JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

The folks at Planned Parenthood are really getting under my skin. It was bad enough when my kids were teens, but now two of my grandchildren are teens and the situation is, as my grandchildren would say, gross.

America is the land of entrepreneurs. Those that are successful find a formula that works and then replicate that formula many times to build an empire.

It is with the most joyful heart that I read the good news today that after twenty years of struggling against the National Organization for Women in defense of his integrity and his freedom of speech, Joe Scheidler has been exonerated by the courts.

The Pontifical Council for the Family has issued a document focused on defense of the human family and exposing the assaults currently being perpetrated against the family.

I think I have read enough about what informed consent (or the lack thereof) means when dealing with the expectant mother who is trying to decide whether or not she will be the mother of a living child or a dead child.

Oh my! The Washington Times article, Politically divergent groups call for dialogue about sex, happens to be a news report about 18 organizations that are calling “for a common vision — and more dialogue — on sexual health and public policy.”

One scientist recently proclaimed that the “rhythm method” may kill off more embryos than “other” contraceptive methods.

The statistics are frightening. Our children are being exposed to lifestyle decisions that will lead to serious diseases. One of those diseases is the Human Papilloma Virus.

There was some very good news published recently by a German cancer research center. Medical News Today reports, “Pregnancies lower breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation Carriers.”

Astonishingly, and with no national fanfare, New Hampshire’s house and senate approved a bill, HB 656 that will permit the starvation of patients.

Planned Parenthood is hopping mad because a U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted 30-23 against a funding amendment that would have provided tax dollars to the United Nations Fund

Some things appear to change from time to time, when actually they usually remain the same. Such is the world in which one finds both errant Catholic leaders and antagonistic Catholic-baiters such as the Planned