1.- Incluso entre las víctimas de violación, el 80% se arrepienten del aborto
2.- El estado de Luisiana declara todo aborto ilegal que será por tanto penado por la ley
3.- Al contrario que en Europa, la mayoría de los americanos se oponen al aborto
4.- Los finlandeses se arrepienten: la mayoría se opone ahora a la eutanasia
5.- La ofensiva mundial contra la vida: el caso de Nicaragua
6.- La píldora RU: Mientras que en España se dispensa e incluso se regala, en otros países persiguen a los que la venden por los daños que causa a la mujer.
7.- A ciertos políticos sectarios simplemete les molesta que se considere la abstinencia como una solución.
8.- Superviviente de un aborto correrá maratón en Inglaterra.
1 RAPE AND INCEST: 80% REGRET HAVING ABORTION
In light of current battles over whether pro-life groups should support legislation containing exceptions for rape and incest, viewed by some to be a compassionate position for the pro-life movement to take, David Reardon, author of Victims and Victors, reports, "in a survey of 192 women who became pregnant through rape or incest, nearly 80 percent said that they regretted their abortions, while none of the women who carried to term said that they wished they had not done so or that they had chosen abortion instead."
Source: American Life League "Communique" (communique@all.org)
2 LOUISIANA SENATE PASSES ABORTION BAN
BATON ROUGE, April 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Senate of Louisiana has passed a ban on abortion in a vote that rejected including exceptions for pregnancies due to rape or incest.
In a 17-20 vote, the Senate defeated an amendment proposal to allow the exceptions and then passed the bill 30-7. If passed into law by the state House and not vetoed by the governor, the proposed law would outlaw all abortion except that which saves the life of the mother.
The law would impose up to 10 years in prison and fines of $100,000 for doctors found guilty of performing abortions. The bill contains a clause specifying that it does not apply to women seeking or undergoing abortion. The bill also precludes outlawing abortifacient drugs such as RU-486 or hormonal contraceptives or Morning After pills.
The bill also rejects the current fashion in medical ethics that claims a woman is not pregnant from fertilization, but only after the embryo has implanted in the uterine wall. It defines pregnancy as "having an unborn living human being within (the mother's) body throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn child from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth."
It defines an "unborn human being" as the child from the first instant of penetration of the ovum by the sperm.
Sen. Ben Nevers, the Democrat sponsor of the bill said he opposed adding exceptions for rape because abortion after a rape solves nothing for the mother but only compounds the trauma. "Lord knows I would never want to hurt a mother, in any way. Lord knows I would never want to hurt a victim of rape or incest," but, he said, "a crime committed by a rapist should not result in the death of an unborn child."
Sen. Joel Chaisson, who tried to add the rape and incest exceptions, argued that the House would be unlikely to pass an abortion ban without them.
The bill contains a provision that says the ban will only come into effect when the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Nevers said he feels the likelihood of such a move is high after the appointment to the Court of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito.
Source: LifeSiteNews.com (lsn@lifesite.net)
3 ZOGBY POLL SHOWS AMERICANS AGAINST ABORTION
The Zogby organization has released a recent poll of over 30,000 Americans, showing that by 59-to-29 percent the public believes abortion ends a human life, while 50% accept the scientific fact thatlife begins at conception. In addition, 69% want no federal taxmoney used for abortions; 69% favor parental notification for girls16 and under; 56% support a 24-hour waiting period prior to anabortion; 86% opposed abortion because of dissatisfaction withthe gender of the child (sex-selection abortion); and 64% think criminals who assault a pregnant woman and injure or kill her child should be charged with two crimes.
Source: RNC/Life FaxNotes (rnclife@swbell.net)
4 FINLAND - SUPPORT FOR EUTHANASIA HAS FALLEN
Support for euthanasia in Finland has fallen since 2004, according to a Poll published in the newspaper Aamulehti. 60% of respondents said they were in favor of euthanasia, compared with 65% two years ago. Opposition had risen from 25% to 33%. 1,000 Finns were polled by phone. Although active euthanasia is not allowed in Finland, passive euthanasia in which doctors cause a patient's death by discontinuing treatment is legal.
Source: SPUC (information@spuc.freeserve.co.uk)
5 NICARAGUA - LEGALIZED ABORTION DEBATED
A proposal to legalize abortion for therapeutic reasons is to be debated by the Nicaraguan National Assembly on Thursday, as part of a Penal Code reform. Last month, Bishop Juan Abelardo, president of the Bishops' Committee on Family Ministry and Dr. Rafael Jose Cabrera, president of the Nicaraguan Association for Life, published a letter urging legislators to reject the proposals and arguing that abortion clinics want abortion provided "to any woman for any reason, with the only requirement being a signature of approval from the woman, her spouse or a close relative, and the signatures of three doctors".
Source: SPUC (information@spuc.freeserve.co.uk)
6 PHILIPPINES - ABORTION PILL CRACKDOWN CONTINUES
MANILA, April 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Manila's mayor, Lito Atienza has ordered Manila Police District (MPD) to continue to crack down on vendors selling Cytotec, an abortion inducing drug. Manila police this Sunday, seized 1,792 tablets of Cytotec, a prostaglandin compound used as part of the drug regimen in chemical abortions.
The regimen, known collectively as RU-486, is illegal in the Philippines and has caused the deaths, not only of unborn children, but in many cases, of the mother as well. The seizure was part of a buy-and-bust operation and was part of a crackdown on illegal distribution of abortifacient drugs ordered by Atienza, last year.
Police arrested Manila resident Teresa Lozada, 48, in the bust outside a church. Police Insp. Cesar Teneros said Lozada was known as one of the biggest sources of abortion pills in Manila.
A year ago, LifeSiteNews.com reported that police in the Philippines were investigating the illegal activities of internationally funded Non-governmental Organizations (NGO's) that were distributing abortifacient drugs. Mayor Atienza came under much criticism in the international press when he ordered police to crack down on groups bringing the killer drug RU-486 into the country.
Atienza, who also chairs Pro-Life Philippines, stood up to the international population control lobby on this and many issues. Atienza called the dealers of the abortion drugs and contraceptives, "peddlers of death."
Source: LifeSiteNews.com (lsn@lifesite.net)
7 SCOTLAND - ABSTINENCE UPSETS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
Members of the Scottish Parliament have criticized a new government-funded program for Catholic schools as they fear it will not promote contraception. The program, "Called to Love", will focus on delaying sex until marriage. It is to be piloted in Inverclyde and Edinburgh this summer. Abortion will not be addressed. Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Green Party said the Scottish Executive should focus "on making sure that young people who are going to Catholic schools ... are being given alternative ways of getting the information and services that everybody else in non-denominational schools is getting." Carolyn Leckie, health spokeswoman for the Scottish Socialist Party, said: "They are either going to deliver equal sex education available [sic] to everyone or they're not." The Scottish sex education body, Healthy Respect and the Scottish Catholic Education Service have developed the program jointly. Ian Murray, director of SPUC Scotland, said: "As they are so keen on equality of delivery, rather than attack a program that promotes abstinence the MSPs should be asking for it to be extended to non-denominational schools since the current Healthy Respect program has failed to produce any positive effects on our school pupils."
Source: European Life Network (patrick@europeanlifenetwork.org)
8 UK - ABORTION SURVIVOR TO RUN IN MARATHON
The American pro-life campaigner Gianna Jessen, who survived when her mother attempted to abort her, has spoken to a local newspaper in the north of England about her life and her work. She spoke in the Civic Hall in Leeds this week at an event organized by local Catholics and pro-life groups. Despite doctors predicting that she would "be a vegetable", she is a singer, writer and is planning to run the London Marathon in support of a cerebral palsy charity, a condition that she suffers from as a result of the abortion.
She told her interviewer, "I just love to be alive. I was aborted, but I did not die. ... Thinking about my story, you have to question the basis of abortion being about a woman's right to choose. What about my rights as a baby? If the abortionist had still been in the building, he would have made sure I did not survive after delivery, and my rights would have been ignored. It is not our right to murder children."
Source: European Life Network (patrick@europeanlifenetwork.org)
La imagen que acompaña este correo es todo un símbolo de la batalla más importante que se está desarrollando en estos momentos en la guerra cultural con la que hemos empezado el Siglo XXI. En la batalla están en juego las personas y los territorios que los defensores de la vida considerábamos más seguros: los pueblos hispanos de América. La ofensiva mundial contra la vida se está haciendo especialmente virulenta en Colombia, en Brasil, en Argentina y en Perú. Por otro lado los provida estamos intentando ganar terreno en Estados Unidos. En estas batallas se juega gran parte del futuro del mundo: son muchas vidas, más que las que ahora se pierden en Europa.
