Pro-Life News
Local and Regional Life Group News
We will try and keep you up to date on events of local interest as they become available
| Weymouth Group Committee Meeting | 18th January 2012 | — | to download the minutes click here |
| Meeting of Southern Region Group | 21st January 2012 | — | to download the minutes click here |
Upcoming Local and Regional Events
| Basingstoke Life | Saturday 11th February at Bishop Challoner School, St Michael's Rd, Basingstoke between 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | A Dance led by “Smoke and Fire”.Tickets £6 (Children £4). Bring own food. Bar and Raffle. For details contact Chantal Brown on | |
| Basingstoke Life | Friday 23rd March at St Bede's Church, Popley Way, Basingstoke, 7 pm to 10:30 pm | Quiz Night with Tickets £4 (bring your own food). Teams of up to six. Bar and raffle. For details Contact Basingstoke Life Charity Shop on 01256 475637 or email Chantal Brown at | |
| Weymouth Life | Sunday 25th March at St Mary's Church, Weymouth from 2.30 pm. | Precious Memories Gathering for those who have suffered child loss or still birth. Free admission (just turn up - you are most welcome). Refreshments available after the service. For further details please email or see the our parish newsletter nearer the date. |
National and International News
Council of Europe Bans Euthanasia
Last Wednesday, 25th January, 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a Resolution stating that “euthanasia must always be prohibited”. This articulates a strong principle for life and against euthanasia, given that, for the first time, euthanasia has been so clearly rejected by a European political institution.
This is a third major victory for life and dignity of the weakest, after the 2010 resolution that strengthened freedom of conscience for doctors and medical staff and after the European Court of Human Rights asserted last year that there is no right to euthanasia or assisted suicide under the European Convention.
Luca Volontè, Chairman of EPP Group in the PACE, underlines this:
“last year we have obtained a great victory reaffirming the right of medical practitioners to conscientious objection; today we have also fought a good battle and we have won, thanks God, against a real ideological tyranny of culture of death (...); now euthanasia is completely banned from PACE”.
For further information, see here
Pro-LIFE March Washington DC
This is a time lapse account of last years march in Washington DC. It lasts one minute but gives a powerful overview of just how many people turned up last year
This year's took place on Monday last (23rd January) and was just as well supported. Here's a link to a post from the National Review. (It takes a long time to load because there are just so many photos)
As usual the News Media tried to ignore the march altogether, or try to minimise it by photographing the handful of pro abortion demonstrators and implying equality.
A handful of pro choice protester infiltrated a LIFE meeting at the Hyatt hotel and tried to disrupt it by shouting slogans. They were escorted out by the hotel management.
Many commentators are saying that the pro choice lobby in the USA is losing the argument
Unborn child not 'just a parasite'
A standard pro-abortion argument hinges on the premise that a baby inside his mother's womb attacks her bodily integrity. The developing baby is seen in this light as an intruder, a parasite, a threat to the woman's autonomy.
But science paints a vastly different picture about the actual relationship between a baby in utero and his or her mother, showing that, far from being a parasite, the unborn child can help heal the mother for the rest of her life.
During the pregnancy cells from the child pass into the mother's body and vice versa. One type of foetal cell that enters into the mother's body is the baby's own stem cells, which can be pluripotent. The baby's foetal stem cells can actually become the mother's own cells that make up her liver, heart, or brain.
As the mother's cells also pass into the child, this means that everyone of us carry as part of our bodies our mother's cells, and and our grandmother's and so on and so on. An interesting thought!
For more details see this link to Lifesite News