Mary Rezac/CNA Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla, a man from a small town in Poland who lost all of his immediate family — mother, older brother, an infant sister and father — by the time he was 20 years old. Shortly thereafter, he vowed a life of celibacy as a Catholic priest. …
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Calvin Freiburger January 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – America’s top abortion chain is rolling out a new product meant to cut out any middleman between themselves and children searching for information and guidance about sex, contraception, and abortion: a new automated chat program to directly answer whatever questions they may have. Roo is a “chatbot” operated …
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Shannon Roberts | Jan 29 2019 Will the world’s population really reach 11.2 billion in 2100? This week The Guardian provides a good summary of alternate world population projections which challenge this United Nations figure, and casts doubt on whether the world’s population will really continue to grow until the end of this century. The United Nations bases its population …
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By Laura Nicole | While 700,000 marchers flocked to Washington, D.C. to stand up for the rights of the preborn, a record number were also marching for in Paris. The March for Life in Paris, a non-denominational and non-partisan event, is the largest annual pro-life gathering in Europe, and the number of attendees continues to grow. In …
Man with Down syndrome at Paris March for Life: ‘Protect the weakest’ Read More »
JP NUNEZ When we Catholics defend our Church’s teaching about contraception, we almost always use philosophical arguments that appeal to the natural law without relying on God or revelation. These kinds of arguments are great, as they can appeal to people of any faith (or even no faith), but there is another approach we can …
Steven Mosher January 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – As a people of life, we pro-lifers are naturally pro-natal. We not only abhor abortion, we offer positive encouragement to young couples to get married and have little blessings—lots of them. Yet we live in a wider culture that teaches young people that babies are burdens and not blessings. …
America isn’t having enough babies…but there’s an easy way to fix that Read More »
Marcia Segelstein In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal called “When Your Daughter Defies Biology,”author Abigail Shrier described the plight of mothers whose daughters have come home from college with newly-grown mustaches and recently removed breasts. Shrier had been contacted by a mother whose daughter had some anxiety issues during her first semester at college. Along …
Parents’ Nightmare: Daughters Come Home from College Identifying as Men Read More »
By Newsroom The New York Senate and Assembly each passed an expansive pro-abortion bill on Tuesday, within 90 minutes of each other. Governor Andrew Cuomo immediately signed the Reproductive Health Act into law and then celebrated by lighting the state up pink. Sitting with Cuomo as he signed the bill was Sarah Ragle Weddington, the lawyer who represented Jane Roe in Roe …
Governor of New York nixes nearly all protections for preborn babies Read More »
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Every day in our country, thousands of pregnant women enter so-called medical “clinics.” When they emerge hours later, they are no longer pregnant. Their babies, so recently living and growing within the warmth and safety of their mothers’ wombs, have been suctioned out with a vacuum, or injected with poison or …
nancyvalko This was published in the National Right to Life News January 2019 issue “The Consequences of Roe v Wade” on page 8. Most people volunteer for the pro-life movement. I consider myself a draftee. I was a young intensive care unit nurse when the Roe v. Wade decision came down in 1973. Like most people I …
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Joseph Pronechen The year is 1980. The town is Cuapa, near the middle of Nicaragua — 59 straight miles northeast of the capital of Managua and 96 miles via highways and roads. The date is April 15. While carrying out his work as a simple church sacristan in what was called the “old chapel,” Bernardo Martinez …
By Nancy Flanders | At the 2019 March for Life on Friday, conservative author, speaker, and attorney Ben Shapiro reminded pro-lifers that what’s right is not always popular and what’s popular is not always right. As he took on U.S. and Canadian political leaders’ criticisms of pro-lifers, Shapiro aimed to motivate pro-lifers to keep going against adversity. “So perhaps …
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By Cassy Fiano-Chesser For years, the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of Catholic nuns, have been fighting an Obamacare mandate that would require them to fund birth control that could potentially cause an abortion, like the morning-after pill. As this is a direct contradiction of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the Little Sisters …
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HYATTSVILLE, Maryland, January 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics has announced that the national fertility rate is the lowest it has been in 30 years. The American birth rate has been insufficient to sustain the population since 1971, but the 2017 numbers indicate a 30-year low. According to CNN, the …
By Anna Reynolds | The shocking abuse against a disabled woman has outraged the nation. The woman, a patient at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, Arizona, is described by CNN as having been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, gave birth to a baby boy on December 29. The media are not releasing her name, because she …
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BILL DONOHUE JAN 8, 2019 | 11:18AM WASHINGTON, DC The 163 Catholics in the new Congress are split on abortion: almost all Republicans are pro-life and almost all Democrats are abortion-rights advocates. For incumbents, we checked their voting record as scored by NARAL and National Right to Life. Typically, those who …
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Derek Scally Tim was not supposed to be born, and certainly not to live. Now the man who survived a failed late-term abortion in 1997 has died aged 21. Tim – known in the media as the “Oldenburg baby” – was diagnosed with Down syndrome in the 20th week of gestation. German abortion rules limit …
ATASCADERO, California, January 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A California woman is taking her doctor and pharmacy to court for allegedly writing and filling an accidental prescription for the abortion pill, which she unwittingly took without knowing it would kill her preborn baby. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court, Lorena Anderson …
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December 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic Church continues to be rocked by highly credible allegations, most powerfully voiced by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, of homosexual corruption in the highest echelons of the hierarchy. The rot appears to run from the top down to the level of dioceses and seminaries, where countless adolescents and seminarians have suffered sexual predation …
By Nancy Flanders | Amanda Schuster and husband Robert wanted to give their son Baron a sibling, but months went by and they weren’t conceiving. They underwent testing and discussed measures that might help, but before they could take any steps, they got a “beautiful positive test.” Then, after weeks of pregnancy bliss, the couple was devastated …
Pressured to abort, a second opinion caused these parents to choose life Read More »
nancyvalko I was greatly moved by a December 21, 2018 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Gayle Somers titled “Life Is Worth Living, Even if It Is Painful and Short” with the subtitle “My son’s addiction caused great suffering and ended with a fatal overdose. I’ve never regretted his birth” In this op-ed, Ms. Somers told …
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https://aleteia.org/2019/01/04/did-you-know-that-the-pill-can-cause-depression-and-anxiety/ As a non-Catholic teenager, I didn’t know this — in fact, I was told the opposite was true. It wasn’t. When I was 19, in the summer after my freshman year of college, I was prescribed birth control after experiencing two cycles of more painful than usual menstrual cycles. At the time, I wasn’t …
Did you know that the pill can cause depression and anxiety? Read More »
Susan Swander January 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Unable to sleep the other night, I began to think back over my life. I reflected on my turbulent youth as a child of the 60s: the men, the drugs and drinking. I came of age in a tumultuous time; everything was in a state of change and …
My 1968 journey on California’s abortion underground railroad Read More »
KRISTAN HAWKINS JAN 3, 2019 | 10:21AM WASHINGTON, DC The anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe V. Bolton approaches, marking the beginning of the debate over whether abortion is truly a Constitutional right and what that looks like in daily life. Abortion advocates argue for access to their product along with federal funding and accommodation, justifying their demands …
There is No Constitutional Right to Kill Babies in Abortions Read More »
MICAIAH BILGER DEC 31, 2018 More human beings died in abortions than any other cause of death in 2018, a new report indicates. A heartbreaking reminder about the prevalence of abortion, statistics compiled by Worldometers indicate that there were nearly 42 million abortions world-wide in 2018. The independent site collects data from governments and other reputable …
Abortion Was the Leading Cause of Death Worldwide in 2018, Killing 42 Million People Read More »
