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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.

7 Ways to Keep the Wokeness Out of Your Home and Away from Your Kids
Such parents also need to be reassured that their experience is a common one, and not necessarily reflective of some great failure or oversight on their part. Most importantly, we all need to remind ourselves that this is far more of a spiritual battle than a political one, and to never underestimate the preeminent place of prayer and sacrifice for our children.

Committing To Embryo Creation Instead Of Marriage Is A Recipe For Death And Disaster
It's backward to commit to spending thousands of dollars creating life in a lab instead of committing to marriage.

Pope: Too many young people die in madness of war
Pope Francis asks again for prayers for those who suffer "terrible consequences" of conflicts, and reflects on receiving a rosary and a Gospel book from a soldier who died on the front lines.

Over 230 million women and girls subjected to female genital mutilation: UNICEF
More than 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM); an increase of 30 million or 15 per cent compared with figures from 2016, new UN estimates revealed on Friday.

Marriage And Family, Not Money And Career, Are The Key To A Fulfilling Life
Adults who are married with children report that their lives are more meaningful, compared with childless men and women, who say their lives are sad.

The Abortion Drug is Killing and Injuring Women, Where are the Feminists?
It should come as no shock that when all safety standards for high-risk drugs are removed, the public suffers.

Experts warn of 'inhumane' treatment of embryos, 'evil' circumstances surrounding IVF
A Catholic moral theologian this week warned that in vitro fertilization (IVF) "separates the things that God wanted to be together" while another expert spoke out against the "inhumane" treatment of the hundreds of thousands of human embryos produced by IVF.

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Do you feel unlovable or disqualified?

One of the most painful things we can ever experience is being made to feel that we don't belong. All of us have experienced this sometime in our lives. For example, some people are made to feel different because of their race or ethnic background. All around us we see the damaging effects of racism in society just because of the color of another person's skin, age (unborn/elderly), or disability (Down Syndrome). We can also be made to feel different because of our job. Other times, people can be made to feel "less than" because they struggle with physical limitations, mental illness or just feeling different from others without knowing why. We find cases like this throughout the gospels. Take for example the leper story which centers on a segment of people "not belonging". Many of us today have been singled out like the leper. In those days, lepers suffered a particular kind of ostracism. People found them disgusting. Imagine the pain and loneliness that those lepers must have felt. Wherever you find yourself today in life's journey, be assured that God is in control. He loves you. Like the leper, not only can Jesus heal you, but Jesus wants to heal you. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

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.

New! 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.

New! 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.

New! Gender Ideology Threatens the Most Vulnerable Kids

John Stonestreet
Getting the stats right so parents can get the right kind of help.

Science is liable to politics

Donald DeMarco
We like to think that scientists are people of unswerving integrity who report what they find without being unduly influenced by current fashions. Politicians, journalists, educators, religious leaders, businessmen, and sales personnel of every stripe may blow in the wind, but scientists, so we want to believe, are pillars of professional integrity. Unfortunately, though it should not be surprising, this is not the case.

Brave New Babies

Margaret Somerville
Knowing who our close biological relatives are and relating to them is central to how we form our human identity, relate to others and the world, and find meaning in life. Children - and their descendants - who don't know their genetic origins cannot sense themselves as embedded in a web of people, past, present and future, through whom they can trace the thread of life's passage down the generations to them. As far as we know, humans are the only animals who experience genetic relationships as integral to their sense of themselves.

Stalin Then And NOW: Liberation Theology, Homosexuality in the Church, Socialism

Dianne N. Irving
Time to pull out some historical documentation -- while you can! -- about the Russian Communist Dictator Joseph Stalin's past programs in order to understand what is going on today with "socialism" -- especially with the 2020 elections around the corner!

What if I have had an abortion?

Karen Malec
Women need to be told about Natural Family Planning methods, none of which increase cancer risk. Women must be informed of practices that reduce breast cancer risk such as long-term breastfeeding, bearing a child at a young age, and bearing more than one child. The use of Vitamin A may be of benefit, though this should be avoided by women who could become pregnant as it may (rarely) cause birth defects.

Chinese workers getting scarce

Carolyn Moynihan
Could China be running out of workers? asks the LA Times. Changes in the economy and education, combined with a mounting demographic crisis, confront employers and the government with big problems.

Spain edges closer to legalizing euthanasia

Michael Cook
Spain's coalition government is attempting to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. Its right-to-die bill includes an "express euthanasia" service, with doctors visiting chronically ill patients at home, as well as in hospitals and clinics.

Gmitro's Novel Viable@140: a Perfect Counter to the Anti-life Fantasy Fiction of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Jeff J. Koloze
This review argues that George Gmitro's novel Viable@140 counters the dystopia of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Through its unique plot, Gmitro’s novel allows the reader to understand and appreciate the role of the father in an abortion decision.

Three Pieces of Good News for Pro-Lifers

Shenan J. Boquet
There are several pieces of good news to share this week about the battle over abortion in the United States.

World AIDS Day: Yes, communities could be our best hope for ending this plague

Carolyn Moynihan
The 31st World AIDS Day was observed on December 1st and probably most world leaders joined the UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, in talking about the role of communities in fighting HIV.

"'Non-Human Animal' Personhood and the IEET"

Dianne N. Irving
Summary: Given the current efforts globally to secure "personhood" for all human beings, the influential efforts of those like transhumanists, futurists, eugenicists, genetic engineers, and animal rights advocates to secure "personhood" for non-human animals should not be overlooked. A perfect example is the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET).