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Popping Abortion Pills Is Way More Dangerous Than Big Pharma Wants Women To Know
Abortion pills are dangerous for women, contrary to what the government and Big Pharma say.

Are Human Embryos Human Beings?
A matter of scientifically demonstrable fact, human embryos, no less than human fetuses, infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults, are human beings - living members of the species Homo sapiens. Those words - "embryo," "infant," "adolescent," and so forth - do not name different kinds of entities. They name the same kind of entity (a living member of the human species, a human being, like you or me) at different stages of development.

Killing Babies in Abortions is Wrong Medically, Ethically and Biblically
The primary reason abortion is opposed is to value the life of the unborn child. Surely, when someone's life is in danger, the decision to save lives must take precedence over personal freedom. What follows is an explanation of why abortion should be repudiated on medical, ethical, philosophical, and spiritual grounds.

I Was Told Abortion Drugs Wouldn't Hurt Me. It Was a Lie
They just gave me a bag with the second drug I was supposed to take at home. There was no talk of a follow-up visit with the doctor - not even a phone appointment. After I was given the drugs, and they got my money, my case was closed.

Is Violent Porn Making Girls Identify as Transgender?
There is avery important aspect to the porn-to-transgender pipeline that has been largely ignored. For millions of young people, masculinity and femininity are being defined by online pornography - with profound and ugly consequences. Porn addiction is now ubiquitous among young people, and a generation has grown up with their view of sexuality shaped by the extreme and violent content found on major porn sites such as Pornhub. An increasingly toxic sexual environment in which sexual violence has been normalized has been the result.

Congressional Hearing Exposes How Abortion Industry Sells Aborted Baby Parts
Americans have known for years that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry sell the body parts of aborted babies.

New Estimate Shows More Than 1 Million Babies Killed in Abortions in 2023
The Guttmacher Institute released updated abortion estimates for 2023. The new figures show that 1,026,690 abortions were performed in 2023, an increase of 10 percent since the year 2020. This is consistent with a trend in increasing abortion rates that started around 2017. Another key finding was the increase in chemical abortions.

Where Are The Dads Protecting Their Daughters From Dangerous Male Athletes?
Why have so few fathers, especially after their daughters were injured by a male, stepped forward and said, 'Not on my watch'?

Alabama, Frozen Embryos, and the Law
The recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court on frozen embryos has gotten a lot of attention. Not all of the reactions, commentaries, and analysis have been well-founded. The result is more confusion about how the law works, what that means for unborn children, and what we as pro-lifers need to do.

50 Years Later, I Still Anguish Over My Abortion
My life has long been affected by an abortion I had at 17. Abortion kills innocent unborn babies under the guise of women?s rights.

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Editorial

War Against Children: Body Parts - "Worst Nightmare For the Unborn" (Part 5)

Life is Beautiful. Life is precious and sacred. Good people believe in the sanctity of the human person with rights and dignity to be protected and preserved. Yet there are those who disagree. They declare open war against the unborn child, but there is no such thing as a "good" war. In the end, millions of children die and many are left crippled. Why then fight this war in the first place? The reason is that a "War Against the Unborn" is very profitable. Selling/Buying aborted body parts is a billion-dollar (multi-billion?) industry. Scott Carney in his new book, "The Red Market", figures that he is worth about $250,000 if his body was broken down and sold as individual parts on what he called the "red market." The world was even more shocked when it learned that the University of Pittsburgh was harvesting organs of unborn babies "while their hearts were still beating". Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Some Important Points about Matrimony for Couples Married Outside the Church

Douglas McManaman
It is very common today for couples who were not married in the Church to bring their children to the Church for baptism. Having those children baptized is typically not an issue, but many priests find themselves trying to persuade such couples to have their marriages validated, and many couples are somewhat dismayed by their efforts. What follows are some important points about the nature of matrimony that might help couples in this predicament to better understand the importance of having a sacramental marriage, and thus the importance of having their marriages validated by the Church.

New! How to Think about Chastity

Nathaniel Peters
Chastity is a way of being more holistically directed toward our happiness regardless of the desires and attractions we experience.

New! Assigned at Birth?

Terence Sweeney
To assign is to flail and thrash about as we try to exert control over the uncontrollable. But to wait in the ultrasound office or in the delivery room to find out, to then share with others in this first discovery of our child's identity, to delight equally in male and female, is to recover our fundamental vulnerability to the gifts given to us.

13 reasons why you should be deeply sceptical of the IVF industry

Michael Cook
After the Alabama Supreme Court's recent ruling that frozen embryos deserve the same protections as children, politicians have been falling over themselves to find ways to defend the US IVF industry. I'd like to convince you that IVF is a morally complex issue, so complex and tangled that it needs to be regulated. This is the case whether or not you believe that frozen embryos are "extrauterine children" living in a "cryogenic nursery", in the words of the Court.

The invisible pandemic: unplanned childlessness

Louis T. March
First off, it's that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats merit mention. South Korea, with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.78), broke its own record at 0.72. In Japan births fell 5.1 percent, marriages almost 6 percent. Seems Europe has more fifty-plus folks than preschoolers.

Comments on Texas SB 303

Elizabeth Wickham
"The problems relating to the TEXAS SENATE BILL 303 are manifestations of the "third path" euthanasia movement which have been financed by private foundations for nearly three decades - i.e. the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the mid-80s forward and George Soros in the mid-90s forward to now.

Genetic disruption of human beings: creating "three parent IVF" babies

Margaret Somerville
Now we are faced with unprecedented 21st century reproductive technologies which can be used to change the genetic essence of ourselves (our DNA) when we are embryos and in such a way that the changes will be passed on to our future descendants. Should we do this?

Canada's supreme court strikes down ban on assisted suicide

Michael Cook
In a landmark decision the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that prohibiting assisted suicide is unconstitutional and a violation of the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canada is now the first country outside Europe to legalize assisted suicide.

Why is Government (and Society) Discouraging Childbearing?

Steven Mosher
A recent Family in America conference in D.C. lays out the problem, and speaker Jennifer Roback-Morse provides a solution.

HHS mandate, the other Obamacare problem

Sheila Liaugmina
To recap what many people probably forgot, the infamous HHS mandate was announced in January 2012, a throwdown to faith based institutions and employers requiring them to either violate their consciences or pay a prohibitive penalty. It signaled the government's disregard for Constitutional and federal law protecting religious freedom rights. And it triggered an almost immediate response of legal challenges to the administrations' audacious breach of those rights.

Conversing in the Womb

Douglas McManaman
While doing graduate work in Theology at the University of Montreal during the late 80s, I recall being suddenly struck by the ironies with which modern thought is replete. I discovered quickly enough that contemporary philosophy that was then used to undermine much of traditional Catholic theology could just as easily be employed to elucidate and defend it. Contradiction soon became a kind of beacon, allowing me to distinguish the true liberal from the false, neo-Hegelian liberalism that characterizes much of what passes for liberal thought today.

Will "choice" trump even gendercide?

Margaret Somerville
A new page in Canada's abortion debate will force pro-choice politicians to decide just how non-negotiable their position is.

Short Commentary on Matthew, No. 42

Anthony Zimmerman
We ask: Did John really have doubts, or did he ask the question with tongue in cheek, to give Jesus an opportunity to correct the false ideas of John's own disciples? This is a quizzical passage that gave the celebrated greats among the Fathers of the Church to rise to great heights or rhetoric.

Who Wants a "Defective" Baby?

Nancy Valko
Despite the best medical care, my Karen died at the age of 5 and 1/2 months, but the impact of her life has lived on. At her funeral mass, the priest talked about how this child who never walked or talked had transformed the lives of those who met her.

Poverty is falling in India

Shannon Roberts
India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2025. Despite this, the number of extreme poor in India drops by 44 people a minute and is expected to continue to fall sharply over the next two years.