NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY
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Birth control needed to stop climate change, argues UN Population Fund
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has released its annual report, hinting that the causes of "sustainable development" and managing climate change require greater emphasis on family-planning programs. The report argues that "universal access to reproductive health" would help to conserve economic resources and reduce carbon emissions, drawing the world back from a "possible climate disaster zone."
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Germany Faces Economic Downturn with Plummeting Birth Rate and Aging Population
ROME - Germany, the juggernaut of the European economic scene, could be facing a critical downturn over the next five decades because of its dramatically shrinking birth rate and dropping population, a new government report has said. The falling and aging population will result in the eventual disintegration of Germany's generous social welfare programmes, including old-age pensions, the report warns.
The Federal Statistics Office projected a drop in population from 82 million in 2008, the largest in the European Union, to between 65 million and 70 million. By 2060, 34 percent of the population will be older than 65 and 14 percent will be 80 or more, up from 20 percent and 5 percent respectively last year.
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Knife Pulled on Pro-Lifer
As sidewalk counselors "demonstrated" outside of a Duluth abortion mill they were given a frightening reminder of the violent nature of abortion:
Duluth police say a 25-year-old Superior woman is in custody after she allegedly pulled a knife on one of the demonstrators and held it to the woman's throat. While protesters have demonstrated outside the building many times before, the facility says Tuesday's incident is rare and isolated.
Just before 8:00, demonstrators say they confronted a woman as she was going into the Building For Women on 1st. Street.
"We asked the women 'please don't take the life of your unborn baby we care about what happens to them,'" said Leah Winandy, a demonstrator outside the building.
The demonstrators say that's when the woman brandished a knife at Winandy.
"She said 'don't do this,don't talk to me, don't come near me' and I just said 'fear god,' and she had the knife to my throat and I was a little nervous," Leah said.
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Fr. Frank Pavone announces stunning new video of unborn children
It's light years beyond ultrasound and will make you practically fall off your chair when you see it.
We at Priests for Life are now promoting and distributing to every sector of the Church and the pro-life movement the most vivid, powerful, and striking videography of the unborn child that exists. Obtained through a rarely used technique called embryoscopy, in which a video camera the size of a pen-point is inserted abdominally or cervically, this video footage has been incorporated into a 42-minute video called "The Biology of Prenatal Development," now available from Priests for Life.
You can see segments of this imagery at Priests for Life's special website www.Unborn.info.
Click here for the full article.
Planned Parenthood Fulfilling Founder's Vision
When Margaret Sanger, famous birth control activist, founded Planned Parenthood in 1916, her vision for society was not unlike another notable historical figure of the past who believed in the self-direction of human evolution. Adolph Hitler. A controversial eugenicist, Margaret Sanger believed, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." The following quote appeared in the introduction to Margaret Sanger's 1922 book, "The Pivot of Civilization": "We want fewer and better children who can be reared up to their full possibilities in unencumbered homes, and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us."
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Abortions Soar 25% among UK Children aged 14
The number of 14-year-old British girls having abortions has soared by almost a quarter in only two years. Department of Health figures show that 166 girls of that age aborted their babies last year, compared with 135 in 2006. For 15-year-olds, the number was up 16 per cent over seven years. Britain's teen pregnancy figures are the worst in Western Europe, despite (or perhaps because of) a raft of failed Government initiatives. Earlier this year, the public learned that young girls on a £5.9m state-sponsored programme to cut pregnancies among poorer teens had instead "significantly" increased the likelihood of their becoming pregnant.
Click here for the full article.
(Referral to Web sites not produced by The Illinois Federation for Right to LIfe is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the sites' content.)
Birth control needed to stop climate change, argues UN Population Fund
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has released its annual report, hinting that the causes of "sustainable development" and managing climate change require greater emphasis on family-planning programs. The report argues that "universal access to reproductive health" would help to conserve economic resources and reduce carbon emissions, drawing the world back from a "possible climate disaster zone."
Click here for the full article.
Germany Faces Economic Downturn with Plummeting Birth Rate and Aging Population
ROME - Germany, the juggernaut of the European economic scene, could be facing a critical downturn over the next five decades because of its dramatically shrinking birth rate and dropping population, a new government report has said. The falling and aging population will result in the eventual disintegration of Germany's generous social welfare programmes, including old-age pensions, the report warns.
The Federal Statistics Office projected a drop in population from 82 million in 2008, the largest in the European Union, to between 65 million and 70 million. By 2060, 34 percent of the population will be older than 65 and 14 percent will be 80 or more, up from 20 percent and 5 percent respectively last year.
Click here for the full article.
Knife Pulled on Pro-Lifer
As sidewalk counselors "demonstrated" outside of a Duluth abortion mill they were given a frightening reminder of the violent nature of abortion:
Duluth police say a 25-year-old Superior woman is in custody after she allegedly pulled a knife on one of the demonstrators and held it to the woman's throat. While protesters have demonstrated outside the building many times before, the facility says Tuesday's incident is rare and isolated.
Just before 8:00, demonstrators say they confronted a woman as she was going into the Building For Women on 1st. Street.
"We asked the women 'please don't take the life of your unborn baby we care about what happens to them,'" said Leah Winandy, a demonstrator outside the building.
The demonstrators say that's when the woman brandished a knife at Winandy.
"She said 'don't do this,don't talk to me, don't come near me' and I just said 'fear god,' and she had the knife to my throat and I was a little nervous," Leah said.
Click here for the full article.
Fr. Frank Pavone announces stunning new video of unborn children
It's light years beyond ultrasound and will make you practically fall off your chair when you see it.
We at Priests for Life are now promoting and distributing to every sector of the Church and the pro-life movement the most vivid, powerful, and striking videography of the unborn child that exists. Obtained through a rarely used technique called embryoscopy, in which a video camera the size of a pen-point is inserted abdominally or cervically, this video footage has been incorporated into a 42-minute video called "The Biology of Prenatal Development," now available from Priests for Life.
You can see segments of this imagery at Priests for Life's special website www.Unborn.info.
Click here for the full article.
Planned Parenthood Fulfilling Founder's Vision
When Margaret Sanger, famous birth control activist, founded Planned Parenthood in 1916, her vision for society was not unlike another notable historical figure of the past who believed in the self-direction of human evolution. Adolph Hitler. A controversial eugenicist, Margaret Sanger believed, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." The following quote appeared in the introduction to Margaret Sanger's 1922 book, "The Pivot of Civilization": "We want fewer and better children who can be reared up to their full possibilities in unencumbered homes, and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us."
Click here for the full article.
Abortions Soar 25% among UK Children aged 14
The number of 14-year-old British girls having abortions has soared by almost a quarter in only two years. Department of Health figures show that 166 girls of that age aborted their babies last year, compared with 135 in 2006. For 15-year-olds, the number was up 16 per cent over seven years. Britain's teen pregnancy figures are the worst in Western Europe, despite (or perhaps because of) a raft of failed Government initiatives. Earlier this year, the public learned that young girls on a £5.9m state-sponsored programme to cut pregnancies among poorer teens had instead "significantly" increased the likelihood of their becoming pregnant.
Click here for the full article.
