INCREASED DEVIL ACTIVITY - SPUC NEWS

"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness but instead expose them."Ephesians 5:11


The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children send me an email press digest regularly. Here are a few extracts:-


SPUC has criticised Mr Tony Blair's UK government. John Smeaton, national director, was interviewed by Zenit, a news agency specialising in Catholic matters. He said: "Under Tony Blair's leadership, the government and parliament have plunged Britain into an ethical abyss, in which there is no right or wrong but simply administrative and technical questions to be resolved by the implementation of new anti-life evils. Two of the first things Tony Blair did in office was to establish a strategy on teenage pregnancy and to revive proposals to change the law on end-of-life treatment. The former involves supplying abortion and birth control drugs and devices to schoolgirls as young as 11 without parents' knowledge or consent; the latter has led to a law -- the Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- which allows, and in certain circumstances requires, doctors to starve and to dehydrate to death vulnerable patients." The UK had also exported anti-life and anti-family values. Rome needed to appoint courageous bishops. [Zenit, 16 February 2007] The URL for the full interview is:http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=103112


A 13-year girl was ordered by an Italian judge to undergo an abortion, as demanded by her mother, despite her desire to keep her child. LifeSite reports that Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo sitting in the Court of Minors ordered the abortion. Italian law does not allow a minor to decide whether to keep or abort her child. Valentina is now in the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin, for wanting to commit suicide. (LifeSite, 19 February 2007)


The Indian government is planning to open a series of orphanages throughout the country, in a bid to stem the widespread practice of female foeticide and infanticide. A UNICEF report said that 7,000 fewer girls are born in India every day than would be expected. The gender imbalance is greatest in the richest districts, where couples can afford ultrasound examination. Although sex determination tests are illegal, there is little law enforcement. [Guardian, 19 February 2007]


A Torbay vicar has criticised the council after it sent out questionnaires to children as young as 12 asking them personal questions about drugs, alcohol and sex. The questions were sent to children without the knowledge of their parents and included questions on whether they knew where to get the morning after pill or had had sex whilst drunk. Rev Tony Macey said: "It was inappropriate to send this out, and inept in the way it was done. There should have been an accompanying letter to parents." Torbay's Director of Children's Services defended the survey. 24dash, 13 March 2007

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