Lifeline Fall 2008 (Vol. XVII, Nº 2)

CONTENTS

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GENERAL RECAP AND UPDATE

California Schemin’, Jennifer Lahl
In an effort to get more eggs into the hands of cloning researchers, the president of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), Alan Trounson, recently suggested the solution to the human egg shortage is to implement an “egg-sharing” program. Rule number one: always BEWARE of euphemisms! [read article]

From the Executive Director, Dana Cody
Looking at the ultrasound photo of my granddaughter this week was a reminder of why I work with Life Legal Defense Foundation. She is five months in gestation and she looks like a clone of my three-year-old grandson right down to the cut of her chin and the shape of her mouth; so much so I have difficulty picturing her as a girl. [read article]

South Dakota Becomes Abortion Free, Michael Marcus
Pro-aborts are howling in rage in response to an informed consent law that has effectively put South Dakota’s only abortion mill out of operation. [read article]

Ask the Attorney: LLDF’s Allison Aranda, Esq.
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Sex Selection Abortion Comes to U.S., Steven W. Mosher
By now, nearly everyone knows that tens of millions of unborn baby girls around the world have been aborted solely because of their sex. Ultrasound technology makes it possible to separate the boys from the girls at eighteen weeks or so, and widespread abortion makes it possible to eliminate the less desirable sex, which in most cultures means girls. Up to 200 million girls may have been killed in this way, mostly in Asian and Muslim countries. [read article]

Illegal Use of Public Funds at U.C., Michael Marcus
The current campaign on behalf of Sarah’s Law—Proposition 4, a revised pro-life parental involvement initiative on the California ballot in November—may have removed one of the unfair advantages enjoyed by the pro-abortion side in previous parental notification battles. [read article]

In Memoriam: Jesse Helms July 4, 2008

Mark Your Calendars: LLDF Banquet Nov. 15, 2008