Using Health Care “Reform” to “Mainstream Abortion”
By Dave Andrusko - reprinted with permission
Pro-abortion allies outside the Obama Administration are increasingly demanding that sweeping proabortion
mandates be imposed on the American health care delivery system. President Obama and the
pro-abortion congressional leadership are in full accord with the goal but know they must use stealth
since the policies they hope to impose do not have broad public support.
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH HAS LOST THE BATTLE, CALIFORNIA WAS THE WATERLOO
by Joe Carter
January 13 , 2010
The battle over embryonic stem cell research is over. A few skirmishes will no doubt continue -- perhaps even for years -- and some ESCR advocates will refuse to acknowledge defeat. But they have decisively lost.
Years from now, when we look back in astonishment at having been fleeced for billions to pay for therapeutically worthless research, we'll recognize that California was the Waterloo for ESCR. Read more here...
A QUIET ADMISSION SPEAKS LOUDLY ABOUT ABORTION AND BREAST CANCER
by Dave Andrusko
January 13 , 2010
 The first couple of sentences might seem to have precious little to do with abortion and breast cancer but read the following quotation right to the end. It's from a post by Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center:
"Back in the early 1800's, most practicing physicians refused to believe that the simple gesture of washing their hands between patients could help prevent the spread of childbed fever among the pregnant women they examined. Even in the face of compelling scientific evidence, they remained stubbornly opposed to the practice. As a result of this intransigence on the part of the medical establishment over a period of many years, childbed fever (also known as puerpural infection) ended up unnecessarily claiming the lives of thousands of young women. Today, a similar intransigence exists among many physicians who refuse to "wash their hands" of abortion; they also fail to acknowledge a key and dangerous effect of abortion on women's health, namely, an increased risk of breast cancer." Read more here...
FOLLOW UP TO ABORTION-BREAST CANCER HIDDEN REPORT:
As mentioned in a previous item, a recent article by National Cancer Institute researcher Jessica Dolle and NCI official Louise Brinton appeared in the April 2009 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. In this article, Dolle and Brinton cited as accurate an earlier study showing between a 20 and 50 percent increased breast cancer risk for women having abortions compared to those who carried their pregnancies to term.
However, as a scientist representing the official policy of the National Cancer Institute, Brinton has said there is no abortion-breast cancer link.
Why the discrepancy? That is what the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer wants to know. That organization has asked President Obama and the leaders of Congress to investigate the workings of the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
GROUP WANTS PROBE OF NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE ABORTION-BREAST CANCER COVERUP
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 25 , 2010
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A women's group is asking Congress and the Obama administration to investigate the expose' showing how a top National Cancer Institute researcher recently admitted that abortion causes a 40% breast cancer increase risk but organizing a meeting to get the NCI to deny it.
As LifeNews.com reported earlier this month , the main NCI activist who got the agency to deny the abortion-breast cancer link has co-authored a study admitting the abortion-breast cancer link is true, calling it a "known risk factor." Read more here...
CAN YOU BE RIGHT AND STILL WRONG?
An undercover video of a “counseling “session at a Planned Parenthood abortion business in Appleton , Wisconsin defended their counselors statement to the undercover reporter. The counselor said, “A fetus is what's in the uterus right now. That is not a baby. A baby is what is born at 40 weeks.” Teri Huyck, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin told the Appleton Post-Crescent newspaper the video was an attack that was misleading. “The fact is Planned Parenthood's standard is to provide hones, medically accurate information,” she said. “That is what the physician in this case did…” It appears that there is a clear difference here on what constitutes “misleading”. Telling a patient what she WANTS to hear, instead of what she may NEED to hear does not change the fact that that fetus is indeed a baby. The physician may have been right—biologically---but was clearly wrong in assigning no worth to the fetus/baby in the woman's uterus.
Diane Trombley, President MNFL.
THE SLED TEST
What follows here is a way of presenting a clear rationale for the defense of unborn human life. The summary here is brief, but full details of this argument can be found here.
A way to demonstrate the value of the unborn child can be offered by using the SLED test.
SLED stands for Size, Level of Development, Environment and Degree of Dependency. As the defense unfolds it is easy to see that all of the “qualifications” society places on the unborn child for continued existence are artificial and would never be imposed on a child, perhaps a toddler, present before us.
Size: we come in all sizes—big, small, short, tall. Size clearly does not determine the value of life
Level of Development---we develop as individuals throughout the continuum of our lives—we never stop learning, experiencing and expanding our abilities
Environment—we all need a place to live, food to eat and air to breathe. Some of us live in mansions, some in bungalows. Some of us eat caviar and steak, some of us eat chicken and potatoes. Some of us have full lung capacities, some of us breathe less well—but breathe we do!
Level of Development—the infant develops physically into the toddler, to the child, to the teen, to the adult, to the mature person. As he/she develops physically, mental development takes place also. We do not say that the toddler had more value than the infant or the mature person more than the adult. Again, such development is a continuum.
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