Lies Worked in Missouri, Let's Go National!
Senators Fienstein and Hatch have introduced a bill entitled "Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Protection Act of 2007". This bill takes the same deceitful approach which cloning advocates found so successful in Missouri last November. Rather than banning human cloning the bill (S. 812) actually legalizes human cloning and provides for payments to women to donate eggs to be used for this research. How do they get away with lies like this? Creative terminology. See the PHL Pro-Life Dictionary on this web site for an accurate definition of terms. See the story by Wesley Smith on this US Senate deception in The Weekly Standard of 3/26/07.
March 28, 2007
South Carolina to become the First State to Require Ultrasound forWomen Considering Abortion
While 17 states have laws allowing the use of ultrasound for women considering abortion South Carolina is the first state to make it mandatory. In a blog on Townhall.com, Star Parker describes the status and the justification of this law.
March 26, 2007
75 New Reasons to Reconsider the Alleged Need for Stem Cell Research that Destroys Human Embryos
Do No Harm, a research ethics organization, has published on its web site (www.stemcellresearch.org)a list of articles addressing the recent advances in adult stem cell research and other alternatives to embryonic stem cell reserach.
March 19, 2007
Understanding Brain Death Diagnosis
In the March 2007 issue of Ethics and Medics, a publication of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, there is an informative abd easily understandable explanation of the background and methods of diagnosing brain death by Doctor John Travoline of Temple University.
March 14, 2007
'Blob of Tissue' named Amillia is now 4 Months Old
Amillia Jackson, born after a little over 21 weeks gestation, is now doing very well indeed. The most premature baby to survive has even some of the Big Media news anchors commenting that 'she might have an impact on the abortion debate".
Feb 21, 2007
Families and First Principles
In the magazine National Review (2/12/07) - a magazine highly recommended by PHL - Robert P. George has written a superb article on the importance of the pro-life battle and the strategies which we can employ in addressing growing abuses coming from biotechnologies. He describes human cloning and its successor, fetal farming, as a "specteryet graver than abortion".
Bobby Schindler Compares Media Bias -1/30/07
If only my sister Terri Schiavo were a convicted murderer the press would have treated her execution as cruel and unusual punishment as it did with the 34 minute delay in the execution of Angel Diaz.
Read the story on LifeNews.com
Quote of the Week —1/19/07
From CBHD- The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
"Let us not delude ourselves: ESC research is not the end. Transplantable tissues will require cloned embryos, not donated ones. Women are not donating millions of eggs for research. The next recourse will be to human-animal combinations. We only have to look at the experience in the U.K. for verification."
- Dr. D. Joy Riley, executive director of the Tennessee Center for Bioethics and Culture,
on embryonic stem-cell research. From “Embryonic backers selling a fairy tale,”
Tennessean, January 17, 2007.
A Set of Pro-Life Essays
Catholic Standard and Times, January 18, 2007
- Cardinal Rigali counts on Catholics to defend Life
- The dark side of assisted reproduction
- What's Ethical, What's Not about Stem Cell Research
- Pope Benedict XVI on Respect for Life
- Rachel's Vineyard
- Lionheart Apparel: Pro-Life T-shirts
- Father Tad on Thawing the Frozen Embryo Myths
A Crowded Womb
The National Geographic Channel [http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inthewombmultiples/index.html], has a presentation on "In the Womb: Multiples. The enhanced use of 4D ultrasound graphics makes a spectacularlyclear movie of three babies, about halfway through gestation.
Thousands
of women who take high doses of
fertility drugs as part of IVF
treatment may actually be harming
their chances of ever having a
baby, doctors are warning.
Sunday Telegraph, London.
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Stem Cell Wars Ending
PHL predicted a few years ago that the issue of embryonic stem cell research would resolve itself within two years. We were a little optimistic but it is now happening.Through continuing rapid progress on adult stem cells and some very recent discoveries in creating pluripotent (embryonic) stem cells from skin and other cells the need to kill embryonic human lives to obtain these stem cells is becoming unnecessary.
See the article in Articles of Interest
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Our little friend Evan visiting PHL!
Look who we found in a PHL bag! It's Evan Cronin, Stephanie and Mike's beautiful little boy. Stephanie is a PHL speaker and board member. Evan and his Mom visited us for lunch recently and we were entertained all afternoon by this very happy 8 month old.
When I asked permission to put this picture on our website Stephanie replied "Evan would be honored to be on the PHL website! He embodies everything PHL is about. There was no "choice" involved with that baby. From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I loved that little guy. "
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