07-09-18 As of this date there are 3 items in this folder.
******* item 1 RUSSIA FINDING GOD -- INCREASED RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTIONS
******* item 2 RE: ADVICE FROM RUSSIA
******* item 3 RUSSIAN PROVINCE GETS SET FOR "CONCEPTION DAY"
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******* item 1 RUSSIA FINDING GOD -- INCREASED RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTIONS
******* From: [email protected]
******* Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:50:57 EDT
******* Dear Friends:
******* Who would have thought it a few years ago. The United States is kicking God out, however in Russia, just the opposite is happening -- God is being embraced.
******* The resurgence of religion and the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church after 70 years of official atheism under Soviet rule, has led to a severe restriction on abortions.
******* In the United States there are no restrictions on the killing of unborn children. They are legal for the full nine months, even while they are being born and suffering excruciating pain -- the barbaric partial-birth abortion.
******* Even though both Houses voted to ban it a couple of months ago, the bill is still languishing in Limbo, because members of the "Party of Death," or as they are better known, the Democratic Party, are trying every trick in the book to keep it from landing on President Bush's desk for his promised signature.
******* This Party of Death has no compassion, no shame, only an affinity for money from their biggest supporters, the Abortion Industry and the Hollywood Filth Industry.
******* Secularism was the downfall of Russia and will also be the downfall
of the United States. This, you can take to the bank with you. We had better start waking up and FAST.
******* The United States is becoming the old Soviet Union when it comes to religion and social issues and they are becoming the OLD Godly United States of yesteryear.
******* Without God, there is no life.
******* Frank Joseph MD
******* http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/24/international/europe/24ABOR.html?ex=1062302400&en=5851f3b5f8be7523&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
******* After Decades, Russia Narrows Grounds for Abortions
******* By STEVEN LEE MYERS
******* MOSCOW, Aug. 23, 2003 Hesitantly and with little public debate, Russia has increased its restrictions on abortion for the first time in nearly half a century.
******* Russia's abortion regulations remain permissive. There are still no limits on abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy but the new restrictions appear to reflect the first stirrings of a wider debate here over the morality of abortion, as well as the effect abortions are having on women's health and on the demographic future of Russia.
******* Ever since 1955, when the Soviet Union lifted a ban that had been imposed by Stalin in 1936, abortion here has been a common and widely accepted
means of birth control, giving Russia one of the highest abortion rates in the
world.
******* The collapse of the Soviet Union and with it the increased availability of contraceptives has resulted in a substantial decline in abortions in Russia
from a high of 4.6 million in 1988 to 1.7 million last year. But now the Ministry of Health, under pressure from conservative lawmakers, has decided to reduce the number further through government-imposed restrictions on what has
effectively been free and virtually unlimited access to abortion.
******* Before the new restrictions, which took effect on Aug. 11, women could receive an abortion between the 12th and 22nd weeks of their pregnancies by citing one of 13 special circumstances called "social indicators," including divorce, poverty, unemployment or poor housing.
******* The government's decision has reduced the number to four: rape, imprisonment, the death or severe disability of the husband or a court ruling stripping a woman of her parental rights. Being a single mother or a refugee is no longer reason enough to abort a pregnancy after the 12th week.
******* As before, pregnancies can still be aborted after 12 weeks on medical grounds, including severe disabilities of the fetus or a threat to the mother's life.
******* Considering how emotionally and politically charged the abortion issue is in America and other countries, the reaction to the government's decision
announced with little fanfare in Russia's equivalent of the Federal Register has been strikingly subdued.
******* But some lawmakers and leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church have
welcomed the change and vowed to continue fighting for greater restrictions
through new legislation. That has raised concerns among some doctors and the Russia Family Planning Association that a woman's "right" to an abortion basically a given here could soon be curtailed.
******* "It's a first step," said Aleksandr C. Chuyev, a member of the lower house of Parliament, who introduced legislation earlier this year to ban all abortions after the 12th week and then took part in negotiations with the Ministry of Health on drafting the new restrictions.
******* He welcomed the restrictions, characterizing them as a compromise. He said he planned to sponsor a new bill this fall, during the campaign for parliamentary elections, that would give a human fetus the same rights as a child.
******* "Maybe then women will think more before they have an abortion," he said.
******* The nascent debate over abortion here has been influenced by a variety of factors, including the resurgence of religion and the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church after 70 years of official atheism under Soviet rule.
******* Russia's demographic crisis has also led to demands that steps be taken to reverse the declining population trend. Though the country's birth rate rose last year to 9.8 births per 1,000 people from 9.1 the year before the population over all is projected to continue to decline. For every 10 births in Russia, there are still nearly 13 abortions.
******* Few are calling for an outright ban on abortions, even within the church, said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a spokesman for Patriarch Aleksy II. But the voices against abortion are growing. "I think this debate will continue on the political level," he said.
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******* item 2 RE: ADVICE FROM RUSSIA
******* From: "Suzanne Fortin"
The following warning is a prophetic message given to me, Frank Wagner, in November of 1974.
******* LISTEN TO THE CRY OF THE ABORTED CHILDREN. THEIR CRY IS NO. THEIR CRY IS A CRY OF TERROR. HEED THEIR CRY.
******* This prophecy is now being fulfilled.
******* For details about the source, meaning and fulfillment of this prophetic message go to
******* http://ca.geocities.com/fwagner4/index.html
******* email me at *** [email protected] ***
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