Cantaloupes and Other Killers

Jensen Farms cantaloupes have been responsible for sickness and even some deaths.  To date - at least 13 people have died and 72 have been sickened.

The Federal Food and Drug Administration reported in July that 14 U.S. women have died after taking RU-486 and a total of 2,207 reported adverse effects after using the drug.
That makes the abortion pill more dangerous than tainted cantaloupes.
The abortion pill has sickened over 30 times as many people as the melons.

People may ask for Jensen Farms cantaloupes at the grocery store, but no reputable grocer would supply them. There would be dire consequences for those that did.

It just goes to show that if a woman is getting an abortion, concerns for her health and safety go out the window.  Any attempt to protect women from the irresponsible distribution of abortion pills is met with the harshest criticism and opposition. Right now in our country, the lives of people who eat cantaloupes are considered of more value than those of pregnant women and their pre-born babies.

Shockingly even Communist China has more sense than this. Known as one of the greatest abusers of human rights in the world through their brutal one-child, forced-abortion policies, they have expressed concern and taken action to protect women from the dangers of RU-486.



SOURCE: Operation Rescue 
If you find this info compelling here is the full article:  What Killer Cantaloupes and Abortion Pills Say About the Value of Life:

By Cheryl Sullenger

Recently there has been a major food-borne illness outbreak in the United States. The Center for Disease Control has traced the outbreak of listeria, an often fatal bacterial contagion, to cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms in Colorado. So far at least 13 people have died and 72 have been sickened from eating the tainted fruit.
Authorities have asked that grocery stores pull the Jensen Farms cantaloupes from the shelf. They warn people that if they are not sure where their cantaloupes came from, they should throw them away.

“Honestly, as a nurse, I would tell people don’t eat the cantaloupe until this thing resolves itself,” said Laura Anderko, a Georgetown University public health expert. “This stuff happens because our system is not as tight as it needs to be.”
Contrast the cantaloupe hysteria with the lack of concern over a similar number of deaths caused by the RU-486 abortion pill

The Federal Food and Drug Administration reported in July that 14 U.S. women have died after taking RU-486 and a total of 2,207 reported adverse effects after using the drug.
That makes the abortion pill more dangerous than tainted cantaloupes.

But the official response to these deaths has been to call the drug “safe” and promote it on the market. It seems that the deaths of over a dozen people are only a problem when abortion is not involved. When it is, then the deaths become an acceptable risk.
It seems to us that abortion pills should be treated with at least the same precautions to public health as listeria-laden melons. They should be pulled from the shelf. The public should be warned. The fatal pills should be traced back to the distributor, Danco Laboratories, and destroyed.

If they can do that for dangerous fruit, why not for the more dangerous abortion pill?
Instead, we get Jill June of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, dispensing the deadly pills over Internet vending machines without even a physician present and spouting nonsense about the so-called “safety” of the scheme.

“It’s the way medical practice is taking place today,” June told the Lincoln Star in January. “The fact is we are providing a service women are asking us to provide. And it’s been proven to be safe and effective.”

In reality, Jensen Farms cantaloupes have been proven to be safer than the abortion pill. While they have killed a similar number of people, the abortion pill has sickened over 30 times as many people as the melons. People may ask for Jensen Farms cantaloupes at the grocery store, but no reputable grocer would supply them. There would be dire consequences for those that did.

It just goes to show that if a woman is getting an abortion, concerns for her health and safety go out the window. Maybe that is because “our system is not as tight as it needs to be.”

Yet, any attempt to protect women from the irresponsible distribution of abortion pills is met with the harshest criticism and opposition.

Shockingly even Communist China has more sense than this. Known as one of the greatest abusers of human rights in the world through their brutal one-child, forced-abortion policies, they have expressed concern and taken action to protect women from the dangers of RU-486.

“Press reports from Henan province and Chengdu relate cases where women narrowly escaped death when excessive bleeding occurred after taking RU-486 without a physician’s supervision,” according to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. In 2001, China banned all pharmaceutical sales of RU-486 in order “to guarantee patients’ safety and protect their health.”

Right now in our country, the lives of people who eat cantaloupes are considered of more value than those of pregnant women and their pre-born babies. There cannot be such hypocritical and inequitable treatment of life under the same roof. If our nation is truly one where “all men are created equal” then all human life has value and deserves protection, or none of it does.

• Written by Operation Rescue
• September 30, 2011

Supermodels or Abortifacients?

Preventing and terminating pregnancies via modern science is soooo cool right now that I can hardly tell the difference between names of supermodels and abortifacients.

Ella? Yaz? Seasonique, Jolessa and Lybrel? I don't know if they need a reality show or a prescription? (Either way I'm sure they'd be difficult to swallow.) But it shows that birth control is not about science. It's public relations.

There's been a media kerfuffle over FDA's pending approval of Ella, a pill that promises to avoid pregnancy even five days after sex. In so many of the articles I've read pro-lifers point out that birth control pills like Ella cause abortions but the drug companies insist they do not. The media idiotically reports the he said/she said of it but rarely gets to the heart of the matter. The drug companies define pregnancy as beginning at implantation, not at conception. If you question who is right, ask them what it is that's being implanted in the uterine wall.

But the media seems to like having Christians argue with doctors because they think it makes the Christians look bad. It furthers the motif of Christians being anti-science. Some have actually raised the specter of the separation of Church and state but that has nothing to do with it. Pro-lifers are arguing science while Big Pharma and the FDA is talking semantics and putting supermodels in birth control commercials promising freedom from mood swings, acne, irritability if only they'll take birth control. Sadly, our culture is siding with the supermodels.


SOURCE:  http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2010/06/supermodels-or-abortifacients.html 

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What Does Scripture Tell us About Contraception

Bolding is my emphasis.

Prior to 1930, every single Christian denomination held contraception to be sin for married couples.

• The Anglican Church stated in that year that in certain circumstances it could be considered permissible. 

• The Fathers of the Protestant reformation held contraception to be a sin: 

• Calvin said that is should be condemned as monstrous, 
• Wesley held that it was very displeasing to God, while 
• Luther claimed it was worse than incest and adultery. 

In the book of Genesis, we read about Onan who was struck dead by God for his contraceptive act.
Contraception denies the very image of God in man. The one flesh union is unique to marriage. Jesus stated, “What God has put together, let no man separate.” God created us male and female and physically together we image God. God is a family in the trinity.

Contraception leads to radical sexual individualism. The opposite of love is not hate, but self love, individualism, the denial of being created in a relationship. The family is the basic unit of society. It places us towards love, forgiveness. It is the incubator of love. The communion of persons brings us out of ourselves and into the gift of self. Fertility is the challenge to love. It is a call to love. In a relationship we are open to being hurt. Those who sterilise cut out the challenge to love and to follow the invitation to “Be fruitful and multiply.” Contraception is a yes to one's own individualism.

The creation of the universe was a result of the fruitful love of God. God wants us to be fruitful. Married sex is designed to be a reflection of the trinity. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the father and son. The Holy Spirit is the actual love of father to the son. This love is so really that it is actually another person in the Holy Spirit. This is also reflected in us. Physical love sometimes has be named nine months later with the birth of a child. Spouses share in the image of the trinity. A man shall leave father and mother and cling to a wife and become one flesh.

As sexuality is meant to be unitative, sexual individualism brings hell to earth. Satan's desire for sex is for it to be fruitless. Satan wants things to be devastating and fruitless. Contraception is a key tool of the devil to distort relationships and take away men from God. There are good reasons to postpone babies as we are all called to responsible parenthood. But we cannot distort the icon of the trinity on earth and have good things derive from it. The result of  the mentality of “I can do what I want in my marriage” has brought a wealth of social problems. Since the introduction of the pill, divorces have tripled, cohabitation has soared along with abortion and adultery. Knowledge of sterility brings greater temptation towards adultery and divorce. One man said, “Suicide is worse than murder. When you kill yourself you kill the whole world. When you sterilise yourself, you sterilises the whole world.”

A marriage is not a marriage unless you consummate it. One cannot do this with a condom. When Adam rejoiced “Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh” he saw in him another person who he could share his life with intimately. In a one flesh union until death, contraceptive acts in marriage are like little divorces. Marriages that don't have children early in marriage, are more likely to have divorces. The divorce rate has paralleled with the rate of contraception. A condom separates the one flesh union. Jesus said that what God joins together, no man should separate.

The pill tells women that they are not complete. They are weak, deficient, diseased if they need a pill every single day. It denies the unique aspect of being a woman and trying to bring life into the world. Sex is meant to have a procreative aspect and share in the co-creative capacities of God.

Freud, a man who was certainly not a friend of Christianity, said that a characteristic common to all perversions was when reproduction is put to one side. This puts contraceptive gratification in this category.
Margaret Sanger knew what birth control would do to marriage, family and the Church. She looked forward to seeing society free from the tyranny of Christianity because she knew that birth control would undermine the authority of the Christian Churches. Hell is radical individualism. It is when everyone lives folded within himself. Everyone lives in profound solitude. When we choose this, we choose our own hell.

Overall, contraception does nothing positive to the sexual act. As a form of radical sexual individualism, it takes couples further away from each other and damages the unitative aspect of intercourse. It brings selfishness, the enemy of true love into a relationship and divides the purposes of sex: babies and bonding into two separate categories. But there is good news: natural fertility awareness is a positive alternative to the practice of contraception.

SOURCE: http://loveundefiled.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-does-scripture-tell-us-about.html 

No copyright infringement intended. All posts are fully cited for source and author. I have provided links back to the original source whenever possible. This information is for my personal, Faith Formation, Confirmation class, OCIC and homeschool referencing.
I am so very grateful to the authors, website and blog owners for sharing this information, commentary, and knowledge.

Pope Paul VI's Four Primary Predictions About Contraception

Pope Paul VI's made four primary predictions about the consequences of contraception and they are very interesting:

• a general lowering of moral standards throughout society
• a rise in infidelity 
• a lessening of respect for women by men
• the coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments

Here it is in complete detail -- paragraph 17 of Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI

17. Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards.

Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.

Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife. 

Limits to Man's Power

Consequently, unless we are willing that the responsibility of procreating life should be left to the arbitrary decision of men, we must accept that there are certain limits, beyond which it is wrong to go, to the power of man over his own body and its natural functions—limits, let it be said, which no one, whether as a private individual or as a public authority, can lawfully exceed. These limits are expressly imposed because of the reverence due to the whole human organism and its natural functions, in the light of the principles We stated earlier, and in accordance with a correct understanding of the "principle of totality" enunciated by Our predecessor Pope Pius XII. (21) 

Pope Paul VI predicted these evils that would ensue from rejecting the doctrine of Christ on the inseparability of the unitive and procreative ends of marriage. We can see that since the 60s these have all come to light.

Another interesting fact: 

Did you know that during the 60s they were also studying a birth control pill for men? 

Out of however many hundreds of men they were testing this on, ONE man's testicles shrunk so they quit the study and to this day there are no oral contraceptives for men. 

But, even though women were having strokes and so on, we can see that the development of oral contraception for women goes on and on!

  

SOURCES: 

 Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI  note: The regulation of birth was treated in Humanae vitae July 24, 1968

Biography of Pope Paul VI   Pope from 1963 to 1978 (source: Vatican)

H/T: My dear friend (& mother of my godchild) Angela

Inventor of Birth Controll Pill Condemns It

Sourced below . . . Please note that bolding is my emphasis.
Eighty five year old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill now says that his co-creation has led to a "demographic catastrophe." 

In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world's Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought "devastating ecological effects" by releasing into the environment "tonnes of hormones" that had impaired male fertility, The Taiwan Times says.
The assault began with a personal commentary in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard by Carl Djerassi. The Austrian chemist was one of three whose formulation of the synthetic progestogen Norethisterone marked a key step toward the earliest oral contraceptive pill.

Djerassi outlined the "horror scenario" that occurred because of the population imbalance, for which his invention was partly to blame. He said that in most of Europe there was now "no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction." He said: "This divide in Catholic Austria, a country which has on average 1.4 children per family, is now complete."

He described families who had decided against reproduction as "wanting to enjoy their schnitzels while leaving the rest of the world to get on with it.

The fall in the birth rate, he said, was an "epidemic" far worse, but given less attention, than obesity. Young Austrians, he said, were committing national suicide if they failed to procreate. And if it were not possible to reverse the population decline they would have to understand the necessity of an "intelligent immigration policy." 


The head of Austria's Catholics, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, told an interviewer that the Vatican had forecast 40 years ago that the pill would lead to a dramatic fall in the birth rate in the west.

"Somebody above suspicion like Carl Djerassi ... is saying that each family has to produce three children to maintain population levels, but we're far away from that," he said.
Schonborn told Austrian TV that when he first read Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical condemning artificial contraception he viewed it negatively as a "cold shower." But he said he had altered his views as, over time, it had proved "prophetic."

Writing for the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, the president of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, Jose Maria Simon, said research from his association also showed the pill "worked in many cases with a genuinely ... abortive effect."

Angelo Bonelli, of the Italian Green party, said it was the first he had heard of a link between the pill and environmental pollution. The worst of poisons were to be found in the water supply.
"It strikes me as idiosyncratic to be worried about this," he said.

Catholic News Agency details the claims by the president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, Dr Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, who outlined a series of scientific arguments said to confirm the prophetic nature of Pope Paul VI's encyclical on artificial contraception.
In an article published by the L'Osservatore Romano, the Spanish doctor pointed to the Federation's recent document commemorating the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, which "irrefutably shows that the most widely used anti-ovulatory pill in the industrialised world, the one made with low doses of estrogen and progesterone, in many cases works with an anti-implantation effect; that is, abortifacient [effect], because it expels a small human embryo."

Castellvi also pointed out that "this anti-implantation effect is acknowledged in scientific literature, which shamelessly speaks of an embryo loss rate. Curiously, however, this information does not reach the public at large."

He also pointed to the "devastating ecological effects of the tons of hormones discarded into the environment each year. We have sufficient data to state that one of the causes of masculine infertility in the West is the environmental contamination caused by the products of the 'pill'." Castellvi noted as well that the International Agency for Research on Cancer reported in 2005 that the pill has carcinogenic effects. 

After explaining that the "natural methods of regulating fertility are the ones that are effective and that respect the nature of the person," Castellvi stated that "in celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man we can say that the contraceptive methods violate at least five important rights: the right to life, the right to health, the right to education, the right to information (its dissemination occurs to the detriment of information about natural methods) and the right of equality between the sexes (responsibility for contraceptive use almost always falls to the woman)."

SOURCES 
Catholic News   January 2009 
Catholic Church renews its attack on contraceptive pill (Taipei Times)
Medical Association points out prophetic nature of Humanae Vitae (Catholic News Agency)
Taylor Marshall - Canterbury Tales

The Pill

How bizarre and interesting! Somehow this just doesn't surprise me. Pharmaceuticals ALWAYS have numerous effects on our bodies.

A new study suggests “the pill” may alter a woman’s hormones and cause her to choose an incompatible partner. According to the article:

Commenting on the latest study, the researchers said that it could indicate that the Pill disrupts women’s ability to judge the genetic compatibility of men by means of their smell.

They said that this might not only impact on fertility and miscarriage risk, but could even contribute to the end of relationships as women who stop or start taking the Pill no longer find their boyfriend or husband so attractive.

The pill radically alters one’s body through a pharmaceutical. This is just one more example of the whole concept proving itself to be un-natural and detrimental.

Text H/T: Per Christum