Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

One Third of Evangelicals Believe Suicide is Moral for the Incurably Ill?
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One Third of Evangelicals Believe Suicide is Moral for the Incurably Ill?

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by on Jan 31, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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In the January/February edition of Christianity Today (they called themselves CT now) a small article caught my eye. It was entitled  “More evangelicals see suicide as moral.” Really? According to the Pew Research Center, 1 in 3 evangelicals who worship weekly think that “a person has a “moral right” to suicide if, they are “in […]

Womb Transplants: Unethical Experimentation on Children
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Womb Transplants: Unethical Experimentation on Children

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by on Jan 30, 2014 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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Womb transplants are in the news again and I have seen a few posts around the Catholic blogosphere questioning what such a transplant might mean, ethically. First, some background: A womb transplant is exactly what it sounds like. Women who were either born without a uterus or have had their uterus removed after suffering cervical […]

<em>Gimme Shelter</em>, Why America Can't Be Bothered
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Gimme Shelter, Why America Can’t Be Bothered

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by on Jan 30, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On TV and Movies
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I got a chance tonight to grab a few friends and go see Gimme Shelter staring Vanessa Hudgens. I was looking forward to supporting a movie that would tell the story of a young woman’s struggle through a harrowing life and teen pregnancy. It would be a movie that would not insult my ears with […]

Why Have Girls Gone Missing in China?
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Why Have Girls Gone Missing in China?

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by on Jan 28, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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It is no secret that China is suffering from a shortage of girls.  The Population Research Institute (PRI) has long publicized the dearth of baby girls in China, which is leading to increases in child marriage and sex trafficking.  Even the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) have taken note; just two years […]

Europe Under Pressure from Homosexual Activists
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Europe Under Pressure from Homosexual Activists

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by on Jan 27, 2014 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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The homosexualist lobby, one of the most powerful at the European Union and Council of Europe, has been busy over the last month, particularly with preparations for opposing Russia’s “gay propaganda ban” in the lead up to the Sochi Winter Olympics. The main player in Europe’s branch of the movement is ILGA Europe, (International Lesbian, Gay, […]

Socially Polite Child Abuse
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Socially Polite Child Abuse

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by on Jan 27, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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Most Americans do not think of abortion as child abuse. But as Mother Teresa once said, “Any country that accepts abortion is…teaching its people…to use any violence to get what they want.” I would add that not only does abortion teach people the palatability of violence, it persuades people to lie to themselves. Self-deception has been gripping […]

Some Dreams are Nightmares
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Some Dreams are Nightmares

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by on Jan 24, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Feminine Genius
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Today, as we reflect on the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to the decision’s guiding principle: that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and her health … [because] this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and […]

Kenyans Defeat Western Effort to Expand Abortion
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Kenyans Defeat Western Effort to Expand Abortion

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by on Jan 24, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D also contributed to this article. When Kenyans voted on a new constitution in 2010, a massive publicity campaign – heavily funded by the Obama administration – assured voters it would not legalize abortion. In fact, “Life begins at conception” is in the constitution. But the Constitution also allowed abortion in certain circumstances. […]

When a Governor Needs to Resign
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When a Governor Needs to Resign

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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In a speech reported in the Times Union this past Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stated unequivocally that anyone who is pro-life, anti-homosexualist, and in favor of an undiluted Second Amendment has no place in the State of New York. From the Times Union: You have a schism within the Republican Party. … They’re searching […]

More Media Stem Cell Confusion
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More Media Stem Cell Confusion

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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After my many years of writing about stem cell research, I am still shocked when the media get the facts horribly wrong. I guess that comes from the assumption that to report the news, one must actually understand the subject matter. After last month’s confusion over whether research that produced mini-kidneys in the lab used […]

A Shifting Tide: Pro-Life Laws and the March for Life
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A Shifting Tide: Pro-Life Laws and the March for Life

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Wednesday, January 22 will mark the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade: a 7 to 2 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that found a woman’s right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Justices’ decision invalidated all state laws restricting access to abortion […]

A Generation Lucky to be Alive
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A Generation Lucky to be Alive

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Today, hundreds of thousands of pro-life people are gathered in Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life, commemorating the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that struck down existing state laws protecting unborn children.  For those who have been on the March or seen footage of it on EWTN (you can hardly see […]

40 Days of Hope
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40 Days of Hope

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by on Jan 21, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The pro-life initiative 40 Days for Life can boast a lot of numbers over six years: 600,000 participants in over 500 cities; 8,245 lives saved, 44 clinics closed and 88 clinic workers who left their employers. But numbers can’t quantify the kind of impact the apostolate has had on so many lives and the renewed […]

Talking About Abortion
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Talking About Abortion

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by on Jan 20, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Shortly after the most recent study indicating that women who are seeking abortions are not moved to change their minds after they view an ultrasound, Slate’s Katy Waldman weighed in with her view. Waldman writes that “anti-choicers”—people like me—believe that “when a woman glimpses her little bean during a sonogram, her maternal instinct awakens and prompts her to carry the pregnancy to […]

<em>Gimme Shelter</em>, Based on a True Pro-life Story
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Gimme Shelter, Based on a True Pro-life Story

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by on Jan 20, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On TV and Movies
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One of the stupidest things I ever said was to two street urchins in Dublin, Ireland. My friend Margie and I were college students headed back to our bed and breakfast after a night on the town. The two bedraggled boys of around 8 or 9 years of age had asked us for candy. “Go […]

New Mexico Court Ruling on Assisting Suicide Endangers the Vulnerable
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New Mexico Court Ruling on Assisting Suicide Endangers the Vulnerable

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by on Jan 17, 2014 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Law & Justice
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On Monday, Judge Nan G. Nash of the Second District Court in Albuquerque struck the decades-old New Mexico law which protected the state’s citizens from assisted suicide. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of New Mexico and Compassion & Choices, Judge Nash concluded that that killing a terminally ill patient with that person’s […]

European Human Rights Court to Hear Case on Status of Embryo
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European Human Rights Court to Hear Case on Status of Embryo

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by on Jan 17, 2014 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to hear the case of Adelina Parillo v. Italy (no 46470/11), which has serious implications for the question of the legal status enjoyed by the human embryo. The case concerns a woman who in 2002, at the age of 48, decided together with her husband to […]

Sex-Selection in the West
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Sex-Selection in the West

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by on Jan 16, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Everyone knows that sex-selection is rampant in the places like China and India where ultrasound and legalized abortion mean that roughly 160 million women are “missing.” What many people do not know, or refuse to acknowledge, is that the practice of aborting girls just because they are girls is growing in the West as well. […]

Why the Baby Kidnapper Shouldn’t Die
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Why the Baby Kidnapper Shouldn’t Die

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by on Jan 16, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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An obstetrician in the Shaanxi province of China was sentenced to death for child trafficking this week. The 55 year old woman repeatedly told her patients that their new born infant was either deformed or sick. She persuaded the new parents to give up their children for adoption. Instead of adoption, however, the infants were sold to […]

How <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em> Helped Me Be Pro-Life
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How 2001: A Space Odyssey Helped Me Be Pro-Life

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by on Jan 15, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On TV and Movies
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During a wintery January night in my apartment, while attending college years ago, I was channel surfing, and found a sci-fi movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I watched in hypnotized awe at the spectacular cinematography. Later on, I was shocked to learn the movie was made in 1968, and not during the late 80s as […]

Little Sisters vs. Goliath
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Little Sisters vs. Goliath

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by on Jan 14, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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It’s a story about how freedom is all. I speak of the Little Sisters of the Poor, an international congregation of Roman Catholic nuns who have devoted their lives to caring for the elderly poor. I am lucky to know more about this remarkable organization than many. In 2007, I wrote a column about Gorman […]

Sorry, Baby, You Don't Exist!
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Sorry, Baby, You Don’t Exist!

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by on Jan 13, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Two news reports this week give us pause to ask the same simple question: When a woman is pregnant, does she and/or her family have a moral obligation to care? The sense one receives from reading these reports is that the answer is no, never. The first report discusses a young expectant mother, Marlise Munoz, who suffered […]

Why HIV, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea are Rising Among Homosexuals
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Why HIV, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea are Rising Among Homosexuals

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by on Jan 11, 2014 in Featured, Health & Fitness, The Homosexual Agenda
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This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report,Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2012, to whining among journalists that the reason for the documented continued rise in syphilis (primarily affecting homosexuals) has more to do with homophobia than anything else. Consider the following from Bloomberg News: Gonorrhea and syphilis are on the […]

If You Can be Dismembered Without Due Process, What’s a Little Detention?
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If You Can be Dismembered Without Due Process, What’s a Little Detention?

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by on Jan 09, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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The National Defense Authorization Act is probably something you never heard of before the last few weeks of 2011, even though some iteration or other of this federal law has been enacted every year for the past 49 years. Right as Advent 2011 was starting, the Act (full name: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, hereinafter […]