July 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — One thing that confuses at Mass today is just what the priest is doing at the altar/table up front. Depending on the prayers he chooses, he is either offering a sacrifice to God or preparing a communal meal: Which is it? Similarly, if the priest is booming prayers into a …
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Yesterday, we learned that Baby Charlie Gard is expected to die soon as his heartbroken parents have decided to remove his life support because a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy. According to a BBC article, “US neurologist Dr Michio Hirano had said he was no …
By Sydney Robinson In a modern-day version of eugenics, inmates in White County, Tennessee are volunteering to receive vasectomies or birth control implants in exchange for credit toward their jail sentence. It’s a dark program that the ACLU says is unconstitutional, and whether or not it is, it certainly hearkens back to similar cases in which …
Micaiah Bilger Jul 25, 2017 | 2:26PM Oakland, CA As the tragic case of British infant Charlie Gard nears a close, another family in the United States continues their fight for their severely ill daughter’s life. Many LifeNews readers will remember Jahi McMath, the teenager who was declared brain dead three …
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https://theguidingstarproject.com The timing of your recent article, “Keeping Our Promise to 120 Million Women and Girls,” and the Global Family Planning Summit in London could not be better in light of the upcoming Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week. We are in agreement that, “the conversation around contraceptives is one of the most important conversations …
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Is the Church going to “revisit” its teachings against artificial contraception? That’s what Melinda Gates – wife of Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates – hopes. In a recent interview with the BBC, Gates said she is “optimistic” that Pope Francis and the Vatican might do just that. The Bill …
Leah Barkoukis Jul 21, 2017 | 9:53AM Washington, DC Want to reduce climate change? You may want to think about having fewer children, a recent study out of Sweden finds. That’s right—the biggest impact on reducing climate change is to limit the size of your family, according to the study. Other …
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Gerard Migeon | Jul 20 2017 | July 23 marks the beginning of Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week in the United States. In this article Gerard Migeon, founder and CEO of Natural Womanhood, takes a look at some recent research on fertility awareness based methods and sets out 10 ways in which fertility awareness …
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Lauretta Brown Jul 18, 2017 | 4:26PM Washington, DC Obianuju Ekeocha, a Nigerian-born biomedical scientist and the founder of Culture of Life Africa, a U.K.-based pro-life group, argued on BBC’s Sunday Morning Live that the Gates Foundation’s push for contraception in Africa might be “an insidious way of moving the agenda …
By Theresa Smith | July 12, 2017 | 8:38 PM EDT Professor Charles Tyler, reproductive physiologist and environmental biologist at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), has found that chemicals from contraceptive pills and other household cleaning products are causing fresh-water male fish to develop female parts and even to lay eggs. Tyler’s research …
Posted on July 16, 2017 by Cassie Moriarty The sincere guide to promoting NFP It’s almost NFP Awareness week (July 23)! It’s easy to get swept away in NFP promotion and forget that it’s not always a breezy journey for everyone. So here we have laid out the guide to promoting Natural Family Planning without …
By Holly Scheer https://thefederalist.com For many women, the decision to go on birth control is a normal part of womanhood. At well-woman checks and appointments after a baby’s birth doctors say it’s time to talk about birth control, and the general assumption is that you’ll use birth control until it’s the perfect time to have …
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OTTAWA, July 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) The Justin Trudeau Liberals will pour $241.5 million into providing and promoting contraception and abortion in developing nations — particularly in Africa — as part of their commitment to securing global access to “sexual and reproductive health and rights.” International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau made the announcement on Tuesday during …
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Zoe Romanowsky | Feb 19, 2017 When Noah Wall was born, the doctors said he probably wouldn’t survive and if he did, he would be severely physically and developmentally disabled. Born with only 2 percent of his brain to a family in Cumbria, England, Noah had no hope — at least according to the doctors. …
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July 10, 2017 (HLI) – The case of baby Charlie Gard has the gravest consequences for the rights of parents and the autonomy of the family. This assault against the family and life stretches beyond the borders of the UK, and we should all be very concerned. For those unfamiliar with the case in question, Charlie …
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Micaiah Bilger Jul 7, 2017 | 10:45AM London, England Claiming that birth control cuts abortion numbers is a favorite talking point of abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, but more and more studies are finding that this is not the case. One of the latest reports comes from the abortion chain British …
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nancyvalko When I started nursing school 50 years ago, medical ethics was not a course but rather common sense principles incorporated into our education. There was no controversy about not harming patients, integrity, equality of treatment regardless of status, etc. So, of course, abortion and euthanasia were unacceptable and even thinkable in those days. I …
By Michael J. New — June 29, 2017 http://www.nationalreview.com/node/449104/print Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This case involved the constitutionality of several provisions in Pennsylvania’s Abortion Control Act and marked the only time that the Supreme Court formally reconsidered its holdings in Roe v. Wade. When …
Casey at 25: Pro-Life Progress Despite a Judicial Setback Read More »
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/05/pro-lifers-get-out-of-medicine by Wesley J. Smith 5 . 12 . 17 Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But that may soon change. Bioethicists and other medical elites have launched a frontal assault against doctors seeking to practice their professions under the values established by the Hippocratic Oath. The …
