Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

Marriage According to God or Man?
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Marriage According to God or Man?

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by on Oct 22, 2012 in Catechesis, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice, Marriage, Men, Parenting, The Catholic Family, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order, Women
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Editors note: This was given as a homily on Sunday, October 14th, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Brighton, MN. The gospel was for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, Mark 10:17-30. Recently I spoke with a senior at a Catholic high school and he was telling me that […]

Genetic Modification: Bad for Cows and Corn, but Okay for Humans?
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Genetic Modification: Bad for Cows and Corn, but Okay for Humans?

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by on Oct 22, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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As a former California girl, I am aware that my state of origin is full of contradictions like women who are on the Pill eating nothing but organically grown produce. Back in 2004 Californians overwhelmingly voted with Prop 71 to publicly fund embryonic stem cell research with billions of dollars because they were told that […]

For Guttmacher, It's Not Enough for Children to Be “Wanted” By Their Parents
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For Guttmacher, It’s Not Enough for Children to Be “Wanted” By Their Parents

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by on Oct 20, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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A new study by researchers at Yale found that at least 50% of young couples expecting a child actually desired the pregnancy.  From a sample of 296 couples in which the female was 14-21, 49% of female participants and 53% of males reported wanting the pregnancy.  Furthermore, another 18% of females and 24% of males reported being […]

40 Days for Life: <em>"It's My Baby, Too!"</em>
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40 Days for Life: “It’s My Baby, Too!”

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by on Oct 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Men
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In a recent talk during this 40 Days for Life campaign, I mentioned that the pro-life movement is made up of sinners. We are all sinners and the pro-life effort includes many who have had abortions, doctors who have done abortions and thousands who at one point sincerely defended abortion but are now pro-life. Many […]

Death With Dignity: Coming to a State Near You
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Death With Dignity: Coming to a State Near You

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by on Oct 19, 2012 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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With the matter of legalized physician assisted suicide facing the Massachusetts voters this November (and a new law proposed in New Jersey), I thought it would be a good time to remind readers why the CBC opposes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. To be clear, we support people dying a natural death. Sometimes the zeal for assisted legalized […]

Our Country's Unfortunate Love Affair With Birth Control
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Our Country’s Unfortunate Love Affair With Birth Control

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by on Oct 18, 2012 in Apologetics, Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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In the months leading up to the presidential election, the American bishops’ conference clearly made a strong, tactical move. It is counterproductive in the present climate, they posited, to dwell on the questions concerning the liceity of contraceptive use, but far more productive to focus our energy on the crucial right to religious liberty for […]

Ontario Gov't Minister: New Law Prohibits Pro-Life Teaching in Catholic Schools
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Ontario Gov’t Minister: New Law Prohibits Pro-Life Teaching in Catholic Schools

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by on Oct 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Last Wednesday’s startling remarks from the Ontario Liberal Government’s Minister of Education Laurel Broten prohibiting teaching against abortion in Catholic schools have caused an outpouring of calls for the Minister’s resignation and for the scrapping of the recently-passed “anti-bullying” law which she cited as necessitating the prohibition. Broten has been rebuked the Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto, and […]

Will UN Disability Treaty Burden Abortion Clinics?
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Will UN Disability Treaty Burden Abortion Clinics?

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by on Oct 17, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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They didn’t see that coming. Planned Parenthood’s support of the UN Disability treaty has put the abortion group in an awkward position. In the abortion group’s zeal to support the treaty because it endorses the right of persons with disabilities to access “reproductive health care,” it neglects to notice that the same treaty would require […]

Clarification on Pro-Life Objections to iPSC Technology
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Clarification on Pro-Life Objections to iPSC Technology

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by on Oct 17, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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Last week I wrote about some pro-life objections to induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology. Yes there are some objections surrounding iPSCs, but I hold that iPSCs themselves are not inherently immoral. Cell lines of illicit origin have been used in developing this technology (and unfortunately are used ubiquitously in many areas of research), and […]

Pink Picket Fences
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Pink Picket Fences

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by on Oct 17, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On Books
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As we endure another “Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” it would be good to review how many people are touched by this life-threatening disease. The statistics offered by the American Cancer Society show that there are approximately 230,000 new breast cancer cases annually, and 95% of those incidents are in women above the age of 40. […]

Sorry, Mr. Vice President, That Is Not a "Fact"
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Sorry, Mr. Vice President, That Is Not a “Fact”

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by on Oct 17, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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For me, the most jaw-dropping moment of the vice presidential debate came when Vice President Joe Biden asserted that Obamacare’s contraception mandate simply did not exist. Said the VP: “With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution — Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, […]

Answering Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research
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Answering Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

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by on Oct 13, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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There has been a lot of talk about Dr. Yamanaka and his work on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) since he won the Nobel Prize earlier this week.  There have even been some rumblings that pro-lifers should not be so happy about iPSCs since they are not “100% pro-life.” Before I list the objections that […]

Infertility and Selective Abortion: Steering a Course Between Scylla and Charybdis
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Infertility and Selective Abortion: Steering a Course Between Scylla and Charybdis

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by on Oct 12, 2012 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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A lot of people, conservatives in particular, tend to idealize the past.  We like to wax lyrical about simpler times, the “good old days.”  Of course, if we are honest we have to admit that those good old days weren’t always so great.  The passage of time and progress of society have brought many blessings […]

The Battle Is Not Over the How
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The Battle Is Not Over the How

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by on Oct 11, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, MyChurchParish.com
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In a recent article in The National Catholic Reporter Michael Sean Winters criticized vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan for failing to present a plan to help the poor, and purported to criticize Vice President Joe Biden for not presenting a way to protect the unborn.  I found the usual obfuscation of Catholic moral teaching that […]

Fungible Human Rights for Negotiable Human Beings
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Fungible Human Rights for Negotiable Human Beings

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by on Oct 11, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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Sometimes I wonder if anyone really thinks through what it means to be a human being anymore. There are so many signals being transmitted hither and yon these days that it makes the mind spin—and very few of these signals are grounded in natural law or even common sense. For example, I read a headline asking, “Is […]

UN Human Rights Council Affirms Traditional Values
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UN Human Rights Council Affirms Traditional Values

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by on Oct 10, 2012 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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Delegations from European Countries and the United States suffered a setback last week when the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution affirming a positive link between traditional values and human rights. The European and U.S. delegations view traditional values as threats to women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual persons. This is the third resolution […]

Opportunities to Glorify God
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Opportunities to Glorify God

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by on Oct 09, 2012 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Live in Christ
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I was recently told I have cancer. We often hear that other people have the dreaded “C” word but now it is my turn. Initially it was hard to get my head around the news. The oncologist at the Cross Cancer Institute was unsure how to approach my treatment. My situation is complicated by the […]

We All Know it's Wrong
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We All Know it’s Wrong

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by on Oct 09, 2012 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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CBC President Jennifer Lahl interviews Alana S. Newman, the founder of the Anonymous Us Project about an event that took place in New York on October 1. Jennifer: Last week I received a Google alert telling me about a charity fundraising event in New York City to raise money for Gay men to have babies via reproductive technology […]

Scientist Who Developed Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Wins Nobel Prize
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Scientist Who Developed Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Wins Nobel Prize

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by on Oct 08, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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The man that envisioned a better way than destroying human embryos to get embryonic-like stem cells has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka developed the technique to take an adult cell and reprogram it to an embryonic-like state as a way to avoid the destruction of human embryos. Dr. Yamanka’s reprogrammed adult […]

40 Days for Life: Have You Come Out to Pray Yet?
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40 Days for Life: Have You Come Out to Pray Yet?

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by on Oct 08, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Many of the 316 cities participating in 40 Days for Life this fall are holding 24-hour vigils. That’s  960 total hours! It is a very powerful witness to know that before any couples show up for an abortion and long after the last abortion worker leaves, there is someone there praying and bearing witness to the community. For […]

The Deadly Legacy of a Dozen Years of Chemical Abortion
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The Deadly Legacy of a Dozen Years of Chemical Abortion

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by on Oct 08, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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It was on September 28, 2000, when we got the news. Nearly eight years after it had first been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), RU-486, the French abortion pill, had been approved. No one in the U.S. wanted to make the pill–there had been lawsuits between the pills promoters, inspections at […]

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Misdiagnosed Causes and Misleading Solutions: Facts Guttmacher Won’t Give You

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by on Oct 06, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The Guttmacher Institute released a new video today (the transcript can be found here) making their case for worldwide abortion access.  A large part of their argument hinges on the contribution of abortion complications to maternal mortality. The  World Health Organization (WHO) reports that about 13% of maternal deaths occur as a result of unsafe […]

Moroccan Warships Block Entrance of Dutch Abortion Ship
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Moroccan Warships Block Entrance of Dutch Abortion Ship

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by on Oct 05, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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Moroccan authorities have taken action against the floating abortion mill commandeered by the Dutch abortion group Women on Waves.  In a press release today, the abortion activist group notes that their ship was due to arrive in the harbor of Smir at 1pm local time but was blocked by warships. “Marina Smir has been completely […]

A Major Pro-Life Victory at Home in New York City
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A Major Pro-Life Victory at Home in New York City

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by on Oct 05, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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News this week that is as personal to me as anything that will ever happen in the pro-life movement: the largest abortuary in New York City shut down because of 22 years of pro-life witness at its doors by Msgr. Phillip Reilly and his associates of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants. Read the incredible story […]