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If ever there was a reason for parents to warn their teens off sexual encounters before marriage, a recent study has found it. The groundbreaking study of couples found more than half (56 per cent) of young adults in a new sexual relationship were infected with the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). Girls To Receive Pregnancy Tests At School
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Ethical Perspectives Michael Cook
A Korean gynaecologist explains why he abandoned a lucrative procedure and is campaigning to reduce abortions. South Korea has one of the highest rates of abortion in the world, even though abortion is technically illegal there except in a few rare circumstances. According to official government figures, there are 340,000 abortions each year, although one parliamentarian has estimated that there may be as many as 1.5 million. At the same time, Korea's birth rate is the second-lowest in the world -- 1.19 births per woman -- and some Koreans fear that their very survival as a nation is in doubt. Official Documents
Protecting the natural environment in order to build a world of peace is thus a duty incumbent upon each and all. It is an urgent challenge, one to be faced with renewed and concerted commitment; it is also a providential opportunity to hand down to coming generations the prospect of a better future for all. May this be clear to world leaders and to those at every level who are concerned for the future of humanity: the protection of creation and peacemaking are profoundly linked! For this reason, I invite all believers to raise a fervent prayer to God, the all-powerful Creator and the Father of mercies, so that all men and women may take to heart the urgent appeal: If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation. Margaret Somerville
We need to understand what seriously ill or dying people require to feel respected. Harvey Chochinov, a Manitoba psychiatrist who specializes in the care of terminally ill people, and his colleagues have developed a treatment they call "dignity therapy." They identified the elements that contribute to dying people's suffering and designed interventions to counteract these elements. Hope, for instance, is very important in reducing suffering. It requires having a sense of connection to the future. We can give people "mini-hopes" - things to look forward to - even when a long-term future is not possible.
Nancy Valko
As a nurse, I believe that not participating in abortion is a moral and natural imperative, not a "choice". And also as a nurse, I've seen the effects of the "right-to-die" movement on health-care providers and their education over the years. Personally, I have become sick of hearing that this or that patient "needs to die" when the patient or family chooses not to withdraw basic care or treatment. Unfortunately, there are a lot of medical people and prominent ethicists who don't really believe in free choice when it comes to the "right to die" and who actually do think some patients are a drain on the health care system and society. Not surprisingly, many of them also support direct euthanasia. Anthony Zimmerman
Not infrequently prospective converts in mission territories find it literally true that they must choose between Christ and their family. Michaela Dasteel
In the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, directive 45 states that Catholic health-care facilities are not to provide abortion, "even based upon the principle of material cooperation. In this context, Catholic health-care institutions need to be concerned about the danger of scandal in any association with abortion providers." Anthony Zimmerman
Is someone in deep despair and ready to end the quarrel by divorce? Kneel down and pray with Jesus, 'Not my will, but thine be done.' Then rise and face the situation as He has already done for you.
Ron Panzer
With all the debate about health care "reform," I wonder how much choice individuals retain under the proposed new bills. There is a move to force health care professionals (doctors, nurses and others) to participate in abortions, or abortion counseling, without the right to excuse themselves. They could lose not only their jobs, but also their professional careers.
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