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<font color="#3333ff"><b><big><big><font face="Calisto MT">PharmFacts
E-News Update -- 4 Aug 2009 AD<br>
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<b><i><u><font color="red"><font size="+3">GERMAN CATHOLIC BANK
APOLOGIZES FOR SCANDAL ON WYETH/ABORTIFACIENT INVESTMENTS...</font></font></u></i></b></a><br>
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<big><big><a
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OTC ABORTIFACIENT PLAN B LEADS TO DEATHS, MENSTRUAL DISORDERS...<br>
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</a><a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538021">
VIOXX AND OTHERS YANKED FOR LESS...</a></big><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font color="#3333ff"><big><big><font
face="Calisto MT"><small><small><font color="#000000"><big><a
href="http://www.4marks.com/videos/details.html?video_id=1535">An
interview with an abortoholic, confused female protestor.</a>....note
when the unassailable logic of the humanity of the preborn child
confronts her, she says "I gotta go..."</big><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><img
src="cid:part4.05030102.03090108@pfli.org" alt=""> <big><font
color="#000000"><font face="Calisto MT"><big><b>Mifepristone (aka</b></big>
</font></font><b>RU 486) Users Risk Automatic
Excommunication: Vatican Responds to Italian Drug Agency Decision</b><a
name="3"></a></big><br>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">Bishop Elio Sgreccia says use of it incurs
"automatic
excommunication", but Archbishop Fisichella refuses to concur<br>
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<p><font face="Calisto MT">By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent</font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">ROME, August 3, 2009 (<a
href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) - 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.
</font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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."</font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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."</font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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." </font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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". </font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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." <br>
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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." </font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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. </font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">Gianni
Alemanno, the mayor of Rome said, "Infanticide is, in fact, being
legalised for the modest sum of €14 a tablet."</font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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. </font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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.
</font></p>
<p><font face="Calisto MT">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.</font><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><strong><br>
</strong><img src="cid:part5.01080504.02030305@pfli.org" alt=""
height="58" width="128"><strong> Matt Bowman on Real Presence Radio
Live: Increasing efforts to force participation in abortion</strong>ADF
attorney Matt Bowman appeared on <a
href="http://www.youram1370.com/realpresenceradiolive.html">Real
Presence Radio Live</a>
to discuss the case of a Catholic nurse force to participate in a late
term abortion and increasing efforts nationwide to force such
participation.
<p><a href="http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/20090803.mp3">The MP3 runs</a>
just under 10 minutes.<br>
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<p><strong>House Committee Approves
Reform Bill; Full House Debate Scheduled for After August
Recess</strong><br>
<a href="http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=297&L=2096&F=H">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009576692_apushealthcareoverhaul.html</a><br>
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><font color="#808080">Seattle
Times<br>
</font></span>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. </p>
<p><strong>Cardinal Blasts Health Reform Legislation</strong><br>
<a href="http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=297&L=2092&F=H">http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=96926</a><br>
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><font color="#808080">EWTN<br>
</font></span>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.<br>
<br>
<strong>Schools, ACLU and Planned Parenthood
versus Parents<br>
</strong><a href="http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=297&L=2091&F=H">http://www.examiner.com/x-18771-San-Jose-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d1-The-schools-the-ACLU-and-Planned-Parenthood-vs-parents</a><br>
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><font color="#808080">The
Examiner<br>
</font></span>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. <strong><font size="5"><em></em></font></strong><br>
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