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Where Are The Dads Protecting Their Daughters From Dangerous Male Athletes? Why have so few fathers, especially after their daughters were injured by a male, stepped forward and said, 'Not on my watch'? Alabama, Frozen Embryos, and the Law The recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court on frozen embryos has gotten a lot of attention. Not all of the reactions, commentaries, and analysis have been well-founded. The result is more confusion about how the law works, what that means for unborn children, and what we as pro-lifers need to do. 50 Years Later, I Still Anguish Over My Abortion My life has long been affected by an abortion I had at 17. Abortion kills innocent unborn babies under the guise of women?s rights. 7 Ways to Keep the Wokeness Out of Your Home and Away from Your Kids Such parents also need to be reassured that their experience is a common one, and not necessarily reflective of some great failure or oversight on their part. Most importantly, we all need to remind ourselves that this is far more of a spiritual battle than a political one, and to never underestimate the preeminent place of prayer and sacrifice for our children. Committing To Embryo Creation Instead Of Marriage Is A Recipe For Death And Disaster It's backward to commit to spending thousands of dollars creating life in a lab instead of committing to marriage. Pope: Too many young people die in madness of war Pope Francis asks again for prayers for those who suffer "terrible consequences" of conflicts, and reflects on receiving a rosary and a Gospel book from a soldier who died on the front lines. Over 230 million women and girls subjected to female genital mutilation: UNICEF More than 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM); an increase of 30 million or 15 per cent compared with figures from 2016, new UN estimates revealed on Friday. Marriage And Family, Not Money And Career, Are The Key To A Fulfilling Life Adults who are married with children report that their lives are more meaningful, compared with childless men and women, who say their lives are sad. The Abortion Drug is Killing and Injuring Women, Where are the Feminists? It should come as no shock that when all safety standards for high-risk drugs are removed, the public suffers. Experts warn of 'inhumane' treatment of embryos, 'evil' circumstances surrounding IVF A Catholic moral theologian this week warned that in vitro fertilization (IVF) "separates the things that God wanted to be together" while another expert spoke out against the "inhumane" treatment of the hundreds of thousands of human embryos produced by IVF. More Headlines…
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One of the most painful things we can ever experience is being made to feel that we don't belong. All of us have experienced this sometime in our lives. For example, some people are made to feel different because of their race or ethnic background. All around us we see the damaging effects of racism in society just because of the color of another person's skin, age (unborn/elderly), or disability (Down Syndrome). We can also be made to feel different because of our job. Other times, people can be made to feel "less than" because they struggle with physical limitations, mental illness or just feeling different from others without knowing why. We find cases like this throughout the gospels. Take for example the leper story which centers on a segment of people "not belonging". Many of us today have been singled out like the leper. In those days, lepers suffered a particular kind of ostracism. People found them disgusting. Imagine the pain and loneliness that those lepers must have felt. Wherever you find yourself today in life's journey, be assured that God is in control. He loves you. Like the leper, not only can Jesus heal you, but Jesus wants to heal you. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog... Ethical Perspectives Nathaniel Peters Chastity is a way of being more holistically directed toward our happiness regardless of the desires and attractions we experience. Terence Sweeney To assign is to flail and thrash about as we try to exert control over the uncontrollable. But to wait in the ultrasound office or in the delivery room to find out, to then share with others in this first discovery of our child's identity, to delight equally in male and female, is to recover our fundamental vulnerability to the gifts given to us. Michael Cook After the Alabama Supreme Court's recent ruling that frozen embryos deserve the same protections as children, politicians have been falling over themselves to find ways to defend the US IVF industry. I'd like to convince you that IVF is a morally complex issue, so complex and tangled that it needs to be regulated. This is the case whether or not you believe that frozen embryos are "extrauterine children" living in a "cryogenic nursery", in the words of the Court. Louis T. March First off, it's that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats merit mention. South Korea, with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.78), broke its own record at 0.72. In Japan births fell 5.1 percent, marriages almost 6 percent. Seems Europe has more fifty-plus folks than preschoolers. John Stonestreet Getting the stats right so parents can get the right kind of help.
Debi Vinnedge For the past five years, Children of God for Life has sought the help of every theologian, ethicist or clergy who has weighed in on the issue of aborted fetal cell line vaccines. With the exception of a few good moral leaders, priests and bishops, nearly all who have responded have done so as though they were treading on thin ice, so afraid to produce a crack that might actually reveal the truth and awaken a sleeping conscience. Judie Brown The subject of hell always raises eyebrows. Nobody wants to hear about it, and many people do not even believe it exists. In our modern culture some believe the word "hell" represents nothing more than a scare tactic or a fable of long ago. Helen Alvaré At the United Nations, the words "safe motherhood" in international agreements, have become code for efforts to mandate legal abortion in countries signing onto such agreements. The logic? Abortion (unsafe for children; destructive of motherhood) is claimed to be safer than childbirth for the mother sometimes. Likewise, in the United States, take no meaning from the title "Safe Schools" czar. It means whatever its inventors claim. In the present case, it seems to mean safe from the influence of those opposing the early and degrading sexualization of minor children. Asia Human Rights Justice Ilancheliyan has struggled through most difficult areas over a long period of time without ever giving up the idea of upholding the rule of law and dispensation of justice. Douglas McManaman The experience of our own contingency is something all of us have, and this sense of our own contingency is especially heightened when we are young. This experience is fundamentally a profound realization that my existence is not necessary (i.e., contingent), that I need not be here; my existence is not necessary. This experience is one of radical dependency. I am not sufficient unto myself, I depend radically on someone or something. With further experience I come to the realization that this dependency is multi aspectual. It is this experience that is the source of a naturally religious sense. Asia Human Rights The European Commission is due to issue a status report this month on Pakistan`s compliance with the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) Plus conditions, which also include an assessment of the human rights situation in the country. Priscilla K. Coleman Recognition for the effects of stillbirth highlights refusal to admit abortion harm. Douglas McManaman Synopsis: The gospel is not a collection of teachings, much less a set of values. The good news is that we have been redeemed from the power of sin and death through the name of Christ; for it is the name of Christ that is the very power of God. The first sign of the loss of faith in the name of the crucified and risen Christ is a politicization of the gospel, which reduces the good news of salvation to a universal political and social doctrine that presupposes the natural good will of all human persons, and that evil is merely the result of poor education and unenlightened political decision making. Jennifer Roback Morse Sperm donation, egg donation and surrogacy: Third party reproduction seems to be a "done deal" in Western society. Even ardently pro-life people do not seem to see the problems. Hey, these techniques are making babies, not killing them. So what could possibly go wrong? A lot of things can go very wrong. Let me describe just one: making the choice of your child's other parent into a commercial transaction. Michael Kirke A mother's death becomes instant propaganda for dismantling protection of unborn children.
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