Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor
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Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor

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by on Nov 29, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive session. The motion passed allowing debate to follow. Foreign Relations committee chairman Sen. John Kerry followed with an opening statement in which he tried to assure senators that the convention would not grant any new […]

Choosing Light and Life in an Age of Darkness
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Choosing Light and Life in an Age of Darkness

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by on Nov 29, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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“Women have the right to choose” is the battle cry of the Pro-Choice. But choose what? The right to choose is never an end in itself. The right to choose is about being able to choose that which is good. “Women have a right to do what they want with their own body.” Do they […]

America’s Pediatricians Claim the Right to Contracept Your Kids
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America’s Pediatricians Claim the Right to Contracept Your Kids

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by on Nov 29, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Parenting
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Parents are Not to Know (But They are Expected to Pay) The day before Thanksgiving, I got a call from a harried reporter. “The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a statement on “Emergency Contraception,” he said. “I’d like to get your take on it.” The 10-page document turns out to be a full-throated endorsement […]

One Thousand Babies
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One Thousand Babies

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by on Nov 28, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Earlier this year, the pro-life community in southeast Russia celebrated a significant milestone.  It was the birth of a baby boy named Denis.  What was so important about little Denis?  He was the 1,000th baby brought into this world through the assistance of the Adopt-a-Birth program in Vladivostok. The Adopt-a-Birth program is the brainchild of […]

German Fed Court: No Patenting Stem Cells Obtained Through Destruction of Human Embryos
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German Fed Court: No Patenting Stem Cells Obtained Through Destruction of Human Embryos

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by on Nov 28, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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The German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH = the supreme judicial instance in Germany in all matters pertaining to civil law) has yesterday issued the final decision in the case Brüstle vs. Greenpeace. Mr. Brüstle is a German researcher who has submitted a patent claim with regard to embryonic stemcells. Greenpeace is an environmentalist NGO that […]

UNFPA Promotes Social Engineering Through Family Planning
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UNFPA Promotes Social Engineering Through Family Planning

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by on Nov 27, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) drew international headlines this past week for claiming a new human right to contraception. Contraception as a human right is a centerpiece of UNFPA’s annual state of world population report “By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights, and Development”.  Borrowing from the language of natural law, the executive summary […]

<em>Unnatural Law?</em> An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell
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Unnatural Law? An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell

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by on Nov 27, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, On Media, The Homosexual Agenda
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A particular “hot-button” issue facing contemporary American culture concerns homosexuality and the Catholic Church.  The general position of the Catholic Church on homosexuality is fairly well-known: homosexual acts are a sin and the inclination to these acts is intrinsically disordered. Despite the above formulation, many people do not understand why the Church has taken the […]

Texas Surgeon Gives Hope to Sterilized Men Seeking Wholeness
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Texas Surgeon Gives Hope to Sterilized Men Seeking Wholeness

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by on Nov 21, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Men
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Dr. Mark Hickman would try to talk any man out of having a vasectomy any day. He would begin by telling them all the horror stories that he has heard from the many men who have undergone the invasive procedure that unnaturally blocks tubes that are designed to carry sperm out of a man’s body. […]

The Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular - and the Lawsuits are Piling Up
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The Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular – and the Lawsuits are Piling Up

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by on Nov 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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You know a contraceptive drug or device is in trouble when the lawsuits begin to multiply. A growing number of American women are turning to intrauterine devices (IUDs), reports Lawrence Finer of the Guttmacher Institute. Of all American women using birth control, some 7.5 percent had IUDs implanted by 2009. These numbers were double what […]

The Strange Case of Savita Halappanavar
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The Strange Case of Savita Halappanavar

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by on Nov 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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At this point, the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar is “old” news, in that most people have been at least somewhat aware of of it. Most people in the Catholic and pro-life blogsopheres—to say nothing of the ideologues who oppose us—who will comment on it have already posted their preliminary thoughts. The forces at work […]

Boy Gets Kicked Out of School for His Genes
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Boy Gets Kicked Out of School for His Genes

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by on Nov 19, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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I spent many, many, many hours in the lab testing people for mutations known to cause cystic fibrosis (CF). CF is a genetic disease caused by mutations in a gene called the CFTR gene. If a person has a deleterious mutation in both copies of his or her CFTR gene (one mutation inherited from dad, […]

WHO Prescribes Unsafe Abortion for Poor Women
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WHO Prescribes Unsafe Abortion for Poor Women

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by on Nov 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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A new manual by the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to do abortions is facing criticism for advocating substandard medical care and a ban on all limits to abortion. Aimed particularly at poor women in developing countries, the manual downplays medical oversight and recommends disposing of the “waste,” including babies’ remains, in sewers or latrines. A […]

Youth Go To Bat For Life
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Youth Go To Bat For Life

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by on Nov 17, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On Media
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Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, California has seen its share of memorable moments over its 51-year history, including 8 World Series, a Beatles concert and a Papal Mass. On November 18th, the ballpark at Chavez Ravine will add to that legacy, when it plays host to GotoBat4LIFE, an inter-faith, youth celebration aimed at “strengthening young […]

Forced Abortion "Off the Table" in Case of Pregnant Disabled Woman
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Forced Abortion “Off the Table” in Case of Pregnant Disabled Woman

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by on Nov 16, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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Judge Egan Walker announced this week that abortion is no longer an option being considered in the case of a pregnant Reno woman with mental disabilities.  Judge Walker had been holding hearings to determine whether to force 32-year-old Elisa Bauer to abort her baby against the wishes of her adoptive parents, Bill and Amy Bauer, […]

The Tragic Results of Planned Parenthood's Political Victory
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The Tragic Results of Planned Parenthood’s Political Victory

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by on Nov 15, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Within moments of the final presidential election results, Planned Parenthood was beating its drum, changing its logo, and squawking about how it came to pass that the Obama reelection was a “resounding victory for women.” Some have even suggested that Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards is now the official “Secretary of Abortion.” But if you peel […]

Re-imagining Shepherds
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Re-imagining Shepherds

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by on Nov 15, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice, Live in Christ, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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What comes to your mind when you hear the familiar Bible passage from Luke 2:8-10, where the angels appear to the shepherds to proclaim the birth of a savior and His peace? Do you picture cute, little, cherub-faced boys and girls? Do you imagine shepherds that look like those sappy Precious Moments figurines you see […]

UN Agency Declares Birth Control a 'Human Right'
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UN Agency Declares Birth Control a ‘Human Right’

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by on Nov 14, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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For the first time in its history, a United Nations agency, UNFPA, has declared access to contraception “a human right.” “Family planning is a human right. It must therefore be available to all who want it,” declares the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) annual report. “But clearly this right has not yet been extended to all.” […]

Transhumanism in <em>The Amazing Spider-Man</em>
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Transhumanism in The Amazing Spider-Man

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by on Nov 14, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, On TV and Movies
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The other day my family made me sit down and watch the new Spider-Man movie, The Amazing Spider-Man. I don’t know why they had to make yet another Spider-Man flick, but for the sake of family unity I cuddled up on the coach and watched. Recently, I hit a bunch of unsuspecting Catholic women at […]

The Battle for Life and Family Continues
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The Battle for Life and Family Continues

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics
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Last Tuesday night I watched in disbelief as a slim majority of Americans voted to give Barack Hussein Obama a second term as president, but in the clear light of morning it is clear how this debacle happened—and what the pro-life movement needs to focus on now. I do not mean to make light of […]

Forced Abortion on Trial in Nevada
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Forced Abortion on Trial in Nevada

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by on Nov 13, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Law & Justice
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‘End this pregnancy and tie her tubes.’ That was the stark advice given by a a court-summoned doctor in a possible forced abortion case involving a mentally handicapped woman in Nevada, according to a transcript of a Nov. 1 hearing obtained by LifeSiteNews. Judge Egan Walker of Nevada’s 2nd District Court is holding evidentiary hearings […]

A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’
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A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’

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by on Nov 12, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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The policy proposal known as “same-sex marriage” is actually a proposal to redefine marriage. Instead of being a gender-based institution oriented toward the procreation of children and the good of the spouses, what is called “same-sex marriage” makes marriage into a genderless institution, oriented toward the good of adults only. Any possible negative consequences for […]

A Doctor Warns of the Perils of Four More Years of President Obama
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A Doctor Warns of the Perils of Four More Years of President Obama

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by on Nov 12, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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As a physician I deal with what Gerard Nadal, PhD (who blogs at Coming Home) writes about every day. I see the destruction this Culture of Death has caused to my patients and their families. STDs, infertility that inevitably results from STDs, increased rates of breast cancer, many due to hormonal contraceptive use or abortion, […]

Obama’s Election Mandate, and Ours
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Obama’s Election Mandate, and Ours

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by on Nov 09, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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What does an incumbent elected by a landslide (331-206 electoral votes if Fla. goes his way) get to do for a second term? Anything he wants, especially with John Boehner at the helm for the Republicans in the House of Representatives. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Boehner did an about-face and declared that Obamacare […]

Guttmacher Institute Equates Abortion Limits With Forced Abortion
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Guttmacher Institute Equates Abortion Limits With Forced Abortion

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by on Nov 09, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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In June of this past year, photos of a Chinese woman and her dead child flooded the Internet, accompanied by the account of how Feng Jianmei was abducted from her home and forced to undergo a late-term abortion by local family-planning officials.  Mrs. Feng’s story spread across international news headlines and provoked outrage by national […]