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August 31, 2005
Spotlight on Darfur 1 Will Be on Monday September 5 This is just a short note to advise you that Spotlight on Darfur 1 will now be on Monday September 5. It will feature posts from a diverse group of bloggers on the Darfur genocide crisis, and posts can still... Posted by Posted by catez at 6:11 PM | TrackBack Reproductive Freedom Gone Amok Author and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution Jennifer Roback Morse has written an important Town Hall column dealing with reproductive freedom. Morse specifically targets in her article the case of Guadalupe Benitez, a lesbian who is suing a California... Posted by Posted by denny at 10:30 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Fetal pain II Yesterday, Tim posted thoughts by Justin Taylor on the JAMA fetal pain controversy. I also write of the fetal pain controversy in my WorldNetDaily.com column today. I have additional thoughts on John's commentary, specifically on his following points: I have... Posted by Posted by jill stanek at 8:15 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack More Debate on Adult vs. Embryonic Stem Cells In a response to one of my posts at ProLifeBlogs on the profit motive in embryonic stem cell research, Toni from The Beginning of Human Life posted this comment: Profit has got to be one of the least concerns when... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 5:51 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 30, 2005Life Chain The Life Chain is on October 2nd Annually, on the first Sunday in October. LIFE CHAIN invites the churches in each city and town across North America to stand on a designated local sidewalk and pray for one hour, while... Posted by Posted by plb at 8:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Carnival of Life The Carnival of Life is a new production of ProLifeBlogs and Part-Time Pundit where posts from around the net are gathered into a weekly compendium of posts on pro-life issues, stories, and events. The Carnival will run on Wednesday mornings... Posted by Posted by john at 3:35 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Fetal Pain and the Pro-Life Response I think pro-lifers will be making a mistake by putting all of their eggs in the Bias Basket. Undue bias is subjective and is difficult to prove or disprove. Pro-lifers shouldn't be giving the impression that advocacy automatically tarnishes research--for this argument cuts both ways, and would preclude research done by those who are advocates for the lives of the unborn Posted by Posted by plb at 10:28 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack Sheriff Loses Legal Battle Over Abortion Transportation Arizona's most famous Sheriff has been involved in a legal battle with the ACLU over his refusal to provide transportation for inmates seeking elective abortion without a court order. Last week, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Barry Schneider ruled against... Posted by Posted by plb at 7:14 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 29, 2005Pro-Life Group Urges Input on Morning-After Pill On Friday, August 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called for public input on the question of whether Plan B, the ‘morning-after pill,’ can be safely sold to adolescents 16 years-old and over without a prescription, while requiring a... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:56 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack The Post Frets Over Anything That Might Encourage Birth Over Abortion Doing a rather impressive "Chicken Little" impersonation, the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly wrings her hands over the abortion limitations that have been passed by state legislatures in the past year or so. "Those opposed to abortion are finding new and... Posted by Posted by denny at 9:44 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Don Cheadle Launches "Live for Darfur", Time Magazine Weighs In, & So Does a Suburban Dad A notable contribution from the mainstream media on the Darfur genocide crisis, which has left over two million people homeless, is this article from Time Magazine, Who Speaks For Her? which has reports from women systematically raped by the Janjaweed... Posted by Posted by catez at 8:08 AM | TrackBack Canadian Euthanasia Bill Worst So Far A recent article in BC Catholic points out that Canadian Parliament Bill C-407 which seeks to legalize euthanasia is the worst to date: Bill C-407 would take the ground-breaking and ground-digging legislation of the Netherlands and move it many steps... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 6:10 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 27, 2005Planned Parenthood Accused of Secret Deal on 'Contraceptive' CNSNews.com has more on the alleged secret deal between a manufacturer of the "morning after" pill and Planned Parenthood:(CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group is charging Planned Parenthood with having a secret deal with the manufacturer of the "morning after" pill... Posted by Posted by plb at 2:29 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Alleged Secret Deal for Morning-After Pill STOPP exposes Planned Parenthood's secret deal to cash in on over-the-counter 'morning-after' pill Washington, DC - "If the FDA gives a green light for over-the-counter distribution, Planned Parenthood stands to take in a minimum $100 million profit over a five-year... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:22 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 26, 2005Eugenics Uncovered at Local Illinois Hospital Cross-posted from Part-Time Pundit. This story was my own work in uncovering this story. Thanks to Pro-Life blogs for hosting the PDF. ========== Eugenics is the sterilizing of the "unfit" so that only the fit can breed. This was all... Posted by Posted by john at 6:40 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Cracking Down on Planned Parenthood Staff reports from CitizenLink describe a new Kansas law that requires fetal tissue samples to be taken from the aborted babies of girls younger than 14. The samples could be useful in prosecuting offenders of another Kansas law that says... Posted by Posted by deborah at 5:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Abortion and Metaphysics Responding briefly to a commenter (DH), SK at LTI blog engages in the following interesting dialog:Metaphysics has to do with the ultimate grounding of things, or, if you will, claims about being. When DH states that the immediate capacity for... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:43 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Abortion Advocates Fight Against Choice Abortion advocates are in a fight over the current HHS appropriations bill and whether hospitals, doctors, and medical personnel can be forced to be involved in abortion or risk losing any federal funds they may receive. This comes on the... Posted by Posted by john at 11:51 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack NARAL's new anti-Roberts ad NARAL has just released its new ad attacking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. View it here. In particular, I love all the video clips and photos of happy families... with kids.... Posted by Posted by jill stanek at 9:59 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack Experts Waking Up to the "Birth Dearth" From AP via C-Pol There is more than a bit of spin on this story. It leads off stating the global population will grow for a few more decades, but the real significance is that it confirms previous reports that... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 6:41 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 25, 2005Abortions Outstrip Births in Russia MOSCOW, August 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Financial pressures are pushing Russian women to abortion at a much higher rate than was previously thought. For the first time, Russian abortions have exceeded births and the rate shows no sign of slowing... Posted by Posted by plb at 11:49 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack ACLU Declares Jihad on Abstinence Education In a direct attack against common sense, the ACLU has waged a relentless war against teaching kids the simple fact that if you don’t have sex, you don’t get pregnant or get STDs. The ACLU applauded a recent decision by... Posted by Posted by john at 11:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack NRL: "Gullible treatment of trumped up 'study' on fetal pain issue should embarrass JAMA and some journalists" National Right to Life has just released a comprehensive and informative rebuttal regarding the article "Fetal Pain: A Systematic Multidisciplinary Review of the Evidence," published in the August 24 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. See the... Posted by Posted by jill stanek at 2:39 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Feinstein Promises Abortion Litmus Test for Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts Sen. Dianne Feinstein has declared a litmus test for Supreme Court Justices: they must be abortion advocates. She has promised to impose her personal view on Supreme Court Nominee Judge John Roberts during the upcoming U.S. Senate hearings. Apparently Feinstein... Posted by Posted by plb at 1:12 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Support for embryonic stem cell destruction falls A new poll has found that 52% of Americans oppose federal funding of human embryonic stem cell destruction research. Support for human embryonic stem cell destruction has fallen by 4 points and opposition to such federally-funded research has increased by... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:15 PM | TrackBack Do Not Resuscitate Order Remains on Charlotte Wyatt Darren and Debbie Wyatt went to the Appeals court again today following their request to remove the "Do Not Resuscitate" order from their daughter, Charlotte. They were, once again, turned down. They will go back to Mr. Justice Hedley again... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:10 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack No Fetal Pain in Abortion? Look Again Wow -- even a major player in the MSM (USA Today) has now caught on to the extreme bias of the recent report which claimed that unborn kids feel no pain even in late abortions. After all, even though it... Posted by Posted by denny at 9:52 AM | Comments (4) | TrackBack Debate Continues on Abortion Fetal Pain Study The news media is in a feeding frenzy reporting on a "study" (actually, a re-interpretation of existing medical literature) published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors claim that there is no substantial reason to believe... Posted by Posted by plb at 7:30 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Profit Motive for Embryonic Stem Cells From American Thinker I've been trying to understand why, despite the overwhelming evidence that adult stem cells are a better practical and ethical solution, ESCR is receiving such heavy support from the media, researchers and politicians. I've considered the affinity... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 6:03 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack August 24, 2005Quotable Quotes - Fetus' Unable To Feel Pain There are two quotes I found disturbing with regard to the latest findings regarding a 29-week old fetus and it's supposed inability to feel pain. Keep in mind that Dr. Drey is one of the co-authors of this study and... Posted by Posted by bryanm at 8:35 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Fetal pain study authors unbiased? Please! JivinJ reported an abortion connection with two of the five authors of a fetal pain study that supposedly found that prenatal babies do not feel pain before 28 weeks. There is another author abortion connection and an overt display of... Posted by Posted by jill stanek at 9:39 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Update on Fetal Pain Study Tim has covered the story regarding a new study on fetal pain which said an unborn child was unlikely to feel pain before 28 weeks. A new story out today reveals something that I could have only guessed at: One... Posted by Posted by JivinJ at 8:05 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack UN Accused of Aiding China's Mandatory Abortion Program From TheFactIs.org via LifeSite [T]o sense what separates the administration from the [UN], all you need do is read a speech delivered this summer by a relatively unknown US diplomat to a relatively unknown UN meeting, called the Executive Board... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 5:48 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Nasal Stem-Cell Surgery Treats Paralysis Paralyzed from the waist down after a snowboarding crash, Josh Millard puts his hopes in experimental (adult) stem-cell surgery.... Posted by Posted by plb at 5:41 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack August 23, 2005Fetal Pain Debate Heats-Up A human fetus is unlikely to feel pain before the third trimester researchers claim in an article that "could fuel debate over proposed U.S. abortion legislation." The conclusion was drawn from "a review of medical evidence" (medical literature) and has... Posted by Posted by plb at 8:56 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack 13% of Timken (Ohio) High School Girls Pregnant Among the notable quotes of the local TV news story? School officials are not sure what has caused so many pregnancies... Hmmm. I think I've located the problem, Captain.... Posted by Posted by denny at 3:33 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack Administrative Note ProLifeBlogs.com is presently experiencing a problem on many of the pages linked to by the homepage. We're working on it and hope to have service restored shortly. Update: We have a work around in place on most pages. Thanks to... Posted by Posted by plb at 2:17 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Why Aren't Women Being Told? Why aren't we being told about the most preventable cause of breast cancer? The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer seeks to educate women about the link between abortion and the increased risk of breast cancer, and they detail how the scientific... Posted by Posted by deborah at 11:45 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Update on Little Susan Torres Baby Susan Torres' family writes,Little Susan and doing very well in the Neonatal ICU. She has broken the 2 lbs. mark and is continuing to grow like a weed. She has been removed from the ventilators and is receiving small... Posted by Posted by plb at 7:34 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 22, 2005Delay Embryonic Stem Cell Vote Alternative sources of stems cells have led some to call for a delay in the vote on federal legislation that would allow tax dollars to be used for research involving the destruction of human life.... Posted by Posted by plb at 8:36 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack State Considers Legislation for End-Of-Life Decisions Various states are considering legislation in response to the public starvation/dehydration of Terri Schiavo. One of the latest proposals comes from Mississippi congressman Rep. Joey Fillingane (R-Sumrall) who is pushing a bill to "preserve a person's life" if there's a... Posted by Posted by plb at 6:28 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Baby Improves but Hospital Keeps Do Not Resuscitate Order Charlotte Wyatt was born prematurely at St. Mary's hospital on the 21st of October 2003. She weighed 458 grams (about a pound) and was barely five inches long. Three times in her short life she had to be re-ventilated. Despite... Posted by Posted by plb at 5:08 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Getting Wise to the Lies In a BreakPoint commentary on the Prison Fellowship Ministries web site, Chuck Colson explores the reasons why so many young women today are choosing life instead of abortion.Alexander Sanger, chairman of International Planned Parenthood, complains that the numbers are “unbelievably... Posted by Posted by deborah at 12:49 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Protecting Pregnant Women and their Unborn Babies After a recent fatal car accident involving a pregnant woman, a grand jury in Alabama indicted David Alton Gilley on four charges of reckless murder -- one is for the death of an unborn baby. This is not the only... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:25 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack Embryonic Stem Cell Alternative - Hype or Hope? Numerous news sources report that scientists have turned "ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells--without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos in the process." A Reuters headline, for example, reads "Scientists create... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:21 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack The Chorus of Life The reason she went to the clinic that day Was just as simple as it seems. She wasn’t prepared for a baby right now. It was sad but she had other dreams. Her career, her boyfriend, her trim figure too... Posted by Posted by denny at 9:47 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack That Which Secular Science Overlooks As posted on here a few days ago, a new form of stem cell has been discovered that could make the ethical debate on this subject moot. A reported breakthrough in stem cell research may lend new weight to the... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 6:25 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 20, 2005Kansas Lawsuit Seeks to Block Abortion Funding "Sec. 1 - All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Kansas State Constitution Some government officials in Kansas are acting on the principles of their state’s... Posted by Posted by plb at 6:57 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack A Few Weekend Pro-Life Posts Do you think the contraception issue is a component of the abortion issue, or are pro-lifers who "go there" over the top? - Jill Stanek Both the AMA and the American Academy of Family Physicians encourage intentional elective abortion in... Posted by Posted by plb at 5:16 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack No Funding for Eugenic Abortion SAN FRANCISCO, August 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the wife of a US navy man must pay the government back the US $3000.00 it spent aborting her child because the military refuses to fund... Posted by Posted by plb at 2:26 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack August 19, 2005Altered Nuclear Transfer-Oocyte-Assisted Reprogramming C. Ward Kischer, PhD, human embryology professor emeritus, and Fr. Joseph Howard, M. Div., of American Life League, have issued the following statement regarding their analysis of an Altered Nuclear Transfer-Oocyte-Assisted Reprogramming (ANT-OAR) process proposed by Dr. William Hurlbut. This... Posted by Posted by plb at 6:33 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack 'Embryonic-Like' Cell Discovery Could Affect Ethics Debate CNSNews.com reports today about a breakthrough in stem cell research that may tip the scales in the campaign against using human embryos for research. American and British researchers say they have found, in umbilical cord blood, a new type of... Posted by Posted by deborah at 3:35 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Pro-life movement: Time for truth and consequences I blogged the other day that pro-aborts have discovered a winning angle in the emergency contraceptive controversy: tying together birth control pills and ECs. It's true that if a pharmacist and/or pharmacy have no moral problem dispensing birth control pills,... Posted by Posted by jill stanek at 11:08 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Dem left/centrist split evident in CA senators An article in today's San Francisco Chronicle says the different positions that CA senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are taking on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts demonstrate the split in the Democrat party between leftists and centrists. Also in... Posted by Posted by jill stanek at 8:04 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Schiavo Lawyer Discusses Improprieties in Her Case From LifeSite “The degree of disconnect between the description of the Terri Schiavo case in the media, and the reality of the case is pretty profound,” laments Robert Destro, the lawyer who performed vital pro bono legal work for the... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 5:38 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 18, 2005The UN's War on the Poor Originally posted on Internet Journal of Public Policy In an announcement a few days ago, a report came out that in the treaty it was drafting for the rights of the disabled, the UN included language calling for global abortion... Posted by Posted by papijoe at 3:00 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Decreasing Abortion Rates Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement today in response to new data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health about decreasing abortion rates in the state. "The numbers of abortions continue to go down,"... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:50 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Susan Torres' Father Tells the 'Best Story' Earlier today, Paul Rollin, the father of Susan Torres responded to this post with the following remarkable message:I am Susan's Father. Aren't you tired of the headline "Brain Dead, Pregnant Woman, Gives Birth to Very Premature Baby Girl, Who May... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:39 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Durbin Asserts Abortion Litmus Test for Roberts Sen. Richard Durbin will vote against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the Senate Judiciary Committee if Roberts disagrees with the Illinois Democrat's view that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to abortion. But that vote would directly contradict Durbin's... Posted by Posted by plb at 12:30 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Late Term Abortion Study International abortion provider Marie Stopes has released a study on late term abortions (19-24 weeks) in the United Kingdom and the women who have them. Their findings indicate that the majority of women they surveyed had abortions later in pregnancy... Posted by Posted by JivinJ at 9:39 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack Investigating Terri Schiavo's Collapse - Silent Witness Mark Fuhrman does a decent job presenting the facts, as they are known, pertinent to the collapse of Terri Schiavo in his recent book, Silent Witness. He provides comprehensive background information and describes events chronologically, setting the stage for an... Posted by Posted by plb at 8:47 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack Experimental Therapy Uses Aborted Babies to Heal Burns Scientists are now using skin, constructed from cells harvested from aborted children, in an experimental therapy to heal burns. A recent study of the treatment demonstrated the regrowth of essentially normal skin on second- and third-degree burns in about two... Posted by Posted by plb at 5:16 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack August 17, 2005ProLifeBlogs.com Administrative Update One of the benefits of managing this site is that I get to meet a great number of diverse yet dedicated pro-lifers. Several of them recently joined our team of contributors including bloggers from: The Narrow Allthings2all Marlowesshade JivinJehoshaphat Choose... Posted by Posted by plb at 10:34 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack |