Americans favor laws reducing abortion

Americans favor laws reducing abortion, shy away from outlawing procedure: polls | LifeSiteNews.com: When faced with a black-and-white choice, the majority of Americans favor keeping abortion legal, but otherwise largely support specific laws limiting the procedure, according to two polls released this month.

21st century abolitionists

1850 Boston Slave Notice

As was the case in Harriet Tubman’s day when slaves were legally recognized as property and not persons, so is the case today for children inside the womb of their mothers. Just like slave owners justified slavery by arguing for “property rights,” today Planned Parenthood justifies taking the God given life of a pre-born child by arguing for “reproductive rights.” Issues4Life

Pulpits Addressing Promiscuity: The Future of the Black Family and the Church

FRC Event: Friday, March 18, 2011 - Frederick Douglass Foundation Leadership Summit

Highlighting the need for African-American pastors to call on their congregations to remain sexually pure and stand against the promiscuity which causes the widespread pattern of unmarried pregnancy, abortion and fatherlessness and the resulting social pathologies in the black community.

News from Israel

Israel Pro-Life Association writes, "Recently, we sent out an e-mail calling our partners to pray against a law that would permit free access to abortions, abolishing the need to get a government committee approval. The law was sent in writing to the [members of the Knesset] and was presented this past Sunday, the 6th of March, to the Government Committee on Legislature. It has been difficult for us to get access to the minutes from the meeting, but the MK who presented the law - a liberal MK called Nitsan Horovitz, just published on his website that the suggested law was rejected categorically. We wish to praise God for His hand in this meeting, and to ask you to pray for wisdom for us as we pursue different avenues of influencing our government ministers to stand strong against abortion."


They continue to pray that illegal, private abortions would be stopped. It is estimated that between 20-30 thousand illegal abortions (without government committee approval) are done annually.

Looking at the World Through Biblical Glasses

Helping Children Wear Biblical Glasses | Dr. Georgia Purdom's Blog: We are using the Answers for Kids curriculum in Sunday school class and have been talking a lot about viewing the world beginning with the Bible. When I point to my eye, they tell me that God was the only eyewitness to creation so we should trust His account given to us in Genesis. I often hold up the Bible to my face and talk about looking at the world starting with the Bible. However, since the Bible is solid and you can’t “see” through it, I thought of a fun way to illustrate this concept.

Voices of Exceptions

2 pm today: Webcast on sex trafficking in America

Each year, right under our noses, 100,000 American children each year are victimized by sex traffickers. Make no mistake, this is not a problem that's just "over there." These heinous crimes are happening in our own backyards. A special live video webcast hosted by Family Research Council on Tuesday, March 15 at 2:00 p.m. ET will bring together leading experts shed light on this growing problem that affects every corner of our nation -- from neighborhoods, playgrounds, and malls to the local Planned Parenthood clinic. You will also learn what actions you can take to help restore these victims, and stop those who prey on them.

Look, no embryos! The future of ethical stem cells

For years, ethical issues hampered progress in stem cell research. Now, experts believe that developments in reprogrammed 'iPS' cells will truly revolutionise the treatment of life-threatening illnesses. Guardian

Catholic priest who finances abortions goes unpunished by bishop

 For three years, the Cardinal Archbishop of Barcelona has refused to act against a priest in his diocese who boasts openly of having financed abortions. Now, the priest is a subject of a new book: Fr. Manel: Closer to earth than to heaven, which describes the ever-growing popularity of his charitable work with Spanish celebrities. In addition to repeating his claim of having paid for abortions, Fr. Manel Pousa says he has performed “blessings” of homosexual unions, and endorses the creation of female “priests.” LifeSiteNews

Top academic: ‘More sex education is not the answer’

Professor Brenda Almond said that most five-year-olds have no interest in matters to do with sex and “wouldn’t even recognise the word.” And she believes that teenage pregnancies and other related problems “will not be solved” by more sex education. She went on to argue that children aged five to eight are “simply not emotionally ready for this sort of information.” Not only are their bodies not ready for sex, she said, but neither are their minds. “It plays no part in their lives and that, in my opinion, is exactly how it should stay.” Christian Institute

Abortion May Stall Next Continuing Resolution

The focus of the spending debate on Capitol Hill may be over how big the cuts should be, but House conservatives are threatening to sink a final deal on other grounds. More than a dozen House Republicans confirmed Wednesday that their vote on any long-term continuing resolution could well hinge on whether it includes language to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which offers abortion services. Roll Call

Later: New Continuing Resolution Funds Abortion, Planned Parenthood

President Barack Obama’s Pro-Abortion Record

Follow the link to a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency. While he promised to reduce abortions and some of his supporters believe that will happen, this long list proves his only agenda is promoting more abortions. LifeNews

The Cost of Abortion

Cost of Abortion. View more presentations from Baptists for Life, Inc.

Britain considers allowing 3-parent IVF technique

Britain is considering whether to approve a fertility treatment designed to prevent some incurable inherited diseases under which babies would be conceived from three biological parents. The method, developed by scientists at Newcastle University, swaps DNA between two fertilized human eggs. It involves intervening in the fertilisation process to remove malfunctioning mitochondrial DNA, which can lead to a range of conditions including fatal heart problems, liver failure, brain disorders, blindness and muscular weakness. Reuters

New Laws Work to Curb Teen Abortion Rates

A stunning new report that is sure to spur on GOP efforts in states and Washington to push for greater limits on abortion funding and availability finds that anti-abortion laws enacted since 1990 in some 34 states have helped to slash abortion rates by over 22 percent. The report, published in the scholarly State Politics & Policy Quarterly, found "solid evidence that anti-abortion legislation has an impact on the childbearing decisions of women." US News

Graphic sex ed needed, according to NEA

Graphic sex education for youth is the new battleground at the UN, as evidenced by side events during the past week at the Commission on the Status of Women. Diane Schneider, representing the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the US, advocated at the UN for more “inclusive” sex education in US schools, with curricula based on liberal hetero and homosexual expression. She claimed that the idea of sex education remains an oxymoron if it is abstinence-based, or if students are still able to opt-out. C-Fam

Focus on the Family quiet on cooperative efforts to reduce abortions

Focus on the Family president Jim Daly has called his Feb. 11 broadcast — when he asked abortion-rights supporters to work with his conservative Christian ministry on the shared goal of making abortion rare — his "least favorite but most important." Three weeks after that call to action, Focus officials won't say how outreach is progressing on one of the country's most divisive issues.

"Because we're at the first stages of our efforts, we're not ready to talk publicly about the meetings we've had," Focus spokeswoman Monica Schleicher said late Thursday. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains' spokeswoman Monica McCafferty said Friday there have been no overtures to her organization. Denver Post

Mitch Daniels Further Explains Social Issues-Abortion Truce

In an interview, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels called his suggestion that potential Republican presidential candidates put social issues on the back burner “a tactical suggestion.” He said the truce is meant to rally Americans around the notion that the next president must first and foremost address the national debt that greatly affects the nation’s economic future. Daniels also wants that commitment to be something that rallies Americans around the next Republican presidential candidate. LifeNews

Medicaid Is Worse Than No Coverage at All

Scott Gottlieb: Medicaid Is Worse Than No Coverage at All - WSJ.com: Federal rules say that everyone has to get the same package of benefits, regardless of health status, needs or personal desires. These rules reflect the ambition of liberal lawmakers who cling to the dogma that Medicaid should be a 'comprehensive' benefit. Because states are forced to offer everyone everything, the actual payment rates are driven so low that beneficiaries often end up with nothing in practice. Dozens of recent medical studies show that Medicaid patients suffer for it. In some cases, they'd do just as well without health insurance.

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The Prince of Wales records a passage for the YouTube Bible

The YouTube Bible is intended to create a complete and varied archive of readings from the KJB that are easily accessible online. Its creation was an ambitious project lasting five days, during which 400 actors, writers and volunteers read a passage from the KJB. Christian Institute

Senate Rejects House Bill De-Funding Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com

Senate Rejects House Bill De-Funding Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com: The Senate rejected, on a 44-56 vote, the House-approved long-term budget bill that contains the Pence Amendment de-funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. H.R. 1, the long-term Continuing Resolution that the House approved in February that contains the Pence Amendment and pro-life riders that reinstates the Mexico City Policy, stops abortion funding in the District of Columbia, and de-funds the pro-abortion UNFPA, which works hand-in-hand with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions to enforce the one-child policy.

Why Compensating Surrogate Mothers is the Right Thing to Do

Bioethics Forum blog - Why Compensating Surrogate Mothers is the Right Thing to Do: Should surrogates be paid for their work in gestating the children of others? In the United States, some states have banned surrogacy; others permit it, allowing nominal payment to cover only medical and incidental expenses. Why the resistance to actual compensation?

Charlie Rose Talks to Ray Kurzweil

Charlie Rose Talks to Ray Kurzweil - BusinessWeek: The author, inventor, and futurist says accelerating technology will soon bring us immortality—and all the energy the earth requires.

Colombians unite to support pro-life constitutional amendment

Colombian religions unite to support pro-life constitutional amendment | LifeSiteNews.com: Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, Jews, and Muslims are uniting to support a proposed pro-life amendment to Colombia’s constitution. This past November the Conservative Party promised to “introduce a constitutional reform bill to do away with abortion in Colombia.”