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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-05-15, Page 9• Respect .for Life • nn N.lurphy speciaU,ipeaker, lo Chaniel 12 television s ow The Premier of Ontario has it begins to move, ani1 brain designated the month of May aS function can be measured by an Family Unity Month. As their electroencephalograph. At 10 contribution, the Goderich and weeks the body is totally for - District Pro Life Group med. He already has finger - designated May 4th to 10th as prints. At 11 weeks a baby Respect for Life Week. They sucks, his thumb; •all his organ presented a programme on systems function. He breathes Channel 12 TV Wed. May 7.th. (fluid, of course); swallows; The Goderich and District his stomach and intestinal tract Prb-Life Group are a -group of eitract nutrients from the fluid concerned citizens ---ministers, he swims in; he urinates and priests and laymen. They are has bowel movements; he concerned about preserving the sleeps when his mother sleeps, dignity of human life in all its but can be awakened by a forms -- the unborn, the han- sudden . movement or a sharp dicapped and the aged. noise; his kidneys. control the The musical part of the volume of his amniotic fluid, programme was presented by not his mother's kidneys; he Sharron Munroe of Goderich can feel,. pain, is sensitive to and Barbara Hodgins of * touch, light, heat and noise. He Clinton, They opened the is even capable of learningt It programme by singing The is at this pOint that most Unheard Voice. Barbara also. abortions are performed. sang Wheel Chair, and closed After 16 weeks abortion the programme by singing done by* salt poisoning -- Jesus, The Gentle Man. All the literally poisoning the child music and lyrics for the three which is born dead.a few days songs were composed by • later. In•some. places abortion Barbara. ' is allowed up to 24 weeks after Mr. Dan Murphy was our conception. Viability -- the, .guest 'speaker. Mr. Murphy,0 ability to survive outside its explained in his opening mother's body - occurs at remarks who the Goderich and approximately 20 weeks. When District Pro Life Group were an abortion occurs at this tiine and its purpOses. the child is often born alive and `"We are primarily concerned just left to die. If this had been a with abortion on demand. WANTED child ' born' Abortion lairs, were Originally prematUrelSr, everything passed to allow abortion in possible would -have been done those rare cases where the to keep it alive.. child Was a threat to „the It. is a scientific faet that at motber's life. Today abortion is ° the point of concePtion a • neW performed foranyreasotror in being is- created:. A feinale many cases for no reason. ovum has life; a 'male sperm There were 59,000. abortions in has life. But it is not until the Canada in 1974 -- more than the two join that a new living being population of Huron County. is Created. A being- totally You Might ask, -"What has distinct chromosomally from this to do with the broader the father or .rnother; a being definition of human life - the that has never before..existed in handicapped, the aged?" It has the history of the world, this —abortion strikes at the never again. will exist. It has give you an example -- I want maturation, development and you to picture in ST -our mind's growth for, 81/2 months within eye sitting beside me two the mother and as much as 95 babies: one who spent 9 monthS years without„ in her mother's womb and is 4 Human death can oceur at months old and One who spent 5 any time during that journey, other words that fatherless' children should be aborted -- I ask you this --'Do you kill off all the Unwanted people in our Old Age Homes, in homes for mentally retarded? pink about that -- because thats the logiCal extension of abortion on demand. If we believe in the dignity of human life, what, can we as indiViduals, do about it? 1. We Can stand up and be counted, We can tell people we respect human, life. 2. We can see to it that people learn and Understand the Pro Life Story. See to it that 'Your organization invites a pro life group in your area to put on a programme. * In- conclusion, in the, year 1974, this "Women's Year"; I ask you the question, Does a mother have A right to her own body? Does a ' mother 4and. her doctor have the right to decide to have an abortion 'on demand? I want to answer that question and conclude the programme by reading,, this' poem: Your children • are not* your children • They are the sons and daughters of Life's*Ionging for They come through you, but not from you And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. .You may give ,them your love, but not your thoughts, . You may house their bodies, but not their souls * For 'their souls dwell in Ithe, house of tomoirow, • ,Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. OHRP f very heart of human life.. 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The branch is scheduled to open this Monday..(staff photo) IF YOU HELP WE CAN HELP GIVE GENEROUSLY BayfiSd „lets: money months (20 weeks) in her from moments.after conteption • f mother's vicomb and is now 8 until 95 years later, but human- rom. Housinl 'Ministry born prerdaturely).4440,4w4-,A4turrian,,elifeit,Each of us at one: same age frOm conception, If contained witbin that single cell you saw someone take, the life %rd.§ the %totality of everything of either of those two children, we are today.:Nothing has been you would , be shocked. You added to the fertilized oviim would brand the assailant a you once were except food and murderer, and yet people will time. You were then everything say.that as long as that child is youl are today, or ever Will be. in the mother's womb at 20 This is a fact. • week§ it is something less than The U.S. Supreme Court human and will render an ruled in the 1857 Dred Scott abortion. decisieon that black people were Once you take that giant step • not persons. Recently it hai - Once yoii make that •moral said that unborn people arenot decision - How Much easier is persons. Are we going to follow it to say "I believe in suit? ' Euthanasia (Mercy killing); After the Slide presentation, killing 'off the old, the han- Mr. Murphy closed ' the dicapped". programme with an appeal to You say,. "NO" It couldn't all those opposing abortion to 'happen in this country. It stand' up and be coUnted; to happened in Germany' during take a firm position for human the War. The Jewish people life. were slaughtered like cattle He asked, "Respect for Life - Does it affect all of us -- young, middle aged, old? Someone has said, "Society Will be judged by the way it cares for its yoUng, its aged and its , disad- vantaged.," 4 might have changed that to read, "Society will be judged by the way it cares for its unborn, its young, its , aged, and its disad- vantaged." If you believe as mani'pro-, bortionists do that it is a crime to bring a deformed or retarded child into the world -- I ask you this question -- What about the eight year old who contracts a paralizing disease or becauSe of a head injury becomes retarded -- Do we kill those off? because.. they were thought to be defective.. Abortion on demand had been condoned in Germany for the previous 15 . years and that was the result. In this country, how many o us wouldhave believed 10 years ago in 1964' that in. 1974 50,000* abortions would have been carried out in our hospitals." Mr. Murphy' then introduced a slide -tape presentation by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke, in- ternationally known sexologists,„ entitled In Whose Hands.- It dealt with, the abortion on demand issue. The slides of aborted babies were anything but pretty. Some astounding facts still stick out days later : At , 3 week's ' of-- What:s the difference? pregnancy the fetus' heart If you believe as many pro - beats and *at 6 weeks it looks abortionists do that' children • distinctly human, tlitugh tiny, shoult1 be wanted and loved -- in plementation of the Ontario Home Renewal Program ,P,) have been allocated to Several ' additional Ontario municipalities, including the Village of Bayfield, Housing announced today. . OHRP provides .Per : capita grants to OntariO municipalities to 'administer directly as loans to homeowner occupants to repair their houses to an acceptable municipal minimum standard. Bayfield has been allocated $15,000 at this time, Mr, Irvine said, which represents ap- proximately 50 percent of the total 1974-75 funding designated under OUR P for . the municipality. The prime objective of the program is the correction of faulty struetural and sanitary conditions and the upgrading of plumbing, heating and elec- trical systems of the owner occupant's home. "OHRP is directly oriented to low' and moderate income families, with a maximum annual income of $12,500," Mr. krvine said: "Bayfield .is to be congratulated for its initiative in moving quickly to implement this prOgram, which ensures the continued usefulness Of needed existing housing". " The maximum amount of an ".OHRP loan, as determined4by. the local municipality, iS $7,500, less any. funding from other home renewal programs. The municipality is also responsible for determining the rate of interest Charged on the loan, from zero to eight percent, and • "forgiven", and therefore need' 4 not be paid back. 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