This Is Abortion

Whether you're pro-life, anti-life, pro-abortion, anti-abortion, pro-choice, anti-choice, or indifferent about abortion, pre-natal murder, or reproductive choice (pick your favorite lingo), one thing remains constant: what happens when a pregnant woman ends the life of the developing human being in her womb.

I want to make it clear that the object of this entire discussion is the procedure that takes place when someone performs an abortion. It is necessary that if we are going to discuss the abortion issue we all know what we are talking about.

If you are pro-choice or believe that a woman has a right to legal abortion, at whatever stage of pregnancy, I want you to answer one question: Is this what you mean? Yes or no.

Here are two videos that describe what abortion means. The first explains the usual first trimester suction abortion; the second explains the usual second trimester dilation and extraction (D&E) abortion. There are no graphic images of actual abortions in these videos, simply an explanation of what is done to carry them out and models to show what happens.

First Trimester Suction Abortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAPleF1t0
Second Trimester D&E Abortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_y9GP_-DA

Here are some other words about legal abortion procedures:

First Trimester Suction Abortion

"The physician will usually first notice a quantity of amniotic fluid, followed by placenta and fetal parts, which may be more or less identifiable." (From the medical textbook Abortion Practice – Dr. Warren Hern, p.114, in section on First Trimester Abortion).
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“When we do a suction curettage abortion, you know, roughly one of three things is going to happen during the abortion. One would be that the catheter as it approaches the fetus, you know, tears it and kills it at that instant inside the uterus. The second would be that the fetus is small enough and the catheter is large enough that the fetus passes through the catheter and either dies in transit as it’s passing through the catheter or dies in the suction bottle after it’s actually all the way out.” (Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist. He describes legal activity.)
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Question: Can the heart of a fetus or embryo still be beating during a suction curettage abortion as the fetus or embryo comes down the cannula? Answer: For a few seconds to a minute, yes.(Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Harlan Raymond Giles, an abortionist. He describes legal activity.)

Second Trimester D&E Abortion

"The procedure changes significantly at 21 weeks because the fetal tissues become much more cohesive and difficult to dismember. This problem is accentuated by the fact that the fetal pelvis may be as much as 5cm in width. The calvaria [head] is no longer the principal problem; it can be collapsed. Other structures, such as the pelvis, present more difficulty….A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus…" (From the medical textbook Abortion Practice – Dr. Warren Hern, p.154)
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“The doctor grips a fetal part with the forceps and pulls it back through the cervix and vagina, continuing to pull even after meeting resistance from the cervix. The friction causes the fetus to tear apart. For example, a leg might be ripped off the fetus as it is pulled through the cervix and out of the woman. The process of evacuating the fetus piece by piece continues until it has been completely re-moved.” (US Supreme Court, Gonzales vs. Carhart, April 18, 2007, describing the D&E procedure).
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"Let's just say for instance we took a different view, a different tact and we left the leg in the uterus just to dismember it. Well, we'd probably have to dismember it at several different levels because we don't have firm control over it, so we would attack the lower part of the lower extremity first, remove, you know, possibly a foot, then the lower leg at the knee and then finally we get to the hip."

"And typically when the abortion procedure is started we typically know that the fetus is still alive because either we can feel it move as we're making our initial grasps or if we're using some ultrasound visualization when we actually see a heartbeat as we're starting the procedure. It's not unusual at the start of D&E procedures that a limb is acquired first and that that limb is brought through the cervix and even out of the vagina prior to disarticulation and prior to anything having been done that would have caused the fetal demise up to that point."

"When you're doing a dismemberment D&E, usually the last part to be removed is the skull itself and it's floating free inside the uterine cavity…So it's rather like a ping-pong ball floating around and the surgeon is using his forcep to reach up to try to grasp something that's freely floating around and is quite large relative to the forcep we're using. So typically there's several misdirections, misattempts to grasp. Finally at some point either the instruments are managed to be place around the skull or a nip is made out of some area of the skull that allows it to start to decompress. And then once that happens typically the skull is brought out in fragments rather than as a unified piece…" (Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist. He describes legal activity.)

Source: PFL "Is This What You Mean?" project: http://www.priestsforlife.org/action/abortion-procedure-revealed.htm.

Justice Scalia and Anti-Life Politics

In a recent article, it was reported by LifeNews.com that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said, "If you want the right to an abortion, persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. If you feel the other way, repeal the law." (http://www.lifenews.com/nat3890.html).

I thoroughly respect Justice Scalia and his view that Roe v. Wade needs to go. I am also grateful for his and Justice Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion in the Gonzalez v. Carhart case in which they state that the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence, including Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA v. Casey and Roe v. Wade, has no basis in the Constitution.

What bothers me is the sense that the American Republic can legitimately allow for the killing of innocent pre-born children through the passage of what would be unjust laws by the States of the Union.

I understand that Justice Scalia is trying to get the point across that it was wrong that the Judicial System was used in order to make abortion-on-demand the supreme law of the land; it violated the Constitution, States' Rights, and the Will of the People.

However, it is dangerous to say that the Constitution is "silent on abortion." The responsibility of Federal Judges, including Supreme Court Justices, is to use the Constitution to get at the intent of the Framers of the Constitution. In looking at what was written by the Framers, if the question of abortion had been relevant at the time, would they have allowed it, prohibited it, or would they have left it up to the States?

Seeing that the Constitution and its Amendments are full of guarantees of human rights, supporting the ideals enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, you can quite easily infer that depriving an innocent citizen of Life itself would have been unconscionable to the Framers; in my opinion, legalized abortion is an affront to the high ideals put forth by the Founders and Framers of our nation.

To allow a State to pass a law providing for the legal killing of innocent pre-born Americans would be far worse than a law allowing for legalized slavery or for the sexual exploitation of children; in the case of abortion, an innocent person is killed and is gone forever; in the cases of slavery or sexual exploitation of children, no one is deprived of Life itself and they could heal from their wounds over time.

Now is the time for all Americans of good will to stand up and expose the abortion holocaust for what it really is. The loss of each and every innocent human life is a tragedy; look at the righteous outcry against terrorism, murder, drunk driving, health risks, and all other things that bring about the premature death of an innocent person.

But abortion has taken the lives of 50,000,000 innocent Americans in just 35 years! It has wounded countless millions of lives: mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. It has eradicated one-third of the black American population! It has ruined families and friendships. It has ruined respect for others. It has resulted in a contraceptive culture that treats others as objects for our own pleasure. Abortion is the Real Terrorism.

We have strayed far from the high ideals of the Founding Fathers and Framers of our nation, and it is high time we return to them, with the collective wisdom we have gained through 232 years of failures.

"Democracy can only flourish, as your founding fathers realized, when political leaders and those whom they represent are guided by truth and bring the wisdom born of firm moral principle to decisions affecting the life and future of the nation." (Pope Benedict XVI, April 16, 2008)

I See Dead People

The article below provides an interesting and compelling perspective on how the fight against Partial-Birth Abortion has killed pro-life activism and has resulted in the deaths of millions of unborn Americans. This is from a long-time pro-life hero.

I See Dead People

By Paul deParrie

The Covenant News ~ November 10, 2003

I recently read that on the day President Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into law, the sun let off an explosion unlike any recorded in history. Some prophetic-types even sent out pictures of the flaming corona saying it looked like a baby. Interpretations abounded.

I see something in those flames, too. I see dead people. More precisely, I see dead babies - and I feel responsible.

Back in 1993, I was the editor-in-chief for Life Advocate magazine. One of our reporters had secreted a copy of a medical paper by Martin Haskell which he presented at the annual meeting of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) in September of 1992. In it was described, in very clinical terms, Haskell’s newly-developed Dilation and Extraction or D&X abortion procedure - now popularly called “partial-birth abortion.”

It was a block-buster article. We were the only news organ that we were aware of with the information. We prepared the article, but during our staff meeting Andrew Burnett, our publisher, said he was concerned. He wondered if, by publishing the article about the gruesome-appearing type of abortion, anti-abortion work might be damaged because “The Movement” might refocus its efforts away from the millions of invisible babies being killed in the U.S. every year. He was worried that The Movement might be toward this small number of egregious and visible abortions. He wondered if people would forget about the cruelty of the ordinary suction aspiration abortions or even other late-term procedures which, in fact, are far more cruel than the D&X. He wondered if the pockets of “pro-life” people would be picked clean for a war against a single procedure, while the killers marched on slogging through the blood of the innocents.

Well, we eventually chose to run the story in the February 1993 issue of the Life Advocate. The dreaded results were not long in coming. National Right to Life (NRTL) contacted us and wanted to use our story and our four-panel artist’s rendering of the procedure - the one you have all, no doubt, seen.

Then it was off to the races. NRTL and its state affiliates, along with many other “pro-life” organizations, began hyping the story and telling their mailing lists that they (for a price, of course) could help stop this gruesome procedure - “partial-birth abortion,” they dubbed it.

Ah, yes! It was the fundraisers’ dream - for both sides of the war. The “pro-life” forces crafted utterly useless laws banning the procedure and pled for money to promote and defend in court these purposeless statutes. “We can save lives and curb this cruel practice,” they bleated. However, none of the laws would stop a single abortion because there were already several other procedures - some more truly cruel and torturous than D&X - available to be used by the child killers.

In addition, the shrill shriek of the pro-aborts was heard throughout the land. “This is just the beginning of losing our abortion rights,” they cried disingenuously while raking in the cash.
Both sides knew precisely what they were doing. “Pro-life” leaders knew that the ban wouldn’t stop any abortions. The opposition leaders knew that banning a single procedure would not end “abortion rights.” The money, though, was good for both.

Nor were the politicians adverse wallowing the pig sty. Even normally pro-abort office-holders could vote for the ban and gain a few “pro-life” votes - and possibly campaign support from pragmatic right-to-life organizations. The standard for “pro-life” organizations giving to candidates was not whether they opposed abortion itself, but whether they would vote for the D&X ban.

The whole scene went downhill fast. I originally tried to console myself that raising the “partial-birth abortion” issue would cause the public to have to have more discussion about their half-hearted support for child killing. I hoped that the pro-abort defense of D&X would shock the public mind and reveal the truly crass, bloody, inhuman “face of pro-choice America.” Instead, it eventually just made people more callused toward the barbaric killing. “Well, any kind of surgery looks gruesome,” they took to saying.

Of course, after ten years and millions spent by The Movement, Bush finally signed the ban. Whoopie-do! Now Bush gets to pretend that he is a “pro-life” hero. Naturally, the fight has to go on in the courts for years, so “Keep those cards and letters - and money - coming, folks, and don’t let the pro-aborts snatch our victory away!” (I predict the ban will lose in court.) The pro-aborts will raise millions for the same.

Ten years and everybody makes out like bandits. For another ten years everyone will continue to gain - everybody but the babies.

Nowadays I tend to imagine the millions, possibly tens of millions, of dollars raised by “our side” for this fruitless exercise. I imagine if that money had been used to hire professional sidewalk counselors to talk to abortion-bound mothers outside the clinics. I imagine mobile ultrasound vans outside clinics. I imagine some of that money going to the attorneys to defend the rights of the counselors and picketers at the clinics. I imagine if that money had been used to provide medical services for those who changed their minds. I imagine, over ten years, thousands of babies alive today, tens of thousands of babies alive today, who are not with us now. I weep for them.

Jesus told us to feed the hungry. He told us to feed the hungry that were right in front of our face - not start a movement that would eventually feed hungry people in the future. When we invest our time, energy, and money to save babies, it should be directed as much as possible at babies who are dying today, not those who may (or may not) be aborted in 2050. Yet, the D&X ban (aside from being ineffective) is precisely 180 degrees out from that principle. Over the last ten years, The Movement has spent untold millions to pass a law which pretends to save babies, while the human presence at the abortuaries has dropped to near zero in most of the nation.

My 1993 decision to run that article helped to dilute the activist, anti-abortion movement probably far more than the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) law and all the lawsuits. The attention of the anti-abortion activist was successfully diverted from the clinic doors where killing was going on every day to funding a “winnable” piece of fluff legislation called the Partial-Birth Abortion Act.

I had a part in that, and I am sorry. Sure, I could assuage my conscience saying that someone else would have eventually published it and started this whole mess, but that is simply dishonest. I was the one who decided to go to print.

So, if you wonder why I still go out to the clinics, and the streets, and the churches with my big, graphic signs trying to convince women to stop killing their babies, it is because I see something.

I see dead babies.

Paul deParrie

Paul deParrie was a pro-life author and long-time anti-abortion activist in the Portland, Oregon area. You can order Paul deParrie books from his web site The Portland Porcupine.

US Presidential Candidates Evaluated Against Catholic Criteria

Updated 4/23/2008 to reflect the only three remaining candidates:

This show's John McCain's obvious advantage over Clinton and Obama for Catholic voters and it also makes it nearly impossible for a Catholic to vote for Clinton or Obama without commiting a grave error. Here are the issues that the USCCB consider to deal with "intrinsically evil" positions and the candidates' respective scores based on their stated positions. There are a possible of 15 points for each of these eight issues:

1. Protect All Unborn (no exceptions; protected under the Constitution from conception to natural death):

McCain: 5
Clinton: 0
Obama: 0

2. Oppose "euthanasia":

McCain: 15
Clinton: 0
Obama: 0

3. Oppose research resulting in embryonic destruction:

McCain: 0
Clinton: 0
Obama: 0

4. Oppose all human cloning:

McCain: 15
Clinton: 5
Obama: 5

5. Oppose the use of torture:

McCain: 15
Clinton: 15
Obama: 15

6. Oppose the targeting of non-combatants (use of nukes, landmines):

McCain: 7
Clinton: 15
Obama: 15

7. Oppose all forms of racism:

McCain: 15
Clinton: 15
Obama: 15

8. Marriage is one man, one woman, protected under law:

McCain: 15
Clinton: 0
Obama: 0

Totals for the "Big 8":

McCain: 87
Clinton: 50
Obama: 50

The other 23 issues were worth 5 points each (details can be found in my spreadsheet or see the original post below):

McCain: 87
Clinton: 66
Obama: 55

Totals for all 8 plus 23 issues:

McCain: 174
Clinton: 116
Obama: 105

This is an update to my previous evaluation, posted here: http://defendlife.blogspot.com/2007/11/presidential-candidate-evaluation.html.

I have eliminated the former candidates who have dropped out of the race and adjusted the remaining candidates' scores based on the best information I could find regarding their positions on the issues.


Candidates were evaluated against the criteria published in the US Conference of Catholic Bishops document on Faithful Citizenship:


The "intrinsically evil" (15 points each) issues were:

• Protect all unborn (no exceptions; unborn protected under the Constitution)


• Oppose Euthanasia


• Oppose Research that Results in Embyonic Destruction


• Oppose all Human Cloning


• Oppose targeting of Noncombatants (Use of nuclear weapons or landmines)


• Marriage is One Man, One Woman; Oppose "domestic partnerships"


• Oppose Use of Torture


• Oppose Racism

The other 22 issues (5 points each) were:

• Oppose the Death Penalty


• Support a "Responsible Transition" in Iraq & Afghanistan


• Work to avoid war and promote peace while dealing with terrorism


• Ethical treatment for undocumented immigrants & family reunification


• Temporary worker program with clear path to permanent residency for immigrants


• Secure borders from illegal immigration


• Support responsible use of media


• Affordable health care


• Health policies allow for conscientious objection


• No contraceptive or abortive mandates in health programs


• Choice in education


• Support for religious schools


• Support fair wages & programs to decrease unemployment


• Support affordable housing


• Welfare should reduce poverty & dependence


• Support good social security program


• Support sustainable agriculture & food security for all


• Good environmental policies that respect God's creation


• Support faith-based groups


• Work to alleviate global poverty


• Promote religious liberty and other basic human rights worldwide


• Peaceful resolution in Israel, support Palestinian State & Lebanon's sovereignty

Overall best choice for Catholics (230 points possible): Ron Paul (205 points)

Other candidates: Mike Huckabee (195); Alan Keyes (190); John McCain (174); Mitt Romney (154); Hillary Clinton (116); Barack Obama (105)




Pro-Life Issues (95 points possible): Ron Paul (95 points)

Other candidates: Mike Huckabee (85); Alan Keyes (85); John McCain (57); Mitt Romney (47); Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama (35)




Marriage and Family Issues (50 points possible): Alan Keyes, John McCain (each with 42 points)

Other candidates: Ron Paul (41); Mike Huckabee (41); Mitt Romney (40); Hillary Clinton (26); Barack Obama (22)




Health Care Issues (15 points possible): Ron Paul, John McCain, Mitt Romney (each with 15 points)

Other candidates: Alan Keyes & Mike Huckabee (14); Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama (5)


Immigration Issues (15 points possible): John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama (15 points each)

Other candidates: Ron Paul & Alan Keyes (10); Mike Huckabee & Mitt Romney (7)


My complete spreadsheet analysis can be found here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSaR9kLq8ruNdalwiA-fXPQ

Pope Benedict XVI and Ben Stein

Who would have thought that Pope Benedict XVI and actor Ben Stein would have anything in common? One is a humble, celibate Catholic priest from Germany who became the Shepherd of 1 billion Catholics. The other is a jewish actor from Maryland, who, until recently, was probably best known for his role as the monotonic Economics teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Let me cut to the chase. Ben Stein has rocked the entertainment industry and academia recently through his new movie "Expelled: No Intellegence Allowed." Ben realizes that he has been "Expelled," and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired - for the "crime" of merely believing that there might be evidence of "design" in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.

Now the link to Pope Benedict XVI. In his recent encyclical letter, Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope), the Holy Father wrote:

"It is not the elemental spirits of the universe, the laws of matter, which ultimately govern the world and mankind, but a personal God governs the stars, that is, the universe; it is not the laws of matter and of evolution that have the final say, but reason, will, love - a Person. And if we know this Person and he knows us, then truly the inexorable power of material elements no longer has the last word; we are not slaves of the universe and of its laws, we are free."

I encourage all of you to do something quite simple: think. As St. Augustine wrote, "The unthinking Christian has no faith," and also, "What does the soul yearn for more ardently than the truth?"

We are wonderfully, gloriously made, and we are set amidst the splendor of the world and the universe! There is much to think about, to contemplate. Turn down the noise that bombards you every day and listen for that Voice that speaks to you in the silence.

For further reading, I highly recommend Christoph Cardinal Schonborn's latest book "Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith."

Guest Cartoonist: Al Gore & Earth Day

This "Environmental Paganism" cartoon is by John Francis Borra, SFO, veritatis@eaglecom.net, and is used with permission. Here is the artist's commentary:

On Earth Day: Al Gore, Population Control and Hypocrisy

Last year, the Nobel Committee saw fit to award its Peace Prize to radical environmentalist and depopulation advocate Al Gore. Nothing so clearly indicates this Committee's complete lack of understanding of peace, the very condition it seeks to promote. Gore is an unabashed champion of death and believes that "Third World nations are producing too many children too fast... it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth."

Gore and other depopulationists see human beings as the ultimate threat. At the same time, they seek to protect the natural environment at the greatest expense. Like ancient nature worshipers, they demand human sacrifice-- literally. Abortion, euthanasia and contraception are their rituals, essential to appease the nature deities and forestall their wrath: global warming. Of course, these neopagans possess an inverted view of the world, fully at odds with Judeo-Christian tradition and, what is especially ironic, the natural moral law. Indeed, they abide by another law-- that of the jungle, the very foundation of today's culture of death.

All this speaks to the hypocrisy of depopulation advocates. After all, if human numbers must be reduced, why don't Gore and his fellows lead by example and offer up themselves? No; it appears they're leaving that for the rest of us.

Pope Benedict's Pro-Life Message to America

During Pope Benedict XVI's recent trip to the United States of America, he made several key appeals to us to be leaders in the defense of innocent human life. I will let his words speak for themselves:

Address at White House Welcoming Ceremony, April 16, 2008:
"Freedom is not only a gift, but also a summons to personal responsibility... The Church, for her part, wishes to contribute to building a world ever more worthy of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God... Democracy can only flourish, as your founding fathers realized, when political leaders and those whom they represent are guided by truth and bring the wisdom born of firm moral principle to decisions affecting the life and future of the nation."

Address to US Bishops, April 16, 2008:
"Is it consistent to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? Is it consistent for practicing Catholics to ignore or exploit the poor and the marginalized, to promote sexual behavior contrary to Catholic moral teaching, or to adopt positions that contradict the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death? Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted. Only when their faith permeates every aspect of their lives do Christians become truly open to the transforming power of the Gospel...

"It is your task to proclaim boldly the arguments from faith and reason in favor of the institution of marriage, understood as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman, open to the transmission of life. This message should resonate with people today, because it is essentially an unconditional and unreserved "yes" to life, a "yes" to love, and a "yes" to the aspirations at the heart of our common humanity, as we strive to fulfill our deep yearning for intimacy with others and with the Lord...

"[R]ather than being transformed and renewed in mind, Christians are easily tempted to conform themselves to the spirit of this age (cf. Rom 12:3). We have seen this emerge in an acute way in the scandal given by Catholics who promote an alleged right to abortion."

Address to Catholic Educators, April 17, 2008:
"[T]he Church never tires of upholding the essential moral categories of right and wrong, without which hope could only wither, giving way to cold pragmatic calculations of utility which render the person little more than a pawn on some ideological chess-board."

Address to Representatives of Other Religions, April 17, 2008:
"What an enormous responsibility religious leaders have: to imbue society with a profound awe and respect for human life and freedom; to ensure that human dignity is recognized and cherished; to facilitate peace and justice; to teach children what is right, good and reasonable!"

Homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral, April 19, 2008:
"The Church, as “a people made one by the unity of the Father, the Son and the Spirit” (cf. Lumen Gentium, 4), is called to proclaim the gift of life, to serve life, and to promote a culture of life. Here in this cathedral, our thoughts turn naturally to the heroic witness to the Gospel of life borne by the late Cardinals Cooke and O’Connor. The proclamation of life, life in abundance, must be the heart of the new evangelization."

Address to Youth with Disabilities, April 19, 2008:
"God's unconditional love, which bathes every human individual, points to a meaning and purpose for all human life."

Homily at Yankee Stadium, April 20, 2008:
"And this, dear friends, is the particular challenge which the Successor of Saint Peter sets before you today. As "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation", follow faithfully in the footsteps of those who have gone before you! Hasten the coming of God's Kingdom in this land! Past generations have left you an impressive legacy. In our day too, the Catholic community in this nation has been outstanding in its prophetic witness in the defense of life, in the education of the young, in care for the poor, the sick and the stranger in your midst. On these solid foundations, the future of the Church in America must even now begin to rise!

"May you find the courage to proclaim Christ, "the same, yesterday, and today and for ever" and the unchanging truths which have their foundation in him (cf. Gaudium et Spes, 10; Heb 13:8). These are the truths that set us free! They are the truths which alone can guarantee respect for the inalienable dignity and rights of each man, woman and child in our world - including the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother's womb."

Address at JFK Departure Ceremony, April 20, 2008:
"I ask you to remember me in your prayers, and at the same time I assure you of my friendship and affection in the Lord. God bless America."

And I wish to add: God bless our Pope!

'Expelled' Exposes Planned Parenthood's Pro-Abortion M.O.

A surprising character makes a cameo appearance in Ben Stein's new movie, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." It's Margaret Sanger, the matriarch of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion operation. Stein notes that Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, the pseudo-science which involves trying to create a master race of human beings...

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Guest Column: Birth Control Pill Poisoning Young Ladies

This column is written by Fr. Anthony Mellace (drdavila@aol.com) and is provided here with his permission. More information regarding the birth control pill and breast cancer link can be found at One More Soul: http://www.onemoresoul.com/ThePillandBreastCancer-ChrisKahlenborn.php.


Question:

Are birth control pills responsible for breast cancer?

Response:

Statistics show that women who used the pill have greater chances of developing breast cancer. Young girls under the age of 20 who took the pill for more than two years have a risk factor of 480% over young girls who never swallowed it. Women, between the ages of 36 and 45, users of the pill for more than four years, have a risk factor of 200%.

The tumors found in young girls who used the pill were much bigger and more malignant than those of girls who had never taken this pharmaceutical drug. Young girls fewer than 20 years of age and users of the pill had a 62% chance of survival when detected with breast cancer. The possibility of them dying in the next five years was much greater than of girls who had never taken the pill. The chances of losing their lives from breast cancer after using the pill were 820% greater than those who never took this poison.

The pill causes chromosomal aberrations in the breast tissues of young girls. The girls who used the pill had tumors in the lymphatic areas of the armpit, something which did not appear for girls unfamiliar with the pill. The pill has synthetic hormones that could directly influence the division and growth of normal breast tissue cells. This hormonal effect has capacities to increase the potential carcinogenesis. The pill is capable of causing permanent changes in the hormonal and growth system of the young girl’s body.


A question arises: why does the cancer specifically attack the breast area of a young girl? The reason is because the developing breast tissues of a young girl are susceptible to the effects of the synthetic hormones of the pill.

In these past years, there was a frightening increase of breast cancer amongst women. Proportionally, there was also an increase in the use of the pill amongst our youth. In the USA, one in eight women develops breast cancer. In Australia, it is one in 16 and in Japan, one in 50. It is interesting to note that Japan legalized the consumption of the pill in 1997, and with that appeared an increase of breast cancer cases. In 2005, breast cancer increased by 33%, coincidently with the easy access of the pill in pharmacies and PP clinics around the country.

As we can see, all this is nothing more than a pharmaceutical vandalism on the young body of an adolescent. Pope Benedict XVI came to the USA to decry and denounce the sexual abuse of minors by aberrant clergymen, but one must not forget that to give out the pill to twelve year old girls (as the perverted minded parents and teachers of the school in Maine did) is also a grave form of child abuse that damages the emotional, moral and physical aspects of his life.


Planned Parenthood is a crime organization that practices child abuse on a daily basis with the protection and blessings of the law. This is even tolerated and praised by the American public and political administrators. In regard to this other occult form of a child abuse that is condoned and approved of by Americans in general, I myself answer with the words employed by the Pope himself: I am profoundly and deeply ashamed of you who think nothing of sticking this murderous poison in the mouth of a young and innocent female.

2007-2008 Defend Life Lecture Series

Baltimore, MD - The 2007-2008 Defend Life Lecture Series ended with a super talk last week by Msgr. Steward Swetland about Pope Benedict XVI, including some insights into his upcoming visit to the United States. Msgr. Swetland actually worked for then-Cardinal Ratzinger when he was called to Rome to help with the English version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church in the early 1990s. Get to know the pope in a new way when you hear about his dinner table conversations from someone who was there. "The Theology and Pastoral Vision of Pope Benedict XVI" is a talk you MUST listen to!

You can order your free copy of this talk and others by going to our website (http://www.defendlife.org/) then clicking on "Lecture Series."

Our March 2008 lecturer was Mr. Tom Strobhar, founder of Pro Vita Advisors, who spoke about his endeavors to stop companies from donating money to Planned Parenthood and pornography in his talk entitled "The Unholy Alliance: How Corporate America promotes, Abortion, Pornography and the Homosexual Life Style." Find out how Tom uses his financial expertise to bring up the funding of abortion at major stockholder meetings of Fortune 500 compaines. Tom has also been instrumental in the Corporate Funding Project of Life Decisions International (aka. "The Boycott List").

In February, Mr. Paul Schenck shared his incredible story, "Our Journey to the Hill." Paul is the Director of the National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill, a pro-life ministry to Congress and the Supreme Court. Paul tells of his struggles as a pro-life activist in New York State, his arrests, jail time, court cases, victory at the Supreme Court, and work since then. You can even find out how he became a landlord to the Supreme Court! You can't listen to this talk without seeing how powerfully the Holy Spirit acts in our lives to accomplish His will!

January was full of hope, as Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics gave his insight on how Planned Parenthood is losing the abortion battle in his talk "Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life: Who is Winning?" While the killing continues and despite opening new mega-abortion-centers in several cities, Mark points out some key signs that the pro-life side is winning.

Our most popular talk of the season was the incredible story of an exorcist, as Fr. Tom Euteneuer (Human Life International) spoke on "The Demonic Abortion Connection" in December 2007. In addition to his first-hand account of a particular case of demonic possession, Fr. Tom gives some concrete examples of how we can use spiritual warfare in our fight against abortion.

In October 2007, Mary Ann Kuharski kicked off the Lecture Series with a talk that every Catholic parent needs to listen to, "Keeping Your Kids Catholic." Mary Ann knows kids - she has 13 of her own! Mary Ann is part of Prolife Across America - The Billboard People.

Remember, you can order your free copy of any of these talks by going to our website (http://www.defendlife.org/) then clicking on "Lecture Series".