Category: Life Issues & Bioethics

General Boykin’s Comments Reflect Pro-life, Pro-family Experiences
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General Boykin’s Comments Reflect Pro-life, Pro-family Experiences

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The comments of Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin at the Value Voters Summit accurately reflect what very many pro-family leaders have experienced for years as they have valiantly struggled to defend traditional family life and sexual morality. This has especially been the case regarding abortion, but even more so on the issue of homosexuality. Religious leaders […]

Army General: ‘Where Were the Churches’ in DADT Fight?
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Army General: ‘Where Were the Churches’ in DADT Fight?

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One of America’s most seasoned war generals expressed frustration at the silence of Christian churches as the U.S. military’s ban on open homosexuality fell to a repeal effort earlier this year. At the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin described the exasperation of pro-family leaders in Washington who found themselves abandoned by church […]

UN Women: Right to Abortion = Right to Justice
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UN Women: Right to Abortion = Right to Justice

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While many Americans took last Monday off for Columbus day, the Third Committee of the General Assembly at the United Nations was meeting in its 66th session to discuss Item 28 (a,b) concerning the Advancement of Women internationally. Arriving at the UN earlier than usual, we were surprised to find the Third Committee present in […]

How to Change the World
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How to Change the World

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The alignment of a few highly visible events this month provide an opportunity to consider the most important topic before us: life. There is the death of Apple founder, Steve Jobs; there is the 40 Days for Life campaign that takes place around the country; and finally there are the “Occupy” sit-ins around the country, […]

Major Pro-Life Legal/Scientific Document Launched at UN Headquarters
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Major Pro-Life Legal/Scientific Document Launched at UN Headquarters

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It is commonplace now for UN officials and American law professors to tell foreign governments that they are required by international law to liberalize their abortion laws. Just last month the UN Special Rapporteur on Health issued a report making this claim. The Secretary General endorsed his report. Shortly thereafter the UN High Commission on […]

Obama, the Pill, and Catholics: The Sham
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Obama, the Pill, and Catholics: The Sham

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The Obama administration is close to proclaiming from its glass mountaintop the final decision to require most health insurers to cover contraceptives, the morning-after pill, and elective sterilization. The public comment period is over. The people have spoken into that vacuum known as government of the people, by the people, and for the administration. The […]

A Renewed Call to Faithful Citizenship and the Priority of Life
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A Renewed Call to Faithful Citizenship and the Priority of Life

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[Author’s note: This week the US House of Representatives will vote on a very important Bill, the Protect Life Act (HR 358) which would bar abortion funding in the President’s health care law. Call your Representative in Congress today and ask him or her to vote YES on the Protect Life Act.  You can call the […]

"Show Me the Records," Congress tells Planned Parenthood
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“Show Me the Records,” Congress tells Planned Parenthood

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When a Washington Post reporter broke the news last week that the abortion mega-provider Planned Parenthood is under investigation by Rep. Cliff Stearns and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Americans United for Life was quickly at the center of the debate as a result of AUL’s ground-breaking report, “The Case for Investigating Planned […]

The Drama of Grace
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The Drama of Grace

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In the Gospel of St. Matthew there is Jesus’ parable of the merciful master and the merciless servant. The master holds one of his servants accountable for a debt owed to the master, and is ready to order the servant and his family sold into bondage, and all of his property sold as well, for […]

Study: The Pill Causes Memory Changes
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Study: The Pill Causes Memory Changes

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In case you missed it, the world celebrated Contraception Day 2011 on [September 26]. Here is USAID’s recognition of the day, complete with a happy Indian family with two children, (the average number the UN statisticians say Indians, and every other nation, will have by century’s end and a one child less than the average […]

The Secret Weapon Against Abortion: An Interview with ‘180’ Creator Ray Comfort
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The Secret Weapon Against Abortion: An Interview with ‘180’ Creator Ray Comfort

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After the pro-life documentary film 180 was published on the Internet [last] week, the spellbinding display of young people changing their views about abortion in real time was an instant hit, garnering over 320,000 views on Youtube in only four days (Click here to watch the movie on Youtube.). New Zealand Christian minister Ray Comfort, creator […]

HHS Birth Control Mandate Tied to NARAL, Planned Parenthood
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HHS Birth Control Mandate Tied to NARAL, Planned Parenthood

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The medical committee behind the federal government’s impending mandate that insurers cover birth control without co-pay is populated by board members of NARAL and Planned Parenthood, as well as major donors to politicians favoring legal abortion. The pro-life organization HLI America says public records show the ideological roots of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee, […]

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UN Considers Euthanasia and New Treaty on Aging

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The Holy See condemned attempts to inject euthanasia into the right to health and Latin American and Caribbean delegations called for a new UN treaty at two recent UN meetings on the rights of the elderly. At the Human Rights Council in Geneva the Holy See representative said his delegation took “strong exception” to a […]

China's One-Child Policy Toll Reaches 400 Million
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China’s One-Child Policy Toll Reaches 400 Million

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Over the years, I have been asked many times to estimate how many lives have been lost in China as a result of the one-child policy. Given that the policy has been in place for 30 years, I respond, and given that each year the government aborts between 10 to 15 million women, the total […]

Men Are Needed to Protect Unborn Babies
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Men Are Needed to Protect Unborn Babies

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The United States of America is about to witness a series of phenomena that are stark reminders of the ever-growing gap between the family unit as we knew it in the fifties and the broken home that we recognize as emblematic of the current milieu. While we are hopeful that the most effective destroyer of […]

Baby Joseph Dies at Home, Surrounded by Family
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Baby Joseph Dies at Home, Surrounded by Family

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The dramatic story of Joseph Maraachli, popularly known as “Baby Joseph,” came to its final conclusion yesterday. Alex Schadenberg of the Canada-based Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said Wednesday morning that Baby Joseph, who burst into international headlines earlier this year when Canadian doctors scheduled to remove him from life support against his family’s wishes, died at […]

"Sticks and Stones" and Down Syndrome Eugenics
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“Sticks and Stones” and Down Syndrome Eugenics

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As a young boy growing up a popular phrase taught was “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” This advice proved to be very useful in my childhood and very handy when as an adult I became a Police Officer and dealt with a barrage of inappropriate names from […]

Depersonalizing the Dementia Patient
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Depersonalizing the Dementia Patient

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Televangelist Pat Robertson made another high-profile gaffe last week when he told a caller on “The 700 Club” show that a husband who is tempted to cheat on his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife ought to leave her for someone new. “I know it sounds cruel,” Robertson said, “but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce […]

Planned Parenthood's Garden: The Fruits of Reproductive Freedom
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Planned Parenthood’s Garden: The Fruits of Reproductive Freedom

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It has often been said by my fellow pro-lifers that it is simply untimely to expect the general population to understand the reasons why the practice of contraception not only leads to but, in many instances, causes abortion. And the problem with that argument is that, while we hesitate, Planned Parenthood and its allies sow […]

Political Parties and Skull Cracking
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Political Parties and Skull Cracking

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Whether it’s an election year or not, I see to it that Priests for Life echoes loud and clear the duty of citizens to inform themselves about where the candidates stand on the issues. This evaluation starts, of course, with where they stand on violence against human beings, because if public servants cannot tell the […]

Anonymous Donor Daddies: The Kids Aren’t Alright
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Anonymous Donor Daddies: The Kids Aren’t Alright

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I think it’s pretty fair to say that the whole IVF/artificial insemination social experiment has been a process of putting the desires of adults over the best interest of children. Latest case in point: recently, the New York Times reported that the grossly under-regulated and greedy U.S. fertility industry has been allowing dozens of different […]

Money Can't Buy Hope for Boy Whose Parents Wish They Had Aborted Him
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Money Can’t Buy Hope for Boy Whose Parents Wish They Had Aborted Him

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A Palm Beach jury just awarded a couple, Rudolpho Santana and Ana Mejia,  $4.5 million in damages in a wrongful birth suit. Their son, Bryan, was born in October 2008 without arms and with only one leg. Their suit was against the mothers obstetrician and sonographer, saying if they had done their jobs, detecting the anomaly […]

UN’s High Fertility Projections Still Show Rapid Global Aging
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UN’s High Fertility Projections Still Show Rapid Global Aging

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Even with its highly optimistic fertility projections, the new UN population forecast predicts a grayer world than the one imagined by its 2009 report which used much lower fertility estimates. Perhaps most significant is the steep rise in society’s proportion of the old (65 years or older) and very old (80 years and older). By […]

Catholic Bishops Wade Into Budget Debate
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Catholic Bishops Wade Into Budget Debate

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As Congress struggles to balance our out-of-control federal budget, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has officially put its oar into the debate. In an open letter to congress, the USCCB (along with Catholic Relief Services), told federal budget-crunchers exactly what programs they thought should be sliced from the budget. And, (surprise surprise) […]