Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

Judge Robert Bork
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Slouching From Gomorrah: Remembering Robert Bork

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by on Jan 03, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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It has been a couple of weeks since the death of Robert Bork, which occurred shortly before Christmas and didn’t really get the news coverage that Bork merited. Bork died at age 85. In 1987, he became a national headline when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court. He was a judicial conservative, […]

40 Days for Life Deadline Approaches
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40 Days for Life Deadline Approaches

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by on Jan 03, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Those in Need
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2013 is a brand new year, but it also marks the 40th anniversary of the unjust U.S. Supreme Court decisions that imposed abortion on America. Let’s resolve to make this critical year a turning point in our unified efforts to end abortion! If you’ve ever felt called to lead a 40 Days for Life campaign in […]

The Challenges that Face the Prolife Movement
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The Challenges that Face the Prolife Movement

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by on Jan 03, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As the prolife movement contemplates four decades of legalized abortion in the United States and asks itself what really needs doing to halt this hideous scandal, prolifers should consider adding a new word to their vocabulary: ambivalence. According to the dictionary, ambivalence is the state of having mutually conflicting emotions or thoughts about something. And […]

Hobby Lobby – Crafting Religious Freedom
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Hobby Lobby – Crafting Religious Freedom

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by on Jan 02, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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As a group of crafty Catholic women, joining Pinterest was a no-brainer for many of the Catholic Sistas Ink Slingers. As an Art Major, former Catholic school art teacher, homeschool mother, and now homeschool Nana this was certainly true for me.  Therefore, this past Advent and Christmas season brought me to Hobby Lobby more times than I can count. They […]

A Politically Incorrect Guide to ‘Sexual Orientation’
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A Politically Incorrect Guide to ‘Sexual Orientation’

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by on Jan 02, 2013 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world … ~ The Kinks Through the secular — ”progressive” looking-glass, the term “sexual orientation” has, in a few short years, evolved to accommodate an ever-expanding fruit basket of carnal appetites. First it was “LGB” — liberal shorthand for “lesbian, gay and bisexual.” Then they added a “T” […]

Is International Planned Parenthood Abetting Criminal Activity?
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Is International Planned Parenthood Abetting Criminal Activity?

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by on Jan 02, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Carmen Barroso sent around an e-mail this week soliciting year-end donations. She illustrates the role IPPF plays throughout the Western Hemisphere by telling the story of Valeria, a young Argentine woman: “This year, we provided vital health services to individuals like Valeria, a young Argentine woman who never received sexuality education […]

What Makes 2013 the Year for Cautious Optimism?
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What Makes 2013 the Year for Cautious Optimism?

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by on Jan 01, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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As a new year approaches, we naturally reflect on the one past. While it’s easy to get caught up in the negatives of the past year, we must identify and focus on the positive things that have happened as well. When we do this, we see that there are many reasons to look to this […]

The Inter-American Court versus the Rule of Law
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The Inter-American Court versus the Rule of Law

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by on Dec 29, 2012 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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Late last week the Inter-American Court on Human Rights struck down a Costa Rican law that banned in vitro fertilization, ruling that the restrictions violated rights to privacy, personal autonomy and “sexual and reproductive health” under the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), commonly known as the Pact of San José.  The Court further ruled that that […]

A Holy Family – Thoughts on Procreation and Christian Marriage
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A Holy Family – Thoughts on Procreation and Christian Marriage

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by on Dec 28, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage
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The Catholic Church’s stance against birth control has catapulted to the forefront of today’s news, as it is utterly shocking to modern day folk that anyone could be against birth control.  The contraceptive mentality is held in high esteem as it is considered wholly responsible and good across all walks of life. Allow me to step […]

Dwelling on the Meaning of the Incarnation
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Dwelling on the Meaning of the Incarnation

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by on Dec 26, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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If properly understood, the Christmas holiday would be enough, not only to end abortion, but to destroy all sin. Even sentimental secularists wince when they connect the feast of Jesus as a Baby with the millions of discarded unborn. As resourceful people, they change the subject or take shelter in a quick mental hiding place […]

ObamaCare Mandate May Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Leave U.S.
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ObamaCare Mandate May Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Leave U.S.

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by on Dec 21, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Health & Fitness
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The Obama administration’s HHS mandate may force the Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor to cease their U.S. operations, according to Sister Constance Carolyn Veit, the religious order’s communications director. The Little Sisters currently provide group homes and daily care for the elderly poor in 30 U.S. cities. Sister Constance told The Daily Caller that the Little Sisters […]

The Five Worst Moments for Life and Family at the United Nations in 2012
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The Five Worst Moments for Life and Family at the United Nations in 2012

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by on Dec 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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As we look back over the year 2012 here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity and the family at the United Nations. 1. World Health Organization Guidelines on Abortion The World Health Organization has always been ambiguous about its position on abortion. This year they left no doubt as to where […]

The Empty Manger
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The Empty Manger

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by on Dec 20, 2012 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Live in Christ
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During Advent, Christians gather around the Manger, as yet empty. “Come, Lord Jesus, do not delay,” the Church’s liturgy prays. Just as the Baby in the Manger represents for us the greatest Gift God brings, so the emptiness of the Manger represents the deep needs of the human heart — needs that not only we […]

Will Russia Come Back to Life?
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Will Russia Come Back to Life?

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by on Dec 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Putin Calls for Three-Child Family to Become the Norm Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. What do you do when your country is dying, one coffin at a time? Well, if you are Russian President Vladimir Putin, you call upon Russian couples to be fruitful and multiply, and have at least three children. It […]

Jindal's Witches' Brew: Deconstructing Catholic Teaching
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Jindal’s Witches’ Brew: Deconstructing Catholic Teaching

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by on Dec 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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It is reported that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is a Catholic. Further, it has been said that he is a conservative Republican. But recently we learned that Jindal is actually a counterfeit Catholic with progressive leanings on the subjects of contraception, women’s rights, and common sense. In fact, in his latest Wall Street Journal op-ed, […]

The One Pertinent Question We Truly Must Ask
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The One Pertinent Question We Truly Must Ask

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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In the wake of the horrifying deaths of 20 young school children in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, there is one question that we must ask.  We must ask it while the horror is fresh and we must ask it when the process of grief has eased our shock and pain […]

Is it Appropriate to Link Sandy Hook and Abortion?
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Is it Appropriate to Link Sandy Hook and Abortion?

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Within hours of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School pro-lifers began assigning causal rootedness in the culture of abortion. I’ve heard several people, some of whom are pro-lifers, object to making a connection. So the question needs to be addressed. Given the highly charged political and moral dimensions of the abortion debate, those most […]

Russia Rejects UN Committee Edict on Homosexual Propaganda
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Russia Rejects UN Committee Edict on Homosexual Propaganda

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Featured, International Issues, The Homosexual Agenda
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A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the promotion of homosexuality among minors as part of a national effort to protect children from early sexualization, and related adverse health consequences. In 2009 Irina Fedotova, a lesbian activist, […]

The War on Jesus Christ
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The War on Jesus Christ

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Live in Christ
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During this season of Miracles we often hear and read about the “War on Christmas” and efforts to remove and erase all references of Jesus Christ from our culture. This determination seems to increase each year, and in the near future children may lose all knowledge of the True Meaning of Christmas. As a professional […]

Trust, Fertility, and Advent
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Trust, Fertility, and Advent

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage
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One of my favorite shows is “Mayday,” a documentary which recounts stories of plane crashes and near crashes.  My favorite episodes are the ones where everyone (or most) survives. Survival usually depends on the skill and precision of the pilots and flight engineers.  I find it fascinating just what can bring a plane down and […]

China's One-Child Policy Itself Leads to Forced Abortions
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China’s One-Child Policy Itself Leads to Forced Abortions

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by on Dec 17, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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From the beginning of the one-child policy, the Chinese Party-state has tried to blame the myriad cruelties of this barbaric policy on “out-of-control local officials.” This is nonsense, of course, since local officials are only following orders on pain of punishment. So it was that when Chinese academic Yan Li tried out this excuse in […]

Stop This Insanity
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Stop This Insanity

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by on Dec 14, 2012 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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The United States Department of Education (DOE) is investigating a junior ROTC instructor who is reported to have said that the Bible condemns homosexuality. An excerpt from the report states: “On Nov. 21 the DOE sent a letter to James Robinson, director of GLBT Advocacy and Youth Services, which says the department will be investigating […]

Host Country Distances Itself from UN Youth Conference
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Host Country Distances Itself from UN Youth Conference

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by on Dec 14, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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As the twentieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) approaches, abortion activists are marking out their priorities for governments to adopt for the next 20 years.  To that end, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), along with various non-governmental organizations hosted, ICPD Global Youth Forum in Bali last week, touted by sponsors […]

Tough Religion and Evangelization
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Tough Religion and Evangelization

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by on Dec 14, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, History, Live in Christ
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Much has been said lately about how to do evangelization. I’ve contributed a bit to that myself. Now I begin to think that, instead of always stressing niceness, it might be good to give tough religion a try. That idea was inspired by a reading of Eric Metaxas’s biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian […]