Only 1/4 of Americans Support Current Abortion Law

LIFESITE NEWS, July 25 — While major media portray those who object to abortion as extremists, surveys continue to show most Americans oppose some abortions permitted under current law.

Lifesite News (www.lifesite.ca) reported Gallup polls consistently show that between 51% and 54% of Americans think abortion should be “legal only under certain circumstances,” between 25% to 27% believe it should be “legal under any circumstances,” while 18% to 22% hold it should be “illegal in all circumstances.”

These divisions of opinion have not changed much in more than 20 years. Lifesite concluded: “What that means is that status-quo abortion on demand does not reflect the beliefs of 75% of Americans, and that since the 1970s, the view of only 25% of Americans has been imposed as law by activist court judges and abortion-supporting politicians.”

'I Left $2.5 Million in Jewels in Poor Box’

ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 24 — A New York-based investor has accused his one-time hypnotherapist of tricking him and looting his wealth while he was “under.”

Irwin Uran, 76, claimed that his hypnotherapist Stephen Hymowitz, 59, stole “hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and at least $2.5 million worth of jewelry that belonged to his late mother,” Associated Press reported.

Hymowitz admitted that he had received more than $700,000 from Uran during 15 years of treatment but said he had spent most of it on Uran's behalf, keeping $286,550 “for his own fees and expenses. As for the jewelry, Hymowitz said that he and Uran walked to an Upper East Side Roman Catholic Church and dropped it in the collection box,” according to Associated Press.

A bemused Joseph Zwilling, spokesman for the New York Archdiocese for most of the past 20 years, replied, “I don't recall any church finding $2.5 million worth of jewelry in their poor box during all that time.”

EWTN to Reach 98% of World

ETERNAL WORLD TELEVISION NETWORK, July 27 — EWTN Global Catholic Network, which describes itself as “the world's largest religious media organization,” announced last week a 10-year agreement with PanAmSat Corp. to distribute its TV programming throughout Africa and the Indian Ocean region.

“With this agreement, PanAmSat now transmits EWTN to more than 98% of the world's population,” said EWTN President Michael Warsaw. “It is truly incredible for us to know that so many people around the globe can access our message.”

Reaching more than 75 million television homes across the globe, EWTN transmits its signal via more than 12 satellites (North America, Latin America, Europe, the Pacific Rim and Africa/India) with customized channels for each continent, 24 hours a day. EWTN reaches countless millions more via short-wave radio, satellite-delivered AM/FM radio and its online services.