Category: Contraception & Abortion

What Kind of Religious Freedom Do We Want?
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What Kind of Religious Freedom Do We Want?

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by on Aug 12, 2012 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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We are living at a time when the Church in the United States must vigorously defend herself against attacks on religious freedom. In particular, the government is trying to force believers to violate their consciences when it comes to what kind of services their companies’ health insurance policies will cover. Priests for Life is proud […]

The Abortioneers Want a “Tripadvisor” for Abortion Clinics
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The Abortioneers Want a “Tripadvisor” for Abortion Clinics

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by on Aug 10, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Under the “You CAN’T make this stuff up” category, I’d like to talk about a post this week found on the webpage of “The Abortioneers.” It’s a gathering place for abortion practitioners to compare notes, in this case pondering the importance of “first impressions” and what happens if the word gets round that your clinic […]

Amnesty International Uses Maternal Deaths to Push for Unrestricted Abortion
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Amnesty International Uses Maternal Deaths to Push for Unrestricted Abortion

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by on Aug 10, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Amnesty International, a human rights organization that used to be abortion neutral, is now using the problem of maternal mortality to advocate for abortion. In a new report, ostensibly on medical care for maternal health, Amnesty calls on governments to repeal abortion laws and conscience protection for medical workers who may object. They also call […]

Morality in Medicine: Advice From Dr. Fox
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Morality in Medicine: Advice From Dr. Fox

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by on Aug 09, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Men, MyChurchParish.com, On the Job
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Dr. Paul Fox has been a family physician for over three decades in the sticks of rural Virginia,  Florida and western Pennsylvania where he earned the respect and trust of his peers and patients. He and his wife have four children and six grandchildren. Dr. Fox is a convert to Catholicism and worships in the Byzantine […]

Cathy, Dolan, and Discipleship in Action
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Cathy, Dolan, and Discipleship in Action

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by on Aug 09, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Leadership
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Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A, made a simple statement that wound up creating an uproar among those who detest people of faith. Yet it inspired thousands to do as the cows in the Chick-fil-A commercials request—to eat more chicken! August 1 was a glorious day for hungry folks, people of faith, and commitment to work […]

Iran’s Islamicists Orchestrate a Baby Bust: Who Would Have Imagined?
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Iran’s Islamicists Orchestrate a Baby Bust: Who Would Have Imagined?

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by on Aug 08, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. Iran’s fertility rate has crashed over the past few decades of Islamicist rule. So much so that the mullahs who run the country are now calling for more babies to be born. How did things come to such a pass? After all, the Koran, like the Torah and […]

Eliminating People to Help People?
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Eliminating People to Help People?

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by on Aug 07, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and […]

Democrats Officially Abandon, “My Body, My Choice!”
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Democrats Officially Abandon, “My Body, My Choice!”

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by on Aug 06, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Here in the bluest of blue cities on the political map we have a mayor who has taxed cigarettes into the stratosphere (~$12 per pack) because he wants people to live healthier. The same mayor trampled the rights of business owners to create smoke-free restaurants and bars. The same mayor decided that trans fats were […]

Dear "Pro-Choice" NYer, You Got What You Asked For
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Dear “Pro-Choice” NYer, You Got What You Asked For

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by on Aug 04, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Social Order
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Dear “Pro-Choice” NYer, You wanted to do whatever you wanted to do with your body, and then claim you had a right to kill your own children when you conceived them because it was just so unfair for anyone to expect you to let a child ever use you against your will. You said you […]

America Needs a Baby Boom
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America Needs a Baby Boom

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by on Aug 03, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. Social security is about to go belly up, financially speaking. And at the head of this crisis is a demographic disproportion: there are simply too few young people coming into the workforce to support the increasing numbers of elderly baby boomers who are retiring. In “What’s Really Behind […]

The Prophecies of Humanae Vitae
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The Prophecies of Humanae Vitae

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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You may be forgiven for not knowing that July 25, was the 44th anniversary of encyclical Humanae Vitae. Who, after all, is going to remind you? Not the secular media, which scoffs at the idea that men and women can practice self-control in matters of sex. No, they will not breathe a word about Pope […]

Do Abortion Comparisons Make Sense?
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Do Abortion Comparisons Make Sense?

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Is it right to compare abortion to the Colorado theater shooting,the Nazi Holocaust, and other tragic losses of life? To answer this question one must first answer the question: what is abortion? Abortion is simply a word used to describe the action of killing a human person in one of the early stages of that […]

Natural Family Planning Builds a Culture of Life
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Natural Family Planning Builds a Culture of Life

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by on Jul 27, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage
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Pope Benedict XVI offered an encouraging message to the recent meeting of the Equipes Notre Dame (translation: Teams of Our Lady), a pro-marriage apostolate. The Holy Father invited all Christian married couples to be “the gentle and smiling face of the Church.” There is no greater way for couples to achieve this than to joyfully […]

America, Wake Up!: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Safe Abortion’
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America, Wake Up!: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Safe Abortion’

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by on Jul 26, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As Planned Parenthood faces national scrutiny over the gruesome death of 24-year old Tonya Reaves in an Illinois clinic last week, the abortion giant has issued a statement expressing condolences to the family. “While legal abortion services in the United States have a very high safety record, a tragedy such as this is devastating to loved ones and we […]

Disinviting God
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Disinviting God

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by on Jul 24, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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We are now in the midst of  National NFP Awareness Week (Jul 22-28), during which the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is asking American Catholics to “celebrate God’s design for married love and the gift of life” by learning more about natural family planning (NFP). Catholic teaching on contraception has roots in the natural […]

Gates Family Planning Summit: What Comes Next?
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Gates Family Planning Summit: What Comes Next?

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by on Jul 23, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Pro-life protesters at the Family Planning Summit in London last week signaled that opposition to the multi-billion dollar campaign is not going away. Held on the 100th anniversary of the first eugenics conference in London, the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation harnessed the seats of power – governments, […]

Reproductive Wordplay
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Reproductive Wordplay

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by on Jul 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Health & Fitness
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Experts claim that Planned Parenthood has such a serious foothold on government policy and finances that it would literally take a jackhammer to pull them apart. In fact, some historians have even suggested that Planned Parenthood softened many of its early positions from the hard-line culture of death posture in order to garner respectability among […]

Why the HHS Mandate is No Big Deal
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Why the HHS Mandate is No Big Deal

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by on Jul 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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[Editor’s note: In June, Mark Discher, Professor of Philosophy and Theology at The College of St. Mary Magdalen was asked to give a speech to the Massachusetts Citizens for Life annual convention on the HHS mandate. In his address, Dr. Discher masterfully placed the mandate into the context of the wider problem we are facing, […]

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 […]

Being Pro-Life 3.0
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Being Pro-Life 3.0

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by on Jul 18, 2012 in Catholic Bioethics, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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This characterization of the many facets of being pro-life is so brilliant I wish I could say I thought of it.  Scott Rae, in an interview with John Stonestreet at BreakPoint.org, brings the pro-life movement into the 21st century in an attempt to get us all to wake up to the perils we are facing. […]

40 Days for Life Applications Now Open
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40 Days for Life Applications Now Open

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by on Jul 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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It’s time! If you’re ready to conduct 40 Days for Life in your city this fall or if you’re just thinking about leading a local campaign in your community, please take the time to watch this 12-minute video to find out everything that’s involved in leading a local campaign: The next internationally coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign will be conducted […]

Pre-Existing Prenatal Conditions and Health Care Coverage
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Pre-Existing Prenatal Conditions and Health Care Coverage

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by on Jul 17, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Health & Fitness
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Part of the recently upheld Affordable Care Act that many in the disability community applaud is the elimination of policy exclusions for pre-existing conditions. I agree that our culture should not discriminate against and withhold heath care from an individual based on a physical or mental disability. Early Intervention services, exceptional educators, and medical advances […]

Gates Summit Raises Billions for Abortion Groups
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Gates Summit Raises Billions for Abortion Groups

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by on Jul 16, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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“What are women’s attitude toward children,” I asked a representative from a Sierra Leone family planning organization. “Before the war, they were negative. Now they are positive.” “Do they want children?” I clarified. “Yes, they want children. They need to learn their rights. When they learn their rights, they won’t want children.” He was among the select invited to London […]

Thorns for Life
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Thorns for Life

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by on Jul 15, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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The readings for the Sunday Liturgy recently included passages from Ezekiel, St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians, and the Gospel of St. Mark. Ezekiel is sent by God to proclaim to the “impudent and stubborn” Israelites that he is their faithful God, and to repent and return to Him. Say to them God tells […]