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“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]
Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] Big Pharma Gets Unsafe Birth Control Drug Recommended for OTC Sale – Including to Children
[2] Coronation of King of England Features Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh Leaders
[3] Franklin Graham’s Edenton, North Carolina Crusade
[4] Ten Million Unborn Babies Murdered in the U.K.
Additional Articles of Interest
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[1] Big Pharma Gets Unsafe Birth Control Drug Recommended for OTC Sale – Including to Children
NAPA, Calif., May 11, 2023 /Christian Newswire/ — Yesterday, a panel of “expert” advisors voted to recommend that the FDA allow the birth control drug “Opill” to be sold over the counter (OTC) without a prescription. The FDA is expected to approve the OTC sale of Opill this summer, even after FDA reviewers expressed concerns about the lack of adequate safety studies.
“Opill” is the proprietary name for the hormonal birth control drug norgestrel, which is manufactured by French pharmaceutical company HRA Pharma. HRA Pharma was recently acquired by Perrigo, a “self-care” company facing a host of legal woes, including securities violations, lawsuits over failed medical products, baby formula recalls, and misleading financial statements.
A panel of 17 “expert” advisors reviewed a 130-page briefing document provided by FDA reviewers before unanimously recommending Opill for OTC sales. The briefing document cites numerous concerns about the safety of the drug as well as concerns about the ability of women – especially young girls – to know when the drug could cause dangerous, even deadly, complications.
For example, the drug manufacturer’s actual use study revealed that “a substantial portion of individuals” – over 30% – reported taking more of the drug than they were given, which the FDA says should “call into question the reliability of all of the actual use data” provided by HRA Pharma. Moreover, nearly half of the 883 participants in the study dropped out, leaving a small sample size that is not representative of the population likely to use the product. Because of this and other flaws in the manufacturer’s data, the FDA’s briefing document recommends additional safety studies – which the “experts” resolutely rejected.
The FDA found that over twenty percent of women 18 or older did not understand from the product packaging that they were not to use Opill if they have a history of breast cancer. Over forty percent of girls ages 11-14 did not understand that Opill is not an emergency contraceptive and would not prevent pregnancy when used as such. Over thirty-three percent of girls did not understand that Opill is not effective unless it is taken at the same exact time every day.
Even if taken correctly, hormonal contraceptives can cause cancer.
In a 2016 Supreme Court case, Life Legal provided the Supreme Court with peer-reviewed studies showing that risks of hormonal birth control include a 4.2-fold increase in incidences of the most aggressive form of breast cancer among women under age 45 and a staggering 6.4-fold increase in the same type of breast cancer in women under 18. Women taking hormonal contraceptives also face a higher risk of heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, cervical cancer, liver cancer, and HIV.
Opill’s packaging does not provide information about the increased risk of breast cancer, nor does it include details about possible interactions with other medications. The Mayo Clinic lists 113 medications that are not recommended for use with progestin-only contraceptives like Opill, including common antibiotics such as amoxicillin as well as supplements like St. John’s Wort. Mayo Clinic’s website on progestin contraceptives repeatedly advises consulting with a physician prior to taking the drug. However, most of the “expert” advisors touted easy access to birth control without the hassle of seeing a doctor as a primary reason for approving Opill for OTC sales.
So, who exactly are these “expert” advisors?
The panel is comprised largely of self-described “reproductive justice” activists, including a notorious late-term abortionist. Pro-abortion pediatricians were selected as panelists to oppose age limits on Opill’s OTC availability, which means young girls will be able to get hormonal birth control drugs without their parents’ knowledge and without medical oversight.
Click here to learn more about the panelists and witnesses.
“Life Legal strongly opposing approving hormonal birth control drugs for over-the-counter purchase, especially for young girls,” said Life Legal CEO Alexandra Snyder. “There is no valid justification for encouraging girls to ingest hormones that have known detrimental health effects. Once again, abortion ideologues have allowed their dogma to supersede science, common sense, and concern for the safety of women and children.”
About Life Legal Defense Foundation
Life Legal Defense Foundation was established in 1989, and is a nonprofit organization composed of attorneys and other concerned citizens committed to giving helpless and innocent human beings of any age, and their advocates, a trained and committed voice in the courtrooms of our nation. For more information about the Life Legal Defense Foundation, visit www.lldf.org.
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[2] Coronation of King of England Features Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh Leaders
Charles III, newly crowned king of England, is the well-fitted head of the apostate Church of England. He makes no profession of personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. He is a radical environmentalist who serves the creature more than the Creator. He holds to the myth of manmade climate change (including pushing global depopulation) while rejecting the Bible as the infallible Word of God. His coronation on May 6 featured a Roman Catholic cardinal, plus Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh leaders, not as guests but as participants (“The Last Christian King?” Religion News Service, May 5, 2023). “It is the first time in nearly 500 years that Catholic prelates were present at a Coronation, in marked contrast to seventy years ago, when Catholics were not permitted to attend any services in a Protestant church” (“Catholic Cardinal,” Zenit.org, May 6, 2023). Hindu Prime Minister Rishi Sunak read a Scripture passage. The sovereigns of the Church of England claimed that the British Empire was the kingdom of Christ. Even today, when the empire is a nonentity, the king was handed an orb (globe) and scepter with the words from the Archbishop of Canterbury, “Receive this orb, set under the cross, and remember always the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ.” It has been a very long time since an Archbishop of Canterbury has believed the gospel of Jesus Christ. In 1953, William Temple, in his book Nature and God, said, “… there is no such thing as revealed truth.” In 1961, Michael Ramsey said, “[H]eaven is not a place for Christians only. … I expect to see many present day atheists there” (London Daily Mail, Oct. 2, 1961). In 1982, Robert Runcie said he was an agnostic as to why Jesus suffered on the cross (Sunday Times Weekly Review, London, April 11, 1982). In 1996, George Carey lashed out at “fundamentalists” who place the Bible “above and beyond human inquiry” (Christian News, Dec. 9, 1996). A YouGov poll conducted in August-September 2014 found that seventeen percent of Anglican clergy in England do not believe in a personal God. In January 2020, Justin Welby apologized for a decree published by his own House of Bishops stating that sex should be limited to heterosexual marriage. Britannia did not convert the world; the world converted Britannia.
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[3] Franklin Graham’s Edenton, North Carolina Crusade
Franklin Graham held an evangelistic crusade in Edenton, North Carolina, on May 7, attended by 7,600. It featured Christian rockers Newsboys and others. Graham preached on biblical marriage and warned against transgenderism. He said, “Our nation has turned its back on God. We have taken God out of the schools, we have taken the Bible out of schools. The (U.S.) Department of Education has destroyed our country. We spend millions of dollars on program after program after program and we take God out of everything. Are we better for it? No. It’s the human heart and only God can change the human heart” (“Graham’s ‘God Loves You’ Tour,” Newsbreak, May 8, 2023). Instead of blaming the Department of Education for America’s apostasy, he should first blame the very churches that support his crusades, for their lukewarmness, worldliness, Biblical shallowness, and spiritual powerlessness. More than 135 churches joined hands with the crusade. Franklin is more outspoken than his dad, Billy, but he is just as ecumenical. One man wrote the following: Franklin Graham had his ‘God loves you’ tour event here in Edenton on Sunday. My pastor refused to participate even though they received several visits from members of the Graham Evangelistic Organization. Pastor said that someone else in the community called him a ‘dinosaur’ for not participating. The pressure to be involved was intense.” Back in 1999, Franklin told the Indianapolis Star that his father’s ecumenical alliance with the Catholic Church and all other denominations “was one of the smartest things” his father ever did. He said, “In the early years, up in Boston, the Catholic church got behind my father’s crusade. That was a first. It took back many Protestants. They didn’t know how to handle it. But it set the example. ‘If Billy Graham is willing to work with everybody, then maybe we should too’” (“Keeping it simple, safe keeps Graham on high,” The Indianapolis Star, Thurs., June 3, 1999, p. H2). The vice-chairman for the Franklin Graham Festival in Lubbock, Texas, April 28-30, 2000, was Paul Key, evangelism director for the Catholic Diocese of Lubbock. Roman Catholics participated in Franklin Graham Festivals in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 2005, and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2004. Many Roman Catholics were trained as counsellors for the Franklin Graham Festival in Baltimore, Maryland, July 7-9, 2006. The Graham organization delivered the names of 300 people to the Roman Catholic churches for “follow up,” where they are taught, among other heresies, that it is acceptable to pray to Mary. In fact, some of the counsellors were from the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore. Roman Catholics also participated in the Franklin Graham Festival in Winnipeg, Canada, in October 2006. Many more examples could be given. On one hand, it is encouraging to see well-attended evangelistic crusades in this day and time, and we are glad for the biblical truth that Graham stands for, but it must be understood that the Graham crusades are very shallow: the preaching is shallow, the gospel is shallow (just “receive Jesus into your heart”), the follow-up is shallow, the supporting churches are shallow. Thus, the power is shallow.
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[4] Ten Million Unborn Babies Murdered in the U.K.
The following is excerpted from “55 Years of Abortion,” Premier Christian News, Apr. 27, 2023: “On the anniversary of the passage of the Abortion Act, right to life activists say they estimate there have been over ten million procedures to terminate unborn lives in the 55 years since the law came into force. ‘The UK’s abortion law is failing both women and unborn babies’, commented Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson. … According to Right to Life UK, more than one baby was lost to abortion every two and a half minutes across England, Wales, and Scotland in 2021; 26 lives were ended every hour. The group say the number of abortions in England and Wales reached a record high with 214,869 taking place in 2021, while 13,758 terminations were performed in Scotland in the same year. Right to Life UK link this significant rise in abortions to the first full year that ‘DIY’ home abortion services have been operating in England and Wales.”
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