About Hood Family books and Right to Life

The life of a baby begins long before he or she is born. A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell. If the baby's life is not interrupted, he or she will someday become an adult man or woman. Worldwide, millions of unborn babies are killed each year. In the United States over 40 million unborn babies have been killed in the 29 years since abortion was legalized and more than 1.3 million are killed each year.

The First 9 Months Link: Click this link to visit an amazing multimedia web site and take a hi-tech journey through the first 9 months of human life. The music, photos, story and creative web design have gained this site many internet awards. It's awesome! (Click zero - 0 - after the countdown to launch the site.)

Partial-Birth Abortion Overview
For more information about this late-term abortion procedure (wherein the baby is delivered, except for the head, before being killed), click NRLC on Partial-Birth Abortion and PeopleForLife.org on PBA

Thanks to Pro-Life America for the Information above and links to their site.
For more Information please visit http://www.prolife.com/

Partial-Birth Abortion Q & A

What is Partial-Birth Abortion?
Partial-Birth Abortion is a procedure in which the abortionist pulls a living baby feet-first out of the womb and into the birth canal (vagina), except for the head, which the abortionist purposely keeps lodged just inside the cervix (the opening to the womb). The abortionist punctures the base of the baby’s skull with a surgical instrument, such as a long surgical scissors or a pointed hollow metal tube called a trochar. He then inserts a catheter (tube) into the wound, and removes the baby's brain with a powerful suction machine. This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery of the now-dead baby.

What is the Partial-Birth Abortion act?
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act would ban performance of a partial-birth abortion except if it were necessary to the save a mother's life. The bill defines partial-birth abortion as an abortion in which “the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother,” and then kills the baby. The bill would permit use of the procedure if “necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.”

Are Partial-Birth Abortions Common?
According to Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers (1997), and other sources, it appears that partial-birth abortions are performed 3,000 to 5,000 times annually. (Even those numbers may be low.) Based on published interviews with numerous abortionists, and interviews with Fitzsimmons in 1997, the “vast majority” of partial-birth abortions are performed in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy, on healthy babies of healthy mothers.

Why is it called "Partial-Birth"?
Under state laws, a “live birth” occurs when a baby is entirely expelled from the mother and shows any signs of life, however briefly -- regardless of whether the baby is “viable,” i.e., developed enough to be sustained outside the womb with neo-natal medical assistance. Even at 4½ months (20 weeks), perinatologists say that if a baby is expelled or removed completely from the uterus, she will usually gasp for breath and sometimes survive for hours, even though lung development is usually insufficient to permit successful sustained respiration until 23 weeks. Thus, the term “partial-birth” is perfectly descriptive

Thanks to the National Right to Life for the Information above.
For more Information please visit http://www.nrlc.org/

Euthanasia

- Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.

Euthanasia: Some Frequently Asked Questions

"Is there a danger of rationing life-saving treatment in Medicare?"

What is the Will to Live Project?

Do Americans Support Assisted Suicide? (March 2000 poll)

Why Shouldn't Assisting Suicide Be Legal?

What Should We Do for People in Severe Pain?

What About the Terminally Ill?

Starvation and Dehydration

"... we must be wary of those who are too willing to end the lives of the elderly and the ill. If we ever decide that a poor quality of life justifies ending that life, we have taken a step down a slippery slope that places all of us in danger. There is a difference between allowing nature to take its course and actively assisting death. The call for euthanasia surfaces in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of "death with dignity" or assisted suicide. Euthanasia is a concept, it seems to me, that is in direct conflict with a religious and ethical tradition in which the human race is presented with " a blessing and a curse, life and death," and we are instructed '...therefore, to choose life." I believe 'euthanasia' lies outside the commonly held life-centered values of the West and cannot be allowed without incurring great social and personal tragedy. This is not merely an intellectual conundrum. This issue involves actual human beings at risk..."
-- C. Everett Koop, M.D. *

*taken from the book KOOP, The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Random House, 1991.

DEFINITIONS

Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has requested to be killed.

Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.

Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.

Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide."

Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection.

Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.

Thanks to the National Right to Life for the Information above.
For more Information please visit http://www.nrlc.org/

The Americans to Ban Cloning (ABC) coalition is a group of concerned Americans and U.S. based organizations that promote a global, comprehensive ban on human cloning.

ABC is now working to pass S. 245, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003. This bill is a comprehensive cloning ban closely matching the one passed on February 27, 2003 by the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 534). The bill would outlaw both research and reproductive human cloning.

To participate in the effort to pass S. 245, click here.

Human Organism Patenting

- Hill Negotiators Agree to Bar Patents for Human Organisms (The Washington Post)

- Funding Bill Gets Clause on Embryo Patents (The Washington Post)

- Cardinal Keeler Urges Congress to Prevent Marketing of Human Beings (USCCB)

- Biotechnology Lobby Opposes Weldon Amendment, Seeks Open Door to Patents on Human Embryos by Douglas Johnson (NRLC)

- Rep. Weldon (R-FL) Introduces the Patent Amendment (July, 22 - Congressional Record - PDF)

- Rep. Weldon (R-FL) Explains the Intent of the Patent Amendment (Nov. 5 - Congressional Record - PDF)

- Rep. Weldon (R-FL) Submits a Letter from James Rogan, Undersecretary and Director of the US Patent Office into the Congressional Record (Nov. 22 - Congressional Record - PDF)

- Clonaid: Clone Baby Born in Australia (News.com.au)

Clone baby 'born in Australia' May 18, 2004 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8654756%255E421,00.html

Thanks to Americans to Ban Cloning (ABC) coalition for the Information above and links to their site.
For more Information please visit http://www.cloninginformation.org/

For more information about the author, poet and researcher Karen Jean Matsko Hood, please visit www.karenjeanmatskohood.com or www.Karenhood.com

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