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Fertilized eggs don't implant - human embryos do. And yet, with rare exceptions, media reports keep getting it wrong. And, sadly, too often pro-lifers also get it wrong.

Both keep saying that this pill or that method [quote] “prevents the fertilized egg from implanting.” [unquote]

This is biologic nonsense. The stage, “fertilized egg”, is the single-cell stage that occurs right after fertilization. It lasts for 24 hours and then cell division occurs. When cell division begins, this is no longer a fertilized egg, but now is an embryo.

Human embryos normally plant at one week of life in the nutrient lining of the woman's womb. So let's get it correct – fertilized eggs don't implant – embryos do. This is Dr. John Willke.
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Women's right-to-know laws have caused a drop in the number of abortions.

Since abortionists almost routinely gave little or no information to their clients, states are now passing laws to ensure that she is given adequate information on both sides of the issue, not just the sales pitch from the abortionist.

This is informed consent. These laws mandate that the abortionist must give written information, usually 24 hours before the abortion.

This includes details of fetal development, details of the abortion and its risks, and details of assistance available in the community to help her, if she decides to carry the child. When women are given such adequate information, more of them decide against abortion and for the life of the child. This is Dr. John Willke.
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Some say that parents can't or won't give their children sex education.

Others, myself included, believe parents can't help giving it, rightly or wrongly. Is sex education only about how to do it?

True, children today must know far more detailed facts than were needed in the past. But teaching only facts, devoid of healthy attitudes and values, can end up being a disaster.

You see the handing on of attitudes and values by parents to their children, and not the teaching of facts, is far and away the most important aspect of sex education.

Most of these values and attitudes are taught by the day-to-day witness of the parents' lives and have very little to do with knowledge of biology. Your children are watching you. Are you a good example? This is Dr. John Willke.
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A school based health clinic. That is a nice sounding title – professional, helpful. You may have one proposed for your school.

But, be very careful. Ask them, “What will you do when a student asks for contraceptives?

Will you give her some, with or without parent's consent? What if a pregnant girl comes in? What will the clinic do? Will it refer her somewhere? If so, where to?”

There is a pattern across the nation. The clinic opens – then gradually the Planned Parenthood types take over.

In a few years it will be handing out condoms and pills without parental consent and will be referring to abortion mills, either directly or through a cooperative public health or Planned Parenthood clinic.

That's why we call them “sex clinics”. Thought you'd like to know. This is Dr. John Willke.
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What do you call that person who commits abortions?

There is one title that is forever and always appropriate, and that is, he is an abortionist.

Would you call him an abortion doctor?

No. he disgraces a noble profession. He should dedicate his life to healing, but he kills unborn babies. To call him a doctor, or, worse yet, a surgeon, is to give him or her a certain status, a certain dignity which they don't deserve.

Does your obstetrician commit abortions? Don't call him or her an obstetrician – always use the word “abortionist”.

If challenged, your answer is, “You are a specialist in abortions. We call a skin specialist a dermatologist. We should call an abortion specialist an abortionist.”

He'll hate the term. It hurts his reputation. You know, if you hurt it enough, he just might quit his grisly trade. This is Dr. John Willke.
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The landmark study in the United States linking breast cancer to abortion was done by Dr. Janet Daling who is personally pro-abortion.

She recently stated: “If politics gets involved in science, it will really hold back the progress that we make. I have three sisters with breast cancer, and I resent people messing with scientific data to further their own political agendas, whether they're pro-choice or pro-life. I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, our data is accurate – it's not a matter of believing, it's a matter of what is fact.”  unquote

Sadly, other researchers do mess with what their research shows and falsely claim there is no association. Too bad. This is Dr. John Willke.
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U.S. trials on the efficiency of the French abortion pill, RU 486, have been reported.

When used with a prostaglandin, and only up until three weeks after missing her period, 92% of women aborted.

When that was extended to four weeks overdue, only 83% aborted. And when that was extended to five weeks after missing her period, only 77% of women aborted.

For those who did not abort, a surgical abortion was done, but 5% of the women in this tightly controlled study simply did not return for follow-up.

If some of these went on to deliver their babies, there is a significant probability of fetal malformation. This drug is not all it's been held up to be, and it is a dangerous drug. Thought you'd like to know. This is Dr. John Willke.
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There have been ongoing trials testing the French abortion pill, RU 486, in the United States.

In these A woman was excluded from the trials if she had a problem with her liver, lungs, kidneys, adrenals or heart
-  if she had high blood pressure or anemia or blood clots
- if she had diabetes and needed insulin or had an intrauterine device or was breastfeeding

-  if she was under 18, over 35, smoked more than ten cigarettes a day or had any type of circulation problem
- if she was taking anti-blood clotting medicines or gluco-corticoid therapy

– if she had a tubal pregnancy or any other mass or condition in her tubes or ovaries
- if there was any suspicion that she was having a miscarriage. All these were excluded. In spite of these exclusions, these pills caused many physical complications. This is Dr. John Willke.
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The largest baby-killing conglomerate in America – do you know which organization this is?

Well, it's Planned Parenthood.

They now kill more than 10% of all babies killed in abortion in America and refer almost 10% more to other killing centers.

This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel.

What does Planned Parenthood have to say about abstinence?

Well, here is their president, Gloria Feldt: “Teaching abstinence alone is a great disservice to young people.”

Pamela Miraldo, its former president, said: “Telling people just to practice abstinence is like telling a depressed person to cheer up.”

In their 1994 publication we read: “Exclusively urging abstinence, while condemning all non-marital sex, is unrealistic and irresponsible.”

Faye Waddleton, its president in the 80's, emphasized: “We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity. Our concern is not to convey `shoulds' or `should nots' but to promote responsible sexual relationships.”

Okay, now you know. This is Dr. John Willke.
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According to Planned Parenthood, and

I quote “There are only two basic kinds of sex: sex with victims and sex without.

Sex with victims is always wrong – sex without victims is always right.”  unquote

Further, they have said, “If this is a girl you've just met, and she agrees to have sexual relations, you're in the clear providing she's old enough to have some sense.”

And again Planned Parenthood,  “Babies are not sweet little things. They wet and dirty themselves; they get sick; they're very expensive to pay for.”

And Planned Parenthood of Minnesota added  “Babies are loud, smelly and expensive, unless you want one.”

Finally, Canadian Planned Parenthood's Bulletin said, “The solution is to teach young people how to experience sexual pleasure instead of teaching them not to have sex.” This is Dr. John Willke.
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 You probably know what a partial-birth abortion is, but a great many people do not.

When we speak to someone else about this, and use the words, “partial-birth abortion” --- Some only hear the word “abortion” and their minds clamp shut.

They know what abortion is, and they don't want to be bugged about it.

Rather, you should approach it this way: Use the words “killing babies during delivery”.

If you use that phrase, your listener will perk up, look at you and tune in. Follow these words with “you know, partial-birth abortion”.

If you phrase it this way, you get their attention and you can then tell them about this gruesome procedure.

This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel.

Partial-birth abortion – that's when they kill the baby during delivery.

After four-fifths of the baby is delivered, feet first, the abortionist punctures the skull and sucks out the baby's brains.

Four-fifths of these babies are normal. Half are old enough to survive, if born. But how many of these are done in the U.S.?

Pro-abortion officials had claimed that only 450 were done each year.

But the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers later said: “I lied through my teeth” and acknowledged at least 5,000.

But one New Jersey abortion mill alone admitted doing 1,500 a year. So a conservative guess would be at least 10,000.

But why kill them? One more tug and the baby's head would pop out, the child could be given to the nurse and then placed in waiting adoptive arms. Why kill these normal little kids? This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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Aside from being compulsory and immoral in itself, China's one-child policy will soon be trouble waiting to happen.

These only-children are generally quite well educated on many levels, but a recent study showed that their ability to look after themselves “was very poor”.

This policy is creating a nation of only-children who are lavished with attention by doting parents and grandparents.

Teachers report that these students are increasingly selfish, that they are spoiled and unable to share with others.  Bunt in a few years, when this artificial generation reaches young adulthood and wants to marry, there will be a large surplus of young men hunting for brides who don't exist. Talk about trouble waiting to happen? This is Dr. John Willke.
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The nations of Chile and India, after many years of  testing on women, has formally banned the use of Quinacrine for sterilization purposes.

Chile based its decision on records of severe side effects on women. This drug is supposed to irreversibly sterilize a woman when inserted through the uterus and into the opening of her tubes.

It causes acute abdominal inflammation, this is very painful, resulting in thick scars which presumably permanently prevent sperm passage.

There are later after-effects are adhesions, menstrual problems and cancer of the womb. Sometimes it leaves a small opening which allows the sperm to get into the tube, but not a large enough opening for the embryo to return through the tube.

The embryonic human, then, lodges in the tube, causing a tubal pregnancy with sometimes catastrophic results for the woman. This is Dr. John Willke.

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Today a true story.

Years ago, a Jewish physician in Branau, Austria, witnessed the delivery of two babies. One was a vigorous, healthy boy. He made his parents extremely proud and happy.

The other was a Down's Syndrome girl. Because of her handicapped condition, her birth made her parents very sad. This doctor followed them both for almost 50 years.

He related that he didn't know the girl's name but knew she grew up living at home. She finally was the one who was to nurse her mother through a very long and lingering illness after a stroke.

He did know the boy's name. He grew up to cause the deaths of millions and died in a bunker in Berlin. His name was Adolf Hitler. This is Dr. John Willke.

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There are those people, down through the years, who have claimed that Hitler was not in favor of abortion, that he actually forbade  it.

Actually, there is a kernel of truth to this.

He was opposed to abortion for members of his pure blood Aryan race, the reason?  He wanted more babies from these men and women and so he forbade them to abort.

But he was all in favor of abortions for Jews, for Gypsies, for Polish women and for those of other nationalities.

Hitler's opinion and practice on abortion were shaped by his own “master race” thinking and had nothing at all to do with whether or not abortion was the killing of an innocent human life. Thought you'd like to know. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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Pictures of dead Jews in a concentration camp engender an emotional judgment against and condemnation of the Nazis, but a garbage pail full of dead baby parts does not produce a similar negative judgment against the abortionist.

On the contrary, frequently the judgment is against the messenger who brings the pictorial message. Why?

I think its because today's generation bears no responsibility for the slaughtered Jews, but today's generation's hands are covered with the blood of innocent, aborted babies.

I think what this tells us is that when a person is confronted with his own guilt, it is easier to “shoot the messenger” than to deal with such personal guilt. What do you think? This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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The world's population rose from 3 billion in 1960 to 5.3 billion in 1990. But food production grew even faster, outstripping population growth by 20%.

The result has been a 60% drop in real prices for food commodities since the that time. The incidence of outright famine has dropped to one-tenth to what it was  and caloric intake per person has risen 25% worldwide during these same years.

In the last decade, the birth rate has dropped sharply around the world, resulting in a progressive slowing of population growth, while food production continues to increase.

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You all know that almost every developed nation has a birth rate under replacement levels, but did you know that the birth dearth has spread well beyond the developed world.

Twenty-seven developing nations now have fewer than 2.2 children per woman, which means they are not reproducing their own numbers.

In 1985, the world's total rate was 4.2. Now it's 2.9 and dropping. Seventy-nine countries, containing 40% of the world's population, now have birth rates below replacement level.

Assuming this trend continues, it is estimated that in twenty years two-thirds of all people on earth will live in countries that are dying because of an inadequate birth rate. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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Thirty-five nations are dying in Eastern and Western Europe. Fifteen European countries now fill more coffins than cradles.

Only two are above replacement birth rates – Malta and Albania – with Ireland barely keeping even. The average, married European woman today has 1.35 children in her lifetime.

European Russia has barely one child per woman in her lifetime, whereas 2.1 children are needed to maintain a level population.

So what is happening? Turks are moving into Germany, Austria and Greece – Algerians into France, West Indians into England, and North Africans into Italy.

It may be that these southern people, who value life and larger families, may be destined to “inherit the earth” – of Europe. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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Why are Western nations trying so frantically to reduce the population of the developing world?

Well, in 1930, Caucasian people of the West made up 35% of the earth's population.

Today the West comprises 15% and is still dominant, economically, militarily and otherwise. But, if present birth rates continue, by the year 2025 it will be 9%, and by 2100 under 5%.

Youe see, during the last century, Europe and the U.S. had extremely high birth rates, exported people to other countries and came to dominate the globe. But now, in the US except for immigration, our population would be shrinking. Our global dominance will continue only if our birth rate again rises or the anti-population zealots can reduce the growth rate and/or even reduce the population of lesser developed nations. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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We've heard a lot about assisted suicide. But a lot of people commit suicide without anyone's assistance.

Of those who do it themselves,

94% suffer from an identifiable mental disorder.

An additional 25% suffer from alcoholism.

Another 15% had a recognizable but undiagnosed psychiatric disorder –

4% organic brain syndrome – 2% were schizophrenic and 1% drug addicts.

These total 94%. That leaves about 6% who simply sit down and presumably make a rational decision to commit suicide. And so you see one's mental state is overwhelmingly important as a causative factor among those who do it themselves or who ask for assistance in doing it.

As pro-lifers, our job is to help treat their mental illnesses, not to help kill them. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

EUTHANASIA COMMON?

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You've heard that physician-assisted suicide is common?
Not so.

In all of the briefs presented to the U.S. Supreme Court prior to their decision on this, the reporting was consistent. There is almost no evidence that this is a common practice. More recently, a national survey of over 3,000 doctors confirmed this impression.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel of the National Institute of Health reports that as few as 3% of doctors have ever assisted a patient to die, and of all deaths in the U.S., I quote: “Perhaps one percent are hastened by physicians.”

And so you're still safe. You can still trust your doctor. But if euthanasia is ever legalized, this could change. It did in Holland and continues to get worse. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

WHO WANTS EUTHANASIA

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 At a national symposium in Washington, the following conclusions were clear. There is opposition to physician-assisted suicide, that is, euthanasia, by a clear majority of (1) older adults, (2) those who are physically or mentally ill, (3) those who are experiencing pain, (4) those who are less educated, (5) those who are less wealthy, and (6) Black Americans.

It's obvious that these are exactly the groups of people most likely to be the unwilling victims of euthanasia, if and when it is ever legalized. Are you curious, then, as to who supports it? The strongest supporters of assisted suicide and euthanasia are those who are White, male, better educated and healthy. This is Dr. John Willke.

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WHO SUGGESTS SUICIDE

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 Who is it that suggests physician-assisted suicide? We are told that it is the patient, but that is not usually true. When the patient does ask, it is usually a cry for help. Sometimes the family suggests euthanasia. But, particularly if the patient is a continuing burden to them, this places substantial emotional pressure on the patient to get out of the way and cease being a burden.

The worst situation is when the doctor suggests it. When the doctor does, this often gives a clear message to the patient that the medical situation is hopeless, the doctor can do no more, and that only pain, fright and suffering lie ahead. In a thinly veiled way, when the doctor suggests it, the doctor is recommending it. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

DEATH WITH DIGNITY?

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 Pro-euthanasia people make a continuing argument for “death with dignity”.

Rather, I think most of us would want to live with dignity until death. Truly, we should not equate personal dignity with control of bowel function or the need to be able to independently care for all of our own bodily needs at all times. True human dignity is internal, not external.

True human dignity is the person himself. Illness does not destroy one's inherent dignity. If a patient is treated with dignity by family and friends, he or she retains all of the respect and dignity that their personhood is due. Depending upon others at the end of life should be accepted as a gracious giving back to the patient what he or she gave to others. This is Dr. John Willke.
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 Grandpa was old, his hands shook, he frequently dropped his cup and spilled coffee at the family table. Accordingly, his son put him at a side table without a tablecloth and got him an unbreakable wooden cup.

Some days later, when the father came home, he found his small son on the porch steps carving on a piece of wood. He asked little Johnny what he was doing.

The little boy replied, “I am making a wooden cup, Daddy, because when I get big, and you're old, and I have to put you at a side table, then I'll have a cup for you to use.” Truly our children, when adults, will do what we did, not necessarily what we told them to do. This is Dr. John Willke.

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AMA AND SUICIDE

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 The American Medical Association has been tolerant of induced abortion since its legalization. It has said, in effect, that what is legal is ethical. In contrast to their persistent pro-abortion stand, the AMA has taken a very strong and definitive stand against assisted suicide and euthanasia. They publicly submitted two excellent and persuasive friend-of-the-court briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997, pleading that a doctor's role is to heal, not kill. Further, the AMA has begun a nationwide effort to teach clinicians pain control and compassionate care of the dying. Too bad they don't also apply this respect for and protection of human life to abortion. But at least thanks to the AMA for their position on euthanasia. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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 The first people killed in gas chambers in Germany were not Jews or Gypsies or Poles or Russian prisoners of war. No, they were pure blood Germans who were inmates at mental institutions. They were selected for death by psychiatrists. The gas chambers in which they were killed were designed and erected by psychiatrists in mental hospitals.

Almost 300,000 Germans were gassed and burned in mental institutions in the two years prior to the beginning of the Nazi Holocaust. Only after becoming used to the killing of “defective” people did Hitler's doctors turn to the killing of those of a so-called “defective” race. The gas chambers were moved to the concentration camps, and the killing proceeded. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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 The original gas chambers were erected in German psychiatric hospitals and used from 1939-41 to kill pure blood Aryans, Germans who were mental patients. They were also used for handicapped children. In 1941 the gas chambers were removed from the mental hospitals and re-erected in Nazi concentration camps. The killing of German mental patients, however, did not stop.

It continued in the same hospitals but by different methods. Such “useless eaters” were killed by slow starvation, by lethal injections and by overdoses of toxic medications.

The killing did not stop until 1945 when the Allies occupied Germany. But it all started when doctors deliberately killed the first hopelessly insane person. Sadly, the U.S. is not far from taking that first step. This is Dr. John Willke.

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 Proponents of assisted suicide claim that legalization will increase autonomy and the ability of patients to make their own decisions. Experience has shown the exact opposite. Rather, it is still the doctor who decides whether to perform euthanasia.

The doctor can fail to give a patient obvious alternatives, can ignore a patient's ambivalence, can actually suggest death and can (and in Holland they do) kill patients who have not requested to die. Legal euthanasia enhances the power and control of doctors and decreases that of the patient.

Do you want to make it legal for doctors to kill patients? Would you want to join Dutch people who now carry cards to inform the hospital that they do not want to be killed without their knowledge or consent? It's something to think about. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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 One argument for physician-assisted suicide is that it gives the patient the right of autonomy to make his or her own decision. But a critical look at the Dutch situation, where this has been legal for over a decade, shows that legalization of such euthanasia has not added to patient autonomy.

Only in a minority of cases is the patient there even involved in the decision. What legalized euthanasia has done in Holland has been to vastly increase the power of the physician over the patient's life or death.

This has turned out not to be a patient decision in most cases, but rather the doctor's decision – often not even shared with the patient. Be warned – the same thing will happen here if we legalize physician-assisted suicide. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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 Euthanasia is legal in Holland, and we are told that it is rare, tightly controlled, with many restrictions, and done only in the most serious and advanced cases. But this is not so. The actual facts are far removed from this. Physician-assisted suicide in Holland has progressed to direct physician killing of patients.

Euthanasia for the terminally ill has progressed to euthanasia for the chronically ill. Euthanasia for physical problems has progressed to euthanasia for psychiatric problems. Voluntary euthanasia has progressed to involuntary euthanasia. Euthanasia in Holland is a classic example of the “slippery slope”.

I predict that any state that legalizes physician-assisted suicide will move progressively down that same slippery slope. This is Dr. John Willke.
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 One significant and tragic result of the legalization of euthanasia in Holland has been the almost total lack of progression in developing compassionate alternatives to euthanasia. These include primarily medical expertise in pain control. This also consists of coordinated medical, nursing, spiritual and other care such as that given in a hospice.


Holland has four small hospices struggling to survive. Across the Channel in England, euthanasia is not legal and there are now almost 400 busy, functional and successful hospices. Holland hasn't needed hospices. They have a much quicker and less costly solution to painful and terminal illness – their doctors kill the patient. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

CURSING

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 Cursing, vulgarity – it's difficult to go to a movie or watch a video drama without hearing curse words. Does this reflect today's America? I didn't think so. Certainly I don't hear profanity and vulgarity very often. But am I sheltered? Well, a major study entitled “Cursing in America” found that I'm right. 97% of people in the US are concerned about vulgar language. 80% object. But how many use curse words in their leisure time themselves? Only 12%. And how many curse on the job? 7%. Will your children, when adults, use curse words? The rule is, only if you taught them to. Like smoking, drugs, adultery, abortion and so many other things, as adults they'll very likely do what you did, not what you told them to do. Remember, they are watching and listening. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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There is now a new study regarding the claim that there is a genetic basis for homosexuality. Dr. Dean Hamer of the U.S. National Institute of Health in 1995 claimed to have found a “gay gene”. His report and his claimed “proof” received international publicity by the liberal media.

What was not said was that Hamer himself is a known homosexual and an aggressive and vocal homosexual advocate. This new study by Dr. Alan Sanders, also of the National Institute of Health, repeated, carefully and in detail, Dr. Hamer's study in order to verify it. Dr. Sanders found no evidence to support Hamer's claimed “discovery”.

This substantially debunks the well publicized claim that homosexuality is genetic. Homosexuals can change. Most are pro-abortion now, but become pro-life if and when they change. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)

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 Over 25 years and over 40 million babies killed – and we should be thankful? But let's look for silver linings. Because of this holocaust, we've seen an outpouring of help for pregnant women and the creation of almost 4,000 crisis pregnancy centers.


We've seen an effective and still growing pro-life movement tha