Month: September 2020

By Nancy Flanders Advertisements promoting one-child or child-free families are appearing around Vancouver, British Columbia, with the intention of convincing young people not to have children in order to save the environment. One advertisement features a smiling baby and states, “The most loving gift you can give your first child is to not have another.” Other …

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https://ccli.kartra.com/page/EmpoweringGirls On Thursday, September 24, Natural Womanhood hosted Emily Sederstrand in a virtual conversation about empowering teenage girls to know and understand their bodies. “I love foreign languages,” said Emily, “and so it was a great revelation to me to learn that fertility is like a language. But if you haven’t been taught, you don’t know how …

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By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A new research study is looking to provide birth control over-the-counter, without a doctor’s supervision — and children are being recruited for it. According to CNS News, Advocates for Youth, which works with Planned Parenthood, sent out a mass e-mail with the subject line, “Know anyone ages 11-15 to join this study?” The e-mail was …

New study pays girls as young as 11 to take birth control without parents’ knowledge Read More »

(Pregnancy Help News) — If you are providing life-saving services to families in need and are not getting taxpayer funding, why not? Real Alternatives recently celebrated 25 years of serving 322,813 clients through 1,888,825 client visits in Pennsylvania. As the statewide administrator for Pennsylvania’s Pregnancy and Parenting Support Program, Real Alternatives assisted those 300-thousand-plus Pennsylvania …

Here’s how state governments can help women choose alternatives to abortion Read More »

By Carole Novielli Recent accusations of forced sterilizations have brought the United States’ dark history of eugenic, compulsory sterilization programs — which once targeted those deemed by elites as “unfit” — back into the spotlight. The 1934 film, “Tomorrow’s Children,” portrayed a state’s coercive power to eugenically sterilize a young pregnant woman. While the woman portrayed in the film …

The most infamous cases of forced sterilization in America… and the people behind it Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN Recently, more secular, mainstream authors and websites are addressing the downsides of hormonal contraceptives. Notably, many of these pieces first launch into a litany of praise for hormonal contraceptives, as if to defend themselves from the charge of desecrating what one author called the “scientific sacred cow of feminism.” However, after the requisite kowtowing to all the ways that birth control supposedly emancipates …

Many studies on how contraceptives affect mental health are biased Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER All across the country last weekend, pro-life advocates gathered to pray and remember the unborn babies who have been victims of abortion. In Kansas City, Kansas, Catholic Archbishop Joseph Naumann led pro-lifers in mourning for the unborn at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, one of 54 memorial sites for aborted babies in the …

54 Prayer Vigils Nationwide Mourned the 62 Million Babies Killed in Abortions Read More »

IRWIN COUNTY, Georgia, September 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A nurse has come forward to accuse a privately-run Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Georgia of performing hysterectomies on female illegal immigrants en masse, without medical necessity. Whether the women consented or understood the procedure they were undergoing is unclear. The activist groups Project …

ICE facility doctor accused of forcibly sterilizing immigrant women Read More »

The Catholic Telegraph Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital …

BEING PRO LIFE: CATHOLIC BIOETHICS IN A MORALLY CONFUSED WORLD. Read More »

By Samantha Kamman   9/11 Memorial remembers preborn children too: ‘They were who we are’ Nineteen years ago on September 11, 2001, America was left shaken after a series of unexpected terrorist attacks served as a reminder of the inherent preciousness of human life. Three thousand Americans were killed after two hijacked planes were flown into the …

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by Ann Farmer Promiscuity and the price of free love Public Health England says that gonorrhoea cases have risen “to their highest level in more than 100 years”, with 70,936 cases diagnosed last year — a 26 percent increase on 2018. In the same year, all cases of sexually-transmitted diseases rose by five percent — from 447,522 in …

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September 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — How did we get modern sex education — and why? These are questions I frequently get from parents. A few years ago, I decided to pose them to Peter Hitchens, a well known journalist, author, and cultural commentator hailing from Oxford, England. He has had much to say about the …

Why sex education has so successfully increased promiscuity, STDs, abortion Read More »

Happy birthday, Blessed Mother! We love you dearly! This article was written by Fr John A Hardon  S.J encouraging us to model our faith in the faith of Mary. http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Pro_Life/Pro_Life_008.htm Faith after the Example of Mary There is no human person in the annals of history whose faith was deeper or more precious in the eyes of God …

Mary: Mother of Divine Life: Model of Prolife Apostles Read More »

(ONE MORE SOUL NOTE: Although this is an interesting article about the pill and nutrition we do not agree with the author’s opinion that the birth control pill is essential and “life-saving”. The author mentions some serious life-threatening conditions associated with the use of the pill. A better way to keep optimal nutrition will be …

Is Birth Control Messing With Your Nutrition? Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD The goal to be a father, to be a mother, is a human right. An absolute human right.~Italian infertility specialist Severino Antinori.1 God bestowed men and women with an innate desire to procreate and to nurture their children. This is one of the most fundamental instincts of all, shared by all of …

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By Nancy Flanders The abortion industry is highly skilled at marketing its “services,” changing tactics to suit various situations. From “safe, legal, and rare” to simply “legal,” pro-abortion businesses and organizations frequently change their terminology. In one recent example, the abortion pill has been compared at least twice to Tylenol, but in very different ways. Some …

The abortion pill is not like Tylenol, and parents should know if minors obtain it Read More »

HIV Transmission & Depo-Provera, the Birth Control Shot Most women know that pharmaceutical birth control does not protect against STDs. But did you know that certain forms of birth control can actually increase your risk for contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which if left untreated, may progress to the deadly disease known as acquired immunodeficiency …

HIV Transmission & Depo-Provera, the Birth Control Shot Read More »