shall surely die," and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked from his way, the wicked shall die for his guilt, but I will hold you responsible for his death. But if you warn the wicked, trying to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself.
--- Ezekiel 33:7-9

Is it not our duty to speak out against abortion and the use of artificial contraception? Has God not called each of us to be a watchman for those preborn children in danger of abortion? If we say, "Lord, we were just so busy," what will He say?

By Tom Takash

CoR continues to cover the abortion mills with our prayer warriors and counselors in order to offer help to the desperate women entering them week after week, and we pray for additional prayer warriors to join us at the mills to offer God's love to those often desperate and confused women. But, as you know, we have expanded our efforts to try and reach out to these mothers even before they go to the abortionists. This February we began an advertising campaign to do just that with our billboard on 27th Avenue just north of McDowell Rd. in Phoenix.

While the billboard is a good first step, we are embarking on a more ambitious campaign through our direct financial support and work with a Catholic non-profit advertising agency, Virtue Media. They recently have opened the door with several local Phoenix-area T.V. and radio stations for low-cost, quality pro-life ads designed to offer life-choices to pregnant women.  For more, click...

by Mona Charen

Cincinnati, OH - The woman was 22 weeks pregnant when she sought the assistance of Dr. Martin Haskell, the originator of the partial birth abortion procedure, to rid herself of her already-kicking child.

Haskell performed the first stage of the partial-birth abortion. He inserted a seaweed-based substance into the woman's cervix and instructed her to return the following day.

In the usual course of events, the seaweed absorbs the amniotic fluid from the womb and expands, thus slowly dilating the cervix. The next day, new seaweed is inserted. On the third day, the abortionist opens the cervix with his fingers, feels around for the baby's legs and pulls them out of the birth canal. He rotates the fetus' shoulders so that the baby's face is oriented toward the mother's lower back, pulls all but the baby's head from the birth canal, and then, using scissors, he punctures the exposed base the baby's skull and suctions the brain out through a tube. But in this case, things did not go according to plan.

The woman complained of severe abdominal pain on the first night and, reported to the emergency room of her local hospital, Bethesda North, in Cincinnati. As she was being examined (she did not say she was pregnant), the baby was born - alive.  For more, click...

The headlines in a Montreal paper, September 23, screamed the horror about to befall Canada: CONTROVERSIAL REPRODUCTIVE "SCIENTIST" EN ROUTE TO CANADA - With No Regulations, Canada Is a Haven for Mad Scientists

Gosden will take up his post at McGill University's Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, Canada. With its absence of laws prohibiting new reproductive technologies, it is an attractive base for researchers involved in the most controversial areas of this growing field.

Professor Gosden's research was made illegal under Britain's Criminal Justice Act. British MP Dame Jill Knight, who was instrumental in criminalizing Gosden's research, commented that it was "the stuff of nightmares," and noted that children born of his intended procedures would be told that they had come "from a dead mother, a mother ... that was never actually born at all." ?

As our readers are aware, we have decreased the cost of the newsletter. At the same time we have decided to continue our campaign of billboard ads at over $500 monthly. Now we have also committed $500 monthly to support Arizona television and radio advertising [click here for related story] to help women in a crisis pregnancy situation and one for post-abortion depression.

Never in the history of Children of the Rosary have we committed to such a major monthly financial burden. The Board of Directors and officers were confident that the efforts to save the lives of babies, and to help moms not make a fatal mistake, were worth the financial gamble.

Were we wrong? These two items alone push us over $1,000 in expenses each month, yet we must continue to cover our monthly operating costs and the cost of publishing the Newsletter.

We were not wrong. The money is being spent exactly where it should be spent -- trying to help save babies' lives and save moms and dads from making the wrong decision - abortion.

We are praying that you will continue to send in your much-appreciated donations and now sign other families up also for the publication!

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.

We continually receive phone calls because people are no longer receiving their complimentary CoR publication.

We understand your concern over missing the latest in the pro-life news. Unfortunately we can not continually send out mailings unless we receive some financial support.

Perhaps it is time for you to consider sending in a $20 donation and you'd be guaranteed to receive 12 issues of our publication!