- After Election Summary - Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati
RIGHT TO LIFE OF GREATER CINCINNATI PRO-LIFE eNEWS After Election Summary November 5, 2008--Our heartfelt gratitude to the hundreds of pro-life warriors who worked for pro-life candidates, wrote letters to the editor, distributed literature, manned the polls, were a presence in front of abortion mills, prayed, and more d
11/ 06/08 - Archbishop Chaput to Kmiec: You Wanted Obama, Now Lobby Him on Abortion
Catholic apologists for Barack Obama pulled the wool over voters' eyes with their protests that he would have a pro-life administration and would seek to reduce abortions.
11/ 06/08 - 2.9 Million Hispanic Voters get Anti-Obama Email from Hispanic Catholic Bishop, Rene H. Gracida
Bishop Gracida's radio ad is causing a massive uproar and major defection from Obama in the Catholic Community.
11/ 01/08 - Football Legend Would Pick His Down Syndrome Son Over ‘Normal’ Child
Legendary football coach Gene Stallings made history as the youngest college coach at the helm of his alma mater, Texas A&M, and a perfect 12-0 season during his reign at the University of Alabama. But he says raising his son Johnny was his greatest reward.
10/ 22/08 - Researcher: Abortions Cost Economy $35 Trillion Since 1970 in Lost Productivity
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A researcher who has spent over a decade examining the economic impact of abortion finds that the approximately 50.5 million abortions in the U.S. since 1970 have cost the American economy $35 trillion. That comes in the form of lost productivity by having fewer workers contributing to society.
10/ 20/08 - Pregnancy Center Volunteers Honored with President's Volunteer Service Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. (9/19/08) – The President's Volunteer Service Award was conferred on 32 Heartbeat International affiliated pregnancy resource centers and 55 volunteers who serve Heartbeat affiliated centers on September 19, 2008. Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Joxel Garcia, M.D., M.B.A.
09/ 25/08 - New Obama Ad Calls Abortion Survivor, John McCain "Sleazy Despicable Liars"
A new commercial from the Obama slams a survivor of a botched late-term abortion and presidential candidate John McCain as "sleazy" for promoting a "despicable lie" that calls Obama into question for his votes against providing medical care to babies who survive failed abortions.
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09/ 20/08 - Bill would keep abortion legal even if Roe v. Wade someday overturned
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part of a special series of stories focusing on the election that Baptist Press will run between now and Nov. 4. Stories will run on Wednesdays and Fridays.
09/ 20/08
WASHINGTON (BP)--For years, pro-lifers have set their sights on changing the U.S. - Tiller Files for Dismissal of Charges
Attorneys for Wichita, Kan.
09/ 19/08 - Sarah Palin: Leading by Example
Abortion-rights groups target Palin
Three major advocates of abortion rights are planning to spend nearly $30 million to defeat John McCain’s run for president, citing his new running mate as the core reason.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List have Alaska Gov.
09/ 08/08 - The Social Footprints of Contraception
The Church's teaching on sexuality that lies behind its teaching that contraception is intrinsically immoral is dazzlingly beautiful.
Many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of our culture have difficulty understanding it.
09/ 04/08 - Teen Sex? Please Do! - Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to do so.
09/ 03/08 - Johnny's Got a New Girl
The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his A-4 under the Golden Gate Bridge.
McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.
09/ 03/08 - A Chicken in Every Pot and the Pill on Every Nightstand
During my last pregnancy, I qualified for excellent, free state medical insurance because of our lower income. My husband is in graduate school for a while. This insurance coverage is part of the state's healthy start program for pregnant women and young kids.
09/ 02/08
MICHIGAN - Planned Parenthood Implicated in RU-486 Deaths of Four Women
By Thaddeus Baklinski
Lifesitenews.com
A press release from the American Life League states that Planned Parenthood's recommendation to use the abortion-causing drug Misoprostol vaginally rather than orally, contrary to FDA recommendations, has led to fatal infections directly causing the deaths of four of the women.
Until 2006, Planned Parenthood told women to take the drugs Misoprostol and Mifepristone (RU 486) vaginally. This occurred despite FDA protocol instructing women to take the drugs orally. When five patients died from the drug combination, Planned Parenthood quietly changed the policy to fall in line with FDA protocol.
The Michigan Messenger reported that Dr. David Aronoff, who led the study, said, "What struck me in those cases is the women had previously been healthy, then died after taking fairly high doses of synthetic prostaglandin E2, which is Misoprostol."
"Misoprostol appears to impair the immune response of cells in the reproductive tract, which might explain the fatal outcome of the cases in which women used the drug vaginally," Dr. Aronoff said. "When the drug is given orally, it does not appear to have a suppressive effect on reproductive tract immunology."
Now, the University of Michigan study finds that Misoprostol, the second of the two drugs that cause the chemical abortion, can allow Clostridium sordellii, normally non-threatening bacteria, to cause a deadly infection when taken vaginally.
Six out the eight women were infected with Clostridium sordellii. The other two contracted a related Clostridium bacterium.
A report in ScienceDaily warns that Clostridium sordellii infection as a result of RU-486 use is being closely watched by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of the abortion-related deaths and because it is biologically very similar to another form of Clostridium bacteria, Clostridium difficile. C. difficile is of great concern especially in hospitals and other clinical settings, where it is causing increasing rates of infections.
"This study shows Planned Parenthood not only disregards the lives of babies in the womb, but the lives of their mothers as well," said Jim Sedlak.
"This is scandalous, if not criminal."
"It's time people stopped viewing Planned Parenthood as a responsible healthcare organization and saw it for what it is - a money-making, social engineering group that plies its trade of sex and abortion without regard to human life, born or preborn."
The FDA approved regimen for killing children who have already implanted in their mother's womb consists of an initial pill (either Mifepristone or Methotrexate) to kill the baby and a second pill (Misoprostol) to cause the dead baby to be expelled from the mother's body.
A report from the Family Research Council advised that although Planned Parenthood changed its guidelines for dispensing RU-386 in 2006, its defiance of FDA protocol continues in other ways as well. In addition to altering the suggested dosage, Planned Parenthood urges women to take one of the drugs at home, disregarding the FDA's warning that the second portion of the pill regime "should be done in a medical office to monitor women for complications."
Previous studies have already shown the link between RU-486 and maternal death caused by septic shock.
Research in 2005 at the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology at Brown University has provided clear evidence that Mifepristone causes conditions in which bacterial infections can take hold and become deadly.
Professor Ralph P. Miech explained that during an abortion using Mifepristone, the first stage of the drug shuts off progesterone, which halts the flow of nutrition to the placenta and the child. Dr. Miech showed that the anti-progesterone effects of Mifepristone also cause changes in the cervix that allow C. sordellii to enter the cervical canal. C. sordellii thrives in this low-oxygen environment and derives nutrition from the decaying fetal tissue.
Mifepristone, Miech said, also disrupts the immune system, which "impairs the body's ability to fight off C. sordellii and may help spread the bacteria's toxic by-products, a combination that sometimes results in widespread septic shock." The resulting infection makes its way into the blood stream, becoming life threatening.
At least two deaths from acute hemorrhage have been linked with RU-486.
In 2004 LifeSiteNews.com reported on the death of Rebecca Tell Berg, age 16, of Sweden. According to the report by a division of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in Gothenburg, "a young woman bled to death as a direct consequence of the (RU-486) treatment."
More recently, the death of a U.K. teen made headlines around the world. Manon Jones, 18, bled to death two weeks after having a legal chemical abortion.
The inquest into this death heard that a post-mortem examination revealed Miss Jones died of hypovolemia, an abnormal decrease in blood volume and shock caused by what officials termed the "retained products of conception" - the remains of Jones's unborn child at 6 weeks gestation.