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Did You Know? 2007
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(12/18/2007) “… the angel said to them, ‘Do
not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for
all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to
you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will
find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.’ Suddenly a
great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising
God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to
[all] on whom his favor rests.’”
Source: Luke 2:10-14 (NIV)
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(12/11/2007) “While still in the womb, the
child began to move, swallow and ‘breathe’ amniotic fluid. Since
amniotic fluid is full of glucose (sugar), this gives the digestive
system opportunity to learn its function.”
Source: “What They Never Told You About the Facts
of Life” brochure, published by the Human Development Resource
Council, Inc., Norcross, GA. 2001 http://www.hdrc.org
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(12/04/2007) “A new poll conducted by CBS
News makes it clear that a majority of Americans are pro-life when
it comes to the issue of abortion. The October survey finds 54
percent of Americans take one of three pro-life positions opposing
all or almost all abortions…. According to the survey, just 26
percent of the public wants abortions permitted in all cases.”
Source: “CBS
News Poll: 54 Percent of Americans Take Pro-Life Position on
Abortion,” by Steven Ertelt, October 19, 2007.(The poll can be
accessed here.)
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(11/27/2007) “Children are the future. When
you destroy your children, you destroy hope.”
Source: Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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(11/20/2007) “Come, let us sing for joy to
the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us
come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and
song.” Source: Psalms 95:1-2 (NIV)
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(11/13/2007) “Women who have had abortions
are more likely to commit suicide, Finnish researchers reported in
November of 1996. Mika Gissler and colleagues at Finland’s National
Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health used national
records to check the rate of suicides up to one year after the end
of a pregnancy, whether it ended in birth, miscarriage or abortion.
‘The suicide rate after an abortion was three times the general
suicide rate and six times that associated with birth,’ they wrote.”
Source: “Finnish Study Reveals Abortion’s
Suicide Connection,” Reuter’s press release, London, 12/5/96.”
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(11/06/2007) At least ten separate petitions
and resolutions related to the paragraph on abortion (¶161J) and
withdrawing The United Methodist Church from the Religious Coalition
for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) have been submitted to the 2008
General Conference. Please contact
the office if you want to help work for passage of these items.
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(10/30/2007) “Abortion is becoming
commonplace and people are insufficiently troubled about terminating
pregnancies, the Archbishop of Canterbury said on Sunday. …. The
archbishop … pointed out the paradox he saw between those who
campaign for greater ‘fetal rights’, condemning women who smoke
during pregnancy, but fail to speak out about abortion.”
Source:
“Archbishop of Canterbury urges re-think on abortion,” Reuters
News Service, London, October 21, 2007.
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(10/23/2007) “The child’s sex is determined
at the moment of conception. With the help of an ultrasound machine,
those parts are recognizable about 60 days after conception (at the
end of the second month of pregnancy).”
Source: “What They Never Told You About the Facts
of Life” brochure, published by the Human Development Resource
Council, Inc., Norcross, GA. 2001 http://www.hdrc.org
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(10/16/2007) “It appears that the enactment
of the FACE [Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances] Act, combined
with the ascendancy of partial-birth abortion, had a significant
impact on public perceptions of the abortion debate—and on
perceptions of which side more clearly represents voters’ own
values. As grisly details of partial-birth abortion procedures
replaced confrontational (and often violent) clinic protests on the
evening news, voters seemed to have changed their minds about who
the ‘abortion extremists’ were.” Source:
“Turnaround on Abortion” Study by Christopher Blunt, PhD and Fred
Steeper, Overbrook Research, June 2007, p.3.
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(10/09/2007) “Researchers at a cancer center
in Seattle have confirmed what previous studies have shown: women
who bear children have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer.
They say fetal cells “transplanted” to the mother before birth are a
source of this protective effect. That's something that abortion
denies.” Source:
“Researchers Explain
Why Having Baby Reduces Breast Cancer Chances,” by Steven Ertelt,
October 2, 2007, LifeNews.com.
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(10/02/2007) “For many people that experience
an abortion, their initial response is relief. The ‘storm’ – the
crisis – has passed. It was horrible, but it’s over now. They
believe they can simply pick up the pieces and go on with their
lives. The trouble is, … these people are left with undetected
internal damage that left untended, results in a crumbing affect
[sic]. They enter into a state of denial, unaware of the reasons for
many of the painful (post-abortion syndrome) issues that begin to
wreak havoc in their lives.”
Source: Secret Sin: When God’s People
Choose Abortion, by Mary Comm, Morgan James Publishing, LLC, Garden
City, NY., c. 2007, p. 31.
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(09/26/2007) “Without known exception, the
early American feminists condemned abortion in the strongest
possible terms. In Susan B. Anthony’s newspaper, The Revolution,
abortion was described as ‘child murder,’ ‘infanticide’ and ‘foeticide.’
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who in 1848 organized the first women’s
rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, also classified
abortion as a form of infanticide and said, ‘When you consider that
women have been treated as property, it is degrading to women that
we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see
fit.’” Source: “The Feminist Case
Against Abortion,” by Serrin M. Foster, President of Feminists for
Life
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(09/19/2007) “The [unborn child’s] eyes begin
to develop early in the fourth week after conception.”
Source: “Science Sheds Light on Unborn Human
Life,” by John F. Cogan. www.sfuhl.org, p.5.
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(09/12/2007) According to Paragraph 507 of
the 2004 Book of Discipline, “Any organization, clergy member, or
lay member [individual] of The United Methodist Church may petition
the General Conference….” Petitions and resolutions must be received
by the Petitions Secretary by October 26, 2007. For complete
instructions,
click here.
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(09/03/2007) “According to the lawsuit, Jane
Roe was 14 when her adult 21-year-old ‘boyfriend’ compelled her to
abort her baby at Planned Parenthood’s Auburn Avenue facility on
March 30, 2004. The man paid for the abortion by credit card
claiming he was Jane’s stepbrother, even as the distraught girl gave
out the name and address of her father to clinic employees.”
Source: “Appeals
Court Agrees to Conceal Planned Parenthood Records in Statutory Rape
Case” by Peter J. Smith, Aug. 29, 2007
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(08/28/2007) “ … a 2003 survey by the Gallup
Organization found that by a margin of 72%-to-26%, the public
supports a law requiring that the husband of a married woman be
notified if she decides to have an abortion. Gallup asked the same
question in 1996 and 1992 and got nearly identical results.”
Source: “Public
Opinion Support Alito on Spousal Notification Even as It Favors Roe
v. Wade,” 2005 PEW Poll, released 11/2/05.
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(08/21/2007) “Taste buds begin to form during
the eighth week after conception. An unborn child actually has more
taste buds than a newborn and probably has a sense of taste.”
Source: “Science Sheds Light on Unborn Human
Life,” by John F. Cogan. www.sfuhl.org , p. 9.
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(08/14/2007) “’During the heyday of
condom-based programs, the rates of teen sexual activity, teen
births and teen abortions grew. …. With the wider use of
abstinence programs, all the trends have reversed direction and
are going down.’” Source: Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse,
“Groups Mark Teen
Pregnancy Day, Respond to Attacks on Abstinence Ed,” by Steven
Ertelt, May 6, 2007
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(08/07/2007) In 2005, Planned Parenthood
affiliated clinics performed 264,943 abortions (up from 255,015 in
2004), and provided prenatal care for 12,548 clients (down from
17,610 in 2004).
Source:
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 2005-06 Annual Report,
p.4.
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(07/25/2007) Women are not the only ones who
may regret their abortions. Men may also have unresolved feelings.
Some encouraged or pressured her to abort; some abandoned her; some
didn’t know about the pregnancy until after the abortion. Whatever
the cause, help is available.
Source: “Father No More” brochure, c. 2004. Contact the Lifewatch
office or fatherhoodforever.org for more information.
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(07/17/2007) “[In June] the North Carolina
and Mississippi Conferences, along with the regional bodies
representing United Methodists in eastern Tennessee, South Indiana,
and Northwest Texas … passed resolutions calling on the denomination
to withdraw its membership in the radically pro-abortion Religious
Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC).”
Source:
“United Methodist
Church Challenged to End Support for Abortion,” by John Lomperis,
July 4, 2007
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(07/10/2007) “Lust takes us out of our
bodies, ‘attaching’ our psyche onto someone else’s physical form.
That’s why homosexual sex – and all other lust-based sex – is never
satisfactory: It’s a neurotic process rather than a natural, normal
one. Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.
Abnormal means ‘that which hurts us, hurts normal.’”
Source:
“How a ‘gay rights’ leader became straight,” by Michael Glatze,
July 3, 2007
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(07/03/2007) “At
eight weeks after conception, everything that will be found in the
fully developed human being has been formed. All that is needed now
is time to grow.” Source: “What They
Never Told You About the Facts of Life” brochure, published by the
Human Development Resource Council, Inc., Norcross, GA. 2001
http://www.hdrc.org
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(06/27/2007) “A new study shows that the
pro-life position on abortion has been gaining ground over the least
[sic] fifteen years as more people identify themselves as pro-life.
The new report shows a change in the public’s attitude on abortion….
…. …legislative efforts and new approaches are working … according
to researchers Christopher Blunt, a political consultant at
Overbrook Research, and Fred Steeper, a consultant at Market
Strategies.”
Source:
“Study
Shows Pro-Life Strategies are Working, More People Oppose Abortion,”
by Steven Ertelt, 6/25/07.
Read the study
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(06/20/2007) “U.S.
scientists have cultured stem cells from human fat tissue, creating
an alternate source for life-saving hematopoietic stem cell
transplants.” Source:
“Stem cells obtained from adipose tissue” (UPI), 6/18/07
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(06/13/2007) “About 37 percent of abortions are performed on
African-American women, though they make up only 12 percent of the population.
The abortion rate of black women is three times higher than that of white women
and 60% of African-American women who become pregnant will have an abortion.
More than 14 million abortions have been done on black women and abortion
businesses are frequently located in minority communities.”
Source:
“Martin Luther King,
Jr. Niece Says Abortion is Real Black ‘Quiet Riot,’” by Steven Ertelt, 6/6/07
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(06/06/2007) The 2007 annual conferences of
The United Methodist Church are electing delegates to represent them
at the 2008 General Conference in Fort Worth, TX, and the 2008
Jurisdictional Conference in Dallas, TX. To find out when your
conference meets/met, click on the link [2007
US Annual Conference Dates].
Please pray for the election of godly delegates, both laity and
clergy, who are more interested and concerned with obeying and
pleasing God than with pleasing people.
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(05/29/2007) “But I
feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because
it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent
child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother
can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to
kill one another?” Source: Mother
Teresa, National Prayer Breakfast, 2/3/94
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(05/22/2007) “In God’s ordering of creation,
it is only the mother who can nurture her unborn child. All that the
rest of us can do, then, is to nurture the mother. To help a child,
we must help the child’s mother. Source: “The Jericho Plan: Breaking down the Walls Which Prevent
Post-Abortion Healing,” by David C. Reardon, Acorn Books,
Springfield, Illinois c.1996, p.1.
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(05/15/2007) “The
penis begins to develop on about the 42nd day after conception, the
same day that the beginnings of the toes are evident.”
Source:
“Science Sheds Light on Unborn Human Life,” by John F. Cogan.
www.sfuhl.org
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(05/08/2007) “Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that a
federal ban on partial-birth abortions is constitutional, the Hart/Newhouse
polling firm released the results of a survey it conducted for the Wall Street
Journal showing that a majority of Americans agreed with the decision. …. The
first question simply asked respondents if they favored or opposed the Supreme
Court’s decision upholding ‘a law that makes the procedure commonly known as a
partial birth abortion illegal.’ Some 53 percent of those polled agreed with the
ruling in the case while just 34 percent were opposed to it.
Source: “Poll:
Americans Agreed
With Supreme Court’s Partial-Birth Abortion Ruling,”
by Steven Ertelt. May 6, 2007
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(05/01/2007) “The Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice (RCRC) … denounced the Supreme Court ruling that
upheld the Federal ban on the procedure commonly known as
Partial-Birth Abortion as a ‘serious setback.’ RCRC, which exists to
promote the availability of abortion, is supported by several
mainline Christian denominations, including the 8-million-member
United Methodist Church. …. The United Methodist Board of Church &
Society and the United Methodist Women’s Division belong to RCRC.”
Source: “Press
Release: UMAction Asks United Methodist Agencies to Quit Abortion
Coalition,” April 20, 2007.
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(04/24/2007) The Abortion Recovery
International Network (A.R.I.N.) works to “provide help, healing and
hope to those wounded by abortion and … educate society on the
affects of abortion on individuals and families.”
Source: ARIN Mission Statement,
www.abortionrecovery.info
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(04/17/2007) “A new study published by
researchers at La Trobe University in Australia finds that women who
are abused by their partners are more likely to have an abortion of
an unexpected pregnancy than to keep the baby. …. The study backs up
the contention made by research in the United States that an
inordinate number of women who have abortions do so because they
feel pressure or coercion from a husband or boyfriend.”
Source:
“Study: Women Having
Abortions More Likely to Be Abused by Their Partner,” by Steven
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(04/03/2007) “He Himself bore our sins in His
body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for
righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed.”
I Peter 2:24
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(03/27/2007) “By the 10th week, the unborn
baby can squint, swallow and wrinkle its forehead.”
Source: “The First Nine Months” brochure,
published by Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO., c.1990.
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(03/20/2007) “The international community has
now come to a consensus that the best place for a child to be raised
is in a family with a mother and a father in an atmosphere of love
and support. Children raised in families with both a mother and a
father, whether adopted or biological, generally fare better on all
measurable statistics. Children raised by a father and a mother are
healthier, wealthier, happier and experience lower rates of drug
use, delinquency, crime and demonstrate higher levels of academic
achievement. In other words, for optimal development, children need
parents.” Source: “Guide to Family
Issues: Inter-country Adoption,” published by United Families
International, c.2006, p. 5. www.unitedfamilies.org
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(03/13/2007)
“Before my abortion … I wasn’t afraid of death. Whenever I thought
of the day God would come for me, even while knowing I have sinned,
with all of my sins, I wasn’t afraid. Now, I live with that fear. I
feel that I don’t want to die because I wonder how I would face God
if I should see him. I don’t have peace.”
Source: Words spoken by Yeni in interview with
Miguel Vazquez,
“It
Was Horrible, Horrible! A First-Hand Account of What Goes on Inside
a Chula Vista Abortion Clinic,” by Miguel Vasquez, San Diego
News Notes, January 2005.
NOTE: If you recognize
yourself in Yeni’s words, there is hope and help. Contact the
Lifewatch office or one of the ministries listed in the
“Where Can I go?” brochure
elsewhere on this website.
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(03/06/2007) “Although the sperm from one
[male] ejaculation may outnumber the egg by some 500 million to 1,
fewer than 500 sperm reach the upper part of the fallopian tube
where fertilization occurs. Of these, usually only one can fertilize
the egg, plunging in headfirst as it penetrates the egg’s plasma
membrane….” Source: “Beginning the Journey” by Susan
Schiefelbein, The Incredible Machine, published 1986 by the National
Geographic Society, p. 23.
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(02/27/2007) “A new
study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) found
that the majority of doctors in the United States had objections to
resorting to abortion to kill an unborn child if a contraception
fails. An even larger majority believe that it is ethically
permissible for a physician to explain his moral objections to his
patients.”
Source:
“Study
Finds Majority of Doctors Object to Abortion for Failed
Contraception” by Meg Jalsevac, Feb. 9, 2007,
LifeSiteNews.com
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(02/20/2007) Preparations for the 2007
Annual Conferences are, or soon will be, under way. Lifewatch can
provide materials for display tables. For more information, please
call the office.
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(02/13/2007) “Between 1985 and 1999, the
minor abortion rate [number of abortions per 1000 minor women] fell
by almost 50 percent, compared to a 29 percent decline in the
overall abortion rate. While a number of factors may have
contributed to this decline, the impact of pro-life legislation on
the incidence of abortion among minors cannot be overlooked. …. [P]ro-life
legislation enacted during the 1990s, particularly parental
involvement laws intended to influence minors, were effective in
reducing abortion.”
Source:
“A Report … Analyzing the Effect of State Legislation on the
Incidence of Abortion Among Minors,” by Michael J. New, PhD, The
Heritage Foundation, Feb. 5, 2007, pages 1,8.
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(02/06/2007) The PAS (post-abortion syndrome)
woman “is often given no societal support for processing what has
happened to her, so she continues to deny the event, the feelings
connected with the event, or both. Keeping memories and feelings
pushed under is hard work, but the alternative is too painful for
the woman in denial to face. Thus she will avoid anything that
threatens to bring back those repressed thoughts and feelings.”
Source: Terry Selby, The Mourning After, Baker Book House:
Grand Rapids, 1990, p.51.
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(01/30/2007) “This isn’t another scandal.
This is a baby, this is a life.”
Source:
Ashley Harder,
2007 Miss New Jersey USA
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(01/23/2007) “During the fourth month, fine
palm lines have formed that can be used to permanently identify the
child. Finger, palm and footprints are never duplicated among
individuals.”
Source: “Science Sheds Light on Unborn
Human Life,” by John F. Cogan. www.sfuhl.org
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(01/16/2007) “Prior to 1973 – just think
about this for a minute – the laws of America reflected an
overwhelming pro-life consensus that children before birth deserve
the protection of the law. That consensus was a secular consensus.
Those laws were not written by clerics, or in monasteries, or by the
great organized religions of America…. Not unique to our left or to
the right, Democrats or Republicans, Liberals or conservatives, it
represented the mainstream of America. My friends, it still is the
mainstream of America, so don’t be fooled…. The American people have
not accepted abortion on demand… We cannot become comfortable with
it, because it’s fundamentally contrary to what we believe as
Americans…. Every poll shows a vast and growing unease with the
abortion license and the industry that serves it. I believe a
pro-life consensus already exists in America. And it grows every
time someone looks in a sonogram.”
Source: Former governor of Pennsylvania Robert Casey (D),
addressing students at Notre Dame University, 1999
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The
34th Annual
“March for Life”
takes place in Washington, DC at noon on
Monday, January 22.
Before the march, at 9:30 am
in the United Methodist Building
next door to the US Supreme Court.
Lifewatch holds its annual
Service of Worship, with Dr. William
“Billy” Abraham (Southern Methodist University School of
Theology) preaching.
Following the march,
also in the United Methodist
Building, the Annual Lifewatch Board meeting
commences at 3:00 pm.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend the events of the day.
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(01/02/2007) “The public’s support for
embryonic stem cell research has declined four percent, according to
a new survey from Virginia Commonwealth University. Meanwhile, the
number of people who oppose the controversial science has increased
five percent from the last VCU poll.”
Source: “Support for
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Down 4% New Survey Shows,” by
Steven Ertelt, December 14, 2006
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