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Pope Francis: Say yes to life, not death

pro-life philippines — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:34:28 +0000

Posted by yearoffaithadmin on Monday, June 17, 2013

(Vatican Radio) “Let us say ‘Yes’ to life and not death.” These were the words of Pope Francis during his homily on Sunday morning for Evangelium Vitae Day, a day celebrating the Gospel of Life.

An estimated 200,000 people were in Saint Peter’s Square for Holy Mass and the Angelus that followed with Pope Francis to mark the Year of Faith event dedicated to the Gospel of Life.

In his homily, the Pope noted how the Scriptures continuously tell us how God is the Living One who bestows life.

However, he said that “all too often, people do not choose life, they do not accept the ‘Gospel of Life’ but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure, and not by love, by concern for the good of others.”

The Holy Father went on to say that people dream of building a new “Tower of Babel”, a city of man that is without God. They believe that the rejection of “God, the message of Christ, the Gospel of Life, will somehow lead to freedom, to complete human fulfillment.”
As a result,” the Pope continued, “the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

Concluding his homily, Pope Francis called on the faithful to “say ‘Yes’ to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.”

In his Angelus address following Mass, Pope Francis pointed to a perfect example of one who followed the Gospel of Life. He called attention to Saturday’s beatification of a husband and father of seven from Capri Italy who was killed in a concentration in 1944 for witnessing to his faith. Blessed Oduardo Focherini had saved countless lives from Nazi persecution before losing his own.

The Holy Father also greeted participants in a Harley-Davidson rally, marking 110 years of the manufacturer of the iconic American motorbike. Over 100,000 bikers had gathered in Rome this weekend; 1,400 of them had their bikes blessed by the Pope following the Angelus prayer.

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UNFPA spends $11M to push RH in PHL

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:52:48 +0000

MANILA, June 12, 2013—The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) last week released its 2012 annual report dubbed “Promises to Keep” citing millions of dollars were channeled to fund contraceptives in developing countries.

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin presented the annual report to UNFPA’s Executive Board highlighting its activities in 2012, among them the distribution of fund to different countries to push for reproductive health worldwide.

“Contraceptives are urgently needed. So are other affordable, effective and simple health supplies and medicines,” said the Executive Director in the introduction of the report.”

According to the report UNFPA channeled 11, 176, 000 US dollars in fund to Philippine based ‘civil society groups’ which pushed for the passage of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill now known as Republic Act (RA) 10354.

Late last year, former Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente Sotto in his on Senate Bill (SB) 2865 speech revealed massive funding from UNFPA given to society groups which also revealed as to having either non-existent or revoked Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registrations. Among them the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP), Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and (PLCPD), Likhaan and Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN).

The report also describes achievements in seven areas where UNFPA stands to have the greatest impact among them promotion of maternal health, increasing access to voluntary family planning, advocating for gender equality and reproductive rights and increasing young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services.

The Supreme Court (SC) however, has rescheduled the oral arguments of the controversial Republic Act (RA) 10354 to July 9 from its original schedule of June 18. (CBCP for life)

Source: http://www.cbcpnews.com/

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House Committee Passes Bill Banning Abortions at 20 Weeks of Pregnancy

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:39:02 +0000

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 6/12/13 1:37 PM

With Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposed, a House committee has passed a bill that would ban abortions nationwide at 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Much of the debate focused on weaking amendments by Democrats who hoped to gut the bill and allow late-term abortions in cases to protect a woman’s health — even though abortions after 20 weeks are not necessary for health reasons and would allow virtually all late-term abortions to remain legal.

The committee passed the bill on a 20-12 vote and the measure now heads to the full House floor where it is expected to receive a debate and vote next week.

Also during the debate, lawmakers turned back efforts by Democrats to add a rape and incest exception to the late-term abortion ban. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican who is the bill sponsor, said an unborn baby would be killed regardless of how she was conceived.

“The fundamental opposition here should be predicated on the notion that this child is going into the 6th month of pregnancy,” Franks said.

According to Franks, “Knowingly subjecting our innocent unborn children to dismemberment in the womb, particularly when they have developed to the point that they can feel excruciating pain every terrible moment leading up to their undeserved deaths, belies everything America was called to be. This is not who we are.”

“Pregnancies from rape that result in abortion after the beginning of the sixth month are very rare. This bill does not address unborn children in earlier gestations. Indeed, the bill does nothing to restrict abortions performed before the beginning of the 6th month,” he added. “The real question before us is not whether these unborn children entering their six-month of gestation are capable of feeling pain. The real question is, are we?”

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice voted on a party-line vote 6-4 for the bill, with Republicans supporting the ban on late-term abortions and Democrats opposing it.

During the hearing, former abortion practitionerAnthony Levatino told members of the committee the gruesome details of his former abortion practice and how he became pro-life following the tragic automobile accident of his child.

Another bombshell dropped during the hearing came from Dr. Maureen Condic, who is Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She testified that the unborn child is capable of reacting to pain as early as 8-10 weeks. This is when most abortions in America take place.

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‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: 23 Canadian women dead in 6 years while on Yaz/Yasmin birth control

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:22:00 +0000

BY PETER BAKLINSKI

OTTAWA, Ontario, June 11, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Third generation birth control pills produced by the massive drug company Bayer have been linked to the deaths of at least 23 Canadian women since 2007, one of them as young as 14.

A Health Canada document reveals that many of the victims who were taking the top-selling birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin died suddenly and unexpectedly from blood clots, a known risk factor for the pill. The pills contain drospirenone, Bayer’s unique formulation of synthetic progestin.

18-year-old Miranda Scott of Delta, B.C. was taking Yasmin when she suddenly collapsed three years ago.

Eighteen-year-old Miranda Scott of Delta, B.C. was taking Yasmin when she suddenly collapsed three years ago while working out on an elliptical machine in a gym. She fell backwards onto a person behind her and managed to say “I can’t breathe” before she died, according to her mother Chip McClaughly. An autopsy revealed that she died from a blood clot in the lung. McClaughly has joined a class-action lawsuit against Bayer on behalf of her daughter.

An Ontarian lawsuit against Bayer has been underway since 2011 after Health Canada issued a consumer advisory that Yaz and Yasmin have a “potential for an increased risk of venous thromboembolism [blood clots].” Later that year Health Canada bumped that advisory to awarning that Yaz and Yasmin users may experience two to three times greater risk of developing blood clots, compared to those who use other brands of contraceptive pills.

Health Canada at that time downplayed the danger of Bayer’s pills.

“Blood clots are a rare but well known side effect associated with all birth control pills. The risks of blood clots are higher with pregnancy and childbirth than with oral contraceptives,” it said. “Overall the risk of blood clots with any oral contraceptive (including Yasmin and Yaz) is very small.”

A study by France’s health and drug safety agency in Marchfound that the deaths of 20 French women per year were linked to contraceptive pill use, with drospirenone pills being the most common factor in the majority of deaths.

Tony Merchant, a lawyer who represents 1,000 women outside Ontario who say they have been adversely affected by the drug, told CBC that he is in the process of bringing a second class-action lawsuit against Bayer.

Merchant said that the Health Canada statistics on the drug’s harm to women are “just the tip of the iceberg.”

“There are about 30 or 40 deaths that we think are known, but that is usually just the tip of the iceberg because all sorts of people will have died…. [but their families] don’t know anything about the litigation, they don’t know anything about the problem,” he said.

Merchant said that the hundreds of women have approached his firm for help. Each has a similar story of pain, suffering, and hardship caused by the pills. Women have had their gallbladders removed, their hearts have experienced stroke, and they have had to been put on blood thinners for the rest of their lives.

Global sales of Yasmin and Yaz, which total more than $1 billion annually, have dropped sharply — more than 12 percent since last year — due to the scare the drug is causing.

Over 12,000 U.S. women have filed lawsuits against Bayer for blood clot-related injuries while taking Yaz or Yasmin. The FDA has received as many as 50 reports of death linked to the drug. Bayer recently announced that it would set aside as much as $1.2 billion to settle these claims.

Life and family leaders have pointed out that there are safe methods for postponing pregnancy that are just as effective as the pill but are 100 percent natural. These include the Billings ovulation method, the Creighton Model FertilityCare System, and the symptothermal method.

“I’m convinced if more women knew and understood what these other methods are, they would use them instead,” said Andrea Mrozek, founder of ProWomanProLife.org, in a recent interview with LifeSiteNews.com.

Despite the suffering, trauma, and deaths of women who use the drug, Bayer has continued to defend its product: “At Bayer patient safety comes first and we fully stand behind, Yaz and Yasmin,” said Bayer in a written statement to CBC News.

Source:Lifesitenews http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-23-canadian-women-dead-in-6-years-while-on-yaz

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Child euthanasia is coming to Belgium

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:12 +0000

BY WESLEY J. SMITH

Child euthanasia: It’s all over but the final voting in Belgium as the Parliament agrees across party lines that doctors should be able to euthanize children. From the Presseurop story:

In the wake of several months of testimony from doctors and experts in medical ethics, a Belgian Senate committee will on June 12 examine the possible extension of the country’s euthanasia law to include children.

“On both sides of the linguistic border, liberals and socialists appear to agree on the fact that age should not be regarded as a decisive criteria in the event of a request for euthanasia,”De Morgen. They want doctors to decide on a minor’s capacity for discernment on a case by case basis.

Treating a child like a sick horse is what passes for “compassion” these days.

Reprinted with permission from Human Exceptionalism. http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/350688/child-euthanasia-coming-belgium-wesley-j-smith

Source: http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/child-euthanasia-is-coming-to-belgium

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Stories From the Abortion Clinic: Tales of Sidewalk Counseling

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:39:48 +0000

by Jennie Stone | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 6/10/12 12:57 PM

Most of the time you sidewalk counsel, patients ignore you both entering and leaving the clinic. Other times, they do react to you…but not always in the way you hope. You encounter all different kinds of people and situations outside the abortion clinics, and this weekend proved just that. Some weekends are just harder than others.

These are just some sporadic tidbits from my sidewalk counseling last weekend. We do not always see the fruits of our labor right away.

Friday, June 1, 9:00am

I had arrived at the abortion clinic around eight that morning. There was only one car in the parking lot at the time. Around nine, a middle-aged man and woman drove into the parking lot in a truck. They both got out of the car, and I started to speak.

“Hi ma’am, my name is Jennie. I know that this is a difficult morning for you, but if there is any doubt in your mind that you – ” I stopped. A young girl then got out of the truck. My heart sank. That woman wasn’t here for an abortion. Her teenage daughter was. I changed my tone.

“Sweetie, my name is Jennie. I’m here because I care about you, and I’d love to talk to you about some information you might find helpful.” She paused and looked at me with an expression that was hard to interpret. As long as she was making eye contact, though, I was going to keep talking.

“If you want me to hand you this, feel free to come and talk,” I said, holding out a pamphlet with some pregnancy resources listed on it. Then, her father put his hand on her back and pushed her, causing her to jerk forward.

“No one can force you into this. I’ll be here if you need help,” I said, but she had already been escorted into the clinic by her parents.

A rose I placed in the driveway got run over – how I sometimes feel after a morning outside of an abortion clinic.

Friday, June 1, 9:45am

A girl who looked about my age drove into the parking lot with her mom. I approached the car with information in my hand, and said good morning. The mother stared at me.

“Don’t talk to me. And don’t talk to my daughter,” she said flatly. I smiled and said I just wanted to give her some information that she might find useful. Then I braced myself for the inevitable, even thought I knew it would be nothing I hadn’t heard before.

As the girl opened the door, I asked her if I could give her some information. That’s all it took, and she began to scream:

“B****, shut the f*** up! You are such a stupid c***, back the f*** off!” I can’t remember anything else she yelled, but I’m confident she went through every foul word in the English language between getting out of her car and during the fifteen-second walk to the door of the clinic.

When she stopped, I said (loudly, but kindly), “If you’re hurting about this now, an abortion isn’t going to make it better.” I saw two middle fingers go up as she walked into the facility.

Saturday, June 2, 9:30am

A young man came out of the clinic and walked toward his car. A previous sidewalk counselor had enlightened me to the fact that this young man and a girl he was with had come to the clinic for a pregnancy test and were seeking Medicaid services, and not necessarily an abortion. I was relieved.

“Hi there!” I said, hoping he would acknowledge me. “A friend of mine told me you were looking for a place that offered pregnancy services through Medicaid?” I held out some pamphlets with a list of local doctors who served low-income patients. The young man approached me.

“Yeah, we are,” he said as he took the information. He gave me the privilege of discussing the options that were available to the woman he was with. He mentioned that they were looking for a pregnancy test and did not imply that abortion was on his mind, so I told him about the doctors in the area that specialized in caring for low-income pregnant women. As he drove out of the parking lot with the woman, he waved back at me when I said good-bye.

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Source: http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/10/stories-from-the-abortion-clinic-tales-of-sidewalk-counseling/

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National Vigil For Life – Dublin – 8 June 2013

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:32:39 +0000

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SC trims RH Law issues down to three

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:18:54 +0000

With a big number of petitions, both opposing and supporting the controversial Republic Act No. 10354 or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, the Supreme Court has decided to cut down the issues to be tackled during oral arguments on July 9.

In a pre-oral argument conference at the Supreme Court in Manila last Thursday, the high court gathered all petitioners, respondents, and intervenors in the case to discuss ways to trim down the issues to be covered.

The conference was attended by Associate Justices Jose Catral Mendoza, Roberto Abad and Marvic Leonen.

In his proposal, Mendoza suggested that the issues surrounding the controversial law enacted by President Benigno Aquino III December last year be “trimmed” to three:

Proscription against involuntary servitude/ equal protection clause;
Right to life/freedom of religion/ natural law; and
Freedom of speech/academic freedom.

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Source:http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/311838/news/nation/sc-trims-rh-law-issues-down-to-three

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Girl Scouts USA Pushes Video Honoring Pro-Abortion Activists

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:11:13 +0000

by Mary Hasson | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 6/5/13 3:51 PM

It’s hard to find two women more pro-abortion than Marlo Thomas and Amy Richards. But the Girl Scouts love ‘em.

These two feminists headlined a recent Girl Scout-sponsored live screening and panel discussion of the “acclaimed documentary MAKERS,” a feminist, pro-abortion, video narrative of “trailblazing” women whose “pioneering contributions” changed America.

What kind of pioneering contributions? I’ll get to that in a minute. (Amy Richards’ ‘contribution’ particularly deserves comment.) But, first, a bit more about the Girl Scout-sponsored event.

Billed as an opportunity to “celebrate women and girls,” the screening and discussion took place on May 9, 2013 in New York City. The event, co-sponsored by Girls, Inc. of NYC and the public broadcasting station WNET, featured Girl Scouts front and center. From the banner backdrop on stage, sporting the logo of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York, to the moderator’s warm shout outs to the Girl Scouts in the audience, to the college-student panelist who identified herself as a former Girl Scout, the event was all about promoting MAKERS to the Girl Scouts.

In fact, the producer of the documentary explained during the panel discussion that they chose an online platform for MAKERS because “We knew we wanted to reach an audience like Girl Scouts” and girls are online more than anywhere else. Far from being a local event of one council, the MAKERS event garnered support from the Girl Scouts USA. The national group promoted the New York event on Twitter, inviting young Girl Scouts to “join” the live event or to watch it online later. And the MAKERS Facebook page included a photo after the event of the grinning producer surrounded by a group of Girl Scouts.

While it profiles the occasional businesswoman, politician, or athlete, the documentary shown at the screening is chock-full of interviews promoting abortion, lesbian rights, and sexual freedom. Not exactly wholesome content for Girl Scouts. (The MAKERS trailer shown on PBS even includes a woman laughing about faking orgasms.) The documentary ends by proclaiming the women’s movement an ‘unfinished’ revolution which must be spread worldwide.

The panel discussion, which repeatedly invoked Gloria Steinem as the feminist icon, clearly aimed to rehabilitate feminism for younger women, such as the Girl Scouts in attendance. Perhaps the organizers hoped to ignite the unfinished revolution. Marlo Thomas framed the past as a time when, “Women were not allowed to do anything,” and took a direct swipe at Phyllis Schlafly’s pro-marriage work. Declaring that, as a feminist, she herself loved men, Thomas said she just “didn’t want to be married” because “I can’t mate in captivity.” Richards, the co-founder of the pro-abortion Third Wave Foundation, an advisor to Planned Parenthood NYC, and a member of the MAKERS Board of Advisors, described how feminism freed women from the “script” of what it means to “be a good woman.” And the former Girl Scout on the panel encouraged girls to see feminism as about “choice,” and being “entitled” to do what they want.

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Source: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/05/girl-scouts-usa-pushes-video-honoring-pro-abortion-activists/

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Bishop vows hard fight vs divorce bill in Congress

pro-life philippines — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:55:53 +0000

By Jocelyn R. Uy , Philippine Daily Inquirer ,

5:30 am | Thursday, June 6th, 2013

Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma

MANILA, Philippines—The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday said the divorce bill will struggle if pushed in the next Congress.

Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma said that just like the divisive reproductive health (RH) law, which took so many years to be passed, the other bills of the same nature, such as the divorce bill, will not come easy.

“I think the Philippines is not that excited in following the example of other countries. We still believe that with continued prayerful evaluation and study, [the country] will not come to that,” Palma told reporters in an interview.

Earlier, Gabriela Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan, coauthor of House Bill No. 1799, or an Act of Legalizing Divorce in the Philippines, said she was poised to refile the measure with a “few enhancements” in the 16th Congress.

But Speaker Feliciano Belmonte said the divorce bill was bound to be a divisive measure and won’t be prioritized in the next Congress.

The Catholic Church has stubbornly opposed the passage of the RH law, which it said undermined the value for family and life. It is also against the other so-called “death” bills proposing to legalize divorce, same-sex marriage, abortion and euthanasia.

Palma said the Philippines, so far, was not keen on following the footsteps of other countries that have already legalized these measures.

“As of now, we feel that a lot of our people also have a different view with it comes to such laws,” the prelate added.

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/421437/bishop-vows-hard-fight-vs-divorce-bill-in-congress

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