Month: May 2019

By Gabriella Patti    Under New Bill, Wisconsin Pharmacists Could Prescribe Hormonal Birth Control According to an article published by Wisconsin Public Radio, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are introducing a new bill that would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills and patches. As of now, only doctors can prescribe birth control under Wisconsin state law. …

Under New Bill, Wisconsin Pharmacists Could Prescribe Hormonal Birth Control Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Americans are having fewer children than ever before. According to new data released by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), for the fourth year in a row the number of children born in the United States has fallen. Last year, 3,788,235 babies were born in the U.S. – a drop of …

Fewer Children Than Ever Before Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | Ohio House Bill 182, introduced in April, aims to limit insurance coverage for abortion procedures in which the life of the mother is not at risk. In addition, it would ban birth control drugs or devices such as IUDs that do not prevent fertilization but rather the implantation of the human blastocyst — …

Ectopic pregnancies can’t be reimplanted, and removing one isn’t abortion Read More »

Philippa Taylor For some, the name Marie Stopes speaks of an organisation, one of the biggest abortion providers in the world. For others, it speaks of a person, a feminist icon and pioneer of birth control and family planning. Both are true, but few people know the full story about Marie Stopes the woman, the …

Marie Stopes: the air-brushed heroine of birth control Read More »

KRISTAN HAWKINS When it comes to gun violence in schools, people get outraged about children in danger of losing their lives. It’s a worthy concern. According to Education Week, in 2018 28 students were killed in school shootings, while so far in 2019, 2 children have been killed. That is tragic. But it’s not about the math; it’s about …

Babies Conceived in Rape Shouldn’t be Aborted Just Because of Their Father’s Crime Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet I am troubled by what appears to be a growing trend of violent attacks on peaceful pro-life activists. Perhaps the most famous recent instance was caught in a dramatic video last fall. The video shows a twenty-something-year-old man wearing a purple sweater, with a pentagram (a pagan symbol) on a necklace around his …

Growing Violence Against Pro-Lifers Read More »

by Lindsay Schlegel As a busy woman with a lot on her plate, I am all for streamlining where possible and making time to focus on the things that are important to me: my family, my work, and my health. I’m often for it when technology makes daily tasks quicker, easier, and cheaper. Grocery shopping …

We Ought to Think Twice About Getting a Prescription without Seeing a Doctor Read More »

ROME, Italy, May 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Church of England’s endorsement of contraception at its 1930 Lambeth Conference has led to the “diabolical monstrosity” of “procreative medicine,” German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller told the Rome Life Forum on Friday (read full talk below or here). It also led to the American Protestant Federation of Churches collectively …

Contraception has led to ‘diabolical’ experiments on human life: cardinal Read More »

IRVINE, May 15, 2019 (Center for Medical Progress) – The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the citizen journalism organization responsible for the undercover video series exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby body parts, revealed today that over the past month, government-funded researchers at University of California San Diego (UCSD) have sought to purchase hearts …

Govt.-funded lab seeks to buy ‘fresh’ aborted baby heart, pancreas from almost anyone Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Amina Khamis Juma is 22 years old and lives in Mbande-Kisewe, near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. After delivering her first child in 2016, she was persuaded by her sisters to begin using contraception since the couple did not wish to have another child. Her sisters suggested using condoms, but they caused …

What Links Contraception to Abortion? Read More »

By Nancy Flanders Sader Issa, a third-year dentistry student living in Syria, credits the love and support of his parents for his success and happiness in life. In fact, he is so proud of his parents, especially his father, that he wants everyone to know that he grew up happy and well-cared for by a father …

Man says father with Down syndrome inspired him to be the ‘best person’ possible Read More »

By Carole Novielli |  Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to crack down on illegal online sales of the abortion pill. According to information from Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), the Congressional letter, sent to Dr. Norman Sharpless, Acting Commissioner of the FDA, was signed …

Lawmakers call on FDA director to crack down on illegal online abortion pill sales Read More »

Jonathan Abbamonte and Steven W. Mosher MAY 7, 2019 The U.N. Human Rights Committee has taken broad aim at pro-life laws and policies in the United States. Meeting last month, the Committee called on the Trump administration to “review” a number of its pro-life policies, suggesting that these were incompatible with international law.  The Committee singled out …

U.N. Committee Launches Attack on U.S Pro-Life Laws Read More »

Shannon Roberts As parents of three children (currently 6, 4 and 13 months), how many children my husband and I should have – and what would be best for our children themselves – is a question we have thought about. We have contemplated whether or how a range of factors should affect our decision about each pregnancy.  …

How many children should you have? Read More »

By Anna Reynolds A recent paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Issues in Law and Medicine details lifesaving treatment and prenatal surgery being given to babies in the womb. The study, titled “Perinatal Revolution” affirms that the preborn child is a unique and separate patient from the mother. When doctors treat both the mother and the “patient within the patient,” …

Success with prenatal surgery: Caring for the ‘patient within the patient’ Read More »

MICHAEL BASTASCH CNN interviewed discredited environmental catastrophist Paul Ehrlich in its coverage of the United Nations’ latest warning of ecological collapse due to human activities and climate change. Humanity will need to start “consuming less, polluting less and having fewer children” if it’s going to stop mass extinction in the coming decades, CNN correspondent Nick …

Population Control Activist Paul Ehrlich: Human Extinction Will Happen if People Don’t Start “Having Fewer Children” Read More »

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, May 2, 2019  Wesley Ely, who, among his other professional accolades, holds The Grant W. Liddle Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, wrote an insightful article that was published in the USA Today titled: Death by organ donation: Euthanizing patients for their organs gains frightening …

Death by Organ Donation – Euthanizing patients for organs. Read More »

May 2, 2019 (Lepanto Institute) — On April 26, several Rwandan government agencies, including the Ministry of Health, officially launched a three-year initiative called the Baho Neza Integrated Health Campaign to encourage the use and distribution of contraception. Catholic Relief Services is identified as one of the implementing partners on this campaign. The central focus of the Baho Neza …

Catholic Relief Services listed as partner in Rwanda contraception project Read More »

 by Madeleine Coyne Medical Benefits of Fertility Awareness: Why Doctors Should Embrace the Science of Charting Even if the idea of using Fertility Awareness-Based Methods (FABM) for family planning and overall health is starting to gain traction with more women, there is still a conspicuous lag when it comes to the medical community. The overwhelming …

Medical Benefits of Fertility Awareness Read More »