This week in Christ's life… (37)

This week, Jesus is 37 weeks old.   His skin has become thicker and pinker.  His lungs are increasing their production of surfactant, to help keep the air sacs open.  His fingernails extend beyond his fingertips and his umbilical cord is approximately 2 feet long!  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Truth Unmasked

Truth Unmasked video

Assuring, through education, equal protection under the law for all living humans from the beginning of their biological life
at fertilization until natural death.

According to most recent polls, almost half of Americans remain uncertain or confused regarding their position on abortion.

Since 1990, pro-abortion forces have been financing a very effective national campaign to convince these conflicted middle people that the most important consideration is whether a woman has the right to choose abortion, and that this right to choose overrides the right of the child to live.

We must counter this "who decides" and "pro-choice" mentality in American society.

We must emphasize our compassion to women much more than in the past.  The rights of women and the rights of the unborn can be joined.  We must reach out to every woman faced with the agony of abortion and say to her: Your life and the life of your baby are both important, and we will not desert either one of you.  We want to love you both.

Our research has determined that 87% of this conflicted middle believe that adoption is a loving alternative to abortion.  And so, loving alternatives like adoption can now be the focus of part of our debate.

We must change their hearts and minds on abortion.  The opposition is using the most effective marketing tools that money can buy.  Our days of guesswork are over.  We must be sure that we are proceeding wisely.

Life Issues Institute recognizes this crying need and is leading the way in reinvigorating and coordinating a major new educational campaign nationwide.

The teaching that is desperately needed is best described as "back-to-basics."  Until people are also convinced that this is truly a baby in the womb, no other arguments will be successful.

Life Issues Institute is leading a new nationwide effort that will involve all pro-life groups, state and local chapters, pregnancy help centers and churches in a common educational effort.

To be successful, this new effort must reach out to stimulate and educate the millions of people who have not yet made up their minds on the abortion issue.  These people are the ones who ultimately will determine if your children and grandchildren will be protected in the years ahead.

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.      
--ALEXANDER POPE

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This poetic prophet couldn't possibly have imagined, in his worst nightmare, this accurate description of abortion today.

Shortly after the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, the early pioneers of the pro-life movement put forth a strategy; demonstrate the humanity of the unborn child, then raise abortion's ugly head for all to see, the broken and dismembered bodies, and America would soundly reject it.

Thus the pro-life movement began its slow, laborious undertaking of educating Americans to the reality of the beauty of the baby growing in the womb and the horror of abortion.  Volunteers addressed countless church, school and civic groups, sharing the pro-life message.  Their unselfish labor began to bear fruit.  America was slowly waking up to the fact that abortion kills unborn babies.

Then came the first major Supreme Court breakthrough, the Webster decision in 1990.  With it came the era of market research, opinion polls, media sound bites and print advertising.  Education of the masses had taken a contemporary twist.  Using such tools, the pro-abortion movement began to reach millions of Americans with researched phrases, through massive media buys and with the help of a sympathetic press.

Slowly, progressively, they changed the focus of the debate from the tiny victim being killed, to a question of women's rights, of ``who decides."  With this there developed a change in public opinion that would both condemn abortion but still allow it as a woman's right.

We came to the conclusion that pro-life education had to change.  Abortion had become too familiar.  America was showing signs of enduring it.

We had to update and alter the way we disseminated our message.  Choice, for those yet undecided, was a concept they had begun to feel comfortable identifying with.

Life Issues Institute was founded to reverse this alarming trend and to rejuvenate and reinvigorate a nationwide educational awakening. For several years we dedicated most of our resources to determining what new educational methods were needed in order for pro-lifers to again regain the initiative.  We did polling, focus groups, market research, and finally extensive market testing of our new themes and approaches.  Since then, we have dedicated ourselves full-time to promoting and providing effective educational tools for the pro-life movement.

Central to these new approaches was a continuing emphasis on the fact that a majority of people, working in the pro-life movement, spend their time and efforts helping the woman during and after an unexpected pregnancy or after an abortion.  Stopping abortion and protecting unborn babies remains a central thrust.  However, assisting women in crisis occupies the efforts of more than half of those involved in the pro-life movement.

We encourage you to examine the groundbreaking publications and radio efforts of Life Issues Institute, as well as the new and more effective educational publications.  Our goal is to retrofit and retool the educational efforts of the pro-life movement.  We hope you will share our excitement and optimism, and help support our efforts in changing the hearts and minds of Americans on abortion.

CONTACT US
Life Issues Institute, Inc
1821 W. Galbraith Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45239
Phone: (513) 729-3600
Fax: (513) 729-3636
Email: info@lifeissues.org

A Celebration of Life

This week in Christ's life… (36)

This week, Jesus is 36 weeks old.   His intestines have accumulated considerable meconium.  His head roughly matches the circumference of his shoulders and hips.  He weighs approximately 6 pounds and measures almost 14 inches.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Abortion/Breast Cancer link

 

Dear Friends:

Readers of our newsletter know that use of oral contraceptives (the birth control pill) has been implicated as a risk factor for breast cancer by: 1) the World Health Organization; 2) a 2006 meta-analysis in the journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings; and 3) a 2009 study in the journal, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, which linked the pill with the deadly triple-negative breast cancer [1-4] 

Our readers are also aware that National Cancer Institute branch chief Dr. Louise Brinton was a co-author in that 2009 study and that she and her colleagues had included in their study both abortion and the pill as "known and suspected risk factors" for the disease. [4] They concluded in unambiguous terms that abortion and oral contraceptives were associated with the disease and that their results "were consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women." Approximately four dozen epidemiological studies, biological evidence and animal research implicate abortion as a risk factor for the disease. [4-15] 

Planned Parenthood, nevertheless, remains steadfast in its denial of these cancer risks. It is behaving in much the same way that the anti-science tobacco industry did during the last half of the 20th century.

The Dayton Daily News reported yesterday that a panel of three physicians told an audience at a conference on November 13, 2010 in Oakwood, Ohio that the pill puts women at risk for breast cancer. Lou Grieco, a reporter for that newspaper, quoted Becki Brenner, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio. She called the breast cancer risks of the pill and induced abortion "scientifically baseless."

Brenner's denial of the scientific facts in the face of staggering evidence to the contrary reminds us of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit. Actor John Cleese made repeated, frustrated efforts to persuade an indifferent pet shop owner that a parrot he had purchased was undeniably deceased until, finally, an exasperated Cleese declared, 

"Look, matey.... This parrot has passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its Maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff, bereft of life. It rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to a perch, it would be pushing up daisies.... It's joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"

The pill and induced abortion are clearly risk factors for breast cancer, but the risk of massive medical malpractice lawsuits may be motivatingPlanned Parenthood and others in the medical establishment to adopt an anti-science position of denying the evidence. Even worse, Planned Parenthood is damaging the health of thousands of women.

To read the story in the Dayton Daily News, click on the link below in our Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

"Doctors link contraceptives, breast cancer / Planned Parenthood chief says the claim is a 'distortion of science'"
By Lou Grieco
Dayton Daily News
November 15, 2010
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/doctors-link-contraceptives-breast-cancer-1002948.html

References:

1. Cogliano V, Grosse Y, Baan R, Secretan B, El Ghissassi F. Carcinogenicity of combined oestrogen-progestagen contraceptives and menopausal treatment. Lancet Oncology 2005;6:552-553.

2. Press Release No. 167, "IARC Monographs Programme Finds Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives (the "pill") and Menopausal Therapy Are Carcinogenic to Humans," World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer, July 29, 2005. 

3. Kahlenborn C, Modugno F. Potter D, Severs W. Oral contraceptive use as a risk factor for premenopausal breast cancer: A meta-analysis. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2006;81(10):1290-1302. Available at: <http://www.polycarp.org>.

4. Dolle J, Daling J, White E, Brinton L, Doody D, et al. Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(4)1157-1166. Available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Abortion_Breast_Cancer_Epid_Bio_Prev_2009.pdf

5. Brind J, Chinchilli V, Severs W, Summy-Long J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996;50:481-496.

6. Brind J. The abortion-breast cancer connection. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly Summer 2005; p. 303-329. <http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF>.

7. Brind J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: A critical review of recent studies based on prospective data. J Am Phys Surg Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2005) 105-110. Available at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf>.

8. Carroll, P. The breast cancer epidemic: modeling and forecasts based on abortion and other risk factors." J Am Phys Surg Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 2007) 72-78.  Available at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf>.

9. Naieni KH, Ardalan A, Mahmoodi M, Motevalian A, Yahyapoor Y, et al. Risk factors of breast cancer in North of Iran: A case-control in Mazandaran Province. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2007;8;395-398. Available at: http://www.apocp.org/cancer_download/Volume8_No3/395-398%20c_Naieni%204.pdf

10. Ozmen V, Ozcinar B, Karanlik H, Cabioglu N, Tukenmez M, et al.  Breast cancer risk factors in Turkish women – a University Hospital based nested case control study. World J of Surg Oncol 2009;7:37. Available at: http://wjso.com/content/7/1/37. 

11. Xing P, Li J, Jin F. A case-control study of reproductive factors associated with subtypes of breast cancer in Northeast China. Medical Oncology, e-publication online September 2009. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19771534.

12. Dolle J, Daling J, White E, Brinton L, Doody D, et al. Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(4)1157-1166. Available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Abortion_Breast_Cancer_Epid_Bio_Prev_2009.pdf

13. De Silva M, Senarath U, Gunatilake M, Lokuhetty D. Prolonged breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in Sri Lankan women: a case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol 2010;34(3):267-73. Abstract available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338838

14. Lanfranchi, A. Normal breast physiology: The reasons hormonal contraceptives and induced abortion increase breast cancer risk. The Linacre Quarterly 2009;76:236-249. Available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/LQ_76_3_2_Lanfranchi.pdf

15. Russo J, Tay TK, Russo IH. Differentiation of the mammary gland and susceptibility to carcinogenesis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 1982;2:5-73.

This week in Christ's life… (35)

This week, Jesus is 35 weeks old.   His grasp is firmer and he now turns towards light, as he prepares for birth and to orient himself to his surroundings.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

Prayer for Abortion Victims

Holy Mother of God and of the Church, our Lady of Guadalupe, you were chosen by the Father for the Son through the Holy Spirit. You are the Woman clothed with the sun who labors to give birth to Christ while Satan, the Red Dragon, waits to voraciously devour your child.

So too did Herod seek to destroy your Son, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and massacred many innocent children in the process. So today does abortion killing many innocent unborn children and exploiting many mothers in its attack upon human life and upon the Church, the Body of Christ.

Mother of the Innocents, we praise God in you for His gifts to you of your Immaculate Conception, your freedom from actual sin; your fullness of grace, your Motherhood of God and the Church, your Perpetual Virginity and your Assumption in body and soul into heaven.

O Help of Christians, we beg you to protect all mothers of the unborn and the children within their wombs. We plead with you for your help to end the holocaust of abortion. Melt hearts so that life may be revered!

Holy Mother, we pray to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all mothers and all unborn children that they may have life here on earth and by the most Precious Blood shed by your Son that they may have eternal life with Him in heaven. We also pray to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all abortionists and all abortion supporters that they may be converted and accept your Son, Jesus Christ, as their Lord and Savior. Defend all of your children in the battle against Satan and all of the evil spirits in this present darkness.

We desire that the innocent unborn children who die without Baptism should be baptized and saved. We ask that you obtain this grace for them and repentance, reconciliation and pardon from God for their parents and their killers.

Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite power of merciful love. May it put an end to evil. May it transform consciences. May your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope. May Christ the King reign over us, our families, cities, states, nations and the whole of humanity.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary, hear our pleas and accept this cry from our hearts!
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of the Unborn, Pray for us!

This week in Christ's life… (34)

This week, Jesus is 34 weeks old.   His limbs have dimpled at the elbows and knees; creases have formed around his wrists. His gums are ridged.  Infant Jesus, help us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to encourage all parents to carry their children to term and give them the gift of life.

VOTE PRO-LIFE!!!!

Babies are depending on you!!!

GVH 25th Annual Memorial Service

Please RSVP by November 20, 2010 so that your baby's name is included in the Memorial Service program.  If you did not name your baby, but would still like to include your baby in the service, we encourage you to use "Baby (last name)".

____ Will be attending the service (___ #)
____ Will bring ___hors d'oeuvre  ___dessert
____ Would like to participate musically
____ Would like to read a short poem or remembrance to the group
____ Enclosed a short message to be printed in the program
____ Cannot attend but would like our baby remembered
____ Would like to make a donation in memory of __________________________
(Please make check payable to Grand View Hospital)

Baby's Name: ________________________________________
Parent's Name: _______________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________________
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___Please remove my name from the mailing list
___I cannot attend the service but would like to remain on the mailing list.

Please respond to:
Diane Carp
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Harleysville, PA 19438