The Dangers of the Pill
By Melissa Pena
As part of the younger generation, I believe we must arm our peers with the knowledge to make better decisions.
In This Month’s Hoopla Over Teen Pregnancy, Know the Facts
May is “Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month,” and we can all expect to be bombarded with messages that our children need to be “responsible” when they engage in sexual activity. Just this week, a CNN article blamed parents for the fact that teenagers don’t use birth control as frequently as the birth control industry thinks they should. The article quoted a survey taken by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. That survey reportedly found that 68 percent of teens said they agreed with the statement that the primary reason why they don’t use birth control or protection is because they’re afraid their parents will find out.
Parents the Primary Educators of Their Children
By Dr. Thomas Ward
It is a challenge to our families to replace today’s dominant culture of death with all its attacks on human normality: on life, love, sexuality, marriage, family, and indeed Christianity itself.
Tolerance of Evil Is Not Freedom
Freedom is a word used and abused on a daily basis a word used for people’s own selfish purposes. But Christ came here and died for us, for a freedom many don’t understand. So what does this word really mean?
Stop Planned Parenthood and the Seaside Sex Conference
By Rita Diller
The news from Seaside, Oregon, exposing the sex conference that targets children as young as 11 with unspeakable filth cloaked as sexuality education was so explosive that it has hit the Drudge report and other national news outlets over the past two weeks.
Planned Parenthood Is the Sex Mafia
By Michael Hichborn
In June of this year, Pope Francis delivered a powerful message to members of a notorious crime syndicate in Calabria, Italy. The ‘Ndrangheta is believed to be wealthier and more powerful than the Sicilian mafia.
Planned Parenthood’s Twisted View on the Rearing of Children
By Michael Hichborn
As the October Synod on the Family rapidly approaches, American Life League continues to sound the rallying cry that any discussion on modern challenges facing the family should include Planned Parenthood.
Is Marriage a Form of Prostitution?
By Angela Shanahan
When I heard that an Australian social commentator called Jane Caro had compared “traditional” marriage to prostitution on the popular TV program Q&A, I thought, “Oh, here we go again!” That trope of feminist literature is almost as raddled as the raddled old feminists themselves. After pushing the marriage-as-slavery ideology for the last 40 years, can’t people like Caro come up with something more original?
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.
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.
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.
A Response to Catholic Relief Services Regarding the World Social Forum
By Rob Gasper
On April 28, Catholic Relief Services launched a preemptive public response to American Life League’s concerns regarding findings that had, up to this point, remained unpublished. ALL had not yet published this research with the hope that private discussions could reach a satisfactory resolution and scandal could be avoided amongst the faithful.