Month: September 2019

By Mary Rose Somarriba On September 27, 2018, a 20-year-old woman named Alexandra Williams died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. The days prior had been normal for Alexandra, until she spontaneously collapsed in her driveway on September 26. In the months prior, she had experienced some back pains, which doctors did not …

One Year After Alexandra Williams’ Death By Birth Control, Little Has Changed Read More »

September 24, 2019Authored by: Katy Moncivais, Ph.D. We recently shared the results of our months-long investigation into the Hidden Harms of various drugs and medical devices. In doing so, we hoped to shed light on the many ways in which patients can be misled by confusing or incomplete drug and medical device labels. Today, we continue those efforts …

Essure’s Hidden Harms Read More »

September 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The United Kingdom announced Monday that it will spend £600 million on “family planning supplies” for third-world nations, including abortion and contraception. UK International Development Secretary Alok Sharma made the announcement at the United Nations, claiming that “universal sexual and reproductive health and rights” were essential to achieving “universal health coverage.” The …

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MICAIAH BILGER Concerned parents in Austin, Texas rallied Monday against a new sex education curriculum that they say would “sexualize” young children in the city public schools. Texas Scorecard reports the abortion chain Planned Parenthood is involved in the developing the curriculum that the Austin Independent School District is considering. The program would teach children in …

Parents Stand Up to Planned Parenthood Sex Ed Program Pushing Abortion and Sex on Pre-Teens Read More »

By Nancy Flanders If she hadn’t become pregnant, Courtney Greer wouldn’t have learned so quickly that she had ovarian cancer. It was during her first pregnancy ultrasound, usually performed around eight to ten weeks, that the doctor noticed the tumor on her ovary. When that doctor said she suspected it wasn’t cancerous, but they wouldn’t be …

Pregnant woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer: ‘How blessed are we that I got pregnant?’ Read More »

CARDIFF, U.K., September 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A restoration of true femininity is essential to restoring Christian civilization, said Maria Madise, International Director of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, at a U.K. Catholic conference earlier this month. Madise made the case that the revolutions behind today’s culture of death have specifically targeted women …

Betrayed by sexual revolution Read More »

TORONTO, September 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A growing number of students from around the world are pledging not to bear children until their governments do something to combat so-called climate change. Launched by 18-year-old Canadian Emma Lim, the initiative asks students to refrain from having children until their government takes action. “I pledge not to …

Students vow ‘not to have children’ until gov’t stops climate change Read More »

By Anna Reynolds Less than 30 days after installing a Safe Haven Baby Box, Franciscan Health Hospital in Hammond, Indiana, received a healthy newborn baby girl. ABC7 Chicago reported the baby was retrieved by first responders in less than 90 seconds. An alarm sounded when the baby was placed in the box, and the emergency department of the …

Baby girl saved by Safe Haven Baby Box the first month it was installed Read More »

INTERNATIONAL   SPUC Kiera Meldrum, aged 20, was offered an abortion every single week following her 21-week scan, which discovered that her unborn baby had severe ascites to the bowel. The young mum from York, bravely defied the doctors’ orders to abort her baby, every week, and describes how constantly being offered an abortion made her feel …

Doctors Suggested Abortion Every Week for Months Because Lillee Was Disabled, Now She’s Healthy Read More »

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet   Imagine for a moment that a courageous undercover journalist embedded herself among a group of powerful and wealthy businessmen involved in some horrific crime – sex-trafficking, for instance. Imagine the journalist had surreptitiously recorded conversations in which these powerful men openly haggled over the prices of their victims and spilled …

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Gabriella Patti A study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that teenagers who use birth control are “1.7 times to 3 times more likely to be clinically depressed in adulthood, compared to women who started taking birth control pills as adults, and to women who had never taken birth control pills.” According to UBC …

Study Shows Link Between Teen Birth Control Use and Adult Depression Read More »

September 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A group of scientists revealed the opening of another Pandora’s box this week with a new paper detailing a method for quickly producing large quantities of organic structures similar to human embryos, for the purpose of studying human life in its earliest stages. The paper, published Wednesday in Nature, details the development of …

Scientists announce method to mass-produce living ‘embryo-like structures’ Read More »

By Carole Novielli | Abortion pills on state college campuses may soon become a reality, depending on how the California legislature votes tomorrow on SB 24, a bill that would allow California campus health centers to dispense the abortion pill regimen to students. Live Action News previously detailed how at least 24 women have already died and how literally …

Who benefits most from abortion pills on college campuses? Not who you think. Read More »

September 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – This week on The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Mary Eberstadt about the sexual revolution. Eberstadt provides an intellectual and precise commentary on current culture, philosophy, and the fate of the post-modern man. She is the author of the new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, and …

The sexual revolution: a pandora’s box for the problems plaguing society Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams The prevailing cultural mindset states that contraception has been a panacea for women. In fact, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute — Planned Parenthood’s former research arm and special affiliate — inseparably links contraception with women’s ability to reach their full potential. The organization’s July 2018 fact sheet, “Contraceptive Use in the United States,” went so far …

Contraception made many promises to women… and it hasn’t kept them Read More »

September 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The European physician behind an organization that circumvents medical regulations by sending abortion pills through the mail has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) over actions it has taken to block their activities. Created by Dutch abortion activist Rebecca Gomperts, “Aid Access” sends women the abortion-inducing drugs …

European abortionist sues FDA for cracking down on abortion-by-mail scheme Read More »

By Laura Nicole Sarah was 26 years old when she got the shock of a poorly-timed, positive pregnancy test. Already a mother of three, she was concerned about the course of her life. Her boyfriend insisted she have an abortion, so she scheduled the appointment, fearing being a single mother of four and feeling she needed to …

Abortion pill reversal saved her baby after she regretted taking the first dose Read More »

ALITHEA WILLIAMS Mother Teresa is best known for her work among the poorest of the poor, caring for “all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society” in the slums of Calcutta. By her death in 1997 the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, had grown from a 13-member Calcutta congregation to …

Mother Teresa’s 5 Lessons for Pro-Life People Read More »

Recent numbers released by the American Academy of Dermatology revealed a dramatic spike in the incidence of melanoma cases among young women. Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, and for women aged 18-39, its rates have increased by 800% from 1970 to 2009. In Caucasian women under 44, the number of cases has increased …

The Surprising Link Between Birth Control and Skin Cancer Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams | Despite the popular belief that birth control is necessary to lift women out of poverty, the United States Census Bureau found that more, not fewer, children are being raised by single mothers — and single mothers are more likely to live in poverty. From 1960 to 2016, the number of U.S. children living with two married parents dropped …

Economist: Birth control has devastating financial consequences for women, children Read More »