[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Interview with abortoholic protestor; Matt Bowman from ADF does interview on conscience rights; more...

Tue Aug 4 15:28:28 MDT 2009

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 4 Aug 2009 AD

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*/_GERMAN CATHOLIC BANK APOLOGIZES FOR SCANDAL ON WYETH/ABORTIFACIENT 
INVESTMENTS..._/* <http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09080403.html>
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OTC ABORTIFACIENT PLAN B LEADS TO DEATHS, MENSTRUAL DISORDERS...

<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09080402.html> VIOXX AND 
OTHERS YANKED FOR LESS... <http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538021>
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An interview with an abortoholic, confused female protestor. 
<http://www.4marks.com/videos/details.html?video_id=1535>....note when 
the unassailable logic of the humanity of the preborn child confronts 
her, she says "I gotta go..."

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*Mifepristone (aka* *RU 486) Users Risk Automatic Excommunication: 
Vatican Responds to Italian Drug Agency Decision*

Bishop Elio Sgreccia says use of it incurs "automatic excommunication", 
but Archbishop Fisichella refuses to concur

By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent

ROME, August 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com <http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - 
When the Italian drug agency approved the sale of the deadly abortion 
drug mifepristone (sometimes referred to by its antiquated experimental 
name RU 486) late Thursday night, senior Vatican officials responded 
strongly saying that doctors who prescribe it and the women who take it 
risk excommunication. The Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) said the 
drug, to be sold under the brand name Mifegyne, would not be sold in 
pharmacies and only be administered by physicians in hospitals.

Bishop Elio Sgreccia, a bioethics professor, author and former 
vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) told Corriere 
della Sera newspaper, "This is a compound which kills the foetus and one 
much promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. It is an incitement to 
abort. It is absolutely unacceptable and leads to automatic 
excommunication."

He added, "First abortion was legalised to stop it being clandestine, 
but now doctors are washing their hands of it and transferring the 
burden of conscience to women."

The current head of the PAV, Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella said, "An 
embryo is not a bunch of cells. It is a real and full human life and to 
suppress it is a responsibility no one can take without fully realising 
the consequences."

Fisichella, however, refused to state outright that these "consequences" 
include automatic excommunication. In an interview with Corriere della 
Sera, he said, "It is obvious that the canonical consequences are the 
same as for surgical abortion, this is known. But I do not want to make 
a declaration." Asked why not, he added that such a declaration would be 
"too easy".

In an article in Saturday's Italian edition of L'Osservatore Romano, 
Fisichella wrote that the drug will "lead to a trivialization of the 
concept of life." The drug is "an evil in and of itself because it takes 
a human life. This life, which is only visible through the assistance of 
technology, possesses the same dignity inherent in every person."

The vote of the AIFA board of directors in favour of the drug, after a 
reportedly heated four-hour debate, was four to one. Romano Colozzi, the 
dissenting member, warned, "The apparent ease of this pharmacological 
method will inevitably lower the level of caution and responsibility."

Some legislators in the government of Silvio Berlusconi had also opposed 
the decision. Citing the statistics from the Italian health agency 
showing at least 29 maternal deaths associated with the drug, Eugenia 
Roccella, the subsecretary of the health office, indicated reservations 
about the decision. She told media that despite their decision, an 
"interchange of opinions" would continue between AIFA and the health 
ministry.

Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Rome said, "Infanticide is, in fact, being 
legalised for the modest sum of EUR14 a tablet."

Abortion on demand up to the end of the third month of pregnancy has 
been legal in Italy since 1978. It is estimated, however, that the 
nearly 70 per cent of doctors in Italy who are conscientious objectors 
to abortion will not prescribe the drug.

Italy was one of the last EU countries to resist legalising the deadly 
drug that is the subject of massive class action law suits in the US. 
Developed in France, mifepristone is approved as a prescription drug in 
the US and througout the European Union except, as of Friday, in Ireland 
and Portugal.

The prevalence of mifepristone in the abortion industry is growing 
worldwide. In 2007, figures released for England and Wales revealed that 
43 per cent of early abortions were the result of mifepristone, 
so-called "medical" abortion in much of the medical literature, a 
euphemism for an abortifacient.

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** Matt Bowman on Real Presence Radio Live: Increasing efforts to force 
participation in abortion*ADF attorney Matt Bowman appeared on Real 
Presence Radio Live 
<http://www.youram1370.com/realpresenceradiolive.html> to discuss the 
case of a Catholic nurse force to participate in a late term abortion 
and increasing efforts nationwide to force such participation.

The MP3 runs <http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/20090803.mp3> just under 
10 minutes.

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*House Committee Approves Reform Bill; Full House Debate Scheduled for 
After August Recess*
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009576692_apushealthcareoverhaul.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=297&L=2096&F=H>
Seattle Times
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday July 31 approved its 
health care reform bill (HR 3200) by a 31-28 vote that was mostly along 
party lines.  Among the many amendments considered during the markup, 
the committee rejected an amendment offered by Reps. Joe Pitts (R-Pa) 
and Bart Stupak (D-MI) to prohibit government subsidies to any insurance 
plans that offers abortion coverage. The amendment was rejected by a 
27-31 vote.

*Cardinal Blasts Health Reform Legislation*
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=96926 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=297&L=2092&F=H>
EWTN
Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the Committee on 
Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 
blasted provisions of healthcare reform legislation passed on July 31 by 
the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

*Schools, ACLU and Planned Parenthood versus Parents
*http://www.examiner.com/x-18771-San-Jose-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d1-The-schools-the-ACLU-and-Planned-Parenthood-vs-parents 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=297&L=2091&F=H>
The Examiner
The main concern is when a teen finds out she's pregnant and doesn't 
want to face her parents with the problem, does the school district, or 
the State for that matter, have the right to cut the parent out of the 
process, by letting the child go off campus to get an abortion? Granted, 
there are other medical situations that can come up where the child 
wants to keep the information from his or her parents, but abortion is 
the biggie.  Abortion is the reason that the two major abortion backing 
organizations, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have gotten into the 
fray. *//*

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