Article links vaccines to autism
A spike of incidence of autism accompanied the addition of the second dose of MMR II. Also, in 1988, MMR II was used in the United Kingdom, which reported a dramatic increase in prevalence of autism to 1/64 (noted above). Canada, Denmark, and Japan also reported dramatic increases in prevalence of autism. It is important to note that unlike the former MMR, the rubella component of MMR II was propagated in a human cell line derived from embryonic lung tissue (Merck and Co., Inc., 2010). The MMR II vaccine is contaminated with human DNA from the cell line. This human DNA could be the cause of the spikes in incidence. An additional increased spike in incidence of autism occurred in 1995 when the chicken pox vaccine was grown in human fetal tissue (Merck and Co., Inc., 2001; Breuer, 2003). COG
Women have better choices
Feminists for Life of America - Covetable Stuff(SM)
In celebration of Mother's Day, Feminists for Life announces our newly updated You Have Better ChoicesTM brochure. FFL illuminates a variety of nonviolent options pregnant women may choose from--and helps them find essential support.
You Have Better Choices means telling women who are facing the decision of a lifetime that there are people who care.
House passes historic ban on taxpayer funding for abortion
BREAKING: House passes historic ban on taxpayer funding for abortion | LifeSiteNews.com: The House on Wednesday afternoon voted 251-175 to pass H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which makes permanent and universal the annually-approved Hyde amendment. In its current form, the Hyde amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion in cases of rape and incest, requires annual approval.
The Lies Continue
The Government Shutdown Averted, Now Planned Parenthood Speaks - DC Spotlight Newspaper: PP of Metro Washingon, DC, director Laura Meyers asserts: “When you’re talking about defunding Planned Parenthood from receiving federal dollars, you are not ever talking about abortion, because no federal dollars can ever go for abortion.” She explains: “This is a settled principle. It’s been settled for thirty years with the Hyde Amendment. Extremist in congress are really targeting women’s health, basic preventive healthcare. This is not about abortion, and it has nothing to do with saving the American taxpayer money. When we talk about cutting funding for family planning and preventative healthcare, which is cost-effective care, we are not saving a dime. If you do not detect cancer at its earliest moment, that subsequent healthcare that someone needs, in terms of treating later stages of cancer, is much more expensive than preventing or detecting cancer at its earliest possible moment.”"
Rock star Steve Tyler’s traumatic encounter with abortion
Rock star Steve Tyler’s traumatic encounter with abortion | LifeSiteNews.com: In the Aerosmith "autobiography" Walk This Way, Steven Tyler reflects on his abortion experience. “It was a big crisis. It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives. ... You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated." The book also depicts the ruin caused by the abortion in his life and the life of his then-girlfriend.
Democrats Harass Black Woman Legislator for Voting Pro-Life
Democrats Harass Black Woman Legislator for Voting Pro-Life | LifeNews.com: After debating in favor of a bill that would require ultrasounds before abortions, Florida Democratic leaders openly harassed, threatened and belittled Democratic Rep. Daphnee Campbell. Freshman State House of Representatives member, Daphne Campbell from Miami was in her first legislative session last week when her own party viciously turned on her after she debated for and voted in favor of the pro-life bill allowing ultrasounds before abortions. Campbell is a wife and mother of five children who works as a nurse. As she rose in passionate support for the pro-life bill, Rep. Scott Randolph a Democrat from Orlando, whose assigned seat is right next to Campbell, started tossing papers on her desk and threw her pen in the trash apparently incensed that a fellow Democrat would support the bill.
Hormone Gel Is Said to Reduce Risk of Premature Birth
Hormone Gel Is Said to Reduce Risk of Premature Birth - NYTimes.com: Premature birth is the leading cause of death and illness among newborns. An estimated 12.9 million babies worldwide, 500,000 of them in the United States, are born prematurely every year. In the United States, about a third of early births result from decisions by doctors that the health of either the mother or child is threatened enough to end the pregnancy early, usually with a Caesarean section. But two-thirds of those early births are spontaneous, and any intervention that could reduce them could have significant public health consequences. The hormone treatment, a progesterone gel inserted vaginally every day during the second half of a pregnancy, reduced the risk of premature birth in women with a short cervix, which can soften too early.
Pro-choice op-ed: I choose ‘the right to wail myself to sleep’
Pro-choice op-ed: I choose ‘the right to wail myself to sleep’ | LifeSiteNews.com: Kassi Underwood’s life after abortion is one that no one would envy. But in an op-ed for the New York Daily News on Monday, Underwood, a writer based in New York, explained how she still refuses to judge abortion despite enduring immense grief after having ended the life of her baby. In the piece, entitled “Get your politics off my grief after abortion,” Underwood notes that groups such as the American Psychological Association have claimed that post-abortion syndrome does not exist - but this has not stopped her from feeling acutely the loss of her missing baby.
Ad highlights Planned Parenthood's taxpayer price tag, rising abortions
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ad highlights Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s $18 million taxpayer price tag, rising abortions « Pro-Life Wisconsin: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin collected more than $18 million in 2010 in federal and state taxpayer dollars, yet chemical and surgical abortions in the state continue to rise. PPWI performed 5,439 abortions in 2009, a 56% increase from 2008, when PPWI was responsible for 3,053 abortions.
Pro-life window cutouts
A new way to say, "I'm pro-life!" Heritage House '76's weekly special features highly visible vinyl cutouts that look great on the back window of your vehicle and convey a positive message for all to see. Choose from 10 different designs.
STI TESTING PROVES TO BE A POWERFUL WITNESS
STI TESTING PROVES TO BE A POWERFUL WITNESS: Cathy Stoner at Alternatives PCC in Kalamazoo, MI, writes: "Often the fear of the moment causes people to say things like, 'I'm never having sex again.' We understand this fear, but we also know that all too often, when the fear subsides and time passes, so does our resolve. A new love may come into our lives down the road, and those commitments fly out the door."
Review of Unplanned - DVD about Abby Johnson
There's the book, and now the DVD of Abby Johnson's conversion from Planned Parenthood advocate to pro-life trophy. Unplanned (DVD, 60 minutes) actually goes back in time to document how she went from being a good little Southern Baptist girl to a promiscuous college student to pro-choice advocacy. It's compelling to consider how her two abortions contributed to a significant break from how she was raised. And how the birth of her daughter contributed to her eventual break with PP.
The documentary includes testimony from her parents of how she changed from their vivacious child to a secretive and hardened volunteer at Planned Parenthood, and ultimately the director of one of the nation's largest PP affiliates. It also reflects how a few small overtures from pro-life advocates to Abby opened the door when she decided to leave PP.
How to use this DVD: I suggest that a center could use Unplanned several ways.
1. One is as a training tool for volunteers. Either during a training seminar or in-service for ongoing education, this DVD opens the door on what a client is likely to find at an abortion clinic.
2. Another is to reinforce the pro-life message with clients, perhaps in an Earn While You Learn or other mentoring programs, with discussion of such matters as how abortion is made to seem attractive, how abortion clinics treat women, and how there is forgiveness after the sin of abortion.
3. A third use is in educating donors and others -- church groups, youth groups, women's groups, etc. There would be many tie-ins for your center with how the pro-life movement depicted in the DVD behaved toward Abby and toward women seeking abortions.
Learn more: On May 17 at 8:00 p.m. there will be a Unite for Life webcast (free) featuring Abby Johnson and benefiting PCCs. During this webcast, you’ll discover why Abby is now an advocate for the pro-life pregnancy centers and clinics around the nation that truly serve women and save lives. Sign up at www.uniteforlifewebcast.org. From the website, you can purchase both the book and DVD as a package deal; 33% of each purchase will go to organizations like CareNet, NIFLA, and Heartbeaat International.
Win a free copy of the Unplanned DVD! If you've read Abby's book Unplanned, be the first to comment on it here and receive an award certificate for your pregnancy care center redeemable at a local Christian bookstore from Tyndale House Publishers. To be eligible, you must work at, volunteer with, or serve on the board of a pregnancy care center. Include your name, center name, and center address. Winner to be announced immediately.
Parisian teens handed ‘contraception chequebooks’
Parisian teens handed ‘contraception chequebooks’ - FRANCE - FRANCE 24: As of Tuesday, some 160,000 Parisian adolescents can receive a “contraception chequebook” at school, which will entitle them to free contraception without having to involve their parents. The “contraception pass” will allow students aged between 15 and 18 to access free contraception anonymously, without having to visit a family planning centre or see their family doctor.
The pill for 12-year-olds in South Africa?
The pill for 12-year-olds: ANCYL - Times LIVE: The ANCYL has proposed that the government give contraception to girls as young as 12 to stop teenage pregnancies. The league supports the “mandatory initiation into contraception for all adolescent girls from the age of 12 to curb teenage pregnancy,” according to the organisation's education and health discussion paper for its 24th national congress in June.
Abby Johnson: I Regret Selling Abortions at Planned Parenthood
Abby Johnson: I Regret Selling Abortions at Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com: Every day of my life I think about the women I took from. I took away their motherhood, I devalued them, I broke their confidence, I betrayed them. How I wish I could look into every one of their faces and tell them how sorry I am. If I could restore some of what I took from them, I would give my life to make it happen. I wish I could be there to wipe their tears when they mourn for their lost child. To know that you committed a terrible wrong that you can’t make right is one of the most desperate feelings in the world.
And as desperate as I feel, I can’t make those wishes come true. But I do my best everyday to make it up to those women and their children. I failed them once, but I won’t do it again. I know they haven’t forgotten their children, and I haven’t either.
I am only able to handle the pain of my past with the help of Christ. I couldn’t do any of this without His grace and His steady hand guiding me every day. He has never given me more than I can bear. I have never felt overwhelmed. I see His love and compassion for me every day. It is the most amazing feeling of peace and wholeness. I don’t have to wonder if He’s with me…I know He is…guiding my every step.
And as desperate as I feel, I can’t make those wishes come true. But I do my best everyday to make it up to those women and their children. I failed them once, but I won’t do it again. I know they haven’t forgotten their children, and I haven’t either.
I am only able to handle the pain of my past with the help of Christ. I couldn’t do any of this without His grace and His steady hand guiding me every day. He has never given me more than I can bear. I have never felt overwhelmed. I see His love and compassion for me every day. It is the most amazing feeling of peace and wholeness. I don’t have to wonder if He’s with me…I know He is…guiding my every step.
May/June prayer calendar now available!
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Roe v. Wade Lawyer Laid Off as Texas Professor
Roe v. Wade Lawyer Sarah Weddington Laid Off as Texas Professor | LifeNews.com: According to the Daily Texan, Sarah Weddington knew the university was facing budget problems but did not expected to lose her job as an adjunct professor, that pays her an annual salary of $80,899 per year, according to UT figures.
She had served on the faculty of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies for 23 years at the University of Texas, located in her home state. Weddington brought the original case for abortion in Dallas and Wade is the last name of Henry Wade, the district attorney in the area at the time. Weddington will forever be known as the lead attorney in the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that has allowed 53 million abortions since 1973.
She had served on the faculty of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies for 23 years at the University of Texas, located in her home state. Weddington brought the original case for abortion in Dallas and Wade is the last name of Henry Wade, the district attorney in the area at the time. Weddington will forever be known as the lead attorney in the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that has allowed 53 million abortions since 1973.
Does God whisper?
The notion that each Christian can receive personal revelation from the Almighty was novel in times past. Nowadays, though, listening to Christians talk about it, the experience appears to be ubiquitous. Virtually everyone seems to be “hearing from God” in some fashion these days—pastors, writers, worship leaders, even the regular folks at our weekly Bible studies—so the basic idea must be right.
But is it? Must I “hear the voice of God” in order to know what He wants from me, as the author above suggested? Is this what Jesus meant by, “My sheep hear My voice,” or what Paul meant by being “led by the Spirit”? And what if I hear nothing but silence when I listen? Does this say something about my spiritual well-being? Am I living a substandard Christian life if I don’t have a hot-line to God? Addressing those concerns and more like them is so important that Greg Koukl is making them the focus of the next three issues of Solid Ground.
But is it? Must I “hear the voice of God” in order to know what He wants from me, as the author above suggested? Is this what Jesus meant by, “My sheep hear My voice,” or what Paul meant by being “led by the Spirit”? And what if I hear nothing but silence when I listen? Does this say something about my spiritual well-being? Am I living a substandard Christian life if I don’t have a hot-line to God? Addressing those concerns and more like them is so important that Greg Koukl is making them the focus of the next three issues of Solid Ground.
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