Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

Matched Gifts This Month Can Boost Choose Life License Plate Program
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Matched Gifts This Month Can Boost Choose Life License Plate Program

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In 2011 Texas became the latest state to make the Choose Life plate available. The Choose Life plate is now in 25 states and has raised over $14 million for the cause of life and adoption in those states. We have started new teams in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island and Iowa and in 2012 we expect […]

Komen and Planned Parenthood: The Real Story
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Komen and Planned Parenthood: The Real Story

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As far as I can tell, the real story at the center of this week’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation / Planned Parenthood debacle is not that Komen cut off Planned Parenthood from existing funding. (They didn’t. Existing grants were to be honored for over a year.) Nor is it that Komen […]

Scientists Want to Engineer "Three-Parent" Human Beings
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Scientists Want to Engineer “Three-Parent” Human Beings

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The 3-genetic parent embryo is back in the news.  This time it is Australia that wants to attempt to genetically engineer a human embryo to have 3 genetic parents. Why would scientists want to engineer an embryo with the genetic material from 3 people?  Because, they think it will “prevent” the inheritance of mitochondrial disease.  Not all […]

The Modern Day Outlaws
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The Modern Day Outlaws

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Talking with my sister-in-law, a maternity ward nurse, the other day about the new Health and Human Services mandate (HHS), I was curious about how things are going since she works at a Catholic hospital.  She told me her hospital is totally orthodox and performs no procedures that would hurt or prevent or end life at all. […]

<em>Monsters, Inc</em>: A Door into the Hearts of Post-abortive Fathers
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Monsters, Inc: A Door into the Hearts of Post-abortive Fathers

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A few years ago, we lost our DVD of Monsters, Inc. (2001, PIXAR) in a basement flood.  It was a small disappointment, and every once in a while our kids mentioned how much they would like to see it again, but it was one of those back-burner “wants.”  This Christmas season, we bought a copy and […]

Euthanasia In Europe: From Horror To Hope
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Euthanasia In Europe: From Horror To Hope

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The problems of euthanasia and end-of-life issues are extremely complicated ones, and trying to solve these problems through legislation is often difficult. While the intentional killing of an innocent human being is always morally wrong, one cannot deny that there are real-world cases where the line blurs between what is permitted and what is not. […]

What We Must Learn From Komen
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What We Must Learn From Komen

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I’ve said it for years: While we pro-lifers have been busy trying to change the laws, the other side has been busy changing people’s hearts. Never has this been more apparent than in the about face displayed this week by Susan G. Komen for the Cure. On January 31, 2012, the Associated Press reported that […]

Prayer, Vigilance Called for in Wake of Confusion Over Komen Statement
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Prayer, Vigilance Called for in Wake of Confusion Over Komen Statement

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After confusion spread Friday in the wake of further statements from the Susan G. Komen Foundation on its decision to defund Planned Parenthood, pro-life leaders are calling upon the pro-life community to respond with prayer and vigilance in the days and months ahead. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) ignited a media firestorm against […]

Seeing Pink
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Seeing Pink

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For the past several years, it is positively maddening to shop during the month of October.  I really do love the color pink—in roses especially, and we had a pink living room once, and of course both of our girls went through the pink princess stage—but seeing those pink ribbons, pink Cheerios boxes, balloons, NFL […]

The Three Deadliest Words in the World: “It’s a Girl!”
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The Three Deadliest Words in the World: “It’s a Girl!”

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It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World is a documentary on the 200 million missing girls in the world today. Aborted, killed after birth or abandoned because they are girls. Deeply-rooted prejudice against girls and ill-conceived government policies against human beings produced this mass slaughter. I haven’t seen the film, but it’s […]

Amelia Rivera, the Disabled and the Sanctity of Life
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Amelia Rivera, the Disabled and the Sanctity of Life

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Recently, local media covered the story of Amelia Rivera, a young girl with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome reportedly denied a kidney transplant by a local hospital. Amelia’s syndrome results in serious developmental delays, and according to her parents, the hospital declined a transplant due to her diminished mental ability and shortened lifespan. It’s unwise to assume that […]

Komen Cuts Ties to Planned Parenthood, Embryonic Stem Cell Research
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Komen Cuts Ties to Planned Parenthood, Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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For years, several Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliates have given Planned Parenthood over half a million dollars in grants every year. Last year that amount was roughly $680,000 and $580,000 the year before. Now, the Nation’s largest breast cancer awareness organization says it will officially end its financial support for the Nation’s largest […]

Europe in Demographic Denial
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Europe in Demographic Denial

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If there is one word that captures many Europeans’ response to the continent’s financial crisis, it is denial. Witness the description by the editors of France’s newspaper-of-record, Le Monde, of France’s S&P credit-downgrade on January 13 as “un non-événement financier.” The fact that this “non-event” will increase France’s borrowing-costs (not to mention those of the EU’s own bailout […]

I Shouldn’t Have Waited for the Bishops
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I Shouldn’t Have Waited for the Bishops

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Are you like me? Reading the coverage of the HHS mandate for insurance to cover contraception and sterilization and wondering why the bishops are only now speaking out against it when citizens have been forced to pay taxes that fund contraception, sterilization and even abortion for a long time. “Hey, it’s about time!” Yes, this mandate […]

Obama Tampering with Conscience
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Obama Tampering with Conscience

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In March of 2010, I had the opportunity to preach to members of Congress and their staff who were gathered at the worship service held inside the Capitol just prior to the vote on Obamacare. In that sermon, I told them that Christianity transforms politics and government, because every human being in Christ has access […]

Corporations Must Stop Commidification of the Unborn
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Corporations Must Stop Commidification of the Unborn

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January 23 is a day that will forever live in the hearts and minds of pro-life Americans, people from all corners of the United States gather in Washington D.C. for the March for Life. Most media outlets barely reported on the annual March, but instead went on a slaughter frenzy of a little-known Republican State […]

Federal Court Upholds Texas Sonogram Law
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Federal Court Upholds Texas Sonogram Law

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On January 10, 2012, the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services, et al. v. David Lakey, et al. vacated the preliminary injunction order of the federal district court in Austin, Texas that prohibited the enforcement of parts of the Texas Woman’s Right to Know Act (H.B. 15), […]

Survey Says: 79% of Americans Back Major Restrictions on Abortion
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Survey Says: 79% of Americans Back Major Restrictions on Abortion

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As the United States marks the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision this week, a new survey shows that the vast majority of Americans support significant restrictions on abortion. The poll, commissioned by the Knights of Columbus, found that 79 percent of Americans say that they would not allow abortion after […]

Major Victory for Life in Europe: Council Adopts Resolution Against Euthanasia
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Major Victory for Life in Europe: Council Adopts Resolution Against Euthanasia

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On January 25, 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution setting the following, “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit, must always be prohibited.” The purpose of the resolution (n°1859/2012) entitled “Protecting human rights […]

Shock Over Massachusetts Forced Abortion Order A Positive Sign
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Shock Over Massachusetts Forced Abortion Order A Positive Sign

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Earlier this month, a 32-year-old pregnant woman, known only as Mary Moe, narrowly avoided being subjected to a forced abortion and sterilization–at the hands of her own parents. The story has outraged thousands on either side of the political aisle. Moe, who suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder, was being treated in a Massachusetts […]

The Annual Media Blackout of the March for Life
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The Annual Media Blackout of the March for Life

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What’s more newsworthy: that several hundred thousand people converged on Capitol Hill in the midst of a cold rain in the middle of January in order to protest abortion, or that a tiny handful of pro-abortion counter protesters showed up as well? Here’s another question: are attendees at the March for Life primarily young, vibrant, […]

Backlash Begins Against Obama’s LGBT Agenda
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Backlash Begins Against Obama’s LGBT Agenda

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The citizens of several countries are pushing back against President Obama’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender foreign policy imperative. Leaders in El Salvador launched a website on “Obama’s Corrupting Foreign Policy” and are asking the U.S. Senate to reject Obama’s nominee for ambassador to their country. President Obama announced in December that the promotion of […]

Happy and Healthy
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Happy and Healthy

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It’s a harmless phrase, really. Many an expectant parent has said it: “We’re happy as long as he’s happy and healthy.” Well intentioned and true, no doubt. Who doesn’t want their child to be happy and healthy? Pregnant women forgo champagne toasts on New Year’s Eve, take prenatal vitamins with DHA and folic acid and […]

A Generation Lucky to Be Alive
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A Generation Lucky to Be Alive

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Today, hundreds of thousands of pro-life people 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 […]