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When Alive Is Dead
By Judie Brown There has been an ongoing debate about when a person is really, truly dead for as long as I have been involved in defending life. This is so for a panoply of reasons, best summed up by Professor Robert Spaemann, who wrote, “Scrutinizing the existence of the symptoms of death as perceived by common sense, science no longer presupposes the ‘normal’ understanding of life and death....
The Ninety-Two
By Judie Brown Recently 92 members of Congress called on the Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner, Stephen Hahn, to redefine the abortion pill Mifeprex (mifepristone) as a “hazard” or “threat of danger.” The goal is to have the pill removed from the market....
Commonplace Killing
By Judie Brown Healthcare dangers abound, as we have seen in many recent news stories. And these stories show just how little human life matters to some people. A recent complaint filed with the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration by...
Some Catholics Are Not!
By Judie Brown The Catholic faithful silently said a prayer of thanks for the words of Notre Dame’s famed former head coach Lou Holtz who told the nation the truth: that Joe Biden is a Catholic in name only. But my oh my, how the non-faithful scurried as they lined up...
Murder Most Foul
By Judie Brown In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the ghost of Hamlet’s father spoke of his own murder. Here, we speak of a crime that is committed without the revenge that initiated Claudius’ killing. It is murder committed under cover of law—the murder of tiny preborn babies....
America’s Real Constitutional Crisis
By Judie Brown Whenever someone in the mainstream media claims that we are facing a constitutional crisis, you can bet that chances are we are not. That is, unless that person is talking about a constitutional right to abortion. Then we know there is indeed a crisis....
Shepherds Who Feed Their Flock
By Judie Brown The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ staff member Donna Toliver Grimes, associate director of African American affairs in the US bishops’ Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, recently told the media that she is...