October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Concerned Parents Report provides summaries of studies that suggest that abortion and contraception use can be contributing factors to the developmnet of breast cancer. Help lower the incidence of breast cancer in the future by educating our teens to avoid two actions that can contribute to it.

• Abortion: A likely Cause of Breast Cancer
• Higher Exposure to Estrogen, Higher Risk of Breast Cancer
• Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer
• In Europe, Breast Cancer Incidence Forecasted by Increase in Abortion Rates
• Women Who Bear Children Have a Reduced Risk of Developing Breast Cancer
• Oral Contraceptives and Hormone Replacement Therapy Associated with Breast Cancer
• Long-Term Use of Oral Contraceptives Early in Life Increases Risk of Breast Cancer
• Oral Contraceptives Associated with Breast Cancer
• Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer

Second call for UN petition drive

Last fall, 467,000 people from all over the world signed the UN Petition for the Unborn Child and the Family. The names were presented at a UN press conference that was broadcast throughout UN headquarters in New York, and to a number of UN ambassadors. C-Fam is re-launching the petition with a goal of presenting 1 million names to the UN General Assembly this December! If you signed before, you can’t sign it again. But you can spread the word to others. International Planned Parenthood Federation has launched a new petition drive in favor of a right to abortion and that their petition has already been signed by 150,000 people. Austin Ruse of C-Fam says, "Quite frankly, we must bury their petition with hundreds of thousands of prolife voices and names!"

Pro-Life Groups Raise 100-Foot Tall Banner at White House

Several pro-life groups have banded together to hoist a 100-foot tall banner of the number 71 on the west lawn of the White House. The number represents the percentage of people in a recent Zogby poll who said they don't want their tax dollars to pay for abortions. LifeNews

Cheap drugs could cut maternal deaths in childbirth in Africa

The lives of a third of the women who die in childbirth could be saved if a cheap and common drug to prevent hemorrhage, together with antibiotics, were readily available in their villages. Guardian

Gandhi opposed abortion

Friday was the 140th birthday of the late Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian civil rights leader. President Barack Obama has said today that: "We must renew our commitment to live his ideals and to celebrate the dignity of all human beings." Gandhi wrote extensively against contraception and debated against Margaret Sanger, the founder of the worldwide abortion movement. "It seems to me clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime." (Quoted in Krishna Kripalani's All Men Are Brothers: The Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi.) SPUC

Incompetence Ruling in Killing of Abortion Protester

The man charged with killing an abortion protester in early September in Owosso, Mich., and another man the same day has been deemed incompetent to stand trial, prosecutors said. On Wednesday, the judge in the case ordered Harlan J. Drake, 33, committed to the custody of the Michigan Department of Mental Health to begin psychiatric treatment. If he is rendered competent, a preliminary examination would be set, the Shiawasee County prosecutor’s office said. It is unclear how long the treatment will last. NY Times

From Birth, Engage Your Child With Talk

All too often, the mothers and nannies I see are tuned in to their cellphones, BlackBerrys and iPods, not their young children. Randi Jacoby, a speech and language specialist in New York, recently told me in an e-mail message: “Parents have stopped having good communications with their young children, causing them to lose out on the eye contact, facial expression and overall feedback that is essential for early communication development. . . . Parents need to be reminded of the significance of their communicative model. . . . Reward your little one’s communicative attempts with your heightened attention to his/her conversation. Be prepared to put down your cellphone and look them squarely in the eye as they share their thoughts with you.” NY Times

Day of Silent Solidarity Grows as Teens Prepare to Oppose Abortion

Students from all 50 states and other countries are prepping to "speak up" for unborn children who can't speak for themselves. The sixth annual day Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity will take place on Tuesday, October 20, with Bryan Kemper, the head of sponsoring organization Stand True, saying that over 2,200 campuses in 21 countries have students registered to participate. LifeNews

Abortion Support Dropping 11 Percent

A new Pew Research Center poll shows support for legal abortions has dropped 11 percent from 2008-2009. The poll finds that four-in-ten Americans are unaware of Obama's position on abortion, although pro-life advocates are most well-informed -- which is a testimony to the work of pro-life organizations.

Breast Cancer Link with Abortion Featured in You Tube Videos

Two videos confronting the disinformation about the link between the skyrocketing incidence of breast cancer, and abortion and hormonal contraceptive use have been posted to You Tube. The first features a victim of breast cancer, who states that abortion and hormonal contraceptive use at a young age destroyed her health. The second reports findings in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute showing that breast cancer rates climbed more than 40% between 1973 and 1998. The increase took place only in the youngest of three generations of women studied - the Roe v. Wade generation - which suffered a more than 40% increase in breast cancer cases since the mid-1980s. These were women young enough to have had access to legal abortions starting in 1973. The increase in breast cancer rates didn't take place among women from the two older generations that couldn't obtain legal abortions. LifeSiteNews

Tell the story of what you do

A Day in the Life of a Pregnancy Care Center sneaks a peek behind the scenes at a typical PCC. Download and freely distribute this newly published piece from Baptists for Life.

Teen Life Night

Providing teens with a super-charged life experience & music. On October 10, 2009, from 7-9 pm, prolife students from around the state of Michigan will come together in Lansing for a fun, educational event known as Teen Life Night. Take advantage of the event and pass this on to teens you know! Sponsored by Michigan Right to Life.

Summit 2010: July 22-23

Where have we been? Where are we going? How do we get there? Plan now to attend the 2010 Partners in Ministry PCC Leadership Summit, July 22-23 in Grand Rapids. Featured speakers: Dinah Monahan and Dr. Stan Haegert. Workshops will include: finding, training, caring for, and evaluating volunteers; the culture of your center; the PCC and the church; the PCC and legislation.

News from Washington

• Senate Panel Defeats Amendment to Protect Pro-Life Medical Workers on Abortion
• Senate Panel Rejects Amendment to Cut Abortion Funding From Baucus Health Care Bill
• 183 House Members Urge Pelosi to Allow Vote to Cut Abortion Funding
• Good news: Senate Finance Committee Reinstates $50 Million in Abstinence Education Funding

YouTube ad spotlights Yaz problems

The FDA says Yaz Birth Control may cause serious heart, blood clots and health problems. YouTube

Man Charged with Double Murder for Shooting Pregnant Girlfriend Who Refused Abortion

A Tennessee man is facing a double murder charge after his girlfriend and her unborn child were shot to death, in what police say was the conclusion to the couple's disagreement over getting an abortion. LifeSiteNews

A Review of Planned Parenthood Clinical Trials

Last year, American Life League revealed how Planned Parenthood has been getting involved in clinical trials as a way to increase its professional identity and as a way to increase its income. ALL has recently completed a review of the government database on clinical trials and found 33 of them that involved Planned Parenthood.

Care Net Releases First-Ever In-Depth Report On Pregnancy Center Movement

A Passion to Serve, A Vision for Life is available for order or free download. The report represents a year-long, combined effort by Care Net, Heartbeat International, NIFLA, Life International, and Family Research Council. It was featured at the Care Net National Pregnancy Center Conference in September and is a key component of Care Net’s current communication strategy to assist pregnancy centers in sharing their work with a broader audience of state legislators, media, public health officials, and others in key positions.

Get to Know: Inspire Life

Inspire Life has two key goals: to empower more abortion-vulnerable women to choose life, and to build a culture of life. The ultimate purpose is to change America’s culture for Christ. Care Net

Pregnancy Care Centers Must Lead

In more than 30 years of speaking to pregnancy help centers and other pro-life groups, I have yet to discover a single person in this work who is not involved for the most noble and selfless purposes. Pro-lifers are the most caring individuals I have ever known and are nothing like the stereotypes the “pro-choicers” use to portray them. The pregnancy centers are the key component in saving lives in an anti-life environment. Care Net