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May 16, 2012

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Level Of Human Trafficking Today Vastly Exceeds African Slave Trade
Conservative MP Joy Smith told the May 5 Justice Summit her work in combatting human trafficking has brought her into places that have horrified her. "I've been in brothels," she said, describing them as "awful places."

Big Win For Anti Sex-Trafficking Efforts
Last summer, we told you about a very important Supreme Court asylum case that stood to hinder sex-trafficking prosecutions for years to come if not corrected.

Obama Mandate Forces First Catholic College To Drop Insurance
“The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover “women’s health services” including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),” the university says in a new post on its website. “Up to this time, Franciscan University has specifically excluded these services and products from its student health insurance policy, and we will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life.”

FDA Staff: Gilead's Truvada May Help Reduce HIV Risk
Gilead Sciences Inc's Truvada tablets appear safe and effective for reducing the risk of HIV infection, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. But they recommended a cautious approach for using the drug in efforts to prevent the virus that causes AIDS.

Hungry Heart
My whole life I've searched for purpose, for value, for what it means to be human.

In Choosing A Sperm Donor, A Roll Of The Genetic Dice
Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a depressing series of failures, a doctor finally advised them to find a sperm donor.

Obama's "Catholic Plan"
The Catholic Church is a major roadblock in Obama's quest to bring complete Socialism to the US.

Archdiocese Slams Georgetown U. Invitation Of Obama HHS Secretary Sebelius
Secretary Sebelius is the primary figure behind the HHS mandate forcing religious groups to provide free sterilizations, abortifacient drugs, and other forms of birth control to employees under the new health care law. She is also known for her extreme pro-abortion record, most notably her close ties with late-term abortionist George Tiller during her time as governor of Kansas. She is listed as a commencement speaker at Georgetown's Public Policy Institute.

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Ethical Perspectives

New! Chile study challenges the "safe abortion" myth

Carolyn Moynihan
Contrary to claims, a ban on abortion is consistent with one of the world's lowest maternal mortality rates. One of the great scandals of today's global village is the deaths of hundreds of thousands of mothers each year simply because they are carrying or giving birth to a child. The last reliable estimate, from 2008, indicated nearly 343,000 of these maternal deaths. The scandal lies in the fact that most of them are easily preventible with basic health care, as the West discovered more than a century ago.

New! Contrary to Some, Medical Killings are Occurring in End-of-Life Care Settings

Ron Panzer
Anyone involved in end-of-life ("EOL") care knows that the praiseworthy and lofty goals of the hospice and palliative care mission asserted for decades that the services provided would "never hasten death." Today, the removal of nutrition and hydration, whether artificial or not, often combined with the permanent sedation of the patient ("terminal/palliative/total sedation") is being done in EOL settings, with the intent that the patient die.

New! Then and Now: The Descent of Ethics

Nancy Valko
Forty-three years later, the healthcare world around me has changed dramatically. On the plus side, I have witnessed the great advances in treating illnesses, pain, etc. However, on the minus side, I have witnessed an increasing rejection of traditional ethics that has turned the world I knew upside-down in so many ways. In 1969, I could never have imagined that the crime of abortion would be declared a constitutional right or that euthanasia in the guise of "physician assisted suicide" would become legal in any state. And could any of us ever have imagined a time when a US president would try to force even Catholic healthcare institutions into violating their conscience rights?

Find Me Somebody to Organ-Rob -- Alive or Dead

Judie Brown
Organ-robbing is something that, in polite company, is referred to as organ donation or organ removal from a "dead" body or some similar term. The idea is to persuade the public that donating a vital organ is a brilliant idea, and since the person making the donation is dead, who's to care? Well, folks, you should care. You should care a lot, because, many times, in the process of vital organs going to someone in need, the donor's life is ended.

Glorified
3rd Sunday of Easter (B)

Antonio P. Pueyo
We will not be leaving our bodies behind. We will not be leaving this earth behind. Instead our bodies will be transformed and glorified. This world will also be transformed and glorified. In fancy theological terms, we can call this the eschatology of continuity.

The New Tower of Babel

C. Ward Kischer
The top several human embryologists in the world are authors of Human Embryology textbooks. It is understandable that they do not want to engage in polemics for fear of hurting their book sales. However, the amount of fake science being foisted on the public is reaching crisis proportion. These authors must now speak out and bring reason and truth back into the public discourse. In 1989 I predicted that Human Embryology would be rewritten according to political correctness. My prediction has come true. Babel has come to the world of science, and, in particular, to the world of Human Embryology.

New Methods of Promoting Abortion in Latin America
By Carlos Polo

*Offsite Article
Proponents of abortion in Latin America have developed clever new methods to advance their agenda. Some years ago they abandoned direct attempts to decriminalize abortion and make it legal. Instead, they move stealthily, step-by-step, to win the acceptance of the people for their schemes. We must learn to recognize their schemes for what they are, and be prepared to face them.

Sterilization Reversal
A generous act of love : twenty couples share their stories

John L. Long
Sterilization has become the birth control of choice for about half of the married people in our country. In that large group are a agrowing number of couples who have experienced remorse over becoming sterilized. Some of them have experienced a call from God to reverse their sterilizations - and many have answered that call. Twenty such couples, who are all Roman Catholic, tell their stories in this book.