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Popping Abortion Pills Is Way More Dangerous Than Big Pharma Wants Women To Know
Abortion pills are dangerous for women, contrary to what the government and Big Pharma say.

Are Human Embryos Human Beings?
A matter of scientifically demonstrable fact, human embryos, no less than human fetuses, infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults, are human beings - living members of the species Homo sapiens. Those words - "embryo," "infant," "adolescent," and so forth - do not name different kinds of entities. They name the same kind of entity (a living member of the human species, a human being, like you or me) at different stages of development.

Killing Babies in Abortions is Wrong Medically, Ethically and Biblically
The primary reason abortion is opposed is to value the life of the unborn child. Surely, when someone's life is in danger, the decision to save lives must take precedence over personal freedom. What follows is an explanation of why abortion should be repudiated on medical, ethical, philosophical, and spiritual grounds.

I Was Told Abortion Drugs Wouldn't Hurt Me. It Was a Lie
They just gave me a bag with the second drug I was supposed to take at home. There was no talk of a follow-up visit with the doctor - not even a phone appointment. After I was given the drugs, and they got my money, my case was closed.

Is Violent Porn Making Girls Identify as Transgender?
There is avery important aspect to the porn-to-transgender pipeline that has been largely ignored. For millions of young people, masculinity and femininity are being defined by online pornography - with profound and ugly consequences. Porn addiction is now ubiquitous among young people, and a generation has grown up with their view of sexuality shaped by the extreme and violent content found on major porn sites such as Pornhub. An increasingly toxic sexual environment in which sexual violence has been normalized has been the result.

Congressional Hearing Exposes How Abortion Industry Sells Aborted Baby Parts
Americans have known for years that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry sell the body parts of aborted babies.

New Estimate Shows More Than 1 Million Babies Killed in Abortions in 2023
The Guttmacher Institute released updated abortion estimates for 2023. The new figures show that 1,026,690 abortions were performed in 2023, an increase of 10 percent since the year 2020. This is consistent with a trend in increasing abortion rates that started around 2017. Another key finding was the increase in chemical abortions.

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.

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War Against Children: Body Parts - "Worst Nightmare For the Unborn" (Part 5)

Life is Beautiful. Life is precious and sacred. Good people believe in the sanctity of the human person with rights and dignity to be protected and preserved. Yet there are those who disagree. They declare open war against the unborn child, but there is no such thing as a "good" war. In the end, millions of children die and many are left crippled. Why then fight this war in the first place? The reason is that a "War Against the Unborn" is very profitable. Selling/Buying aborted body parts is a billion-dollar (multi-billion?) industry. Scott Carney in his new book, "The Red Market", figures that he is worth about $250,000 if his body was broken down and sold as individual parts on what he called the "red market." The world was even more shocked when it learned that the University of Pittsburgh was harvesting organs of unborn babies "while their hearts were still beating". Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Some Important Points about Matrimony for Couples Married Outside the Church

Douglas McManaman
It is very common today for couples who were not married in the Church to bring their children to the Church for baptism. Having those children baptized is typically not an issue, but many priests find themselves trying to persuade such couples to have their marriages validated, and many couples are somewhat dismayed by their efforts. What follows are some important points about the nature of matrimony that might help couples in this predicament to better understand the importance of having a sacramental marriage, and thus the importance of having their marriages validated by the Church.

New! How to Think about Chastity

Nathaniel Peters
Chastity is a way of being more holistically directed toward our happiness regardless of the desires and attractions we experience.

New! Assigned at Birth?

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.

13 reasons why you should be deeply sceptical of the IVF industry

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.

The invisible pandemic: unplanned childlessness

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.

"Another Tragic Casualty of Fr. Richard McCormick's 'Pre-embryo' Myth: Meet Missouri's Mr. Neaves"

Dianne N. Irving
The damage caused by the McCormick/Grobstein "pre-embryo" myth over the last 40 years has been devastating and incalculable to the Catholic Church - not to mention science. But few people fully understand the similar damage done to other churches and denominations as well. Take the case of William B. Neaves, President and CEO of Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri.

Why Transhumanism and Gnosticism Are Anti-Catholic/Christian/Jewish

Dianne N. Irving
Like it or not, know it or not, Transhumanism is now global -- and at least your children and grandchildren are being flooded with it. So what's to worry about? A whole lot! It is essentially Gnosticism all dressed up in a new "name".

Pakistan: Jirga's antidote is fair and functional justice system

Asia Human Rights
In the absence of a fair and functional judicial system that can uphold the rule of law, Pakistan citizens are at the mercy of landlords, who dole out punishment in whimsy.

A Moment of Revelation
Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord

Antonio P. Pueyo
Recall your peak moments. Were there times you felt very close to God?

Dear Catholic Bishops: Love the Sinner, but Hate the Sin!

Judie Brown
I will always be an opponent of those that do harm to the teachings of the Catholic Church no matter the misguided intent, no matter how politically correct, no matter the action or inaction.

"Second Thoughts About the Cloning 'Victory' at the U.N. and Passing a U.S. 'Ban'; Definitions, Definitions, Definitions"

Dianne N. Irving
Presumably, then, (1) the U.N. has voted (non-binding) to "ban all forms of human cloning", and (2) we here in the U.S. should follow suit with due haste and pass the Brownback "total human cloning ban" (binding). But is this really the "prolife victory" as depicted? Let's look briefly at these two claims one at a time, just focusing on the formal scientific definition of "human cloning" used by them in these feisty cloning debates.

Texas Lawmen and the Lawless Court

Adam J. MacLeod
The Governor and Attorney General of Texas should obey the law, not the Supreme Court's ambiguous abstractions. They should continue to secure the fundamental liberty of vulnerable Texans and make the abortion industry assert its super-claim-rights in court.

Dysfunctional America

Judie Brown
What do assisted suicide and an advertisement about drowning have in common? Both are indicative of the decline of morals that our society faces today. Both should make our hearts sink and our blood boil. And both are reasons for people to stand up and proclaim that they've had enough - that all human beings deserve life and that no one, no matter how small or how sick, is exempt.

The Importance of the prophetic encyclical "Humanae Vitae" in 1968 and today 2021

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Dear Friends for Life: "Humanae Vitae", the prophetic encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1968, warned Catholics about the culture of contraception and the deadly impact it would have on society. "Humanae Vitae"explains why the Catholic Church rejects contraception. Pope Paul VI warned of dire consequences if contraception became widely practiced. He cautioned that there would be greater infidelity in marriage, confusion regarding the nature of human sexuality and its role in society, using women for sexual pleasure, compulsory government birth control policies, and the reduction of the human body to an instrument of human manipulation. In 2021, these warnings are a living reality.

Nearly 2/3 of psychology papers cannot be trusted

Michael Cook
Nearly two-thirds of all psychology research should be distrusted because it cannot be replicated, according to a troubling paper in Science