Pro-Life Corner

What is the Rockford Life Report? ; 26 baby’s die in Rockford past wk; Expelled Movie Exposes Planned Parenthood's Pro-Abortion M.O.; Black Pro-Life Leader: Why Are Shepherds Leading the Sheep to Slaughter? ; Abortion Causes Severe Depression and Loss of Esteem in Women; Sex-Selective Abortion in America ; Guatemalans "Dumbfounded" and Angered by International "Culture of Death"….

What is the Rockford Life Report?
Simply put it’s a place on the web where people from Northwest Illinois can get local pro-life information and also articles of national and international importance.

There is a major civil rights case in Rockford, Il. in which the civil rights of the local community have been violated. On April 3, 2008 a civil rights case was filed against the city of Rockford on behalf of local citizens. This attack happened two years ago. The pro-life community had given the city ample time to resolve this grievance. They failed to address the issue and therefore forced the victims to file a suit in Federal court.
http://www.thomasmoresociety.org/Rockford_busstop.htm

This case is the first; there may be others to follow. This is a new era for the pro-life movement and the Pro Life Corner is the place for you to stay informed.

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On Friday April 18, 14 mothers entered Rockford's abortion mill. One mother did stop and take information but still entered the building.

On Tuesday April 22, 12 children were aborted in Rockford. A handful of pro-lifers were present to pray and offer help.

Expelled Movie Exposes Planned Parenthood's Pro-Abortion M.O.
by Maria Vitale
A surprising character makes a cameo appearance in Ben Stein's new movie, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." It's Margaret Sanger, the matriarch of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion operation. Stein notes that Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, the pseudo-science which involves trying to create a master race of human beings through breeding. The implication in the film is that Darwinism leads to eugenics which leads to abortion and euthanasia. The public relations machine at Planned Parenthood must not be happy about what's happening at the local Cineplex. In essence, "Expelled" blows Sanger's cover as a benevolent birth control promoter. Instead, she is portrayed as one of the founding mothers of an ideology that treats human beings as animals and readily dismisses the sanctity of human life.

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Black Pro-Life Leader: Why Are Shepherds Leading the Sheep to Slaughter?
by Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr
Here are the birth statistics for African-American babies in the City of Philadelphia just a couple a years ago: 10,880 born, 9,259 aborted. Nearly half or 46% of all babies in the City of Brotherly love were dismembered and brutally killed by means of abortion. Moreover, there are twenty-five other major urban cities in America that report having a higher abortion rate than live birth rate. Such carnage is incredible! One would think the Gate Keepers of Righteousness, Deed, and Thought would be appalled. The magnitude of this devasta tion o f the progeny of our community should stir our clergy to decisive action. We should be hearing chants of, "Stop the madness!" "Stop the genocide!" "End now the injustice!" Or like Moses said to Pharaoh, "Let my people go!" Instead of an outcry for justice for our offspring, we see a worse nightmare unfolding continuously within the "flocks" of the city of Ben Franklin. The Black Clergy of Philadelphia and surrounding vicinity have recently announced their endorsement of Senator Barack Obama. It would appear the Shepherds of Philadelphia are leading their sheep to slaughter.

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Women Hurt by Abortion Say Supreme Court was Right - Abortion Causes Severe Depression and Loss of Esteem in Women

DALLAS, April 17 /Christian Newswire/ -- Women injured by abortion from all across the country are gathering in Dallas, Texas to celebrate the fact that the Supreme Court recognized abortion hurts women.
One year ago, on April 18th, 2007, the United States Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on partial birth abortion in the Gonzalez v. Carhart decision. The Supreme Court said,
"Whether to have an abortion requires a difficult and painful moral decision. While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. See Brief for Sandra Cano et al. as Amici Curiae in No. 05-380, pp. 22-24. [This is the TJF Brief citing the women's testimonies.] Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow. See ibid."
"The State has an interest in ensuring so grave a choice is well informed. (emphasis added)."
The women will be sharing the truth acknowledged by the Supreme Court and how abortion devastated their lives. Those speaking are women who have personally experienced the devastating consequences of abortion. They will be speaking at Ferris Plaza Park near the Dallas Federal Courthouse where Roe v. Wade was first filed. Joining them are abortion recovery providers who together help tens of thousands of women a year who are hurt by abortion. The sad truth, which is coming to light more and more, is that abortion often has severe emotional, psychological and physical consequences for women. The Abortion Recovery International Network (ARIN) has designated April as Abortion Recovery Awareness Month.
SPEAKERS:
1. Sandra Cano, the former "Doe" of Doe v. Bolton, represented by The Justice Foundation, in the friend of the court brief which was cited by the Supreme Court saying that abortion causes severe depression and loss of self-esteem in women.
2. Some of the 180 women hurt by abortion represented by The Justice Foundation in the partial-birth abortion decision.
3. Norma McCorvey, the former "Roe" of Roe v. Wade.
4. Dr. Alveda King, (niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
5. Other women and men who have been injured by abortion and a survivor of a woman killed by abortion.
6. Leaders of Operation Outcry, Silent No More Awareness Campaign and Abortion Recovery International Network (ARIN) - organizations supporting women who have been hurt by their abortions.
7. Abortion Recovery Providers and Counselors

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Sex-Selective Abortion in America
The U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents tended to be male
by Steven W. Mosher

April 15, 2008 (pop.org) - By now, nearly everyone knows that tens of millions of unborn baby girls around the world have been aborted solely because of their sex. Ultrasound technology makes it possible to separate the boys from the girls at 18 weeks or so, and widespread abortion makes it possible to eliminate the less desirable sex, which in most cultures means girls. Up to 200 million girls may have been killed in this way, mostly in Asian and Muslim countries.

As America's population of Asians and Muslims continues to grow, we asked in a recent Weekly Briefing, could the same thing happen here?

According to a recent study published by the National Academies of Science, is already has.

Looking at data from the 2000 U.S Census, researchers noticed a strange phenomenon. The U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents tended to be male. The researchers, Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund, called this "son-bia sed se x ratios."

Taking their study a step further, they considered the effect of birth order. First-born children of Asians showed normal sex ratios at birth, roughly 106 girls for every 100 boys. If the first child was a son, the sex ratio of the second-born children was also normal.

But what happened if the first child was a girl? The second child tended to be a boy. Almond and Edlund found that "This male bias is particularly evident for third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%." That means that, for every 150 boys, there were only 100 hundred surviving girls. The rest had been eliminated.

The authors quite rightly interpret this "deviation in favor of sons" the only way they possibly could, namely, as "evidence of sex selection, most likely at the prenatal stage." In other words, as early as a decade ago, Asian-American communities in the U.S. were already practicing sex-selective abortion.

Similar sex imbal a nces have also been documented among Canada’s Asian immigrant communities. The Toronto Globe & Mail reported that “Figures from the 2001 census supplied by Statistics Canada suggest a slight skew in the usual gender ratio among people with South Asian backgrounds. . . . According to the 2001 census data, the proportion of girls under 15 in the South Asian communities of Mississauga and Brampton is two percentage points below the ratio for the rest of the population in those municipalities.”

Sex-selective abortion is rightly seen by many as the ultimate form of discrimination against women. Overwhelming numbers of Americans oppose the practice. According to 2006 Zogby/USA Today poll, 86% would like to see it banned.

Yet, at present, it remains legal in the U.S. to abort a child for any and all reasons, including the fact that she happens to be a little girl.

Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC, Retired) would annually introduce legisl ation banning sex-selective abortions.

What is to be done?

Some have suggested that the use of ultrasounds to detect the sex of unborn children could be banned. This is a nonstarter. The Chinese government has such a ban in place, and it has proven completely ineffective.

Besides, ultrasound technology has been a boon for life. Sonograms have saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in high-risk pregnancies. Employed in crisis pregnancy situations, sonograms have convinced untold numbers of women that they are carrying babies (not ‘blobs of tissue’). For most couples, learning the sex of their unborn child before she was born (as my wife and I did) underlines the personhood of the unborn. It does not provide a pretext for an abortion.

I think that the answer lies elsewhere, in a straightforward ban of sex-selective abortion itself.

Former Senator Jesse Helms, each year that he was in the U.S. Senate, introduced legislation to ban s ex-sel ec tiv e abortion. The language was simple, yet powerful: “It shall be illegal to perform an abortion for the sole purpose of sex selection.”

The evil that Helms sought to preempt has now become a reality.

Where is the pro-life champion in the Senate who will carry on Helm’s battle? Where is the legislator who will seek to protect unborn baby girls from the ugliest form of misogyny imaginable, a misogyny that kills? Steven W.Mosher is the President of Population Research Institute.
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Guatemalans "Dumbfounded" and Angered by International "Culture of Death"
FLORIDA, April 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Guatemalans are "dumbfounded" and angered to learn about the international "culture of death" and its multi-pronged attack on human life, according to Human Life International, which participated in a pro-life conference in the country from April 3rd to April 5.
The conference, entitled, "Life and the Dignity of the Human Person," was organized by the Guatemalan Bishops' Conference, in cooperation with HLI and several local pro-life organizations. About ten bishops attended in all, including the apostolic nuncio, and approximately 250 seminarians.
According to Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, the conference attendees were taken aback by what they were told about the international agenda of pro-abortion groups.
"There are two reactions," he told LifeSiteNews.com. "One is depression, to understand exactly what's going in their country, that they didn't know about until this point, and the second one is I think a healthy anger that motivates them to try to do something about it, because it is so bad, and they now see it, after we present it to them in all of its truth.
The conference was well-covered by both the secular and Catholic media in Guatemala, including a front-page story by Guatemala's major newspaper, Prensa Libre. Radio Maria, a local Catholic network, broadcast the entire conference live, and Jesus TV broadcast various segments.
In addition to the evils of surgical abortion, the conference addressed abortifacient drugs and the immorality of contraception, and featured testimonies on post-abortion and post-contraception trauma. The activities also included a parade and youth concert.
On April 3 the conference focused specifically on seminarians in the country, who were reportedly "dumbfounded" by "the biotechnological attacks' on life, post-abortion syndrome and reconciliation, abortifacient contraceptives, anti-life dissent within the Church, NFP and the Theology of the Body," according to Adolfo Castañeda HLI's Director of Education.
Castañeda says that the International Planned Parenthood Federation has been in Guatamala since 1979, under the acronyms APROFAM and its "sex-education" arm, AGES, which he says "are dirt-washing Guatemala youth with their filth and are also deceiving married couples with their abortifacient and harmful contraceptives."
He also adds that "US-based IPAS has been performing undercover first trimester abortions with their manual suction machines, euphemistically called 'Endo-Uterine Menstrual Aspiration' (AMEU is the Spanish Acronym). There are four In Vitro Fertilization 'clinics', also operating in defiance of the Guatemalan Constitution, which recognizes that life begins at conception."
As a result of the conference, a new pro-life organization been created for Guatemala which will be affiliated with Human Life International: the Associación Vida y Dignidad (Dignity and Life Association) - ASODEVI.