This week on the Pro-Life World View, we bring you interesting articles discussing the pressure on nation states to conform to the false claims of the international pro-abortion lobby, the courage of a mother who succeeded in reversing the abortion procedure she had begun, plus much more.
Stop calling your kid son or daughter Vermont tells parents
Craig Bannister – The Media Research Center TV
Parents Told Stop Calling Your Children ‘Son’ or ‘Daughter’
The overreach of public officials with an ideological agenda knows no bounds and clearly must be stopped. The Health Department in Vermont, a State in the US, is telling parents not to use the terms “son” or “daughter” but, instead, to refer to their children in “gender-neutral” terms such as “child” or “kid.” This is the same US State where teachers in one school district stopped referring to “boy” or “girl,” insisting instead on the terms “person who produces sperm” and “person who produces eggs.”
FLI has consistently warned about (mis)using language. National Director Michelle Kaufman says: “Those who control the language of our culture wield great power indeed. Their verbal engineering is intended to pave the way for social change. They aim to change the way we think, to make what is unacceptable seem harmless, attractive, and good.”
CEDAW committee orders Poland to recognize fundamental right to abortion
Rebecca Oas – Center for Family and Human Rights
UN Committee Orders Poland to Recognize a “Fundamental Right to Abortion“
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a United Nations committee charged with protecting women’s “rights”, is calling on Poland to recognise “the right to abortion as a fundamental right” even though no such “right” exists under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or under any other international treaty. The strategy of the international pro-abortion lobby, this article shows, is to bully countries into allowing abortion, thus creating “customary international law,” a term that refers to the established practices of states that follow from a sense of legal obligation, even though no such legal obligation exists in reality. Nation states must vigorously contest the UN’s pro-abortion manoeuvres, which, unfortunately, the Polish Government is failing to do.
Protecting controversial thought: Editing Bioethics in the age of social media facilitated outrage
Professor Udo Schüklenk – Bioethics
Editor of leading academic journal criticises social media “outrage machine” attacking research which puts abortion in a bad light
Professor Udo Schüklenk, the editor of a leading academic journal, Bioethics, has hit out at social media-manufactured outrage levelled against research in which the conclusion puts abortion in a bad light. Such articles have passed the journal’s “standard peer review”, and, he says, “the outrage machine tends to direct its vitriol at particular conclusions rather than the bioethical method.” He then highlights the “operating principle,” which appears to be “to throw mud against the journal, its Editors and its reviewers and hope that something sticks. Those concerns strangely never seem to arise vis a vis content these same academic social media activists find agreeable.”
Thousands attend March for Life in London
Christian Today
Thousands attend March for Life in London
The theme for London’s annual March for Life was “Abortion Isn’t Healthcare.” Thousands of people marched to Parliament Square in support of this, including Catholic Bishop John Sherrington, the lead bishop for life issues. Christian liturgies were celebrated in the morning ahead of the March by Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox churches.
I was so thankful for those who helped me save my child
Tabitha Goodling – Pregnancy Help News
“I was so thankful for those who helped me save my child” – APR mum
Here is a beautiful story of a successful APR intervention, showing that a woman who has taken the first abortion pill (mifepristone) can find help to potentially save the life of her baby if she regrets her decision.
The Abortion Pill Reversal protocol (APR) is how such a rescue can occur. The APR protocol utilises progesterone to negate the effects of mifepristone (the first pill in the chemical abortion process). APR is under attack from pro-abortion supporters, practitioners, and even government healthcare agencies in many parts of the world, including in New Zealand.
Michelle Kaufman, National Director for Family Life International NZ, has recently commented, “Pro-life physicians and others who support them believe that every woman ought to have an opportunity to choose to reverse a chemical abortion if they change their mind. The use of progesterone to reverse the effects of mifepristone has been shown to be safe and effective.”
Read more about the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s attack on APR here: MOH refuse mothers the chance to reverse chemical abortion.
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