ENDEAVOUR FORUM NEWSLETTER No. 129, FEBRUARY 2008

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Endeavour Forum Inc Pro Life Conference Co-sponsored by the Australian Family Association and the ACT Right to Life Association

l0am - 5pm, 17 May 2008 at the Thomas More Centre, 582 Queensberry St., N. Melbourne 305l.

Chairman: Mr. David Perrin, National President, Australian Family Association

The Opening Prayer: His Lordship Bishop Peter Elliott, Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne

Speakers:

The Hon. Robert Clark, Shadow Attorney-General (Vic).

“Victorian Law Reform Commission  on Abortion”

Mrs. Kath Woolf, President, ACT Right to Life Association: “Implications of Decriminalizing Abortion”

Dr. David Baartz, Clinical Director, Gynaecology at R.W.  Hospital, Brisbane: “The tragedy of late-term abortions”

Mrs. Margaret Tighe: President, Right to Life Australia, introduced by Miss Denise Cameron, Secretary, Pro Life Victoria: “Forty years: Escalation of the killing”

Mrs. Denise  Mountenay, President, Canada Silent No More: “Hurt by Abortion”

Mrs. Jane Byrne,  AFA/Helpers of God’s Precious Infants:

“Outside an Abortion Clinic”

Mrs. Jenny Stokes, Research Officer, Salt Shakers: “The  Coalition Against the  Decriminalization  of Abortion”

All welcome, $20 per head includes lunch. RSVP essential,  Ph: Prue Oldham 9583 6835 or Gabrielle Walsh 9326 5757

Prayer

Father God we come to you in Jesus' name and cry for the unborn  babies who are aborted.  The Bible has much evidence of Jesus' love for children: Matthew 18-2-10 and Psalm 139-14.  Each child is unique and precious to God, each one killed is a loss to society. 

We pray Father You will move on Members of Parliament who vote on this to make them aware of what they do.  Stir up the public and the Churches to protest against it.  We ask in  Jesus' name,  Amen.

CLONING FOR PARKINSON’S IN MICE? A mere curiosity… The report this week of therapeutic cloning in mice with Parkinson’s was dismissed as “another piece of outdated research from the defunct era of cloning” by Dr David van Gend, National Director of Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research.

“This research was done a year back, in the era when scientists thought cloning was uniquely useful. But since the paradigm shift in stem cell science in November 2007 - the advent of direct reprogramming of adult cells to the exact equivalent of cloned embryonic stem cells - that is no longer the case  All one can say to this curious piece of outdated research is: ‘So what?’ If you want pluripotent stem cells that exactly match a patient, you can now get them by Dr Shinya Yamanaka’s direct reprogramming of adult cells, not creating and destroying cloned embryos.”

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