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Pro-life Bible studies

Looking for materials for adults that teach the sanctity of human life? I've just compiled a bunch of resources -- from our website and others -- that you can use or adapt for Bible studies, devotionals, and Sunday school classes.

California Funds More Adult Stem Cell Research

California Funds Less Embryonic, More Adult Stem Cell Research | LifeNews.com: "The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is spending $3 billion of California taxpayers’ money on stem cell research. Their reason for existence originally was to fund embryonic stem cell and cloning research. This week they approved funding for 19 grants worth $67 million. Only 5 of the 19 funded grants involve embryonic stem cells. Zero grants on cloned embryos.

Responding to: How Dare You Compare Abortion to The Holocaust or Slavery?

Responding to: How Dare You Compare Abortion to The Holocaust or Slavery? | LifeNews.com: The reason places like Auschwitz are open for the public is to guarantee that we understand the horror of what took place in the death camps. This is precisely the reason we use such imagery. We want to the world to understand that what makes us so sick about Jewish Holocaust is precisely what makes us sick about the Abortion Holocaust.

Are the Unborn Persons?

Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner

Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner: Unlike gold and platinum, life does not have value in itself, a member of the House of Lords and a campaigner for assisted suicide said in a televised debate last week. Medical professionals need to change their attitude towards assisted suicide, to take into account the wishes of patients who request to die, said Baroness Mary Warnock, known in Britain as the “philosopher queen” of bioethics.

“There is no moral justification why the opinions of judges, lawyers and doctors should override those of the patient [who has expressed a wish to die],” she said. “The mission of doctors is to help people, to make their lives better not worse. Sometime death is more desirable than life.”

Webcast: Chastity v. Sex in the City

Family Research Council: One of the strengths of the West that comes straight from Christianity (embodied in all its divergent nations' laws) is monogamy: one man and one woman channeling their sexuality exclusively. For the last 200 years there has been an assault on monogamy as part of the agenda to change the West. Polyandry (multiple partners) is the competition. It is a totally different culture, and a much weaker one, but very aggressive in its agenda.

Webcast at noon, October 27. Register to listen in.

Sanger's 'Negro Project' alive and well

RegularFolksUnited.com: The Bully Pulpit for Regular Folks: Not all of today’s “colored ministers” are sold out to the “Negro Project,” however, and they must be having an effect, because Planned Parenthood is looking to hire someone whose direct focus is on the black community. If that doesn’t indicate an inordinate focus on blacks as abortion targets, then what does it mean? Why do they need someone to deliver their message specifically to black people?

Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic

Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic - USATODAY.com: For all the emotional debate that began about a decade ago on allowing the use of embryonic stem cells, it's adult stem cells that are in human testing today. An extensive review of stem cell projects and interviews with two dozen experts reveal a wide range of potential treatments.

Editor: As we've been saying . . .

New Study Confirms Overwhelming Death Rate of IVF Human Embryos

New Study Confirms Overwhelming Death Rate of IVF Human Embryos: Researchers reviewed all the in vitro fertilization cycles conducted at Shady Grove between 2004 and 2008. In 14,324 IVF cycles, clinicians retrieved 192,991 eggs. Initially, 110,939 of the eggs were successfully fertilized. However, only 44,282 continued to develop into 'viable embryos.'

Usual IVF practice is to implant just one or two living embryos into the womb per IVF cycle, with the others being frozen. 'Using the most optimistic set of assumptions that all the frozen embryos will eventually be used,' the ASRM report says, 'this will result in 8,366 babies. Thus, only 7.5% of all the fertilized eggs will go on to become live-born children.'

In reality the frozen human embryos are more likely to be used in research or abandoned, rather than be allowed to continue growing in their mother's womb.

ObamaCare: The Facts On Abortion

PRI president Steven Mosher explains how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to pose a major threat to the unborn in America, despite claims by the president and other Democrats that an Executive Order Obama signed addressed pro-life leaders' concerns.

PRI uses YouTube's annotation system to insert a series of digital “footnotes” into the video, allowing viewers to instantly access the sources for the video's information.

Fewer People Mean Less Government Cost

Fewer People Mean Less Government Cost: Planned Parenthood President: The president of Planned Parenthood has argued that the new federal health care reform ought to consider funding all contraception with taxpayer dollars because preventing new children leads to less government expense. Cecile Richards said although the costs of the federal health care bill already promise to skyrocket out of control, federal officials ought to consider covering birth control a priority because of the 'cost savings' benefit of fewer children being born.

Pro-Abortion – Anti-Spanking: Our Future America?

Destroy The Fetus – Save The Tooshy – Pro-Abortion – Anti-Spanking – Our Future America? � Michigan Conservatives Network: The same individuals against spanking, tend to be the ones who are for a woman's right to suck a living human being out of her womb, all under the guise of 'choice.'

Get to Know: I Am Music for Life

I Am Music For Life is a radio program that plays exclusively pro-life music. Peter Jorgensen writes: "It is my mission to have music that is; pro-life, pro-family, pro-adoption and pro-support of single parents as an alternative to abortion, played for as many listeners as possible. I started I Am Music for life in March of 1991, and it’s played on Saturday evenings at 9 through a Christian radio station in Cohoes, NY (WHAZ 97.4 FM).

"The current airing of the programs costs $100/ month. I’m asking for your support in this endeavor, and as support is received, I will have the program played in more and more areas throughout this wonderful God-fearing country of ours."

Richard Land talks about abortion in the African-American community

 

Listen to this Richard Land Live episode with Walter Hoye, president of Issues 4 Life, as they discuss abortion in the African-American community. Find more information on Maafa21 and how you can purchase the DVD.

Key Legal Issues - The Ten Commandments for Churches and Religious Organizations

ECFA Event Registration: November 11 - Online/Telephone Webinar - 60 Minute Session starting at 1:00 PM Eastern. Join us for a discussion about key legal issues for the church and nonprofits with Frank Sommerville, attorney with Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, P.C.

Abortion advocacy in a burqa?

Frances Kissling in a burqa? - Jill Stanek: Frances Kissling, for years the president of Catholics for Choice and now a visiting scholar at U of PA Center for Bioethics, recently said: "I don’t care how you accomplish it [the right to abortion], whether through a constitution, the UN, state laws or federals laws, or by the Taliban."

Blogger Jill Stanek notes that "the Taliban engages in the worst societal treatment of women." Why on earth would a feminist like Kissling expect, seek, or accept their help?

Barney Frank: Save abortion by saving me!

Barney Frank: Save abortion by saving me! | Washington Examiner: How hot is the race in Rep. Barney Frank’s Massachusetts district becoming? Hot enough that he’s putting out more flags.

Heavyweight Philosophers Clash at Abortion Conference

Heavyweight Philosophers Clash at Abortion Conference � Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute: A baby's cry, piercing the air from the back of an Ivy League academic hall, offered a disquieting counterpoint to a startling argument for abortion rights.

“An infant has no moral status because he is not self-aware,” said Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics. Singer argued this point at an historic conference he co-organized at Princeton University last weekend, seeking new dialogue on the heated issue of abortion. Remarkably, for a conference examining abortion, there was virtually no discussion about the act of abortion itself.

“We have to get rid of the idea of evil,” said Frances Kissling, an abortion rights advocate turned bioethics scholar, who also organized the conference.

Morality put to the test - New Scientist

Special report: Morality put to the test - New Scientist

Can science determine morality? It can and should, according to a special feature in New Scientist. Until recently, morality was the special preserve of philosophers and theologians. However, modern science is showing us the true basis of morality, which is variously regarded as neurology, evolution or genetics.

Admittedly, this is a fearsome thought for people who believe that morality collapses without a divine leglislator. However, Harvard University’s Fiery Cushman insists that this is not so: “Rather, by unmasking our minds as the authors of morality, we may be better able to bend its narrative arc towards a happy end.” In fact, he says, “By recognising morality as a property of the mind, we gain a magical power of control over its future.”

Related: Morals Without God?

Church Awareness Survey Shows Need for More Awareness and Outreach on Abortion Issues

News: Most respondents -- about 73 percent -- said that preaching on abortion was rarely or never done in their church or place of worship. Only about 19 percent of respondents said that their pastor or religious leaders regularly preached on abortion.

We also asked whether people in your churches (including your pastor or other religious leaders) are aware that most abortions are unwanted or coerced or know about the spiritual and emotional impact of abortion on women and men. Most respondents were either not sure or didn't think this was known in their churches. Less than a quarter of respondents felt that these issues were adequately known and addressed in their churches.

Black Youth Are Politically Involved, Conservative

Black Youth Are Politically Involved, Critical of Rap Music: Black youth consistently hold the most conservative views on questions of premarital sex, homosexuality and abortion. Among black youth, 42 percent felt that sex before marriage is wrong, compared with 28 percent of whites and 32 percent of Latinos. The survey also found that 47 percent of black youth feel that abortion is always wrong, compared with 34 percent of whites and 46 percent of Latinos. Black youth with more religious backgrounds were more likely to hold conservative opinions.

First fertility show for single and gay people

BioNews - First fertility show for single and gay people: The first parenthood show for gay and single people was held on Saturday in London. The Alternative Families Show featured seminars about fertility treatment, adoption, surrogacy, and other options for starting a family. Legal rights, schooling and other social issues were also covered.

'Octomum' doctor implanted 12 embryos

BioNews - 'Octomum' doctor implanted 12 embryos: Evidence put before the Medical Board of California, the state licensing body, revealed how medical records at the time indicated Dr Kamrava had transferred 12 embryos in providing IVF (in vitro fertilisation) to Nadya Suleman. On questioning, Dr Kamrava apologised saying Ms Suleman had insisted on this number and had consented to fetal reduction if it became necessary. He told the hearing he had been 'apprehensive' but had decided to go along with his patient's wishes after advising her of the risks involved. The disclosure contradicts Ms Suleman's earlier assertions that only six embryos were implanted, two of which split leading to eight children born in January 2009.

Bulletin insert samples in the mail soon!

Pro-Life to the Core!

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Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is January 23, 2011

These inserts are for individual churches; they give information about Baptists for Life. Pregnancy care centers that wish to customize inserts for their supporting churches need to order the version that comes in bundles of 500.