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To: All; Lesforlife
In this essay by Rebecca Messall, genocide is examined. Because of its length, I excerpted it, hoping interested visitors will follow the link and read it in entirety.

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Believing abortion is a stand-alone issue is like believing egg yolks appear by themselves without egg whites, shells, and male and female chickens. My greatest mistake as a pro-life person was in thinking Roe v. Wade arrived by itself. I didn't want to link abortion to other controversial subjects, which scared or confused me, detracting from the obvious atrocity of butchering a living, unborn child. Because of my narrow focus, I ignored the horrific world-view and the socio-political-financial machinery fueling abortion.

While reading the newspaper in May 1999, I noticed a headline about an evolution controversy occupying the Kansas State Board of Education. I flipped the page without reading the story. Like many pro-life people, I felt that the origin of the species was a matter of God's choice of methods--but not a pro-life concern. Busy in local pro-life matters, I believed evolution was an "education dispute," a controversy I could, gratefully, sit out. When a metro-area newspaper reporter sought my opinion on the proposed science standards, my cautious response was, having not read them, to remind the reporter that evolution in the wrong hands had supported the bloodiest regimes in history. The reporter urged me to read the science standards, assuring me there was "nothing to offend."

I did read them, and went on to research the history and content of the "national science education standards," a national model on which the Kansas science standards are based. I realized that evolution by natural selection has been the fundamental pro-life issue since Darwin himself. His argument that biologically inferior people threaten to deprive intellectually superior people of food and resources established a scientific-sounding rationale for genocide, which is used today by the abortion-based population control and family planning establishments, as well as others bent to this day on improving the race by laboratory methods.

I contacted the reporter, and gave her some disturbing preliminary research to pursue about the groups involved with the science standards, in the belief that she would do investigative research, whereas I would continue my humble attempt to prevent abortions through our agency's maternity home, and likewise help people recover from the anguish of abortion aftermath through our post-abortion counseling.

But the reporter rebuffed me. So, perceiving the newspaper's political commitments were set in concrete, I decided to document some basic information. The facts bear directly not only on my day-to-day efforts against the culture of death; they also concern public policy matters in science education, "family planning" and a host of issues about which the public has the right to know, and the duty to make right.

In 1871, Darwin argued that Thomas Robert Malthus' earlier theory of scarcity was the mechanism that drove human evolutionary "progress." In his book, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin wrote:1..........................................

"The Evolution of Genocide"

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46 posted on 05/09/2008 3:40:40 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; Lesforlife
Is Lauren PVS, or does she show adequate evidence for PVS to give good reason to snuff her? Thaddeus Mason Pope has a fine blog on Medical Futility and here is what he says:

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Several people have recently urged me to consider studies demonstrating the error rates in diagnosing PVS. While I have yet to do so, I did notice this appellate opinion published yesterday in Wisconsin, and briefly reported by the Chicago Tribune.

In 2000, Tywanda Luckett suffered permanent severe brain damage allegedly due to medical malpractice. In a damages action brought in 2003, one of the defendants asked the plaintiffs to admit that Tywanda was in a PVS and that the PVS was permanent. Plaintiffs made those admissions. Presumably both treating physicians and/or retained experts had reached this conclusion. Notably, plaintiff's counsel made the admissions knowing that they would substantially reduce the value of the case both for the plaintiffs and for himself.

In preparing for trial, plaintiffs' counsel found doctor's notes stating that, in 2001, Tywanda could "follow simply commands," "comprehend some of what is said to her," and is "aware" and "responsive." Since such evidence strongly suggests that Tywanda was not in PVS, counsel sought to withdraw the admission. The trial court allowed this and the appellate court affirmed, even though Tywanda is now deceased and defendants cannot examine her. Consequently, the value of the case has now changed dramatically with the addition of five years of pain and suffering damages.

Posted by Thaddeus Mason Pope at 12:48 PM

Misdiagnosing PVS

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47 posted on 05/09/2008 3:48:00 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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