Belgium: 95 Percent of Euthanasia Requests Get Rubber Stamp OK by Doctors
by Alex Schadenberg | Brussels, Belgium | LifeNews.com | 8/27/13 4:41 PM A study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management – November 2011 titled: Process and Outcomes of Euthanasia Requests Under the Belgian Act on Euthanasia: A Nationwide Survey found that only 5% of requests for euthanasia in Belgium are refused. The Belgian study on the process and outcomes of euthanasia requests was part of the “Monitoring Quality of End-of-Life Care Study.” The researchers sent an anonymous self-administered questionnaire to 3006 Belgian physicians by mail in March 2009. Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002. Since some of the…
Marriage Equality, Racial Equality, Gender Equality: What About Equality for the Unborn?
by Barry Garrett | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/29/13 11:53 AM Marriage equality. Racial equality. Gender equality. Everywhere there’s equality. It’s hard to go about even one day in life without hearing a story in which one member (or class) of our species is accusing another member (or class) of our species of unequal treatment. So allow me to throw my hat in the ring and argue for existential equality. By existential equality, I don’t mean to imply anything spiritual as the term seems to imply in a quick Google search. I simply mean to state my belief…
Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Closes Center in San Angelo, Texas
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/29/13 1:13 PM The Planned Parenthood abortion business has closed another one of its abortion clinics in Texas — this time in San Angelo. Earlier this month, the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Texas closed one of its facilities that was caught on tape years ago expressing a willingness to do an abortion no a 13-year-old girl who claimed to be a victim of statutory rape. Abortion business officials said then that abortion customers would be referred to the facility in San Angelo, but it is now closing itself. Meanwhile, prolife advocates are celebrating…
16 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Life Before Birth
by Andrew Bair | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 8/28/13 9:41 AM We all began our journey from the moment we were conceived. Here’s some of the facts of life you may not know about your time in your mother’s womb. 1. At the moment of conception, you had a unique set of DNA that never previously existed in the history of the world. YOLO. 2. Your hair and eye color and facial features were also determined. 3. By 22 days after conception, your heart was already beating and for some, with a different blood type than their…
Abortion kills conscience and destroys peace: little-known Mother Theresa interview
BY HILARY WHITE ROME, February 6, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The assertion by Mother Theresa of Calcutta that abortion is the “greatest threat to peace in the world” has become proverbial in the pro-life world. In 1985, she reiterated and expanded on the point in an interview with New York journalist and pro-life activist Thom O’Connor that, until recently, has been almost unknown. In the O’Connor interview, which is now publicly available after being uploaded onto Youtube, Mother Teresa explained that the unborn child, is created “in the image of God for greater things, to love and be loved. That is why it…
The Dangerous Side of Birth Control
After overcoming something life-threatening, I’m constantly in fear something can and will go wrong again. Every time I feel a twinge in my leg, I get scared. Every time I feel a shortness of breath, my heart races. I started taking birth control pills in January 2011. By May of that year, my doctor discovered that a blood clot had developed in my right leg and spread to my lungs. The most common type of clot is a deep vein thrombosis, a clot in a vein usually in the leg. It becomes fatal when it spreads to other parts of…
The 12 year old girl who silenced the World
This great speech was given by Severn Suzuki in The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in July 1992. What have we achieved on environmental improvement or we have only been making it worse and worse. If you do not know how to fix it, Please stop breaking it… ********************************************************* Pro-Life Philippines Foundation, Inc is a non-profit, nationwide organization that functions as an Educational body coordinating pro-life groups, providing information on life issues it also functions as a political and legislative lobby group that advances the principles and policies with the pro-life and pro-family cause. “What Can One…
New Zealand Bill Would Legalize Euthanasia, Pressure Disabled to Die
by Alex Schadenberg | Wellington, New Zealand | LifeNews.com | 8/13/13 6:13 PM Stuff media in New Zealand reported today on a talk given in New Plymouth by Maryan Street, the New Zealand MP who has sponsored a bill to legalize euthanasia in New Zealand. The article reports that Street stated: The bill proposes euthanasia be open to people with terminal illness likely to cause death within 12 months, or to people with an irreversible physical or mental condition that renders their life unbearable – by their own assessment. Therefore anyone in New Zealand who has a terminal illness that may cause their death…
Pope Francis: Oppose Abortion, Protect Human Life From Conception
by Steven Ertelt | The Vatican | LifeNews.com | 8/12/13 12:46 PM Pope Francis articulated a defense of human life from abortion: restating the Catholic Church’s longstanding opposition to the snuffing out of human life before birth and explaining that it must be protected from conception. From an international news report: “Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity,” Vatican Radio cited Francis as saying in a message to mark Brazil’s National Family week. The Argentinian pontiff’s remarks came in the wake…
Growing up in big families reduces divorce rate, study finds
BY JOHANNA DASTEEL Tue Aug 13, 2013 17:11 EST August 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study conducted by Ohio State University has found that children who grow up in large families have lower rates of divorce. The Duggar Family, the United States’ most famous large family. “When you compare children from large families to those with only one child, there is a meaningful gap in the probability of divorce,” Doug Downey, co-author of the study and a professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, said. The study’s researchers say that with every additional sibling, up to seven siblings, a…
