[Apologetics] Fw: The Apostle Paul says . . .

Wed Nov 5 20:40:24 EST 2008

outh Carolina Citizens for Life   

To  the faithful pro-life community of South Carolina:

This  morning I was stunned by the words of St. Paul in his  letter to the Philippians, Chapter  2. 

 "Do everything without  grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent,  children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and  perverse generation among whom you shine like lights in the world,  as you hold on to the word of life, so that my boast for the day of  Christ may be that I did not run in vain or labor in vain." 

My  dear friends, this is the attitude with which we must carry on our  pro-life work, the work that South Carolina Citizens for Life has  been doing and doing well for 35 years. We have a monumental task  ahead of us. I am not making light of our situation as you will see  from the LifeNews report below.

We  are in this movement for the long haul. Our work does not depend on  political successes or failures.  We do what we do because it  is right and we are called by God to do it.  Pro-life work has been and  will continue to be a long haul, but our strength is that we never  give up. Pro-Lifers NEVER give up! We do not run in vain nor labor  in vain. 

Our  task now is to expand and strengthen our county chapters, a task  already underway. We will keep South Carolina a pro-life state.  We are and will  continue to be the resistance movement to the culture of death. 

Let  us this day recommit our lives to prayer, work, and especially to  gratitude so that we truly may “shine like lights in the  world.”   Innocent unborn babies and  the medically vulnerable members of our human family need us now  more than ever.

Sincerely,
Holly  Gatling, Executive Director
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LifeNews.com  Pro-Life News Report
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 
For  news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. 
Today's Headlines

•  Obama Captures Win Over John McCain, Expected to Promote  Abortions
• Washington Becomes Second State to Legalize Assisted  Suicide in Vote
• Michigan Voters Approve Proposition 2 to  Destroy Human Embryos
• California Very Narrowly  Opposes Third Try for Parental Notification
• South Dakota Voters Defeat  Second Ballot Measure to Ban Abortions
• Colorado Voters Soundly  Defeat Personhood Ballot Measure on Abortion

LifeNews.com  encourages pro-life advocates to regroup and renew their efforts. We  will continue to monitor pro-life issues and now is the time to  rebuild the pro-life movement to take on the challenges that lie  ahead. Please take a few minutes to encourage every pro-life friend  and family member you know to sign up for our news so we can educate  them about the challenges ahead. An easy sign up form is at the  bottom of this email.

Barack Obama Captures Win Over John McCain, Expected to  Promote Abortions
Washington,  DC (LifeNews.com) --Presidential candidate Barack Obama captured a victory on Tuesday  night in the presidential elections over John McCain. Under an Obama  administration, pro-life advocates are concerned about the promotion  of abortion. Under an Obama administration pro-life advocates expect  the new president to force taxpayer-funding of abortions, make  detrimental Supreme Court appointments and sign a Congressional bill  to overturn pro-life laws nationwide. Obama won 338 electoral  college votes compared with 156 for McCain by winning in  battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Virginia  and the western states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico. McCain  was able to win only a handful of the battleground states and failed  to capture enough votes to become the next president. With an Obama  victory, pro-life advocates will immediately be on the defensive.  Obama is expected to make funding abortions one of his first
 actions  as president and he could overturn the Mexico City Policy on his  first day in office. That’s the presidential policy that prevents  taxpayers from being forced to fund groups that engage in performing  or promoting abortions in other nations. Senator Obama could also  immediately overturn the policy Preside Bush put in place to prevent  taxpayer funding of new embryonic stem cell research. That could  happen even though embryonic stem cells have never helped a human  patient and have had problems when used in animals. Full story at  LifeNews.com

Washington Becomes Second State to Legalize Assisted Suicide  in Election Vote
Olympia,  WA (LifeNews.com) --The state of Washington has joined Oregon to become the second state  in the nation to legalize the grisly practice of assisted suicide.  Voters in the northwestern state approved I-1000 despite strong  opposition from pro-life groups, doctors organizations, disability  rights activists and Catholic voters. With 42 percent of the vote  counted in the state, I-1000 carried with the support of 58 percent  of voters compared with 42 percent who opposed assisted suicide.  Opponents of assisted suicide had a hard time competing with the  money thrown at them from the pro-euthanasia groups that outspent  them as much as 12-1 thanks to out-of-state money. With  the law now in place, attention will turn to the kind of abuses that  have been seen in Oregon. “If passed this November, Initiative 1000  will transform the legal landscape of the State of Washington. The  change would parallel Oregon's decade-long acceptance of assisted 
 suicide, a practice that has given rise to a myriad of problems,”  pro-life attorney Ken Conner wrote before the vote. The Coalition  Against Assisted Suicide told LifeNews.com that the prestigious  Michigan Law Review compiled an  analysis of the ramifications of Oregon’s assisted  suicide law and the evidence wasn’t pretty. Full story at  LifeNews.com

Michigan  Voters Approve Proposition 2 to Allow Destruction of Human  Embryos
Lansing,  MI (LifeNews.com) --Michigan residents voted on Tuesday in favor of Proposition 2, a  state ballot proposal that would permit the unregulated and  unrestricted destruction of human embryos for experimental purposes.  Opponents say the measure does nothing to advance ethical and proven  research like using adult stem cells. Proposition 2 carried the  state by a 52.4-47.6 percentage point margin with 78 percent of the  precincts reporting. The vote is interesting because it comes at a  time when embryonic stem cell research is less and less in vogue.  Scientists have been unable to conquer problems associated with it,  ranging from the growth of tumors when the cells are injected in  animals to rejection from their immune systems. Instead, scientists  have focused on a new kind of cell called iPSCs that are created as  a result of a process known as direct reprogramming. The technique  has received the support of the pro-life community because it
 allows  scientists to develop embryonic-like stem cells without the  destruction of human life that makes embryonic stem cell research  unethical and immoral. The group MiCAUSE, a joint effort of Right to  Life of Michigan and the Michigan Catholic Conference, ran a radio  ad towards the end of the campaign saying Michigan taxpayers  shouldn’t be forced to pay for the research because it is unproven  and because the state is facing financial pressure. Full story at  LifeNews.com

California Very Narrowly Opposes Third Try for Parental  Notification on Abortion
Sacramento,  CA (LifeNews.com) --The third try wasn't the charm for pro-life advocates who want  parents to have a chance to know when their minor daughters are  considering an abortion. California voters defeated two previous  attempts to install a parental notification measure in the state’s  constitution and an attempt to expand the language of the proposal  to include adult relatives failed to win the day. On election night,  Proposition 4 lost by a very small margin with 52 percent of  California residents voting against it and 48 percent voting for it.  Most of the polls leading up to the vote showed a plurality of  voters supporting the parental notification initiative, but a final  poll had the measure going down in defeat. In the final survey  released by the Field Poll, 37 percent of those opposing the measure  said abortion is a woman's right that shouldn't be violated and gave  that as their reason for opposing the measure. Another 32
 percent  were worried about the risk in notifying parents, even though  emergency clauses and notification of an adult relative are  included. Full story at  LifeNews.com

South Dakota Voters Defeat Second Ballot Measure to Ban Most  Abortions
Pierre,  SD (LifeNews.com) --For a second time, the voters of South Dakota defeated a state  ballot measure that would have banned most abortions after defeating  a similar measure two years ago. The 2006 ban would have only  allowed abortions to save the life of the mother and the 2008 ban  added rape and incest exceptions with the hope of persuading more  pro-life voters to support it. Instead, South Dakota voters defeated  Initiated Measure 11 by a 55-45 percentage point margin. The margin  was similar to the vote last time around despite the attempt to  appear to the majority of voters who said in 2006 that they would  support a ban with the additional exceptions. The defeat of the  abortion ban came even though abortion advocates got themselves in  trouble by using the name of the state’s doctors group in its  advertising. Full story at  LifeNews.com

Colorado Voters Soundly Defeat Personhood Ballot Measure  Affecting Abortion
Denver,  CO (LifeNews.com) --Colorado voters were decidedly opposed to Amendment 48, a ballot  proposal that would have amended the state constitution to define  the beginning of human life as occurring at conception. The measure  could have affected the status of legal abortions in Colorado and  could also have played a role in affecting bioethics laws related to  human cloning and stem cell research. In the end, Colorado voters  defeated Amendment 48 by a 73.5-26.5 percentage margin with 57  percent of the vote counted. The defeat of Amendment 48 wasn’t a  surprise given polling data beforehand that showed it trailing  badly. A Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 survey released last week found  the measure losing 68 to 27 percent. Opponents of the measure  indicated they opposed it strongly and supporters of Amendment 48  were split as to whether they strongly supported it or backed it  somewhat. Full story at  LifeNews.com

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