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Right to Life
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When
Does Life Begin? The life
of a baby begins long before he or she is born. A new individual human
being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum
meet to form a single cell. If the baby's life is not interrupted,
he or she will someday become an adult man or woman. Worldwide, millions
of unborn babies are killed each year. In the United States over 40 million
unborn babies have been killed in the 29 years
since abortion was legalized and more than 1.3 million are killed each
year.
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The First 9 Months Link: Click this link to visit an amazing multimedia
web site and take a hi-tech journey through the first 9 months of human
life. The music, photos, story and creative web design have gained this
site many internet awards. It's awesome! (Click zero - 0 - after the countdown
to launch the site.) |
Thanks to Pro-Life America for the
Information above and links to their site.
For more Information please visit http://www.prolife.com/Partial-Birth
Abortion Q & A
What is Partial-Birth Abortion?
Partial-Birth Abortion is a procedure in which the abortionist
pulls a living baby feet-first out of the womb and into the birth canal
(vagina), except for the head, which the abortionist purposely keeps lodged just
inside the cervix (the opening to the womb). The abortionist punctures the
base of the baby’s skull with a surgical instrument, such as a long surgical scissors
or a pointed hollow metal tube called a trochar. He then inserts a catheter
(tube) into the wound, and removes the baby's brain with a powerful suction machine.
This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery
of the now-dead baby. What is the Partial-Birth
Abortion act?
The
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act would ban performance
of a partial-birth abortion except if it were necessary to the save a mother's
life. The bill defines partial-birth abortion as an abortion in which “the
person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers
a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal
head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation,
any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother,”
and then kills the baby. The bill would permit use of the procedure if “necessary
to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder,
physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition
caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.”Are Partial-Birth
Abortions Common?
According to Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National
Coalition of Abortion Providers (1997), and other sources, it appears that partial-birth
abortions are performed 3,000 to 5,000 times annually. (Even those numbers
may be low.) Based on published interviews with numerous abortionists, and
interviews with Fitzsimmons in 1997, the “vast majority” of partial-birth
abortions are performed in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy, on healthy
babies of healthy mothers.
Why is it called "Partial-Birth"?
Under state laws, a “live birth”
occurs when a baby is entirely expelled from the mother and shows any signs of
life, however briefly -- regardless of whether the baby is “viable,” i.e., developed
enough to be sustained outside the womb with neo-natal medical assistance.
Even at 4˝ months (20 weeks), perinatologists say that if a baby is expelled or
removed completely from the uterus, she will usually gasp for breath and sometimes
survive for hours, even though lung development is usually insufficient to permit
successful sustained respiration until 23 weeks. Thus, the term “partial-birth”
is perfectly descriptiveThanks to the National Right
to Life for the Information above.
For more Information please visit http://www.nrlc.org/
Euthanasia
- Euthanasia is
the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his
or her alleged benefit.
Euthanasia: Some Frequently Asked Questions
"Is
there a danger of rationing life-saving treatment in Medicare?"
What is the Will to Live Project?
Do Americans Support Assisted Suicide?
(March 2000 poll)
Why Shouldn't Assisting Suicide Be Legal?
What Should We Do for People in Severe Pain?
What
About the Terminally Ill?
Starvation and Dehydration
"... we must be wary of those who are too willing
to end the lives of the elderly and the ill. If we ever decide that a poor quality
of life justifies ending that life, we have taken a step down a slippery slope
that places all of us in danger. There is a difference between allowing nature
to take its course and actively assisting death. The call for euthanasia surfaces
in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of "death
with dignity" or assisted suicide. Euthanasia is a concept, it seems to me,
that is in direct conflict with a religious and ethical tradition in which the
human race is presented with " a blessing and a curse, life and death,"
and we are instructed '...therefore, to choose life." I believe 'euthanasia'
lies outside the commonly held life-centered values of the West and cannot be
allowed without incurring great social and personal tragedy. This is not merely
an intellectual conundrum. This issue involves actual human beings at risk..."
-- C. Everett Koop, M.D. **taken from the
book KOOP, The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D.,
Random House, 1991. DEFINITIONS
Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has requested
to be killed.
Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no request and gave no
consent.
Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is
killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.
Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information,
guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will
be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill
themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide."
Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing
an action such as by giving a lethal injection.
Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary
and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water. Thanks to the National
Right to Life for the Information above.
For more Information please visit http://www.nrlc.org/
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Americans to Ban Cloning (ABC) coalition is a group
of concerned Americans and U.S. based organizations that promote
a global, comprehensive ban on human cloning.
ABC is now working to pass
S. 245, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003. This
bill is a comprehensive cloning ban closely matching the one passed
on February 27, 2003 by the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R.
534). The bill would outlaw both research and reproductive
human cloning.
To participate in the effort to pass S. 245, click
here. |
Human Organism Patenting- Hill Negotiators
Agree to Bar Patents for Human Organisms (The
Washington Post) - Funding Bill Gets Clause on Embryo Patents (The
Washington Post)- Cardinal Keeler Urges Congress to Prevent Marketing of Human
Beings (USCCB)-
Biotechnology Lobby Opposes Weldon Amendment, Seeks Open Door to Patents on Human
Embryos by Douglas Johnson (NRLC)-
Rep. Weldon (R-FL) Introduces the Patent Amendment (July, 22 -
Congressional Record - PDF)- Rep. Weldon (R-FL) Explains the Intent of the
Patent Amendment (Nov. 5 -
Congressional Record - PDF)- Rep. Weldon (R-FL) Submits a Letter from James
Rogan, Undersecretary and Director of the US Patent Office into the Congressional
Record (Nov. 22 -
Congressional Record - PDF)- Clonaid: Clone Baby Born in Australia (News.com.au)Clone
baby 'born in Australia' May 18, 2004
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8654756%255E421,00.htmlThanks
to Americans to Ban Cloning (ABC) coalition
for the Information above and links to their site.
For more Information please visit
http://www.cloninginformation.org/
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