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Faith: The Only Sure Foundation for Human Dignity
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Faith: The Only Sure Foundation for Human Dignity

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by on Feb 20, 2014 in Catholic Bioethics, Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards recently tweeted out a short video featuring her suggestions of what women really need for Valentine’s Day. Among a litany that included “well woman visits,” “cancer screenings,” and “birth control,” was “safe & legal abortion.” All of this, we’re mockingly informed, is “really radical stuff” which, of course, is a sarcastic quip […]

Welcome to the Club
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Welcome to the Club

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by on Sep 19, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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In the last 50 years or so, America has become a nation obsessed with rights. Elites in government, academia, the media, and entertainment take great pains to inculcate an attitude of tolerance, acceptance, multiculturalism, and diversity in the American people. The self-evident truths articulated by our Founding Fathers have been expanded upon and augmented in […]

US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN
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US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN

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by on Mar 12, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As countries are deadlocked over negotiations going late into the night at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US and European Union have played a deadly card. One that contradicts a foundational principle of citizens and civilizations worldwide, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. […]

Planet of the Apes
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Planet of the Apes

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by on Mar 01, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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It is now safer to be a monkey in Spain—at least if you’re one of the larger species—than a man. Thanks to a new law passed by the Spanish parliament and signed into law by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the Great Apes are protected from the moment of conception against abortion and fetal experimentation. Human […]

Political Parties and Skull Cracking
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Political Parties and Skull Cracking

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by on Sep 20, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Whether it’s an election year or not, I see to it that Priests for Life echoes loud and clear the duty of citizens to inform themselves about where the candidates stand on the issues. This evaluation starts, of course, with where they stand on violence against human beings, because if public servants cannot tell the […]

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 […]

Tinkering with the Lives of Children
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Tinkering with the Lives of Children

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by on Jul 07, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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There are many Americans who define themselves as human rights advocates yet who are, at the same time, wary of those of us who take great care when defining the meaning of human personhood. We are suspected of being over-zealous because we point out the killing of preborn embryonic children in IVF labs or the […]

Obama's Inalienables
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Obama’s Inalienables

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by on Jul 04, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Each time President Obama addresses America’s inalienable rights, I get emails. “Did you see Obama left out ‘Creator’ again?” began the latest. The most recent occasion was a June 17 presidential statement responding to a U.N. resolution on sexual orientation. Obama stated that “LGBT persons are endowed with the same inalienable rights—and entitled to the […]

Casey Anthony and The Human Tragedy of our Time
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Casey Anthony and The Human Tragedy of our Time

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by on Jun 30, 2011 in Featured, Women
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Whenever there is another story on the news involving a woman who has killed her child, I do everything I can not to listen or I change the channel. If I do learn any details (which seems to happen inevitably since every few months there is another incident and the media loves to give us […]

Death in Springtime: Recalling Terri Schindler Schiavo
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Death in Springtime: Recalling Terri Schindler Schiavo

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by on Mar 31, 2011 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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It was the first day of spring in 2005. I was at the florist  in the seaside village where I grew up, assembling a basket of flowering spring plants for my sister who had just given birth. To have my hands immersed in budding greenery, inhaling earthy scents, replaced for a few moments the pall […]