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Oral contraceptives could impair women’s recognition of complex emotions – Science & research news | Frontiers (frontiersin.org) — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer The pill could be blurring your social judgment – but perhaps not enough so you’d notice. By challenging women to identify complex emotional expressions like pride or contempt, rather than basic …

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Pope John Paul II In 1998 Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to Dr. Anna Cappella, director of the Center forResearch and Study on the Natural Regulation of Fertility at Rome’s Catholic University of theSacred Heart. The occasion was a convention commemorating Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s1968 encyclical. Excerpts are reprinted below. I hope …

Why Natural Family Planning Differs
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Micaiah Bilger  Overturning Roe Does Not Stop Doctors From Treating Ectopic Pregnancies or Miscarriages – LifeNews.com A dangerous lie is circulating on social media again, planting the notion in women’s and girls’ minds that pro-life laws ban life-saving treatment for ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages. Doctors, pro-life leaders, LifeNews.com and other publications have refuted the false claim numerous …

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by Stefani Kreifels Martin and I decided to use Natural Family Planning (NFP) because it’s what is best for our marriage (even though the world tells us otherwise) we knew NFP would lead us to the most fruitful marriage, but not without its cross. Understanding NFP and its purpose in our life showed us God’s …

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By Bridget Sielicki U.S. birth rate sees a slight bump for the first time in seven years (liveaction.org) A provisional report published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that a total of 3,659,289 babies were born in 2021, which marks a one percent increase in the birth rate from 2020. This is the first …

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The 25-year-old model Hailey Bieber was hospitalized last month. Her face started drooping, and she found herself unable to speak. At the hospital, she learned that she had suffered a blood clot that caused a transient ischemic attack or ministroke. Bieber released a video explaining what caused what she called “the scariest moment of my life.” Birth control was a factor that led to a blood clot in her brain. “I had just recently started birth control pills, which I should have never been on because I am somebody who suffered from migraines anyway. And I just did not talk to my doctor about …

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By Nancy Flanders  Research published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology regarding selective reduction abortions suggests that “reducing” triplet pregnancies to singletons versus “reducing” to twins creates a better chance of seeing the surviving babies born at an older gestational age and a greater birth weight. But there are many ethical issues to unpack with regard …

Creating babies to kill: The union of IVF and “selective reduction” Read More »

Elon Musk challenges ‘overpopulation’ narrative, warns about risks of low birth rate – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) Eccentric billionaire and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has once again issued a warning about the risk posed by low birth rates, rejecting the assessments of global “experts” who continue to insist that there are too many people occupying the planet. “Most people in the …

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A study published in the journal The Linacre Quarterly involved ten sites across the United States and Canada to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Marquette Method of Natural Family Planning (NFP).  The Marquette Model of NFP uses urine fertility biomarkers collected at home that measure hormone levels.  These biomarkers can be used in conjunction with …

Effectiveness Study of the Marquette Method of Natural Family Planning Program Read More »

Many young women who exercise regularly and use oral contraceptives (OCs) are not aware of the effects of hormones on their body composition. High-intensity workouts and weight-lifting exercises usually result in muscle gain. Taking potent hormones such as birth control pills could impair muscle response to standardized exercise. A study published in The Journal of Strength …

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Christina Bennett  Birth control, abortion, and breast cancer risk – Natural Womanhood Given that one in eight women receive a devastating breast cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, virtually all women—myself included—want to know their personal risk factors for developing breast cancer and how to reduce their risk.  You may have heard that one common personal risk factor, …

How birth control, pregnancy, and abortion each impact a woman’s breast cancer risk Read More »

The following article about Depoprovera and HIV transmission guidelines was published in DifferenTakes. It is a publication of the Population and Development Program PopDev (hampshire.edu) Editor’s note Concerns about Depo-Provera and increased rates of HIV transmission are of vital importance to women’s health, especially to those at high risk of HIV acquisition. Despite compelling evidence …

Depo-Provera and HIV transmission:
WHO to trust? Read More »

by Peter Jacobsen Billboards have begun to pop up throughout Portland with a surprisingly personal message: stop having kids. While the idea itself is a bad one, as I’ll discuss later, one interesting question to ask is, where did this sentiment come from? I’m not interested in diving into the history of the particular organization behind this …

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By Vince Sakcsteder To know how contraception damages relationships call for taking a good look at the way human relationships come about. It all starts with the relationship between a mother and a child. The mother needs a solid, healthy relationship with the father, and the relationship between mother, father, and child becomes the nucleus …

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet The practice of decency and modesty in speech, action and dress is very important for creating an atmosphere suitable for the growth of chastity, but this must be well motivated by respect for one’s own body and the dignity of others. Parents, as we have said, should be watchful so that …

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By Nancy Flanders Individuals with Down syndrome and their families were shocked and disheartened by a recent social media post from The World Health Organization (WHO) last week that listed Down syndrome as a birth defect that can be prevented. However, there is no way to prevent Down syndrome itself. “Eliminating” Down syndrome really means eliminating …

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Dr. Kahlenborn discusses current controversies regarding Plan B, including its’ overrated efficacy, its’ possible link to breast cancer and its’ controversial mechanism of action.  

By Carole Novielli  In an attempt to normalize abortion by using deceptive euphemisms, the abortion industry is now referring to the use of mifepristone and/or misoprostol (the same drugs as are used in the abortion pill regimen) as “missed period pills” or “later period pills.” The drugs are being sold to women without a confirmation of pregnancy, and they …

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“A 2011 survey of 123 skiers and biathletes by FasterSkier found that 71 percent had used hormonal birth control. Of those, almost half believed that it had negatively impacted their performances via weight gain, reduced strength and endurance, mood swings, loss of competitive drive, and other factors. Two standout high school skiers told FasterSkier that …

Artificial Hormones Affect Female Athletic Performance and more Read More »

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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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Pope Francis caused a great deal of consternation among population control activists when he recently called out the growing trend of replacing human babies with what are sometimes – somewhat nauseatingly – referred to as “fur babies” – i.e. pets. “Today we see a form of selfishness,” said the Pope at a public …

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Study: California commits 20% of nation’s total chemical abortions (liveaction.org) Study: California commits 20% of nation’s total chemical abortions By Carole Novielli Nearly 70,000 chemical abortions are committed annually in California (50% of all abortions committed in the state), according to a study sponsored by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), which trains abortion providers …

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National  |  Micaiah Bilger Feminist Takes Abortion Pill on Live Television, Brags About Killing Her Unborn Baby – LifeNews.com A Satanic cult leader and well-known abortion activist shocked Michigan news watchers over the weekend when she took an abortion pill on live TV during an interview with Fox 2 Detroit. The pro-abortion blog Jezebel highlighted the …

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By Nancy Flanders | So many of us have the deep desire to have biological children of our own. It’s what drives hundreds of thousands of couples to use IVF to create their children. Still others, despite their wishes for a biological child, turn to adoption. Both options can be incredibly expensive, but from an ethical standpoint, …

Why pro-life couples should opt for adoption over IVF Read More »

Dangers to Life in Prenatal Testing | Human Life International (hli.org) By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet  Modern forms of non-invasive prenatal tests (called NIPT, for short) are growing in popularity, being used by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women every year in the United States alone. These highly profitable tests, which promise parents a …

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Can birth control use affect future lactation? – Natural Womanhood Cassondra Moriarty | Type in the phrase “milk supply” on Pinterest or Google, and you’re likely to find oodles of recipes, baked goods, herbs, and over-the-counter compounds that claim to “boost milk supply.” If I’m being frank, in my work as a Lactation Consultant, most of …

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The Holy Innocents and the Church’s pro-life witness – Catholic World Report The Church, “expert in humanity” (as Pope Paul VI put it), knows that the mystery of Christmas (like that of Easter) is so great that it cannot be adequately plumbed – let alone celebrated – in a single day. And so, taking a …

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  Governor Mike DeWine signed a bill protecting abortion survivors. Ohio Bill 157 will (1) require medical professionals to provide life-sustaining care to children who survive a botched abortion, and (2) prohibit medical professionals who receive taxpayer-funded salaries from working for or contracting with abortion facilities. This bill will cut tax dollars from funding abortions …

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet A Warning About Declining Birth Rates | Human Life International (hli.org) Time Magazine has just named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as their “Man of the Year.” The Time feature on Musk, the richest man in the world, naturally focuses on Musk’s extraordinary career as the founder and CEO of world-changing corporations like Paypal, …

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This fall the film Business of Birth Control was released at the Doc NYC fest and now is available for streaming nationwide.  Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, authors of the film, also produced “The Business of Being Born“  The film does a critical review of the effects of birth control.  “In the 1960’s the pill …

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A recent article published online Patients, doctors are clashing about side effects of hormonal birth control (statnews.com) discuss the lack information about artificial birth control side effects. The article describes how women suffer side effects that are caused by the artificial hormones and how the issue may not be properly addressed by the health care …

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By Fr Paul Schenck I offer an analogy for the pro-life mission. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary did for the understanding of Christian doctrine what the pro-life movement does for the understanding of human dignity. The Immaculate Conception endows Mary with Redemption, salvation and holiness, her eternal worth, rights and personhood …

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet |  Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered. That, remarkably, seems to be the consensus after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments (transcript here) last Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This blockbuster case involves a challenge by Mississippi’s last abortion facility against the state’s 15-week abortion ban. That law, passed in 2018, …

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Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (IUDs) Appear To Have Systemic Effects on the Body (scitechdaily.com) This week, a new study about the systemic effects of IUDs will be presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).  The author of the study used Breast MRI  to show that  (LNG-IUS) has effects not only …

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Protecting Men and Boys from Endocrine Disruptors – Natural Womanhood Hanna Cox In 1992, the British Medical Journal published a disturbing study which suggested that human semen quality had declined by approximately 50% from 1930 to 1991 (1). Subsequent research has confirmed that male fertility seems to be declining—and a whole host of man-made chemicals appears to …

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A recent study published in The American Journal of Reproductive Immunology evaluated the possible cross-reactivity of antibodies against Spike proteins and proteins related to human fertility. The authors  belong to research centers in Israel, Italy, France and Russia. They conducted a systematic study to understand the immunological potential of peptides shared between SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein …

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By Grace Strella, MD How Stopping Oral Contraceptives Can Affect Menstrual Cycle Biomarkers: A Review of Research – FACTS (factsaboutfertility.org) Editor’s Note: This week, we publish a review of important research[i] published in the Journal of Women’s Health in 2011. Dr. Grace Strella summarized the research while on the FACTS elective. The study by Nassaralla et al is titled, “Characteristics …

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by Anonymous author Let’s protect our daughters! » MercatorNet I am a French mother whose teenage daughter recently announced to me that she was gender dysphoric and wanted hormones. Being left-wing politically oriented, a feminist, and sensitive to the rights of minorities, I first thought my daughter had to be supported in the difficult path to …

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Coercion and Birth Control in Sex Trafficking – Natural Womanhood Mary Rose Somarriba This summer, the Marvel movie Black Widow featuring Scarlet Johannson finally offered some backstory into the life of the much-neglected superheroine, Natasha Romanoff. As one of the Avengers without superhuman strength, Romanoff is known for her expert interrogation and investigatory skills gained from her …

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            The document “Called to the Joy of Love: National Pastoral Framework for Marriage and Family Life Ministry” was developed by the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It was approved by the USCCB at its June 2021 Plenary Assembly.  The framework …

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By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | A new bill introduced by Ohio State Rep. Jena Powell aims to reduce the number of abortions in the United States from 2,363 each day to zero. The 2363 Act would ban abortion in Ohio, except in the rare situation where a mother’s life is at grave risk (see more here on why abortion is never …

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By Adolfo J. Castañeda Once he has established some fundamental principles, St. Paul VI proceeds to evaluate, from the moral perspective, the problem of contraception within the context of conjugal love and the transmission of human life. First, he affirms this moral norm in its positive sense or its prescriptive dimension, i.e., what must be done. The term “prescriptive” simply means …

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The medical device company Contraline has invented a new male contraceptive. Using advancements in hydrogel technology the company developed a device called ADAM™ . The device is implanted into the vas deferens through an outpatient procedure. The hydrogel works by blocking the vas deferens preventing sperm from traveling through. This device is similar to intrauterine …

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By Mark Lee Dickson On Monday, the City of Mason, Ohio (pop. 35,450), became the 41st city in the nation and the second city in Ohio to pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within its city limits. The second and final reading vote passed 4-3 in the packed city council chambers. Mayor Kathy Grossmann was joined …

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By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | (C-Fam – New York) UNICEF’s Executive Board has approved a strategic plan that endorses sexual autonomy for children and school-based access to abortion and contraception. The new strategic plan, which will guide the agency through 2025, added “sexual and reproductive health and rights” and “sexual orientation and gender identity” to the agency’s mandate …

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A recent article published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences evaluated the effects of the use of hormonal contraceptives upon the behaviors of intimate partners.  The study of the physiology of women using hormonal contraceptives has provided insight into the possible basis for the resulting increase in violent death. The author of this review …

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By Natalie Gould, DO https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/venous-thrombotic-events-hormonal-contraception-and-fabms-a-review-of-research/ Editor’s Note: This year, October 13th is World Thrombosis Day, which provides an opportunity to raise awareness about this potentially life-threatening medical condition or complication. The 2018 research summarized below is titled, “Systematic Review of Hormonal Contraception and Risk of Venous Thrombosis.” The study was published by Keenan et al in 2018 and won …

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Prophetic words of Pope Saint Paul VI in his most famous encyclical, Humanae Vitae. “The danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law…. Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard …

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By Nancy Flanders | The abortion industry wants to use climate change funding to expand abortion (liveaction.org) According to C-Fam, abortionists are claiming that climate change negatively impacts the ability of a woman to access abortion. As a result, they’re vying to use funding meant for climate change to help boost access to abortion — in other words, …

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A New Pro-Life Saint? This Italian Mother Sacrificed Her Life for Her Unborn Baby| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) “Riccardo, you are a gift for us.” These are the words a 26-year-old Italian mother wrote to her newborn 26 years ago. They were words she was willing to live by – and die for. On Aug. …

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Why artificial birth control is sinful (tldm.org) “The encyclical of Pope Paul VI on birth control is true and must be followed by mankind. There shall be no rationalization of sin.” – Our Lady of the Roses, October 2, 1976 Dietrich von Hildebrand, called by Pope Pius XII “the 20th Century Doctor of the Church,” was one of …

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Jeanne Smits, PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — Earlier this month, French health minister Olivier Véran proudly proclaimed that as of January 1, 2022, contraception will be 100 percent “free” for all women up to age 25, as well as pregnancy tests, medical appointments and bio-analyses in connection with birth control. Less than 24 hours later, France’s move …

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Planned Parenthood tells middle schoolers about avoiding parental consent for abortion, contraception – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) Isabella Childs TACOMA, Washington, June 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — An eighth-grade teacher in a Tacoma public school distributed a flyer detailing Washington state laws allowing minors to get abortions and contraceptives without parental consent. The flyer, produced by abortion giant …

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By Alexandra DeSanctis Texas Heartbeat Act debate exposes the strange pseudoscience of abortion advocates The enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act has exposed the pseudoscience undergirding the worldview of abortion-rights supporters. Heartbeat bills such as the one in Texas are predicated on the fact that an unborn child’s heartbeat can be detected via ultrasound at about six weeks’ gestation. …

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Do COVID Vaccines Cause Menstrual Changes? NIH Awards $1.67 Million in Grants to Study Possible Link. By  Megan Redshaw The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded one-year supplemental grants totaling $1.67 million to five institutions to explore potential links between COVID vaccines and menstrual changes, after thousands of women reported menstrual irregularities after vaccination. According to …

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Promoting gut health after ditching birth control | Natural Womanhood Mary Fagan If you recently stopped taking the pill and find that your digestive system is in disarray (or, if you’re like I was, and struggling with both PCOS and poor gut health), you’re not alone. As I shared in this article, a number of recent studies …

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Texas becomes first state ever to enforce ‘heartbeat law’ (liveaction.org) As of midnight on September 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court had not yet responded to an emergency appeal from abortion proponents to stop the Texas Heartbeat Act from going into effect, which protects preborn children from the first detectable heartbeat (around five to six weeks gestation). According to …

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The Startling Ways that Birth Control May Impact Gut Health and lead to IBD Mary Fagan Over the last year, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and began working to balance my hormones through diet and lifestyle changes. My personal experience with the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet aligned with recent studies suggesting that an anti-inflammatory diet can …

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet The Hyde Amendment is one of the most important pro-life achievements in U.S. history. But right now, it is under serious threat. For those who are unaware, the Hyde Amendment, named after pro-life Rep. Henry Hyde, is an amendment that has been appended to every appropriations (i.e., spending) bill since 1976. …

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By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN While some have attempted to claim that pregnancy risks are greater than hormonal birth control risks, this is not an apples to apples comparison. A far better comparison is to assess the risks of someone using hormonal birth control (HBC) to someone who is not — as in the case of women who use …

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The following is an article published at  forbes.com  Scientists Invent Magnetic Birth Control, Delivered By Shots (forbes.com) Scientists have developed tiny magnetic particles that could one day be used by men for birth control. The nanoscopic particles are injected into the bloodstream and would then be guided to the testes with a magnetic field, which …

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet  Any fair analysis of how well the Catholic Church has done in educating Catholics about – let alone convincing them of – the Church’s teaching on contraception, would have to conclude that the Church’s ministers have failed quite spectacularly. One much-cited poll from 2016 found that only 13% of weekly Mass-going Catholics agreed …

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By CBN News A new peer-reviewed examination of almost eight million pregnancies over a 15-year period debunks the abortion industry’s fictional narrative that abortion is a normal experience for mothers who already have children. The study conducted by researchers at the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) found abortion among low-income women with children is exceedingly uncommon, if not rare. Below …

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John and Sheila Kippley (World NFP Congress, Milan, Italy, June 13, 2015)) Abstract Background: Breastfeeding mothers experience widely different durations of breastfeeding amenorrhea. Some have a first menses by three months; others one or two years later. Research studies, both prospective and retrospective, were reviewed to determine if breastfeeding patterns affect the duration of breastfeeding …

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In a study published in the journal The Linacre Quarterly, Dr. Lynn  Keenan and collaborators did a systematic review the literature to determine  the risk of objectively confirmed Venous Thrombosis with the use of Hormonal contraceptives  in healthy women compared to nonusers. The authors searched 1962 publications and identified 15 publications that fit the criteria …

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By Jacob Airey | “The Martian Chronicles” author Ray Bradbury once said, “I define science fiction as the art of the possible.” And sometimes, science fiction provides us with a picture of possibilities in the form of pro-life themes found in unexpected places. Unlikely sources “The Pre-Persons” is a little-known science fiction short story published in 1974 …

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By HLI Staff The Pill: A Hormonal Method of Birth Control The class of hormonal methods of birth control include birth control pills; implants such as Norplant, Jadelle and Implanon; injectables such as Depo-Provera and Lunelle; intrauterine devices (IUDs), patches and rings, and, of course, the class of abortion pills and so-called emergency “contraception,” which includes Cytotec, ellaOne, Mifegyne, Mifeprix, Plan B and Misoprostol. All of …

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By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN Recently, Live Action News reported that as part of a broader national conversation about population control, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is considering implementing coercive population control measures that would strongly incentivize couples who have just one child, and directly penalize couples who have more than two children. While the case …

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A recent  review article published in the journal The Linacre Quarterly evaluated “whether there is evidence that ovulation can occur in women using hormonal contraceptives and whether these drugs might inhibit implantation”. The authors reviewed “English-language research articles that focused on how hormonal birth control, such as the birth control pill, may affect very early …

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“Grandparents are the ring linking generations, to transmit to young people the experience of life and faith.” Pope Francis (2021)   In January 2021, after praying the Angelus, Pope Francis declared the fourth Sunday in July as World Day for Grandparents. The date has been chosen to be near the liturgical memorial (July 26) of Saints Anne …

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July 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A recent article in the Washington Post’s women’s newspaper The Lily provides several accounts of women enduring agonizing pain after having intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted, most of whom were dismissed by their doctors. The IUD is a contraceptive tool. According to IUD manufacturer Mirena, IUDs prevent pregnancy by “thickening cervical mucus, preventing sperm from entering the uterus, inhibiting sperm movement so it’s more difficult to reach and fertilize an egg.” It can …

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July 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Many women choosing a medical abortion (Mifegymiso in Canada) change their minds having taken the first pill. Abortion Pill Reversal has been developed to assist these women who want to save their children from the effects of the first pill in this protocol (Mifepristone). Records indicate that so far, 112 Canadian women …

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A recent study published in the journal Human Fertility looked into the effectiveness of a  fertility-awareness method in achieving pregnancy. The study particularly observed factors associated with the achievement of pregnancy and the usefulness of the mucus pattern, in the context of infertility. The authors of the study identified 384 eligible women who attended 17 …

Can Natural Family Planning help some couples conceive? Read More »

obgm0330110_evidence_holfer According to a prospective observational study of more than 17,000 women that evaluated fecundability after stopping contraception the answer is YES. The authors found hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) users had slightly increased fecundability compared with users of barrier methods. There was no difference in fecundability for users of copper IUDs, implant, oral contraception, patches, …

Does last contraceptive method used impact the return of normal fertility? Read More »

Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain Responsible-Parents-are-Open-to-Life-Sartain.pdf (usccb.org) In an often-quoted and often-misunderstood section of the letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul begins a passage about wives and husbands with these words: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Eph 5:21ff) In the late fourth century, St. John Chrysostom suggested that young husbands …

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Over the last decade, United States population growth was at its lowest rate since the 1930s, according to a report released by the US Census Bureau in April. Population was up by 7.4 percent over the previous decade, the slowest growth rate the US has seen since the Great Depression. (These findings are a bit surprising since …

The Malthusian fallacy Paul Krugman just fell for Read More »

https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/awareness-week/upload/Why-NFP-Differs-from-Contraception-JPII.pdf Pope John Paul II In 1998 Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to Dr. Anna Cappella, director of the Center for Research and Study on the Natural Regulation of Fertility at Rome’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. The occasion was a convention commemorating Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical. Excerpts are …

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By Nancy Flanders Doctors for Life, a pro-life lobby group, spoke out against the recent vote by the European Union Parliament in favor of the Matić Report, which defends abortion as a human right and puts pressure on pro-life member states to legalize abortion. The group called the report “another step in the efforts of the pro-abortion lobby to normalize …

Physician group condemns EU vote as an attack on preborn children Read More »

by James L. McQuivey Should you have children? And if so, how many? Asking and answering these questions is not only deeply anguishing for many individuals but also bears on national and global well-being. Contemporary discussions of childbearing range from the writer who got a vasectomy due to climate change to the regular reports of declining fertility across the world, …

To have kids or not: which decision do Americans regret more? Read More »

Tamara Wilder  Heavy Bleeding, Anxiety, and other Warning Signs Your IUD Is Not Good For You After the copper IUD caused Tamara Wilder physical symptoms like sore tailbone and heavy bleeding, followed by more severe symptoms of debilitating anxiety, she founded IUD Awareness, a website with resources for women who have experienced adverse reactions to …

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By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | Parents in Tacoma, Washington, are reportedly furious after a Planned Parenthood flyer promoting sex among pre-teen children was distributed at Stewart Middle School. Yet in a statement provided by Tacoma Public Schools to the Post Millennial, the flyer was not part of the curriculum and should never have been sent home with students. Eric …

Parents enraged as Planned Parenthood school flyer promotes sex to 11-year-olds Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD  One of the most prominent features of the culture of death is its short-sightedness.  It puts grand plans into action and makes sweeping promises about how many lives will be saved or improved by its initiatives.  And then its architects are invariably shocked and surprised when a galaxy of negative unintended consequences …

The Birth Control Pill: Unintended Consequences Read More »

June 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In 2011, a ground-breaking film titled Anonymous Father’s Day was released, detailing the struggles of thousands of people seeking to discover their genetic origins. Conceived through artificial insemination with donor semen from sperm banks, the documentary traces the stories of men and women attempting to identify their biological fathers. It is based largely on …

Bizarre situations arise as the result of the artificial reproduction industry Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD Have you ever stopped for gas and watched a giant ten-wheel fuel tanker rumble up to refill the gas station’s tanks? These trucks are enormous, forty feet long, and each carries enough gasoline to fill a small backyard swimming pool. The powerful hormones in abortifacient methods of birth control dictate their modes …

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Hormonal Birth Control? Read More »

Industrial Chemicals Linked to Decreased Fertility in Women • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org) Birth rates are decreasing worldwide. In all European countries, they’re even dropping below population replacement levels, which refers to the number of children needed per woman to keep a population stable. While these decreases might be due to many adults intentionally postponing when they have …

Industrial Chemicals Linked to Decreased Fertility in Women Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | Becoming critically ill while pregnant can be devastating. While high-risk conditions associated with pregnancy often don’t occur until later in the pregnancy — allowing the preborn child to be delivered prematurely so the mother’s life can be saved — conditions unrelated to pregnancy, such as cancer or ALS, can be diagnosed …

7 brave mothers who risked their lives to save their preborn babies Read More »

May 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Human Life International is calling for May 31, the Feast of the Visitation, to be a day of prayer in reparation for the babies murdered by abortion. Human Life International, the largest global pro-life apostolate, is inaugurating the “Prayer of Reparation for the Murder and Abuse of Unborn Children” to …

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LEBANON, Ohio, May 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The city of Lebanon, Ohio, unanimously voted to outlaw abortion in order to protect both mothers and their babies. According to Lebanon mayor Amy Brewer, the decision, made on Tuesday evening, will be enforced immediately, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. While there are currently no abortion facilities in the city, the ordinance aims …

Ohio city bans all abortions, instead provides sanctuary for mothers and babies Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet For the first time in years, pro-lifers have serious reason to hope that the aim towards which they have worked for so many decades – the end of Roe v. Wade – will finally come about, and as soon as next year. A few days ago, the United States Supreme …

Roe Must Go: Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Roe v. Wade Read More »

AUSTIN, May 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law Wednesday attempting to ban the abortion of babies with detectable heartbeats through an unusual enforcement mechanism supporters hope will get around the legal obstacles pro-life laws normally face. House Bill 1515, titled the Texas Heartbeat Act, requires abortionists to screen for a …

Texas governor signs law letting anyone sue abortionists for killing babies with heartbeats Read More »

May 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Vogue recently ran an article entitled, “Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?” The uproar from conservatives was swift. Many commentators blasted the article, with one major media outlet saying the piece was “ripped as completely insane for calling childbearing environmental vandalism.” Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy called the article …

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GRACE MELTON AND MELANIE ISRAEL By now many Americans have read a glowing news article about the latest celebrity to have a child via surrogacy or watched a human-interest piece about a woman carrying a child for a loved one. From New York, which just quietly legalized commercial surrogacy, to California, which remains a hotspot for individuals …

Commercial Surrogacy Harms Women and Children, Here’s How Read More »

Mary Rose Somarriba “I had severe depression with suicidal thoughts. I had no libido and I got severe fatigue. I took on weight and was not able to lose it…. After stopping with the birth control pill these symptoms vanished.” —Ursula, public commenter on the FDA Citizen’s Petition for greater transparency of birth control side effects. It’s …

Yes, Birth Control Affects Mental Health. Here’s Why It Isn’t Addressed Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER Reuters reports the birth rate has been falling steadily for decades in the United States, and, in 2020, it reached a 42-year low. Many linked anxieties and financial troubles from the COVID-19 pandemic to the drop, though the Centers for Disease Control did not mention this as a possible factor in its new report. According …

America’s Birth Rate Drops to Lowest Levels Since 1979 Because of COVID Read More »

April 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In this episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, I speak with Dr. Michelle Cretella, the executive director of the pro-life and pro-family American College of Pediatricians. She recounts an incredible miracle story she underwent when she had brain cancer, and how her health struggles changed her perspective on contraception. Dr. Cretella tells me …

‘Fertility is not a disease’: How a medical miracle changed this doctor’s stance on contraception Read More »

April 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – It was hardly a fast track, but 14th century St. Margaret of Castello – who was beatified in 1609 – was elevated to sainthood by Pope Francis on April 24 using a process called “equipollent canonization.” The Arlington Catholic Herald explained exactly what that means: “The decree is what the Vatican terms an ‘equipollent’ …

Margaret of Castello, a new saint for the pro-life movement Read More »

Researchers are calling for clinical trials to track and document menstrual changes in vaccinated women after some women reported changes to their menstrual cycles after receiving a COVID vaccine. Women have reported hemorrhagic bleeding with clots, delayed or absent periods, sudden pre-menopausal symptoms, month-long periods and heavy irregular bleeding after being vaccinated with one or both doses of a …

Do COVID Vaccines Disrupt Women’s Menstrual Cycles? Read More »

Humans are, hands down, the single most fascinating set of creatures on the planet. by Antony Davies My wife and I have many kids. We didn’t plan to have many kids. It just sort of happened. After our fifth child was born, a friend asked my wife how many children she planned to have. She said, …

Why not have a bunch of kids? Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet In recent years, pro-lifers have exposed the gruesome, ongoing practice of harvesting and buying and selling the body parts of aborted children for medical research. A series of undercover videos released by pro-life researcher David Daleiden showed abortionists and executives of biomedical companies callously describing how they obtain the bodies and haggling …

Stop the Industry of Death and Exploitation Read More »

Did you know that Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion provider, has infiltrated the public school system? In their own sneaky and conniving way, the abortion giant has convinced school administrations through veiled language that they can provide important assistance to their students. For years, we’ve been telling you how Planned Parenthood is targeting children …

Planned Parenthood is Indoctrinating Public School Children With Pro-Abortion Propaganda Read More »

April 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Thousands of women around the world are reporting disrupted menstrual cycles after receiving injections of COVID-19 vaccines. The U.K.’s government vaccine adverse event system has collected more than 2,200 reports of reproductive disorders after coronavirus injections, including excessive or absent menstrual bleeding, delayed menstruation, vaginal hemorrhaging, miscarriages, and stillbirths. In the …

Thousands of reports of menstrual irregularities, reproductive dysfunction following COVID vaccines Read More »

By Zaria Gorvett https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180822-the-birth-control-pill-can-have-male-side-effects It all started with a Mexican yam. It was 1942 and a chemistry professor from Pennsylvania was looking for a cheap source of progesterone. The hormone had many uses at the time, including preventing miscarriages and treating women going through menopause. In fact, Russell Marker already had invented a way to …

The strange truth about the pill Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet One of the great achievements of Christian civilization has been the development of a thorough and robust account of the dignity of the human person – a dignity that outstrips that of any other being in physical creation, to the extent that the human person is viewed as an image of …

Abortion is Never a Human Right Read More »

By Carole Novielli A letter sent by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the pro-abortion American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) indicates that the agency plans to “exercise enforcement discretion” in the dispensing of the abortion pill by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, the FDA intends to continue to allow the distribution …

FDA to allow abortion pill distribution by mail during COVID-19 pandemic Read More »

By the end of March, 79 cases of rare blood clots had been reported in those who’d received the AstraZeneca vaccine the UK, with cases occurring more frequently in younger women. Because of this, comparisons have been drawn with the contraceptive pill, which carries a greater relative risk of clots. In the UK, blood clots have occurred in people taking the …

Contraception blood-clot risk Read More »

Grace Emily Stark | UN Urges Further Reliance Upon Contraceptives, While Pandemic Highlights their Unsustainability “Contraceptive cost of COVID: a million unplanned pregnancies” read headlines across many major media outlets on March 11. The viral headline was in response to a March 11 United Nations (UN) announcement that the COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for 1.4 million …

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by Louis T. March Excuse me, Ms. We need babies Ms. magazine is the unabashed holy grail of feminism. Right on the masthead it says “More than a Magazine, a Movement.” But just what is feminism? Like many buzz words in our pestilential popular culture, the term is used like a sledgehammer to set the parameters of …

Excuse me, Ms. We need babies Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD| The battle over “my body, my choice” is not new; it has been raging over a century. A cartoon in the May 1919 issue of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review shows a woman being crushed by a giant roll of paper labeled “Laws Controlling Women’s Bodies.” Another offensive but equally common slogans pro-abortionists use …

Shouldn’t Women Be Able to Control Their Own Bodies? Read More »

By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D   (WASHINGTON, D.C., C-Fam) The state of New York quietly adopted a measure to make commercial surrogacy legal, raising objections by women’s rights and anti-trafficking groups.  Meanwhile, Russia’s parliament is moving to restrict its own booming surrogacy industry.  In a recent webinar hosted by C-Fam, experts in international surrogacy raised concerns about its harms to women and children …

Experts condemn gestational surrogacy as harmful to children, exploitative to women Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN A recent Reuters article told the story of an anonymous 29-year-old Polish woman impacted by Poland’s recent ban on abortions for cases of fetal abnormality. The woman, referred to as Paulina, learned at an unspecified point in her pregnancy that her preborn child did not have kidneys and would be unlikely to …

Parents receiving a fetal disability diagnosis deserve hope and support Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet A few days ago the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) somehow captured global headlines for doing something that is not particularly noteworthy, and certainly not surprising. In a brief statement – called a Responsum – the CDF responded to a question about whether or not the Church can offer “blessings” to …

Why the Church Protects Human Sexuality and Marriage Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN A February 2021 TIME magazine piece about the Natural Cycles birth control app mimicked the skeptical, gloom-and-doom tone of most mainstream commentaries on fertility awareness-based methods of family planning (FABMs). The article trotted out the same concerns about their potential “inconvenience” and difficulty of use, as well as the claim that “it takes a …

Women don’t need to fear using natural fertility awareness methods for family planning Read More »

The Abortion Pill Rescue Network, a subsidiary of Heartbeat International, is claiming it was targeted last week by a leftist independent global media organization in an effort to discredit their work. Andrea Trudden, Sr. Director of Communications and Marketing at APRN, notified ifamnews.com via email of openDemocracy’s “deceptive work (which) stole hours of hotline consultants’ time… (preventing) women …

“Big Abortion ally” puts Christ-centred organization commissioned to help women in the crosshairs Read More »

March 18, 2021 (L’Espresso) — Sandro Magister note: Published as received. The author of the commentary, Thibaud Collin, is a professor of philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris and has written important essays on “gender” theory, same-sex marriage, and political secularism. His latest book, from 2018, is entitled: “Le mariage chrétien at-il encore un avenir?” The starting point for …

‘Humanae Vitae’ farewell. Here comes the one who will celebrate its funeral Read More »

https://13wham.com/news/spotlight-on-america/thousands-of-women-claim-a-popular-iud-broke-in-their-body-and-caused-health-complications WASHINGTON (SBG) — Millions of women use implanted IUDs for contraception. The Food and Drug Administration has approved several brands as a safe and effective form of birth control. But one device, the Paragard IUD, is drawing thousands of complaints and dozens of lawsuits over concerns it can break, leaving women facing surgery and other complications. Now, …

3,000+ women report a popular IUD broke in their body, causing complications Read More »

During the Great Stem Cell debate, “the scientists” said they “only” wanted to be able to create and experiment on embryos up to 14 days of development, when cells begin to differentiate. Of course, at the time they couldn’t maintain them for longer than 14 days, so nothing was actually limited. Now that they can, …

Scientists Want to Kill More Unborn Babies for Unproven Embryonic Stem Cell Research Read More »

Cassie Moriarty Reasons Women Need Periods: The Role of the Menstrual Cycle in Brain Health & Development Earlier this year, we started a “Reasons Women Need Periods” series putting a spotlight on how women’s periods play a crucial role in other elements of women’s health. We talked about the importance of endogenous (i.e., naturally occurring) …

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By Laura Nicole Restrictions on abortion do not lead to an increase in women dying due to a lack of “safe” abortions, according to a new study highlighted by the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG). In a recent tweet, AAPLOG cited a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal BMJ Open, which examined maternal mortality in 32 …

Ten-year study shows legalized abortion does not improve maternal mortality Read More »

Dr. Marissa Brand March 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The first vaccine in the United States to use an aborted fetal cell line in its production was the MMR vaccine in 1979. Currently in the United States there are many vaccines that contain aborted fetal DNA in the end product of the vaccine, while others use …

What you need to know about fetal cell lines and vaccines Read More »

Birth rates in the U.S. started their decline in 2006 — the same year the CDC recommended every American girl between the ages of 9 and 26 get Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. A CBS News story earlier this week sounded a recurring alarm about the record decline of birth rates in the …

Is Gardasil Vaccine Linked to Record Birth Rate Declines? Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet What are we doing to ourselves, and to our children? This is a question I am pondering a lot as of late, as I watch our nation, and so many parts of the world, racing to embrace ever more extreme and ever more destructive forms of anti-life and anti-family ideology. With …

The Equality Act Necessitates a Response From All Read More »

By Carole Novielli Abortion pill clients experiencing a complication are more likely to receive care from an emergency center than the abortion facility where they obtained the pills, according to an analysis of adverse events reports (AERs) submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by abortion pill manufacturer Danco. A team of over 30 board certified physicians spent three years …

Study suggests abortion pill complications are underreported, and ERs are managing the majority Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD Does Contraception Lead to Abortion? | Human Life International (hli.org) “No matter how thin you slice it, ladies and gentlemen, family planning is a euphemism.  We don’t intend or desire to prevent conception for conception’s sake; we want to prevent conception because of what follows conception.  Family planning is the prevention of births, …

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By Megan Redshaw, J.D Scientists are witnessing an alarming trend: Men’s sperm counts are down, testosterone levels have plunged and erectile dysfunction is increasing. Male infertility is on the rise — and exposure to synthetic chemicals known as phthalates could be to blame, according to fertility scientist Shanna Swan, Ph.D., author of the new book, “Count Down: How Our Modern …

Male Infertility Threatening ‘Future of Human Race,’ Says Author of New Book Read More »

February 24, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Following the announcement that the radical pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Equality Act will be brought before the U.S. House of Representatives this week, pro-life and pro-family leaders have described the proposed legislation as “the most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law.” Dr. Bill Donohue, Ph.D., president of the Catholic advocacy group …

Democrat Equality Act ‘the most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law’ Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | A Connecticut anti-pregnancy center bill is moving forward after passing the Public Health Committee in a 19-12 vote on February 22, despite dozens of people testifying against the bill in a public hearing earlier this month. This is the fourth year in a row such a bill has been introduced in the Connecticut …

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As Breast Cancer Rates Soar, the WHO Doubles Down on Promoting Birth Control Grace Emily Stark “Breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the world’s most commonly-diagnosed cancer,” reads a February 3 press release from the World Health Organization (WHO). The occasion for the press release was to mark World Cancer Day 2021 on February 4. …

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https://www.healthline.com/health-news/estrogen-and-covid-19-how-pregnancy-birth-control-can-increase-risk-of-blood-clots New research has found that women who are pregnant or take estrogen either through birth control or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have a higher risk of developing blood clots if they contract COVID-19. Though estrogen does not cause blood clots, if used in birth control or HRT it can increase a person’s risk by three- …

Estrogen and COVID-19: How Pregnancy, Birth Control Can Increase Risk of Blood Clots Read More »

By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.  C-Fam) Melinda Gates’ Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) coalition celebrated the progress they say they’ve made since its debut in 2012 and announced a new, updated partnership for the next ten years they are calling FP2030. Beneath the festive veneer, the awkward fact remains that FP2020 has fallen well short of its goals. What’s more, despite …

Melinda Gates’ Family Planning 2020 coalition aided abortion groups in promoting their agendas Read More »

JOHN M. GRONDELSKI On February 3, the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) reported research regarding American birth rates in the decade 2009-19. The results are not good. Even if we take 2008 as a baseline, the ensuing decade showed an implosion in birth rates. If birth rates had only stayed where they were in 2008 (remember, birth rates had been …

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By Haley Strack Birth control is not the only solution Casual talk of birth control as a solution to women’s problems is abhorrent — and for a school that appreciates a proper, well-rounded education, I expected better. The Curate women’s panel on Saturday covered many topics relevant to young ladies: careers, relationships, time management, and yes, menstrual cycles. One …

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John Grondelski This week (Feb. 7-14) is “National Marriage Week” and Feb. 14 “National Marriage Day” (which coincides with St. Valentine’s Day). The USCCB Secretariat on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth even has a web page with some resources. “National Marriage Week” happens to follow the release Feb. 3 of a short research piece by the …

Some Catholic Thoughts on National Marriage Week Read More »

by Mary Cooney Our youngest child has Down Syndrome. We found out the day after he was born, when the pediatrician noticed several markers for T21. That day the nurses tried to draw blood so they could run a test to confirm the diagnosis. But the particular vein they needed to draw blood from was too …

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by Michael Cook Another dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. BioEdge, MercatorNet’s associate site about bioethics, has been tracking the generosity of sperm donor dads for several years. Some men have fathered dozens of children, a few may have fathered hundreds. But in the case of Detroit gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Philip Peven the word “thousands” is being used. It will be …

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January 28, 2021 (Children’s Health Defense) — Pregnant women (unless they are at high risk of  exposure to the COVID virus) and people under age 18 should not get Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine until further studies are completed, according to new guidance issued today by the World Health Organization (WHO). In its interim recommendations for the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine in …

Pregnant or under 18? Don’t get Moderna’s COVID vaccine, WHO says Read More »

By Right to Life UK (Right to Life UK) Filmmaker, author, and social activist Obianuju Ekeocha has called out the United States for repealing the Mexico City Policy which ensured that federal funding was not spent on abortions outside the United States. President Joe Biden will revoke the policy put in place by the former US administration, likely resulting in a …

African social activist condemns US intent to target developing nations with abortion funding Read More »

The Links between Irregular Cycles, Birth Control, and Early Death In the fertility awareness world, it is no secret that we advocate for the medical community to consider the menstrual cycle a vital sign of health. Often sequestered to that aisle in the drug store or murmurs in the bathroom, periods have long gotten a bad …

The Links between Irregular Cycles, Birth Control, and Early Death Read More »

CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 05:40 pm MT (CNA).- President Joe Biden’s statement backing legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade drew swift reaction from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose pro-life chairman said the no president of the United States should ever defend denying the right to life of unborn children. “We …

US bishops urge Biden to reject abortion rights after ‘deeply disturbing’ statement Read More »

By Carole Novielli | Abortion has violently ended the lives of over 48 million Millennial (24.5 million) and Generation Z (24 million) babies combined, according to data published by Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate” and research arm, the Guttmacher Institute. Tragically, since the 1973 Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision forced abortion upon the nation, a staggering 60 to 62 million preborn …

Lost generations: Over 48 million Millennial and Gen Z babies have been killed by abortion Read More »

Susan Klemond Pro-life leader Joe Scheidler spent eight years as a Benedictine monk in Indiana, and though he discerned he wasn’t called to the priesthood, the founder of the Pro-Life Action League never stopped living the order’s motto of ora et labora (prayer and work) during his many years in the pro-life movement, said his oldest son, Eric. Joe …

Pro-Life Leader Joe Scheidler Remembered as ‘Fearless Champion of the Unborn’ Read More »

The following information was taken from America’s Frontline Doctors White Paper On Experimental Vaccines For COVID-19. More research is needed to determine the effects of experimental vaccines on fertility. For more information visit https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/Vaccine-PP.pdf Experimental Vaccines & Other Unknown or New Problems Frontline physicians have a very healthy respect for what is unknown. With these …

COVID 19 vaccine could cause permanent auto-immune rejection of the placenta Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser The Supreme Court has ruled that women must receive the abortion pill regimen in person, at an abortion facility, putting an end to dangerous mail-order abortions of mifepristone (brand name Mifeprex), also known as RU-486. The ruling affirms that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) in-person abortion pill distribution requirements will remain in place, though …

Supreme Court halts mail-order distribution of abortion pill Read More »

by Martina Moyski  •  ChurchMilitant.com XINJIANG, China (ChurchMilitant.com) – Decreases in the birthrate in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China are stemming from the “eradication of religious extremism,” according to a new Chinese Communist Party (CCP) report. The report, published on Thursday by the Xinjiang Development Research Center, said the elimination of what it calls “religious extremism” has allowed Uyghur Muslim women to become more …

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STEVEN ERTELT Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed a new pro-life bill into law that will help save babies from abortions. The Ohio legislature approved a pro-life bill to ban a dangerous form of abortions that kill unborn babies but also put women’s health at risk. Senate Bill 260, the Telemedicine Abortion Ban, passed out …

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  Bishops in Argentina are urging faithful Catholics to be strong and are vowing to protect life despite the passage of a law legalizing abortion up to 14 weeks in the majority-Catholic country. According to a statement published on December 30th, the bishops declared that, “together with brothers and sisters from different creeds and also many non-believers,” the …

Catholic bishops in Argentina vow to protect life despite abortion law: ‘All is not lost Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet “The family has a special role to play throughout the life of its members, from birth to death. It is truly ‘the sanctuary of life: the place in which life – the gift of God – can be properly welcomed and protected against the many attacks to which it is exposed, …

Stop Societal Breakdown: Build Up Marriage Read More »

Personhood Alliance Responds to Dismissals of COVID-19 Vaccine-Abortion Link Sarah Quale, president of Personhood Alliance Education, notes: “By promoting so-called ‘scientific benefits’ gained from children who were intentionally killed, regardless of when their deaths occurred, we continue to align ourselves with the evil of abortion. This includes harvesting aborted fetal cell lines in the past …

Personhood Alliance: RESPONDS TO DISMISSALS OF COVID VACCINE-ABORTION LINK Read More »

CLAIRE DWYER I was nine years old, and I was carrying a coffin. Not just any coffin. This one held the tiny bodies of hundreds of aborted infants rescued from a dumpster, and I was among several children who were participating in their burial service at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Milwaukee in 1984. Pro-life …

Holy Innocents: First Martyrs and Pro-life Patron Saints Read More »

By Jonathon Van Maren https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-full-cradle-and-an-empty-grave-abortion-is-the-opposite-of-christmas  (LifeSiteNews) – Each year, abortion groups celebrate the season by requesting donations and wishing everyone happy holidays. It is always ironic to see the spiritual descendants of Herod twist themselves into knots to acknowledge Christmas without being too religious, but I suppose it is also understandable. Nobody likes being left …

A full cradle and an empty grave: Christmas is the opposite of abortion Read More »

Gerard Migeon Can you really use breastfeeding as natural birth control? If you are pregnant, there is a great chance that your OB/GYN or a nurse will ask you what form of contraceptives you’re going to use after you deliver.  If you’re planning on nursing your baby, you can tell them with confidence that breastfeeding …

Can you really use breastfeeding as natural birth control? Read More »

December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Today marks the 250th birthday of one of the most famous and admired classical music composers, Ludwig van Beethoven. On this occasion, it is worth watching the 2011 short film Crescendo, directed by the pro-life activists and filmmakers Jason Jones and Eduardo Verastegui. The film also had as executive producer Pattie Mallette, the mother of pop singer …

Pro-life short film showcases human potential Read More »

The Unethical Push to Sterilize Women in the Delivery Room Mary Rose Somarriba Many pregnant and postpartum women know what it’s like to field questions as they’re about to give birth and just after: “are we having an IUD inserted today?” or “what birth control will you be taking after birth?” Most recently, we’ve heard, “are we having …

The Problem with Offering Tubal Ligation in the Delivery Room Read More »

https://www.hli.org/2020/12/the-disastrous-effects-of-ignoring-human-dignity/ By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet I never thought I’d see the day when I would have to praise the New York Times for waging a battle against a huge force within the culture of death that just about nobody else had the courage or conviction to take head on. But that’s what seems to …

The Disastrous Effects of Ignoring Human Dignity! Read More »

BRAD MATTES 8 Coronavirus Vaccines are Heading Towards Production, Here’s Which Ones are Abortion-Free Talk of COVID vaccines has taken center stage. As with all vaccines, pro-lifers want to know whether they are produced with a cell line from an aborted baby. An analysis from Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), part of the Susan B Anthony …

8 Coronavirus Vaccines are Heading Towards Production, Here’s Which Ones are Abortion-Free Read More »

by Kristine Severyn, PhD, RPh Should We Be Concerned about ‘Ethical’ Vaccines? To address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Congress directed $10 billion to project Operation Warp Speed to develop vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics—so-called countermeasures.1 While the public health community and media laud the ambitious goal of producing enough vaccine for every person in the US by January …

Should We Be Concerned about ‘Ethical’ Vaccines? Read More »

by William Huang A month and half ago, this writer predicted that China would end its two-child policy at the October meeting of Communist bigshots in Beijing. It was there that they hammered out their economic and social policies for the next five years, formally known as the “14th Five-Year Plan”. I was hoping for a repudiation …

Three heroes in the fight to end China’s draconian birth policy Read More »

MALLORY QUIGLEY Today the national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) celebrated the continued momentum for pro-life women in Congress as Young Kim claimed victory in California’s 39th congressional district. Kim is the 17th new pro-life woman elected in the 2020 cycle. Out of these 17 women, nine have flipped seats formerly held by pro-abortion Democrats. This brings the total number of …

17 New Pro-Life Women Have Been Elected to Congress to Stop Nancy Pelosi’s Abortion Agenda Read More »

By Susan Ciancio Abortifacient Brief: Implants Since the Supreme Court ruled on the legalization of birth control, millions of women—often oblivious to its dangers—have used one of its many forms. Manufacturers make billions off a woman’s desire to have sex with little to no consequences. While the pill is the most popular type, other methods continually entice women. Birth …

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By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN Joe Malone and David Rowan have each experienced the unthinkable: the loss of a child. Their daughters Brittany Malone and Alex Rowan were both 23-year-old recent college graduates when they suddenly died due to complications from hormonal birth control. Brittany died in December of 2012 of a deep venous thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in a major blood vessel, …

Two dads whose daughters died from hormonal birth control are educating women on risks Read More »

Catholic News Agency WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court should hear appeals backing HHS rules that block recipients of Title X family planning funds from performing or making referrals for abortions, a group of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists and a Christian medical association have said. The Supreme Court is considering whether to hear appeals seeking to …

Pro-Life Doctors Ask Supreme Court to Uphold Title X Funding Rule Read More »

By Jeff Christie Men, be MEN. I’m a former Marine. These days, I work full time in manufacturing. I’m not one to go out and seek to be known or throw myself into the public arena. Yet, my wife and I are pro life speakers. I’m not the natural she is. That’s obvious within the first few minutes …

His wife got pregnant from sexual assault… and he has a message for pro-life men Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | In July of 2012, Ward Miles Miller was born three and a half months early weighing just 1.5 pounds. His father Ben chronicled the first year of Ward’s life in a heartwarming video that went viral and has now amassed more than 35 million views on YouTube. Viewers loved watching Ward grow from a tiny preemie with …

Preemie of the Week: Viral video star Ward Miles Miller is now a thriving 8-year-old Read More »

Gerard Migeon How do you know if you have a blood clot? Signs of blood clots, and how to get tested for them Even among young women, the risk of blood clot should be a serious consideration if they are on hormonal birth control. Very recently, a friend of mine had a big scare. Her daughter …

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By Terry Beatley and By Clare Ruff October 29, 2020 (Inside the Vatican) — At a prayer vigil in November 2009, I discerned the Lord asking me to interview Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving co-founder of NARAL — the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (later renamed NARAL Pro-Choice America). In the late 1960’s, …

Reformed architect of legal abortion in America describes how it all happened Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | Researchers behind a study published Thursday in the journal Cell found that using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos caused unintended and unwanted chromosomal changes, showing that the ethically problematic research may cause more harm than good. The study focused on attempts to use Crispr to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness. Forty …

Ethically problematic Crispr gene-editing technology causing unexpected problems in embryos Read More »

https://naturalwomanhood.org/birth-control-implant-may-not-stay-in-your-arm-nexplanon-side-effects-1-2019/ Grace Emily Stark “We’re all on Nexplanon,” says a recent ad for “the birth control that goes in your arm,” featuring actress Vanessa Hudgens. Seconds later, the ad warns that “if at any time you can’t feel the implant, contact your doctor right away… removal of the implant may be very difficult or impossible if the implant is not where it should …

When Nexplanon moves: How “the birth control that goes in your arm” can migrate and wreak havoc on your body Read More »

By Bridget Handy The United States was joined by several countries on Thursday for a virtual ceremony to celebrate the signing of the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family. Co-sponsors of the declaration are the United States, Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, and Uganda. The Declaration currently has 32 signers and remains open, should more countries …

Over 30 countries sign declaration promoting health of women, preborn babies, and the family Read More »

https://relevantradio.com/2020/07/the-prolife-witness-of-st-john-paul-iis-parents-2/ By Lindsey Kettner “I thought I knew everything about Karol Wojtyla, St. John Paul II. I did my doctoral work on his theology,” said Msgr. Start Swetland, host of Go Ask Your FatherTM on Relevant Radio®. But even Msgr. Swetland was surprised to learn a new fact about the early life of St. John Paul …

The Prolife Witness of St. John Paul II’s Parents Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet “Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are…radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person …

A Christian Vision of Society and Civilization of Love Read More »

By Susan Ciancio In May 2019, Sen. Amy Klobuchar criticized the Trump administration for attempting to cut Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. Klobuchar stated: “In their lifetime, one in five women go [to Planned Parenthood]. . . . And most of them are going there for contraception, birth control [and] . . . for mammograms.” Her comments about …

Planned Parenthood: The Mammogram Myth Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, currently in confirmation hearings before the Senate, has faced scrutiny for her pro-life stance. A Catholic mother of seven, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, and a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett has never hidden her knowledge and …

Judge Amy Coney Barrett agrees with science: Life begins at fertilization Read More »

By Nancy Flanders Abortion advocates call abortion “reproductive freedom” but instead of finding freedom, women who experience abortion can find themselves weighed down by mental health disorders, including depression. Research consistently points to the negative effects of abortion on women’s mental health — and personal stories from women corroborate these studies. The Scientific Proof A …

Analysis Despite abortion industry’s denial, abortion ‘significantly’ increases risk of mental health disorders Read More »

October 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Susan B. Anthony List knows a thing or two about censorship. Three years ago, Twitter banned of their ads for including a quote from Mother Teresa, the world-famous nun who is now considered a saint in the Catholic Church. Prudence Robertson works in the communication department for the Susan B. Anthony List, which …

Susan B. Anthony List: Big Tech is becoming complicit with Big Abortion Read More »

By Susan Ciancio In 1937, Pope Pius XI wrote that the Rosary is “a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight, to preserve the integrity of life, to acquire virtue more easily, and . . . to attain real peace among men.” October is not only the month of the Rosary, but it’s Respect Life Month as …

Why Say a Pro-Life Rosary? Read More »

 by Gerard Migeon Can birth control cause infertility? Yes… and no Some women who have struggled with getting pregnant wonder if their past use of birth control might have caused their infertility. While there are assurances all over the internet that the birth control pill does not cause infertility, the answer is a bit more …

Can birth control cause infertility? Read More »

by William Huang The month of October will be an incredibly important one for the pro-life movement across the world. Tensions are already growing in the United States on “filling that seat” on the Supreme Court, which may decisively turn the tide for pro-life conservatives for a generation in the highest court of the most powerful …

October may bring pro-life revolutions to both the US and China Read More »

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 …

Vancouver street ads: Having only one child is ‘loving’ toward children Read More »

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 …

Empowering Teenage Girls to Know Their Bodies Read More »

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 …

9/11 Memorial remembers preborn children too Read More »

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 …

Promiscuity and the price of free love Read More »

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 …

Is There a Right to a Child? Read More »

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 »

WASHINGTON, DC, August 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A religious sister who was formerly a colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps gave a knock-out speech at the Republican National Convention last night, moving from a description of her recent work with refugees to her concern for the unborn. “Those refugees all share a common experience,” …

Army doctor at RNC who became nun: ‘I’m not just pro-life. I’m pro–eternal life’ Read More »

Pro-life activist Abby Johnson discussed her experience working at Planned Parenthood at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, saying that her experiences with the nation’s largest abortion provider are why she advocates “so passionately for life.” Johnson said Planned Parenthood approached her at a volunteer fair and convinced her to volunteer for the organization by …

Abby Johnson Tells GOP Convention the Reality of Abortion: The Baby “Fought Back, Desperate to Move” Read More »

August 25, 2020 By Judie Brown It has been so long since America lived through Griswold v. Connecticut, followed by Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, that our citizenry may not realize that our current national plague of systemic violence has roots. But really, it is not at all surprising. If you are wondering how Supreme Court decisions …

Systemic Violence Begets Hatred Read More »

Written by  + Carlo Maria Viganò https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/5031-letter-to-mothers-from-archbishop-vigano Dearest Mothers, Dear Sirs, I have received your kind email, in which you inform me of the initiative you have scheduled for this coming September 5 for the protection of the physical, moral, and spiritual health of your children. In responding to you, I address all the mothers of …

LETTER to the FRONTLINE HEROES: Viganò on COVID, Abortion, and Destruction of the Family Read More »

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer announced Thursday it had agreed to pay $1.6 billion to settle nearly all claims filed in the United States over controversial birth control implant Essure. “The company will pay approximately $1.6 billion to resolve these claims, including an allowance for outstanding claims, and is in resolution discussions with counsel for the remaining …

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By Samantha Kamman Previously, Live Action News has discussed how emergency contraception (EC) can act as a potential abortifacient. Emergency contraception is typically taken by a woman to prevent pregnancy if her preferred method of birth control has failed or was not used. In order to understand how things like the Morning After Pill (Plan B) or Ella …

Is emergency contraception different from the abortion pill? Read More »

By Nancy Flanders “At least one of my [six] abortions was from Planned Parenthood because they didn’t ask any questions.” Those are the words of a sex trafficking survivor who took part in the study, “The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities,” which found that 55% of sex trafficking …

The link between sex trafficking, abortion, and Planned Parenthood Read More »

by Grace Stark  Why do some women gain weight on birth control? Many of us have been there: we’re eating right, we’re exercising, but still the scale won’t budge, and our clothes are still fitting the same. What gives? For some women, their birth control might be to blame for thwarting their fitness goals, possibly …

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By Anne Marie Williams August 13, 2020 (Live Action News) — Given the multiple side effects and risks of hormonal birth control, there has never been a better time for women to learn about evidence-based methods of fertility awareness. A growing number of medical professionals are utilizing fertility awareness–based methods (FABMs) of natural family planning as they seek to address root …

OB/GYN stops praising birth control pill after patients’ side effects became unbearable Read More »

Article by: Siobhan Heekin-Canedy https://femmhealth.org/new-study-demonstrated-better-covid-19-outcomes-in-women-who-ovulate/?fbclid=IwAR228MkcHADljPJjegnZyttCQrXajHX0DnG8RykwABAYrYEQb6D5RxV3h-w&mc_cid=1ff9c59913&mc_eid=95963b8a23 Do healthy hormone levels and ovulation help women battle COVID-19? According to a recent study, the answer seems to be yes. One of the most important principles of FEMM education and medical management is that ovulation is a sign of health. As explained in the FEMM White Paper, “a woman’s biomarkers …

New Study Demonstrates Better Covid-19 Outcomes in Women Who Ovulate Read More »

by Shannon Roberts An expert New Zealand researcher is warning women to “please have children” as, mirroring other Western nations, New Zealand’s fertility rate reaches an all-time low.  The country’s total fertility rate is now 1.71 children per woman, well below the population replacement level of 2.1. Increasingly, greater numbers of researchers are acknowledging the grave problems associated …

‘Please have children,’ an expert researcher warns Read More »

By Ted Cruz and Lila Rose (National Review) While COVID-19 dominates the news cycle, a battle is being fought over a deadly drug that has killed over 3.7 million children and at least 24 women. The drug is Mifeprex — commonly known as the abortion pill. On July 13, an Obama-appointed federal judge enjoined the Food and Drug …

The federal government must stop the deadly abortion pill Read More »

By Linda Harvey August 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The city of Cleveland, Ohio is putting the lives of its children at risk. And it is receiving federal taxpayer funds to do so. No, it’s not COVID. For that low-risk disease, children are sheltered, masked, kept away from many schools, and scared to death by the …

Taxpayer-funded, illegal ‘sex ed’ propaganda threatens children in Ohio Read More »

“NO JUDGMENT, JUST CARE.” These words cover the walls of a bus stop near my house. It is an ad for Planned Parenthood—the organization that, depending on one’s perspective, is known as America’s largest, best-funded abortion provider, and/or as a champion of women’s health. For Planned Parenthood, the term “women’s health” is synonymous with access …

Is Abortion Killing Maternal Health? Read More »

by Carolyn Moynihan The race is on to develop a vaccine for Covid-19. More than 140 vaccines are being tested around the world, according to the World Health Organisation. In Australia alone at least half a dozen vaccines are being trialled. At the same time, the WHO and various experts keep warning us that, even with a vaccine, the …

Morally speaking, not all Covid-19 vaccines will be equal Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD As experts have known for years, unborn children begin to feel pain as early as eight weeks after fertilization, and definitely no later than 14 weeks.  In fact, University of Arkansas Professor Kanwaljeet Anand, the world’s leading authority on fetal pain, says that preborn children probably feel pain much more acutely than adults.  Their …

Why Are Late Abortions Performed? Read More »

By Dorothy Cummings McLean PORTLAND, Maine, August 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― A recent paper has suggested that women who use the birth control pill may be particularly susceptible to blood clots if they contract COVID-19. Doctors Daniel I. Spratt, an endocrinologist, and Rachel J. Buchsbaum, a hematologist, published “COVID-19 and Hypercoagulability: Potential Impact on Management with …

Endocrinologist, hematologist warn birth control pill may increase risk of blood clots from COVID-19 Read More »

https://www.thebusinessof.life/business-of-birth-control In the 1960’s the pill was revolutionary, giving women the ability to control their fertility and advancing their equality in the workplace and in society.  But when the pill came onto the market, women were not fully informed of the side effects and risks. Sixty years later, any conversation around the drawbacks of hormonal birth …

The Business of Birth Control Read More »

by Helen Watt Will Covid-19 lockdowns allow some babies to be born this year who would otherwise be aborted? Yes – and that’s not, it seems, a good thing, according to a report on “compromised abortion” from the Indian abortion provider Ipas. It says that redeploying abortion facilities and staff to prioritise care for Covid-19 patients has …

The little lives being saved by Covid Read More »

By Kelli  In a newly-released eight-minute video, “The Billionaires Behind Abortion,” Live Action exposes the “who’s who” behind the push for population control—by means of contraception and abortion—from its beginnings to today. “Without the financial support of these billionaires,” says the video, “abortion would not be nearly as prevalent as it is.” The video is part …

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By Anne Marie Williams In 2018, the BBC published several articles noting that British women were beginning to trend away from the birth control pill and were instead opting for long-acting, reversible contraceptives (LARC) like IUDs and the implant. Reasons for this transition vary, including a desire for a “set it and forget it” method that doesn’t require taking …

Seizures, blood clots, and depression: Why many women in the UK are leaving the Pill behind Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Jul 24, 2020 / 04:51 pm MT (CNA).- As someone who teaches couples about Natural Family Planning (NFP), Jeanice Vinduska most often fields questions of doubt from couples who are used to artificial means of contraception, such as birth control pills and IUDs. It can be difficult to convince some people that a …

Why NFP is not just ‘Catholic contraception’ Read More »

BELLEVUE, Nebraska, July 22, 2020, (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life advocates in Nebraska joined together for a prayer rally across the parking lot of an abortion center that included adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The prayer rally included a priest making the sign of the cross over the killing center with the Blessed Sacrament. Pro-lifers on the …

Abortion appointments stop after priest makes Sign of Cross with Blessed Sacrament over killing center Read More »

The curriculum suggested by the United Nations health organization promotes aberrant sexuality for children, claiming their guidelines supersede those of the parents. This takes on chilling implications when considering the history of rape and pedophilia within the organization. In the wake of the organization mishandling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump removed US funding from …

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STEVEN ERTELT Multiple possible coronavirus vaccines that are on a fast track for development as the world awaits a vaccine to deal with the international pandemic. But one of the COVID-19 vaccines that is receiving the most attention is also the most controversial because it relies on cells from the body part of an aborted …

Oxford University and AstraZeneca Making Coronavirus Vaccine Using Cells From Aborted Babies Read More »

by NEWS DESK Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week is slated for 19 to 25 July this year, and has for its theme: “Live the truth and beauty of God’s plan for married love!” This annual week-long event is a national educational campaign of the Natural Family Planning Program of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference that promotes …

US Catholics urged to take part in Natural Family Planning Awareness Week Read More »

By Michael J. New (National Review) Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, women do not need to abide by a policy requiring that they go to a medical facility in order to obtain chemical-abortion drugs. The ruling by a U.S. district judge in Maryland, Theodore D. Chuang, stated that the “in-person requirements” were …

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By Anne Marie Williams The coronavirus pandemic has served for many as a forceful reminder of our mortality as humans. A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that the transhumanism movement capitalizes on such fears, touting the promise of “eternal life through advanced technology” to bolster support for what otherwise might be considered extremist or unethical goals. Currently, nanorobots (and …

Using reproductive technologies to avoid suffering has led to suffering of its own Read More »

July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – On Thursday, July 16, some of the most well-known pro-life heroes from all over the world will proclaim that out of love and reverence due to Our Lord they would never receive Holy Communion in the hand. That message will be apart of the, “Love and reverence to Our Lord: Let’s always …

Why are pro-lifers concerned about Communion in the hand? Read More »

By Paul Smeaton WASHINGTON, July 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A new study on global population trends by researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has concluded that falling fertility rates will lead to a dramatic decline in global population by the end of this century. Professor Christopher Murray, one of …

New demographic study predicts ‘jaw-dropping’ population decline this century Read More »

MARGARET BRADY Do you remember your first “very special” health class? Mine was taught by a middle-aged lady whose first priority was eliminating dirty fingernails. She stalked around our fifth-grade public school classroom, examining each girl’s hands, prepared to name and shame any offenders. Besides the hygiene review, we also received a blurry diagram of …

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ByNicola Smith, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/29/china-forces-birth-control-uighurs-suppress-population/ The Chinese government is allegedly taking forceful measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, according to an alarming new report on aggressive birth control policies in China’s Xinjiang province. The report by China scholar Adrian Zenz, released on …

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population Read More »

https://youtu.be/eDSDdwN2Xcg ODESSA, Texas — The inhaled steroid Budesonide is being hailed by one West Texas doctor, Richard Bartlett, as the ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19. Midland Memorial Hospital seems to disagree with him, telling us Tuesday that there is no such thing a ‘silver bullet’ for the virus. But Bartlett’s patients credit the treatment for saving …

‘Silver bullet’ for the virus. Read More »

By Calvin Freiburger WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday in a decision siding with the Little Sisters of the Poor and their bid to stop being forced to distribute abortifacient and contraceptive drugs to their employees. The Obama administration had first mandated that employers subsidize the provision …

Supreme Court backs Little Sisters of the Poor against Obamacare mandate Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams As a defender for the Orlando Pride women’s soccer team, 26-year-old Carson Pickett is no stranger to the spotlight. But last year, a photo of her went viral not for her athletic achievements, but for her meeting with a very special fan. Pickett was born missing her left hand and part of her forearm, …

God put me here for a reason’: Soccer star with limb difference meets very special fan Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A recent investigation from the Associated Press (AP) is finally opening the world’s eyes to the genocide against Uighur Muslims in China. In addition to the concentration camps holding an estimated one million Uighurs, the AP investigation revealed that the Chinese government is taking “draconian measures” to prevent Uighurs from having children – including forced birth …

New investigation shines light on China’s forced abortions and sterilization of minority women Read More »

by Michael Cook Five thousand, two hundred years ago, long before Stonehenge, long before the Pyramids, farming communities in the Boyne Valley of Ireland built a gigantic passage tomb, called Newgrange. It covers 4,500 square metres, or more than one acre, of ground. The builders heaped alternating layers of stone and earth until it was 12 metres …

A lesson in human dignity from stone age Ireland Read More »

Helen Alvaré Today, by a vote of 5 to 4, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of their practice. The opinion in June Medical Services v. Russo is quite fractured and legally technical. It does not bring the pro-life movement any closer to …

Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Restrictions Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams An eye-opening article from the November/December 1979 issue of Mother Jones suggests that for decades, the United States has had a “double standard” when it comes to “dumping” unsafe contraceptives in developing countries. IUDs Throughout the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of dangerous Dalkon Shield IUDs were distributed in 42 developing nations, despite the growing …

For decades, the U.S. has sent unsafe contraceptives rejected by the FDA to developing nations Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | In an effort to increase the birth rate and repair the stalled economy, Italy’s parliament passed a bill last week to encourage couples to have more children. “The Family Act” will provide a universal monthly allowance for children to be paid to families beginning in the seventh month of pregnancy until the child turns 18, …

Facing a falling birth rate, Italy passes law to encourage families to have children Read More »

By Brian Clowes, PhD Concern for our environment is the most altruistic of the several primary motivations which drive the activities of the population control movement.  Unfortunately, the leaders of many population control groups think that the best way to preserve our natural surroundings is to decrease the number of people in the world by whatever …

The Environmentalist Roots of the Population Control Movement Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams A recent Instagram discussion between documentary producer Ricki Lake (“The Business of Being Born” and the forthcoming “The Business of Birth Control” slated for release later in 2020), and Chelsea VonChaz, co-founder of #HappyPeriod, centered on “The Anti-Black History of Birth Control.” During the discussion, VonChaz admitted that ‘birth control has this kind of dark …

Documentary filmmaker and guest discuss birth control’s ‘anti-Black history’ Read More »

By Paul Smeaton WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved 70 new embryonic stem cell lines for use in projects eligible for federally funded research. The new cell lines, which come from human embryos created and destroyed in a laboratory, were approved by the NIH last month. The new …

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MARIA GALLAGHER   JUN 22, 2020 The year 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of an incredible document defending the sanctity of human life. Evangelium Vitae [“The Gospel of Life”] by Pope John Paul II has definitely stood the test of time. Its powerful arguments are as relevant today as they were two-and-a-half decades ago. The Pontiff …

Pope John Paul II: Abortion is an “Evil” That Denies “The Basic Value of Human Life” Read More »

By Dr Jeanette Pinto June is the month devoted to the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  It reminds us of the mystery of the Holy Trinity and of God’s revelation of Himself to us. Not too long ago the Holy Father Pope Francis declared: “Mercy is the Lord’s most powerful message.” Where does …

Sacred Heart of Jesus: A Pro-Life Heart! Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER An experiment that involved editing the DNA of unborn babies at their earliest stage of life and then destroying them ended in disaster, scientists in London reported this month. Medium reports the research by biologist Kathy Niakan and her team at the Francis Crick Institute is being widely regarded as a warning sign about …

Scientists Edited Genes of Unborn Babies. When the Experiment Failed, They Killed the Babies Read More »

https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/research-supports-educating-men-in-fertility-awareness/ Overview This randomized controlled trial done in Sweden assessed whether the fertility awareness counseling tool known as Reproductive Life Plan (RLP) could increase men’s fertility awareness. The authors sought to address the limited awareness many people have about the factors that affect their fertility. They noted this lack of fertility awareness was especially problematic …

Research Supports Educating Men in Fertility Awareness Read More »

By FR. GEORGE WELZBACHER Forty years have passed since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first authorized physicians to prescribe a drug that would subvert the institution of motherhood. May 9, 1960, was the day on which the authorization was granted; it was, by ironic coincidence, the day after Mothers’ Day. The drug, of course, …

Moral, Social Damage Done By Pill Still Disturbing Read More »

Most American women use some type of contraception in their lifetimes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 13% of women aged 15 to 49 are currently on the pill, while about 10% use an intrauterine device or contraceptive implant. Those birth control options are often touted as safe and effective methods for preventing …

Women need to understand the Effects of Birth Control on Their Bodies and Hormones Read More »

In April of this year, President Trump temporarily halted funding from the World Health Organization over concerns that it had grossly mishandled the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, he has threatened to make the decision to withhold funding permanent. For the WHO, the loss of U.S. funding is no small thing: The U.S.’s contributions of some …

Trump Admin Fights UN, WHO Efforts to Use COVID-19 to Spread Abortion Read More »

Reasons Women Need Periods: The Role of the Menstrual Cycle in Heart Health The two primary female reproductive hormones are estrogen and progesterone. When estrogen zigs, progesterone zags. They are like foil characters that have important balancing characteristics. We see the impact of this balancing act on our bone health, mood stabilization, and even our …

Your heart on birth control Read More »

By Seth Gruber June 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Many of the greatest defenders and proponents of stay-at-home orders and Black Lives Matter protests are rabidly pro-abortion, yet their responses to COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd reveal staunchly pro-life principles. The entire narrative built by politicians and the mainstream media following the government’s stay-at-home …

Why do black lives ‘matter’? Not because they’re black, but because they’re human Read More »

JEANNE MANCINI Those who really care about women’s health and safety should be deeply concerned about the latest push to expand chemical abortion via telemedicine and look for ways to communicate the serious risks involved. The use of chemical abortion was already on the rise in the United States, but calls to expand access have …

The Abortion Pill is Not Safe for Women Read More »

posted on June 3, 2020 by Nia Husk How Charting My Cycles with Fertility Awareness Saved My Life When I was in college was when I first heard about Fertility Awareness-Based Methods (FABM) and about six months before I was to be married, I learned how to chart a specific method. A few months after …

How Charting My Cycles with Fertility Awareness Saved My Life Read More »

By Edwin Benson Many millennials and gen-z-ers never had the experience of “going out to play” in generally safe neighborhoods without constant parental supervision. High divorce rates and the rising influence of the Internet deprived them of this particularly formative part of their childhoods. Their schools reinforced the idea of constant supervision by an education philosophy …

Shrinking Populations Represent Shrinking Future Read More »

MARIE SMITH   JUN 1, 2020 During the recent virtual meeting of the World Health Assembly-the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO)-the US submitted its written Explanation of Position (EOP) on the COVID-19 Response Resolution, disassociating itself from a number of paragraphs, including two related to “sexual and reproductive health”. The US statement expressed regret at the failure to …

“There is No Right to Abortion” Read More »

by Marcus Roberts Over at National Review, Michael Brendan Dougherty recently discussed the latest fertility figures from the United States. Once again, they were in decline: in 2019 the total fertility rate (the number of children each woman on average is expected to have over her life) dropped to 1.7. This is well below the replacement rate of …

What do declining fertility rates tell us about a society’s future? Read More »

by Carolyn Moynihan You can tell something about a person by the company she keeps, and the same applies to organisations. Marie Stopes International, a high profile British birth control non-profit, was outed in The Mail on Sunday recently for receiving cash and goods worth 7.5 million pounds from American porn tycoon Phil Harvey over the past 15 years. Harvey …

Born for each other: How family planning and porn keep company Read More »

by Cassie Moriarty When you think about cycling and menstruation, you don’t typically think about your bone health. But important research has emerged in the last few decades linking the natural cycle of women’s reproductive hormones to their bone health and development. That’s right, yet another thing your cycles are good for, is protecting your …

Does hormonal contraception use negatively affect bone health? Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser When she was a teenager, Angela Retchless was told she should never become pregnant. But thanks to an incredible gift from her dad, she was able to have the family she had always dreamed of. Diagnosed with kidney disease at the age of nine, a doctor gave her devastating news as a teenager: …

Kidney disease kept her from becoming pregnant – until her father saved her life Read More »

By Susan Ciancio Breast cancer. Cervical cancer. Depression. Mood disorders. Suicide. Multiple sclerosis. Ulcerative colitis. Venous thromboembolism. Inflammatory bowel disease. Systemic lupus erythematosus. Cystitis. Crohn’s disease. Urogenital effects. Cardiovascular events. Increased chance of HIV transmission. Your doctor rattled off those words like he was calling roll in a classroom. But each one made you cringe a …

‘Petition on Hormonal Contraceptives’: The Real Effects of Hormonal Birth Control Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams In a recent podcast, 40 Days for Life president and CEO Shawn Carney and two other 40 Days for Life directors — Steve Karlen, and Robert Colquhoun — tackled the topic of contraception and how it relates to abortion in society. Historically, children were viewed as a gift Steve Karlen, director of North …

Abortion is ‘easier to justify’ when society views children as ‘uninvited guests’ Read More »

By Nancy Flanders When Amanda Nichols and her husband Charlie were trying to become pregnant, Natural Family Planning (NFP) led them to the discovery of the causes of their infertility. And when Tara Horesowsky and her husband Bryan were ready to start having children, they were able to use NFP to know on which days they were most …

For those struggling with infertility, natural family planning could be the answer Read More »

By Nancy Flanders At 27 years old, recovering drug addict Laura Amoretti discovered that against all odds, she was pregnant. She had only been sober for 90 days and her sister pressured her to have an abortion, kicking Amoretti out of her home when she refused. “I began having problems with drugs and alcohol at 19 …

‘We brought light into the world’: Laura chose life and left behind her addiction Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Today, the Little Sisters of the Poor, pro-life nuns who care for the elderly, are once again part of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Their goal is to stop the government from forcing the Catholic community to participate in the provision of contraceptives and life-ending drugs to their …

Supreme Court once again hears why Little Sisters of the Poor don’t want to fund contraceptives Read More »

By Michael Hichborn BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 4, 2020 (Lepanto Institute) — A sixth investigative report on Catholic Relief Services projects, published by the Lepanto Institute, shows that CRS both implemented and promoted comprehensive sexual education curriculums that include pornographic images and the promotion of contraception. The first curriculum profiled by the Lepanto Institute, called Go Girls!, …

New report reveals Catholic Relief Services promoted sex ed and contraception Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A woman living with a disability in the United Kingdom will be forced to receive a long-term contraceptive implant against her will, thanks to a court ruling from a judge. According to Metro, the woman, who was not named, is in her late twenties and has had children before, all of whom were …

UK judge orders woman with disability be forced to use long-term birth control Read More »

By Samantha Kamman The World Health Organization (WHO) proved itself to be an advocate for abortion and sexual liberation after it declared abortion to be an essential service during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Health officials with the organization said the possibility of a woman being infected with the virus should not impede her ability to access abortion, and if …

Why pro-lifers should question the agenda of the World Health Organization Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams  The documentary “Pro-Life Feminist,” originally released in 2018, was recently made viewable for free online via YouTube. Aimee Murphy, founder of Rehumanize International, a nonprofit best known for its “consistent life ethic” approach, opens the film commenting on an unfortunate contradiction in the modern-day feminist movement. “There are some who say that equality for the …

Pro-Life Feminist documentary now available to watch free online Read More »

By Katie Franklin April 23, 2020 (Pregnancy Help News) — Rita and her fiancé were in the midst of a three-hour car drive home when she began hemorrhaging. She was eight weeks pregnant and had just left an abortion facility where she had begun a chemical abortion. As Rita would later recall, she was bleeding …

Abortion pill reversal saved her baby. Now she’s pro-life Read More »

By Susan Ciancio Breast cancer. Cervical cancer. Depression. Mood disorders. Suicide. Multiple sclerosis. Ulcerative colitis. Venous thromboembolism. Inflammatory bowel disease. Systemic lupus erythematosus. Cystitis. Crohn’s disease. Urogenital effects. Cardiovascular events. Increased chance of HIV transmission. Your doctor rattled off those words like he was calling roll in a classroom. But each one made you cringe a …

‘Petition on Hormonal Contraceptives’: The Real Effects of Hormonal Birth Control Read More »

By Samantha Kamman | The BBC recently reported that African countries do not have enough ventilators to treat people affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The World Health Organization’s Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, stated that “the issue of ventilators is one of the biggest challenges that the countries are facing.” Other concerns include limited personal protective equipment (PPE) and a lack of …

While Africa asks for ventilators and PPE during COVID-19, groups send abortion kits instead Read More »

Catholic News Agency WASHINGTON, D.C. — Development of an effective, safe and widely available vaccine for the novel coronavirus is deeply important, but its development should avoid unethical links to abortion, said pro-life leaders in a letter to the Trump administration. “It is critically important that Americans have access to a vaccine that is produced ethically: …

Pro-Life Leaders Call for Coronavirus Vaccine Without Abortion Ties Read More »

By L.J. Helferty Editor’s note:  L.J. and Joan Helferty believed they had every good reason to use contraception in their Catholic marriage. But then everything started falling apart. Their story, published exclusively on LifeSiteNews, is one of the best testimonies about the spiritual blindness that follows the sin of contraception and about the mercy of God that follows true …

Contraception cut us off from God’s grace. His Divine Mercy restored us Read More »

By Dave Andrusko | (NRL News Today) When Angela Primachenko told Sheinelle Jones on the TODAY show this morning,” I feel like I’m a miracle walking,” she was not exaggerating. Consider…. The 27-year-old respirator therapist from Vancouver, Washington, who was 33 weeks pregnant, had among other symptoms a fever, and was tested for COVID-19 on March 24, Scott Stump of …

Mom put on ventilator for COVID-19 at 34 weeks pregnant wakes to find she’s given birth to healthy daughter Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | Birth control is touted as one of the greatest medical advancements ever made for women, allowing them to take charge of their sexuality without worrying about unplanned pregnancies — or so the narrative goes, anyway. But birth control has risks that go along with it, and those who use it should weigh those …

Is your birth control putting you at greater risk for an STD? Read More »

by Paul Murano  •  ChurchMilitant.com The Wuhan virus pandemic has begun to attack the very foundation of the Culture of Death. Media reports show the pandemic is causing the shuttering of some abortuaries as well as the canceling of “gay pride” events. But the effect on contraception has been largely ignored. The Wuhan pandemic is causing supply shortages for pharmaceutical companies around …

Is the Culture of Death being undermined? Read More »

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. Heartbreaking stories have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. Hospitals are too full. Doctors are overworked. People die alone. Coffins pile up. The Pope walks through empty Roman streets, praying alone. The coronavirus has created these scenes. Yet, behind the scenes of the crisis is another one. Slow-moving, largely hidden, …

Italy, the Coronavirus Pandemic and Demographic Winter Read More »

With the country grinding to a halt, it’s time to consider Our Lady of America’s words and take them to heart. Joseph Pronechen Our Lady of Fatima cautioned us and gave remedies. So did Our Lady of Akita. So did Our Lady of America. But instead, the heedless world has been in the hot pursuit …

Our Lady of America Warned Us Read More »

By Norman Fulkerson April 2, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Planned Parenthood is begging supporters for protective equipment and other supplies while other doctors and nurses go without as they try to save the lives of coronavirus patients. Sue Dunlap, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, wrote a message to the abortion giant’s mailing list asking for …

Planned Parenthood begs for protective equipment to do abortions as coronavirus rages Read More »

March 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — I’ve always been close to my family, but the coronavirus pandemic and the requisite social distancing have reminded me not to take them for granted. Never again will I “just drop by” my parents’ place without being reminded that it is a blessing to be able to do so. My …

Radical liberal group: Corona panic perfect time to abolish the family Read More »

Providers have challenged being included in the suspension of elective procedures, arguing that their work is ‘essential’ and ‘vital.’ COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – As states order suspensions of non-essential medical procedures in order to conserve resources and contain the spread of the coronavirus, abortion facilities in Ohio are calling on the courts …

Ohio abortionists ask courts for exemption from coronavirus hold on elective ‘health care’ Read More »

  https://lifelegaldefensefoundation.org/2020/03/26/special-message-about-covid-19-and-advance-health-care-directives/ How many times have we thought – or heard someone say: “I don’t want to be kept alive by a machine.” As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, the public is learning about the importance of mechanical ventilators in providing temporary breathing support for many of those infected.  Ventilators are saving lives! A false understanding …

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Fr. Dwight Longenecker The new book From the Depths of Our Hearts by Cardinal Sarah and Pope Benedict XVI continues the Church’s ongoing discussion about clerical celibacy, but it seems to me that the whole topic has been kicked into a new category by the invention of artificial contraception. What has contraception to do with celibacy? The quick-witted might …

Christ, Celibacy and Contraception Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams “Every single person is made by God for love. Every single person is made for a great and beautiful purpose.” Since their founding in 1991, the Sisters of Life, a vibrant order of Catholic religious sisters, have been sharing this message with women experiencing unplanned pregnancies or suffering in the aftermath …

Sisters of Life continue to expand outreach out to abortion-vulnerable college students Read More »

By Doug Mainwaring March 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) –– Scientists who are now claiming that the Trump ban on fetal tissue usage is blocking coronavirus treatment research are using the current pandemic opportunistically to reinstate the usage of tissue derived from aborted babies at government research facilities. “A senior scientist at a government biomedical research laboratory …

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By Nancy Flanders Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome, has been labeled as “incompatible with life” by some doctors. Those doctors will often advise expectant parents to terminate their pregnancies when babies are determined to have the condition. But, as difficult as it might be, there are people living their lives every single day with …

‘Incompatible with life’? People with Trisomy 18 are proving doctors wrong Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams In 1940, an Italian Catholic priest known as Padre Pio announced his plans to found a “Home for the Relief of Suffering” (Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza), a hospital that would serve as “a haven of relief from suffering for all of God’s children in pain in body or soul.” The Casa’s doors opened in …

Catholic health care model with pro-life principles is coming to the United States Read More »

Coronavirus Infection During Pregnancy Does Not Pass from Mother to Newborn The results of a small study in China that followed four pregnant women infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy, suggest that the viral infection doesn’t pass from mother to infant at birth. All four mothers in the study, which focused on the health of their …

Coronavirus Infection During Pregnancy Does Not Pass from Mother to Newborn Read More »

By Brittany Hughes (MRC-TV) Amid mass panic over the seemingly inevitable coronavirus outbreak sweeping the country, some in the abortion industry are using the widespread alarm to tout the importance of…abortion. Why? Well, that’s unclear, given that abortion has nothing at all to do with the coronavirus. Even still, several abortionists and abortion advocates have taken to Twitter …

Abortionists push online access to abortion pills amid coronavirus panic Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A pro-life ministry in Omaha, Nebraska, has found an innovating new way to reach the next generation. Heart of a Child Ministries has been using ultrasounds to show people the humanity of preborn children within the womb. Founded by Bernie and Nikki Schaefer in 2012, the ministry offers ultrasound presentations, along with pro-life prayer pillows, …

‘Game changer’: High school students see the miracle of life through live ultrasounds Read More »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health Hormonal contraceptives such as the Pill could be sabotaging women’s success, a study suggests. Women were found to give up quicker than those who were not on contraceptives when presented with both simple and difficult problem solving tasks. This in turn caused them to score worse, and it could have implications for their performance …

Could the Pill be sabotaging your success? Read More »

By Nancy Flanders | In July 2019, 20-year-old Ally Givens got out of bed to use the bathroom, collapsed, and died. She was just two days shy of her 21st birthday. Her boyfriend said she fell to the floor and he quickly called 911, but Givens was unable to be revived, and died from a pulmonary embolism caused by …

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https://www.drsusancaldwell.com/post/birth-control-in-teens-why-not-the-breast-cancer-link By Dr. Susan Caldwell In the last post, we explored how the hormones in birth control interfere with the normal process of maturation of the reproductive system in a teen girl. Doctors may have good intentions when they prescribe these medications, but most do not realize the potential harmful effects that may develop as …

Birth Control in Teens – Why Not? The Breast Cancer Link Read More »

https://www.drsusancaldwell.com/post/birth-control-in-teens-why-not-part-1 Dr. Susan Caldwell In recent years, the birth control pill has become a very common medication prescribed to adolescent girls for a number of apparently good reasons. It appears to help with irregular periods, acne, ovarian cysts, premenstrual syndrome, menstrual cramps, and (of course) pregnancy prevention. I took birth control as a teen and …

Birth Control in Teens – Why not? Part 1 Read More »

By Patti J. Smith Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this guest submission are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Live Action or Live Action News. As a pro-life activist, I have watched young women walk into abortion facility doors, and I weep, knowing when they walk out, they will …

After two abortions and a tubal ligation, I hit rock bottom. I know abortion isn’t empowering. Read More »

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 3, 2020 (Lepanto Institute) — Following a year-long investigation into Catholic Relief Services (CRS) programs and documents, the Lepanto Institute has published the first of a series of reports showing that CRS was both, directly and indirectly, involved in the promotion of contraception and condoms teens and children as young as 10. …

Promotion of contraception and condoms teens and children as young as 10 Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER Some scientists are not happy with the Trump administration for restricting the use of aborted baby body parts in their taxpayer-funded research. Talking with The Scientist recently, they complained about the impact of the policy changes on their experiments, funding and future. “The fetal tissue that we’re talking about—if we don’t use it …

Scientists Defend Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies in Their Experiments Read More »

MICAIAH BILGER Dr. Imre Teglasy’s life dispels the myth of “my body, my choice.” Born in 1952 in communist Hungary, Teglasy survived multiple abortion attempts on his life. Today, he is a dedicated pro-life advocate who has helped to save tens of thousands of unborn babies from abortion. Teglasy was one of 14 abortion survivors featured …

Abortion Survivor Has Saved Tens of Thousands of Babies From Abortion Read More »

MARIA GALLAGHER What drives your commitment to promoting the sanctity of innocent human life? Was there an eye-opening moment when a life-changing incident forced you to come to grips with the tragedy of abortion? For Tracy, a candidate for the Pennsylvania state legislature, the defining moment occurred when she was pregnant. As Tracy wrote to …

Doctors Offered Mother of Twins a “Selective Reduction,” But She Refused to Abort Her Babies Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser The review found “little evidence that [comprehensive sex education] programs are effective at producing positive impact on their participants.” Of 103 total sex education studies, only six had evidence of “real effectiveness” without negative effects after 12 months. Yet even in these six studies, there was no evidence that these six successful studies led to …

New analysis: Comprehensive sex ed in schools may actually be harming students Read More »

Matt Hadro/CNA WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the Catholic Church teaches that procuring an abortion is always immoral, a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe abortion is intrinsically evil and say it should be legal in all or most cases. According to a RealClear Opinion Research poll sponsored by EWTN and published on Monday, 47% of Catholics in the …

New Poll Asks Catholics What They Believe About Abortion Read More »

February 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – People who had more sexual partners throughout their life have a higher chance of being diagnosed with cancer, according to a study published in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. “Compared to women who reported one partner or none, those who reported 10 or more were 91% more likely to …

New study: Higher number of sexual partners linked with increased cancer risk Read More »

FATHER FRANK PAVONE   FEB 19, 2020 LifeNews Note: Priests for Life recently hosted a meeting with pro-life leaders and activists. They released the following statement to encourage pro-life Americans to continue fighting and praying to end abortion: A Statement of Encouragement for the Pro-life Movement Having gathered in Titusville, Florida for a national strategic …

Attention Pro-Life Americans: Keep Fighting and Praying to End Abortion Read More »

https://naturalwomanhood.org/removing-my-copper-iud-removed-my-depression-and-saved-my-life-2020/ by Szilvia My name is Szilvia. I am a 40-year-old quality manager and mother of two little children, living in Germany. Not long ago, I found the Natural Womanhood site when searching birth control side effects while on the copper IUD. I found so much important information on the copper IUD and copper toxicity …

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RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 10, 2020 As of January 1st 2020, A Personal Choice Tubal Reversal Center is offering free tubal reversal surgery by sponsoring the first ever Free Tubal Reversal Surgery Contest. This opportunity to have free tubal ligation reversal surgery is the first of its kind. Dr. Charles Monteith is a sterilization reversal surgeon …

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by Pat Wittkop I received the most wonderful gift on St. Valentine’s Day a few years back. It made me so happy, I wept tears of joy. My friend Kathy and I were fulfilling our commitment to pray every Thursday outside the Planned Parenthood Center in St. Paul, Minn. We had been there about three …

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Jennifer Roback Morse Committed pro-life activists are often accused of being too focused on abortion: “If you really cared about babies, you would also care about Issue X!” True, children need many things to survive and thrive, and pro-lifers should work on those issues as well as the abortion issue. But the “Seamless Garment,” as …

Pro-Life Movement Needs Its Own ‘Seamless Garment’ Read More »

ROME, February 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― The seventh annual Rome Life Forum will bring together pro-life, pro-family Catholics from all over the world to discuss “authentic purity” as the way to counter “attacks on human life, the family, and our faith.” Rome Life Forum 2020 will take place on May 20-21, introducing two more days of pro-life activities …

‘Opening the door to purity and closing the door to vice’ Read More »

Kristin Collier The science of pregnancy gets more and more fascinating. To think of the mother simply ‘hosting’ her baby is so, well, 1973. What’s going on in the womb is really a marvelous co-operative venture that may last a lifetime, as Dr Kristin Collier, an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan …

Together, baby; forever, baby Read More »

By Reggie Littlejohn **CORERCTED**February 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – One Child Nation won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance in 2019. **It did not win Academy Award. **The film is a harrowing expose of the devastation caused by the womb police who enforced China’s One Child Policy. But the film goes beyond that. It is a scorching …

Harrowing film on forced abortion in China nominated ‘Best Documentary’ Read More »

By Anne Marie Williams The 50-minute documentary “Strings Attached,” produced by Culture of Life Africa founder and president Obianuju Ekeocha exposes the funding pipeline from Western countries to African nations, specifically for abortion and contraceptive “services,” and shares first-hand accounts of the harm countless women have experienced at the hands of global abortion giant Marie Stopes International. In the fall 2019 issue …

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By Katie Franklin (Pregnancy Help News) On a spring day in 2018, Sarah walked into a Planned Parenthood under immense pressure. Already a single mother of three children, she was pregnant with her fourth, and the baby’s father had one thing in mind: an abortion. Against her better judgment, Sarah took the first drug in the …

Rescued by abortion pill reversal, Isaiah is celebrating his first birthday Read More »

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | Politicians and medical professionals alike are calling for Australia to make conscientious objection to things like abortion and contraception illegal — and one doctor in particular seems to be at the middle of the controversy. Dr. Hong Nguyen, who works at Torquay Medical Health and Wellness Clinic near Melbourne, recently posted an announcement saying she …

Australian doctor shuns involvement with contraception and abortion, and politicians are furious Read More »

By Laura Nicole An advocacy group for the rights of disabled persons in Spain has introduced a measure that would end the current practice of forced sterilization of the disabled. Shockingly, under the current law, even those with what are considered “high-functioning” disabilities such as Asperger’s or other mild forms of autism, can be forcibly sterilized …

New measure in Spain aims to stop the forced sterilization of persons with disabilities Read More »

John Horvat II Grave moral problems are tearing the country apart. For many, this is apparent in the form of broken homes, procured abortion, shattered communities and lost Faith. Many people get it right when pointing out the problems. However, they get it wrong when looking for solutions. Some get it wrong because they look …

Achieving Christendom Is America’s Best Chance at Overthrowing Abortion, LGBT Reign of Terror Read More »

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Even many people in the pro-life and pro-family movements do not fully appreciate the deep threads that tie together many seemingly disparate social issues. Contraception, abortion, euthanasia, divorce, pornography, same-sex “marriage”, and gender ideology (to name some of the big ones) are not isolated social or spiritual problems. Rather, they are …

Assisted Suicide and the Macabre ‘Logic’ of the Culture of Death Read More »

VIRGINIA AABRAM A former NFL star who shunned an invitation to the White House in 2013 to protest President Barack Obama’s embrace of Planned Parenthood says he’s pro-life in part because of the mothers of his two adopted children. In remarks to the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25, Matt Birk, who played that …

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Abortion proponents not surprisingly object to sex education that doesn’t promote artificial contraception. By Martin M. Barillas BRASILIA, Brazil, January 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Damares Alves, Brazil’s Minister for Women, Family and Human Rights, recently asked parents to consider telling their teenage children to wait until adulthood to have sex, thus unleashing a rash of …

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January 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The basic outlines of the Church’s teaching on family life, in terms of what we must on no account do, are clear, but we need to beware of the more subtle ways our thinking has been warped by our contraceptive culture. This is a hugely complex topic and I want …

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Jennifer Roback Morse Editor’s note: This is an adaption of her talk at the National Youth Conference, Dec. 12, in Uganda. The full address can be found here. https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-new-colonialism-of-the-sexual-revolution-an-authentic-catholic-response Thank you for the kind invitation to address the 2019 National Youth Conference here in the Diocese of Kasana- Luweero. I am delighted to be able to …

The New Colonialism of the Sexual Revolution: ‘An Authentic Catholic Response’ Read More »

By ERIC W. DOLAN New research provides more evidence that hormonal birth control pills can negatively impact women’s cognitive performance. The study, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior, found that women taking contraceptive pills tend to have reduced perseverance when completing both simple and complex cognitive tasks. “My colleagues and I first became interested in this …

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Heard on All Things Considered Rob Stein Researchers have conducted a controversial study that involved paying dozens of young women at a hospital near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to get artificially inseminated so their embryos could be flushed out of their bodies and analyzed for research purposes. The study showed that embryos created that way appear to …

Embryo Research To Reduce Need For In Vitro Fertilization Raises Ethical Concerns Read More »

  President Trump declares Jan. 22 National Sanctity of Human Life Day In a proclamation signed on Monday, President Donald Trump declared January 22 to be National Sanctity of Human Life Day, signifying the importance of valuing human life from the moment of fertilization until natural death. “Every person – the born and unborn, the poor, the downcast, …

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By Roxane B. Salonen I winced at reading Rob Port’s Jan. 2 column scolding social conservatives for not supporting North Dakota State University’s new “Junk Mail” initiative, which aims to curb unplanned pregnancy through mailing students free “safe-sex” education and prophylactics. My unrest isn’t so much that Port called out pro-lifers for not backing this program, despite …

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https://www.fox7austin.com/news/woman-says-birth-control-pills-led-to-massive-blood-clots-that-nearly-killed-her-im-lucky-to-be-alive   ENGLAND – A 33-year-old British woman says she nearly died after birth control pills led her to develop two “massive” blood clots in her lungs. Lauren Dyer, of Tamworth, England, told Birmingham Live that she suddenly fainted while home in February 2019. Her brother, who was with her at the time, called an ambulance for …

Woman says birth control pills led to ‘massive’ blood clots that nearly killed her: ‘I’m lucky to be alive’ Read More »

Paul Sullins Does the termination of an unwanted pregnancy harm women’s mental health? No more than giving birth in such circumstances, according to mainstream social scientists and medical associations. Perhaps. But what about women who terminate a wanted pregnancy? A new study by sociologist Donald Paul Sullins focuses on this neglected minority – about 1 in 7 …

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By Anna Reynolds On the night of January 4, a baby box in the Czech Republic received the 200th child safely surrendered through baby boxes in the country. According to BRNO Daily, the newborn baby boy was safely deposited in a baby box in Blansko. Ludvík Hess, who spearheaded the effort to bring baby boxes to the Czech …

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http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/details/ns_lit_doc_20091117_comunione_en.html OFFICE FOR THE LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF The most ancient practice of distributing Holy Communion was, with all probability, to give Communion to the faithful in the palm of the hand. The history of the liturgy, however, makes clear that rather early on a process took place to change this practice. From …

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By Sarah Terzo In a webinar sponsored by And Then There Were None, former Planned Parenthood worker Jayne explained how Planned Parenthood endangered their patients’ future pregnancies. Rh-negative women were not given RhoGAM shots. If a woman has Rh-negative blood type and aborts a baby who has a positive blood type, a condition called Rh incompatibility can develop in …

Former Planned Parenthood worker: What we did put women’s future pregnancies at risk Read More »

JANUARY 13, 2020 By Regina Frost https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/13/new-york-pressures-ob-gyns-to-perform-abortions-or-leave-medicine/?fbclid=IwAR1bScMy-yGsuNpQcIzbMGHbQ_SpShq4QHz8AEpOPCJOeKeCuSAhzRT5ZpU I am a doctor and a caregiver, but above all else, I am a woman of faith. It is my faith that drew me to become an OB-GYN, called me to open my own practice to treat women with dignity and compassion, and that helps me navigate the daily challenges …

New York Pressures OB-GYNs To Perform Abortions Or Leave Medicine Read More »

By Claire Chretien RICHMOND, Virginia, January 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Democrat-sponsored bill in Virginia would treat minors as adults for the purpose of consenting to birth control, vaccines, and “medical or health services required in case of … pregnancy or family planning except for the purposes of sexual sterilization.” The bill, Senate Bill 104, includes …

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GAYLE IRWIN Rebekah Hagan is grateful for the life of her six-year-old son, and she wants to give back by helping other moms facing adversity in pregnancy. After making a courageous decision in the spring of 2013 to try and save her son’s life through Abortion Pill Reversal, the California mom of three speaks to …

Mom Changed Her Mind During the Middle of the Abortion, Today Zechariah is 6 Read More »

By Doug Mainwaring January 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – After Michelle Williams used her award acceptance speech to promote abortion at the Golden Globes on Sunday, a Catholic model in labor took the time to record an Instagram video challenging Williams’ statement that abortion was integral to her success as an actress. “I’m here getting ready to deliver …

Model in labor responds to Michelle Williams: ‘Babies do not keep us from our dreams’ Read More »

Shannon Roberts https://www.mercatornet.com/demography/view/it-was-a-decade-of-population-decline-for-the-united-states/23167 As we enter the 2020s, the world has become increasingly cognisant of the need for more babies after a decade of worryingly low growth. In the United States the population grew by only 0.48% between 2018 and 2019, according to newly released Census Bureau estimates.  That is the lowest annual growth rate since 1918. In …

It was a decade of disappearing youth for the United States Read More »

Mary Rose Short LOS ANGELES — When officials from the County of Los Angeles announced a new program to staff “Well-Being Centers” on 50 high-school campuses with Planned Parenthood employees, they noted that the “full range of sexual services” provided to students at these centers will be completely confidential. Thanks to Title X, students as …

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