Category: Contraception & Abortion

UN Agency Accused Of Harassment and Exerting Undue Influence
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UN Agency Accused Of Harassment and Exerting Undue Influence

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by on Apr 24, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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In a rare case of backroom pressure spilling onto the floor of a UN meeting, a delegate from the Pacific island of Nauru angrily scolded the UN Population Fund for “harassing” their government and “maligning” their UN delegation. “Does UNFPA think they can do this because Nauru is the smallest member state?” Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin […]

The Fruit of Abortion's Poisonous Tree
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The Fruit of Abortion’s Poisonous Tree

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by on Apr 23, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Presidential candidate Rand Paul made headlines last week by turning the rhetorical tables on Progressives on the issue of abortion. When pressed by the media to articulate specifically his position on abortion, Paul responded, “Why don’t we ask the DNC: Is it okay to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus? You go back and […]

Abortion Celebrations
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Abortion Celebrations

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by on Apr 20, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Women
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If you’re happy killing babies, clap your hands. If you’re happy killing babies, clap your hands. If you’re happy baby killing and for you its so fulfilling, If you’re happy killing, babies clap your hands.   The Abortion Industry has been having “Abortion celebrations” around the country whose themes include: “Celebrate the death of your […]

Nigerian Bishops March, Sing and Train at Pro-Life Conference
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Nigerian Bishops March, Sing and Train at Pro-Life Conference

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by on Apr 20, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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“We had to limit the number of people in each diocese who could come,” said one organizer of a pro-life and pro-family conference in Ibadan, Nigeria. Over 1,500 filled the auditorium, and even then people spilled outside. One region with a small Christian population extended invitations to their Muslim neighbors who gladly attended. Bishops in […]

Birth Control: Now That You Know, What's Next?
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Birth Control: Now That You Know, What’s Next?

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by on Apr 16, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage
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In part 1 of this discussion on rethinking your birth control, I defined what it means to be a woman. Not just a modern woman, but a whole woman according to God’s design. Part 2 detailed attributes of her feminine genius in the form of female fertility. The cyclic ebb and flow of her fertile […]

The Law of Human Nature Still Exists
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The Law of Human Nature Still Exists

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by on Apr 15, 2015 in Catechesis, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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Is there anything so wicked as a man trying to silence his conscience?  It is a willful act that happens in stages: Bit by bit, incident by incident, rationalization by rationalization, the voice of a man’s conscience can be stifled—that still small voice within him eventually becomes fainter, until his heart turns to stone and […]

Murder's Enduring Stigma
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Murder’s Enduring Stigma

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by on Apr 10, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Colorado is no stranger to the scene of bone-chilling events. These include the mysterious JonBenet Ramsey murder and the Columbine massacre. Most recently we find something equally monstrous—Dynel Lane’s attack on Michelle Wilkins, resulting in the death of Wilkins’ preborn baby. Summarizing this case, writer Matt Walsh states: A couple of weeks ago, a pregnant […]

The Totally Phony Notion of “Unmet Need” for Contraception
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The Totally Phony Notion of “Unmet Need” for Contraception

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by on Apr 09, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As the UN puts polishing touches on their ambitious global plan to curb poverty, attention shifts from the political to the technical: how to measure progress and ensure targets are clearly defined? The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an opportunity to reassess the “indicators” or benchmarks for reaching the expiring Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) […]

Enough is Enough
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Enough is Enough

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by on Apr 03, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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“I think all of us should have a respect for innocent life. With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there’s one individual who’s not being considered at all. That’s the one who is being aborted. And I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. […]

Holy Week, Choice and the Problem of Evil and Sin
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Holy Week, Choice and the Problem of Evil and Sin

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by on Apr 02, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ
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We are in Holy Week 2015, so it is most appropriate to consider the problem of evil and sin. The sacrificial Passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ was to settle with God the problem of human sin and evil. I have often heard the question, “If there is a God, why does he permit […]

Sterilization Camps in India
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Sterilization Camps in India

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by on Mar 24, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues, Those in Need, Women
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Anne Roback Morse gave an address on March 13, 2015 at the United Nations surrounding the Commission on the Status of Women at a panel titled, “Coerced Sterilizations, Abortions, and Reproductive Rights.” The following remarks are based on excerpts from that address. Last November, 83 women were sterilized in a matter of hours at a […]

Seven Things that are (Way) Better as a Catholic
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Seven Things that are (Way) Better as a Catholic

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by on Mar 24, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage, Men, Parenting, Women
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Having spent most of my life as an atheist (I converted just 13 years ago), I have a good basis of comparison for the difference between Catholic and non-Catholic life. And without a doubt, these seven things are WAY better now that I’m Catholic! Reprinted with permission from CatholicSistas.com.   1. WEEKENDS My husband and I spent three […]

Fear and Natural Family Planning
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Fear and Natural Family Planning

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by on Mar 20, 2015 in Catechesis, Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As far back as I can remember, heights have posed an unwelcomed challenge. I was the kid who scaled the jungle-gym only to become paralyzed at the summit and tearfully beg for rescue. Ferris wheels are totally off-limits and even today escalators require a mental strategy. I never dreamed of spending my days balancing atop […]

Ite ad Joseph
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Ite ad Joseph

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by on Mar 19, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Live in Christ, Men, Parenting
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Ite ad Joseph! (Go to Joseph!) It’s the great Latin admonition of the Church, to seek the intercession of the Patron Saint of the Church, and a powerful intercessor at that. Against the backdrop of the new aggressive eugenics that has taken solid root in American medicine, and against the war on the Catholic Church […]

Countries Avoid Controversy, Reject Abortion at Women’s Conference
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Countries Avoid Controversy, Reject Abortion at Women’s Conference

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by on Mar 16, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Women
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This year – the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Women’s Conference – thousands of delegates and civil society representatives are gathered in New York to assess 20 years of progress on women’s issues. Rather than haggle late into the nights as is done each year at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, countries […]

A Child Is Never a Burden
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A Child Is Never a Burden

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by on Mar 12, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Parenting
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The stories of heroic mothers rarely appear on the nightly news, even when they include prominent figures like Genevieve Shaw Brown, Travel and Lifestyle Editor for ABC News. Genevieve recently wrote about her infant son, William Michael Brown, who has Down syndrome. The Browns knew prior to his birth that he would be born with […]

Birth Control and the Abortion Backup
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Birth Control and the Abortion Backup

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by on Mar 05, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith
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We no longer drink diet soda, eat a growing variety of sweets or chew gum because of artificial sweeteners. My husband switched us to tooth polish without fluoride and soap without antibacterial agents. Our eggs come free-ranged and our produce organic. Attending home school functions nowadays, we have to be mindful of gluten, nuts and […]

WHO Researchers Urge Cheaper Abortion Above Safety
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WHO Researchers Urge Cheaper Abortion Above Safety

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by on Mar 05, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Health & Fitness
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As part of an ongoing effort to maximize the international availability of abortion, researchers collaborating with the World Health Organization (WHO) released a study arguing that clinical follow-up after a chemical abortion is unnecessary, and that foregoing it could “save resources.” “This study was done in accordance with the WHO safe abortion guidance, which recommends […]

Christians in a Dying Western Christian Civilization
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Christians in a Dying Western Christian Civilization

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by on Mar 03, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ
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“Having turned away from the knowledge given by God, the Christian influence on the whole of culture has been lost. In Europe, including England, it took many years ? in the United States only a few decades. In the United States, in the short span from the twenties to the sixties, we have seen a […]

Birth Control: Ignorance Pays Their Salary
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Birth Control: Ignorance Pays Their Salary

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by on Feb 26, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Cramming the pillow I’d brought from home a little more to my left, I attempted to placate the cramp that was forming in my back. After years of slumbering on a waterbed, this rock hard hospital bed felt like a torture rack. There I was trying to create a bit of comfort and counting down […]

On Brother Paul O’Donnell’s Death and ‘Being There’
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On Brother Paul O’Donnell’s Death and ‘Being There’

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by on Feb 25, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com, Those in Need
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As news of the untimely death of Brother Paul O’Donnell spreads, there will be many remembrances by those who knew him well. Perhaps none more than Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo. Brother Paul distinguished himself, and the Church, by being the constant companion and supporter of the Schindler family as their severely brain damaged daughter, Terri, […]

Violent Population Control Continues in China
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Violent Population Control Continues in China

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by on Feb 24, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Contrary to recent reports, China’s population control policy still systematically enforces a policy of coerced abortion, sterilization, and child abandonment. The propaganda, coercion, and violence used by the Chinese Family Planning police continues to violate the rights of Chinese women, men, and their unborn children. In November 2013, the Chinese government changed the regulations to […]

Obama: Faith-Based Groups Must Refer Refugee Children for Abortions
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Obama: Faith-Based Groups Must Refer Refugee Children for Abortions

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by on Feb 23, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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The Obama administration is getting ready to issue new rules requiring charities to provide abortions to child refugees entering the US without their parents. Faith-based groups say this is a contravention of the rights of parents and a violation of the conscience rights of faith-based groups helping resettle the children. The public has until Monday […]

Contraception and the Reality of a Woman's Cycle
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Contraception and the Reality of a Woman’s Cycle

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by on Feb 20, 2015 in Catechesis, Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Springtime in my fourth grade year, they lined us up, boys on one side, girls on the other. The boys got shuffled off into one classroom, while we girls got ushered into another. Giddy and curious, we whispered and fidgeted while the teacher set-up her materials. That was the day I first heard about periods. […]