All Wired Up: The Contraceptive Chip
By Karl D. Stephan
An MIT spinoff called MicroCHIPS has announced plans to market an implantable contraceptive chip that can be turned on and off remotely, and lasts for as long as 16 years.
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IVF’s Tarnished Halo
By Michael Cook
After five million children, IVF is no longer controversial. Creating children in a Petri dish for infertile couples is regarded as so splendid a good deed that the scientist who created the technique, Robert Edwards, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2010.
Safe, Legal, and Rare?
By Rob Gasper
A recent column by feminist author Jessica Valenti took abortion-friendly politicians to task. According to Valenti, politicians like Hillary Clinton are stigmatizing abortion when they say it should be safe, legal, and rare.
Humanity of the Comatose Denied by Inhumanity of Euthanasia
By Mark Davis Pickup
The following was previously published in the Western Catholic Reporter, for the Edmonton Archdiocese.
The Time Has Come to Admit the Truth
By Leslie Tignor
Columnist Jessica Valenti recently wrote an article for The Guardian entitled “Women like sex. Stop making ‘health’ excuses for why we use birth control.
Hey, Seniors, Get a Room . . . at Aegis Living
By Camille Giglio
The Father’s Day edition of the Contra Costa Times, a division of the Bay Area News Group, carried this ad (pictured) presumably paid for by Aegis Living, for a senior living facility in my local area of California.
Recreational Contraception
By Michael Hichborn
The recent Supreme Court Ruling on the Hobby Lobby case presents a unique look at what the hard left is attempting to force employers to pay for. Many of the talking points claim that, by siding with Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court has “taken away” women’s access to “essential health care.
It’s Time for a Third Emancipation Proclamation
By Walter Hoye II
SURELY not the least interesting of the varied war pictures which we present to our readers this week will be two sketches on page 428-one, the picture of a Negro slave, who fled from Montgomery, Alabama, to Chattanooga, for the express purpose of enlisting in the army of the Union
Witness to Christ at the SCOTUS ‘Hobby Lobby’ Circus
By Rey Flores
As expected, the highly anticipated decision on the Hobby Lobby case this past Monday brought all sorts of characters and the news media to the steps of the Supreme Court.
Prenatal Eagle Protection and Down Syndrome
By Kurt Kondrich
For over a year the Pittsburgh region where I live has been captivated by a pair of bald eagles and their three eagle chicks nesting along the Monongahela River.
Five Things You Should Know about Palliative Care
By Ione Whitlock
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, I had the pleasure of speaking at a conference in Wooster, Ohio. The conference, titled “The Healthcare Trojan Horse,” was sponsored by the Pro-life Healthcare Alliance and Wayne/Homes Right to Life. Following is the presentation as it was written; the actual talk was abbreviated due to time constraints. —Ione Whitlock
Hard Realities of Adult-Acquired Disability
By Mark Davis Pickup
I encountered a young man who is confronted with newly acquired and profound physical disability.