FALL/WINTER EDITION 2016/2017 Lambton Right to Life email: lambtonrighttolife@yahoo.ca LRTL website: www.lambtonrighttolife.org

Lambton Right to Life is a

non-denominational, non-profit organization

dedicated to teaching others the value of each

human life as created by God – the unborn,

the mentally challenged, the physically

challenged and the aged.

Dear Members, We will not share your telephone number, postal or email addresses. If you do NOT want to

continue to receive this newsletter, please contact our office. Please note that our Annual General Meeting will be held in the new year. More details to follow. Our office is located in St. Thomas Aquinas Church (accessed through the middle doors). The

address is: 895 Champlain Rd., P.O. Box 728, Sarnia, ON N7T 7J7 Please call us for our office hours: 519-542-1132

L.R.T.L. EXECUTIVE:

President: Vacant

Past President: Lou Billett

Vice-President: This position is open; duties are

to help plan LRTL events and to attend 6 or 7

Executive meetings per year . Training will be

provided.

Treasurer: Liz Perry

Secretaries: Maureen Donohue & Mary Debus

County Representative: Elizabeth VanDenAssem

Community Awareness:

Maureen Donohue & Mary Debus

Newsletter Editor: Christine Chenard

Database Co-ordinators: David & Erie Eizenga

Email Co-ordinator: Anna Marie Minten

Webmaster: Greg Wierenga at Esite.com

Accountant: Terry Burrell

Legal Advisor: Peter Westfall

CWL Representative: Anna Jenniskens

Our heartfelt gratitude to all who responded to our Spring fundraiser, the No-Walk-Walkathon! The monies raised will be used for such things as operating costs, education outreach, student support, and advertising.

Have you noticed our ads in Sarnia This Week? They usually run on the 2nd Thursday of every month, to raise community awareness on life issues (ex. the personhood of the unborn, hospice care, abstinence, etc.)

Lambton Right to Life recently donated over $700 to the Reaching Minds Through Media Campaign. This is an annual initiative by Alliance for Life Ontario to air pro-life commercials. The pregnancy help line 1-800-665-0570 receives more calls than usual when the commercials are aired.

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How many people have died by euthanasia in Canada? by Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition September 8, 2016

A recent CBC news report indicates that more than 120 Canadians have died an assisted death since June 2016 when doctors gained the legal right to lethally inject their patients.

But according to CBC reporter, Catherine Cullen, they could not determine how many euthanasia deaths have actually occurred and there may be no way of knowing.

The actual number of deaths is probably significantly higher because several provinces could not, or would not, provide complete data. Quebec, which was the first province to adopt a law on doctor-assisted death, provided no data whatsoever.

According to Cullen there were: 49 assisted deaths in Ontario, 46 assisted deaths in British Columbia, 15 assisted deaths in Alberta, 8 assisted deaths in Manitoba, fewer than five assisted deaths in Saskatchewan but New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Yukon Territory refused to respond to CBC while Québec didn’t provide data.

There were no assisted deaths in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, North West Territory and Prince Edward Island.

According to Paul Schliesmann in recent article in the Kingston Whig Standard titled: ‘another form of care’ states: Kingston General Hospital has been carrying out assisted death requests since the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the ban on the procedure effective June 6. However, officials at KGH are not releasing any numbers in order to protect the identities of patients and their families. “We’ve done a small number of them,” confirmed KGH chief of staff Dr. David Zelt.

The article points out that euthanasia is not always done in the hospital. The article states: “This is not necessarily a hospital treatment,” said Zelt. “It can be done in the community and in hospitals as well. People do not have to come to the hospital to do this.”

CBC news reported that they were unable to obtain data from Québec but Amy Hasbrouck, the director of the disability rights group Toujours Vivant – Not Dead Yet, reported in July that there were 166 euthanasia deaths in Québec from December, 2015 to June 2016.

It appears that nobody knows how many people have died by lethally injection since Canada permitted euthanasia and assisted suicide.

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GLOSSARY :

EUTHANASIA occurs when a person intentionally kills someone else. Death is hastened either directly (ex. dispensing drugs) or indirectly (ex. withdrawing food and water from someone who’s still capable).

SUICIDE is the act of killing oneself intentionally. If it’s done with someone’s help, it is ASSISTED SUICIDE or PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH (P.A.D.). The person who’s helping is in fact performing euthanasia.

PALLIATIVE CARE is the provision of painkillers and other physical and emotional care at the end of life, without hastening death.

WARNING: Proponents of Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide like to use the euphemism, “Medical Aid in Dying.” This is misleading

because palliative care also provides medical aid in dying, but it relieves pain compassionately, without interfering in the natural stages leading to death. When the assisted suicide lobby uses the phrase, “Medical Aid in Dying,” they’re actually referring to direct interventions to hasten death, i.e. euthanasia.

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‘‘‘ - - - Are Human-Animal Hybrids

the Next Frontier in Scientific Research ?by Fr. Mark Hodges

The following is an excerpt from a LifeSite News article that was published online on August 9, 2016.

The Obama Administration is proposing tax funds for researchers to create half-animal, half-human beings for experimentation. The federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a proposed change in the ethical limits of federally funded research, allowing animal/human "cross-species," called "chimera" research.

By injecting animal embryos with human stem cells, scientists can create "chimera" hybrids, which can then be used to learn more about human illnesses. NIH Associate Director for Science Carrie D. Wolinetz told the Washington Times, "These types of human-animal organism(s) … hold tremendous potential for disease modeling, drug testing, and perhaps eventual organ transplant.”

…Researchers say they might be able to breed sheep, pigs, and cows with human hearts, kidneys, livers, pancreases, and other organs for human transplantation. Pushing the ethical envelope even further, the NIH says creating animals with human sperm and human eggs in order to study human development and infertility is a possibility.

….Critics say creating a species of partially human "chimeras" is inhuman, unethical and immoral. The NIH, recognizing those concerns, proposes certain restrictions and an additional level of external oversight for chimera research. One proposed restriction is that no ape species be used, because apes are too close to homosapiens. A second restriction would be to prohibit an animal sperm and human egg to breed, as well as prohibit any breeding involving animals with human sperm and human eggs, which could create human babies inside animals.

The NIH limitations, however, do not satisfy critics, who say implanting tumors in mice is a far cry from creating a new, animal/human hybrid creatures. For instance, the brains of these animal/humans, they charge, may induce a "humanlike state of sentience."

…Dr. Robert George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, told LifeSiteNews, "Once again, they want to do what we were told 'no one will ever want to do.' Do you remember when we were told that scientists working with stem cells wanted only to use 'spare' embryos left over from IVF efforts that would otherwise die or be left in permanent cold storage? No one, we were told, was proposing to create embryos by cloning or other methods for experimentation in which they would be exploited and destroyed. That would be unethical! Of course, in no time flat the demand shifted to research embryos to be created by cloning in order to avoid the luck of the 'genetic lottery' and control the genetic makeup of the embryonic stem cells," said Dr. George, a former member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

"We were also told that no one wanted to create human-animal hybrids. Now that is precisely to be demanded," Dr. George pointed out. "Anyone who can’t see a pattern of dishonesty here just doesn’t have his eyes open."

Catholic Medical Association (CMA) President Dr. Lester Ruppersberger told LifeSiteNews, "Non-human animals are a valuable resource for medicine. However, there are compelling moral reasons to refrain from applying biotechnology to create chimeras or hybrid organisms that are partly human and partly nonhuman." He emphasized, "Prevention of harm to humans is a moral mandate." As a matter of official stance, "The CMA opposes any chimeric and hybrid research and technology that fundamentally alters human nature as designed by God."

Dr. Ruppersberger elaborated, "The CMA believes that a distinct moral boundary separates human from non-human animal life. This boundary is not definable by cognitive, physical or genetic criteria alone. This boundary was established by God when He created humankind in His image and likeness." "God granted humankind alone a spiritual nature and gave humankind responsibility and dominion over all the other creatures," Dr. Ruppersberger explained. "We must respect the created and clear boundary between humankind and animals."

To read the full article, please see: www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-next-frontier-in-scientific-research-could-be-here-manimals

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Sarnia-Lambton M.P. Marilyn Gladu has presented Private Member’s Bill C-277 in Parliament. It supports making palliative

care widely-available in Canada. The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians supports this Bill. We strongly urge you to sign an on-line petition in its favour at https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-425

The phone number for Ms. Gladu’s Sarnia office is 519-383-6600. Her email address is Marilyn.gladu@parl.gc.ca Correspondence can be sent to her postage-free at: 811 Justice Bldg., House of Commons, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6

[In 2014] Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins compared remaining silent on abortion’s destruction to ignoring trains heading towards concentration camps [during The Holocaust.]

To a gathering of pro-lifers preparing to pray in front of abortion clinics, Hawkins declared, “We’re literally on the train track. Because this is where women are being led – to slaughter their children.” ...

Standing in front of the D.C. Planned Parenthood, Hawkins explained how she once met a pro-life activist who spoke with a man from Germany about the Holocaust. He shared a childhood memory of how his church sang hymns louder when trains passed by with Jews screaming from inside....

[Hawkins said,] “This is where women are being deceived. This is when the whole life that she had planned for herself leads her to this building, believing that she has no other option than to kill her baby....” To read the full article, please see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/students-for-life-president-ignoring-abortion-like-ignoring-holocaust?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=81a16fd2ae-LifeSiteNews_com_Canada_Headlines_06_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0caba610ac-81a16fd2ae-326190638

Students For Life President Said That Ignoring Abortion Is Like Ignoring The Holocaust

by Kathryn Yoder