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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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Editorial

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.

On the Nature of the Embryo

Douglas McManaman
Synopsis: A Pawn that reaches the 8th rank does not look like a Queen, but it is a Queen because it functions like a Queen, that is, it has the power to move in any direction and for as many spaces as the player wishes. Despite its appearance, it is more than a Pawn, and we know this only by observing how it functions. It functions like a Queen, because it has the potentiality of a Queen, because it is a Queen. Similarly, the embryo, unlike a sperm, eventually comes to see, hear, kick, suck its thumb, and cry. It functions like a human person, because it has the potentialities of a human person, because it is a human person.

Ethicists no more moral than other professionals, says new study

Xavier Symons
Ethicists like to think of themselves as morally good people. But a recent article in the journal Metaphilosophy questions this.

End of life care through the eyes of a doctor and a patient

I was horrified to read the recent articles 'Care? No, this is a pathway to killing people that doctors deem worthless' and '3000 doctors putting patients on death lists that single them out to be allowed to die' published in the Daily Mail. As a Specialist Registrar training in Elderly Medicine and a terminally ill cancer patient myself I have strong views on these issues both personally and professionally.

Grief Responses from Induced Abortion
Thomas W. Strahan, J.D.

A.I.R.V.S.C.
Two studies on grief reactions relating to induced abortion are summarized in this Newsletter. One study describes pre-abortion and short-term post-abortion reactions. The other study describes long term reactions. These studies did attempt to use objective test methods and criteria to measure the multifaceted aspects of grief. This factor alone separates them from the vast majority of psychological studies reported in the literature.

In Spain, PRI Defends Life From UN Population Controllers

Steven Mosher
Peace requires before all else the defense of life, a good that today is jeopardized not only by conflicts, hunger, and disease but all too often even in the mother's womb, through the promotion of an alleged right to abortion.

New resource about euthanasia

Xavier Symons
As debate over end-of-life issues intensifies in the UK, the Anscombe Centre has released a comprehensive 'evidence guide' on the issue of euthanasia. The aim is "to help people assess - and judge for themselves whether they are reassured or whether they are alarmed by - the experience of countries where euthanasia or assisted suicide are legal."

The Nones: Education without Divinity or Selfhood

R. J. Snell
If questions of ultimate meaning and purpose are shuttled to the side, as they are in so many of our schools and colleges, the various disciplines and domains of knowledge can never attain a unifying vision.

Joyful Harmony
2nd Sunday of Advent (A)

Antonio P. Pueyo
Ask not what others can do for you, ask rather what you can do for others.

"A Winter's Promise" and woke psychology

Daniel Bernardus
Can reading a young adult fantasy novel help us to understand the condition of the Western mind? After reading A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos, I am convinced that it can. It helped me understand how a post-Christian civilisation can become inclined to "wokeness".

The Morning-After Pill Can Kill Mothers, Too

Steven Mosher
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved RU-486, or mifepristone, under special expedited rules in 2000 during the Clinton Administration, and on Nov. 15, 2004, it decided to emphasize the possibly deadly consequences of taking it not for unborn children, but for mothers.