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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
descriptive
Thanks 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.
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*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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The 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
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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.html
Thanks 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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