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Population Research Institute has just released the second installment in its “Overpopulation Is a Myth” series— a slickly produced video that explains in easy-to-understand terms why underpopulation is the real looming demographic disaster.
I first saw this video earlier this week, and about an hour later I received an e-mail from a journalist in the UK asking for a brief comment for a story he was writing about a young British woman who, based on a belief that having children would have damaging effects on the quality of life of people already living, had decided to be sterilized.
The only thing I think I’ve ever learned about sex from TV is that it is pleasurable. And yet, somehow, Planned Parenthood thinks children have missed out on that factoid, and they need to be explicitly taught this in schools—beginning at age 10, according to a new study by the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
While God certainly created sex for pleasure, as John Paul II’s Theology of the Body teaches us, there’s more to it than that. Much, much more. And when it is separated from the bond of Holy Matrimony (and from an attitude of mutual self giving), the pleasure is fleeting and hardly amounts to much—and it’s more than outweighed by the risk of lifelong and even deadly STDs, out of wedlock pregnancies, and emotional devastation after he/she (almost inevitably) leaves you.
Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, writes in his introduction [pdf] to the study: “The whole world needs to accept that many young people, married and unmarried, are sexually active.” [Continue reading ...]
Planned Parenthood CEO in a Youtube response to the Tim Tebow ad
Suggest that someone made the right decision by keeping her baby.
I’m referring, of course, to the ad set to air during this Sunday’s Super Bowl telling the story of Pam Tebow, mother of Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, who chose to have her baby despite doctors telling her she should abort due to health concerns.
What’s most remarkable about the controversy surrounding this ad is that the pro-abortion choice ranks are being torn asunder by it.
Tuesday morning I took a phone call from a woman who asked if Ann Scheidler would be participating in the UNFPA/UNIFEM (the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Development Fund for Women) conference call that day.
I was rather surprised the Pro-Life Action League was invited in on such a call, so I asked Ann if I could take her place (Ann has been swamped with the details for the upcoming SpeakOut Illinois Conference). She RSVP’ed to the email address provided, telling them I would be on the call.
I called in, provided the password to the operator, told them I was calling on behalf of Ann Scheidler at the Pro-Life Action League, and was connected to the call.
Tamara Kreinin, the executive director for the UN foundation for Women and Population was leading the conference call. She began by saying that “pregnant women were the hardest hit” by the earthquake, and how particularly upsetting this was, since Haiti had been making major progress towards the Millennium Development goals.
Kreinin added that the lifetime risk of a Haitian woman dying in childbirth is huge: about 1 in 47. [Continue reading ...]
The New York Times, of all places, highlighted pro-life activists twice this weekend in features that are both well worth a look.
One article does a good job of attempting to understand what makes activists tick. It focuses on three individuals in particular and how they first got involved. One is Dan Brewer, who, before he became a Christian, recalls swearing at Jim Pouillon during one of his one-man protests in the early 1990s. (Jim, you may recall, was murdered last month while protesting abortion outside a high school in Owosso, Michigan.)
I came across two interesting statistics while reading this week that I though I’d share with you all.
First, from the Washington Post: “The number of abortion providers dropped from 2,908 in 1982 to 1,787 in 2005. Eighty-seven percent of counties in the United States and 31 percent of metropolitan areas have no abortion services.”
Sorry Ann didn’t make it on Fox News at 9:00 p.m. last Wednesday as anticipated. I heard the interview in our League parking lot as it was being filmed, and it was good.
She pointed out that 17-year-old girls should behave themselves, should not be using abortifacient drugs, and at the very least should consider that that Plan B is not only NOT a medication to help heal anything, but a real and serious danger to a young person’s health, can cause cancer and if nothing else, give one a false sense of “security” that may lead to more teenage sex, with all its heartbreak and diseases.
A report released today by the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, takes aim at the poor by recommending more government spending on programs to reduce the birth rate.
“The Guttmacher Institute and proponents of public funding of contraception apparently think that people are the greatest drain on our resources,” said Pro-Life Action League national director Joe Scheidler.
Two men wrote fantastic letters to the editor this week in support of our 2008 Face the Truth Tour.
Many thanks to Mark Whitfield, who wrote in to the Rockford Register Star, “If people take offense to a few pictures, well, let’s just say I consider that a small price to pay to stop the slaughter.”
New evidence has surfaced this week that the junior senator from Illinois has been misrepresenting his voting record on the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
Our good friend Jill Stanek writes:
Last week Doug Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee drew my attention to a previously unnoticed January 2008 article by Terence Jeffrey stating Barack Obama actually did vote against a version of the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act that was identical to the federal version, contrary to multiple public statements Obama or his surrogates have made to rationalize his opposition to the IL bill for the past 4 years.
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