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Your Number One Job as a Wife: It's Not What You Think
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Your Number One Job as a Wife: It’s Not What You Think

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by on Oct 19, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage, The Feminine Genius, Women
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This past February, my husband and I started planning the family trip to Las Vegas that will commemorate our 20-year wedding anniversary in two years. We spent a week in Sin City for our honeymoon, and think it’s only fitting that we return two decades later with our kids, having “beaten the odds” when it […]

The Profound Dignity of Motherhood
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The Profound Dignity of Motherhood

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by on Mar 25, 2015 in Featured, Parenting, The Feminine Genius, Vocations, Women
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Mothers are by far the most beautiful creatures in the world. There is nothing more beautiful than a mother. There has never been a beauty pageant winner more beautiful than a pregnant woman. A pregnant woman glows with the grace of God. She is one with God. Her love has borne fruit with the life […]

Dear Anthony: Natural Family Planning
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Dear Anthony: Natural Family Planning

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by on Oct 08, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Dating & Singles, Featured, Marriage
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Dear Anthony, I’m getting married soon and I wanted to find out exactly how NFP works, since that’s what the Church recommends.  I have saved myself for my husband and remained pure.  I want to enjoy sex without the worries of getting pregnant right away.  I want my husband to enjoy sex too, so NFP […]

Addressing Unintended Pregnancies: You're Doing it Wrong
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Addressing Unintended Pregnancies: You’re Doing it Wrong

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by on Sep 19, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The Guttmacher Institute recently announced a study saying that as of 2012, 40% of pregnancies worldwide are unintended, and that this is not much different from 2008. Predictably, they also say that these “findings highlight [the] need for increased investment in contraceptive services.” Let’s break this down point by point: 1) What is “unintended,” exactly? The paper helpfully provides […]

Science Ignored: Dissecting Pregnancy as a Disease
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Science Ignored: Dissecting Pregnancy as a Disease

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by on Jul 08, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Last week, the United States Supreme Court decided Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, and ruled the federal government could not require closely-held corporations to provide no-cost contraception for their employees. Although that was the question before the Supreme Court, there were many things the Supreme Court didn’t have the jurisdiction to rule on yesterday.  And the […]

Teen Abortion Rate Lowest Since Roe v. Wade Decision
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Teen Abortion Rate Lowest Since Roe v. Wade Decision

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by on May 16, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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It is not unexpected, given news of a large recent overall decline in U.S. abortions and abortion rates, but it is encouraging nonetheless to see that the larger downward trend among all women is also being reflected in significantly lower abortion rates among teenagers. The report, “U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2010: National and […]

New Data on Why Women Have Abortions is Both Illuminating and Ambiguous
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New Data on Why Women Have Abortions is Both Illuminating and Ambiguous

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by on Oct 17, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The reasons women have abortions are not simple and thus can be difficult to study and/or categorize. That’s one reason why the two most recent previous studies on abortion reasons, from the Guttmacher Institute, date from 2005 and 1988. Now, though, the same team from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) that brought us the […]

Researchers Acknowledge Abortion-Preterm Birth Link
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Researchers Acknowledge Abortion-Preterm Birth Link

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by on Jul 23, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The World Health Organization ignored it. Medical journals downplayed it. Now researchers admit – backhandedly – a link between abortion and preterm births. Authors of a new study hypothesize that modernizing abortion methods reduces the risk of premature births. Yet most notably, it admits that the link to abortion existed in the first place. Abortion […]

Open to…Miscarriage?
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Open to…Miscarriage?

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by on Dec 22, 2012 in Featured, Parenting
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During Advent my thoughts always turn to ultimate things — waiting, longing, begging, pining for answers to ultimate questions, to redemption — and I always think about pregnancy. Like many women, I do not even know how many children I have that did not live to birth because I used contraception for many years before […]

Book Review: A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy
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Book Review: A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy

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by on Oct 19, 2012 in Featured, On Books, Parenting
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A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy: Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism is the book I wish I had owned and read when I was going through my own pregnancies. Sarah Reinhard, a self-described “non-baby” person – even though she has three lovely children of her own, takes an honest and faith-filled look at […]

What It Feels Like To Wonder About Miscarriage
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What It Feels Like To Wonder About Miscarriage

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by on Oct 08, 2012 in Featured, Parenting
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This is to share the intense feelings of a mother wondering if a frail little life in the womb will survive or not. Many, many women know this feeling and it’s not easy to give it words, a mixture of hope and faith, heartbreak and yearning, and no one – no one – but the mother knows exactly what […]

Is Abortion Ever “Necessary?” The Evidence Says “No!”
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Is Abortion Ever “Necessary?” The Evidence Says “No!”

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by on Sep 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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New studies show that those who argue that abortion is sometimes necessary to “save the life of the mother,” and that it lowers maternal mortality are flat out wrong. Abortion does not improve maternal health. Let’s start with a brilliant recent study carried out by Elard Koch of Chile. Prof. Koch looked at maternal mortality rates in Chile before […]

The 50/200 Paradox: Loving Children Who Die Before Birth
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The 50/200 Paradox: Loving Children Who Die Before Birth

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by on Aug 28, 2012 in Featured, Parenting
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In the Fall of 2009 we unfortunately found out at 18 weeks that one of our twins did not survive. I had a case of H1N1 a few weeks prior, and it affected one of the babies. Thankfully our remaining child was growing well and was not at any increased risk. We named the son […]

92% and Perfect Babies
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92% and Perfect Babies

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by on Jul 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Parenting
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I read a fact the other day on the internet: Eight percent of all babies in the womb who test positive for Down syndrome or a genetic anomaly survive and are born. That means 92% of all babies who test positive are aborted. Ninety two percent never get a chance. Reading that fact shook me […]

Book Review: <i>After Miscarriage</i>
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Book Review: After Miscarriage

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by on Jul 03, 2012 in Featured, On Books, Parenting
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Baby loss through miscarriage is one of the last taboo subjects in our society. Because in most cases, it is largely a hidden loss, the grief associated with it is all too often dismissed easily by people who just don’t understand. Karen Edmisten and those who contributed to After Miscarriage: A Catholic Woman’s Companion to […]

Don’t Be Tricked by the Lowest Teen Birthrate Ever
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Don’t Be Tricked by the Lowest Teen Birthrate Ever

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by on Apr 17, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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You won’t find a word about it in the main stream media. You won’t find a word about it from the Alan Guttmacher Institute or Planned Parenthood, but the concept is so simple I could explain it to a five year old in about ten seconds. “I have a whole bunch of jelly beans! I […]

It's More Than Talk
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It’s More Than Talk

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by on Jan 11, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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It is a constant chant from those who would like the defenders of unborn life to disappear, and leave them undisturbed in their killing. “Your concern for life does not go any further than the uterus.” “All you want is to stop the abortion, and then you abandon the mother.” “You don’t care about the […]

Hope After Poor Prenatal Diagnosis
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Hope After Poor Prenatal Diagnosis

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by and on Dec 10, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics, MyChurchParish.com
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Parents who receive news that their unborn child has a serious birth defect, genetic syndrome, or other ­medical complication are often left to sort out their responses on their own. As co-founders of the network Be Not Afraid, for almost ten years, we have had the privilege of ­supporting parents who carry their babies to […]

Ignoring Human Rights Has Become the American Way
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Ignoring Human Rights Has Become the American Way

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by on Jul 13, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The headline, “Outcry in America as Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies Face Murder Charges,” speaks volumes about the lengths that some will pursue to express misplaced outrage for the sole purpose of defending the reproductive rights of women. The lead case in the article involves Rennie Gibbs, a young woman who became pregnant at the […]