By Rev. Thomas J. Euteneueu. This novena is to be prayed from the 16th to the 24th inclusive every month for the conversion for those who use or promote contraception. Heavenly Father, “from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name,” (Eph 3:15) grant conversion of heart to our world, our society, …
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Anti-euthanasia activists have been pointing out for years that wherever euthanasia is legalized, it is not long before the “strict safeguards” touted by pro-death politicians and activists as protection to ensure euthanasia is only used in extreme cases begin tumbling down or being wantonly ignored. Such is the logic of the …
MONICA BURKE SEP 10, 2018 On World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, we recognize suicide as the tragedy it is. Yet at this very moment, activists are agitating to expand—not to prevent—physician-assisted suicide. This practice promotes the idea that some lives are more valuable than others, an idea that rips apart the social fabric …
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Felipe E. Vizcarrondo | Aug 7 2018 In 1803 Thomas Robert Malthus, an English clergyman who was concerned about the origins of poverty, published an Essay on the Principle of Population. This was a moment when the world’s population was increasing at a faster rate than it had in the past and some people were concerned about overpopulation. …
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By Nancy Flanders A neuroscientist has found that at least 20 percent of people thought to be in a vegetative state are completely aware of what’s happening around them and to them, but they are unable to respond or move. This means that people thought to be in comas or a ‘vegetative state’ are suffering horrible …
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Philippa Taylor On July 25 Louise Brown, the world’s first baby born via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), celebrates her 40th birthday. 40 years after her birth it is estimated that more than seven million babies have been born as a result of IVF and other assisted reproduction treatments. Around 2.4 million assisted reproductive technologies (ART) cycles are estimated to take place each …
Msgr. Charles Pope We are already seeing a great battle unfold over the Supreme Court in our land. At one level the battle is “all about abortion” which the left sees as almost a “sacrament” or sacred honor, and the right sees as the most immoral and legally flawed decision ever handed down by the …
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Good News/Bad News about Alzheimer’s First the good news: Alzheimer’s disease is a currently irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. However, a new study “Estimation of lifetime risks of Alzheimer’s disease dementia using biomarkers for preclinical disease” shows that “most people with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease …
E. Christian Brugger Like Jacob Marley, 13-year-old Trenton McKinley was dead. There is no doubt whatever about that. Or so the doctors said. He had suffered seven skull fractures and traumatic brain injury in a freak vehicle accident last March. His mother reported on Facebook that during emergency surgery he “died four times,” which, I presume, means …
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TV and social media are reporting a wonderful story about Dr. Eric Voigt and Nicole McGuinness. Dr. Voigt, an ENT physician, was watching the “Beachfront Bargain Hunt” TV show (one of my own semi-guilty pleasures) when he noticed that a woman on the show named Nicole McGuiness seemed to have a suspicious lump in her neck. Alarmed, …
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https://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/free-for-what-womens-choices-in-the-era-of-the-pill/21381 Carolyn Moynihan | Jun 1 2018 “The little pill that gave women freedom.” That’s the way The Conversation bills a clutch of articles marking nearly six decades of what the birth control boffins call “effective” contraception. With the release of the pill from 1957 onwards, women “celebrated the new control they had over their fertility,” …
Free for what? Women’s choices in the era of the pill Read More »
ChurchMilitant.com • May 5, 2018 Neo-Marxist Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions of power” has reached the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals. Cardinal Joseph Tobin welcomes openly gay Catholics to Holy Mass in his cathedral. Cardinal Walter Kasper supports giving Holy Communion to couples living in adultery. Cardinal Reinhard Marx protests against the crucifix being displayed in government buildings and endorses blessings for …
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by Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D. ChurchMilitant.com • May 1, 2018 LIVERPOOL, England (ChurchMilitant.com) – Troubling revelations are emerging about the last hours of Alfie Evans, the U.K. toddler who died after a protracted legal battle with Alder Hey Hospital. According to Benedetta Frigerio, writing in Italian journal La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, Alfie — suffering from an undiagnosed brain …
BRAD MATTES APR 26, 2018 | 9:46AM WASHINGTON, DC It’s been a titanic battle – UK’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital versus a helpless 23-month-old boy. Alfie Evans suffers from an undiagnosed neurological disorder. He is not terminal, but that hasn’t stopped the hospital’s aggressive attempts – which some have called perverse, heinous and obscene – …
by Molly Loesel Pope Saint John Paul II’s Evangelium vitae just about says it all when it comes to discussing the sanctity of human life, threats to life in the modern world, and the related Catholic Church’s teachings on the issues. In today’s culture – where the deciding factor of an action among young people tends to be “if …
April 6, 2018 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) – A couple whose frozen embryos were destroyed in a storage tank malfunction could seek action for wrongful death – if a judge rules that an embryo is considered a life. This is just one of the dozens of lawsuits facing The University Hospitals Fertility Clinic in Cleveland, after …
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By ALEXANDRA THOMPSON HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE Hormonal birth-control raises a woman’s risk of having an ischemic stroke This occurs when an artery to the brain is blocked and makes up 85% of cases Hormonal pills and patches do not increase the risk of bleeding in the brain Certain birth-control pills appear to raise the risk …
Posted on February 8, 2018 by SBrinkmann http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=62565#more-62565 Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS A New Jersey couple, who invested $25K and sacrificed the lives of four other embryos to insure they would have a baby girl, are just one example among many who see nothing wrong with a new trend called “family balancing.” Breitbart is reporting on the story …
MICAIAH BILGER JAN 29, 2018 | 1:30PM LONDON, ENGLAND In abortion activists’ minds, Beth Morton had many good reasons to have an abortion. She was young, unmarried and her birth control failed. What’s more, she was pregnant with triplets and completely unprepared to be a parent. But the 26-year-old mother from …
Woman Becomes Pregnant With Triplets Despite Being on the Pill, Rejects Abortion Read More »
MICAIAH BILGER JAN 12, 2018 | 4:37PM WASHINGTON, DC An amazingly brave teenager gave birth to a baby girl last week in Philadelphia while battling a deadly brain cancer. Dana Scatton, 17, of Pennsylvania, is doing fairly well undergoing rounds of radiation treatment, and her “miracle” baby, Aries Marie, is thriving. …
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WESLEY SMITH JAN 2, 2018 | 11:35AM WASHINGTON, DC Irony: As Babies are Killed in Late-Term Abortions, Scientists Create Artificial Sperm to Make Babies It is a profound irony that as we allow even very late term fetuses to be aborted on one hand, scientists are finding radical nature-bending ways to …
December 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – This month, two women from two different states contacted our office because the “intended parents” were now demanding that the women abort the “defective” children they were carrying as part of a surrogacy arrangement. One woman succumbed to the pressure, killing triplets. The other woman miscarried, undoubtedly, in part, because …
by Patrick Lee and Melissa Moschella In an early draft of its next strategic plan, the Department of Health and Human Services has described its mission as “serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception” [emphasis added]. In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Richard Paulson—a professor of obstetrics and …
by Jennifer Lahl I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: it almost always starts with an emotional story. The latest situation is an embryo custody battle in Arizona. It highlights the depth of real human emotions connected to having children and building a family, and the ways in which human lives are affected by …
An Absurd Fate: What Happens to Abandoned Embryos? Read More »
LONDON, England, October 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — UK scientists are experimenting on seven-day old humans to learn how to “edit” DNA before killing them and discarding them. A team from the Francis Crick Institute is using “excess” living human embryos for their experiments who were frozen for in-vitro fertilization (IVF). They then “edit” the human …
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LYON, France, October 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — No human being is ever a “vegetable,” but the phrase “Permanent Vegetative State” certainly described “Jack.” If someone falls into a “Persistent Vegetative State” (PVS), being completely unaware and unresponsive for a whole year, their condition is diagnosed as permanent. Colloquially speaking, Jack (a pseudonym) looked awake, but …
‘There is hope’: Man comes out of ‘permanent vegetative state’ after 15 years Read More »
I am on the road this week speaking to groups and doing radio interviews. So here is an article published in Voices magazine (a Catholic women’s’ magazine) in 2003 with an update in 2005. In the intervening years, the problems have grown worse but I originally wrote this article when almost no one had heard …
Marcus Roberts | Sep 19 2017 Ten years ago, one in 35 Australian babies were born as a result of IVF treatment. Today, that number has tracked to one in 25 babies. In the Netherlands, one in 15 births is as a result of IVF treatment. Now, world-renowned Dr John Aitken, the University of Newcastle laureate …
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by Katy Faust | Sep 14, 2017 If you believe that “all kids need is love” then these donor-conceived children should be perfectly happy. But they’re not. Turns out that even if kids have one or two loving parents, many donor-conceived kids strugglewith the reality that they will never know half of their heritage. In addition, the fact that the decision …
Biology Matters- Take it from donor conceived kids with loving straight parents. Read More »
September 7, 2017 (National Review) — This could be one of the biggest bioethics cases since Terri Schiavo. A judge has ruled that the teenager, declared dead in California, may not be dead. From the East Bay Express story: Jahi McMath, the Oakland teenager whose brain death case has sparked national debate, may not currently …
Judge: ‘Brain dead’ teen could actually be alive Read More »
MICAIAH BILGER SEP 8, 2017 | 11:09AM LANSING, MICHIGAN A terminally ill Michigan woman who sacrificed her life to save her unborn baby’s gave birth to her baby girl, Life Lynn, on Wednesday. Carrie DeKlyen, of Wyoming, Michigan, was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in April. Not long after that, she …
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Hanna Klaus, February 8, 2017, Reproduced with Permission, Church Life Journal Managing a couple’s fertility to regulate their family size does not require removing said fertility from the woman’s or the man’s body. This is not primarily a religious issue. Some years ago a psychologist from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who had no …
By Doug Bean – JULY 26, 2017 The Plan B controversy EDITOR’S NOTE: This article addresses a specific question regarding whether Catholic hospitals should administer Plan B in rape cases based on the scientific evidence regarding how the drug works. The discussion does not in any way imply that contraceptives are or can be morally …
Micaiah Bilger Jul 25, 2017 | 2:26PM Oakland, CA As the tragic case of British infant Charlie Gard nears a close, another family in the United States continues their fight for their severely ill daughter’s life. Many LifeNews readers will remember Jahi McMath, the teenager who was declared brain dead three …
Neurologist Says Videos of Teenager Declared “Brain Dead” Show She is Still Alive Read More »
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet Is the Church going to “revisit” its teachings against artificial contraception? That’s what Melinda Gates – wife of Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates – hopes. In a recent interview with the BBC, Gates said she is “optimistic” that Pope Francis and the Vatican might do just that. The Bill …
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/05/pro-lifers-get-out-of-medicine by Wesley J. Smith 5 . 12 . 17 Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But that may soon change. Bioethicists and other medical elites have launched a frontal assault against doctors seeking to practice their professions under the values established by the Hippocratic Oath. The …
Michael Cook If a couple is having trouble conceiving after a year, or even as little as six months, they often head off to an IVF clinic. However, as advocates of natural family planning have been saying for decades, the costly, emotionally draining and ethically contentious process of IVF many not be necessary. And now …
By Rob Sample – MAY 25, 2017 The dedication and legacy of a prodigious pro-life hero When five-year-old Lilliana Dennis was born in February 2011 in Indianapolis, doctors informed her mom and dad that she suffered from a rare genetic condition that was “incompatible with life.” As Lilliana approaches her sixth birthday, she continues …
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Michael Cook | Jun 6 2017 Euthanasia and assisted suicide are only legal in a handful of countries, but their supporters are already thinking of creative ways to integrate them into the economy and social life. Doctors in Belgium and the Netherlands are using organs from people who time their euthanasia for organ donation programs, …
http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=15601 Within the next 10-20 years, a new and controversial fertility technology called in vitro gametogenesis could make it possible to manipulate skin cells into creating a human baby. However, this groundbreaking research has caused push-back from some critics, like Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, who says IVG …
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Judie Brown May 9, 2017 (ALL) — The latest fashion news from Australia is truly demonic: “Human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, as well as other bodily parts and fluids, can be transformed into jewelry.” Baby Bee Hummingbirds, the company manufacturing these trinkets, is known for creating keepsakes containing such things such as breast milk …
Moms are turning ‘extra’ embryos into jewelry. It’s not just barbaric, it’s demonic Read More »
MANCHESTER, England, April 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Maria Santa, a healthy and gifted 17 year-old ballerina from Romania, died unexpectedly from a blood clot that doctors believe was caused by taking oral contraceptives. Maria, who was studying in England on a scholarship at Manchester’s famous Northern Ballet School, went to a walk-in medical facility complaining …
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<br /> Physician assisted suicide legislation has been making the news recently. Legalized euthanasia in Canada, Netherlands, Belgium and other European nations have also generated headlines. However, a silent, rampant killer is intentionally claiming lives of far more patients each day in America’s medical facilities. This quiet, legal killer is taking the lives more Americans …
Eric Metaxas Apr 12, 2017 | 11:42AM Washington, DC A funny thing happened on the way to our supposed brave new world of assisted suicide. Proponents of assisted suicide would have us believe that legalized killing is an unstoppable freight train and that those who oppose it are going to get …
Tightening of laws in other countries fuels U.S. market, but not all states are relaxing statutes Nicholas W. Smith OSV Newsweekly 4/19/2017 Modern technology for nearly two decades has made it possible for infertile couples to use the wombs of other women, known as surrogates, to have their biological children. But cultural changes, a …
https://www.mercatornet.com/demography/view/most-women-unable-to-track-fertility/19562 Shannon Roberts | Mar 28 2017 With infertility more common than ever and birth rates around the world at a record low, a crucial first step for couples trying to get pregnant is to clearly understand exactly when they are fertile. Yet that is something just 13 per cent of women surveyed were able …
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Can birth control cause infertility? Yes… and no Let’s say you are 33 years old and got married a year ago. In the past ten years, you have been using a variety of hormonal birth control methods. Now you and your husband are looking forward to starting a family. You get off the pill, hopeful …
Amid conflicting reports about whether or not the American Medical Association was going to consider a position of neutrality on physician assisted suicide, I was informed that the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs was collecting data, position statements, etc. for consideration of assisted suicide and other topics before the June AMA Annual meeting. …
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Professor of Neurobiology: Human Life Begins at Conception, Fertilization Maureen Condic, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah. She has been a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, a distinguished group of physicians, scientists, and theologians from the international community whose mission it is to study questions …
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TORONTO, February 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A Calgary conscience rights group has joined Ontario Christian doctors in fighting a requirement that they refer patients for euthanasia and abortion — and perform both procedures in emergencies. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) was granted intervenor status in a legal action launched by five Ontario Christian …
Legal group fights policy forcing pro-life doctors to refer for abortion, euthanasia Read More »
One-Third of Colorado Hospitals Refuse to Allow Doctors to Kill Patients in Assisted Suicide Erin Parfet Jan 20, 2017 | 3:38PM Denver, CO Hospitals and clinics throughout Colorado are refusing to comply with Proposition 106, Colorado’s newly passed legalization of doctor-prescribed suicide, StatNews reported. Medical, disability rights, pro-life and religious groups …
Life News Micaiah Bilger Nov 28, 2016 | 7:22PM Washington, DC The controversial infertility procedure in vitro fertilization may lead to a greater risk of infertility and cancer in children conceived through the procedure, an Australian researcher says. University of Newcastle laureate professor John Aitken, a world-renowned expert on male fertility, …
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By Archbishop of Denver Samuel Aquila Source: http://denvercatholic.org/voting-catholic-2016/ I have voted in every presidential election since 1972 and I have never experienced an election like this year’s. Both candidates are disliked, lack credibility, and have made comments that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The American public is fed …
A shocking new report claims the world’s first three-parent baby (pictured above) has been born. Children born through ‘three-person IVF’ would contain some genetic material from each of three different people. There are about 50 known mitochondrial diseases (MCDs), which are passed on in genes coded by mitochondrial (as opposed to nuclear) DNA. They range …
Shocking Report Reveals Scientists Have Created the Word’s First Baby With Three-Parents Read More »
September 2, 2016 (Life Legal Defense Foundation) — Just days ago, two-year-old Israel Stinson was forcibly removed from life support at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. I was on the phone with Jonee Fonseca, Israel’s mother, when doctors disconnected his ventilator. I could hear Jonee begging the doctors to wait just a few more hours …
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In an abrupt, unexpected, and surprise decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday dissolved an injunction that prevented a local hospital from turning off 2-year-old Israel Stinson’s ventilator. The adorable little boy, whose brain-dead diagnosis was fought on two continents by his parents, died shortly afterwards. “They are devastated. I think still in shock,” …
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Editor’s note: The following address was given in a catechesis to youth at World Youth Day. World Youth Day July 28, 2016 (Church of the Conversion of St. Paul, Krakow, Poland) Hugh Owen, Director, Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation Dr. Thomas Seiler, Ph.D., Physics, Technical University of Munich Your Excellency, Reverend Fathers, brothers …
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HERNDON, Virginia, July 14, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — The mother of a teenager who was declared “brain dead” and had to be transferred to a hospital across the country in order to continue receiving medical care told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive video interview that her daughter gives her the strength to continue fighting. Nailah Winkfield, the …
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June 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A new academic program that can be integrated into any curriculum teaches students of all ages to understand and defend the sanctity of life, one of the program’s pioneers told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive video interview. The American Life League’s Culture of Life Studies Program uses educational supplements to teach …
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http://www.genethique.org/en/poland-government-wishes-fund-naprotech-rather-ivf-65384.html#.V1iP_Dbmpdh In December, the new Polish Government[1] decided to terminate State funding of the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) programme with effect from mid-2016 (cf. Poland: the government announces cessation of IVF reimbursement). The Health Minister, Konstanty Radziwill, completed this announcement: He wishes to integrate a “national programme for procreation”. It will suggest NaProTech solutions “that don’t …
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June 6, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A study conducted by one of the pioneers of natural family planning found that there are inexpensive, highly effective ways for couples to achieve pregnancy without artificial fertility treatments. Mercedes Wilson, a fertility expert and the president and founder of Family of the Americas, conducted the study, called Natural, Scientific …
SACRAMENTO, California, May 25, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The parents of a two-year-old California boy on life support have won a crucial interim victory in the fight to keep their son alive, the latest in a lengthy dispute over his condition and care. Israel Stinson was airlifted to a hospital in an undisclosed location outside the …
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May 3, 2016 (LiveActionNews) — Abortion advocates often claim as a defense of abortion that no one can really, truly define the moment life begins. Without knowing that, they say, there’s no real argument against abortion. Consider, for example, Melissa Harris-Perry’s insistence that life begins “whenever you feel like it does.” Obama famously said that …
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August 18, 2015 (VoiceoftheFamily) — John Smeaton, Chief Executive of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, and co-founder of the international coalition Voice of the Family, spoke on 7th August at a two day pro-life conference organised by the bishops of Ghana. The conference was entitled “Protecting Life and Family Values in the …
Our Lord and His Blessed Mother Mary visited with Precious Blood Sister Mary Ephrem on several occasions from the 1940s until at least 1959 and probably until Sister’s death in 2000. Mary identified herself as the Immaculate Conception, and also as “Our Lady of America, the Immaculate Virgin”. On September 25th, 1956, Our …
April 15, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who use the birth control pill may be shrinking their brains and increasing their chances of developing Crohn’s disease, two new studies have found. Neuroscientists from the University of California, Los Angeles found that the two main regions of the brain controlling emotion and decision-making are thinner in women …
http://thefederalist.com This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama magazine interview conducted with the fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, wherein Domenico Dolce proclaimed, “You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that’s how it should be. I call children …
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March 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Although there has always been contraception, its acceptance and practice by society as a whole is a relatively new phenomenon. In the first part of the 20th century barrier methods became through mass production increasingly used. However, with the advent of the hormonal contraceptive pill in the 1960s the contraceptive …
Contraception gave us divorce and gay ‘marriage’ and will destroy us: here’s how Read More »
By Xavier Symons The majority of Canada’s palliative care specialists don’t want to participate in assisted suicide, according to a survey recently conducted by the country’s Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP). The survey – discussed in the latest edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal – revealed that only 25% of CSPCP members would …
Canadian palliative care doctors don’t want to assist in suicide’—new survey Read More »
Brilliant! The same Canadian doctors who are apparently very poorly trained in palliative care, have been given a license to kill by the recent radical ruling of the country’s Supreme Court. This medical and potentially humanitarian mess is sorted through in a good column in the Toronto Star by Harvey Max Chochinov. From, “Canada Failing on Palliative …
MDs can’t control pain, but now they’re expected to kill? Read More »
by Jennifer Lahl, CBC President The tagline of our film Eggsploitation is “The infertility industry has a dirty little secret.” In the film we seek to expose the many facets of the market for human eggs, which very few people are aware of. These dirty little secrets include: Egg donors aren’t tracked over their lifetimes, …
Is Brittany Maynard’s Husband Fighting the Wrong Battle? Read More »
By Clare Short Dear Priests, I love you. You know I love you dearly. I pray and fast for you every single day. But why don’t you ever give homilies on sex? It’s a good question! I am 34 years old and I have never, ever, not once, heard a priest talk about sex – …
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by Bobby Schindler, Brad Mattes | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 9/26/14 6:51 PM A silent and deadly epidemic is moving across America. No one is broadcasting it. No one is writing about it. Almost no one is even talking about it. But every day in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices across the country, …
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By Wesley J. Smith, October 4, 2014 I know and deeply respect Dr. Alan Shewmon, professor emeritus in neurology at UCLA. He is a world renowned expert on the brain, particularly dealing with pediatrics. A source has sent me a declaration under penalty of perjury that Shewmon signed on October 3, 2014, testifying that Jahi …
Posted by Eric Scheidler (September 30, 2014 at 3:02 pm) Yesterday the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a new recommendation [http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/09/24/peds.2014-2299.full.pdf] that physicians promote the progestin implant and the intrauterine device (IUD) for teen girls. As the father of six girls—including three teenagers—I find this new recommendation particularly disturbing. It’s not just that I bristle …
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VATICAN, July 26, 2005 (CWNews.com /LifeSiteNews.com) – Although the Pontifical Academy for Life has strongly condemned the development of vaccines from fetal tissues, the president of that Academy notes that parents may still be justified in having their children inoculated with such vaccines. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, in a July 23 interview with Vatican Radio, clarified …
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Premarital sex, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia growing in acceptance by Rebecca Riffkin, May 30, 2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American public has become more tolerant on a number of moral issues, including premarital sex, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia. On a list of 19 major moral issues of the day, Americans express levels …
Posted on February 13, 2014 by LLDF Staff Many in the pro-life community are reflecting on two tragic stories with very different outcomes: the Munoz situation in Texas and the Benson situation in Canada. In both, the wife and mother was declared brain dead. In the Benson story, Iver Benson, son of Dylan Benson and his now deceased …
by Rebecca Taylor | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 1/1/14 This e-mail from a reader broke my heart. It is a cry for help from a young IVF-conceived woman who mourns the loss of her siblings that didn’t make it. It is also a look at the darker-side of IVF that no one wants to talk …
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by Bobby Schindler | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/4/13 Former Governor Sarah Palin, whether it was intentional or not, certainly began the discussion on end of life issues when she referred to “death panels” in a 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the US. Governor Palin was referring …
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MADISON, WI, September 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic schoolchildren will no longer take field trips to a center that conducts embryonic stem cell research and gives students the opportunity to handle the aborted cells, the Diocese of Madison has announced in a letter.
One More Soul (OMS) is an organization founded and maintained by people committed to their Catholic Faith. This Catholic-rooted apostolate was conceived in the minds of Mary Ann Walsh and Steve Koob as a result of their common love for preborn children and almighty God. They realized that abortion and contraception were intrinsically intertwined evils, …
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I want to begin today by thanking those of you who went out on Tuesday and voted for the sacredness of human life. Just as the widow’s deed in our 1st reading will never be forgotten as long as the Scriptures are read, be assured that no righteous deed that we ever undertake will be …
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by Thaddeus Baklinski Source: LifeSiteNews.com Researchers studying the incidence of birth defects in California have found that children conceived by in vitro fertilization have a significantly higher rate of genetic disorders compared to children conceived naturally. UCLA researchers presented findings from their study, titled, “Congenital Malformations Associated With Assisted Reproductive Technology: A California Statewide Analysis,” …
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By Stacy Trasancos, Ph.D. Source : The American Catholic It’s been all over the news lately, particularly in the Catholic and conservative spheres, how Dr. Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in medicine for reprogramming adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). People praised this research for creating new pluripotent stem cell lines to …
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by Matthew Hanley Back in November, the Wall Street Journal featured a prominent article with the following headline: “The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams; Scientists Increasingly Link Vehicle Exhaust With Brain-Cell Damage, Higher Rates of Autism”. It was careful to point out that current evidence is circumstantial; no one is certain about such a connection …
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In a shocking decision delivered February 28, President Obama’s Security and Exchange Commission ruled that PepsiCo’s use of aborted fetal remains in its research and development agreement with Senomyx to produce flavor enhancers falls under “ordinary business operations.”
by Keith Riler “Contraception reduces unintended pregnancies” has joined its fantastic make-believe friends “death with dignity,” the “efficacy” of embryonic stem cells, the “certainty” of man-made global warming, and the “positive” multiplier effect in the leftist vernacular. Hopeful that repetition supplants truth, choirs of liberal faithful are singing: Most importantly, broadening access to birth control …
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Recent news reports of responses in persons declared “brain dead” should have alerted everyone that “brain death” is not true death. These observed responses prevented the organ transplantation protocols from going further. Zack Dunlap later reported how he could hear discussions of his death, but he could not respond at that time. Val Thomas had …
By Austin Ruse NEW YORK, October 6 (C-FAM) It is commonplace now for UN officials and American law professors to tell foreign governments that they are required by international law to liberalize their abortion laws. Just last month the UN Special Rapporteur on Health issued a report making this claim. The Secretary General endorsed his …
Major Pro-Life Legal/Scientific Document Launched at UN Headquarters Read More »
Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx, a biotech company that produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products.
By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York’s Catholic Bishops are telling the state’s Catholics this year that the right to life must be their first concern when they step into the voting booth in November, not party loyalty or other issues where good people may differ in opinion or …
NY Catholic Bishops: Right to Life Outweighs other Concerns in Voting Read More »
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BONN, Germany, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scientists announcing their success at achieving a new genetic defect-screening technique have at the same time admitted that many of the two-thirds of IVF embryos that fail to survive do so because of genetic abnormalities. Luca Gianaroli, chairman of the European Society of Human …
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(via her-menutics) A team of researchers at Georgia’s health science university, the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), announced last week that they are conducting a clinical trial using stem cells from umbilical-cord blood as a treatment for cerebral palsy. The trial will build on a successful series of past tests using adult stem cells in …
This is a collection of resources for pastors and other pastoral leaders to help present the ancient and powerful wisdom of the Christian church on married sexuality.Includes a collection of homilies addressing these concerns; background from the Church fathers, Scripture, and magisterial teaching; and practical pointers for transmitting this wisdom.
Many pastors need help in presenting the Church’s wisdom on married sexuality. This article (taken from Called to Give Life, by Jason Adams) presents a wealth of workable suggestions in this area. Example: seven pages of suggested occasions where a homily on Christian marriage would fit right in.
In this book Pope John Paul II turns to the central conflict of our time: Will humans be valued for themselves, or will we be made into commodities for use and/or destruction. He views this as a struggle between the Civilization of Love and the Culture of Death, and labels contraception and abortion fruits from the same tree.
Embryos are regularly being destroyed by IVF clinics for minor disorders suffered by individuals as successful as Charles de Gaulle and Pete Sampras. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the government fertility watchdog, has drawn up a list of more than 100 inherited conditions which clinics can screen out without special permission. While some of …
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Concord, NH (LifeNews.com) — The New Hampshire House of Representatives defeat a bill on Wednesday that would have made the state the fourth to legalize assisted suicide. Oregon, Washington and Montana already allow the practice and the New Hampshire bill would have targeted the elderly and terminally ill as well. The House voted 242-113 against …
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WARSAW, January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Polish scientists have issued a document demanding that the government legislate a statutory ban on artificial (in vitro) fertilization procedures. The 100 signatories also call for full government funding of NaProTechnology, an ethically acceptable and highly successful method of evaluating and treating infertility. The demand from …
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