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LATEST

MEDIA RELEASE - Dignity SA turning doctors into executioners? (2012-07-18)

Christian holidays under threat (2012-06-14)

New Movie Release Spearheads SA Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign (2010-07-31)

Please write to oppose ICASA Amendment Bill (2010-07-26)

Warning to exercise caution when replying to ads (2010-05-28)

Health Professionals Anti-Abortion Defence Campaign Pays Off (2009-12-14)

Workshop on Sexual Offences : Adult Prostitution (2009-06-23)

Is it true that a vote for a small party is a wasted vote? ... (2009-04-08)

Censorship by the Press (2009-01-26)

ABORTION

Health Professionals Anti-abortion Defence Campaign Pays Off (2009-12-14)

Censorship By The Press (2009-01-26)

Abortion Clinic Offers Free Abortions To Victims Of Xenophobia (2008-06-03)

90% Of South Africans Oppose Abortion-on-demand (2008-04-13)

Life Alerts - 31 March 2008 (2008-04-04)

Dfl Press Release: Freedom Of Conscience For Health Workers Refused (2008-01-16)

Legal And Illegal Abortions On The Rise In South Africa (2007-12-11)

Life Alerts, 26 November 2007 (2007-12-04)

Abortion Bill Fails To Pass In Parliament (2007-11-23)

Why Is The Government Afraid To Debate Today's Abortion Bill? (2007-11-22)

Standing For Life At Parliament (2007-11-19)

Call To Prayer For The Government On The Abortion Amendment Bill (2007-11-15)

Pro-lifers Brave The Cold And Rain To Stand For Life (2007-10-11)

Provincial Parliaments Recommend Changes To Abortion Law (2007-09-17)

Life Alerts - 3 September 2007 (2007-09-07)

Call To Two Weeks Prayer Re: Public Hearings On Abortion And Witchcraft (2007-08-28)

Abortion Pivotal Issue For Next Elections (2007-08-27)

Doctors For Life In Battle Against Abortion And Witch Craft (2007-08-13)

Please Participate In Abortion And Traditional Healers Hearings (2007-08-13)

Media Statement On Womens Day - 9 August 2007 (2007-08-09)

Dfl Media Release: Update On Rose Abortion Clinic (2007-03-07)

Doctors Mourn 10th Anniversary Of Abortion Law (2007-01-31)

Life Alerts 29 November 2006 (2006-12-01)

Dfl Life Alerts - 16 October 2006 (2006-10-17)

Life Alerts - 2 October 2006 (2006-10-04)

Theater Sister Charles And Dfl Back In Court (2006-09-28)

Abortion Amendment Act Struck Down By Constitutional Court In South Africa (2006-08-21)

Dfl Life Alerts 7 August 2006 (2006-08-10)

Dfl Life Alerts July 24, 2006 (2006-07-26)

Lifealerts - 26 June 2006 (2006-06-29)

Abortion Clinic Staff Convicted Of 1000s Of Charges (2006-06-29)

Cft Media Release On Pro-life Actions Taking Place On Human Rights Day (2006-03-22)

Dfl Applauds South Dakota Legislation Banning Abortions (2006-03-06)

Subject: Withdrawal Of Mrc Statement On Healthworkers And Abortion (2002-10-15)

Does the Bible's prohibition on murder include abortion? (25 Feb 2005)
DFL (Doctors for Life) launch legal proceedings (15 Nov 2004)
Doctors for Life International takes Tshabala-Msimang to court (5 Nov 2004)
Date fixed for hearing in Vereeniging Equality Court (26 Oct 2004)
Parliament ignores nurses concerns on abortion law changes (26 Oct 2004)
International Life Chain - Report (7 Oct 2004)
Please lobby provincial legislatures (16 Sep 2004)
Nurses angry at abortion vote (19 Aug 2004)
Challenge to debate new abortion law (14 Aug 2004)
Catholic Bishops Call to Action on Abortion bill (13 Aug 2004)
'Proposed abortion law changes will help no one' say evangelicals (3 Aug 2004)
Parents, Minors and Secret Abortions (2 Jun 2004)
Marie Stopes Abortions "Safe" and "Pain-Free" - Hearing on 7 April - Please sponsor, fast and pray (17 Mar 2004)
Request for Testimonies and Prayer re Marie Stopes "Safe and Pain Free" Abortions (12 Feb 2004)
Cardinal Napier on the Sanctity of Life to the SACLA conference in July 03 (2 Sep 2003)
An overview of abortion in Africa (10 Jul 2003)
Legal abortion in USA challenged by lady who started it (19 Jun 2003)
Motivation: "hidden" goliath of abortion (14 Apr 2003)
What most Christians don't understand about Abortion (5 Nov 2002)
South African Nursing Council Recognises Conscientious Objection Rights (18 Oct 2002)
MRC tries to reclassify pregnancy - Press Release (03 Oct 2002)

EDUCATION

Problems With Proposed Education Laws Amendment Bill (15 Nov 2004)
Download a summary of the latest Religion in Education Policy (PDF file - 92K) (10 Sep 2003)
Dept of Education promotes acceptance of African Traditional Religion (10 Sep 2003)
Same problems in Religion in Education policy announced today (09 Sep 2003)
Legal Comments on Policy on Religion in Education (03 Jul 2003)
Policy for the oppression of religion in education (02 Jul 2003)
Should each religion have its own public holidays? (22 May 2003)
DA Statement on Religion in Education (5 May 2003)
What happened when America banned prayer in schools (29 Apr 2003)
Education Department Ignores Protests (20 Apr 2003)
Education Issue Update - Statement By The Pestalozzi Trust (01 Nov 2002)
WEB SITE ON RELIGION IN EDUCATION CRISIS
Go to www.education.ChristianView.org to find the information you need to help defend the right to religious freedom in schools in South Africa:
- Full text of Kader Asmal's proposed 'Religion in Education Policy' (March 2003) and the much better policy of the previous education minister Bengu
- Submissions by leading Christian public advocacy organisations, the Federation of School Governing Bodies and legal analysis of the Values, education democracy policy.
- Religious Freedom Petition to download and print out in English and Afrikaans
- Christian Education pamphlets.
- South African law and policy on education

ETHICAL ISSUES

Cloning, The Next Holocaust? (30 Jun 2003)
Human Cloning Flawed due to Fluke of Biology (12 Apr 2003)

HOMOSEXUALITY

Why you should support the Marriage Alliance of South Africa (11 Apr 2005)
Doctors for Life International submits evidence in Constitutional Court against the recognition of Same Sex Marriages (30 Mar 2005)
Progress on Same-Sex Marriage Representation (20 Jan 2005)
Judgement fundamentally flawed - recent SA court decison allowing same-sex marriages (2 Dec 2004)
Statement by Bishop Bethlehem Nopece regarding consecration of gay bishop (9 Nov 2003)
Court Application for Homosexual Marriages (20 Sep 2002)

MISCELLANEOUS

Definition of Marriage in the balance (25 May 2005)
Why you should support the Marriage Alliance of South Africa (11 Apr 2005)
Doctors for Life urges HIV testing for all (20 Feb 2005)
Voice your Objections to the forthcoming movie "Saved" (2 Nov 2004)
Should church and state be separated? (17 Feb 2004)
Be Encouraged - Persevere in the Face of a Secular Onslaught (14 Aug 2003)
Keep up the pressure on the BCCSA (31 Jul 2003)

MORAL REGENERATION

Insisting on condoms to stop AIDS an intelligent option? (14 Jul 2004)
1000 Doctors warn SA Government on Sexual Offence Act (18 Sep 2003)
A Charter for Moral Communities - Ads for Prostitution & Drug Peddling (14 Mar 2003)
LoveLife "One roll-on all women want" billboard - Appeal to the Advertising Standards Authority (21 Feb 2003)
Moral Reneneration Movement - A report back by Cllr Colin Fibiger (ACDP) (27 Nov 2002)

MORALS MATTER (Weekly column)

Index of Columns

PORNOGRAPHY

Doctors Delighted at Child Porn Ruling (21 Oct 2003)
Doctors Applaud High Court's Decision on Child Porn (30 Oct 2002)

PROSTITUTION

Against Legalisation of Prostitution - Submissions Needed (15 Oct 2002)
Why Prostitution Should Not Be Decriminilized (25 Aug 2002)

HELP REMOVE ABORTION ADVERTISING
Marie Stopes abortion clinics has taken to advertising by placing posters on lamp posts. Please help save unborn babies from murder by cutting them down and throwing them away. They do not have any right to put them up on the lamp posts. To put a poster on a lamp post, you need a date stamped sticker on the poster from the municipality. Usually they only give these to event advertising and to newspapers. Therefore the abortion advertising is illegal and you can legally take it down. Please do so. Suggest take along some strong scissors and something to stand on to help reach the posters which may be above your height.

If you see abortion advertising on billboards, in newspaper classifieds and on dustbins, please do complain to the owner of the media (i.e. the municipality for dustbins; the newspaper if newspaper adverts and the company if a billboard). Those who help promote murder (the advertising media owners) share the bloodguilt of the murders - this needs to be drawn to their attention.

Yours sincerely,
Philip Rosenthal
ChristianView Network
6 October 2005

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