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Catherine Jacobs makes fetus dolls for a living. Oh, she calls them something different--micro-preemies. But they're fetus dolls, all right. She makes them out of cloth or resin, starting at three weeks' gestation and going up to 36 weeks, and charges up to $190 for the little critters. She also sells clothes and baskets to go with them--even fake incubators. It's more than a little bit creepy. Jacobs isn't subtle about her pro-life beliefs. Atop her Web site (www.godslittleones.com) reads "U.S. abortion rate: 1.3 million every year. ... This site is dedicated to these little Americans."

6-Dec-2001 -- EWTN Pro-Family News TEXAS LAWYERS ATTEMPT TO USE UN RESOLUTIONS TO OVERTURN US LAW The State of Texas executed Gerald Lee Mitchell recently but not before his lawyers advanced arguments that he should be spared based on United Nations resolutions not ratified by the US government. These arguments have caused grave concern to human rights attorneys who have warned repeatedly that UN resolutions would be used to overturn existing laws and intrude on national sovereignty. In 1985 Mitchell kidnapped, robbed, and shot two boys after he sold them marijuana. One of the boys died. Mitchell, 17 years ...

<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Days after declaring a U.S. company's cloning of a human embryo ``morally wrong,'' President Bush signed an executive order on Wednesday creating a White House Council on Bioethics.</p> <p>The 18-member panel, chaired by Dr. Leon Kass, a biomedical ethics expert from the University of Chicago, was expected to be in place by the end of the year, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.</p>

In her book to be released in 2002, my friend Dr. Theresa Burke writes, "There is no social norm for dealing with an abortion. There are no Hallmark cards for friends who have had an abortion, declaring either sympathy or congratulations. We don't send flowers. We don't have any ceremonies, either joyous or mournful. We have no social customs or rules of etiquette governing acknowledgment of an abortion. Instead, we all try to ignore it." The book, "Forbidden Grief," with which Dr. David Reardon also collaborated, demonstrates that grief after abortion is neither expected nor permitted in our society. ...

By Charles R. MiVille, Washington, D.C., correspondent Crisis pregnancy centers across America are under attack by a number of abortion providers and organizations. Now, a Colorado congressman is rallying to their defense. Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colo., will soon introduce a House resolution to commend the good work done by crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). That is good news to Bill Saunders, of the Family Research Council, who said it is outrageous that CPCs across the country are being attacked. "I've seen a booklet by Planned Parenthood in which they target CPCs (for abuse) and advise people to go in with microphones ...

Although I think the RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act is unconstitutional, I’d have to say that the abortion industry meets its definition of an ‘ongoing criminal enterprise’…For all of the focus upon the occasional act of violence by abortion opponents, there is far more violence carried out by abortion supporters. But in the aftermath of the Clinton-Reno era, the Justice Department has become almost a private police force for the abortion industry, so there’s little official interest in addressing the realities of the issue.—Mark Crutcher, Life DynamicsThere seems to be very little media interest in the fact that ‘safe ...

The people who have been gutting live fetuses for profit have really called out the big guns: Hollywood stars have converged on Congress to back the abortion industry. So now it's no matter a matter of whether gutting live fetuses is good or bad, right or wrong. It's a matter of whether gutting live fetuses is trendy or gauche. Mary Tyler Moore probably means well -- after all, she's lobbying on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Who could be against helping children with this miserable and sometimes deadly disease? Certainly not your Guide, who lost a classmate to juvenile ...

I think the cutline of the first photograph in this article says it all: the TWO MOST SELFISH GENERATIONS this planet has ever seen are now going to rely on the likes of Arlen Specter to push through the embryonic stem cell research they'll need to become as good-looking, smart and long-lived as they wish. TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY TO EMAIL THE NIH. FWIW ... information (including an automatic vote link at Voter.com) is below. Consider yourself warned ... the Boomers and the elderly (who now lockstep to vote themselves entitlements with all the forethought or selflessness of ...

CLONING HUMAN embryos is wrong, as President George W. Bush said Tuesday. But why? To be sure, advocates of human cloning use appealing arguments. Who doesn’t want to end disease and help people with failing organs? Their case for cloning is simple: breeding babies for the purpose of growing cells and tissue will advance the battle against all sorts of medical afflictions and allow for the stockpiling of replacement organs and body parts. But this argument ultimately falls short. In the end, the (more complex) argument against human cloning is the most compelling. First and foremost, as the President said ...

HOUSTON - After years of languishing in state courts, the issue of whether poor women should receive public funding for "medically necessary" abortions is coming to the forefront. Texas is the latest state to force the issue to a resolution in what is becoming the next volatile front in the abortion battle. Under current Texas law, Medicaid won't pay for an abortion unless the mother's life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest. That's the practice in more than 30 other states as well. But abortion-rights advocates say that violates the Texas constitution by keeping poor ...

'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring -- 11/28/2001 'Kettle Protest' Against Salvation Army Backfiring By Matt Pyeatt CNSNews.com Staff Writer November 28, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - The effort by a homosexual group to drop "phony $5 bills" into Salvation Army kettles this holiday season continues to backfire. Another pro-family group has pledged to redeem the phony bills with real cash.The American Family Association (AFA) of Michigan Monday announced it would donate up to $1,000 to redeem the fake five-dollar bills placed in Salvation Army kettles by members of the group, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG).Tuesday, Citizens ...

28-Nov-2001 -- ZENIT.org News AgencyZENIT material may not be reproduced without permission. Permission can be requested at info@zenit.org HUMAN CLONING A REMINDER OF NAZIS, SAYS ORTHODOX Reaction to U.S. Company´s AnnouncementROME, (Zenit.org).- The human cloning experiment announced in the United States brings to mind the "crimes against humanity of a Nazi brand," says an Orthodox Church leader."The destruction of an embryo is equivalent to an abortion, in other words, a homicide," said Father Antoni Ilin, a spokesman for the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow."We condemn human cloning, whether for therapeutic or reproductive ends," he said. "From the moment of conception, the ...

A pro-life group is warning that thousands of Americans might refuse a smallpox vaccine created from a stem cell line derived from an aborted fetus.A British company -- the Cambridge, England-based Acambis Plc.-- is one of three companies bidding to produce 250 million doses of smallpox vaccine, enough for every American, after Health Secretary Tommy Thompson announced the vaccine stockpile plan. Also in the running are Merck & Co. of Whitehouse Station, N.J., and the London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc.A spokeswoman for the British company told CNSNews.com Tuesday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked the company to ...

There are many pages of text covering all aspects of the public's opinons on abortion. The most recent poll results shown appear to be August, 2001. Click on the "Source" link above to read the results.

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Monday struck down a ruling that expanded protest-free "buffer zones" outside two Buffalo health clinics and prevented the use of sound amplifiers during abortion protests. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Judge Richard Arcara went too far when he decided in 1999 to expand the 15-foot zones. "That's wonderful news," said Christopher Ferrara, a lawyer for the American Catholic Lawyers Association Inc. He said it had become impossible to protest from so far away. The zones were enlarged in anticipation of large abortion protests in Buffalo. State Attorney ...

(Ann Arbor, MI)—Fifty-seven year old grandmother and pro-life activist Ann Norton has sued Michigan’s Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and Kalamazoo county and city law enforcement officials to prevent police from prosecuting her under a seventy year old state law prohibiting the display of photos of murdered persons. The controversy involves a sign displaying a graphic colored photograph of an aborted child used by Norton and another woman while protesting on the sidewalk in front of a Kalamazoo Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Photographs of aborted children have been increasingly used by pro-life demonstrators to show that abortion is a violent act, ...

Abortion Information You Can Use&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I am pro-choice.&nbsp; I am not one person, but many. &nbsp; Here is what I believe: The fetus is not a human, just a mass of tissue&nbsp; Click Abortion is safer than childbirth.&nbsp; Click Every child should be a wanted child.&nbsp; Click The number of abortions is relatively small.&nbsp; Click Nobody has the right to impose their morals on me.&nbsp; Click A woman should be able to control her own body.&nbsp; Click Abortion must be kept legal, especially for all the rape and incest pregnancies. Click If abortion is outlawed women will be forced ...

From: The Pro-Life Infonet Weekly Subject: Pro-Life Lawmakers Hold Up UNFPA Funding Source: Focus on the Family, Life Advocacy Briefing; Date: November 19, 2001 Pro-Life Lawmakers Hold Up UNFPA Funding Washington, DC -- The push by abortion advocates in the U.S. Senate to give more money to efforts that reduce the world's population has stalled, thanks to the bold stand of a few pro-life congressmen. It looked like the conference committee negotiating on the Foreign Operations appropriations bill was about to increase federal funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from $25 million last fiscal year to $37.5 million ...

The namesake of the Susan B. Anthony List was an outspoken opponent of abortion, referring to it as "child murder." Anthony's colleagues were united with her in this position. "Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who...drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!" -The Revolution, 1869 Susan B. Anthony "When we consider that ...

A MUM who gave birth AFTER an abortion has won a £10,000 payout. Kim Nicholls, 36, did not know she was expecting TWINS when she had the op at ten weeks pregnant. Her surgeon failed to spot the second foetus — and 12 weeks later Kim felt it kicking. She later had a healthy baby girl, Darcy, who is now two. Divorced Kim already had three children by Caesarean when she got pregnant and her doctor advised a termination. She said: “The timing also seemed wrong. I was just getting my life back together after my marriage break-up. Getting ...