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'LGBTQ is shoved down our throat': 16-year-old athlete says girls are silenced about not wanting boys in their locker room
The young girl said she and her friends have been subjected to males 'in booty shorts' and do not feel safe in their own bathrooms.

Abortion Pill Reversal has now saved more than 6,000 lives despite pro-abortion pushback
Abortion Pill Reversal, the protocol that gives women a second chance at choice, has achieved a remarkable new landmark for saving lives in spite of opposition from abortion proponents.

Can going gay really help solve climate change?
The last time homosexuality was directly related to acts of mass meteorological destruction was at Sodom and Gomorrah. Today, it's quite the reverse. In Anno Domini 2024, far from queers causing natural disasters, they have now somehow become the only viable means of preventing them ... or at least so certain of their more extreme and deluded number have recently started to say.

In England, one politically incorrect tweet can have the police knocking on your door
Allison Pearson, a journalist at The Telegraph, recently found herself at the centre of a police investigation based on an allegation that one of her social media posts was "likely or intended to cause racial hatred". Three separate police forces and one "gold group" crime unit had been mobilised to investigate a hate speech complaint against the journalist.

Western complicity in global terrorism
In February 2000, Russia's President Vladimir Putin was asked by a British journalist, David Frost, how he envisaged future relations with NATO and even the possibility that Russia could join the military alliance if Russia was treated as an equal partner.

Climate bait and switch: why fossil fuels are 'not essential'
Writing in December's Scientific American, Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes has penned an essay with the title "Fossil Fuels Are Not Essential: The industry argues that we can't live without its deadly products. It is wrong." How so?

Reality Wins: Transwomen Are Men
We have reached the tipping point on the gender issue. If I had known that electing a trans-identifying man to Congress would so definitively advance the discussion of safety and privacy in women-only spaces, I might have donated to the campaign myself. For over a decade now, women have been speaking out about the problem of men who believe they are women seeking 'refuge' in our bathrooms, locker rooms, college dorms, prison cells, and even sometimes our beds. The pressure has grown as more and more Americans were confronted by the very real demands required by the 'inclusion' of 'gender diverse' people on their terms.

Yes, keep men out of women's spaces - in Congress and everywhere else
Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) resolution requiring members of Congress to use the bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that correspond with their biology caused quite a stir. Less than two days after it was introduced, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced a change to the facility rules, saying: 'All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings -- such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms -- are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. Women deserve women's only spaces.' On Jan. 3, Sarah McBride, a biological male, will be sworn into the 119th Congress.

The Escalation of the Ukraine War: A Dangerous Tipping Point
The Ukraine War is escalating dramatically, and there are no immediate prospects for peace. This war may pit nuclear powers, i.e., the United States, Russia, and possibly other countries, against each other if we keep on the current track. How did we get here, and how can we avoid a disastrous outcome? Let's take a look.

Speaker Johnson is Right: 'A Man Cannot Become a Woman'
"Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman."

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Editorial

Society Dehumanizing Unborn Babies

Why this evil-disposed attack on procreation today? Procreation, the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing a biological offspring, is gradually being equalized with the phrase "profit and power at any cost". Just look around. Big industry extending its strong influence over procreation and changing the meaning through manufacturing, engineering and controlling. For example, babies are made by IVF. What is IVF? In Vitro Fertilization: An egg is fertilized by injecting a single sperm into the egg or mixing the egg with sperm in a petri dish. In the process, on the average of 24 tiny lives die in order for one life to survive. Another example: Desired embryos are implanted in a uterus. The big question is: Whose uterus? The mother's? A rented one (surrogacy)? An artificial womb? Yes, we are approaching a biotechnological breakthrough. Ectogenesis, the invention of a complete external womb, could completely change the nature of human reproduction. Several years ago, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announced their development of an artificial womb. Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Demographic Winter Follows the Decline of the Family

Shenan J. Boquet
There is a close link between the hope of a people and the harmony among generations. The joy of children causes the parents' hearts to beat and reopens the future. Children are the joy of the family and of society. They are not a question of reproductive biology, nor one of the many ways to fulfil oneself, much less a possession of their parents.... No. Children are a gift.

New! Conversion Therapy: Controversy and Reality

William Lawyer
Conversion therapy has long been a controversial subject, often regarded as being wholly unethical by critics. Over the last several decades there has been a powerful push to ban it, with publicity painting it as being abusive and harmful. But though like any practice there can be unethical conversion therapy, the facts of it are often misunderstood. This often leads to people being misled about the nature of conversion therapy and can undermine patient rights.

New! Building a Culture of Pro-Life Nonviolence

Judie Brown
Peace for all preborn babies must begin with peace outside the womb.

New! Reclaiming Personhood in the Public Debate over IVF

Alexandra DeSanctis
As we consider the future of our debate over IVF, we must go deeper than the political questions facing us and ask ourselves fundamental questions about how we view one another.

New! Polygenic Embryo Screening: Following the Logic of IVF

Christopher O. Tollefsen
Even the most extensive attempt to shape "what we will get" will always fail to eliminate the contingency, particularity, and irreducibility of the person, whose concrete individuality will likewise always transcend whatever power we attempt to exercise over it.

Why this pharmacy does not sell the 'morning-after' pill.

John Wilks
Scientific studies have provided strong evidence indicating that for many women the 'morning-after' pill (MAP) does not stop a pregnancy from occurring. Researchers have said that this drug acts in at least two ways to end a pregnancy that began at fertilization. It is also very dangerous to a woman's health. Scientific reports have proved that.

Australia could recognise multiple parents

Michael Cook
Australian law could be revised to allow more than two parents, if recommendations in a major report are accepted by the government. A "Report On Parentage And The Family Law Act", was released this week.

In the Charlie Gard controversy, the NY Times backs infanticide

Michael Cook
The case of dying English baby Charlie Gard shows how much public opinion about life and death issues is swayed by emotion rather than thoughtful deliberation. In an op-ed this week the NY Times hits rock bottom.

Was there anything really new about the New Year's Eve attacks in Cologne

Carolyn Moynihan
An official report released on Sunday confirmed allegations by victims (more than 500 of them have laid criminal complaints, of which 45 percent involved sexual assault) that the assailants were North African or Arabic.

Classification and Staging of HIV Infection

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Classification of HIV disease can be undertaken for several purposes and should be distinguished from disease staging. Staging is disease classification that aims primarily to make groupings that have different prognosis and can be used in guiding treatment decisions. Stages attempt to classify disease in a progressive sequence from least to most severe, each higher stage having a poorer prognosis or different medical management than the preceding stage.

Dying Alone

Elizabeth Regnerus
Enabling "the good death" begins with reviving attentiveness. We must first attend to the dying in our own communities. Care for the dying, in turn, enlivens reflectiveness on our own death. To advocate increased attendance in the death chamber is not meant to scare, nor to set up a macabre museum. It is instead a reminder that all men are mortal and that one's eternal destiny is of the utmost urgency. It is instead a way to reintroduce and refine the art of dying well.

Rigidity, Pope Francis, and the Difficulties of Achieving Knowledge

Douglas McManaman
"Only when we get a firm grasp of the central and highly sensitive role that information plays in the process of plausible reasoning will we come to appreciate the importance of dialogue, something Pope John XXIII understood very well. After two good popes who have been very clear and definitive about some of the fundamentals of ethics and doctrine, I believe it is fitting and complementary that we now have a Pope who challenges those who speak with a rhetoric of absolute confidence and who fail to appreciate the evolutionary nature of knowledge acquisition, especially theological knowledge.

Trans-Tasman debate over euthanasia continues

Xavier Symons
Victoria has moved one step closer to legalising euthanasia, with health minister Jill Hennessy announcing that the State government will be legalising future medical directives

Cultivating a sense of urgency
The Feast of the Holy Family

Douglas McManaman
To be fully human is to live your life centered entirely around Christ, as Mary and Joseph’s life was so centered. It is not to live for the self, and it is not to live for the security of a peaceful existence. It is to enter into the battle for salvation, for the salvation of souls, for the defence and protection of all that is sacred, to discover the part that God wants you to play in this drama and to enter into it with courage and trust.

US doctors back routine screening for "reproductive coercion"

Michael Cook
Doctors should routinely screen women and teenagers for "reproductive coercion", says a committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In its official opinion paper, it paints a sombre picture of coercive and domineering men who force partners to have sex and become pregnant. "The most common forms of reproductive coercion," it says, "include sabotage of contraceptive methods, pregnancy coercion, and pregnancy pressure." Some male partners go so far as to forcefully remove intrauterine devices and vaginal rings, poke holes in condoms, or destroy birth control pills.