A prayer request from Dorothy Barnes, Archway's former director and wife of Rev. Tim Barnes of Living Word Alliance Church, West Milford, NJ



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Hi Friends,

I learned yesterday that my neighbor across the street, Kathi, had a brain tumor which was surgically removed a few weeks back and for which she is now receiving radiation treatments. It's the second time it had to be removed since it had grown back in two months.

Kathi does not know the Lord (nor does her husband, Frank), and Tim, the girls and I will be reaching out to her and are hoping that we will have opportunity to present the gospel to her at some point.

Please keep Kathi in your prayers? She is not much older than me, and I cannot imagine what she is going through, especially not having the Lord to walk her through this.

Thanks so much,
Love, Dorothy

Joseph Forlini of Rockaway, owner of printing company
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

A service for Joseph Forlini, 70, of Rockaway will be 7 oclock Thursday evening (May 11, 2006)in the First Baptist Church of Union, 525 Thoreau Terrace, Union. Arrangements are by the McCracken Funeral Home, Union.

Mr. Forlini, who died Sunday in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton, was the owner and president of Serafino Printing Co. Inc. in Verona since 1977.

Born in Newark, he lived in Rockaway for 26 years.

Surviving are daughters, Catherine Horling and Patricia Garofola; a son, Joseph A.; a sister, Carol Seger, and two grandchildren.

Abortion charge dismissed against pregnant woman who shot herself

Tammy Skinner By LINDA MCNATT, The Virginian-Pilot c. May 8, 2006
SUFFOLK - - Charges of inducing an abortion were dismissed today against a 22-year-old woman who, in February, shot herself in the stomach on the morning her infant was to have been born.

Tammy Skinner told police about 4 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 23 that a man had picked her up, shot her in the stomach and pushed her out of the car. Then, she told investigators that the child's father did it.

Finally, the mother of two other children - - both girls, as was the infant who died -- admitted that the wound was self-inflicted.

Skinner was also charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony, but that charge was not prosecuted because it did not apply to the class-four felony of producing an abortion or miscarriage.

Skinner was found guilty of filing a false police report. For that, in the preliminary hearing, General District Judge James A. Moore Jr. found the woman guilty and suspended a 30-day jail sentence.

Background: Woman charged with shooting self to cause abortion

[Virginia's Fetal Homicide Law: Effective July 1, 2004, Code of Virginia Section 18.2-32.2 provides: "Any person who unlawfully, willfully, deliberately, maliciously and with premeditation kills the fetus of another" may be imprisoned from 20 years to life; and any person who does so without premeditation may be imprisoned for not less than five nor more than 40 years.]

Guttmacher Report Says Abortions Up for Poor Women, Down for Affluent

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorMay 5, 2006

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Looking into the details of the new abortion report released by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a Planned Parenthood affiliate, it says poor women are increasingly likely to get pregnant and have abortions while more affluent women are less likely.
Based on nationwide information gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics and other places, AGI reports that the rates of unplanned pregnancies for poor women, increased by almost 30 percent from 1994 to 2001 while they fell 20 percent for women in more affluent families.

Abortion rates also rose and fell for the same groups during the time period, even though abortions are on the decline as a whole nationwide.

"Clearly, something is changing, and it doesn't bode well in terms of unplanned pregnancies and abortions for poor women, in particular," Heather Boonstra, an AGI report author, tells the Washington Post.

But when asked why this was happening, Boonstra claimed it was because state and federal governments are shifting resources away from contraception and towards abstinence education.
Leslee Unruh, president and founder of the Abstinence Clearinghouse, told the Post she disagreed with that assessment.

"Programs for poor women are often so condescending, even degrading," she said. "They teach how to put on a condom rather than how to take control of their lives."
The study also found that abortions are occurring earlier in pregnancy but that poor women have abortions on average six days later than women who are more affluent.
The AGI study found there were 6.4 million pregnancies in the United States in 2001 and four million babies were born from them. There were 1.3 million abortions and 1.1 million miscarriages.

The pregnancy were roughly divided in half between unintended and planned and unplanned pregnancies split in almost even numbers of abortions and births, the Post reported.Printed from: http://www.lifenews.com/nat2240.html

Andrea Clark Will Live!

"Greetings Friend of Life!

Texas Right to Life has been working for the last three weeks with the family of Andrea Clark, a patient at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, who was slated to have all life-sustaining treatment (including food and water) removed against her wishes on Sunday, April 30th.

This decision was made by Andrea's primary physician and then approved by the St. Luke's ethics committee—chaired by a prominent Houston abortionist. With mounting pressure from the public generated by Andrea's family and pro-life activists, St. Luke’s arranged to transfer Andrea to an acute care facility in Illinois rather than withdrawing care. (See the transfer story in the Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3826053.html.)

However, minutes before the transfer was to occur last Friday, April 28th, St. Luke’s realized that the Illinois facility was not adequately equipped to care for Andrea. Andrea's family was distraught to think that Andrea's life would be hanging in the balance at a facility that considered her life futile and effectively wanted her dead. The attorneys began some fast talking, and the withdrawal of Andrea's treatment was indefinitely postponed.

On Tuesday, May 2nd, the treatment team at St. Luke's convened to further discuss Andrea's condition and treatment plan. At this meeting, Dr. Matthew Lenz, a physician with privileges at St. Luke's, transferred Andrea's care into his own hands. Dr. Lenz became involved at the request of Texas Right to Life and has since taken a personal interest in protecting Andrea's life.

His goal is to nurse Andrea back to a point where she can then be transferred to another facility for further rehabilitation. Andrea's condition is very fragile, and she requires a lot of specialized care, yet her condition is no justification for speeding her to her death by abruptly ending treatment and care that has been working. Dr. Lenz is now the new attending physician, and he has already begun to see improvements in her condition.

Andrea must undergo a surgery tomorrow to have her septic gall bladder removed. Despite this surgery posing risks to Andrea's fragile condition, the removal of the diseased organ should lend to Andrea's overall improvement. While St. Luke's has not made this process easy, St. Luke's has now offered the full support of the administration and of other specialists to assist Dr. Lenz in caring for Andrea.

While the futility law and St. Luke's policy remain problematic, St. Luke's is now committed to preserving Andrea's life and confirmed that the futility statute will not again be invoked as long as Andrea is under Dr. Lenz’s care. Andrea would not be alive today if St. Luke's had not provided care and treatment for Andrea up to this point.

The heroes in this battle are Andrea's siblings and son who fought for her life and cried from every mountaintop for help. Please join Texas Right to Life in praying for Andrea's recovery and in thanksgiving for the moral courage exhibited by Dr. Lenz in challenging St. Luke's and dedicating his personal time to treat and protect Andrea.

Please forward any kudos for Dr. Lenz to ProLife@TexasRightToLife.com, and your praise will be forwarded to him."

Reprinted from: ProLife@TexasRightToLife.com

Legal Battle Heats Up Over Andrea Clark and Potential Euthanasia Death Case
by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorMay 1, 2006

Houston, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The legal fight in the battle to save the life of disabled patient Andrea Clark continues to heat up. Her case is the latest fight in the post-Terri Schiavo world where doctors employing what detractors call the "futile care theory" saying a patient is beyond medical help and are refusing to treat her.

Clark, 54, suffered complications following open heart surgery and required a ventilator and dialysis to survive. Her motor control faculties were damaged but, her family says her cognitive abilities were unaffected.

However, on April 19, St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, where Clark is a patient, informed her family that her medical care would be discontinued in 10 days -- following a Texas law that provides medical facilities the right to give a family 10 days notice that treatment will be withdrawn.

In what pro-life advocates say is a direct act of passive euthanasia, a hospital committee decided Clark's condition was beyond hope and refused further medical treatment.
Clark's family, working with the hospital, found a hospice in Chicago that would take her, but the arrangement fell through. As a result, the hospital now plans to move forward on its threat to withhold treatment, but Andrea’s attorney, Jerri Lynn Ward, has served St. Luke’s with a cease and desist order.

LifeNews.com has been provided with a copy of the order. In it, Ward tells the hospital, "Because Andrea is heavily sedated and is limited in her ability to communicate treatment decisions to her physicians and the hospital, the family is empowered under law to make such decisions on her behalf."

"The family is united in its decision that life-sustaining treatments should NOT be withdrawn or withheld from Andrea Clark pending transfer to another physician or facility," Ward writes.
Ward said Clark's family does not believe she is a "futile case" and cited at least one physician who says otherwise. The letter says the family is having a hard time finding another medical facility for Clark because of the "futile case" label applied to her.Meanwhile, the The Terri Schindler Schiavo Center for Health Care Ethics has weighed in on the case and is siding with Clark's family.

"Andrea Clark is not comatose nor is she brain dead and yet, her life hangs in the balance because a hospital ethics committee has decided that her life is not worth living," Terri's family's foundation said. "This case is another example at how we have lost compassion not only for the disabled and elderly but for the medically dependent as well."
Wesley J. Smith, a noted author and attorney who monitors end of life issues, has written that Clark's case should be a warning for Americans.

"Clark's case involves value judgments rather than medical determinations," he says adding that it is increasingly becoming a case where money dominates decisions.
"Illustrating the level of hardball some hospitals play against patients and families, the Clark family's lawyer Jerri Ward told me that St. Luke's agreed to pay the $14,806 transportation costs to transfer Clark to a hospital in Illinois — more than 1,000 miles away — if the decision to transfer is made on Thursday," he wrote.

"If the family doesn't decide until Friday, the hospital will pay only one-half of the cost of transportation. Thereafter, it would pay nothing."

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