In the news
Boaz Reigstad, age 6
The sign reads: "I may not be perfect but I'm happy. I am God's handiwork and I bear his image. I am blessed. I am the 10% of children born with Down Syndrome who survived Roe v. Wade." Read the story behind the photo.
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ARTICLES OF INTEREST
TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS
The dilemma caused by
a life after death
THE STORY: Brynn Beeler, an 8-year-old who was born through in-vitro fertilization two years after her father died, is not entitled to his Social Security benefits, a federal appeals court ruled this week. This case has created a legal and ethical dilemma.
Read full story...
PRO: Iowa legislation now provides for inheritance rights to in-vitro conceived children. Read full story...
CON: Benefits should not be awarded because mother of child is now a single mother. Read full opinion...
INTERVIEW
"Walking the mill" with Phil
Huck, pro-life activist
This interview was written prior to his death in 2008.
Phil Huck and his wife Dorothy of Moorhead are definitely pro-life. They have been married 55 years and have 12 children (7 girls and 5 boys), 42 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren, for a total progeny of 74.
Huck is also a pro-life activist, who has been walking out in front of the Red River Women's clinic since it opened in the 1980s. His presence is in protest of the abortions being performed there. He calls it "walking the mill," with "mill" being short for "abortion mill." He walks there with others as a vigil, together numbering from a couple of persons to a dozen. They are usually there on Thursdays and Fridays, the days abortions are performed. Read full story...
Dream Anatomy Children's
Art Gallery
Amber Tornetta
Age 5
Gainesville, VA
Second Place
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institute of Health
The Fargo Moorhead L.I.F.E Coalition works in cooperation with:
Fargo Right to Life
MCCL Clay County
F-M Area Lutherans
for Life
Catholic Diocese of Fargo
Catholic Diocese of Crookston
F-M Area Evangelical
Ministerial
Association
NDSU and MSUM Collegians for Life
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SCIENCE OR
PSEUDOSCIENCE?Three-part series on
the bioethics of regenerative medicine 
Human embryonic stem cells research and human cloning promise a new era of organ transplants and cures for disease. But, these scientific advances are headed toward an ethical and clinical dead-end. This three-part series will explore the hope and pitfalls of the emergent fields of human embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. It will conclude with a call for a moratorium on such research. Read full story...
FETAL PARTS INDUSTRY
The Facelessness of Abortion
We the citizens of this nation do not know where the individual cadavers of aborted fetuses go. We do not know, because no documentation is required that tracks aborted fetuses from their death to their final destination. Read full story...
DOUBLESPEAK ETHICS
Heading toward a Brave New World of human cloning:
Doublespeak and destructive embryonic research
We are being ushered into the horrors of a "brave new world" of cloning, embryonic stem cell research and reproductive control by the deceptive practices of the elites: judges, lawyers, politicians, physicians and scientists.
The weapon of this war against the values of America is semantics by means of the redefinition of common words, resulting in a vocabulary of "doublespeak," where, for instance, cloning is labeled not cloning and a cloning ban is really the legalization of cloning. Read full story...
SEMANTICS
Meaning under assault: Courts are undermining America's values by re-defining words
One of the most telling signs that a society has become degenerate is when the meaning of words are altered to fit a political agenda. For instance, the wrought-iron sign over the gate to the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland, which is still there today, reads "Arbeit Macht Frei," that is, "Work will set you free." A similar sign is part of the wrought-iron gate to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Read full story...
CHEMICAL SURGERY
RU-486: A return to barbarism
Suppose you were watching the following advertisement. Would you consider this true to life or a warped version of Saturday Night Live?
A woman is seen bent over a toilet bowel. The water is red and she reaches into it and pulls out a small object, goes to the sink and washes it off. The camera zooms in on a life-less form, a tiny, inch-long human being, with visible arms, feet, eyes, a nose tip, tongue and all major body organs. Read full story...
TOP ESSAYS
How would you explain
why abortion is wrong?
Here is an exerpt from an essay of one winner in a contest sponsored by LIFE Coalition on the theme: "How would you explain why abortion is wrong?": "Does the mother have a choice to kill a child that she believes she cannot or does not want to take care of? I believe it is totally and unquestionably wrong. It is destroying innocent human life. The developing fetus is killed when it can at least have life when adopted by someone who has the will and time to raise a child." Read full essays...
BOOK OF JOB
The womb also belongs
to the child
This article was sent to the Forum on December 28, 2004 and published shortly thereafter under the above headline as a letter to the editor.
The following is an interesting perspective that has application to abortion and women's rights. In Job (3.10), Job bewails the day he was born and wishes it blotted out "Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eys." [King James translation.] The Hebrew, however, does not say "my mother's womb," but simply "beteni," meaning "my womb." Read full letter...
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Welcome to Fargo Moorhead
LIFE Coalition
The Fargo Moorhead LIFE Coalition is a consortium of organizations who seek
to provide factual, useful information regarding some of life's most complex issues:
- The value of pre-born children.
- The value of elderly, severely ill or handicapped, and other individuals
who are nonetheless precious members of society.
- The value of sexual abstinence before marriage.
Each of these issues is regularly discussed in various forums each day in our
world. The LIFE Coalition seeks to bring a refreshing perspective to these divisive
issues, and illustrate the value of life from conception to its natural end.
Resources Available LIFE Coalition offers a variety of
resources in these three areas, and we would welcome your inquiry about the material. All
the materials are available free of charge - we just ask that you return them in good
condition. Examples of our resources:
The Start of Life
- Medically accurate prenatal displays, including models of
preborn babies and information about their development.
- Videos and DVD's, such as Preview of a Birth,
Ultrasound, The Miracle of Life, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, You are a Masterpiece,
and more.
- Numerous books, magazines and brochures.
Sexual Abstinence
- Programs on sexual abstinence for teens.
- Videos, including Teens and Chastity, and Stand to Reason.
- Numerous books, magazines and brochures.
The End of Life
- Video and leader's guide for "Perspectives on
Euthanasia," a three-part series covering Food and Water, Physician-Assisted Suicide
and Living with Dignity until Death.
- Numerous books, magazines and brochures.
Speakers Bureau
- LIFE Coalition also provides well informed speakers for schools, churches or
other organizations on these topics - all without charge. Please inquire about the
availability at the office.
Educational Voice for Life
Issues and Concerns
LIFE Coalition is an issues oriented educational organization, working to
promote a respect for human life from conception to its natural end. We are a non-profit,
charitable resource center open to the public.
Our services and materials are used by a variety of schools, colleges,
churches and other groups and individuals who are interested in discovering the facts
about abstinence, abortion and euthanasia.
The LIFE Coalition offers free public access to our lending library of educational
resources, which include videos, books and periodicals, scientifically and medically
accurate prenatal displays and numerous brochures and posters.
We welcome your questions and inquiries about our services and available materials.
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
DEATH IS NOT A
QUALITY OF LIFE
Courts and medical profession have allied against life
The courts and the medical profession are out of control. Both professions have hardened their hearts and are in an unholy alliance against life, specifically, inconvenient life, polluting the good they have achieved. Since the passage of Roe v. Wade, 43 million unborn persons have been exterminated behind the closed doors of operating rooms. And now, more openly in hospices, people are being executed by court order, with the order being carried out by members of the medical profession.
An example of this is Terri Schiavo. Read full story...
From "Teach Kids Art" Nov. 13, 2008
L.I.F.E. Coalition
Board Members:
President: Pat Artz
(Fargo Right to Life)
Treasurer: Deb Hoesley
Ken Koehler
Tom McCormick
Rachelle Sauvageau
(Catholic Diocese of Fargo)
Gail Waagen (Lutherans for Life)
Executive Director:
Nancy Marsden.
Director of Communications:
James Horsley
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