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170 People in New Mexico Got Deadly Assisted Suicide Drugs in 2025
The New Mexico 2025 assisted suicide report stated that there were 170 people who received the lethal poison prescription in 2025.

Study Showed 82% Miscarriage Rate After COVID Shot
Pfizer's own data showed the COVID shots had nearly same fetal death rate as the abortion pills!

Court Rules Against Planned Parenthood, Medicaid Fraud May Cost Abortion Biz $1.8 Billion
A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed Planned Parenthood's bid to stop a major Medicaid fraud lawsuit, returning the case to trial court where the organization faces potential damages approaching $2 billion.

New York Assisted Suicide Law Goes Into Effect Killing the Elderly and Disabled
More broadly, as New York assisted suicide goes into effect tomorrow it sends a dangerous message to people with disabilities, older adults, and seriously ill patients: that death is an acceptable substitute for care.

70% of Americans Oppose Mail-Order Abortions
According to podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, phrases such as "abortion is health care," "love is love," and "no human being is illegal" are used to emotionally manipulate voters into having misplaced empathy.

Father's Heartbreaking Letter to His Aborted Daughter: "Goodbye, Darling Pilgrim, I love you - - Dad."
He began his column with this question: "What do you tell an unborn daughter that was aborted 40 years ago by its mother?"

Softball Hall of Famer on the Future of Men in Women's Sports - 'Girls Are Going to Get Wiped Out'
As the ridiculous battle over biological men playing in women's sports inexplicably rages on, the most inexplicable thing that has come from it is actual women who either really cannot see the implications, both physical and otherwise, or are too afraid to admit to the alphabet mafia that they really do and won't speak up.

After 10 Years of Covering the Trans Madness, Here's What I Learned
Journalist Brandon Showalter recaps the horrors of the transgender movement: "Those of us who've been doing the hard work exposing the madness against an impenetrable mainstream media blockade can all tell you what it's like to learn about all the horrors, only to be gaslit with flat denials like 'that's not happening.' Then you show concrete proof, and it becomes 'well, it's only a few people,' and then maybe 'why are you so obsessed with this small, strange issue?'."

Climate alarm 'blaring from every direction'
Climate-driven disasters are reaching "nightmare proportions" due to humanity's "addiction" to fossil fuels, a top UN official warned on Tuesday.

Mifepristone as a Public Health Issue
Do not dismiss the complaint as some pro-life ruse. There has been a dramatic shift from surgical to pharmaceutical abortion. The active agents in mifepristone - the first of the two "abortion pills" - remain active post-excretion, i.e., they enter public water systems. The second pill induces contractions that result in expulsion of embryonic and fetal remains, along with other uterine contents.

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Editorial

Nagasaki, 81 Years Later: A Wound That Calls Us to Peace

Remembering the People: Today, as we remember Nagasaki, I do not want simply to speak about an event in history. I want us to remember people - fathers and mothers, children and grandparents, students and workers, priests and religious sisters - whose lives were suddenly destroyed on August 9, 1945.

As a Catholic priest who has lived and served in Japan for 61 years, I have come to understand that Nagasaki is not simply a place on a map. Nagasaki is a sacred place of memory. It is a place where the history of Japan, the history of the Catholic Church, and the tragedy of war come together. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Don't Worry. Be Conservative.

Ben Peterson
The war on spiritual poverty is worth fighting, and we need foot soldiers and generals who are willing to wage it.

New! America's Birthrate Crisis: The Contraceptive Roots of the Population Bust

Shenan J. Boquet
Is the world facing an existentially threatening crisis of overpopulation? Until a few years ago, practically every major Western politician, institution, and media outlet was in lockstep. Yes, the world was overpopulated. And it was only going to get worse, with consequences including ecological disaster, warfare, famine, hunger, and poverty.

New! Abortion Drug Crisis: Four Years After Overturning of Roe v Wade, Abortions Have Nearly Doubled

Dan Hart
Since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade four years ago Wednesday, allowing dozens of states to establish laws protecting unborn babies, abortions have nonetheless almost doubled in the U.S. due to the abortion pill, which is being shipped from dozens of domestic and international vendors across state lines in violation of dozens of state pro-life laws.

New! Roi Yozevitch Is AI Taking Over the "Religion of the Book"?

Roi Yozevitch
An AI does not only "remember" all the words. But as any ChatGPT user can testify, it finds connections between different sources, summarizes them, generates challenging questions, and even deduces new insights. It can therefore seem as though these machines are well-versed in almost any topic.

Eleven Years After Obergefell, Who Will Speak for the Children?

Joseph A. DeAngelo
The work, eleven years in, begins with honesty; the admission that Obergefell was not a neutral expansion of rights but a substitution of one set of duties for another, and that the duties it displaced were owed chiefly to children.

Bioethics under attack in new book

Michael Cook
The foundation myth of bioethics, the 'demi-discipline's' self-professed raison d'etre is at best inadequate if not demonstrably false.

Is just a little bit of female genital mutilation OK?
American bioethicists wrestle with an inflammatory issue.

Michael Cook
This is more or less what happened last week when the bioethics committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics revised its long-standing opposition to female genital mutilation. Up to now, the AAP's position was simple: never. In the United States, as in many other countries, opposition has been reinforced with legislation. One American father has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for cutting his two-year-old daughter.

Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time

Douglas McManaman
I thought, yes, that's what a priest is; he is not a social worker, he is not a religious therapist or psychologist, he is a steward of the mysteries of God, in particular the mystery of the Incarnation, Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ.

Cardinal Sarah on Freedom and Transgenderism

Shenan J. Boquet
Cardinal Sarah's analysis of the phenomenon of transgenderism (sex-identity confusion) arguably reaches down to the very root cause of this modern phenomenon. Importantly, however, it also touches on the root of so many of the moral and social evils which we in the pro-life and pro-family movements spend our days fighting: divorce, pornography, the freefall in marriage rates, euthanasia, assisted suicide, transhumanism, and the explosion in loneliness and social disintegration.

Individualism and Ecclesiastical Authority

Douglas McManaman
Synopsis: The uneasiness and general suspicion towards authority that characterizes the post 60s liberal mind owes itself in part to Sartre. Freedom does not mean creating my own nature. Rather, it involves both knowing how I ought to choose so as to fulfill my nature which I have in common with every other human person, and having the habits (both the virtues and divine grace) that will enable me to make those choices. In other words, freedom is an achievement. In this light, authority can be seen to exist for the sake of my freedom, not as an enemy of it.

Sri Lanka: Resuming the death sentence in order to divert public attentio

Asia Human Rights
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena announced that he has signed four warrants for execution of persons who were convicted of crimes related to drugs.

"Her" And Her Invisible Boyfriend

Frank J. Moncher
"The future of sex includes robots, virtual reality, and drugs to address women's sexual function" says Dr. Laura Berman, touted as a "sex and relationship expert" by the Wall Street Journal (April 26, 2015). Dr. Berman goes on to review a plethora of technological developments that will allow for an ever-wider-ranging span of sexual behavior that will "have endless recreational implications" and the ability to "procreate without meeting in person."

The Pill Kills Marriage

Judie Brown
Therefore We base Our words on the first principles of a human and Christian doctrine of marriage when We are obliged once more to declare that the direct interruption of the generative process already begun and, above all, all direct abortion, even for therapeutic reasons, are to be absolutely excluded as lawful means of regulating the number of children. Equally to be condemned, as the magisterium of the Church has affirmed on many occasions, is direct sterilization, whether of the man or of the woman, whether permanent or temporary.

Bioethics -- What It Really Means for Prolife Nurses

Dianne N. Irving
What is bioethics? How did it come about? How sound is this "theory"? What impact has it had on the practice of medicine and medical research, especially its influence on medical professionals - at the bedside, up-front and personal? How has bioethics attacked the fundamental concept of "personhood", especially as formulated in bioethics as "preference" utilitarianism? How has it so profoundly affected our understanding of who is a person to the extent that we don't even know one when we're staring one in the face - at the bedside?

India: Annual Mystery fever returns to kill dozens, where are the authorities?

Asia Human Rights
Mystery fevers are no strangers to many states in India. They keep returning, almost annually, leaving a death toll behind. They make news with their onset, media follows the trails, deaths subside and then the trails go cold.