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KEEP OR ADOPT?
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
A study of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics by Dr.
Christine Bachrach compared single women who chose adoption and single
women who kept their babies. Of those who placed their babies for
adoption, only 18% later lived below the poverty line, and this was
compared to 40% in poverty for those who kept their babies.
Seven percent received Aid for Dependent Children, but if they kept
their baby, it was 36%. Seventy-seven percent finished high
school, but if they kept their baby it was only 60%. Of those who
placed for adoption, 70% married later, and that was compared to 50% of
those who kept their baby. Now obviously, individual cases
obviously prove the opposite, and these are averages but they are
sobering. This is Dr. Willke.(toc)
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AMNIOCENTESIS RISK
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Amniocentesis is testing the fluid around the baby in the womb.
Did you know that the test itself kills some unborn babies? The
great majority of amniocentesis tests are done merely to make a
diagnosis, and, yet, look at this mortality rate. Would you risk
your baby’s
life just to find out whether your child is perfect? It’s wrong
to kill a child in or out of the womb simply because they don’t measure
up to someone else’s elitist expectation of physical or mental
perfection. And if you agree with that, and if abortion is not an
option for you, amniocentesis almost certainly should not be
done. This is Dr. Willke.(toc)
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LET PREEMIES DIE?
This is Dr. Willke with a Life Jewel:
As you know, euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands. It is legal
there for a pediatrician to kill a newborn child if he feels that the
child will not be able to lead a normal life. Now comes news of a
ghoulish but, perhaps, logical next step. A leading center for
treatment of pre-mature babies there has announced that it will no
longer provide active intensive care for babies born if they’re younger
than 25 weeks. That’s about 6 to 7 months. The head of that
neonatal department admitted that one out of three babies born at age
23 and 24 weeks would survive. But since some of them would
suffer physical or mental handicaps because of their pre-maturity, they
will no longer try to keep them alive.(toc)
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FOLIC ACID HELPS
This is John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Spina bifida and anencephalus are tragic problems. This is when
the spinal cord has not closed over completely or when there is absence
of the upper part of the brain. In recent years it has been shown
that some of these are due to a lack of folic acid in the diet of the
woman early in her pregnancy. In 1998 our government required
that folic acid be added to flour and other grains. And, friends,
it seems to be working. The number of defects previously was
almost 40 for every 100,000 births. After only two years of the
addition of the supplement, the number has dropped to 30 for 100,000
live births. The time that your baby needs this extra is in
those very few weeks when you may not even know you’re pregnant.(toc)
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PRENATAL COCAINE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
A few years ago, we were told that pre-natal cocaine exposure would
permanently damage the body and the minds of unborn children. We
were told that they would be a burden on society all of their
lives. In fact, new research has shown that such developmental
toxic effects, while a legitimate worry, nevertheless, have not
materialized. Enough time has passed and the researchers now
cannot detect what they call a negative association between cocaine
exposure in the womb and developmental scores from infancy to age
6. When paired with alcohol, a definite question exists, but
cocaine alone has not been found to be associated with levels of
behavioral disturbance. This is welcome news, folks.(toc)
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REIMPLANT EMBRYOS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Did you know that there are probably more than 100,000 human embryos
currently frozen in liquid nitrogen in laboratories around the
world? And now we’re told that orders have gone out to kill those
who are more than five years old. We’ve also heard that since
most of these will never be given a chance to develop into adults, that
they should be killed by having their stem cells removed and used for
research. But killing an innocent life is always wrong. Are
there better answers? Certainly the best answer is to insert
these tiny embryos into the womb of the biologic mother and hope they
will implant and develop. An alternate solution would be to
transfer these embryos to the womb of an adoptive mother. This is
becoming more common. But kill them? No, that would be
wrong.(toc)
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IF GENES ARE ABNORMAL
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Sadly, it has become common practice to conceive human embryos by in
vitro fertilization and then to test them immediately for abnormal
genes. If an abnormal gene is found, these tiny, new humans are
directly killed. That’s one problem. Another is real
concern of misusing this new science to generate designer babies with
preferred genetic traits. This practice is flat out eugenics, and
it’s gravely immoral. It’s one thing to use new genetic
information to correct something that has gone wrong. It’s
another to try to create something considered perfect, and, along the
line, engage in an enormous increase in killing those you judge not to
be perfect.(toc)
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THERAPEUTIC CLONING
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Cloning – we now hear of reproductive cloning and therapeutic
cloning. Don’t be fooled. The anti-life people have merely
started to play with words again. They’re opposed to reproductive
cloning. They favor therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic
cloning means that this human life is created, but then after
developing for a week or maybe two, this tiny, new human is killed
through destructive research of one kind or another. The simple
fact of the matter is that in both of these cases a new human life was
begun. In one, it was given the chance to develop. In the
other, he or she was killed. So understand, therapeutic cloning
kills.
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CLONES ABNORMAL
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Dr. Loraine Young of the Roslin Institute has revealed that 80% of
cloned animals have abnormally high birth weights and that twice the
average birth weight for the breed is not uncommon. There have
been some cloned lambs born three and four times heavier than would
have been the natural case. Further, Dr. Young in speaking of
therapeutic cloning for human embryos, says that some of the genes that
may cause these defects in cattle and sheep are also involved in
causing tumor growth in humans. This raises the possibility that
if and when you were to transplant this tissue into patients, you could
introduce cancer.
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HOW MANY ABORT?
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
We’ve all heard of many reports of the number of abortions and
pregnancies in the United States. One reason for the differing
numbers is that final government statistics are released three or four
years after the end of that particular period. Accordingly, we
have the final report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control
for1997. It reports that there were 6,192,000 pregnancies in the
U.S. This was 600,000 fewer than seven years earlier.
Sixty-three percent or almost 2/3 ended in a live birth.
Twenty-one percent were aborted. Sixteen percent ended in
miscarriage or stillbirth. So, 21% aborted, 63% born. This
is one aborted and three born that means that every fourth child dies
in abortion. (toc)
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EMANATIONS AND PENUMBRA
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
The Supreme Court decisions of 1973 that legalized abortion on demand
until birth in all 50 states were based, according to Justice Blackman,
on the right to privacy. Have you ever wondered where the right
to privacy came from, since it’s not printed in the Constitution?
It came from a decision by the same Court in 1965, Griswold v.
Connecticut. They found a right to privacy in emanations coming
from the penumbras of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Now
emanations are vapors. Penumbra is an astronomical term. It
means a shadow. And so, the right to privacy was found in vapors
coming from a shadow. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be almost
comical.(toc)
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STATES PERMIT ABORTION
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
If the Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion, Roe v. Wade and
Doe v. Bolton, were reversed by the same court, it would not stop all
abortions. It would simply return the decision back to each state
individually. But, more than half of all the abortions performed
in the U.S. each year are performed in a small number of states whose
own highest courts have held that abortion is allowed in that state
under that State’s constitution. And so, notwithstanding a
decision by the Supreme Court reversing its earlier decisions, these
states would still have legal abortions. And then the job would
be to work in each individual state to reverse its high court decision.(toc)
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CASEY DECISION
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
When the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe v. Wade in the Casey
Decision, it included this very scary phrase: “At the heart of liberty
is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of
the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” The Court had
finally decided that there was just no way they could find a right to
abortion in the language of the U.S. Constitution. The Court said
that if we provided less than full access to abortion, it would violate
a different, but a fundamental Constitutional right, the right as they
said to “personal dignity and autonomy,” which they said was probably
in the due process clause. Now if this is confusing to you, join
the crowd.(toc)
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LEGISLATE MORALITY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
We often hear talk about the fact that one should not legislate
morality. Let’s give that a moment’s thought. A law against
murder certainly is a law involving morality. Remember the
commandment, “Thou shalt not kill”? A law against stealing
legislates morality. Let’s think about libel, about destroying a
person’s reputation. That clearly speaks to morality. Even
laws against speeding legislate morality. After all, if you go
too fast down Main Street, you’re liable to kill somebody. And so
it is with a law to protect the lives of the unborn. Would that
legislate morality? Yes, it would. Does that mean we
shouldn’t do it? Not at all. Rather, it probably means we
should do it.(toc)
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UNBORN HOLOCAUST
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
In talking about the slaughter of innocent unborn here in America, we
in the pro-life movement commonly use the word holocaust. But
many Jewish people have reacted strongly to this.
On a recent speaking tour in Poland, I again visited
Auschwitz, which is a city in Poland. Recall also that not only
Jews, but hundreds of thousands of Polish people were also killed
there. And while there, we talked about the abortions that used
to occur in Poland. My Polish pro-life friends referred to those
abortions as an unborn holocaust. So, if folks, where it actually
happened, use the word holocaust for the Nazi extermination of Jews,
but also use the word to describe their own past abortions, then I
don’t think we should have any qualms about using it here.(toc)
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PEACEFUL PRO-LIFERS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
An abortionist recently said, “It’s too dangerous for me to be in front
of a window.” I say, “Spare us.” An abortionist is much
safer in front of his window than over a million babies a year are in
their mother’s wombs. In the three decades since the U.S. Supreme
Court invented the right to abortion, there have been three
abortionists killed, but over 40 million babies murdered. Now,
there have been pro-life demonstrators in front of abortion killing
centers for all these years. These peaceful witnesses have spent
hundreds of millions of man and woman hours protesting this highly
emotional gut issue. And during all of this time, only three of
these killers have been killed. Pro-lifers are peaceful,
prayerful people.(toc)
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MARCH FOR LIFE IN DC
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
On January 22nd every year, a major March for Life is held in
Washington, D.C. Originating near the White House, the marchers
go up Pennsylvania Ave. to terminate at the Supreme Court
building. They then go into the House and Senate office buildings
to visit their elected officials.
How many people march? The District of Columbia police no longer
give estimates, but a recent march was a big one. Pro-lifers
marched toe to heel and shoulder to shoulder along the eight-lane
avenue. The mile and a quarter March for Life lasted three
hours. The estimate of numbers was 225,000 people. Two
hundred and twenty-five thousand people, on a cold winter day, traveled
to Washington, D.C. to witness for the lives of the unborn.(toc)
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LOVE YOUR CANDIDATE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Paradoxically, one way to defeat a pro-life candidate is to fall in
love with him or her. Let me explain.
We encourage pro-lifers to get involved in
campaigns. Their active participation and volunteer activities
can help a pro-life candidate build a strong campaign. It also
puts the pro-lifer in contact with the candidates so that if he or she
wins, the candidate can put a face to the pro-life community and a
relationship can be built and strengthened.
However, too often pro-lifers get so wrapped up in
their candidate if he or she loses to another pro-life candidate, the
pro-life grass-roots person takes his marbles and goes home. He
doesn’t work to get others to vote for the surviving pro-life
candidate, and this person may well be defeated in the next election. (toc)
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ONLY REAL PRO-LIFER
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
One way to defeat a pro-life candidate is to believe that your
candidate is the only real pro-lifer and then to bash other pro-life
candidates
In a primary where there are several pro-life
candidates, pro-lifers will select the candidate they think is
best. But, sadly, then sometimes they’ll attack other pro-life
candidates as not being “pro-life enough”, like picking out the one
vote that he didn’t vote right on and attack him as not being really
pro-life.
This demoralizes other pro-lifers, and the pro-life
candidate who does win the primary is weakened. Worse, yet, in
the general election the pro-abortion candidate will quote these
attacks by one pro-lifer against another pro-life candidate, to hold
down support for the pro-life candidate. So, don’t attack a
pro-life candidate.(toc)
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THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
One way to defeat a pro-life candidate is to vote for a third-party
candidate who has no chance of winning.
When a general election is between a pro-life
candidate and a pro-abortion candidate, both from established parties,
there will be times when a third-party candidate will get into the
race, claiming to be the “real” pro-lifer. He will attack the
pro-life candidate and get other pro-lifers to jump on board to support
him. This is a sure strategy to elect the pro-abortion
candidate. Pro-lifers who support a third-party candidate, to the
detriment of the pro-lifer who is running, who could win, may feel like
they have not compromised their principles. But then they have
compromised away something far more important…children’s lives.(toc)
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DROWN UNWANTED BABY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Partial birth abortion is killing the baby during delivery. The
abortionist delivers the entire baby feet first, except the head.
Then he sticks a scissors into the base of the skull, inserts a tube,
and sucks out the brains. We have heard stories of babies who
popped out of the birth canal before the abortionist can do this.
What happens then, when he has a live newborn infant in his
hands? We understand that a common practice is to put the baby in
a bucket of water and drown the little one.
I was reminded vividly of this on a recent trip to
Auschwitz. There were women in that concentration camp who
delivered babies. When those babies were discovered, common
practice was to put them under water in a bucket and drown them.
I guess history repeats.(toc)
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HANDICAP VS. ADVERSITY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Today, let’s compare children who were born with physical handicaps to
children who grew up influenced socially and behaviorally by family
adversity, like having a single parent, financial hardship, being a
child of divorce.
In a major study in Germany, it was determined that relatively few
negative impacts were seen as a result of biologic handicaps and
problems, if the child was in an intact, loving family that gave the
child the social and emotional support that he or she needed. In
contrast, family adversity has, and I quote: “strong negative impact on
a child’s behavioral development, clearly outweighing the influence of
obstetric complication in determining behavioral adjustment at school
age.(toc)
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BREAST CANCER RISKS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
It’s interesting to look at risk factors for breast cancer.
Here’s a report out of Australia. If you have benign—that is, not
cancerous—breast disease, that increases your chance of getting breast
cancer by 50%. Obesity increases it by 20%. If you wait
until your late 20’s or 30’s to have your first baby, that increases
your chance by about 50%. And if, in your lifetime, you never
become pregnant, your chances are 60%. If both of your ovaries
are removed, you cut your chances by 50%. A miscarriage adds only
5%, but having had an induced abortion increases your chance by 150%,
three times as much as any of the other risk factors. (toc)
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BREAST CANCER STUDIES
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
A woman in her teens or early 20’s has a higher breast cancer risk if
she has an abortion than if she carries the pregnancy to term.
Yes, you’ve heard this, but what of other studies? As of the time
of this recording, 27 out of the 34 studies in the worldwide literature
that have been judged to be legitimate, professional studies, indicate
an increased risk of breast cancer associated with induced
abortion. And of these 27, 17 are statistically
significant. Now, that’s a technical term which means that the
data provides at least a 95% certainty that the association that it
measures was not due to chance. In a word, the association
between abortion and breast cancer is pretty well proven. (toc)
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MOTHERS WORKING
This is Dr. Willke with a Life Jewel:
All other things considered, everyone agrees that it’s better to have a
mother at home being the full time caretaker of her children. And
yet we all know that the last few decades have seen a massive migration
of women from being full time at home into being partial or full time
wage earners. In 1960, among mothers of school age children, 40%
worked outside of the home. Today, it’s almost 80% of mothers of
school age children who work outside the home. The results are
even more dramatic for women with pre-school children. Forty
years ago, 18% of mothers of preschoolers worked outside of the
home. Today, 65% of mothers of pre-school children work full or
part time outside the home. This may have fulfilled many women,
but it’s not good news for the kids.
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FATHERS ABSENT
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Slowly over the years we have seen an increasing absence of fathers in
our families. This is true of intact families, with workaholic
fathers. It is tragically true, particularly, in the black
community, where the presence of a father is now a small
minority. Over the past few years, a remarkable consensus has
been forming around the conviction that for the sake of its children,
America must reverse this trend toward the absence of fathers.
Not only has there been an increase in awareness about the cost of
fatherlessness, but there has been an explosion in programs, policies,
and research. This movement toward reestablishing fathers in the
home is at a crucial junction and must be moved forward and
strengthened.(toc)
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THE LORD’S PRAYER
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
We all pray the Lord’s Prayer. Interestingly enough, we don’t
pray our brother, our sister, our mother, or aunt. I think this
reinforces for us, in God’s eyes, the importance of a father.
What does a father do? He gives his name to his children.
He is usually the provider, the main bread winner. He witnesses
to them, lives out in front of them, what a good man and a father
should be. He protects them from harm, from outside influences,
and this is more than merely giving them physical security. But
security is important, the security of accountability, responsibility,
of setting boundaries. And the absence of a father? Not
good! Seventy percent of long-term prison inmates did not have a
father when they grew up. (toc)
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WHITE/BLACK ABORTIONS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
In the late 90’s the U.S. birthrate fell to 14 ½ births per 1000
population, and this is the lowest it has been since 1975. There
is a key difference from 1975, though. Back then 14% of births
were to unmarried women. In the late 90’s, the proportion of
births to unmarried women had gone up to 33%. Two out of three
births to African Americans are to unmarried women. This is a
dramatic change from 50 or 75 years back, when black families were
largely intact and illegitimate births were far fewer. There are
three times as many black babies killed per unit of population as there
are white babies. This is straight out black genocide and will
likely continue as long as our government and Planned Parenthood
continue to locate their abortion centers in black neighborhoods.(toc)
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AFRICAN AMERICAN ABORTIONS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
What is the leading cause of death in the African American community in
America today? Is it AIDS, heart disease, cancer,
accidents? Well, actually, none of these. The correct
answer is abortion. Here are the numbers. Since 1973,
200,000 have died from AIDS. Accidents have claimed 300,000 more.
Cancer accounts for one million. There have been two million
deaths from heart disease. Now, here is the big one – 13 million
black babies have been killed by abortion.
Sadly, for every one white baby killed, there are
three black babies killed as a proportion of their percent in the
population.
The fact is that more African American babies have
been killed by abortion in the last three decades than the total number
of black deaths from all other causes combined.(toc)
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BLACK GENOCIDE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Abortion services have been deliberately and systematically targeted
toward African-American women. A disproportionate number of the
nation’s abortion mills are located in minority neighborhoods.
While black women represent 12% of the female population of this
country, they have had 35% of all the abortions. According to the
year 2000 census, Hispanics have replaced black people as the largest
minority group in the U.S. The loss of all of these babies,
13,000,000 black babies in the last three decades, through abortion,
has played a significant part in this population decline. Truly,
we can call today’s abortion “black genocide” for it is nothing
less. Strangely, in the face of this, almost all black political
leaders continue to be strongly pro-abortion.(toc)
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MINORITIES PRO-LIFE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
There’s a tendency in political parties to reach out to minority groups
by embracing very liberal policies. A poll by the respected Zogby
polling group in May, 2001, however, produced data that questions this
wisdom. Hispanics are 65% pro-life, Black Americans 54%, and Arab
Americans (among two-thirds of whom are Christian) are 52%
pro-life. Try educational vouchers, 83% of Hispanics favor school
vouchers, 70% of Black Americans, and 74% of Asian Americans favor
school vouchers.
Well. I think it is obvious that these values do not
translate into voting patterns, as these groups consistently elect
candidates who are pro-abortion and anti-voucher.(toc)
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“EXTERMINATE NEGRO?”
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was a racist and a
eugenist. In relating to the African-American population in the
U.S., she said and I quote, that she: “did not want the word to go out
that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” Therefore the
eugenic effort to cleanse the U.S. of black people had to be carried
out as she said, “through a religious appeal.” She suggested that
her birth control movement should “hire three or four colored
ministers” as traveling preachers to sell the ideas of her birth
control efforts.
Have you noticed that most Planned Parenthood
abortion chambers are located in inner city areas, typically in
neighborhoods with a high concentration of African-American
people? This has not been an accident.(toc)
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NEW YORK CITY AND BLACK ABORTIONS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Abortion has been called black genocide. How true is this?
One measure might be to look at what has happened in New York
City. In the year 1997, among African Americans in New York City,
there were 40,000 births. In the same year, there were 49,000
abortions. Brooklyn is part of New York City. There, among
African-Americans, there were 23,000 children born compared to 31,000
black kids killed by abortion.
How did this compare to white people? In Brooklyn, there were
37,000 white babies born compared to only 18,000 killed by abortion.
Among Hispanics, there were 19,000 born and 12,000
killed.
And so, more black kids killed than were born?
Sounds like black genocide to me.(toc)
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HISPANIC GROWTH
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Do you know which so-called minority group has the largest number of
people in the United States? Well, we have always thought that
African-Americans were the largest minority group. But the census
in the year 2000 has told us something else. It reports 35
million Hispanics and 34 million Blacks in the United States of
America. In ten years the number of Spanish language newspapers
in the U.S. has grown from 14 to 34. Spanish language weeklies
have grown from 152 to 265, Hispanic magazines from 177 to 352.
If you hear more Spanish over the airwaves, that’s because there are
now almost 600 U.S. radio stations broadcasting at least part of the
time in Spanish. Your kids want to study a second language?
My advice would be Spanish.(toc)
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DIVORCE HARMFUL
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Judith Wallerstein’s book, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, is based
on interviews with almost one hundred children of divorce whom she has
been tracking for 30 years. Interesting results. She’s
found that children of divorce are more depressed and more likely to
develop mental and emotional disorders later. She says that many
who do achieve success in work and marriage remain filled with a sense
of dread that it all may collapse like the home they came from.
She states that they “have trouble resolving arguments because they’ve
never seen a man and a woman resolve an argument.” Their first
thought is this: “This is it. I see it coming down the
pike. I’m out of here.”(toc)
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DIVORCE – HARM LIVES ON
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
To be pro-life certainly doesn’t exclude those children already born.
The unexpected legacy of divorce, a 25-year landmark study by Judith
Wallerstein has exposed two myths about divorce.
One is that if the parents find themselves happier because of the
divorce, so will their children. At first glance it would seem
that the added security of a two-parent home would be a real
plus. However, Dr. Wallerstein’s in-depth exam has shown that
remarriage usually does not make the kids happier. Rather, the
harm of divorce is not short lived, but continues to fester through the
children’s later years, and that major negative effects of divorce
actually show up when the children begin to enter into adult
relationships. If you think it would be better if you split,
please look at the studies first.
(toc)
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DIVORCE AND KIDS STUDIES
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
It’s a well-known fact, well documented now, that divorce is injurious
to the children in a marriage. The great majority of children of
divorce score more negatively on social stability than children from
intact families, but how about their academic achievement? It is
definitely lower for children of divorce.
Sadly, a major study has shown that both parental divorce and parental
remarriage bring down children’s standardized test results. Since
it is generally accepted that good academic achievement is an
indication of a child’s overall emotional security and mental outlook,
we, then, can wonder does remarriage adversely affect a child’s
psychological well-being and happiness?(toc)
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MARRIAGE IS BETTER
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Are stable marriages an asset to our community and our state?
Yes. The state has enormous economic interest in promoting stable
marriages. We know that divorce and single parenthood too often
lead to poverty for the woman and instability to the man. Within
marriage we see more educational achievement, a stronger attachment to
the labor force, a greater stability of the marriage, and of the two
people involved. Married people are less likely to be in poverty,
their children are more likely to be stable, with less crime and less
violence. The total consequences of the losses in the absence of
marriage are vast. And so beyond any and all other benefits to
the children and the adults involved, promoting marriage makes good
economic sense.
(toc)
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NO POPULATION EXPLOSION
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
The population explosion of the twentieth century is coming to a
close. Emerging demographic trends point clearly to a
deceleration of global population growth, and in the near future.
This, along with rapid and extreme aging of the world’s population,
will result in a population implosion (decrease) within the next 50
years, and this will have a profound impact on employment rates, global
safety nets, migration, language, and education policies.
As it now stands, Russia and Western Europe will
continue to lose population. These will be replaced by immigrants
from the Middle East and Africa. The U.S. and Canada will grow
slowly, largely because of immigration. Third World countries
will grow but at a steadily decreasing rate.
(toc)
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EUROPE IS DYING
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Europe is dying. Its share of the world’s population in 1960 was
20%. As of the year 2000, Europe was only 13% of the world’s
population, and by the year 2050, it will drop to 7%. Currently,
there are almost four workers for every person of pension age in
Europe, but in another 50 years there will only be 1½ workers
for each retired person.
All of this is because of the substantial and continuing lack of enough
babies being born in Europe. Shy of complete economic collapse,
the only other answer is immigration.
Who will go there? Immigrants from Africa and from the
Muslim near east countries. How will all of this affect the United
States and Canada? We’ll wait and see.(toc)
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FERTILITY WORLDWIDE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Most people are aware of the declining fertility rates in the countries
in Europe, but fertility rates have also been dropping worldwide.
For the world as a whole, in the last 40 years fertility levels have
dropped by more than 40%. A total of 83 countries and
territories, whose inhabitants represent 44% of the world’s total
population, now have birthrates below replacement level. In eight
of the most populated developing countries, fertility rates have
dropped by half. The largest concentration of countries with
declining fertility rates are in east Asia. They include China,
Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. All of
these, at this point, at this point, have birthrates below replacement
level. And all of this has happened in the last 20 years.(toc)
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POVERTY AND FERTILITY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
There is an assumption that poverty and illiteracy mean more
pregnancies, but both poverty and female illiteracy are common in
Bangladesh, and that country has cut its fertility rate in half in the
last two decades. Another is that traditional religious attitudes
are a barrier that keeps a birthrate high. But Iran, which is a
very tight Islamic ruled country, has cut its fertility level by
two-thirds. So, dramatic changes in birthrate and desired family
size do not necessarily relate to a nation becoming modernized.
As a final example, try Indonesia, which is certainly still a Third
World country; it is now at zero population growth.(toc)
43
CHOOSE LIFE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Are you thinking of having another little one? By having another
child, you will demonstrate to your neighbors and to the world that
children are God’s greatest gifts. Children build up the life of
the family and of society. The child is a gift to its brothers
and sisters, parents, and entire family. The child’s entire life
becomes a gift for the very people who were givers of life, and who
cannot help but feel his or her presence. The more children there
are in society, the more pro-life that society will become, and the
easier it will be for the great evil of abortion to be eradicated once
and for all. “Choose life then that you and your descendents may
live.” Deuteronomy 30:19.
(toc)
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JOY HAVING NEWBORN
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
There is no joy like the joy of welcoming another child into your
life. You will marvel anew at how perfectly formed your little
one is and how quickly you fall head over heals in love with him.
The color of her hair, the shape of her nose, the winsomeness of her
smile these will occasion endless happy debates about from which side
of the family she got that adorable trait. The birth of a child
will bind you to God more tightly than ever before in awed
gratitude. An anonymous poet said, “I thought that one day I
would be a famous artist and create great works of art. Instead
God made me a mother and my children are my masterpiece. Their
lives will live on after me. What is painted on their hearts will
last an eternity.”(toc)
45
HAVE ANOTHER BABY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
One way to help end abortion is to have another baby. That was
Mother Theresa’s answer when asked by a young mother. She said,
“Have a big family. That’s the best way to end abortion.”
If children become more rare due to contraception,
sterilization, and abortion, whole segments of society become less and
less familiar with the sense of joy and hope that only babies and
children can give. In this climate, contraception and abortion
feed on themselves as the increasingly selfish few further reduce their
own numbers.
But those who do have babies will revel in the love and joy they bring,
and, as scripture says, they will inherit the earth.(toc)
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LEARN FROM SIBLINGS
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Have another child so your sons will have brothers and your daughters
will have sisters, so that your sons will have sisters and your
daughters, brothers. Children who have siblings learn early to
share. They learn to take turns and to put the needs of others
before their own. The bond formed between brothers and sisters is
lifelong and much stronger than the bond between closest friends.
Boys who have sisters learn the dignity of women. They learn to
treat other girls and women with respect because that is how they would
like their own sisters be treated. Girls who have brothers learn
the complementarity of men with women, both fashioned in the image and
likeness of God. Mother Theresa has said, “Love begins by taking
care of the closest ones, the ones at home.”
(toc)
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BABY – GIFT FROM/TO GOD
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Have another baby? Yes, do so – so you won’t be lonely in old
age. People who have children don’t have to rely upon strangers
to care for them in their old age. Children also become the
parents of your grandchildren. To quote Proverbs 17:6:
“Grandchildren are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is
their parentage.” Have another child to populate heaven.
The child that you and your spouse have been generous in accepting from
God was created to return to Him after a life of love, service, and
obedience on earth. Our Lord, Himself said there was plenty of room for
these immortal souls. There’s no overpopulation problem in
heaven. John 14:2 tells us: “There are many mansions in my
Father’s house.”(toc)
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EUTHANASIA NOT CATCHING?
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Direct euthanasia by doctors has been legalized in the
Netherlands. The question arises whether this virus will spread
to other countries. There was a meeting in France of the Council
of the World Medical Association, and with the exception of the Dutch
representative, the delegates unanimously “reaffirmed” the World
Medical Association’s strong belief that euthanasia is in conflict with
basic ethical principles of medical practice. It urged all
national medical associations and doctors not to practice euthanasia,
even if their national law allows it or decriminalizes it under certain
circumstances. So, time will tell whether this virus will spread,
but this is a good straw in the wind.(toc)
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ECONOMICS OF EUTHANASIA
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
What are the main arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia?
You’ve heard them – pain, the need for individual liberties, the need
for increased autonomy, the need to choose. But have you heard of
economic reasons?
Derek Humphrey, founder and president of the Hemlock Society, that’s
the euthanasia group, has published this in writing, “In the final
analysis, economics, not the quest for broadened individual liberties
or increased autonomy, economics will drive suicide to the plateau of
acceptable practice.”
In other words, if you cost too much to keep alive and euthanasia
becomes legal, there are going to be people from high to low trying to
get you dead one way or another.(toc)
50
THE U.N. AND MARRIAGE
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
The United Nations has been an ugly and destructive force in recent
years. It has muscled into the U.N. documents, statements, and
directives words promoting abortion on demand until birth, destroying
marriage as a committed union between one man and one woman, and giving
to minor children, absolute freedom to do anything sexually or
otherwise without parental consent. I recently reviewed a fairly
lengthy statement on the family from the United Nations. Never
once, was marriage mentioned as a union of man and woman. The
only mention of the word was in conjunction with forced marriage and
marrying too young. This is tragic. There are, however,
forces now alerted and working to correct this scandal, and we should
support them.(toc)
51
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
To many people, particularly in North America, the United Nations is a
distant entity that has no influence on their lives. It’s those
buildings on the East River in New York full of highly paid
bureaucrats, or those bureaucratic concentrations in other cities
internationally.
But, unlike the U.S. and Canada, in most nations in the world,
particularly underdeveloped nations, what the U.N. says and does, for
all practical purposes is the functional law of the land. A
one-world government is increasingly a fact of life in those
countries. How it affects them will ultimately also influence how
it affects other nations in the world. So it behooves everyone to
learn more about the U.N. and more about what it does.
(toc)
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U.N. RADICAL FEMINIST
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
The United Nations has become the tool of a powerful feminist,
socialist alliance that has been working deliberately and effectively
to promote a radical restructuring of society. This alliance is
attempting to sway nations to accept an agenda that from the U.N.’s
foundation has been outside of its jurisdiction. It’s doing this
primarily through five and ten year follow-up meetings on two
treaties. One is the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the
other is the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women. Both were founded originally with policies and
goals that you and I would agree with. Both have been totally
subverted into this radical anti-life, anti-family, pro-abortion,
socialist agenda.(toc)
53
U.N. TREATIES BAD
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
In the last decade or so there has been a constant flow of
international meetings at the United Nations. They have been
reinterpreting two treaties – one, the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and two, the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women. The U.N. has been pushing an agenda that directly
counters traditional moral and social norms regarding the family,
marriage, motherhood, child rearing and religion. The policies
that they are promoting have also undermined the national sovereignty
of nations, when otherwise each nation would have the right to
determine its own domestic policy. Pro-life, pro-family groups
have taken an increasingly active role in recent years, trying to stop
such changes. These U.N. activities are a scandal that everyone
must know about.(toc)
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U.N. AND PARENTHOOD
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Increasingly, committees of the United Nations have interfered with
nations around the world in an attempt to impose radical feminist
goals. For instance, they have expressed concern that parents in
England were allowed to withdraw their children from radical sex
education programs in school. They have criticized the holding of
Mother’s Day in Belarus, saying it promoted a sex role
stereotype. They have criticized cultural and religious values
that support mothers staying at home to raise their young children,
saying these things undermine women’s rights. They have urged
countries to pass laws to allow young children to take their parents to
court if and when they disagree about sexual activities and
education. This is today’s United Nations.(toc)
55
I NEED MY MOMMY
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel: Today, let’s listen in to a
little girl. Does Heaven have a phone number?
Mommy went to Heaven, but I need her here today. My
tummy hurts and I fell down, I need her right away. Operator, can
you tell me how to find her in this book?
Is Heaven in the yellow part? I
think my daddy needs her too, at night I hear him cry. I hear him
call her name sometimes. Maybe if I call her, she will hurry home to
me. She’s been gone a long, long time. She needs to come
home now! I am only seven. I’m sorry operator, I
didn’t mean to make you cry. Is there something in your eye?
I found the number to my church tacked up here. I’ll try calling
them.(toc)
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YOU KILLED HIM
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Perhaps some of you have seen a cartoon. It was of a man looking
up and asking God to send someone to cure AIDS. God answers, “I
did but you killed him in an abortion.”
Over 40 million babies have been killed by abortion in the United
States. Who and what would they have become? Well, as a
matter of fact, looked at it this way, abortionists have killed 135,000
physicians, 500,000 teachers, and over one million cashiers at your
fast food or department store. Today alone, we lost three airline
pilots, 13 physicians, 61 registered nurses, 51 teachers, 14 police
officers, 7 fire fighters and very possibly, the person God had sent to
cure cancer.(toc)
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SCORNED? – PRESS ON!
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Bob Casey was the governor of Pennsylvania for many years. During
that time he became a stalwart supporter of pro-life issues. He
certainly will be remembered as one of our heroes. He has gone to
his reward but left us with these words: “The world will try again and
again in a thousand different forms to sell you power, popularity,
acceptance. But look very closely, because usually the price is a
high one. The price is to surrender the greatest power and
freedom any man or woman could ever have - your conscience…
“Never forget that beneath all the slogans and fierce arguments is the
fate of innocent children. They need your love. Their
mothers need your courage. Press on!” (toc)
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DID YOU TRY?
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Today I have a quote from Congressman Henry Hyde. Here’s what he
said:
“When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome
moment, the final judgment, I often thought that it is a terrible
moment of loneliness. You are there alone, standing before
God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can
imagine. But I think that those in the pro-life movement will not
be alone. I think there will be a chorus of voices that have
never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in
the next world – and they say to God, ‘Spare them because they loved
us,’ – and God will look at you and say not, ‘Did you succeed?’ but
‘Did you try?’”(toc)
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MOTHER THERESA
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Today, some encouraging words from a wise woman: “People are often
unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered; forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be
kind anyway. If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive
you; be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating,
others could destroy overnight; create anyway. If you find serenity and
happiness, some may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today,
will often be forgotten; do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it
may never be enough; give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it
is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.” (toc)
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GET CREDIT
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
You’re a person who’s aware of something that needs to be done.
You are quite capable of doing it and you can do it but you know if you
do, that someone else will claim the credit for it. And certainly
that’s true if you’re going to be an advocate for life, or for the
lives of millions. Well, then, how do you proceed in such a
situation? It’s human nature for any of us to, at least, hesitate
and, depending on the circumstances, perhaps not do it at all.
After all, it’s natural and normal that we expect acknowledgement and
some praise for the good things we do. But, let’s remember what
is important is getting the job done. It’s amazing how much you
can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit. After all,
you’ll get the credit in eternity, if not in the here and now.(toc)
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DEMOCRACY WILL DIE?
This is Dr. John Willke with a Life Jewel:
Professor Alexander Tyler has told us that democracy cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves money from the public
treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the
candidates promising the most money, with the result that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by dictatorship.
The world’s great civilizations have progressed from bondage to
spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from great
courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to
selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, and then to apathy, from
apathy to dependence, from dependency back to bondage.(toc)
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