Month: February 2022

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | Report finds that forced sterilization is still legal in over 30 states   A new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) has revealed that instead of being a decades-old obsolete horror left to the past, forced sterilization is still legal in over 30 states. According to the report, 31 states plus Washington, D.C., allow …

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Calling St. Polycarp – Catholic Review On Feb. 23, the Catholic Church remembers the life and martyrdom of St. Polycarp, a disciple of the apostle and evangelist St. John. This is a nice story of St Polycarp intersection for a pro-life cause. “When Marilyn Szewczyk was about to launch a network of pro-life pregnancy centers …

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IUDs work against pregnancy in several ways. Some of these effects take place before fertilization, and others take place after the sperm and egg have  united to form a new human being. Although IUDs are marketed as the most effective form of reversible contraception women who use IUD can become pregnant. Many of those pregnant …

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In a recent article published at Birth Control Problems? The Eyes Have It – Hormones Matter the author Mike Gaskins, writes about hormonal birth control’s contribution to eye problems. He highlighted a 2013 study including  3,500 women over the age of 40 and found that those who had used hormonal birth control for three years or …

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Cultivating Chastity: Advice for Young Catholics Living in a Sex-Obsessed Culture| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) Kelly Marcum “Kelly knows she isn’t going to get a guy if she sticks with that, right?” Those were the words spoken by the boyfriend of one of my friends in college. He had just learned that I was one …

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Faithful, Fruitful and Free (churchmilitant.com) Transcript from Chruch Militant News Report New evidence is demonstrating there’s a strong correlation between happiness and large families, and the link between both is religious faith. In tonight’s In-Depth Report, Church Militant’s Paul Murano examines the social science, which lends further proof of the Church’s divine wisdom. A new survey from the National …

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One group of Americans has the highest fertility in the world. It doubles every 20 years. by Louis T. March In the 1400s the printing press revolutionized Europe, enabling mass distribution of printed material fast. The Reformation roiled Europe in the 1500s, in no small measure due to Gutenberg’s invention. In the wake of Martin Luther and …

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In a recent article published in the Institute of Family Studies, the author showed that marriage and especially parenthood reduce the suicide risk.  Jason Manning, Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University, and author of Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction wrote: “For over a century, at least since the pioneering work of French sociologist …

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Pregnancy. An injury? Run-of-the-mill event? Special circumstance? Choice? A recent report in the National Post highlighted the indignation of Olympic athletes in learning that pregnancy is often categorized by the I-word — “injury” — in their contracts. “It’s not an injury, it’s a decision that’s made,” Canadian field hockey player Kate Gillis said. Fair enough. As a decidedly non-elite sports …

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