Pope Says Pharmacists Need to Conscientiously Object to Assisting in Abortions, Euthanasia

In a meeting with the International Federation of Catholic Pharmicists, Pope Benedict XVI called on pharmacists to recognize the full scope of human dignity and to stand up for their convictions.

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=54451

Kansas Abortion

For those who have yet to hear of Dr. George Tiller, he is the abortion provider whom the Kansas Attorney General filed charges against that made it on to the O'Reilly Factor. The Sedgick County court wouldn't hear the charges, so now 8,000 Wichitans have petitioned to have a Grand Jury trial to see if there is any evidence the Tiller has been performing illegal abortions. However, now the Kansas Supreme Court put that on hold until the middle of November.

http://www.kansas.com/611/story/211401.html

This is a little action from across the Atlantic where our friends in the UK just had their March for Life. The total babies killed since it was legal in 1967 is reported as 6.7 million.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7064964.stm

Redemptorist Priest Refuses UN Prize Money

Fr. Kocherry in New Delhi has rejected a UN Foundation prize of 646 thousand euros towards his work with Indian fisherman. He sees the money as coming from multinational companies who actually block social justice and who are interested in buying people off.

Fr. Kocherry is very straightforward with the reporter from AsiaNews as he says, “the time has come to reveal what is the true diabolical nature of the United Nations and all of its collaborators. I will go on doing what I have always done, maybe with the few resources that I have at my disposal but with a clean conscience, without falling into the trap of greed for money. We are in search of the Divine Kingdom and its justice, but we know that it’s a long and difficult process which foresees the cross”.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10629&size=A

SCHIP Veto Upheld

The House voted to uphold President Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill. The government will hopefully draft another bill to reathorize this program for the poor that protects the sanctity of life. Some of the stipulations in the bill that was denied were subsidies for contraception, sterilization, and an expansion of prenatal care that would have included abortion. Planned Parenthood had been a strong supporter of the blocked legislation. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071018-4.html

Creating Life

Here is an interesting article on what some scientists are doing in their quest to create 'something that meets the criteria for life - has a metabolism, replicates and evolves'. Their plans are to use the synthetic forms to clean up oil spills and scrub the ozone. It raises some interesting questions as to what life is. They are taking different genomes and putting them together in a cell they have emptied to see it if will perform the functions listed above. I'm not a biologist, so some of the descriptions may be slightly off, but this is the gist of the story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7041353.stm

Kansas City Planned Parenthood Charged with Unlawful Abortions and False Records

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SB7KPG0&show_article=1