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Federation for Right to Life
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News Issue 090220
Friday, February 20, 2009
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STATE FOCA BILL INTRODUCED
The Illinois FOCA bill was
introduced as HB 2354
Now is the time to educate your representative, on the dangers of the
Freedom Of Choice Act (FOCA) and urge them to vote "NO" on HB 2354. If
Illinois should pass this bill, abortion would be enshrined as a right
in Illinois. We would not be able to have any of the following
protections:
1. Partial-birth abortion would be legal
2. There would be no conscience clause for health care workers in
Illinois.
3. There would be no informed consent/waiting period.
4. There would be no parental involvement.
5. Taxpayers would pay for abortions.
6. Presently Illinois has a physician only for abortion law. That would
be nullified, opening the doors for non-physician abortions.
FOCA states every woman has "a
fundamental right" to have an abortion, and no Illinois government may
deny or "interfere with" this right. Moreover, no government agency may
"discriminate against the exercise of this right when regulating or
providing "benefits, facilities, services, or information" to the
public. In other words abortion may not be treated differently from
live birth -- if a public program supports motherhood it must equally
support abortion. FOCA endangers a wide range of laws enacted by the
people and their elected Representatives over 35 years.
The time to Fight FOCA is now.
It is imperative that you contact your House representative and Senator
and tell them that you are opposed to this radical bill.
Our representatives are meeting this week in Springfield to develop
committees. As you know, every bill introduced needs a sponsor and a
bill number. It is then assigned to a particular committee. This
committee hears the bill and will vote to either kill the bill in
committee, or pass it out of committee, to the floor of the House or
Senate for a vote.
Now is the time to educate your senator and representative on FOCA....
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DAILY
NEWS FOR FRIDAY (see
below
for full articles)
Defending life becoming a hate crime?
National Institutes of Health Prepares for
Obama's Expected Approval of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Sebelius--Enemy of the Unborn--to HHS?
If abortion is murder, let's act like it
and tell it like it is
CEDAW Committee Pushes Rwanda, Libya,
Others to Legalize Abortion
African American Pastor Sentenced to Jail
for Counselling Women on Public Sidewalk
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NEWS
SHORTS FOR FRIDAY (more
below)
Secret Service Investigate Pro-Lifer Over
Sign
Pastor Gets 30 Days In Jail for Speaking to
Woman at California Abortion Clinic, Fined $1,130
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NEWS (in full)
Defending life becoming a hate crime?
At least five years ago, Planned Parenthood Chicago Area (PPCA)
organized a press conference with their contingent of pro-abortion
ministers. These ministers accused the Archdiocese of Chicago with
"harassment" of PPCA's customers by holding a prayer vigil with
hundreds of people in front of PPCA's abortion clinic at 1200 N.
LaSalle in Chicago.
At the same time a bill was being considered in Springfield (called the
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act) to outlaw "harassment" of
women entering abortion clinics. The bill did not define harassment,
but that press conference made it clear what they intended. The bill
did not pass and has not been re-introduced so far. Maybe the extra
insight provided at the press conference helped stop this bad bill.
Apparently, California was not so fortunate. California's 2004
"hate crimes" law (SB 1234) led to new training for police in
California. They now receive hate crimes training called
"multi-mission criminal extremism." A new category has been added
called "anti-reproductive-rights crimes." Pro-lifers are
automatically suspect.
This perspective of automatic suspicion is seen as a factor in the mid-January conviction
of Rev. Walter Hoye in Oakland. He was convicted of
"harassment" of both employees and patients of an abortion clinic
there. What was Hoye's real offense? He was effective at
reducing the abortionist's business by holding a sign with the message
"Jesus loves you and your baby" and offering assistance to women who
responded to his sign.
Last week, young people passing out Pro-Life literature to high school
students on the public sidewalk in Birmingham, AL were arrested and accused
of "criminal trespass." I suppose their literature was not
consistent with the agenda conveyed in the "comprehensive sex ed" these
students were getting in class, so this "inaccurate and unscientific"
literature could not be tolerated.
"Hate crimes" bills will soon be considered in the U.S. Congress.
All Americans who value freedom of speech should oppose these "hate
crimes" bills (H.R. 256
and H.R.
262). As shown above, Pro-Lifers may be especially at risk of
arrest and censorship under such "hate crimes" provisions, making these
bills a serious threat to our freedom of speech. If they became
law, they would hinder our ability to save babies from abortion, or
even to share Pro-Life information in public.
Sharing information that reflects negatively on any "legal" action
(e.g. abortion, morning-after pill, etc.) is seen as "hate speech"
because it effectively criticizes those who exercise these legal
rights. Such criticism might also stimulate others to act with
hate and violence. This "hate speech" is deemed to be criminal,
as in the "anti-reproductive-rights crime" of discouraging women from
getting abortions. That is how defending life can become a hate
crime. Do not stay silent now, or it may become illegal to say
anything later.
Contact: Bill Beckman
Source: Illinois Review
Source URL: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview
Publish Date: February 19, 2009
Link to this article:
http://www.ifrl.org/ifrl/news/090220_1.htm
National Institutes of Health Prepares
for Obama's Expected Approval of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are preparing new guidelines
for funding embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human life at
its earliest stages, the Washington Post reported today.
Although the Bush administration permitted such research on already
existing lines of embryonic stem cells, it prohibited the creation of
new stem cell lines. Advocates of the research anticipate,
however, that the Obama administration will lift this restriction soon,
although they are expressing some concern over what they perceive as a
delay in doing so.
"We were surprised and disappointed it wasn't in there," Amy Comstock
Rick of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research told the
Washington Post, referring to Obama's package of reforms during his
first week in office. "We're wondering why it's taking so long."
However, Obama administration senior advisor David Axelrod told Fox
News last Sunday that the president is considering issuing an executive
order, and that a decision would be coming soon. Earlier in the month
Obama himself said he would be issuing an executive order on stemcells.
"I guarantee you that we will sign an executive order for stem cells,"
he said at a meeting of Congressional Democrats, according to the
Washington Times.
Although embryonic stem cell researchers claim that embryonic stem
cells may someday be used to replace damaged tissue in patients, so far
the procedures haven't yielded a single cure, according to Dr Insoo
Hyun of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, who recently
told the Scotsman newspaper that "patients need to know there are no
proven therapies using embryonic stem cells."
In fact, thus far embryonic stem cell research has only produced
harmful results, a point highlighted by the case, currently being
widely reported on in the international news media, of an unnamed
Israeli boy whose parents took him to Russia for an embryonic stem cell
treatment for a neurological disorder. According to the Journal PLoS
Medicine, where a study on the case was published, the boy received
injections of embryonic stem cells taken from aborted fetuses directly
into his brain. He now suffers from brain tumors caused by the
stem cells.
The results in the case are similar to those of other embryonic stem
cell experiments, which have also resulted in tumors.
Sean Savitz, a neurologist at Houston's University of Texas Medical
School, recently told Scientific American that "there is simply not
enough evidence from animal studies, let alone human studies" to
indicate that embryonic stem cells can be used in medical therapies,
according to the magazine.
Savitz, who is doing research on adult stem cells, told Scientific
American that the difference between adult and embryonic stem cells is
that the former do not proliferate and grow, but die after conferring
their benefit, thus eliminating the possibility of tumor growth.
Adult stem cell research, which does not destroy human life, has been
approved for over one hundred treatments, and has been used to
reconstruct heart tissue, nerve tissue, a trachea, and other damaged
body parts.
Contact: Matthew Cullinan
Hoffman
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Source URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com
Publish Date: February 19,
2009
Link to this article:
http://www.ifrl.org/ifrl/news/090220_2.htm
Sebelius--Enemy of the Unborn--to HHS?
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a front-page story
in today's New York Times that says Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is
the president's top choice as secretary of health and human services:
"Almost all of those working in the Obama administration are
pro-abortion, and the expectation is that almost all future appointees
will be champions of abortion rights, as well. Fortunately, most are
not in a position to affect abortion policy. One glaring exception is
the secretary of health and human services. Unfortunately, Gov.
Sebelius, a Catholic, may get the job.
"Sebelius' support for abortion is so far off-the-charts that she has
been publicly criticized by the last three archbishops of Kansas City.
In 1992, when Sebelius was a state legislator, Archbishop Ignatius
Strecker rebuked her for leading what he dubbed a 'death-march of the
unborn.' When Sebelius became governor in 2003, Archbishop James
Keleher, citing her abortion record, asked her to move her inauguration
interfaith service from Topeka's Assumption Catholic Church. She
refused. The current archbishop, Joseph Naumann, called her out on the
issue: he challenged her to name one instance in her long legislative
career where she supported limiting abortion rights. She could not. He
subsequently asked her not to go to Communion.
"None of these archbishops overreacted. Not only does Sebelius support
the now outlawed practice of killing babies who are 80 percent born,
so-called partial-birth abortion, she has accepted donations from one
of the most notorious practitioners of this Nazi-style act--Dr. George
Tiller. Moreover, she even hosted a dinner for him in the Governor's
Mansion.
"Just yesterday, the pope admonished House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on this
issue. Now we have the specter of another pro-abortion Catholic
stiffing the Catholic Church. This is setting up a confrontation that
pro-life Catholics will not walk away from. It is also setting up a
battle between those Catholics who are honestly pro-life, and those who
feign a pro-life position while always embracing the likes of Sebelius."
Contact: Susan A. Fani
Source: Catholic League for Religious and Civil
Rights
Source URL: http://www.catholicleague.org
Publish Date: February 19, 2009
Link to this article:
http://www.ifrl.org/ifrl/news/090220_3.htm
If abortion is murder, let's act like it
and tell it like it is
Anti-life organizations incessantly portray pro-life and pro-family
activists as radical, right-wing, woman-hating, clinic-bombing,
Bible-thumping nuts.
Aside from simply being bitter, ignorant, domineering bullies, there is
a reason why this false façade is being carefully crafted and
propagated. See, the thing is, pro-aborts do not 'convert' people to be
pro-abortion. They assimilate. They target kids who are still in school
and inundate their world with false stereotypes of the angry
anti-choice extremists and the big, brave, beautiful pro-choicers.
Do you realize the enormity of this? Think about it. The group that
supports pedophilia, the Chinese forced-abortion program, child
pornography and third-trimester partial-birth abortions for convenience
have successfully labeled individuals who oppose child murder as the
extremists! These are the same psychos who view little old ladies with
rosary beads outside of abortion clinics as 'scary'.
It's laughable, but the youth of America fall for it.
It never ceases to amaze me how baffled students get on campuses after
meeting life activists. It's so surprising to them when the dangerous
anti-choice extremists are simply politely dialoguing with students and
providing facts-based information. Then things get really confusing
when the pro-life kids start getting verbally and physically assaulted
on all sides from the peace loving pro-choicers, bless their courageous
little hearts.
This false stereotype not only controls the ignorant youth of America,
its controlling pro-lifers as well. Too many activists are walking
around scared of asserting the truth of abortion for fear of falling
into this fabricated joke of a typecast. Too many people get overly
defensive and let the pro-aborts control them by playing along with the
semantic games. Words like 'murder', 'pro-abort' and 'baby killer' are
taboo and are dutifully replaced with words like 'decision',
'pro-choice' and 'abortionist'.
While we're off playing nice, groups like Planned Parenthood continue
to systematically attack, slander and smear the image of lifers - all
the while innocent children nationwide are being killed in nazi-esque
assembly lines. On college campuses - where the false image of
pro-lifers is most vital in its effectiveness - if abortion is spoken
of in anything other than glowing terms, you're considered an offensive
extremist who should be shunned by polite society.
Uh, question. Why should we worry about not offending the baby killers?
Killing babies offends me! If speaking the truth boldly is offensive,
then pro-lifers need to get offensive. If pro-aborts want to get nasty,
we can get nasty. At least our nasty doesn't end up in a bucket of
saline or a trash compacter.
We are battling against a wealth of lies and well formed propaganda
that is deceiving a nation. It's high time that pro-lifers shatter the
false stereotype of "anti-choice extremists" by pointing out who the
real extremists are and why.
When I call pro-choicers 'ignorant', it is only because they deny the
basics of elementary school biology, modern medical science and common
sense. (Ig.nor.ant -- 1. lacking education or knowledge; 2. unaware or
uninformed)
When I call pro-choicers 'violent', it is only because in the past six
years Human Life International has documented well over 8,500 acts of
violence and illegal activities by pro-aborts. These crimes include
homicides and other killings, arson, bombings, vandalism and physical
and verbal assaults. (Vi.o.lent -- 1. emotional agitation to the point
of loss of self-control; 2. prone to commit acts of force)
And when I call pro-choicers 'pathetic', it is only because anyone who
knowlingly supports the act of a helpless child being savagely ripped
apart and torn piece by bloody piece from its mothers' womb is a
pathetic human being. (Pa.thet.ic -- 1. miserably or contemptibly
inadequate; 2. causing or evoking pity, sadness or sorrow)
When society recognizes pro-aborts as such, how many impressionable
youth do you think will be jumping on the 'pro-choice' bandwagon? Their
harebrained logic should be ridiculed. Their idiocy should be laughed
at. False pro-life and pro-choice stereotypes need to be challenged.
But we will never win this battle against the preborn when we're
playing by their rules. What favors are we doing the youth of America
by censoring facts or jumping into the wordplay rhetoric that is the
triumph of Planned Parenthood? What good are we doing leaving
impressionable kids a safe haven in ignorance?
In late 2007 Jill Stanek conducted a poll in which she asked pro-lifers
how they viewed the term, 'pro-aborts'. 24.8% of respondents voted that
the phrase was, "Inappropriate, inaccurate and accomplishes nothing."
That's 24.8% of pro-lifers that need to grow a pair.
Pro-choice advocates advocate abortion. Therefore they are pro-aborts.
Abortionists know that they are killing babies. Therefore they are baby
killers. Who cares if they don't like these titles? Forget the word
games and tell it as it is. Why should we continue the ineffectual
coddling of the vilest aspects of the abortion community?
Mass idiocy persists because complacent people allow it to. If
anti-slavery activists insisted on the coddling of slave traders, slave
owners and dehumanizing rhetoric that many pro-lifers seem keen on
adopting for pro-choicers, we would still have slavery in our midst. We
are fighting for victims who do not have voices of their own. We don't
have time to play games and let supporters of mass baby slaughter sit
cozy in their cocoon of idiocy. If abortion is murder, let's act like
it and tell it like it is.
Contact: Gingi Edmonds
Source: Pro-Life Blogs
Source URL: http://www.prolifeblogs.com
Publish Date: February 20,
2009
Link to this article:
http://www.ifrl.org/ifrl/news/090220_4.htm
CEDAW Committee Pushes Rwanda, Libya,
Others to Legalize Abortion
Rwandan representative fires back, "Maybe we are caring more for those
who are living now than about planning to kill babies-to-come."
The committee in charge of overseeing state compliance with the
Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW) concluded its latest round of meetings, pressing all
eight delegations under review on their abortion policies even though
the treaty is silent on the subject. Dominica, Armenia, Haiti,
Cameroon, Libya, Rwanda, Germany and Guatemala were each questioned on
the issue when the committee met in Geneva last month.
In what has become standard practice for the CEDAW committee, members
attempted to forge links between high maternal mortality figures and
illegal or clandestine abortion in order to pressure states to change
their laws.
Committee members pressed Rwanda to hold public debates on its abortion
laws and asked if there were any plans related to abortion for girls.
The Rwandan representative fired back, "Maybe we are caring more for
those who are living now than about planning to kill babies-to-come."
Prior to the meeting, the committee sent written questions to
delegations and asked Cameroon to account for how they have implemented
CEDAW's previous recommendations to "review the abortion law and
increase access to, and availability of, contraception." In its written
response, the government of Cameroon chastised the committee for
attempting to "elevate" abortion to the rank of a human right.
In addition to Cameroon and Rwanda, Haiti and Guatemala were also
specifically told to review and amend their laws regarding abortion in
the committee's concluding recommendations.
Abortion is not mentioned in the treaty and CEDAW committee members
maintain officially that the treaty is abortion-neutral. Delegations
often go along with the committee's line of questioning on abortion by
providing data and answering queries on the subject during their
reviews with the understanding that the questions are not based upon
obligations of the treaty, but on committee members' personal
interpretations of treaty.
While the committee claims neutrality on abortion, it has taken it upon
itself to reinterpret the hard-law treaty to include abortion in the
treaty's provision which calls for a right to health. The
recently-released CEDAW committee annual report details the reviews of
16 countries in 2008. Nine of those countries were pressed to
liberalize or amend their abortion laws. In the case of Slovakia,
the CEDAW committee went further and criticized the state for
protecting the right of health care workers to object to performing
abortions as a matter of conscience.
As one of the only remaining countries that has not ratified CEDAW, the
United States (US) has come under increasing pressure to do so. New US
President Barack Obama has already indicated that he would push for
ratification. Proponents of US ratification, like pro-abortion US
Senator Barbara Boxer, remain adamant that abortion is not part of
CEDAW, despite evidence that CEDAW committee members think otherwise.
The CEDAW committee will next meet in New York in July to review
Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Denmark, Guinea Bissau, Lao People's
Democratic Republic, Japan, Liberia, Spain, Switzerland, Timor L'Este
and Tuvalu. Of those countries, four have already been sent
preliminary queries regarding abortion.
Contact: Samantha Singson
Source: C-FAM LifeSiteNews.com
Source URL: http://www.c-fam.org http://www.lifesitenews.com
Publish Date: February 20,
2009
Link to this article:
http://www.ifrl.org/ifrl/news/090220_5.htm
African American Pastor Sentenced to Jail
for Counselling Women on Public Sidewalk
Yesterday Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley, California was sentenced to
serve 30-days in county jail after being found guilty on January 15,
2009, of unlawfully approaching a person entering an abortion facility
in Oakland.
The court is allowing Hoye to serve his time by an alternative method
such as community service. Hoye was also fined a total of $1,130 and
ordered to stay away from the abortion facility.
"It is absolutely incredible that in America an individual can be
sentenced to jail for engaging in peaceful free speech activity on a
public sidewalk," remarked Allison Aranda, Staff Counsel for Life Legal
Defense Foundation, which is representing Hoye. "We will appeal."
The African-American pastor is the founder of the Issues4Life
Foundation and an outspoken opponent of the genocide of unborn African
Americans. He had been accustomed since early 2007 to picket alone or
with two other women on the public sidewalk in front of Oakland's
abortion clinic and counsel incoming patients, holding a sign reading,
"Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help."
Last spring, however, Oakland city council members passed an ordinance
concerning "Access to Reproductive Health Care Facilities." The law
prohibits anyone from approaching within eight feet of women entering
an abortion facility, without their consent. The maximum penalty was
established as one year in jail and/or a $2000 fine.
Hoye was arrested in May 2008 and charged with intimidating the
abortuary staff, in addition to violating the distance rule, and was
issued a restraining order. The intimidation order was later
dropped after video evidence showed that abotuary staff had lied about
Hoye's behavior in front of the facility.
According to 2004 statistics from the National Center for Health
Statistics, about 37 percent of pregnancies of black women end in
abortion, compared with 12 percent for non-Hispanic white women and 19
percent for Hispanic women.
Attorneys Catherine Short and Mike Millen, who also represented Rev.
Hoye at trial, are also engaged in a lawsuit challenging the
constitutionality of the ordinance and are hopeful it will be struck
down.
For more details about Rev. Hoye's case go to http://www.lldf.org.
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Source URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com
Publish Date: February 20,
2009
Link to this article:
http://www.ifrl.org/ifrl/news/090220_6.htm
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NEWS
SHORTS FOR FRIDAY
Disclaimer:
The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not
necessarily represent the views of The Illinois Federation for Right to
Life. They are presented only for your information.
Secret Service Investigate Pro-Lifer Over
Sign
The police officers who stopped
Oklahoma City motorist Chip Harrison and confiscated a sign from his
car told him he has a right to his beliefs, but the Secret Service
"could construe this as a threat against President Obama," according to
the incident report released this morning. The sign, which read "Abort
Obama Not the Unborn," was returned to Harrison later that day, the
report said. According to Harrison, the supervisor said the Secret
Service had been contacted on the matter and had told them the sign was
not a threat to the president. But his run-in with the law wasn't over
yet. ''The Secret Service called and said they were at my house,"
Harrison said. After talking to his attorney, Harrison went home where
he met the Secret Service. ''When I was on my way there, the Secret
Service called me and said they weren't going to ransack my house or
anything ... they just wanted to (walk through the house) and make sure
I wasn't a part of any hate groups."
http://www.newsok.com/okc-officer-pulls-man-over-for-anti-obama-sign-on-vehicle/article/3347038?custom_click=headlines_widget
Pastor Gets 30 Days In Jail for
Speaking to Woman at California Abortion Clinic, Fined $1,130
The Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley,
California was sentenced to serve 30 days in county jail and fined
$1,130.00 by Judge Hing of the Alameda Superior Court after being found
guilty on January 15, 2009, of unlawfully approaching a person entering
an abortion clinic in Oakland. The court is allowing Rev. Hoye to serve
his time by an alternative method like community service. Rev. Hoye was
also ordered to stay away from the clinic. However, Rev. Hoye refused
this term of probation and would not agree to a stay-away order.
Nonetheless, the judge is having the order drawn up and refused to
accept Rev. Hoye’s decision not to agree to the stay-away order. "It is
absolutely incredible that in America an individual can be sentenced to
jail for engaging in peaceful free speech activity on a public
sidewalk," remarked Allison Aranda, Staff Counsel for Life Legal
Defense Foundation. Allison Aranda further stated "Rev. Hoye has a
legal right to refuse onerous conditions of probation. Rev. Hoye will
not and should not agree to give up his free speech rights. We will
appeal."
http://lldf.org/articles/Press_Rel_090219_Walter_Hoye_Sentenced
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