As everyone reading this will know, a 6.3 earthquake hit Christchurch just before 1pm on the 22nd of February. As far as I know, all those involved in Pro-life Canterbury and their family and friends are okay, although the death toll now is over 100 with many more missing.
I’m going to use this blog post to give some quick information. Most of us are currently busy in some regard with repairing and clearing things through groups such as the UC Student Volunteer Army. If you also wish to do something, but can’t directly, you can always donate money to the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal through the Red Cross.
Obviously O-Week was cancelled so we won’t be running the Pro-life stall this year (unless another O-Week replacement comes up). The University of Canterbury also won’t be open to at least after the 14th of March.
As we as a city (and nation) try to get up on our feet again, please pray for us and support us in whatever way you can.
According to CHINAdaily.com, China has now become only the second country to become officially recognized as a qualified member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
The only other country to hold qualified member status is New Zealand – or more precisely, the NZ Family Planning Association.
I wonder what Kiwis think about the fact that the NZ Family Planning Association is now keeping official company with a regime which denies couples the right to choose their family size, which forces women to have abortions, and which imprisons and tortures activists who speak out against these practices?
I also can’t help but wonder how the heck China could even become a qualified member of the IPPF.
The IPPF states on its website that they committed to the following principles:
* We believe that sexual and reproductive rights should be internationally recognized as human rights and therefore guaranteed for everyone.
* We encourage individuals, women in particular, to take control of their reproductive lives.
* We promote equality between men and women, aiming to eliminate gender biases, especially those that threaten the well-being of women and girls.
* Above all we promote choices.
How the heck does 35,000 forced abortions a day, and government restricted fertility square away with any of these guiding principles?!!!!!
Scary.
Family Planning Association Withdraws Application for Abortion Licence to Kill Unborn Children
The New Zealand Family Planning Association has withdrawn its application to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for a licence to perform abortions at its Hamilton Clinic. This information was released by the Committee today to Right to Life New Zealand. The Society is delighted with this information which is a victory for a culture of life and good news for the women of the Waikato and their unborn children.
The Association had made the application on 27 September 2009. The application has been vigorously opposed by Right to Life. The application was also strongly opposed by groups of concerned citizens of the Waikato who sent petitions to Parliament. This victory is an encouragement to the rest of New Zealand that the threat of a culture of death posed by Family Planning can be defeated.
The Association hoped ultimately, to provide abortions at all of its 30 clinics in New Zealand. The Association’s intention was to provide medical abortions during the first nine weeks of pregnancy using the lethal drug RU 486. The drug acts by killing the tiny human being by starvation.
Hamilton was the battleground that the Association chose and they have lost. It is time for New Zealand to awaken from its sleep. We are engaged in a war against our own children. It is hoped that we have heard the last of Family Planning in its objective to provide our community with 30 killing centres for the unborn.
It is shameful that the Waikato District Health Board enthusiastically supported Family Planning’s application and were prepared to provide the Association with taxpayer funding for the abortions that they would have performed.
Right to Life believed that it would be unlawful for the Committee to issue an abortion licence to the Association. Our Society had recently instructed counsel to make application to the High Court in Wellington for a case stated to seek the opinion of the Court on the meaning of the a relevant section of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act, this action has now been withheld.
Family Planning falsely claim that chemical abortions are safe and that they are offering women a choice. A study published in Finland found that women who underwent chemical abortions were four times more likely to suffer physical complications compared to women who underwent surgical abortions. 20 percent of women suffered complications after chemical abortions compared to 5.6 percent of women who had surgical abortions. The most common complications were haemorrhage (which occurred among 15.6 percent of women having chemical abortions compared to 2.1 percent of women having surgical abortions) and incomplete abortion (6.7 percent compared with 1.2 percent). There have been twelve maternal deaths worldwide from chemical abortions. There is believed to be considerable under- reporting of complications and maternal.
From the Examiner.com…
Justin Bieber was asked in his “Rolling Stone” interview about his thoughts on abortion after a rape? Justin said, “everything happens for a reason,” but I have never been in that situation so I cannot judge.” This line really seemed to set the ladies off. They feel that Justin Bieber has so much influence on young girls and his opinion may sway theirs.
“The View” was once a show that respected other’s views on subjects. In recent months the view has become more of a closed minded show, evident when a few of the ladies walked off the set when Bill O’Reilly said something they did not agree with a few months back. Now Justin Bieber’s view differs from theirs so not only is Justin Bieber to blame but so is the interviewer who asked these “inappropriate questions?”
Whether or not you agree with Justin Bieber’s opinions on abortion issues, he still has a right to them. His opinion would have been for one side of the argument or the other. The argument is usually those who are for abortion and those who are against abortion. Justin Bieber just happens to be one of the people who is against abortion.
Is it because his opinion was not the same as the ladies of “The View” that they painted Justin Bieber’s interview as somewhat of mistake at his age? Would they have been more receptive if Justine Bieber took the opposite stand, and his view went along with their views on abortion?
From Lifesite…
In a historic vote Friday afternoon, the US House voted to strike all federal funding for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Every year the abortion giant receives hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding.
The congressional body voted 240-185 in favor of the amendment, introduced by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), to the 2011 Federal Spending Bill.
Immediately after the vote Rep. Pence released a statement saying: “This afternoon’s vote is a victory for taxpayers and a victory for life. By banning federal funding to Planned Parenthood, Congress has taken a stand for millions of Americans who believe their tax dollars should not be used to subsidize the largest abortion provider in America.
“I commend my colleagues in both parties for taking a stand for taxpayers and a stand for life.”
The amendment will now go before the Senate.
The vote came after a heated debate in the House. It also comes in the wake of an explosive series of videos released over the last two weeks by the pro-life organization Live Action, which showed Planned Parenthood staff repeatedly willing to aid and abet the trafficking of underage “sex workers” by offering advice to an undercover investigator posing as a “pimp” on how to obtain secret abortions, contraception, and STD tests.
In a web page released right after the vote, Planned Parenthood called the legislation “the most dangerous legislative assault in our history, and it cannot go unanswered.” In an open letter to Congress that the organization is asking supporters to sign, the abortion giant says: “To every member of Congress, know that we stand together today against this outrageous assault, and together we will not lose.”
The National Catholic Register has reported that…
Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, an obstetrician who oversaw the performance of about 75,000 abortions before becoming a leading pro-life advocate and a convert to the Catholic faith, died after a prolonged battle with cancer this morning in New York. He was 84.
After performing his last abortion in 1979 and declaring himself to be pro-life, Nathanson produced the 1985 film The Silent Scream, which shows sonogram images of a child in the womb shrinking from an abortionist’s instruments, and the documentary film Eclipse of Reason, which displays and explains various abortion procedures in graphic detail. Both films had a significant impact on the abortion debate, solidified his credentials among pro-life advocates and earned him the scorn of his former pro-abortion friends and colleagues.
He also published a number of influential books, including Aborting America, written in 1979 with Richard Ostling, then a religion reporter for Time magazine, in which he exposed the deceptive and dishonest beginnings of the pro-abortion movement and undermined the argument that abortion is safe for women.
He often admitted that he and other abortion advocates in the 1960s lied about the number of women who died from illegal abortions at that time, inflating the figure from a few hundred to 10,000 to gain sympathy for their cause.
In his 1996 autobiography The Hand of God, he told the story of his journey from pro-abortion to pro-life, saying that viewing images from the new ultrasound technology in the 1970s convinced him of the humanity of the unborn baby. Outlining the enormous challenge of restoring a pro-life ethic, he wrote, “Abortion is now a monster so unimaginably gargantuan that even to think of stuffing it back into its cage … is ludicrous beyond words. Yet that is our charge — a herculean endeavor.”
He noted, regretfully, “I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.”
Dr. Bernard Nathanson was one of the important figures in the founding of the modern pro-life movement, and he was a truly great campaigner for the rights of unborn human beings.
If you haven’t already read it, then I would highly recommend you read ‘The Hand of God‘, which is the biography detailing his conversion from abortionist and pro-abortion activist to pro-life doctor strongly opposed to abortion. The Hand of God really is one of the must-read books for those passionate about all things pro-life.
Réquiem ætérnam dona eis Dómine;
et lux perpétua lúceat eis.
Requiéscant in pace.
Amen.
Eternal rest, grant unto him, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May they he rest in peace.
Amen.
From Care2makeadifference.com…
Two recent studies offer some information about how American women end their own pregnancies. Both note that only a small percentage of women have attempted to abort without the help of medical practitioners, though it should be kept in mind that this is the sort of information that many prefer not to speak about. Reviewing the studies in Slate, Sharon Lerner writes that, after the passage of Roe v. Wade, ‘interest in self-help abortion methods inevitably faded’—but news reports suggest that self-induced abortions might be on the rise.
About the two studies: A study in the current issue of American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology surveyed 9,493 women at health care facilities that provide abortions; more than 2 percent had tried to induce abortions on their own. In the other study, published in Reproductive Health Matters, 1,425 women responded to surveys in clinic waiting rooms, with 4.6 percent saying they had tried to induce their own abortions.
Of the women surveyed, there was a preference for ‘natural—or at least natural-seeming—methods’ including
various herbs, vitamin C, birth control pills, laxatives, and a beverage cart worth of strange concoctions, including coffee with lemon, warm Coca-Cola with baking soda, various syrups, and Malta, a wheat soda
The researchers were first interested in the use of the ulcer medication misoprostol to self-induce an abortion, as this drug causes uterine contractions and is used by doctors along with mifepristone (RU-486), to induce medical abortions early in pregnancy. However, the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that less than half the women surveyed used misoprostol.
If this is correct, then this presents yet another challenge to the pro-abortion rhetoric that legalizing abortion reduces the rate of unsafe abortions (of course they will try and blame parents and lack of access to abortion for this, but it’s hard to see how such rhetoric could be supported in the USA).
Late last night the Women’s National Abortion Action Campaign (WONAAC), a NZ pro-abortion lobby group, issued a press release expressing great angst about the fact that the NZ Family Planning Association (NZ FPA) didn’t get permission from the Abortion Supervisory Committee (ASC) to start carrying out RU-486 chemical abortions on women in NZ.
Here’s a segment of the press release…
“The Committee should have told the public immediately as this withdrawal suggests the clinic could not comply with legal conditions. Instead the Committee gave the impression in its Annual Report it wanted earlier medical abortions to be more widely available. What on earth is going on?”
Hold on a minute WONAAC, surely it’s not the job of the ASC to announce to the public that a party, who voluntarily applied to them seeking an abortion license, has subsequently withdrawn from the application process.
If you must be angry at anyone, then how about getting angry at the NZ FPA for not announcing their withdrawal?
Besides, aren’t you pro-abortion groups actually talking to each other?
Shouldn’t you have known about this before the news broke in the public arena?
After all, you have been a public supporter of this license application?
Maybe the NZ FPA was trying to tactically hide their withdrawal from the public, you know, trying to save face and all that.
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