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                           Marleen Evers

      4047 Mercer/Darke Cty. Line Rd.

                     Ft. Recovery, OH  45846

                                                                                                                         June 2010

Meeting Date:  4th Thursday, June 24th, 8:00 PM, Meeting Rm. at Mercer Health Hospital in Coldwater. 

Summer time is always a busy time.  Parades – the Fair.  Why not come and see what you can do to help the pro-life cause.  You can even bring along a friend or two.

            Love to see all those young people walking around wearing their pro-life tee shirts.  Thank them for promoting LIFE.

 

MCRTL SPONSORS BUS TO ABORTION CLINIC FOR PRAYER & PROGRAM

            By the time this issue of our Newsletter comes out, Mercer County Right to Life's Friday, June 18  "Down on Our Knees" program outside the Kettering abortion clinic will likely have already taken place. A busload of 55 passengers and 7 full vans/cars of committed, pro-life Christians will have made the "mission trip" to pray on the Women's Med Center sidewalks for the lives of preborn babies, that their mothers and fathers do not abort the child whose life has already begun. At least 14 different churches of 8 different denominations have members participating in the sidewalk prayer and program. The goal is three-fold:  to pray for God's intervention in sparing the lives of the babies entering the abortion clinic, to pray He opens the hearts and minds of all who intend to enter the abortion mill to the preciousness of God's gift of life, and to pray that our presence motivates Christian churches throughout Ohio to, on their own or through a combined effort with other churches, adopt at least one day per year to send a bus and vans to abortion clinics to line the sidewalks with people praying.

Going to Washington D.C. once a year for the March for Life just isn't enough. 

  

Fr. Corapi - To appear at the Cintas Center:  On Saturday, July 17th, Father John Corapi will be in Cincinnati for an all-day conference and will be speaking social issues in the Church, including abortion. Before becoming a priest, Corapi served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, was a highly successful businessman, and then had a drug addiction that destroyed his fortune and landed him in prison. After his conversion, Fr. Corapi realized his vocation to the priesthood and was ordained in 1991 by Pope John Paul II.
            Fr. Corapi preaches the Gospel message across the world and is widely known for his programs on television and radio. Tickets to this event are only $39 and $49. You can order tickets on line: CMGbooking.com or call 513-593-0089. 

PAMPERS & APPLE DO GREAT WORK TOGETHER:  Many wonderful things occur in the development of a baby.  Before a newborn enters the world it experiences an amazing journey! Did you know that your baby has fully developed fingerprints at 18 weeks?  Did you know that your baby can respond to sound at 28 weeks?  There is a great, new way to track this incredible journey of life. Pampers has teamed with Apple to create a new application for the iPad. The new app is called Hello Baby! It allows families and friends to follow the development of a baby even before he or she is born into the world! From week 4 to week 40, you can share this wonderful journey of life with others. Your baby is amazing! Why not show the world? 

SENATE NEWS:  Senators Gary Cates and Bob Gibbs gave sponsor testimony on S.B. 262 this week reminding the Ohio Senate that the majority of Americans have agreed that tax-payer dollars should not fund abortions. They also mentioned the Hyde Amendment, which has prohibited tax-payer funded abortions in the past but does not apply to the new healthcare legislation.  Senate Bill 262 prohibits qualified health plans from providing coverage for non-therapeutic abortions and it is the companion bill to H.B. 511.

DEATH PILL, ellaOne:   A new death pill is on its way to America. Unveiled in Europe last year, ellaOne is classified as emergency contraception, but it works much like the abortion pill RU 486 by blocking progesterone from reaching the womb. Both drugs ultimately kill an unborn baby.  ellaOne only prevents pregnancies. The official American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology definition of pregnancy is not conception (union of sperm and egg), but implantation (attachment to the mother’s womb). These precious young babies are very much alive, but drug companies are discounting their first several days of life for the sake of extra cash. In fact, researchers behind ellaOne use the word “embryotoxic” to describe the pill—a scientific way of acknowledging that, yes, it kills babies. They also hail it as more effective than the Plan B “Morning After” Pill, but ellaOne costs three times as much.

          During studies on women they found out the drug can abort an existing pregnancy after implantation. This is a big step further than the abortifacient effects of emergency contraception. The goal of those promoting ellaOne is to first get it approved by the FDA for distribution by prescription, then later on, over the counter—just like they did with emergency contraception. The ultimate goal is that abortion pills will be given to everyone who asks, without a prescription. On June 17, an FDA committee will hold a public hearing on the drug and determine whether to allow it in the US.

CLEVELAND CORD BLOOD CENTER PARICIPATES IN WRIGHT PROJECT:  A Cleveland-area project to develop products to treat blood-related cancers using umbilical cord blood stem cells has received a 3-year $2.1 million grant from the State of Ohio's Third Frontier Program. The project, which is a collaborative effort of the Cleveland Cord Blood Center, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, will seek to develop and commercialize three products for use in hematology and regenerative medicine. Because umbilical cord blood stem cells is donated at the time of a full-term healthy baby and otherwise would be discarded, collecting stem-cells rich umbilical cord blood does not raise ethical or political concerns such as those surrounding the use of human embryonic stem cells.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD – WEB-CAM ABORTIONS:   Planned Parenthood of Iowa is the 1st in the nation to begin committing telemed abortions.   In mid April, the Iowa Board of Medicine notified Operation Rescue it had opened an investigation against PP.  Operation Rescue maintained that PP practice violates IA abortion law that states abortion only be committed by “licensed physicians.”  According to OR, PP of IA commits telemed abortions at all 16 of its abortion mills, 12 of which don’t have doctors.

        According to an excerpt in the Des Moines Register, “The first in the nation system allows a PP physician from Des Moines to visit with each patient by videoconference, then press a computer button to open a drawer in front of the patient, who could be seated up to 190 miles away.  The patient then reaches into the drawer and withdraws the abortion pills.  The system is drawing interest from other abortion providers around the country.”    (Remote ‘Birth Control System’!!) 

          A PP physician who uses the system stated that he was fulfilling his legal obligation to oversee the abortion process.  He’s confident the state medical board will approve of the system.  About 1,500 Iowa patients have used PP of the Heartland’s videoconferencing system to obtain abortion drugs in the past two years.  The FDA says it has 8 reports of women dying of infections after taking the pills, but says there is no proof the pills caused the infection.  .PP officials say they have cut down on the chances of infection by giving antibiotics, changing the way the 2nd drug is administered and urging patients to call immediately if they have complications, including fever.

            Actually, this is a rather brilliant idea – since the Obamacare has passed, which means that at some point we are going to pay more for lower quality of care and longer waits.  Could PP’s experiments be the wave of the future??  As with other socialized medicine schemes, there just won’t be enough doctors to go around.  Enter then – the tele-doctor!!

 

November Election: You know the facts. Our country is uneasy, anxious, and looking for answers. Faith in politicians is at an all time low. So much is at stake. This truly may be the best chance in a generation to take America in a new direction.
        The Christian vote is the real swing vote. Whoever wins the Christians, wins elections. Our vision for America is bold and full of hope. But America needs to hear from us.  Lots of groups and politicians are competing for the Christian vote. Some are even working to confuse and distort what it means to vote as a Christian.
         It’s time to elect leaders to public office who make us proud - leaders willing to defend life, marriage, and put their faith in the power of people to solve our problems, not more government! We want every candidate worthy of our vote to earn it. And we want every candidate that must be defeated to fear the Christian vote. Every pro-abortion candidate should worry: “I hope the Christian voter doesn’t come after me!”

FACT:  One of the most respected British newspapers has just revealed that approximately 80 abortions are performed in the UK each year, terminating pregnancies that came about by IVF treatments. On average, 80 British women each year abort their babies after having conceived them through the ordeal of IVF treatments. 

VISIT US AT OUR ITE.   www.mercerlife.org  Larry Laloge,WebMaster.

Officers: President: Marleen Evers, 375-2475                   Newsletter:  Janet Gels & Sharon Hibner     

Vice President: Marie Hietkamp 375-1044                       Address Change:  Ann Schroyer, 678-4785

Secretary: Lisa Homan, 419-375-2515                                Sorting & Labeling: Deb Huelskamp & Volunteers

Treasurer: Frank Mohlman, 678-3788                               Mailing: Carol Ranley

Catholic Social Services, 800-521-6419                               Choosing Life Pregnancy Center: 419-733-4847

Mercer Co. RTL, Phone/FAX: 419-678-1348                     Elizabeth Pregnancy Service: 419-586-9029