by Samantha Singson
July 2, 2009
LifeNews.com Note: Samantha Singson writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group's Friday Fax publication.
New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- At United Nations (UN) headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil.
The U.S. proposal calls for “universal access” to “sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning.”
The document under consideration will culminate in the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, which convenes next week in Geneva. Full story here.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Singer Cheb Mami Gets Five Years in Prison for Forcing Girlfriend to Have Abortion
Paris, France (LifeNews.com) -- European singer Cheb Mami will head to prison for five years in connection with an incident in which he conspired with his manager and others to force his girlfriend to have an abortion. The star had several chart-topping hits in France and sang on Sting's 2001 hit Desert Rose. Full story here.
California Mom Sues over Daughter's Right to Wear Pro-Life T-Shirt to School
Merced, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A California mother is filing a lawsuit against her daughter's school district alleging that officials made her remove the pro-life t-shirt she wore. Anna Amador says her daughter wore the shirt on National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day in April 2008 but officials at McSwain Elementary School prohibited her from doing so. Full story here.
Pro-Life Group Condemns $10,000 Slap on Wrist for Woman's Abortion Death
Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion practitioner Alberto Hodari was only fined $10,000 and did not see any regulatory punishment or jail time for his part in the legal abortion that killed a woman at his abortion center. A second pro-life organization is condemning state officials for doing so little to value a woman's life.
Hodari, based in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, was fined in March after one of his staff did an abortion on Regina Johnson that took her life. News of the fine is only surfacing now. Johnson is one of several women to have died over the years under Hodari's care. Full story here.
Hodari, based in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, was fined in March after one of his staff did an abortion on Regina Johnson that took her life. News of the fine is only surfacing now. Johnson is one of several women to have died over the years under Hodari's care. Full story here.
Pro-Life Walkers Halfway through Nationwide Trek across America on Abortion
Fort Morgan, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Three groups of pro-life young people are now more than halfway through their nationwide trek across America to represent the pro-life perspective on abortion. Sponsored by the pro-life group Crossroads, the walkers are divided into three groups where they literally walk from the west coast to Washington, D.C. Full story here.
When a Celebrity Dies, a Nation Mourns, but When a Baby Dies from Abortion...
by Tom Glessner
Indeed, when a cultural icon passes away we all feel sadness. We all feel that even a part of our lives has also died, and the grieving families of these celebrities should be recipients of our prayers and compassion. If we contrast, however, the public show of grief to these celebrity deaths with the public response to the deaths of 3,300 unborn children that occur from abortion every day we will have to make a disturbing observation about our nation. Full commentary here from LifeNews.com.
Indeed, when a cultural icon passes away we all feel sadness. We all feel that even a part of our lives has also died, and the grieving families of these celebrities should be recipients of our prayers and compassion. If we contrast, however, the public show of grief to these celebrity deaths with the public response to the deaths of 3,300 unborn children that occur from abortion every day we will have to make a disturbing observation about our nation. Full commentary here from LifeNews.com.
Study: Abortion Has More Negative Parenting Impact than Pregnancy Loss
A new review of studies examining various types of prenatal loss and the effects on subsequent parenting has concluded that abortion may be "particularly damaging to the parenting process." The article, published in Current Women's Health Reviews, looked at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. Full story here from LifeNews.com.
Some Pro-Life Doctors Could Quit If Obama Removes Abortion Conscience Laws
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- If President Barack Obama follows through on his promise to overturn the protections the Bush administration put in place to protect pro-life doctors, some physicians could quit the medical practice entirely. That would ultimately hurt Americans' access to health care when Obama is promoting reform. Full story here.
NIH Releases Obama's Rules for Tax-Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The National Institutes of Health today released the guidelines to implement President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. That's the science that involves the purposeful destruction of human life and has never helped any patients with any diseases or conditions. Full story here.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Komen for the Cure Joins Idaho Abortion Business for Breast Cancer Screenings
by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
June 9, 2009
Boise, ID (LifeNews.com) -- The Komen for the Cure organization that sponsors events to combat breast cancer has teamed up with a business that does abortions, which have been proven to increase a woman's risk for contracting the disease. The move in Idaho is the latest in the link between Komen and Planned Parenthood.
On Friday, Komen teamed up with Planned Parenthood of Idaho to offer breast cancer screenings in Twin Falls and information about breast cancer. About a dozen women scheduled screenings, according to the Magic Valley Times-News and they were done at the abortion business. "The main goal is to provide clinical breast exams and mammography to women for free," Suzanne Edelman of Planned Parenthood told the newspaper.
Komen essentially paid Planned Parenthood for the breast cancer exams that, without its financial input, would have cost women $70. Although there are nothing wrong with breast cancer screenings, pro-life advocates are disappointed a group that is concerned about breast cancer would team up with an abortion business, especially since research shows abortions increase the risk.
In 2007 alone, Komen chapters gave $711,485 from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006 to Planned Parenthood affiliates. The amount of the grants from Komen affiliates to Planned Parenthood appears to be on the rise and 25 Komen affiliates now have a partnership with the abortion business.
A new video released in February, "Komen's Dark Side," exposes the irregular relationship between the breast cancer organization and Planned Parenthood. The video reports on the cover-up of the abortion-breast cancer link.
"Komen's officials have no right to keep women in the dark about a breast cancer risk, while at the same time giving funds to Planned Parenthood, a primary cause of the breast cancer epidemic," says Karen Malec, the head of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.
"The cancer fundraising industry is covering up the link, in part, because it is not good for fundraising to tell donors their abortions may be responsible for their breast cancers," Malec added.
Baruch College professor and renowned researcher Joel Brind, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on the link between abortion and breast cancer, says that the link between the two is real and that studies back up his assertion that carrying a pregnancy to term reduces the risk.
"That’s what the big research argument is about: does abortion increase the risk of breast cancer beyond not getting pregnant in the first place? And the answer is yes," Brind says.
Brind explains that the reason for the link is "obvious" in that "once a woman gets pregnant, her breasts start growing within days or a week or so after getting pregnant. So the number of those Type 1 and Type 2 lobules where breast cancer can form are multiplying and so there are more places where cancer can start as the pregnancy proceeds."
"Well, once 32 weeks pass, all those Type 1 and Type 2 lobules become Type 3 and Type 4 lobules so you actually have fewer places for cancer to form than before the pregnancy started. But if a pregnancy is aborted before the 32-week mark, the risk for breast cancer goes way up from where it would have been even if a woman hadn't gotten pregnant in the first place," he said.
While much of the focus of the debate is on the abortion side of the breast cancer issue, Brind says there is little controversy about the fact that pregnancy helps women. "No one argues with the fact that when a woman has a full-term pregnancy, breast cancer risk goes down," he said.
For more information on the abortion-breast cancer link, visit the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute’s web site at http://www.BCPInstitute.org
June 9, 2009
Boise, ID (LifeNews.com) -- The Komen for the Cure organization that sponsors events to combat breast cancer has teamed up with a business that does abortions, which have been proven to increase a woman's risk for contracting the disease. The move in Idaho is the latest in the link between Komen and Planned Parenthood.
On Friday, Komen teamed up with Planned Parenthood of Idaho to offer breast cancer screenings in Twin Falls and information about breast cancer. About a dozen women scheduled screenings, according to the Magic Valley Times-News and they were done at the abortion business. "The main goal is to provide clinical breast exams and mammography to women for free," Suzanne Edelman of Planned Parenthood told the newspaper.
Komen essentially paid Planned Parenthood for the breast cancer exams that, without its financial input, would have cost women $70. Although there are nothing wrong with breast cancer screenings, pro-life advocates are disappointed a group that is concerned about breast cancer would team up with an abortion business, especially since research shows abortions increase the risk.
In 2007 alone, Komen chapters gave $711,485 from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006 to Planned Parenthood affiliates. The amount of the grants from Komen affiliates to Planned Parenthood appears to be on the rise and 25 Komen affiliates now have a partnership with the abortion business.
A new video released in February, "Komen's Dark Side," exposes the irregular relationship between the breast cancer organization and Planned Parenthood. The video reports on the cover-up of the abortion-breast cancer link.
"Komen's officials have no right to keep women in the dark about a breast cancer risk, while at the same time giving funds to Planned Parenthood, a primary cause of the breast cancer epidemic," says Karen Malec, the head of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.
"The cancer fundraising industry is covering up the link, in part, because it is not good for fundraising to tell donors their abortions may be responsible for their breast cancers," Malec added.
Baruch College professor and renowned researcher Joel Brind, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on the link between abortion and breast cancer, says that the link between the two is real and that studies back up his assertion that carrying a pregnancy to term reduces the risk.
"That’s what the big research argument is about: does abortion increase the risk of breast cancer beyond not getting pregnant in the first place? And the answer is yes," Brind says.
Brind explains that the reason for the link is "obvious" in that "once a woman gets pregnant, her breasts start growing within days or a week or so after getting pregnant. So the number of those Type 1 and Type 2 lobules where breast cancer can form are multiplying and so there are more places where cancer can start as the pregnancy proceeds."
"Well, once 32 weeks pass, all those Type 1 and Type 2 lobules become Type 3 and Type 4 lobules so you actually have fewer places for cancer to form than before the pregnancy started. But if a pregnancy is aborted before the 32-week mark, the risk for breast cancer goes way up from where it would have been even if a woman hadn't gotten pregnant in the first place," he said.
While much of the focus of the debate is on the abortion side of the breast cancer issue, Brind says there is little controversy about the fact that pregnancy helps women. "No one argues with the fact that when a woman has a full-term pregnancy, breast cancer risk goes down," he said.
For more information on the abortion-breast cancer link, visit the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute’s web site at http://www.BCPInstitute.org
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