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ADOPTION PRIVACY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Although infant adoption continues to do well in the U.S., infant
adoption is disappearing in some other nations. Adoption numbers
have gone down drastically in England and Wales. For instance, in
1975, 4,500 infants under age one were adopted there – in 1995, a mere
322. Why?
Well, a few years ago their Parliament passed a law abolishing,
retroactively, all previous legal guarantees of privacy to women who
had placed babies for adoption. There are significant numbers of
women who would be willing to place their babies in an adoptive home,
but only if they can be absolutely guaranteed complete privacy in the
years ahead. Now, in England, her only guarantee of privacy is
abortion, as adoption has become only a form of long term foster
care. This is Dr. John Willke.
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PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Has everyone heard of partial-birth abortion? Surprisingly, some
people have not. When you speak to others about it, you might
emphasize several points. At least half of these are done after
viability, that is, after the baby is big enough to survive outside of
the womb. Over 90% are done on babies who are entirely
normal.
In it the abortionist pulls the baby out of the birth canal feet first,
until the entire body is out in the air except the head, which remains
in the birth canal. He then kills the child by stabbing him in
the back of the skull, inserts a tube, and sucks out the brains.
Then, with a gentle tug, he delivers the empty skull. This is
called partial-birth abortion, or brain suction abortion, sometimes
intact D&E. But I think the best term to use is, “killing the
baby during delivery.” This is Dr. John Willke.
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CYTOTEC DEFORMITIES
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
If used alone the French pill, RU 486, only causes an abortion 60 to
80% of the time. It needs a second drug. This is a
prostaglandin, trade name Cytotec, and it completes the abortion.
This drug is available in the U.S. on prescription. It is used to
protect the stomach lining when a patient takes large doses of
anti-arthritic drugs.
Unfortunately, it can also cause an abortion early in pregnancy.
Because of this, it is sometimes used alone by women attempting to
abort. Sometimes it does cause an abortion. More often she
does not abort, and these babies are carried to term. Studies
have shown that when such doses of this prostaglandin drug are taken
and do not cause abortions, this can cause multiple congenital
malformations in those children who are not aborted. This is Dr.
John Willke.(TOC)
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COMMIT AN ABORTION
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
What are the words that you use to describe an abortion? Well, we
should use “abortion”, but commonly, we hear the phrase, “termination
of pregnancy”. That doesn’t sound quite as harsh. Some use
the phrase, “interruption of pregnancy”, but that makes no sense.
If you’re speaking, and I interrupt you, then that is a temporary pause
after which you resume speaking.
There’s nothing temporary about an abortion. It’s very
permanent. So it’s simply bad grammar to speak of interruption of
pregnancy. There is a phrase that has gained considerable usage
in the last few years, that was never used earlier and I would like to
recommend it to you. Does the abortionist do an abortion?
Why not say that he commits an abortion. We’re familiar with that
phrase, “committing a sin” and we associate something bad and evil with
the word “committing”, so why not speak of committing an
abortion. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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TO SAVE HER LIFE?
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Abortion can, at times, be necessary to save the life of the
mother? Yes, it’s in almost every nation’s laws and it is
commonly assumed to be a given. But, in three Dublin maternity
hospitals in Ireland, a report tells us, that among 223,000 births over
a ten-year period, there were only two maternal deaths and no abortions
were necessary.
So, is abortion ever necessary to save the life of the mother?
Well, if tubal pregnancies, trauma conditions, and cancer treatment are
considered under the mantle of saving the life of the mother, the
answer is yes, for those do prevent her death but are not a direct
attack on the tiny human. If we exclude these conditions and
speak only of direct surgical abortions, then perhaps we have to say
that the answer is no, at least this is true in a sophisticated medical
climate. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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KILL OR MURDER
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Should we pro-lifers use the word “kill” or “murder” when we speak
of babies dying from abortion? Yes, do use “kill”.
Use it repeatedly, directly, often. It is a non-judgmental,
accurate, biologic description of what happens. We use it when we
step on a roach. We use it when we spray crabgrass.
So why not use it when speaking of abortion? “Murder”, however,
is a stronger word. One cannot murder a dog or an insect, only a
human being. To say “murderer” clearly implies that the
abortionist knows that this living being is human and kills
anyway. Therefore, use “murderer” with caution. But, except
in a rare instance when it may be too inflammatory, the word is
“kill”. “Kill babies – Kill babies – Kill babies.” This is
Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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FETO-PLACENTAL UNIT
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Words are important. We speak of the unborn child, the developing
baby, the child in the womb. We say the mother is “with
child.” We use phrases like “When did you feel the baby
kick?” All of these speak to the humanity of the child. But
the abortion industry does not want to recognize that the child in the
womb is human, and so they use the word “fetus” and “embryo,” at best,
but would prefer and usually use words like “the product of pregnancy,”
“the feto-placental unit”.
They speak of “it”, not he or she. They speak of non-human
glob. In the first week, it is only a fertilized egg, never an
embryonic baby. But this is nonsense. Could you imagine a
mother gathering her children about her to announce her blessed event,
patting her tummy and saying, “Dears, I have a feto-placental unit in
my uterus.” This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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PRO CHOICE/SLAVERY
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
We all have heard ad nauseum, that a certain person or group is not
pro-abortion, rather they’re only pro-choice. But apply this to
slavery. Let’s say back then a person had said, “I’m not
pro-slavery, I’m just pro-choice. It’s OK by me if the slave holder
wants to own a slave and treat him as he wishes, but I’m not
pro-slavery.”
Would you have believed that? Of course not. Just so, there
really is no such thing as being pro-choice on abortion and not being
pro-abortion. They are one and the same thing. If you are
in favor of allowing someone to choose to kill an innocent developing
baby, then you are permissive of and in favor of killing unborn
babies. Pro-choice? – Pro-choice to kill. Pro-choice equals
pro-abortion. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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IMPOSE MORALITY
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Should we who oppose abortion continue to try to impose our morality on
the woman? Well, look at it this way. The Ten Commandments
forbad murder. So do the laws of every civilized nation.
This was an ancient Jewish law. Therefore, do these laws impose
religious morality? Hardly.
Abortion is a civil rights, a human rights issue. Abortion is a
question as to whether an entire class of living humans shall be
deprived of their basic right to life on the basis of age (too young)
and place of residence (still living in the womb). So, perhaps
the next time someone says that you are imposing your morality on her,
you should ask them what right does a mother and her abortionist have
to impose their morality, on this innocent unborn child, fatally.
This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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IMPOSE RELIGION
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Wouldn’t an anti-abortion law be imposing a religious belief on the
nation? The answer is “No”. Our belief in God and our
creation by Him, His authorship of life, His commandments, His justice,
and our belief that these tiny ones are our brothers and sisters in
Christ --- this belief is a powerful motivation leading believers to
work for the protection of the unborn.
This is the bottom line here. Our religious faith motivates us to
protect them. Our religious belief, however, can never be the
sole legal justification for seeking laws to protect the unborn, or the
handicapped, or the elderly. So laws protecting the unborn or
laws against assisted suicide and euthanasia do not impose a religious
belief, rather they protect basic human rights. This is Dr. John
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DISQUALIFYING ISSUE
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Single-issue voters today are frequently condemned. But think a
moment. It was an honorable tradition. Labor union members
have frequently been single-issue voters. So were those opposed
to nuclear arms, to the Vietnamese war, and you can think of others
where one issue dominates the choice of who the voter will select.
However, when it comes to abortion, this
well-entrenched, honorable tradition is accused of being exactly the
opposite. And so, perhaps, we shouldn’t use the term single-issue
voter. Rather, let’s speak of disqualifying issue. If this
candidate further wants you to pay for that killing with your taxes, by
my judgment that candidate is disqualified from holding public office,
and I will never vote for him or her. Join me. This is Dr.
John Willke.(TOC)
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LIFE, LIBERTY AND…
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life
Jewel: I’m sure you’re all familiar with our Declaration of
Independence. It speaks of being given by our Creator, certain
unalienable rights, and among these are “life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.” I’m sure we’ve all thought of these and have been
reminded that the first right is life, and properly so. Without
life, you’d have no liberty, and certainly could not pursue
happiness. But many people today, under the term of choice, would
put liberty first.
If we do that, and put liberty first, then you have the liberty to
kill, such as in abortion and euthanasia. And so that can cancel
out life. As stated, life makes liberty and the pursuit of
happiness possible. But if we reverse and put liberty first, it
can eliminate life and then there will be no pursuit of
happiness. Think about it. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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LIVE GOOD, DEAD BAD
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Sometimes we hear from political candidates that the abortion question
is just so complicated that there is no easy solution to it, and,
accordingly their answers to our questions tend to be lengthy, wordy
and, basically, say nothing. But, actually, it’s extremely
simple. There are only two questions: “Is this a living human
inside of the mother?”
And then: “Should we allow him to continue to live or should we kill
him?” A pro-life activist has said it in a very simple way.
It goes like this: “This is a complicated question? Not really.
Think of it in this way, live baby – good, dead baby –
bad.” And if we think of it in this way we’ll sweep
away the cobwebs and get to the basic truth, the bare bones of this
question. Just remember, “Live baby – good, dead baby –
bad.” This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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SAFE, LEGAL, RARE?
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
When President Clinton was first elected, he made many promises that he
didn’t fulfill, and one of them was that he wanted abortion to be safe,
legal, and rare. Safe it is not, we all know that. There is
physical and psychological harm from it. Legal? Yes,
certainly it does remain legal, and until birth for social and economic
reasons. But rare? Well, one answer is that he kept it, not
rare, but everywhere.
On the other hand, one wonders – have you heard of anything good that
we want to keep “rare”? Should health be “rare”? Should
wealth be “rare”? We only want bad things to be rare, like
disease, poverty, and abortion. And, so, while he remained
consistently strongly pro-abortion during his administration, maybe
inadvertently back then he let the truth slip on this one. This
is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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KEEP GOVERNMENT OUT?
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
“Yes, I’ve heard your anti-abortion message, but central to this is
that I believe the government should stay out of this issue.”
You’ve heard this pro-abortion argument, I’m sure. To answer it
let’s turn to Thomas Jefferson who knew something about American
government and the foundations of our nation. He said, “The care
of human life and not its destruction is the first and only legitimate
object of good government.”
Now, if we give this a little thought we should realize, if there is
one absolute central, core function of a nation state, it is to protect
the most precious possession of everyone living there and that is their
lives themselves. And they want to get government out of this
issue? Come on now! Caring for and protecting human life is
why we have government in the first place. This is Dr. John
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ULTRASOUND SAFE
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
You’re pregnant. You’ve had one or more ultrasound examinations
and the question has occurred to you, “Could this possibly hurt my
baby? Might it, like radiation treatments, possibly cause a later
cancer?” Well, the answer seems to be in. A major report
from Sweden and another in the British Medical Journal have examined
this and they report that ultrasound examinations in early or in late
pregnancy do not increase a child’s risk of getting leukemia.
Now, leukemia is the one cancer most frequently associated with
radiation exposure. Further, if it does not cause leukemia, which
is blood cancer, the odds are overwhelming that it won’t cause any
other cancer either. So, ultrasound is apparently harmless and
that’s good news for all of us. This is Dr. John Willke.
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RISK BREAST CANCER
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Abortion and breast cancer again – this time we have a considered
article in the Wisconsin Law Review that states that the current level
of scientific evidence, linking induced abortion with increased breast
cancer risk, is now sufficient to support an ethical and legal duty to
disclose fully the risk to women who are considering abortion. It
clearly states that this risk should be included in informed consent
and parental consent legislation.
It also should be incorporated in all literature mandated by the state
to be given to women contemplating abortion. Since abortionists
rarely give balanced information and counseling to women requesting
abortion, many states have now required them to provide certain
materials. And these should now include the risk of breast
cancer. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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POST ABORTION SYNDROME
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Among the negative reactions of women who have had abortions are:
depression, loss of self-esteem, self-destructive behavior, sleep
disorders, sterility, increased risk of breast cancer, later
miscarriages, suicidal impulses, feelings of helplessness, anger,
memory loss, chronic problems with relationships, anxiety attacks,
guilt, and remorse. It is estimated that as many as 90% of women
who have had abortions suffer from at least some of these
symptoms.
This is called post-abortion syndrome. If you know of a woman, or
a man, who is hurting because of a previous abortion, there is help for
them. Where? Even if he’s sympathetic, your doctor probably
doesn’t have time to properly care for that person. Rather, visit
and call your local pro-life pregnancy help center. They can help
you. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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VIOLENT DEATH
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels: As the years pass we are
finding out more and more problems that result from having an induced
abortion. Violent deaths of the mother are usually not
included. But now we have a major study from Finland which
reports that the risk of death from suicide was six times higher among
women who have had an abortion.
The risk of death from accidents was four times higher, from homicide,
twelve times higher, and these in the year following an abortion.
More so among women who have had, as opposed to those who have not had,
abortions. The study notes that such deaths among post-abortive
women are most likely due to risk-taking behavior. This, they explain,
is probably an expression of self-destructive or suicidal tendencies in
women who are psychologically depressed after having had
abortions. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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ABORTION AND DRUGS
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Abortion can cause many problems for the woman. Feelings of guilt
and remorse are common. She often gets dreams, nightmares,
flashbacks. Anniversary reactions occur. These hit her on
the anniversary of the abortion itself, or when the baby would have
been due. These emotional upsets and others can continue to upset
her. To suppress and drown these out she often turns to
alcohol, sometimes drugs, and this can become habitual.
Research now available reports that such women are five times more
likely to abuse drugs than women who carry their babies to term.
Translated into numbers in the United States, this figures out to at
least 150,000 new cases of abortion-related substance abuse each
year. It’s not a good scene. This is Dr. John Willke.
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SUICIDE/PREGNANCY
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
How often is suicide associated with pregnancy? There was an
eight-year study in Finland, which gave us some very interesting
information. For every 100,000 women who gave birth, six
committed suicide. Compare that to 100,000 women who had
miscarriages – their suicide rate was 18. What about after
induced abortion? For 100,000 women who had induced abortion,
there were 135 suicides, that’s 6 times as many as after a delivery.
The age group that had the highest number of
suicides was, not surprising – teenagers. Was there a difference
in women from various economic levels? Yes, there were more
suicides among women in lower socio-economic groups. There were
also more suicides among women who were unmarried. This is Dr.
John Willke.
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A RAPE EXCEPTION?
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Pregnancy from forcible rape is extremely rare, but the pro-abortion
industry exploits it constantly. This frequently puts pro-life
people on the defensive. For instance, if a pro-life person
refuses to allow abortion for this hard case, that person is accused of
extremism, insensitivity and no compassion for women. On the
other hand, if the pro-life person does agree to this exception,
pro-abortionists then accuse him or her of being inconsistent.
Your best answer remains this: “I don’t think that an innocent baby
should be killed for the crime of his father,” and also “We don’t
punish other criminals by killing their children. Why should we
do it in this case? After all, the baby is completely
innocent. He did not ask to be conceived. Why kill him or
her?” This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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RAPE PREGNANCY
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Forcible rape rarely causes a woman to become pregnant. But what
about those who do become pregnant? A number of interesting
studies have been done on these women. One intriguing one was to
ask them what their chief complaint was. Everyone expected the
answer to be, “that I became pregnant.” Not so. The
majority of these women said that their chief complaint was: how other
people treated them.
They were ridiculed; they were ignored; they were avoided; and this
even by friends. But mostly even their friends didn’t know how to
handle it. They didn’t know what to say or do and so frequently
said and did nothing. My advice for you: love this woman; talk to
her about her experience, help her if you can. This is Dr. John
Willke.(TOC)
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NO EVIL GENE
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Perhaps you have heard the charge that children conceived in rape will
inherit an evil gene from their father – that such male children will
possibly become criminals and rapists themselves. Well, this is
simply biologically and sociologically erroneous. Rape, incest,
stealing and lying are not traits that are genetically transferred from
one generation to the next. There is no such thing as an evil
gene, so there is no such thing to inherit.
If this is your child, he’ll turn out to be what you help shape him to
be, not what some gene determines. Further, let’s remember
that our nation, under God, gives equal protection by law for the
children conceived in a sexual assault as well as to those conceived in
a loving relationship. Let’s get rid of this false argument once
and for all. This is Dr. John Willke.
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CHLAMYDIA
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Chlamydia is a very common sexually transmitted disease. Ordinary
barrier birth control methods frequently do not prevent its
transmission. As many as 85% of females and 40% of males have no
symptoms when they have the infection. But, even when she doesn’t
know she is infected with it, it can still cause inflammation in her
tubes.
This can and does cause scarring in the tubes, and this can cause
blockage and render her sterile, produce tubal pregnancies and other
complications. Young people are told that proper condom use will
prevent this disease from being spread, don’t believe it. It is
spread, not only by body fluids but from skin to skin contact. It
just happens to be the most quickly spreading sex disease in the
U.S. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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HOLES IN CONDOMS
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Today, let me bring you a little information about condoms. If
you put the wall of a condom under a high power microscope you will
find that there are naturally occurring holes in the wall and these
have a diameter of 5.0 microns. Male sperm have a diameter of
50.0 microns, so it’s clear that they cannot go through these tiny
holes.
But the HIV virus that causes AIDS has a diameter of 1/10th of one
micron. And so the sperm are ten times larger than the holes, but
the AIDS virus is 50 times smaller than the naturally occurring holes
in the condom. From this, it’s clear that the AIDS viruses can
swim freely through the holes in the condom. And our young people
are told that wearing a condom will protect them from catching this
fatal disease? This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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GIRL CHILD AT U.N.
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life
Jewel: Girl child – that sounds inoffensive enough, but let’s
look at it in the context of its usage by the delegations from Europe,
Canada and by the western world at the United Nations. According
to the European Union, it is parents who pass along harmful values to
their children. Further, “having children” is to them a negative
stereotype and an obstacle that the girl child faces as she tries to
advance in society.
Motherhood and traditional female roles are denigrated even though we
consider them a woman’s most significant role. In the United
Nations, rights of the girl child are being pushed to include the right
to view pornography, to be a prostitute, to make decisions against her
parents’ wishes, to use contraception, and to have abortions. And
the delegates appointed by President Clinton representing the U.S.
support these destructive policies. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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SEX WORKERS
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
As most of you know, the words “reproductive rights” at the United
Nations, includes the right to contraception and the right to abortion
on demand. But there’s a new twist. The European Union,
Canada, Clinton’s appointed delegates representing the U.S., Japan and
Australia, -- the rich Western Nations, if you please – these powerful
delegations are pushing to have “reproductive rights” include the right
to become a prostitute.
This would pave the way for the occupation of being a “sex worker” and
this to be listed as a legitimate career choice. Incidentally,
this has already begun as the United Nations has ordered China to
conform to the proposed new convention on the elimination of all forms
of discrimination against women, and to do this by approving “sex
workers”. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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CLONING ODDS
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewesl:
Do you remember Dolly, the sheep? She was the only healthy lamb
born from the first 277 embryos that were created by cloning.
Most died soon after being created. Some died during the
pregnancy, some died after birth due to congenital deformities.
Now, there’s another experiment, this one with mice. Only 17 live
fetuses made it to birth from 800 embryos. Of the 17, only ten
lived long enough to produce offspring.
These are sobering figures and unbelievably high mortality rates.
And now we continue to hear about attempts to clone a human? This
will be even more difficult. Could anyone, with an ounce of
ethics and compassion, tolerate cloning experiments that would cost
this or even a greater percent of dead and dying humans? I
seriously doubt it. This is Dr. John Willke.
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BRAIN TRANSPLANTS
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
You’ve heard of using fetal brain tissue being transplanted into the
brains of a patient with Parkinson’s disease. The idea is that
the new tissue may grow and produce chemicals that will bring clinical
improvement. Well, almost every year for two decades there have
been given reports published of such transplants producing temporary
success, but every case to date has relapsed without any sustained
improvement.
And now there has been one case reported from China of a man who
received a fetal brain transplant. He died two years later.
The autopsy revealed that the tissue had indeed survived, but rather
than growing into brain tissue, it had grown wildly into hair
follicles, skin, cartilage, and other organs, and he died from the new
growth. This is Dr. John Willke.
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EMBRYO STEM CELLS
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Stem cell research – The push in Washington is to authorize federally
sponsored researchers to obtain living human embryos, kill them,
dissect them, and then take stem cells from them. The debate,
however, is really not about stem cell research at all.
Our government properly supports the work of many medical researchers
who are using stem cells. However, these researchers obtain them
from other sources, such as adult blood, bone marrow, nerve tissue,
umbilical cord blood, and placentas. These sources do not require
the killing of a living human embryo. The argument, then, is not
about whether to do research on stem cells, but rather whether the
federal government should sponsor and fund the purposeful killing of
living human embryos. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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OWN FROZEN EMBRYOS?
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
You’ve probably heard of cases of frozen embryos. This is when a
husband and wife create, in a dish, a number of brand new living human
embryos. Some of these are then usually implanted in the woman’s
womb. Frequently, the remaining ones are frozen and kept in cold
storage. Now, we’ve had several cases where the couple has
later divorced.
These husbands have later stated that these frozen embryos should be
killed. The reason these men have given is that they do not want to
become fathers. Whoa! That’s not correct. He is a
father. These are his tiny living sons and daughters. He
may not want the responsibility of raising them, but he’s dead wrong in
saying he does not want to become a father, he already is one.
This is Dr. John Willke.
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SANGER A RACIST
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Listen to this quote: “The emergency problem of segregation and
sterilization must be faced. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of
the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be
segregated during her reproductive years. Otherwise, she is
almost certain to bear imbecile children, who in turn are just as
certain to breed other defectives.” Who said it?
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. And who did she
include under those who, she said, were mentally deficient? She
included all southern Europeans, specifically Italian people,
Jews, all African Americans. Only white, pure blood Arian people
were of superior racial stock, and who do you think picked that idea
up.
You’re right – Adolph Hitler. This is Dr. John Willke.
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SANGER QUOTES
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Who do you think said this, “More children from the fit, less from the
unfit”? This same person said, “The most merciful thing a large family
can do for one of its infant members is to kill it.” This person
was highly promiscuous, had many lovers, and favored free love for
women without any sexual limits and without the burden of
children. She saw “the marriage bed as the most degenerating
influence in the social order.”
Have you guessed who said these things? It was
Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded Planned Parenthood.
Further, she proposed compulsory sterilization for those she said were
unfit. She worked hard for “a race of thoroughbreds” until
Hitler’s “master race” made that goal unpopular. This is Dr. John
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD GOALS
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Planned Parenthood’s five-year plan openly stated: “Our mission is to
serve as the nation’s foremost agent of social change in the area of
reproductive health and well-being.” Further, it’s objective was:
“reaffirming and protecting the legitimacy of induced abortion as a
necessary back-up to contraceptive failure.”
It’s purpose is to “provide leadership in making abortion and
sterilization available and fully accessible to all,” while noting,
“the various activities that we undertake are not separate and are not
competing. They are complimentary parts of the single national
strategy.” These are all direct quotes from the published
official policy papers of Planned Parenthood. If it was needed
these statements confirm that Planned Parenthood is the largest baby
killing conglomerate in America. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
The National Organization for Women claims to represent all women in
the U.S., but it’s only one-fourth the size of Concerned Women for
America, which is a solidly Christian organization and has 600,000
members.
The NOW claims to seek economic and employment equality for women, and
it does do some work toward these goals, but its two major goals are
reproductive rights, that is, the right to abortion on demand, state
paid at any time during pregnancy, and secondly, special rights for
lesbians and homosexuals. Because their members represent only a
small fraction of American women, I’d suggest that instead of referring
to them as the National Organization for Women, you call them the
National Organization for Some Women. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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COMMON GROUND
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
From time to time, well meaning people approach pro-life leaders and
suggest that we meet with pro-abortion leaders. Their attempt is to
find common ground. Now that phrase has a certain appeal to it
and some pro-life people have joined in such meetings.
I have found them useless. The basic facts are that this either is or
is not a baby and this baby either is allowed to live or is
killed. There is no in between, there is no common ground.
The only area for discussion is adoption. We favor it strongly
and Planned Parenthood and its allies do their very best to demonize
and discourage it. For us to join as equal partners at such a
table is to publicly admit that there is a moral equivalence to the two
sides. And this simply is not so. This is Dr. John Willke.
(TOC)
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NON-NEGOTIABLE
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Some say that pro-life and Planned Parenthood should agree to
disagree. If they did, this might solve the problem? But,
abortion violates the most fundamental human right. There is no
way that we could agree to disagree. If we did, this would foster
the notion that the baby is a baby only if the mother thinks it’s a
baby.
That the child has value only if the mother says it does, and that
we’re responsible only for those we choose to be responsible for.
Some things can be debated, but not this issue. This isn’t
disagreeing about an issue like abortion; this is little people,
innocent little people being killed by abortion. This issue is
non-negotiable. We must continue to carry the flag. This is
Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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ABORTIONISTS OUTCASTS
This is Dr. John Willke today’s Life Jewel:
What do people think of abortionists? Well, at best, they’re
regarded as a necessary evil. Commonly, they are social outcasts,
ostracized by most people in the community and also by almost all other
doctors. People avoid them. Even their children are
shunned.
A nationwide survey showed that, by their own admission, 70% of
abortionists say they are not respected in the medical community, 65%
of them feel ostracized, 87% have been harassed, and half of them have
problems retaining staff. One in five has been denied hospital
privileges and two-thirds say that the non-abortion part of their
practice has suffered because they do abortions. Don’t you wonder
why anyone would want to go into this field of work? This is Dr.
John Willke.(TOC)
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RESPECT THE REMAINS
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Should fetal body parts from aborted babies be used for research?
One rationale offered for this is that they are going to be thrown away
otherwise. This way they may do somebody some good. Let’s
recall that the very same argument was used by Nazi doctors about
experimenting on Jews before and after they were killed in the
Holocaust.
The doctors who did these experiments were tried for crimes against
humanity; that was after the war, by an international court at
Nuremberg. Some of those doctors were hanged for what they
did. Furthermore, if this argument had validity we could use
condemned prisoners for such testing. Or how about using the
bodies of enemy soldiers killed in wartime, or the body of a homeless
man who dies in a public shelter? No, we respect the remains of
all of these people. Why not, also, the unborn? This is Dr.
John Willke.(TOC)
41
BONHOEFFER
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Today, a word from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He said: “Marriage is
inseparable with the recognition of the unborn child’s rights, rights
not in the parents’ disposition. When these rights are not
recognized, marriage ceases to be marriage and becomes a mere
relationship. To kill the fruit in its mother’s womb, offends
against the child’s God given right to live. The question whether
the fruit of the womb is already human or not only confuses the
issue.
The fact is that God intended to create a human being and that this
human being has been robbed of its life. What is this, if not
murder?” He then details that the motives for such a deed can
vary but that this changes nothing. The fact is that murder has
been committed. For those of you who don’t recognize him,
Bonhoeffer was a famous German Lutheran during the Nazi era. This
is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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HERBERT RATNER
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Dr. Herbert Ratner has gone to his eternal reward. For many years
he was editor of the magazine, Child and Family. He was a
recognized expert in public health and also one of the fathers of the
La Leche League, the well-known breast-feeding league. A convert
from Judaism to Christianity, he was a pro-life stalwart. He
wrote and published a good bit of medical information over the years on
family planning, specifically on contraception and abortifacients.
He left us with the following immortal words: “The
old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise
die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would
otherwise live.” This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
43
MOTHER IMPORTANT
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Back during the Cold War in Hungary, Cardinal Josef Mindzenty was
imprisoned by the Communists. While there he wrote this short
piece:
The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim
the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need
not. She has built something more magnificent than any Cathedral
– a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s
body. The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.
They cannot share in God’s creative miracle. Only a human mother
can. And in this sense, mothers are closer to God the Creator
than any other creature. God joins forces with mothers in
performing this act of creation. What on God’s good earth is more
glorious than this: to be a mother? This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)
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I’LL TAKE THE BABIES
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels: Today listen to this quote,
“Only God can decide life and death. That is why abortion is such
a terrible sin. You’re not only killing life but making yourself
superior to God. Yet, some people do decide who has to live and
who has to die. They want to make themselves almighty God.
They want to take the power of God in their hands. They want to
say, I can do without God. I can decide. That is the most
devilish thing a human can do.” And who am I quoting?
Someone you’ve heard about – Mother
Theresa of fond memory.
She also told a large audience in America which included the President
and Vice-President of the U.S. and their wives, that if we didn’t want
all of our babies, she would find loving homes for them in
Calcutta. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
45
RUSSIAN ABORTION
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels: The
first country in the world to legalize abortion was Russia. It
was done by a decree of Lenin. One of his central goals was to
realize his Communist dream. In order to do that he had to
eliminate the two major obstacles, 1) religion, and 2) the
family. Legalizing and paying for abortion on demand went a long
way toward accomplishing both goals.
Low wages forcing women out of the home and into the workforce, along
with free abortions was a heavy-handed state-sponsored way to encourage
women to devote their energies to building socialism, not
families. Individuals and groups who opposed the official
abortion policy, by definition were engaging in anti-state activity and
many were dealt with accordingly. This is Dr. John Willke. (TOC)
46
TO STOP ABORTIONS
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
With only a very few exceptions, every nation in the world that has
legalized abortion has done it through an act of their
parliament. Only Italy and Switzerland have legalized by popular
referenda and Ireland, in referenda, turned down legal abortion.
Almost alone in the world is the United States, which has legal
abortion by order of the court. Canada is a close second, as its
courts have declared any anti-abortion law also to be
unconstitutional.
The fallout from this is that most countries can again protect human
life by passing laws to do so. In the U.S. and Canada however,
this option is not available and the only answer is to have the Supreme
Court so rule or to amend the constitution. Because the U.S.
Supreme Court has declared anti-abortion laws to be unconstitutional,
we have been unable to prevent abortions in the U.S. This is Dr.
John Willke.(TOC)
47
FEMALE INFANTICIDE
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
China’s ruthless one-child policy has been well known and has now been
going on for two decades. In spite of recent repeated Chinese
denials, the program continues essentially as it has been
operating. You see, in China, if you’re only allowed one child,
overwhelmingly parents want a boy. This is because the boy must
support his aging parents, while the girl leaves them to join her
husband and help support his parents.
China has no national social security. Old folks are on their
own. Accordingly, when baby girls are born, they are frequently
killed at birth. It has been documented that in one region, over
a period of one decade, 800,000 infant girls were killed, abandoned and
allowed to die. There are twelve regions. This adds up to
over ten million dead little girls in ten years. This is Dr. John
Willke.(TOC)
48
WORLD POPULATION
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
If current trends in declining fertility continue as they are now, the
world’s population should peak at 7.5 billion people in the year 2040,
and then drop by 120 million a year between 2040 and 2050. It
will then continuously decline after that by nearly 30% in each
subsequent generation. Now, this is according to the United
Nations’ population department’s low variant projections, which are the
most historically accurate.
So the fact is, by the middle of this century, world population will
have plateaued and begun to progressively decline. This aging of
the present population, then a plateau in total numbers, then a steady
decline due to a low birthrate has already been occurring in the
developed nations and is now rapidly becoming the norm in many
under-developed nations. This is Dr. John Willke.
(TOC)
49
BABY SIX BILLION
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Overpopulation – Baby Six Billion was born in the fall of ’99. Is
this a problem? Well, as a matter of fact, the world’s population
will never again double. It is probably going to crest in
approximately the year 2040, at between 7 and 8 billion people.
Then it will move into a gradual decline.
The problem in the 21st Century will be too many old people and not
enough young folks to pay taxes, to produce, and to care for the
elders. This is the prediction of most world demographers
today. As we begin the third millennium, half of the world’s
population already lives in a country that has a birth rate below
replacement level, while most other nations are dropping toward
it. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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DYING LIKE FLIES
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Over population? Not really. Adding his voice to an
increasing chorus of others, Harvard scholar, Nicholas Eberstadt has
stated that worldwide fear of over population is unfounded. The
real problem facing the world in the twenty-first century will be
de-population. Today, yet, the world’s population, except in
Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan does continue to grow.
This current expansion of population, however, in the U.S. is due
largely to immigration, but elsewhere it is the result almost entirely
of health improvements and of extension of life expectancy. To
quote him, “World population is increasing, not because people are
breeding like rabbits, but because they have stopped dying like
flies.” This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
51
UNWED BIRTHS
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels: The
proportion of births to unwed mothers continues to slowly rise in the
United States. It is now 33%, and this is frightening. Yet,
there are some countries that are worse. In Denmark, it’s 46%, in
Norway – 49%, in Sweden the illegitimate birthrate is 54%, and in
Iceland a staggering 65%.
These Scandinavian countries have essentially abandoned marriage and
embarked on a new culture. These countries birthrates are
far below replacement level. Directly, as a result of this, is
the fact that if this continues and at present it is still getting
worse, these nations will age and die with increasing rapidity as the
years pass. There is still time to reverse this destructive trend
in the U.S. If and when we do, we’ll be an example to other
nations. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
52
RUSSIA SHRINKING
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Russia is shrinking. Its population is falling by about 800,000
people each year. The Russian press reports that for every one
birth, there are two abortions. Add to this a high death rate due
to alcohol abuse, a failing public health system, a growing AIDS
problem, considerable emigration (people leaving the country), an
increase in tuberculosis, an economic crisis, wars in the south, and a
shocking high suicide rate.
Add to this the fact that at the same time the remaining people, on
average, are growing older. Life expectancy for men has dropped
from the mid-sixties to 57 years. Vodka consumption is
astronomical and is the cause of much of the above. Russia’s
future, if these trends continue, is bleak. This is Dr. John
Willke.(TOC)
53
GENETIC CROPS
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Radical environmental groups are against genetically engineered food
crops. Now, this is strange because with these we produce more
abundant food. Further, these require less farmland because they
can resist heat and insect attacks. So why do they oppose?
Radical environmental groups, often called “Greens”, have as a top
priority anything and everything that will reduce the world’s
population. Such genetically engineered foods will be a great
benefit to mankind and will allow more people to stay healthy, and to
live longer. Perhaps that is the real reason for their puzzling
stance. They mean to reduce human population and they’ll even
oppose such major benefits as these remarkable new foods to achieve
their goal. I’m sorry, but I don’t agree with them. This is
Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
54
ARABLE CROPLAND
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Those sounding the overpopulation alarm tell of vast areas of forest
being denuded and plowed under for needed crops. But this fear is
misplaced. According to the prestigious Competitive Enterprise
Institute, the amount of arable permanent cropland worldwide has been
increasing at a slow but steady pace over the last two decades.
It is a twentieth-century phenomena that mankind has dramatically
increased its crop production, to meet the needs of the rapidly growing
world population, by increasing crop production on land already under
cultivation rather than clearing new land. This has resulted in
saving the total area equal to North America, 10 million square miles,
and that means that there are that many yet remaining rain forests,
wetlands, and mountain terrain that have not been plowed under.
So this is good news. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
55
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
What should we think about signing an advance directive, a so-called
living will? I think at best they are useless, and at worst could
kill you. The basic problem is this. How will any person be
able to predict, to make a well-informed decision about what they will
want and need – among many different options – at an unknown time in
the future, when confronted with an unknown medical decision, under
unknown circumstances, and in an unknown location?
What you think today, and what you’ll think then, are very likely two
different things. If such a directive is only a guide to an
ethical physician’s competent judgment, then ok. But, if it is in
any way compulsory, it should be resisted strongly. This is Dr.
John Willke.(TOC)
56
FUNDING SUICIDE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
The state of Oregon has legalized physician-assisted suicide.
Along with this, some managed care companies are now fully funding the
drugs and professional help needed for assisted suicide, but have
placed sharp limits on the money available for drugs for pain control
and for in-home end-of-life care.
It seems clear that when assisted suicide and euthanasia become legal
in a culture, hospice, and end-of-life care shrink and all but
disappear. The reason is that such compassionate care requires
more resources of time, money, commitment, and education than does the
deliberate killing of patients. More proof of this is in the
Netherlands where direct euthanasia is legal. Hospice care there
is almost nonexistent. This is Dr. John Willke.
(TOC)
57
DUTCH GUIDELINES
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
Before a doctor can kill a patient in Holland, there are guidelines
that should be followed. These include: The patient must
make a voluntary, informed request, is of sound mind, and must repeat
the request several times. The patient must be suffering
unbearable pain. The patient must have a terminal illness.
Other doctors must sign to agree.
Certain reports must be made. And finally, this must be an
absolute last resort, with no other options available, as everything
else has been tried. I have an office in Holland. I know
many doctors there and they all tell me the same thing: Every single
requirement I’ve mentioned is routinely ignored. The most
important one they ignore is being a voluntary request, as half of the
patients killed by doctors in Holland did not request it, and did not
know they were going to be killed. (TOC)
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GET THEM DEAD
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels:
Assisted suicide and direct euthanasia are legal in the
Netherlands. In that country, doctors regularly kill
patients. Many believe that if a prescription for lethal medicine
is given by a doctor for the patient to take, that the death will be
quick and peaceful.
A sobering Dutch study, however, has shown that when a patient does
take the lethal medicine that is prescribed, there are often long
delays before death occurs. Further, in 16% of such cases, death
does not occur. In such cases they speak of, “problems with
completion” meaning that since the patient did not die, the doctor or
the relatives then, had to see that they did get dead, and so they had
to directly kill the patient. In Holland, it’s usually a direct
lethal injection; they can do it by smothering, or other means.
This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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Y.W.C.A.
This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels: Did
you know that the national policy for the Young Women’s Christian
Association is strongly pro-abortion? The YWCA was, in essence,
captured two decades ago by a group of radical anti-life
feminists. Its policies today, remain aggressively
pro-abortion. Back in 1973 already, its convention voted, “to
support efforts to provide safe abortions to women who desire
them.”
In 1989, it restated its policy of support for repeal of all laws
restricting or prohibiting abortion in any way. There has been no
essential change since that time. This is an ongoing tragedy as
the YWCA obviously does do many good things. But do remember,
when you support them, you are also supporting abortion.
Incidentally, the YMCA remains very pro-life. This is Dr. John
Willke.
(TOC)
60
TOLERANCE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
We hear a great deal today about being tolerant of this or that person
or of that idea, but is intolerance always bad? Churchill was
extremely intolerant of Hitler. Mother Theresa was intolerant of
abortion. Lech Walesa, the first free premiere of Poland, was
intolerant of Communism. Martin Luther King was intolerant of
racial segregation, and then again, Jesus was intolerant of
moneychangers in the temple.
Certainly, the Bible is intolerant in many, many places of idols and
false gods. I’m inclined to think that intolerance or tolerance
should be measured by what you’re talking about. Actually
tolerance of an evil can be bad, while intolerance of an evil can be
good. This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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AIDS IN AFRICA
This is Dr. John Willke with Life Jewels:
AIDS is devastating Africa. Zimbabwe in southeast Africa is
probably in the worse shape. Life expectancy there has dropped
from 65 to 39 years in the last half decade. In Kenya, average
life expectancy has dropped from 66 to 48 years. In Botswana –
from 66 to 40 years. In Uganda, entire villages are empty.
Treatment in most cases is non-existent, so when the first infection
occurs, most people die.
With AIDS, people catch infections because AIDS
destroys their ability to resist. In developed nations we treat
and cure the infections. But there, often, no treatment is
available, and so the first infection kills them.
Sadly, the massive distribution of condoms has given
millions a false sense of security and so the epidemic rages on.
This is Dr. John Willke.
(TOC)
62
DIVORCE STATISTICS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
How were they married? Will they divorce? This probably
isn’t cause and effect but there is an interesting correlation
here. If a couple is married by a Justice of the Peace,
statistics show that they have a 50% chance of ultimately
divorcing. If they were married however, in church, their chance
for divorce is 33%.
But if they were married in church and continue to attend church
regularly, it is 2%. Of interest are those couples who practice
natural family planning rather than contraception. Their divorce
rate is also 2%, but the bottom line is spectacular. If this
group were married in church, if they attend church together, and if
they pray together, the chance for divorce is 1 in a thousand
marriages. This is Dr. John Willke.
(TOC)
63
THE LAMB
This is Dr. John Willke with today’s Life Jewel:
Mary had a little lamb, His fleece was white as snow. And everywhere
that Mary went, the Lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school each day, twas not against the rule.
It made the children laugh and play, to have a Lamb at school. And then
the rules all changed one day, illegal it became; To bring the Lamb of
God to school or even speak His Name. Every day got worse and worse,
and days turned into years.
Instead of hearing children laugh, we heard gun shots and tears. What
must we do to stop the crime that’s in our schools today? Let’s let the
Lamb come back to school, and teach our kids to pray!
This is Dr. John Willke.(TOC)
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For two decades, such transplants have produced only
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This is Dr. John Willke of Life Jewels.
The basic facts of pro-life are this: Either
this is or is not a baby. And this baby is allowed to live or is
killed.
Plan to join me each day for just a minute, and we’ll look at the
crucial pro-life issues facing us in today’s culture.(TOC) |
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