WBFJ is celebrating life during Sanctity of Human Life Week
TODAY marks the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the U.S. Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is this Sunday…
Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., responded this week to Planned Parenthood's King Day press release linking the work of the abortion business to the civil rights leader. "Every year Planned Parenthood tries to imply that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would approve of what it does today because he received the Margaret Sanger Award from the organization 44 years ago, back in 1966," said Dr. King. "Every year they lie.” www.christiannewswire.com/news/427212795.html
FYI: Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. www.priestsforlife.org.
Secretary of State Clinton was presented the Margaret Sanger Award in 2009
“I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision…”
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=32917
FYI: Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, was a proponent of eugenics, advocating selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. In 1932, Sanger urged “a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=32917
The latest headlines...
Haitian government officials say an estimated 400,000 residents displaced by last week's earthquake will be moved to new villages…to be set up outside the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince. The 7.0 magnitude quake left an estimated 1.5 million people homeless, and earthquake survivors have been living outside in overcrowded camps with little or no sanitation.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/americas/Haitian-Government-to-Relocate-400000-Displaced-by-Quake-82355357.html
If you have given monetarily to the Haitian Relief Efforts…listen up: The Senate unanimously passed legislation yesterday that will allow taxpayers to deduct cash donations to Haiti earthquake relief on their 2009 tax returns instead of having to wait to file the claims next year. Contributions made between January 12 and February 28 count toward an individual's or family's 2009 taxes. The legislation also allows contributions made through text messages to be deducted if cell phone bills are provided as proof of donation.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/pf/taxes/haiti_donations/index.htm
RECALL: Toyota has issued a NEW recall of some 2.3 million vehicles to correct a problem that could cause the vehicles' gas pedals to stick…without the presence of a floor mat. This new recall is separate from an on-going recall of 4.2 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles to correct a problem in which the pedals could become stuck under a loose floormat.
Recall info: 1-800-331-4331. http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/autos/toyota_recall/
Tonight is the final night for Conan O'Brien as host of the Tonight Show. Conan O'Brien signed a deal with NBC to walk away from "The Tonight Show." According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal gives Conan a severance payment of about $32 million dollars…plus about $12 million dollars for his staff. The deal also places Jay Leno (back) as host of "The Tonight Show" at 11:35pm. http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/news/Conan_OBrien_NBC_severance_deal/index.htm?hpt=T2
One US Airways Airbus…slightly damaged…is up for Sale…As IS? The auction of US Airways Flight 1549 ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ plane is open to the public through March 27th. The ‘famous’ wings, which have been separated from the plane, are included in the sale. The engines are not included. FYI: Flight 1549 famously landed with 155 people aboard in the frigid river waters of New York’s Hudson River by Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger last January after a bird strike disabled its engines. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/21/hudson.plane.sale/index.html?hpt=T2
SPORTS…NASCAR wants drivers to "mixing it up." Television ratings and attendance have slumped in recent years, officials with NASCAR plan on relaxing some rules this season and encourage drivers to be more aggressive on the track…and show more emotion off the track.
NASCAR chairman Brian France said the goal is to "open it up" as an answer to criticism that the sport has grown stale. www.wxii12.com/sports/22304050/detail.html
