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We Should have Compassion for Babies, Born and Unborn
The importance of a single life -- specifically, a baby's life -- to change the world can never be underestimated.

Planned Parenthood Kills 40% of All Babies Who Die in Abortions
Planned Parenthood's latest annual report "Above & Beyond" for 2022-2023 is of special interest because it is the first by the abortion giant officially covering the time since the June 2022 overturn of Roe. As such, it gives people an idea as to how much business was and was not affected by the Dobbs decision overturning Roe and what steps the group has taken to keep the nation's largest abortion chain open and busy.

Planned Parenthood Brought in $2.9 Billion Last Year, Killed 1,075 Babies in Abortions Every Day
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey on June 24, 2022, Planned Parenthood aborted five percent more unborn children during the 2022-2023 fiscal year than the previous year and brought in more than $2.9 billion in assets.

Catholic Bishops Call for Day of Prayer to Save Babies From Abortion
The Catholic bishops in Poland are calling for citizens of the eastern European country to set aside a day of prayer to save babies from abortion. While the call is for the EU nation to rally in prayer, there's no reason why Christians across the globe can't join in to pray for unborn children to be spared from the terrible tragedy of abortion.

Is a 15-Week Abortion Ban Actually Pro-Choice? And if so, how should pro-life Christians respond?
In 2012, when I became the president and CEO of Care Net, the Republicans and Democrats supported very different national policy positions on abortion.

Assisted suicide numbers in Oregon continue to rise
In 1997, Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalise physician-assisted suicide for people with a terminal illness. Since then, numbers have increased year-on-year, and this shows no sign of slowing.

Inside the horrifying world of transgender surgery
WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, is respected as the peak body for transgender medicine. Its 'standards of care' (SOC) were once regarded as a benchmark for ethical and effective treatment for minors and adults. ...Its prestige, however, has been tarnished by the leak of hundreds of posts from an internal messaging forum. These are evidence of doctors basing their surgery, even on young people, on trial and error, not on medical research. The internet went wild over the leak. The Times of London called WPATH quack medicine, and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Lauren Schwartz, MD, stated: 'WPATH has evolved into one of the most egregious disfigurements of medical practice our profession has ever encountered.

MIT, Harvard professors slam pro-LGBT phrase 'sex assigned at birth' in New York Times column
Instead of asking for a person's sex, some medical and camp forms these days ask for 'sex assigned at birth' or 'assigned sex' (often in addition to gender identity). The American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association endorse this terminology; its use has also exploded in academic articles. The Cleveland Clinic's online glossary of diseases and conditions tells us that the 'inability to achieve or maintain an erection' is a symptom of sexual dysfunction, not in 'males,' but in 'people assigned male at birth.' In short, this shift in language has been real, discernable, and imposed from the top down.

New Study: Abortion Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases
A new longitudinal peer-reviewed study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute has shown that abortions are an independent risk factor for increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the leading cause of death among women.

Catholic Bishops Say Killing Babies in Abortions "Can Never be a Fundamental Right"
"By inserting it into the constitution, the left wants to make abortion sacred as if it were a value at the heart of the national 'social contract,'" Bauer told the Catholic News Agency last year. "From being a crime, abortion has become a banal medical act, and the left now is seeking to make it a fundamental right, superior to every other right."

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Editorial

Human Dignity and Shady Characters

It appears today that the truth is not important anymore. What is important is to do what is "politically correct", not what is right. Our involvement in politics should be driven by the uncompromising belief that no one is worthless and that truth is paramount. For this reason, we, as Christians, defend the Right of the unborn to live. It is also the reason why we stand against suicide and euthanasia. We do not have a right to kill people because they are near death and need our help. Our witness to the dignity of human life also requires that we speak up against unjust wars, (eg. Ukraine, Gaza), for migrants who are fleeing violence (eg. Somalia, Kenya) and other hardships (eg. North Korea, Afghanistan). These people have dignity no matter what language they speak and no matter what religion they practice. The same is true for prisoners. No matter what crimes they have committed, their lives still matter and they still deserve to be treated with respect. As Christians, we must give voice to all those people whom the world says are worthless. When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make any compromises. Period! The world needs our witness more than ever. So let us not be afraid to speak up for those who are so often forgotten and overlooked. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Dignitas Infinita Defends Intrinsic Human Dignity

Shenan J. Boquet
Dignitas infinita is receiving considerable attention in the media, due to the fact that it re-affirms long-standing Catholic teaching on certain controversial issues, such as transgenderism, abortion, euthanasia, and surrogacy.

New! Social Problems and the Eugenics Debate: Is Eugenics Ethical?

Brian Clowes
If any single age really attains, by eugenics and scientific education, the power to make its descendants what it pleases, all men who live after are the patients of that power, slaves to the dead hand of the great planners and conditioners. If man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be. - C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man.

New! Artificial Wombs Will Compound the Harm Reproductive Tech Inflicts on Children

Katy Faust
What should be at the forefront of everyone's mind is the question, "How does all this technological tinkering affect the kids?" We are only beginning to be able to answer that question.

New! Inside the horrifying world of transgender surgery

Faith Kuzma
The idea of a "sex change" is essentially binary and therefore old-fashioned. There are only two sexes, so there are only two possible sex changes - male to female and female to male. A gender fluid world opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities.

New! Pastoral statement for World Earth Day
Earth Day focuses attention on appreciation and stewardship for Planet Earth.

Michael D. Pfeifer
Earth Day reminds us that the engagement of the world must transcend politics, personal policy, agendas, and focus on human ecology which calls for a conversion of political, economic, cultural, and social systems as well as individual lifestyles, and sharing all of Earth's goods with all inhabitants. We are living in a time of crisis, fracturing the environment in countless ways including global climate change.

Why aren't we having enough children to replace ourselves?

Louis T. March
Childlessness is becoming a lifestyle choice.

Denying the Real Presence

Judie Brown
A recent article in the Atlantic magazine explains that genetic testing and the availability of abortion help expectant parents deal with their choices should they be told their baby might have a genetic problem like Down syndrome. Yet it seems citizens are not sufficiently outraged by the specter of eugenics in our midst. Hitler would be proud.

Where Have All the Women Gone?
Abortion and Gendercide

John Stonestreet
Nearly thirty years ago, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen wrote an essay in the New York Review of Books entitled "More than 100 Million Women are Missing."

On Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A Statement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Official Documents
Stem cell research has captured the imagination of many in our society. Stem cells are relatively unspecialized cells that, when they divide, can replicate themselves and also produce a variety of more specialized cells. Scientists hope these biological building blocks can be directed to produce many types of cells to repair the human body, cure disease, and alleviate suffering. Stem cells from adult tissues, umbilical cord blood, and placenta (often loosely called "adult stem cells") can be obtained without harm to the donor and without any ethical problem, and these have already demonstrated great medical promise. But some scientists are most intrigued by stem cells obtained by destroying an embryonic human being in the first week or so of development. Harvesting these "embryonic stem cells" involves the deliberate killing of innocent human beings, a gravely immoral act. Yet some try to justify it by appealing to a hoped-for future benefit to others.

UNICEF and Abortion: The Case of the Dominican Republic

Steven Mosher
United Nations foreign aid groups enjoy what is perhaps some of the most unqualified public support of any organization. But we have found that not only do they promote abortion using tax money, but they even lie about it.

How "Catholic" is Catholic Relief Services?
Full Report on CRS-Madagascar Released Today

Steven Mosher
Population Research Institute (PRI) today released its full report on the activities of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Madagascar.

Why Do We March?

Margaret Datiles Watts
We march to take a public stand in defense of the unborn. We speak on behalf of those who have no voice and cannot be heard. We march to publicly demonstrate that opposition to abortion in America is strong.

Staggering discarded embryo figures released in UK

Xavier Symons
New official figures indicate that close to 2.5 million embryos have been discarded in the UK since IVF was brought under a comprehensive regulatory framework in 1991.

Protecting human nature: Pope Francis takes aim at gender theory

Robert A. Gahl, Jr
Once again, Pope Francis' straight talk is making waves in the media. Two Vaticanisti, Andrea Tornielli and Giacomo Galeazzi, highlight his forceful condemnation of gender theory in a recent Italian book entitled Pope Francis: This Economy Kills, (Questa economia uccide), not yet available in English.

How to Build a Better Human Cloning Bill or Treaty

Dianne N. Irving
After having published analyses of dozens of state, national, federal and international legislative attempts to ban human cloning research, I simply wish to offer seriously considered suggestions for the use of scientifically accurate language and definitions to be used in such endeavors in order to prevent loopholes which would result in much human cloning not being really banned. Many of these accurate definitions can also be used in bills and treaties concerning related issues, e.g., human embryonic stem cell research, human genetic engineering, abortion, the use of abortifacients, conscience clauses, IVF and other artificial reproductive technology research and regulation.