A very interesting approach…[Weekly Briefing; “How Not to Win the War on Terror: Keep Exporting Abortion and Sex Education”] I find that the U.S. should take note that as only approximately 300 million or 5 percent of the world population, they would be more vigilant of a larger adversary [China for instance), who would not need to resort to terrorism to protect their cultural values, not withstanding your comment on Bin Ladin.
It says in the Gospel “He without sin can cast the first stoned.” Well, we all need to look inward at our current society values no matter how big or strong we think we are nationally and put down our stones.
I live in South Africa and consider myself lucky to have been part of a peaceful transition, mostly thanks to Nelson Mandela for his courage and foresight to sideline his apartheid distastes in favour of mutual survival. We have, due to failures in society, in recent times been exposed to increased violence in the form of farm attacks and domestic robbery with malicious intent, mostly ending in the rape and murder of the victims. Although the victims are mostly European, I don’t think that this is all about racism but more so the gap between the “have” and “have nots.” The result is that in the last 10 years 1 million Europeans from a possible 7 million have left the country, not to mention the number of Africans, taking with them knowledge and buying power. The economy is dented on both sides. Even a small country like ours has had its value system shaken to the point of destruction. We can only hope that the government starts to address the poverty and especially the crime issues which are fast turning into blatant acts of terror.
It is apparent that I can now describe our situation as “Passive Civil War”…Let’s hope Hollywood doesn’t pick this one as a popular theme.
Alex Carswell, South Africa
By the way, at the UN the strategy is to repeat as an Orwellian imperative the above [Weekly Briefing: “Political Framing and the Pro-Life Mind”] until we tire of seeing it, then suddenly as if foreordained, declare that it meant abortion and sterilization all along.
How could you have possibly not known? Therefore all documents containing the words come alive with the new meaning and have the Trojan horse meaning in customary international law. Watch out!
Theodore Kershaw, Maryland
Dr. Elizabeth Samuel, a pro-life doctor practicing in India, writes to PRI that she has found in her practice an “alarming correlation” between those who practice contraception and various degenerative diseases. She included several detailed tables showing that those who had compromised their reproductive systems suffered from a higher rate of hypertension, coronary artery disease, stroke, breast cancer, and other ailments.
Her study, which she carried out on her own, suffers from several drawbacks. It included only 90 persons, divided into “contracepting” and “non-contracepting” subgroups. More seriously, those she recorded as “contracepting” included those who were using condoms along with those who had had tubal ligations or were wearing “copper t” IUDs. Each of these methods has its own unique health drawbacks, of course.
Dr, Samuel also speculates that some of the increased levels of estrogen found in the environment may derive not just from birth control pills (See PRI’s Weekly Briefing of July 30, 2007, “Contraceptive Poison”), but from abortions. “Curetted endometrium,” she writes. contaminates the water supply with estrogen.
Dr. Samuel may be reached in Kerala, India, at thomassam@rediffmail.com
Greetings,
I’ve long admired your work, but this video [Weekly Briefing: “Steven Mosher Releases Second in Series of YouTube Videos”] has pushed me over the edge, motivating me to contribute to your work.
You guys are the gold standard in pro-life lobbying. May you prosper.
Jeff H., Texas
