Douglas Sylva reported last month for Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), “While world attention may be focused on the UN General Assembly as it grapples with Palestinian statehood, the methodical drive by United Nations officials to promote legal abortion internationally goes on largely unnoticed.
The Obama administration is close to proclaiming from its glass mountaintop the final decision to require most health insurers to cover contraceptives, the morning-after pill, and elective sterilization.
I know there are plenty of bioethicists who believe in the sanctity of life. Tragically, as one disturbing trend shows, there are also plenty who don’t.
The good pro-life folks in Ohio are “all shook up” over the conflict that has arisen surrounding a legislative proposal known as the “heartbeat bill.”
A confluence of interesting headlines too strong to be denied! That is how we describe the most recent spate of media discussion over the ever-controversial Planned Parenthood, its abuse of taxpayer dollars, and its ongoing deceptive tactics involving expectant mothers and sexual abusers.
The disciples thought of this verse from Psalm 69 (PS 69:10), in relation to Jesus when they witnessed his cleansing of the Temple.
The United States of America is about to witness a series of phenomena that are stark reminders of the ever-growing gap between the family unit as we knew it in the fifties and the broken home that we recognize as emblematic of the current milieu.
President Barack Obama has made commitments to many groups and special interest voting groups since his election in 2008, but none as strong as his guarantees to Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
As a young boy growing up a popular phrase taught was “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
It has often been said by my fellow pro-lifers that it is simply untimely to expect the general population to understand the reasons why the practice of contraception not only leads to but, in many instances, causes abortion.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (www.aclu.org) attorneys and Planned Parenthood abortion wonks are prone to define anything that smacks of equality for all as nothing but extremism. Take the case of the human embryonic child for instance.
Catholic scholars are up in arms about the latest interim rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is alleged to provide First Amendment protections to religious entities involved in health care, health insurance, and other programs impacted by the mandated distribution of contraception.