NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY 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. Bishop Warns of Obama's Promise to Implement Extreme "Freedom of Choice Act" Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, NJ penned a column for his diocesan website this week, warning his diocese of the possible implementation of the radical Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), particularly under a possible Obama presidency. In the article Bishop Serratelli compares Barack Obama to King Herod, the king during the life of Christ who ordered the beheading of John the Baptist in order to keep a promise he had made to Salome. Much like Herod, writes Serratelli, Obama has made a promise - to pass the Freedom of Choice Act. However, should Obama keep this promise, "not only will many of our freedoms as Americans be taken from us, but the innocent and vulnerable will spill their blood." The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is a bill introduced in the United States Congress in 2004. It would remove all restrictions on abortion in the United States, both on the state and federal level. "FOCA goes far beyond guaranteeing the right to an abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy. It arrogantly prohibits any law or policy interfering with that right," says Bishop Serratelli. This is the "dark reality" kept secret by propagandists for 'choice.' http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102108.html UK Rugby Star Suicide Generating Support for Euthanasia Movement Media coverage "one big Oprah show" to "short circuit" moral criticism Now that a young former rugby player has committed suicide at the Dignitas "clinic" in Zurich, the media is in a furore, defending the role his parents played in the act as a matter of "mercy." Assisted suicide is illegal in Britain and West Mercia Police have launched an investigation into the incident in which the parents of rugby player and student Daniel James reportedly accompanied their son to Switzerland for the purpose of helping him end his life. Daniel James was a 23 year-old rising rugby star and engineering student who became suicidal after becoming paralyzed from the chest down from a sports injury in March last year. James committed assisted suicide on September 12 at the infamous Swiss facility after being taken there by his parents. |
October 22, 2008
NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY
