Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

Former Employees Offer to Testify Against Planned Parenthood in Congressional Probe
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Former Employees Offer to Testify Against Planned Parenthood in Congressional Probe

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by on Dec 09, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Seven former Planned Parenthood employees have expressed their support for Congress’ current investigation of the abortion giant, and offered to testify against the organization, in a letter released this week. News broke in September that the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce had launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood to determine whether the group mishandles criminal […]

Sex-Selection Abortion Ban Gets Hearing in U.S. House
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Sex-Selection Abortion Ban Gets Hearing in U.S. House

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by on Dec 09, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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A House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday heard testimony regarding the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PreNDA), which would make it illegal for abortionists to perform an abortion sought on the basis of the child’s race or gender. The bill lays sanctions against anyone coercing a woman to abort based on race or sex, abortionists who perform such […]

A Shocking Dose of Sanity from the HHS
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A Shocking Dose of Sanity from the HHS

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by on Dec 08, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Plan B (also known as the morning-after pill) was approved by the FDA at the end of the Clinton administration in 1999. Since 2009, it has been available behind the pharmacy counter without prescription for women 17 years of age and older.  This week, the FDA considered a request from Plan B manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals […]

Abortion and Euthanasia Acceptance are Historical Aberrations
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Abortion and Euthanasia Acceptance are Historical Aberrations

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by on Dec 07, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Canada and the United States treat abortion on demand as a right. This is a recent development and an aberration from the course of human history. The Hippocratic Oath for doctors dating back thousands of years forbade abortion and euthanasia. Since the 1st century, the Catholic Church has unwaveringly maintained the moral evil of procured […]

Is Righteousness in Government Possible?
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Is Righteousness in Government Possible?

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by on Dec 06, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Righteous: acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin – according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is the exemplification of a justice The fundamental principle of justice—in law, in governing, in treating all peoples with equity—is the cornerstone of a humane society. It is important to understand […]

Christmas for the Unborn
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Christmas for the Unborn

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by on Dec 06, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Christmas is universal. “Behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people…A Savior has been born for you” (Luke 1:10-11). Christ the Savior becomes man precisely for all who share human nature. He excludes nobody. The good news of Christmas is for all people of all times […]

Ban Sex Selective Abortions in the U.S.
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Ban Sex Selective Abortions in the U.S.

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by on Dec 05, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Nearly nine out of ten Americans oppose abortion for reasons of sex selection, but such acts of gender violence are neither illegal nor uncommon in our country. Permissive abortion laws and high-resolution ultrasounds make it easier than ever for parents to target and eliminate unwanted daughters (or sons) before birth. Until the recent spate of […]

Why Does the Catholic Church Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
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Why Does the Catholic Church Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

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by on Dec 05, 2011 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured
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A reader recently asked the following fantastic question about the Catholic Church teaching on embryonic stem cell research: While my views in connection with research are opposed to those of the Pope and the Catholic church, I am very open to dialogue.  Simply for the sake of clarity (and not in any way seeking to […]

World AIDS Day and Down Syndrome: Killing is Not a Cure
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World AIDS Day and Down Syndrome: Killing is Not a Cure

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by on Dec 02, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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One of my pet peeves was brought to mind by World AIDS Day. Not that I oppose finding a cure for HIV. I was a social worker when AIDS emerged in the eighties. I helped a young man with HIV who was kicked out of the Greenwich Village loft that he had shared with his […]

House Investigates Obama Admin Decision to Deny Bishops Grant Over Abortion
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House Investigates Obama Admin Decision to Deny Bishops Grant Over Abortion

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by on Dec 02, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Yesterday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a two-hour hearing investigating whether the Obama administration denied grant money to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops because of its religious objections to abortion. Under the Bush administration, the bishops received a five-year $19 million grant to help victims of human trafficking. The grant was first […]

Homosexuality and the Church Crisis
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Homosexuality and the Church Crisis

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by on Dec 01, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Abstract: Due to clergy sex abuse scandals centered primarily in the Northern hemisphere, the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church has been subjected to an opportunistic siege by prominent individuals and organizations who see the chance to advance their goals, including the ordination of women and the suspension of the requirement for priestly celibacy. […]

India's Proposed Two-Child Policy
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India’s Proposed Two-Child Policy

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by on Dec 01, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The southern Indian state of Kerala might be the next in a long line of governments attempting to destroy their own greatest resource: their people. According to on-the-ground reports obtained by PRI, elements in the Keralan government are attempting to pass what they innocuously call “The Women’s Code Bill.” This bill, if passed, would create […]

Manic Disdain for Our Fellow Man
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Manic Disdain for Our Fellow Man

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by on Nov 30, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Manic: affected with, relating to, characterized by, or resulting from mania There is no other word that better defines man’s desire to perfect man than the mania that drives so many to eliminate human imperfection by killing human beings. This craving has gripped the very core of those we have come to identify as the […]

Young Girl With Down Syndrome Becomes ‘Darling’ of Child Modeling World
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Young Girl With Down Syndrome Becomes ‘Darling’ of Child Modeling World

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by on Nov 29, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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When Gemma Andre submitted photos of her young daughter, Taya, to a UK modeling agency at the urging of a family member, she didn’t say anything about the fact that Taya was born with Down syndrome. “No one asked the question, ‘Is your child disabled?’ So I didn’t mention it,” Gemma told the Daily Mail […]

Bishop: Memory of Holocaust Should Inspire Greater Vigilance for Unborn
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Bishop: Memory of Holocaust Should Inspire Greater Vigilance for Unborn

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by on Nov 29, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The memory of the Holocaust should inspire Christians to greater vigilance on behalf of the unborn and the vulnerable, remarked a U.K. bishop at an address commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Nov. 24th. Warning that “no Christian can pass by the Holocaust without profound reflection,” Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury observed that mass crimes and […]

The Eyeless "I" of Assisted Suicide
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The Eyeless “I” of Assisted Suicide

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by on Nov 28, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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A Canadian court is considering a challenge to the nation’s law prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia. Consequently the topic is in the news. I received an email from a woman who doesn’t know what to think as the assisted suicide camp is pulling out all their compassionate sounding euphemisms to promote death. She wanted my […]

Catholic College Would Shut Down Before Submitting to Fed's Contraceptive Mandate
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Catholic College Would Shut Down Before Submitting to Fed’s Contraceptive Mandate

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by on Nov 25, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The president of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina says they would rather close their doors than submit to a mandate by the Obama administration that threatens to force Catholic institutions to cover abortifacient drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives in their health plans. “I believe we would go there,” said Dr. William Thierfelder, according to the […]

Planned Parenthood: Agent of Destruction
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Planned Parenthood: Agent of Destruction

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by on Nov 25, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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According to its website, “for more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has promoted a commonsense approach to women’s health and well-being, based on respect for each individual’s right to make informed, independent decisions about health, sex, and family planning.” There is in this glowing self-endorsement a subtle tribute to Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger.  An […]

Cardinal Burke: Attacks on Unborn are Rooted in ‘Contraceptive Mentality’
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Cardinal Burke: Attacks on Unborn are Rooted in ‘Contraceptive Mentality’

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by on Nov 23, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of America’s highest ranking Catholic prelates, urged pro-life advocates last month to confront an “erroneous view of human sexuality” that robs the sexual act of its life-giving purpose. “The attack on the innocent and defenceless life of the unborn has its origin in an erroneous view of human sexuality, which attempts […]

Pelosi Blasts Catholics on Abortion: They ‘Have This Conscience Thing’
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Pelosi Blasts Catholics on Abortion: They ‘Have This Conscience Thing’

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by on Nov 23, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted Catholics for fighting for the right not to perform or fund abortions, describing their abhorrence for supporting abortions as “this conscience thing,” in remarks to the Washington Post. Last month, during a debate in the House over a bill to stop abortion funding in the health care […]

The $5 Protest: Why Can't We Do This for Abortion?
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The $5 Protest: Why Can’t We Do This for Abortion?

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by on Nov 22, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Thousands of people rallied in protest to newly announced $5 debit card fees.  It only took about one month for Bank of America to rethink and eliminate the fee.  Surely if 10 or 20 thousand can move the biggest bank in Americato change its fee policy so quickly and apologetically, then 50 million ardent pro-lifers […]

Washington State Lawyer: Expand Assisted Suicide to Those Not Terminally Ill
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Washington State Lawyer: Expand Assisted Suicide to Those Not Terminally Ill

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by on Nov 21, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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With a court battle over Canada’s laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide proceeding just north of the border, a lawyer in Washington State has proposed that his state expand their Death with Dignity Act. Currently Washington’s law allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication upon request to a competent, terminally ill patient, but Olympia attorney Brian […]

Planned Parenthood's Core Principle: The Ethics of Misinformation
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Planned Parenthood’s Core Principle: The Ethics of Misinformation

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by on Nov 19, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Twisted values have always been a Planned Parenthood hallmark whether discussing the human rights of the preborn or a believer’s right to love God. No matter what the right thing to do might be, you can count on Planned Parenthood to do the opposite. For example, during the November 2 hearing on Capitol Hill which […]

Find Me Somebody to Organ-Rob--Alive or Dead
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Find Me Somebody to Organ-Rob–Alive or Dead

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by on Nov 18, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Organ-robbing is something that, in polite company, is referred to as organ donation or organ removal from a “dead” body or some similar term. The idea is to persuade the public that donating a vital organ is a brilliant idea, and since the person making the donation is dead, who’s to care? Well, folks, you […]