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Weekly Wits 1/18/13
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Category: Life Issues & Bioethics
Abortion Survivor Dr. Imre Téglásy Fights for Life in Hungary
by Adam Cassandra
In a short video released this week by Human Life International (HLI), Dr. Imre Téglásy tells his personal story of learning he was as an abortion survivor and how that revelation as a young child drives his work to defend life in his home country of Hungary. “I was 11 years old … and somehow […]
“Gay Sin” Survey Reveals We’re Playing God
by Marybeth Hicks
I’m always on the hunt for positive news, there being such consistent media focus on the bad stuff. Most days, headlines essentially read, “Handbasket full; hell in sight.” So a recent headline caught my eye because of its positive tone: “Survey: Big drop in those who say being gay’s a sin.” According to Lifeway Research, […]
Right to Consumer Genetics?
by Rebecca Taylor
These days it seems we have a “right” to everything except the rights that are actually given to us by our Creator and enumerated in the Constitution. According to this article from the MIT Technology Review we even have a “right to consumer genetics.” What exactly is consumer genetics? Well, you can go about getting your genes […]
1.3 Million Demonstrate Against Same-Sex “Marriage” and Adoption in Paris
by J.C. von Krempach, J.D.
The turnout was overwhelming and dwarfed even the most optimistic forecasts. While official police sources, apparently under pressure from the government, sought to downplay the number of demonstrators who, despite the biting cold, came to Paris last Sunday to rally against the socialist-led government’s plans to legislate for same-sex “marriages” (including a pretended “right” for […]
New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities
by Rebecca Oas Ph.D.
A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention within international policy-making institutions. According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2010) published in The Lancet medical journal in December, over 1.4 million people died from diarrhea […]
Mortal Life Without End? Really?
by Judie Brown
by Judie Brown on Jan 15, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology 
Anyone who has seen the latest DROID DNA smart phone ads realizes that such devices have become nearly inseparable from man’s person. As a matter of fact, the ads suggest that the phone is so much a part of the person that even his intelligence will be improved by merely using the phone. These are superb sales […]
The Journey of Infertility: Walking With the Church to Find Solutions, Wisdom, and Peace
by Jeannie Hannemann, MA
It’s personal. It’s painful. And for the millions of people affected by infertility, it can also be very isolating. For those who have never experienced the sorrow and complexity of this condition, it’s impossible to truly comprehend the degree of suffering it causes. I had considered myself empathetic to those who couldn’t conceive, but I […]
Has Abortion Lived Up to It’s Promises?
by Misty
In less than two weeks, our nation will mark the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion-on-demand the law of the land. The milestone is causing many on both sides of the aisle to take a closer look at our changing political landscape and ask, “Does legal abortion have […]
“We Were Blessed to Have Met Them”
by Peter Baklinski
The doctor performing the ultrasound had a strange look on his face. The newly married couple braced themselves for what they were sure would be terrible news. “Now, don’t scream,” he said in measured tones. “One. Two. Three…Triplets!” Jason and Marie Taylor, both in their 30s, had married only four months ago, in May 2012. […]
Supreme Court Sets Dates for Pivotal Gay ‘Marriage’ Cases
by Thaddeus Baklinski
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday the dates it will begin to hear oral arguments on two pivotal cases on the issue of same-sex “marriage.” On March 26, the Supreme Court will hear Hollingsworth v. Perry, on the issue of the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 – the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage that was […]
House Attempts to Use New Rules to Prevent IPAB from Rationing Care
by Jennifer Popik, JD
by Jennifer Popik, JD on Jan 12, 2013 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics
Late last week, House Republicans passed a package of rules that will guide the next (113th) Congress. Contained within these rules was a simple provision stating that “[The] Independent Payment Advisory Board … shall not apply in the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.” The Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, has remained one of the most […]
Love, Justice, and the Dying
by Judie Brown
With the passage of each year it appears that more and more Americans are being served a platter of nuanced messages regarding how one is to care for a dying loved one. It is as though death could somehow be made more palatable for those involved. The truth is that death is inevitable; nobody will […]
Gender Theory
by Dale O'Leary
This past December Pope Benedict XVI warned about the dangers of Gender Theory. Many people may be unaware of the various theories of gender and how each of them is in its own way an attack on reality. Part of the problem is that the theories are not logically consistent, and contradict one another. While the theories […]
Secular Second Thoughts on Sexual the Revolution
by Russell Shaw
by Russell Shaw on Jan 11, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage, Reproductive Technology, The Social Order
The disruptive results for individuals and society spawned by the revolution in attitudes and behavior regarding sex, marriage, family, and childbearing that erupted a half-century ago have become too obvious to ignore. These things were predictable–in fact, some people actually predicted them from the start–but by now their impact has grown so painfully apparent that […]
New Title X Amendment Would Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
by Elizabeth Charnowski
by Elizabeth Charnowski on Jan 10, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the U.S., performing a third of a million abortions each year. It treats babies like toxic waste. It should be defunded, once and for all. According to their annual report abortions took up the vast majority of their pregnancy services and for every adoption referral, they performed 145 abortions. […]
Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence
by Rebecca Oas Ph.D.
Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing that dramatic improvements in maternal health worldwide have been achieved without the liberalization of laws restricting abortion. In the November issue of the UK-based journal Reproductive Health Matters, two reports […]
Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortion Numbers, Profit
by Thaddeus Baklinski
Planned Parenthood achieved record numbers of abortions and posted record profit levels in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, according to a report from the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International (LDI). “For decades now, Planned Parenthood has operated the most proficient killing machine in the United States,” said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of LDI, […]
Human Rights or Human Wrongs?
by Judie Brown
This past year has witnessed an escalation in the redefining of human rights. For example, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) stated in its Annual Report that contraception access is a “universal human right.” Implying that the use of contraception improves the overall health and financial status of women, the UN report fails to point out the deleterious effects that […]
Federal Stem Cell Research Funding: Why You Need to Know About the Dickey Amendment
by Rebecca Taylor
In an attempt to stop the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, two researchers sued the Obama Administration saying that the administration’s funding of research that requires the destruction of a human embryo violates the Dickey Amendment. Unfortunately, while a lower court agreed that using tax-payer money to fund embryonic stem cell research is […]
Bobby Schindler Tries to Save Brain-Injured Man Under ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Order
by Kirsten Anderson
Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, is seeking permission to act as a guardian of a New York State man who is in a persistent vegetative state. Schindler is petitioning New York State’s Supreme County to serve as guardian for Gary Harvey, a Chemung County resident who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling […]
Are Abortion Rights Activists Losing the Battle?
by Dave Andrusko
How’s this for a lead to “Has The Fight For Abortion Rights Been Lost?” by Kate Pickert? She writes: “In January 1973, the Supreme Court made access to abortion a federally protected right. As I write in this week’s TIME cover story, that seemingly decisive victory 40 years ago kicked off a war that the […]
Hope for 2013: Embracing Human Nature
by Rebecca Taylor
Peering into the abyss of biotechnology, I have often mused that the problem with much of what goes on in fertility clinics and laboratories of the world is a denial of human nature. The denial that living human organisms, regardless of how they are created, are indeed human beings. They are small and immature, but […]
Weekly Wits 1/4/13
by Cartoon Editor
by Cartoon Editor on Jan 04, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Humor, Life Issues & Bioethics
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