Prolife Victories
Pro-Lifers Join Bioethics Council
On Feb. 27 the president dismissed Elizabeth Blackburn, a biologist at the University of California-San Francisco, and William May, an emeritus professor of ethics at Southern Methodist University, replacing them with members who hold a more pro-life view.
Benjamin Carlson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University; Diana Schaub, chairwoman of the political science department at Loyola College in Maryland; and Peter Lawler, a government professor at Barry College in Georgia, will serve two-year terms.
Carlson has called for more religion in public life, according to the Post. Schaub has supported council director Leon Kass in his opposition to human cloning. Lawler has written against abortion.
The dismissed members often encountered contention from other members for their support of research on human embryo cells.
The council exists to give Bush advice regarding bioethical issues such as stem-cell and embryonic research.
Girl Scouts for Life KWTX (Texas), Feb. 25 — Planned Parenthood's annual sex-education conference in Waco, Texas, will have one less sponsor this year.
The Bluebonnet Girl Scouts Council's board of directors voted Feb. 24 to discontinue its nine-year co-sponsorship of the pro-abortion organization's “Nobody's Fool” sex-education conference.
One of the books the conference uses, according to another news station, KXXV-TV, is It's Perfectly Normal, which contains information and illustrations on masturbation and homosexuality.
A local pro-life activist called for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies after he learned of the organization's affiliation with Planned Parenthood for the conference as well as the Girl Scouts' intention to honor Planned Parenthood's executive director.
Dad: Kill the ‘Morning-After’ Pill
Monty Patterson, the father of Holly Patterson, who died in September after taking RU-486, said Feb. 25 there is a systemic problem in the way the drug is administered. Patterson said lapses in reporting procedures could mean adverse effects and deaths related to the pill are widely underreported.
“The FDA needs this reporting information to monitor and evaluate the safety of the drugs they have approved,” he said. Patterson is now calling for women and their families to come forward and share their experiences with the abortion drug.
Earlier in the week the California Department of Health Services cited the hospital where Holly Patterson died for not reporting her death as an “unusual occurrence.”
