Dear Pro-Life friends and advocates,

Anyone who has ever taken the slightest bit of interest in the work of the
Pro-Life movement would be aware of the various organizations they alert you
to not support. One of them is the March of Dimes because of their
supposedly concern to prevent "birth defects". It is a statistical fact that
over 90% of unborn babies who have been diagnosed by amniosentesis to have
Downs Syndrome or any other birth "defect" were aborted.

Will St. Mary now be involved in the destruction of innocent unborn babies
through "selective reduction" of the number of babies allowed to be carried
to term?

Also does the perinatologist they have on staff use the search and destroy
test known as amniosentiesis as this test is referred to by pro-life doctors
and advocates.

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I must have missed this announcement on Holy Spirit Radio (just joking) or
on KYW, (they always have St Mary announcements that they (St. Mary) are the
First for a new procedure or test etc.) etc.

I do believe Holy Spirit Radio would respectfully refuse to air such a
(breakthrough) announcement.

The following information was forwarded to me from Joe Tevington. He
received this information from another concerned Catholic Pro-Lifer.

Here is the crux of the message.

FYI: google "Craparo" and "Selective Reduction" and you'll find blogs on
which pregnant women discuss having gone to Dr. Frank Craparo to have their
twins "reduced" to singletons. St. Mary Medical Center identifies Down
Syndrome fetuses, many of whom are aborted elsewhere by Frank Craparo, who
is on the staff of St. Mary and has his own practice and affiliated with
another hospital in addition to St. Mary.

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I did a search and found that Dr. Craparo is also affilated with Abington
hospital, a hospital that has a long history of commiting abortions.

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Ironically another Perinatologist on staff at Abington Hospital is Dr.
Steven Smith who delivered the Carey sextuplets at Abington.

We thank and praise Dr. Smith for safely delivering these babies into the
world. However, in the past, Dr. Smith has maintained at Abington
Board/Community meetings between the representatives of the community that
Abington should continue their practice of committing abortion. The
rationalization at one of his presentations was the hospital and doctors
should have the ability to abort unborn babies who have been diagnosed with
a birth defects. There are many doctors who do the screening test looking
for "birth defects" and many of these "doctors" consider Downs Syndrome a
"birth defect". We in the pro-life movement have reports from many women who
changed their minds from aborting their supposedly "defective baby" and told
us their baby was born without any birth defects.

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This FaceBook link gives a report from the Pro-Life Union of S.E. Pa of the
Board/Community meeting on Feb. 22nd, 2010
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=110351682314604&topic=8

I've extracted the names of organizations who spoke to keep Abington in the
Abortion business.

This year, Joel Polin, M.D., ObGyn Director for 29 years, led off for the
abortion people. He stated that other abortionists would have joined him,
but the murder of abortionist Tiller frightened them. He then recited four
difficult case studies, all of which were solved by a "pregnancy
termination." He was followed by three speakers from the industry - Planned
Parenthood, Women's Law Project and Clara Duval.
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For confirmation on this information  do the following.

Type Craparo St Mary the search results page will appear and if you scroll
down NewsCenter and click to open,  you will get the following article.

St. Mary Medical Center One of First in Area to Offer Three Noninvasive
Screening Techniques for Chromosomal Disorders.

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LANGHORNE, Pa., December 9, 2010 - The Perinatology Department at St. Mary
Medical Center has added fetal nasal bone imaging, a new noninvasive genetic
screening technique, to its outpatient prenatal testing program for pregnant
women. Fetal nasal bone imaging is performed by high-resolution ultrasound
early in the first trimester to identify risk factors for Down syndrome, a
genetic disorder that affects one in every 733 babies in the United States.

Fetal nasal bone imaging, which is one of several first-trimester risk
assessments available at St. Mary, measures the presence or absence of nasal
bone in fetuses between 11 and 14 weeks of gestation. Medical researchers
believe that the nasal bone is absent from approximately 70 percent of all
babies born with Down syndrome.

At St. Mary, fetal nasal bone imaging is used in combination with maternal
blood testing and another noninvasive ultrasound procedure known as nuchal
translucency testing to identify genetic abnormalities such as Down
syndrome. The blood test screens for abnormal levels of certain pregnancy
hormones, which may indicate the presence of a chromosomal imbalance. Nuchal
translucency scans measure the amount of fluid behind the neck of the fetus,
in an area known as the nuchal fold or nuchal translucency. It is believed
that the higher the amount of fluid around the neck, the higher the risk for
Down syndrome. These tests also screen for two less-common genetic
disorders, trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome) and trisomy 18.

"When the results are analyzed together, nasal bone imaging, nuchal
translucency, and maternal blood screening identify markers for Down
syndrome with up to 95 percent accuracy and a 2 percent false-positive rate.
St. Mary is one of the first medical centers in the Philadelphia region to
offer all three screening techniques," notes Frank Craparo, MD, a specialist
in maternal-fetal medicine and management of high-risk pregnancies.

All of the sonographers at St. Mary have earned certification from the
Nuchal Translucency Quality Review Program of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Foundation. This national education and quality review program was created
to ensure the highest levels of accuracy and quality in first-trimester Down
syndrome screening.

Since 2007, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
has recommended routine Down syndrome screening and genetic counseling for
all pregnant women, regardless of age, before the 20th week of pregnancy.
Babies with Down syndrome are born with an extra copy of chromosome number
21, which causes mild to severe delays in physical, cognitive, and language
development, as well as health problems such as congenital heart defects,
thyroid disease, and digestive disorders. The risk of having a baby with
Down syndrome increases with the age of the mother. The risk is one in 365
babies at age 35, one in 100 at age 40, and one in 30 at age 45.

If early-pregnancy screening identifies a high risk for Down syndrome,
invasive testing is recommended as a follow-up. At St. Mary, physicians rely
on two procedures, amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS), to
confirm fetal chromosomal abnormalities.

"With so many women starting their families later in life, it is important
for both the mother's and the baby's health to test for Down syndrome. There
are a wealth of helpful resources and support groups for families with
special-needs children, and knowing your baby's risk can help you prepare
for the rest of your pregnancy, delivery, and beyond," says Dr. Craparo.

Action: please call St. Mary and ask them if they are aware they have a
"specialist in pregnancy reduction" on their staff and does this allow them
to be in compliance with claiming to be a "CATHOLIC HOSPITAL.

Bill Miller