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More Studies Show Patients With Severe Brain Injuries are Not "Vegetables"
We've run a bundle of fascinating stories over the years about people who suffered severe brain injuries, were thought to be unresponsive, but who prove to be aware of their surroundings. This diagnosis is particular sensitive when the patient is said to be in a "vegetative" or "minimally conscious" state. How Legalizing Surrogacy Helps Activists 'Queer Babies'
Boross suggests "surrogate babies are queer creatures by default," "given their prenatal history," and "that queerness can serve as a window into the queerness of all babies." Abortion Can't be Pro-Woman When So Many Women Regret Their Abortions
Ending abortion requires exposing abortion: Showing what it does to the baby, showing what it does to the mother and everyone else. The testimonies given at this gathering expose that damage, as the moms describe how they were deceived into thinking abortion was a solution to their problems, but how they learned - too late - that it only created more problems. Pro-Abortion Doctors Admit Late-Term Abortions are Not Medically Necessary
How can anyone justify killing a preborn baby just weeks before he or she could be born full-term? Aborted Babies Were Taken With Medical Waste to be Burned for Energy
In the heart of the nation's capital, a gruesome discovery was made of babies aborted in the District of Columbia and then transported to Baltimore to be burned to generate electricity. Cruel and Unusual Punishment Report
"Male inmates identifying as women are disproportionately likely to have committed sexual offenses, and incarcerated women face heightened risks of harassment and assault under these policies." Abortion is Not a "Loving Act" Because You Don't Kill the People You Love
There is hardly an action - no matter how revolting, immoral or violent - that doesn't have defenders who will say, "But we can't really judge others unless we've walked in their shoes." Others will go even further to charge those who refuse to agree that all things are relative with intolerant "judgmentalism." Mel Gibson Condemns Abortion: "It's Human Sacrifice"
"What leads to cultural collapse? Human sacrifice. We do that. We do." It became clear that the "human sacrifice" Gibson referred to was abortion, including sacrificing humans outside the womb for lousy policy and leadership. Despite some perceived mild pushback from Rogan, who's more pro-choice, Gibson leaned into the point. "It's a mess. The human sacrifice aspect is alive and well in our society." How Sex Traffickers Prey on the Vulnerabilities of Immigrant Populations
Across the globe, sex traffickers prey on the vulnerabilities of immigrants. In a world plagued by war, political instability, poverty, and an array of other calamities, it is common for those from affected regions to seek refuge in foreign countries. Tragically, unscrupulous individuals often leverage the desperation and vulnerabilities of those seeking to flee such circumstances as a means of trafficking them into prostitution. These vulnerabilities can include limited economic resources, inability to speak the native language, or unfamiliarity with the laws of the country they are residing in. The False Promises of In Vitro Fertilization
In the past few months since the Alabama Supreme Court IVF decision that sparked national controversy, many concerned Americans have pointed to the disturbing lack of regulation on the IVF industry. ... The process of selecting a successful embryo often involves uncomfortably eugenic selections of the best traits possible, as if the child were a Build-A-Bear rather than a human soul with inherent dignity. ... Worst of all, the process involves freezing or discarding millions of embryos, each a distinct human soul, every single year. More Headlines…
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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".
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Sitting across from Dr. Walker in his San Francisco Union St. office, I explained that when I was only 4 years old, I started cross-dressing in my grandma's clothes at her house. While I can forgive Dr. Walker for recommending that I start immediately on female hormone therapy in 1981, I cannot forgive the gender therapists today for rushing to a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and provide cross-sex hormones without evaluating the underlying contributing factors. Douglas McManaman
In terms of the proclamation of hope and the good news of divine mercy, I think I can safely argue that the traditional kerygma has been rather deficient over the centuries, and so many of the faithful today have had to carry the wounds of that deficiency for decades. We speak of the unfathomable mercy of God and his unconditional love on the one hand, and on the other hand we undermine and belie the claim as we project our own limits onto God, preaching what he is able to forgive and not able to forgive, turning the justice of God, revealed in Christ as absolute mercy, into an absurdity so much beneath the worst examples of human "justice". Xavier Symons
What will bring about lasting reform in healthcare is not violent political protest but a revolution at the heart of healthcare whereby we rediscover its connection to the common good. Steven Mosher
Couples struggling with infertility today often turn to "In Vitro Fertilization," commonly known as "IVF". It's so widely accepted that most people don't find the process to be problematic. In fact, a recent poll from Pew Research found that only 8% of Americans consider access to IVF to be a "bad thing." Marianna Orlandi
Should children gestated and born in violation of Italian laws be taken from these putative "parents?" Or should Italian sovereignty capitulate, accepting that whatever adults want, and pay for (even other lives), becomes a right?
E. Christian Brugger
Even those minimally familiar with the stem cell debate are aware of the vast disparity that presently exists between the clinical usefulness of human adult stem cells (hASCs) and embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Not only have hESCs, despite billions of dollars spent, not given rise to a single clinical success (none, zero); but until recently, there had not even been a single clinical trial using hESCs accepted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This illustrates the concern of that regulatory body and the wider field for the serious problems associated with hESC therapies, the most serious of which is tumor formation. Anthony Zimmerman
This paralytic must have been in a desperate state, but he had friends who would do anything to help him, a kindness that Jesus did not leave unrewarded. Judie Brown
A young child's life is threatened. Her family is devastated and suffering. Imagine the possibility of losing a child - something no family should ever go through. And then imagine having to fight in court for her life. Michael Cook
It's not just bio-conservatives who are troubled and puzzled by the growth of surrogate motherhood. Writing in the Huffington Post, Keston Ott-Dahl, the lesbian co-mother of a Down syndrome daughter, confesses that there is conflict in the LGBT community as well. Dianne N. Irving
Summary: Although the assumption must be that any group calling itself "prolife" is sincere in its efforts to protect the most vulnerable of human beings, e.g., human embryos, from exploitation and destruction, the current bill so offered in the State of Ohio leaves a great deal to be desired, and if passed would not fulfill its claimed purpose of being a "total human cloning ban" because of the presence of multiple legal loopholes. I leave it to the readers to decide for themselves if this proposed bill would indeed legally ban all human cloning. Michael Cook
A Colorado family is mourning this week the death of a son who was born without a brain. Although anencephaly - a condition in which babies are born with only a brain stem - affects 1 in 10,000 births, most live only a few hours or days. Nickolas Coke lived three years before succumbing to pneumonia. Mark W. Leach
Calling fetuses defective if they are prenatally diagnosed with genetic conditions foreshadows a dangerous path toward eugenics. Steven Mosher
Of the many issues debated about perennially, few have the potential to save lives like defunding nation's number one abortion provider - Planned Parenthood.
John Stonestreet
From the beginning, proponents of the sexual revolution have wrapped themselves in the mantle of science, especially social science. O. Carter Snead
It is time for the United States Supreme Court to provide some much-needed clarity to the vexed jurisprudence of abortion that has bedeviled the American public square for nearly forty-six years.
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