Having seen an inordinate number of eloquent commentaries delineating the moral evils of the recent United States District Court decision nullifying the will of California voters on Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, I am nonetheless left wondering why none of the commentators was able to connect the dots.
The reason for the disconnect is that the ideology surrounding the pill is more significant than the pill itself.
Who would have ever guessed that contraception would move to center stage in women’s health and in the political arena in 2010?
Precisely when Humanae Vitae was being publicly rejected by many bishops and priests, scientists were enrolling their parishioners into the three landmark contraceptive studies of the 1960s finding excess suicides
We know that the internet alone has saved countless babies because of the availability of incredible 4-D ultrasound images like those presented in ALL’s Baby Steps video.
Thirty-seven years ago, the United States Supreme Court decriminalized an act that Planned Parenthood had spent years promoting as a backup to failed contraception. That act is abortion.
You may have taken note of the new advertising campaign McDonald’s has launched. The theme is “Come As You Are.”
Proponents of hormonal contraception — particularly the pill — contend that contraception does not cause abortion. They argue that contraception prevents pregnancy and thereby reduces… Read More »Birth Control – The Abortion Connection
As the media hype begins to die down over the not-so-wonderful 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, Hollywood’s own Raquel Welch opines that she “laments the havoc that the free-sex ethos has wreaked on marriage and family life.
Dear editor: [Insert name of reporter or letter writer] has misinformed your readers concerning the manner in which the so-called emergency contraceptive pill regimen works.… Read More »Letters to the Editor: Morning-After Pill