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A group of psychiatrists in Spain have recently revealed the 7 risks associated with abortion. The study examined manifestations of Post-Abortion Syndrome. The author is Carmen Gomez Lavin of the University of Navarra in Spain.

Here are the 7 aborton risks:

1. Depression - upto 80%
2. Suicidal tendencies - 40%
3. Irritability - 70%
4. Behavior disturbances - 60%
5. Sexual disturbances - 40%
6. Drug abuse - 30%
7. Higher death rates - 3.5 to 6 times more

These are abortion facts that the abortion industry does not want to see the light of day. They will try every trick known to man to suppress or create misinformation of these results.

Ironically, most abortions are procured because the parents of the child want a convenient life and a utopic sexual life, but in 40% of cases their sex life will be in turmoil.

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Spread the word about this study and stop abortion and give life to children.

The UK government is embarking on a pilot project to enable women to get contraceptives from pharmacies without a prescription.

The objective is to see if the high teenage pregnancy rates will decline with such a lax practice.

This is a potentially lethal law and the Royal College of General Practitioners are obviously objecting.

For some reason, I can't help but see the dirty hands of Big Pharma involved in this law. Am I a skeptic?

You can accuse me of being biased against Big Pharma. After all Big Pharma has been my employer for 21 years and I have seen the power or our lobbying efforts. Recall just 2 years ago Merck's overzealous push to get all adoslescent girls vaccinated with Gardasil.

For financial gain, Big Pharma will stop at nothing to get more people on their drugs, even if there is a simple natural alternative available. The pharma companies will always assail a non-drug alternative as not having sufficient research to cite.

We all know that pregnancy is caused by sexual intercourse. The guaranteed way to avoid pregnancy is to not have sex. Period.

I can see the incredulous look in people'e eyes.

Is he crazy?

Is he from the Victorian era?
No contraception will give a success rate of 100%. None. Guaranteed.

What's the solution?

First, all media should stop depicting ads with sexual connotation either overtly or by insinuation. Objection #1 from secularists: We must maintain the right to free speech.

Fact: Unbridled free speech leads to free sex that leads to unwanted pregnancies.

Second, parents will have to regain their rightful role and teach their children to value chastity and reserve their bodies for their spouses. Definitely this sounds naive, right? Helllo...we are a highly sexed society. Get real.

Fact: There are teenagers who have taken the chastity vow and wear rings to show that they take their vows seriously. You ask if I can name any celebrities? Yes, I present the Jonas Brothers. If their parents can do it, why can't other parents?
These are tough choices. Well, tough times call for tough measures.

The lazy man's way is to just  pop some pills (pun intended) instead of taking responsibility for his or her own actions.

UK's Abortion Act allows abortion on demand during any period of pregnancy if the pre-born baby is detected to have severe disabilities. This is called eugenics abortions.
Past data on these types of abortions show that children are being killed for disabilities like...are you ready...

....club foot and cleft palate!!!

How shallow have we humans become. Or is it conceited?

Every human being who walked this earth (except for Jesus) or is living today had or has some form of disability. We have either mental, emotional, spiritual and of course physical disabilities. Who doesn't?

Who doesn't have a blemish on their skin?

Who doesn't have asymetrical limbs, breasts or testicals? Isn't this a sign of imperfection?

It's hypocritical to abort any child who has a disability, when we have a handicap (or maybe several). This is akin to looking at speck in someone else's eye but ignoring the plank in ours.

As long as abortion is legal, there will always be an excuse to justify such killings. Very few people will own up and say that they procured an abortion because the child would be inconvenient. They always will claim that they did it for the child - to save him/her from ridicule or a difficult life. Oh Sure!
Hellooooo. When was life ever easy?

If it wasn't easy for Donald Trump, why should it be easy for the rest of us?

My article some time ago titled, When Does Life Begin, definitely hit a reader's raw nerve.

Reader comments, "There is no scientific consensus as to when a human being becomes a human being and not just a lump of cells."

My response to the above: Even if science doesn't say this definitively, common sense tells us that it's living clump of cells. If it's not living tissue if won't be growing. It's obviously not non-living material. We don't science to tell us that this clump of cells found in a woman's womb will become a human being.

Reader is definitely not wanting to face up to truth - can these clump of cell become a plant or a dog? What else can it become if not a human being?

When we abort such a clump of cells we are terminating the potential for someone to come into the world. And that someone is a human being - not a potential turtle. Even a secularist or atheist can see the logical result of these clump of cells - unless they refuse to see.

Reader also commented: "And I have a bone to pick with you “pro-lifers” about your name as well. What kind of life are you for exactly? Mine? My pet’s? A tree’s? A convicted murderer? Or is it just the unborn you care about? Stop calling yourselves what you aren’t. You’re nothing but anti-abortion. That is the biggest misnomer I can see."

My response: A true pro-life respects all life, including a convicted murderer. The Catholic Church professess that we humans have no authority to execute even such a person. Can anyone find a verse in scripture that advocates this? God seeks the conversion of all sinners. We are sinners just like the convicted murderer - let's not be the first to cast the stone.

Being pro-life is no misnomer. It's those who misunderstand who think it's a misnomer.

Imagine a world without Apple Inc., the company that brought us the Macintosh and a slew of other technologically advanced products. Imagine a world without the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iTunes. What kind of world would this be? Can we confidently say that if Steve Jobs had not been born there would have been someone else who would have eventually come along and created similar products that would bring joy to millions of people throughout the world? Definitely not.

This could have been the scenario if Steve Jobs' unwed biological mother had decided that she was being punished with a baby (as Barack Obama had recently suggested unwanted pregnancies as). She could have had an abortion and, I dare say, brought about a different world!

Every baby has a purpose, otherwise God would not have created him or her. Let's look at our own lives and see the impact we have on others and imagine the loss to these people if we had been aborted because of some inconvenience on our parents' part. Abortion robs the world of progress despite what so-called population pundits predict as doomsday scenes if the world population exceeds some magical number that they have concocted. They have been at it since the end of WWII and they are still wrong. All their computer simulations have been repudiated by God each time He brings a new soul into the world.

Let's pray that this abomination called abortion will be exterminated from common practice and become a curiosity for future generations, instead of the bane it is today that people fail to recognize.

I just read in the Fortune Magazine about two donation websites that put people who request for loans or donations in touch with those who are willing to loan or donate. Both of these websites are non-profit organizations. One is Kiva and the other is Donorschoose.

Kiva focuses of the poor from any part of the world who need loans. It works similar to the world famous Grameen Bank. People who loan money via Kiva expect the loans to be repaid. Kiva's purpose besides getting the two sides together, it also provides an opportunity for the loan provider to keep up-to-date of the progress of the loan requester's business undertaking or project.
Donorschoose on the other hand only focuses on American institutions and gravitate more towards requests from public schools that are unfunded and want to undertake certain projects. Naturally being donations there is no payback. However, the donor is able via the website view the progress of the beneficiary's project.

I think that this is a marvelous project that Catholics can undertake during Lent and of course carry through beyond Lent, for life even. This is a great way to give alms and also be involved. Usually when we give alms we have no idea what happens to the money we donate. This is precisely what the poor need, an opportunity, not simply our well wishes.

President Bush has been damned by liberals for failing to fund stem-cell research.

These are misguided comments who either are unaware or refuse to accept that stem cells are not just embryonic in origin. Stem cell can be derived from many sources, e.g., umbilical, bone marrow, etc. Now UCLA scientists have discovered that skin cells can be reverted into stem cells. The funding for this came from the Bush Administration.
Stem cells, whatever their origin, develop into other specialized cells, osteocytes, lymphocytes, and other types, eventually becoming bone, liver, skin and other organs.

Recall that embryonic stem cell research hasn't delivered a single application yet, but non-embryonic stem cell research in several countries have already been used to treat people of several diseases or conditions.
Read more here.

Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, precribes the following 10 measures in order for us to defeat abortion.

1. Pray unceasingly to our Savior to end abrotion
2. Fast for abortion promoters to be converted
3. Remind Christian churches that they allow abortion to exist
4. Fight embryonic stem-cell research and euthanasia as vigorosly as abortion
5. Attack Planned Parenthood's funding
6. Boycott organizations and corporations that promote or fund abortion acitivities
7. Educate doctors that abortifacient birth control is chemical homicide
8. Challenge the accepted notion that condoms and birth control reduce abortions
9. Reject politicians who believe in rape, incest, life-of-the-mother and fetal deformity "exceptions"
10. Recruit Hispanics and other minorities into the pro-life movement

 For more information, please visit: http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/69098

For several months now we have been hearing of new uses of adult and umbilical stem cell therapies. Now we see (pun intended) an article that highlights the progress made in India using corneal adult stem cells. Fortune Magazine recently reported on this new technique that has been successfully used by Indian doctors to save the sight of numerous patients.

The Indian doctors' ability to manipulate corneal stem cells to multiply efficiently enough to be transplanted onto the defective corneas of patients is a global success story as it has plagued scientists elsewhere. This is good news for the pro-life supporters who have been fighting against embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have received tremendous amounts of funding from several governments for several years but have zilch to show for their success.

On the contrary, adult and umbilical stem cells have been utilized in several types of therapies. Yet such stem cell research doesn't receive as much funding as embryonic types. It's sad that those who lobby for embryonic stem cell research are blinded by irrationality. Any sane person can make a mathematical case for funding adult stem cell research simply based on the successes derived thus far.

If financiers and entrepreneurs were involved in such research, simple ROI calculations who indicate that money should be invested in areas where there is a track record of success. In management lingo we call this exploiting our strengths and limiting our weaknesses. However when politicians are involved in such decisions they tend to exploit weaknesses and limit strengths.

Any wonder why embryonic stem cell research hasn't advanced?