Month: November 2019

SARA HART WEIR While countries like Iceland have grossly celebrated the eradication of individuals with Down syndrome from their society (eugenics as its worst) – we are teaming up to send a new message to our country’s leaders, employers, educators, healthcare providers, future parents and most importantly, individuals with Down syndrome – life for people …

67% of Babies With Down Syndrome Die in Abortions. This Must End Read More »

CHICAGO, Illinois, November 20, 2019 (Operation Rescue) — According to documents and a 911 recording obtained by the Pro-Life Action League, a previously unknown medical emergency at the Near North Planned Parenthood in Chicago, Illinois, has resulted in a medical malpractice case filed by a woman who fell and broke her neck after a medical procedure. …

Planned Parenthood sued by unattended woman who fell off table, broke neck after IUD insertion Read More »

by Cheyenne Walters Surviving a Toxic Reaction to the Copper IUD Editor’s note: More than once at Natural Womanhood, we have received emails from parents whose daughters have tragically died as a result of her birth control. A few months ago, we received a different kind of note—one from a woman who had a close …

Surviving a Toxic Reaction to the Copper IUD Read More »

 MOLLY SHEAHAN Over the last two years, I noticed my Facebook and Instagram feeds filling with ads urging me to donate my eggs or to become a surrogate. At first I laughed it off. But the more ads I saw, the more concerned and uncomfortable I felt. So, I started a small experiment. Every time …

Use and Abuse: The Exploitative Reality of Surrogacy and Egg Donation Read More »

H. W. CROCKER III Natural family planning (NFP) needs a slogan, because as a “product” — if I might adopt business-speak — it’s not selling too well. According to some surveys, about 90 percent of professed Catholics reject the Church’s teaching on birth control. Even among priests, fewer than one in three considers artificial contraception …

Making Babies: A Very Different Look at Natural Family Planning Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams Fertility awareness-based methods of natural family planning (FABMs) have been called “natural methods of birth control.” While modern, evidence-based methods of FABMs can be used to successfully avoid pregnancy, they are not just another form of contraception, albeit one without the increased depression risk, blood clots, and other side effects. The use of FABMs involves a lifestyle that fundamentally contradicts two major premises …

Beyond birth control: Natural family planning is a whole lifestyle worth embracing Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams A twist on the old joke, “a ___ walks into a bar” might be “a girl walks into an OB office” followed by the predictable punchline “and walks out with a prescription for birth control.” Hormonal birth control, whether via the Pill, the Patch, or other hormonal medications, is routinely prescribed to …

Hormonal birth control can come at a terrible cost for teenage girls Read More »

STEVEN ERTELT A Texas court has stepped in to stop a Fort Worth hospital from pulling the plug on a 9-month-old baby without her mother’s consent. Cook Children’s Fort Worth was slated to pull the plug on 9-month-old Tinslee Lewis against her mother’s will on Sunday. But pro-life advocates helped Tinslee’s mother fight for her …

Court Stops Hospital From Pulling Plug on 9-Month-Old Baby Against Her Mother’s Will Read More »

Martin M. Barillas and Pete Baklinski MADRID, November 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah strongly criticized LGBT ideology that he said is overrunning governments and education centers while tracing the ideology to the root of the widespread acceptance of contraception about seven decades ago. “The destructuring of sexual identity, which is often called ‘gender theory,’ against …

Cardinal Sarah: ‘Contraceptive mentality’ led to LGBT takeover of children’s schools Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser Javaid Perwaiz, an OB/GYN in Virginia, has been arrested and charged with health care fraud after being accused of sterilizing women without their consent. The FBI had been investigating Perwaiz for over a year after a hospital employee gave them a tip about his unethical actions. According to the Virginian Pilot, women were sent …

Doctor accused of sterilizing women, performing hysterectomies without their consent Read More »

LIMA, Peru, November 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – After more than 20 years, women who were forcibly sterilized will have their day in court as prosecutors in Peru intend to charge a former president and government officials with serious human rights abuses. Former President Alberto Fujimori of Peru (1990-2000) and other former high-ranking government officials will …

US paid to tie down, blindfold, sterilize indigenous Peruvian women. Now they’re suing Read More »

TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE   NOV 8, 2019 The early morning hours of March 15 were filled with terror for the Labuschagne family.  14-week-old baby Michael unexpectedly suffered cardiac arrest. His mother, Emma Labuschagne, described the moment in a video shared on Facebook, writing, “We watched our baby breathless, gasping for air while his heart stopped …

14-Week-Old Baby Wakes From Coma and Smiles at His Dad Read More »

BRAD MATTES   NOV 7, 2019 The chemical abortion pill, marketed as Mifeprex and referred to as a medication abortion, is the future of the abortion industry. The number of chemical abortions in America has increased dramatically while the overall tally of abortions has declined. Those who advocate for and provide this abortion drug almost always downplay …

What They Don’t Tell Women About the Dangerous Abortion Pill Mifeprex May Kill Them Read More »

John Grondelski Victimization is a prominent leitmotif in contemporary culture, and our morally relativistic, “non-judgmental” times tend to take self-claims of injury at face value. But, as contemporary Polish philosopher Zbigniew Stawrowski has observed, today’s “sleek barbarians”—those who, employing traditional terms like “rights” and “justice” empty them of their received meanings, pressing them into service …

All Methods of “Family Production” are Not Created Equal Read More »

BOSTON – A new study found that the use of birth control pills was associated with more depressive symptoms in teenage girls, including crying, excessive sleeping and eating issues, compared to their peers who don’t take oral contraceptives. The study, published recently in JAMA Psychiatry, included more than 1,000 participants in the Netherlands between the ages of 16 …

Teen girls on birth control pills report crying more, sleeping too much and eating issues, study says Read More »

By Nancy Flanders Kanye West recently came out against abortion during an interview for his new album Jesus is King. During that bold statement, he mentioned Plan B, the “emergency contraception” product that claims to prevent pregnancy in the event of contraception failure. Many people, including the manufacturers of Plan B, concluded that West was likening Plan B …

Did Kanye West imply that Plan B can cause an abortion? If so, he’s right. Read More »

By Mary Farrow Washington D.C., Oct 31, 2019 / 04:58 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York has responded to questions about the denial of Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden last Sunday. On an Oct. 31 interview with Fox News, Dolan said that he thought the incident was a …

Cardinal Dolan on Biden communion denial: ‘I wouldn’t do it’ Read More »