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Scheduled: 18 Pro-Life Events Across Florida in January 2014

January 15, 2014/in Must Read, News/by Dr. Rich Swier

The Florida Family Policy Council has sent a list of 18 scheduled Pro-Life events taking place in Florida to protest Roe v. Wade. Below are those confirmed pro-life events by county with links and contact information:

Brevard County- Merritt Island- Celebration of Life Sunday, 1/26/14 at 10:30am, at First Baptist Church Merritt Island, 140 Magnolia Avenue. For more information contact 321-454-9853

Broward County- Dania Beach- Together for Life concert, 1/24/14, featuring Mark Schultz and Joyce Bartholomew. $13 general admission, doors open at 6, Sheridan Hills Baptist Church, 3751 Sheridan Street, Hollywood, 33021. Proceeds benefit local pregnancy center. http://www.friendsofhope.com

Citrus County- Inverness- Roe vs. Wade Memorial Service, 1/22/14, Noon, on the North lawn of the Historic Citrus County Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Square. Citrus County Right to Life website and Facebook Group

Clay County- Orange Park- Rose Procession & Mass for Life, 1/22/14 at 7:00pm, at St. Catherine Parish 1649 Kingsley Ave. All are invited to the reception following. For more information contact Mary Hartwell at 904-264-1904.

Duval County – Jacksonville- Stand for Life, 1/22/14, Noon – 1PM at the Federal Courthouse. Can park at Prime Osborn then ride the tram and get off at the Hemming Plaza exit.

Duval County – Jacksonville- March for Life, 1/22/14, 12pm at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown Jacksonville, corner of Hogan St. and Monroe. Jacksonville March for Life

Escambia County- Pensacola- Mass for Life, 1/22/14 at 7pm, at Little Flower Catholic Church 6495 Lillian Hwy. Light refreshments provided after, all are invited. 850- 455-5641

Escambia County- Pensacola- Presentation by Dr. Lyle, 1/23/14, 11:30am-1pm, Pensacola City Hall. Dr. William Lyle is a board certified doctor of obstetrics and gynecology. He uses visual technology of modern obstetrics to reveal the personhood of the unborn. Free and open to the public.

Indian River County- Vero Beach– 8th Annual “Stand for Life” Chain, 1/19/14 at 2 pm, on Route 60 between 20th and 31st Ave. For more information contact Marie Ferretti at772-473-9269.

Lake County- Lady Lake- Annual Mass and Prayer Rally, 1/22/14, Mass at 11am, immediately followed by a prayer rally at the flag pole. St. Timothy Catholic Church, 1351 Paige Place.

Lake County- Eustis- Sanctity of Human Life Service, 1/19/14 at 10AM, at River Church 796 Hooks Street Clermont Florida 34711. For more information 352-242-0257 (South Lake Pregnancy and Family Care Center).

Lee County- Fort Myers- 1/16/14, 9-12pm Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood Clinic 8595 College Parkway #250, corner of College Parkway and Winker Road. For more information contact Sean James at 239-992-1143.

Leon County- Tallahassee- Prayer Gathering, 1/22/14 at 12-1pm, at the Florida Supreme Court (Tallahassee). Our stand is not a protest, but a silent prayer meeting. With LIFE tape on our mouths, we make our appeal to the Judge of the earth and ask Him for speedy justice to be released. Communion will be taken after prayer time. Please come take a stand with us for the life of the unborn. For more information 850-906-9170.Bound 4 Life TLH

Orange County- Orlando- Memorial Prayer Vigil, 1/22/14, 10:30-11:30pm, at Planned Parenthood, 726 S. Tampa Ave. Then head to Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Ave. for a Memorial and remembrance service from 12-1pm. For more information call407-230-2557.

Sarasota County- Sarasota- 16th Annual Mass and Prayer Walk, 1/24/14 at 8:30am – 2pm at St. Martha Catholic Church. After mass, we will take shuttle busses to Planned Parenthood Regional & State Headquarters, 736 Central Ave Sarasota, FL. St. Martha Catholic Church, 200 N. Orange Ave. For more information contact Jeanne Berdeaux 941-441-1101.

St. Johns County – St. Augustine- Post Abortion Healing Workshop, 1/17/14, 6:45pm, this is a workshop led by Dr. Theresa Burke, founder of Rachel’s Vineyard, for those suffering the loss of abortion and those interested in ministering. Registration is requested, but not required. Prince of Peace Votive Church, 101 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 32084 Registration here: Post-Abortion Workshop

St. Johns County – St. Augustine- March for Life, 1/18/14, 10am, live music and booths at Mission Nombre de Dios. 11am Speakers and peaceful procession down St. George St. ending at the Public Plaza. Keynote speakers are Dr. Theresa Burke, Rachel Burgin, and Missy Martinez. Click here for a schedule of March for Life St. Augustine.

St. Lucie- Fort Pierce- March for Life: Treasure Coast, 1/18/14 at 11:30am, at A Woman’s World Medical Center, 503 S. 12th Street (the abortion clinic at the SW corner of Delaware Avenue and 12th Street in Fort Pierce). Participants will be able to visit tables with literature about local pro-life ministries. The marchers will step off at noon for the short march (less than 1 mile) to the Fort Pierce City Hall (100 N. US1) where participants will witness and listen to pro-life speakers until 2:00 p.m. Participants will then be shuttled back to their vehicles. Individuals and groups are encouraged to bring their own signs representing their church or organization and there will be other signs available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Parking is available at the starting point and and transportation will be available to shuttle marchers back to their vehicles. Parking is also available in the parking garage at City Hall for those who don’t care to march. March for Life Treasure Coast

ABOUT THE FLORIDA FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL

The Florida Family Policy Council (FFPC) is one of 38 other state based policy council around the country which are associated with Focus on the Family. Many of these organizations are the leading pro-life, pro-family organizations in their respective states.

The FFPC is a 501c3 non-profit corporation under the IRS tax code. We have an independent board of directors and are responsible for raising our own financial support.
Our motto: “For Life, Marriage, Family and Liberty…”

Our Mission Statement: “Our mission is to strengthen Florida’s families through public policy education, issue research, and grassroots advocacy.”
History: In 2004, the organization both registered as a state not-for-profit corporation in Florida and obtained its federal 501c3 status with the IRS. In 2005, the organization began its official public launch and was formally associated with Focus on the Family out of Colorado Springs, Colorado. John Stemberger was the group’s founding President and remains the organizations CEO and General Counsel to this day. For a more in depth and detailed history of the organization Click Here.

Journal of Medical Ethics supports “after birth abortions” and “euthanasia”

July 10, 2013/in Culture War, Must Read, Science/by Dr. Rich Swier

Since the revelations stemming from the Dr. Kermit Gosnell trial many are asking: How this could have happened? Perhaps a review of a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 2012 by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva titled, “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” will answer this question.

The abstract reads:

Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.

Giubilini and Minerva state, “Sometimes the two reasons are connected, such as when a woman claims that a disabled child would represent a risk to her mental health. However, having a child can itself be an unbearable burden for the psychological health of the woman or for her already existing children, regardless of the condition of the fetus. This could happen in the case of a woman who loses her partner after she finds out that she is pregnant and therefore feels she will not be able to take care of the possible child by herself.”

Single parenthood is an ethical justification for euthanasia.

“[W]e need to assess facts in order to decide whether the same arguments that apply to killing a human fetus can also be consistently applied to killing a newborn human,” write Giubilini and Minerva. They note, “Euthanasia in infants has been proposed by philosophers for children with severe abnormalities whose lives can be expected to be not worth living and who are experiencing unbearable suffering.”

Giubilini and Minerva write, “[W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide’”

Giubilini and Minerva appear to be making the ethical case for Eugenics.

Memorial plaque in North Carolina to victims of Eugenics.

Nora Sullivan, a Charlotte Lozier Institute Research Assistant, writes, “In his book War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, New York Times bestselling author Edwin Black paints one of the most complete pictures to date of the history of the eugenics movement in America. In this remarkable work, originally published in 2003 and expanded in 2012, Black chronicles a shameful period in modern American history, which has cast a long and lasting shadow across our country’s record on human rights.”

“Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the eugenics movement in the United States was the amount of support that it found and the fervor with which it was put forward by its advocates. Those who professed the eugenic gospel were not the uneducated and uncouth. They were not led by a narrow worldview and limited access to information. Rather, they were the academics who led at the nation’s most prestigious institutions, the leaders who shaped the policy of the country, and the progressives with opportunities to make positive changes. They truly were the elites of America.”, notes Sullivan.

Have we returned to that period in American history where the infirm, the poor, the minorities are the targets of a “new Eugenics movement“?

Sullivan writes, “Despite the fact that proponents of eugenics thought they were working for a better world, their work became brutish as it advocated only for the good of a very select few. The horrific result was 60,000 Americans who were forcibly sterilized through state-sponsored eugenics programs that forever ruined countless lives.”

In the 1932 dystopian novel,“Brave New World” Aldous Huxley wrote that:

“In politics the equivalent of a fully developed scientific theory or philosophical system is a totalitarian dictatorship. In economics, the equivalent of a beautifully composed work of art is the smoothly running factory in which the workers are perfectly adjusted to the machines. The Will to Order can make tyrants out of those who merely aspire to clear up a mess. The beauty of tidiness is used as a justification for despotism.”

U.S. birth rate hits all-time low…

Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions…

Abortion Provider Ad: ‘Your Baby Will Thank You’

May 18, 2013/in Culture War, Featured, News/by Dr. Rich Swier

Hat tip to Kristi Burton Brown from LiveActionNews.org, “The other day, I was in the middle of doing research online when I stumbled across a Planned Parenthood ad. Planned Parenthood, over the years, has run some pretty shocking ad campaigns. Without a doubt, this one is the worst I’ve ever seen: This ad proves that insanity can indeed reach new heights.”

New Planned Parenthood banner ad:

Question: How can a dead baby thank its mother?

Lauren Enk from the Media Research Center writes, “Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion mill, just launched a decidedly strange new advertisement… The self-described ‘sexual and reproductive health care provider’ recently put out a banner ad in which a picture of a smiling mother toting a happy baby is captioned by the words “YOUR BABY WILL THANK YOU.”

“Planned P’s typical line of business is anti-life, pregnancy-terminating services, so at first it looks a little odd to suggest your baby would thank you for dropping by one of their clinics. But the ad actually attempts to shift the focus away from their abortion services to their other lines of work which haven’t been getting such gruesome negative attention lately, like birth control and other ‘family planning’ options’, notes Enk.

Alisa LaPolt Snow, Florida Planned Parenthood lobbyist.

Enk states, “Either way, and however loony, the new ad is a fairly desperate attempt to distract from Planned Parenthood’s blind-eye policy towards the children murdered in the womb at the hands of their abortionists. Even the cheerful ad looks downright absurd seen alongside the ghastly accounts about Gosnell. And it’s grimly ironic that a lobbyist for the ‘Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates told the state legislature in March that the fate of an infant born alive in a ‘botched abortion’ ‘should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician’.” In other words, the baby, a living, breathing, child, should have no legal protection from infanticide. Thanks Mom!”

“Ninety-eight percent of the services Planned Parenthood gives pregnant women are abortion (and it performed more than 650,000 of them in 2008 – 2009). What’s more, the national organization has mandated that all its affiliates provide abortions, and even encourages clinics to increase the number of abortions they provide. But when you have a PR problem and tax-payers are getting queasy about subsidizing your operation, you emphasize the much-nicer sounding ‘reproductive health,’ laughable as it may be,” reports Enk.

New revelations about Life Dynamics of Denton, Texas an abortion provider may be more grisly than what has been found in the case of former abortion provider and now convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell Gosnell remains unrepentant. Read more about the Texas case by clicking here. Watch this video about Life Dynamics of Denton, TX:

US Attorney General Eric Holder on the enforcement of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act passed in 2002:

Are “retirement migrants” bad for Florida? The birth dearth and a dying older America

March 17, 2013/in Budget and Finance, Culture War, Hot Topics, News/by Dr. Rich Swier

The census bureau reports that one of three counties in the United States are dying, defined as counties where there are more deaths than births.

The US Census projects nearly 17% of the global population will be 65 and older in 2050, up from 8 percent today. In 2005, Europe became the first major world region where the population 65 and older outnumbered those younger than 15. By 2050, it would be joined by Northern America (which includes Canada and the United States), Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Oceania (which includes Australia and New Zealand).

The US Census Bureau reports that 17.6 percent of Florida’s population was 65 and older in 2011 — which led all states.

Kenneth M. Johnson, Senior Demographer at the University of New Hampshire

According to a Fact Sheet issued by Kenneth M. Johnson, Senior Demographer at the University of New Hampshire, “Natural decrease occurs when more deaths than births occur in an area in a given year. The growing incidence of natural decrease in America has gone largely unnoticed, but new data released on March 14th demonstrate that natural decrease is no longer an isolated phenomenon. Last year, 36 percent of all U.S. counties experienced natural decrease.” [My emphasis]

Johnson found, “Deaths exceeded births in 1,135 counties, the most in U.S. history. As recently as 2009, natural decrease occurred in just 880 counties. So the recent rise reflects sharply higher levels of natural decrease.”

“Natural decrease is also regionally concentrated . . . It also occurred early in Florida counties that were among the first to receive retirement migrants,” reports Johnson.

Johnson notes that in the US, “Natural decrease is more prevalent because births are diminishing. There were only 3,954,000 births last year, compared to a record 4,316,000 in 2006–2007. This represents a decline of 8.3 percent in just five years.”

Some like the AP’s Hope Yen are promoting an increase in immigration to offset this birth dearth. Yen states, “The findings also reflect the increasing economic importance of foreign-born residents as the U.S. ponders an overhaul of a major 1965 federal immigration law.”

Others point to the 2008 recession as the cause of the decline in births. Johnson states, “The recession was closely associated with this fertility decline. Recent National Center for Health Statistics data show that both the number of births and fertility rates dropped sharply over the last several years. Young women are having fewer babies. Fertility rates have declined sharply for them, but they remained relatively stable for older women. The fertility rate for women 20–34 declined 12 percent in just three years. Hispanic fertility declined the most, especially among younger Hispanic women. Taken together, these data suggest that the impact of the recession has been particularly pronounced on younger women, who are likely delaying fertility.”

One factor coming under increased scrutiny is the rate of abortions in the US and China.

Simon Rabinovitch from The Economist reports, “Chinese doctors have performed more than 330 million abortions since the government implemented a controversial family planning policy 40 years ago, according to official data from the health ministry. China’s one-child policy has been the subject of a heated debate about its economic consequences as the population ages.”

“Forced abortions and sterilizations have also been criticized by human rights campaigners such as Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist who sought refuge at the US embassy in Beijing last year,” Rabinovitch reports.

Rabinovitch notes, “As China’s working-age population begins to decline, economists have warned that the family planning rules will pose an increasing drag on economic growth. China’s dependency ratio – which compares the potential workforce with the number of children and retirees – rose last year for the first time in 40 years.”

Rabinovitch notes, “In the US, where the population is 315 million or about one-quarter the size of China’s, an estimated 50 million abortions have been performed since the landmark Roe vs Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in 1973.”

In effect the US has killed 50 million workers. Can any nation long survive economically with the demographic future of more deaths, fewer births and the killing (abortion) of its native population?

Johnson warns, “Demography is not destiny, but one ignores it at their peril.”