http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prolife/ en-us Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:25:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041554/posts ROME, JULY 6, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Advocates of assisted suicide continue to press their case in many countries. In Germany a former senator from Hamburg, Roger Kusch, released a video of him helping a woman commit suicide, reported Reuters on July 1. Kusch advised Bettina Schardt on how to prepare a lethal mix of drugs that would kill her. Schardt, 79, was not suffering from any serious illnesses. Before helping her to die Kusch filmed 9 hours of conversation with Schardt, who said she dreaded being taken to a home for the elderly. Kusch's actions came in for widespread condemnation, reported... Zenit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041554/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:25:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts In a report on Monday’s "The Situation Room" purporting to clarify how Barack Obama "really voted on abortion" (as the graphic on-screen at right stated), CNN correspondent Carol Costello misconstrued the Democrat’s stance on legislation during his time in the Illinois state senate that would have protected infants that survived abortions.Besides the two votes specifically mentioned by Costello in the report, Obama also voted against it at the committee level, and when he was committee chair, denied a simple up or down vote on the legislation. The CNN correspondent also misrepresented the apparent pro-life stance of pro-abortion senators like... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041125/posts True Liberty and Justice for All Ages On July 4th, we are stirred to contemplate our rights. Neither McCain or Obama has planks with the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Friday, July 04, 2008 James L. Sherley This Independence Day, we find ourselves anticipating a presidential election that stirs up thoughts on the meaning of our rights and the rights of our children. Thus, it is crucial to consider the true meaning of liberty set forth by the founders who forged these words in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that... SperoNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041125/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:20:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040916/posts It's become an increasingly frequent reminder to us evangelical Christians not to let our cultural identity be framed by "single issues." It was a reminder implicitly included in the "Evangelical Manifesto," a document whose basic content we at WORLD have applauded but whose political direction I questioned in our last issue. Why are the Manifesto's backers so ready to join the cultural left in suggesting a guilt trip for those evangelicals who have been preoccupied with the evils of abortion and same-sex marriage? And if some argue that the rising generation of younger evangelicals is a bit embarrassed by what... WORLD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040916/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:55:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040882/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- He took the photograph that has become one of the most recognized pictures in the pro-life community and he shared his story with attendees at the National Right to Life convention. He recounted how a childhood filled with agony and despair led to a life-long dedication to advancing the pro-life perspective. The photographer is Michael Clancy and his picture is of Samuel Armas grabbing a doctor’s hand during the operation.Clancy grew up in a tough home where a rough upbringing and abuse of his siblings led him to contemplate suicide many times.“I’m not a professional... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040882/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:44:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040881/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Former Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson served as the highlight of the opening ceremonies of the National Right to Life convention Thursday morning. He urged the more than one thousand pro-life activists attending the annual event to stick to their pro-life principles regardless of the wins or losses. Thompson said there “has been a lot of talk about the need for change in this country and this has become Senator Obama’s mantra.” He said Congress is controlled by pro-abortion politicians “so I see the need for great change in this country.” Thompson worried about a change... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040881/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:37:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040697/posts Pro-life teachers, students and other educators have been protesting this week at the National Education Association annual convention at the Washington Convention Center. The protest, which started on Wednesday, pointed out how the union has upset pro-life advocates many times over the years. Most recently, the NEA came under fire from pro-life advocates when it hosted a forum featuring a late-term abortion practitioner. With signs reading "NEA: Be Abortion Neutral” and "Pro-Life NEA Member,” the pro-life advocates say they hope to remove current pro-abortion language from NEA policies such as statements endorsing “family planning” and “reproductive freedom.” Bob Pawson of... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040697/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:29:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040515/posts Members of the Delaware House of Representatives have approved a resolution declaring "it is against the public policy of this state" for food and water to be withheld from a 24-year-old woman left with brain injuries following a drug overdose.The case of Lauren Richardson is reminiscent of that of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who died after courts ruled doctors could follow her husband's orders to deprive her of food and water until she died.The Schiavo case, on which WND reported exhaustively, ended in March 2005 when she died, despite a battle by her parents who wanted to care... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040515/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040420/posts July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A British "end of life" care protocol approved for use by the National Health Service (NHS), has created a systematic, and legal, method of euthanising elderly and disabled patients, even while "mercy killing" remains officially illegal, says a prominent expert in elder care. The "Liverpool Care Pathway" will be used to eliminate patients deemed to be "blocking beds" in the increasingly financially strapped public health system. For years, Dr. Adrian Treloar, a psycho-geriatrician and senior lecturer at the Greenwich Hospital and Guys', King's and St. Thomas's Hospitals in London, has been sounding the warning... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040420/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040411/posts Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Though sponsors of a bill that would promote euthanasia removed some of the problematic language from the measure, a leading California pro-life group says several concerns remain. The bill would codify palliative sedation and voluntary stopping of eating and drinking as legitimate means of pain control and allow doctors and nurses to suggest death by unconscious dehydration. Last week, changes were made to the bill that Brian Johnston of the California Pro-Life Council calls “bell and whistle amendments” that looked good but did not remove the significant concerns pro-life advocates have with the bill. Johnston told... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040411/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040384/posts SIOUX FALLS, SD, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a 7-4 decision, will allow South Dakota to begin enforcing a state law that requires abortion providers to tell women, in writing, that the abortion procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." In Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, the Court vacated a temporary injunction that had been issued by the trial court, which had blocked the law from going into effect. The opinion addresses the important issue of whether South Dakota can enforce its 2005 informed... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040384/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040212/posts A new report shows voters are interested in the position Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama takes on abortion. The Internet traffic monitoring firm HitWise indicates abortion is now the number one political issue voters are looking for when they conduct a search on Obama’s campaign web site. Hitwise analyzed the top 200 U.S. search terms that sent visits to the presidential candidates’ websites for the first half of 2008, revealing the types of content searched for the most among Internet users. Issues like education, the environment, health care and immigration are important to visitors on Obama’s web site, but HitWise... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040212/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:20:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2040211/posts Back in my pro-choice days, I read that in certain ancient societies it was common for parents to abandon unwanted newborns, leaving them to die of exposure. I found these stories to be as perplexing as they were horrifying. How could this happen? I could never understand how entire cultures could buy into something so obviously terrible, how something that modern society understands to be an unthinkable evil could be widely accepted among large groups of people. Because of my deep distress at hearing of such crimes against humanity, I found it irritating when pro-lifers would refer to abortion... America Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2040211/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:19:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040138/posts A good sign for the McCain camp from an absolutely essential constituency. It's not so much that these leaders can move thousands of votes, but to have them off the reservation and teeing up unhelpful quotes for the next four months would have been a huge problem for the GOP. Reports Michael Scherer: At a meeting Tuesday in Denver, about 100 conservative Christian leaders from around the country agreed to unite behind the candidacy of John McCain, a politician they have long distrusted, marking the latest in a string of movement that bodes well for McCain's general election prospects among... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040138/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039985/posts BIRMINGHAM, UK, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "Ellen Westwood was due to die in February but her family's Catholic and for them, life is sacred." So begins the television coverage by the BBC of a battle by a Birmingham family to prevent the NHS from dehydrating their mother to death. According to the BBC's report, doctors decided on a Friday in February that Mrs. Westwood was "due to die" by the following Monday, but the family, with the intervention of their priest, fought the order to remove the woman's hydration. Mrs. Ellen Westwood, 88, was in Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039985/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:43:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039978/posts On June 25, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked conservative commentator Bill Bennett what question he would ask Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama if he could.Bennett said he would ask Obama:Why are you to the left of NARAL, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein when it comes to abortion? Are you really there? ... I got to question the guy's moral judgment who doesn't see a problem with killing a baby after it's been born. … What is the answer to that question? Bennett was speaking about Obama's opposition to Illinois' Born Alive Infants Protection Act as state senator. This legislation declared... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039978/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:35:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039848/posts Eve Reinhardt / Carlos PoloCNA STAFF, Jul 2, 2008 / 09:42 am (CNA).- The producers behind the documentary, “The Decency Gap,” have convinced YouTube to pull a video filmed by the Population Research Institute that unmasked the film as a pro-abortion initiative. The video on YouTube entitled, “The Decency Gap/Eve Reinhardt,” shows a meeting between Carlos Polo, director for Latin America of the PRI, and film maker Eve Reinhardt, who hid the true nature of the project in order to get an interview with the pro-life leader. “The Decency Gap,” which is intended to promote the legalization of abortion in... Catholic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039848/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:54:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039754/posts In the First Book of the Bible, in Chapter 1, God states that man (mankind) is created in God's image. Man is different from other animals -- it reflects God by God's design. In the book of Psalms, Psalm 139 starting with verse 11, it is stated how we are knit by God in our mother's womb and other things that God knows about us when we are being pro-created. Jeremiah 1:5 talks about God knew us before He formed us in the womb... Finally, the 4th and 5th commandments [given to Moses] are broken by abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem... Bible /Torah http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039754/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:09:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039305/posts A total of 13,843 abortions were performed in Minnesota in 2007, the state Health Department reported this morning, a 1.57 percent decrease over the previous year but a slight rise compared to the two previous years. In 2006, the state reported 14,065 abortions. The totals were 13,365 in 2005 and 13,788 in 2004. The annual abortion totals in the state have held steady since the mid-1990s, when they dropped below 15,000 and have remained there since 1993. The peak year was 1980 (19,028). Among Minnesota residents, there were 17.4 abortions for every 100 live births. That ratio has held steady... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039305/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:08:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038863/posts OTTAWA, June 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  LifeSiteNews has received confirmation through various sources that the Order of Canada Advisory Council has indeed voted to award the Order of Canada to notorious abortionist and militant atheist Henry Morgentaler.  There is reported to be a movement among Members of Parliament and others to attempt to stop the award or at least protest it as being inappropriate and against the opinion of a majority of Canadians.In an article in the National Post today, columnist Douglas Farrow reports that  "The decision, which is to be announced in time for Canada Day, is clearly... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038863/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:34:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038555/posts The message of my last book, "White Ghetto", is that the social chaos in inner city black communities is symptomatic of the cultural pathology gripping the nation as a whole. Inner city black American life is a leading indicator of American culture and a product of the ascendance of materialism and relativism. Blacks have been first because they have been the most exposed and vulnerable. When 20 percent of black babies were born to unwed mothers in the 1960s, this was sufficiently outside the national norm to be perceived as a uniquely black problem. But today, as the black rate... Spero News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038555/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:16:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038446/posts Return to the Article June 30, 2008Obama's Callous IndifferenceBy Peter Kirsanow Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen declares that Barack Obama is " 'likable enough' -- in fact, so much so that he is the most charismatic presidential candidate I have seen since Robert F.Kennedy." Well, even though I've  never spoken with Obama, I don't like him very much  (I did testify with him [and a few others] once about a bill he'd sponsored on voter intimidation, but at the time he didn't impress me as unlikable, just a little intellectually lazy) . This hasn't always been the case.  Until... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038446/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:42:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2038405/posts Father God, we come into your presence humbled and greatful for Your grace and mercy. Father, we are so thankful that You are in control of things and not we ourselves. Lord, we come into your presence rejoicing in the victory in the court system where the courts upheld that abortion providers must tell women in writing that an abortion “will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” Father, thank You for upholding that TRUTH be told so the lies will be exposed in the light of that TRUTH. Heavenly Father, we know that though this... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2038405/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038248/posts OTTAWA, June 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It has come to the attention of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) that the Governor General intends to bestow the Order of Canada on abortionist Henry Morgentaler on July 1st. "It is dreadful that this honour should even be considered for a man who's only claim to fame is that he is a professional killer of defenseless babies in their mothers' wombs," said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. "Those who have received this prestigious medal should return it because it will have been devalued and disgraced," he continued. "If Morgentaler had any... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038248/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:27:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038211/posts Planned Parenthood is in search of a makeover. For years, the organization has been the biggest abortionist in the business, but as abortion is losing its cachet, Planned Parenthood is trying to reinvent itself. It seems that killing children for cash is just not as fashionable as it used to be. According to Stephanie Simon of the Wall Street Journal, Planned Parenthood wants to "[open] new avenues for boosting revenue and, they hope, political clout." The first step in the organization's redo involves marketing itself to customers in a higher income bracket. Planned Parenthood is building new centers with larger... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038211/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:09:15 GMT