The following information can be used for
church bulletins in the weeks and months ahead. Right to Life of
Michigan will provide concise, educational information on a monthly basis for
church bulletins or church newsletters. Feel free to edit information as
needed. If more information is desired, visit the Right to Life of Michigan
web site at
www.rtl.org. Please
pass this information on to your church leader or prolife representative.
Need a prolife resource for your church? Check out Right to Life of Michigan's
web page for churches:
http://rtl.org/church_school/churchresources.html
Prolife advertisement during
Super Bowl
The commercial receiving the most news prior to
Super Bowl LXIV was a prolife ad featuring Pam Tebow and her
son Tim Tebow, a
college football star.
Pam Tebow was advised to have an abortion because of complications during her
pregnancy with Tim. The
commercial briefly shares how she was scared she would lose him and encouraged
viewers to “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.” Learn more about abortion and
other prolife issues by visiting Right to Life of
Michigan at
www.rtl.org.
Researchers discover “vegetative” patients with brain activity
Research published in the
New
England Journal of Medicine used brain scans to show that some patients
who were diagnosed as being in a “
vegetative
state” were actually aware. One man, who had been unresponsive for five
years, was able to answer simple yes or no questions based on his brain’s
activities after doctor’s asked him to visualize certain scenes. Visit Right
to Life of Michigan at
www.rtl.org to learn more about the sanctity of all human life.
New Jersey woman dies from an abortion in
New York
A 37-year-old woman named Alexandra Nunez died after being fatally injured
while getting an abortion at an
abortion clinic in
New
York City. One of her arteries was severed and she started bleeding
heavily. She died of
cardiac
arrest after being taken to a local hospital. Visit Right Life of
Michigan at
www.rtl.org or call 1-800-57 WOMAN to learn how pregnancy centers in your
area can help women experiencing
unplanned pregnancies.
