Cathy Ruse, February 19, 2015 It’s not easy swimming against the tide. I am sorry to admit that “pro-life activist” is not always my first response to the cocktail party question. And standing by your belief in man-woman marriage sometimes feels like holding up a “punch me” sign. But San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has …
This man won’t be bullied: Bravo Archbishop Cordileone! Read More »
ROME, February 26, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Allegations have surfaced this week that the lead organizer of the Vatican’s controversial Synod on the Family in October personally intervened to block the distribution of a book distributed by high-ranking cardinals, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, that defended the Church’s teachings on marriage. Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary for …
Home Advancements in science and medical technology have proven to be great gifts to the pro-life movement time and time again. Doctors are able to routinely deliver premature babies at earlier and earlier stages of development. Innovations in sonogram imaging have provided a window to the womb enabling expectant mothers to see their unborn children …
Pro-Life Doctor Saved a Woman’s Baby Midway Through an Abortion Read More »
Brilliant! The same Canadian doctors who are apparently very poorly trained in palliative care, have been given a license to kill by the recent radical ruling of the country’s Supreme Court. This medical and potentially humanitarian mess is sorted through in a good column in the Toronto Star by Harvey Max Chochinov. From, “Canada Failing on Palliative …
MDs can’t control pain, but now they’re expected to kill? Read More »
BY MARCUS ROBERTS http://www.mercatornet.com George Friedman is the Chairman of Stratfor and his (free) Geopolitical Weekly articles often appear in Mercatornet. I always enjoy reading them. He has recently written on demography and the long term implications of a declining world population. “Global Decline and the Great Economic Reversal” is an interesting read and I …
The following questions and answers are based on the recent article on Plan B in the February, 2015 issue of the Linacre Quarterly. Feel free to contact the main author, Dr. Chris Kahlenborn with additional questions at drchrisk@polycarp.org 1. Would you say Plan B ever functions as a contraceptive (i.e., prevents sperm from fertilizing egg)? …
Source: Catholic World News Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the family, Pope Francis spoke on February 11 about children. “Children are the joy of family and society,” he said. “They are not a problem of reproductive biology, or one of many ways to realize oneself in life, let alone their parents’ possession. …
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Source: http://www.all.org A major scientific review by Christopher Kahlenborn, MD, et al, published last week in the Linacre Quarterly, found that levonorgestrel emergency contraception, also known as Plan B, has “significant potential of working via abortion.” The review also revealed that arguments claiming Plan B is not an abortifacient are not scientifically defensible. The review …
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February 3, 2015 (MercatorNet.com) Carl Djerassi, widely dubbed “the father of the Pill”, has died at his home in San Francisco at the age of 91. Though best known for synthesizing the hormone that became the key ingredient of the contraceptive pill, the eminent Stanford University professor emeritus made a number of significant contributions to …
By Gerard Migeon Home Even during the wildest times of my youth, I would never have wanted to be the cause of an abortion. Yet, there is a possibility that I have been responsible for one, unaware. How? Because of contraceptive methods that my wife and I used before we knew about the natural methods. …
