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Sincere apologies for the absence of a Weekend Hotline last week. It was one of those weeks during which we were all running around, going to conferences, doing radio shows and generally getting so caught up in pro life activism that we simply failed to provide a message for our callers. And believe me. We heard about it. I’m glad we have such loyal Hotline supporters.
One thing that has been keeping us very busy is the abomination whirling about the University of Notre Dame with the invitation to the abortion supporter, President Barack Obama, not only to deliver the commencement address on campus Sunday, May 17, but to receive an honorary law degree.
Here’s some truly disturbing news for you. This comes from a CNN interview with former president Bill Clinton.
On the issue of embryonic stem cell research, Clinton thinks committees drafting the rules on research on embryos “needs to make it clear that they’re not going to fool with any embryos where there’s any possibility, even if it’s somewhat remote, that they could become fertilized and could become human beings.”
The Scheidlers are back, safe and sound, from their trip to Ireland. You can read Eric’s full write up about the rally on our homepage.
Joe and Eric spoke at a rally organized by Bernie Smyth of Precious Life, protesting the efforts to bring abortion into Northern Ireland. Because Northern Ireland has its own criminal justice laws, abortion is still illegal there, despite 1967 law which legalized abortion in the rest of the UK. But the pro-aborts don’t want to keep it that way.
Parliament will be voting on Wednesday to decide whether Northern Ireland will cease to be pro-life. Please, please pray for wisdom of the legislators. The people of Northern Ireland do not want abortion.
Thursday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 Walter Krawiec and I meet at the Albany Medical Center on Elston Ave. and Cicero in Chicago to pray for the babies being killed inside that abortuary as well as for the killers. The two of us pray while sidewalk counselors talk to the women coming for abortions. We do this because someone has to do it, and because we believe God wants us to do it.
The Illinois Senate has passed a bill ordering the state to use tax dollars to finance human embryonic stem cells research. The bill passed 35 to 23 and now moves on to the house for further debate.
“I do not know if it was your group or not,” Nancy writes Ann Scheidler, “but in late ‘93 or early ‘94, I went to Chicago for an abortion.”
Nancy continues: “I left the clinic that day deciding not to abort. The prayer warriors outside erupted into cheers as I said, halfway down the sidewalk, ‘I didn’t do it.’ Then a few people present walked with us to the car, and gave us $40. My daughter is now twelve years old. I just wanted to say thank you, and never stop what you are doing. I am also a believer now. Jesus is my life! Praise God for y you and your work!”
The Land Down Under has just sunk a little lower, with passage of a bill to support cloning of human beings for purposes of experimentation. Trampling over the moral issues and the belief that human beings should not be used as guinea pigs for medical experiments, Australian pragmatists decided that being out in front in the race for medical triumphs was more important than adhering to the basic principles of justice.
Turn to page 90 in your November 20th issue of Newsweek and see a beautiful photograph of an unborn baby in its mother’s womb. It’s an article from their “TipSheet” section telling expectant mothers that it is safer than previously thought to have amniocentesis if you’re trying to discover if your baby has Downs Syndrome.
Probably everyone likes to run across an idea being promoted by another group of individual that reflects their own thinking. This is what happened when we received an invitation to a meeting of the Genesee New York Country Right to Life recently.
It was hard to be humble Friday night in Lincoln, NE while sitting at a head table with Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz and Nebraska Governor David Heineman, among other dignitaries. Ann and I did maintain our composure, however.
We marvel that every major politician in Nebraska is pro-life. How do they do that, we want to know.