Alliance Defense Fund and allied attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Harford County, the town of Bel Air, and seven police officials on behalf of three young, pro-life women. At least a dozen police officers arrived in more than seven marked vehicles and then arrested, jailed, shackled, and/or strip searched 18 pro-life advocates, including the […]

Two weeks ago, the American Psychological Association plunged headlong into controversy with the release of a report from the Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion.
The panel, chaired by University of California psychology professor, Brenda Major, produced a 91-page report with several conclusions. Principally, the APA reported that:
The best scientific evidence published indicates that among […]

The Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SOG) has issued a statement that accuses the drafters of the Unborn Victims of Crime bill with conspiring to remove the “right” of a woman to kill her child at will by abortion up to the end of natural gestation, as Canadian law currently allows.The SOG wrote, “This […]

The California legislature has decided that the state should push patients to choose being put to death as their preferred healthcare option. That is the way I read the “Terminal Patients’ Right to Know End of Life Options Act”, also known as Assembly Bill 2747.
According to a report published by WorldNetDaily, the bill would allow certain […]

 The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, more popularly known as the Orthodox Union, or O.U., and Agudath Israel of California, an ultra-Orthodox group, have joined a coalition of California religious groups supporting Proposition 8, which, if passed in November, would reverse the California State Supreme Court’s May 15 ruling that gave homosexuals the […]

The American Psychological Association (APA) has arbitrarily decided that abortion doesn’t hurt women. Ever.
In a new draft report on released on August 12th by the secretly appointed “Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion,” the APA flatly claims that there is no evidence that abortion leads to psychological problems in women. According to the APA, […]

When you look up the word bop in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, you find that, when used as a verb, the word is defined as “hit” or “sock.” In other words, the word means to knock around or knock out, depending on the severity of the blow.
Well, I thought that was an appropriate way to describe […]

Bishop Edward J. Slattery of the Diocese of Tulsa has joined his brother bishops in telling Nancy Pelosi that she cannot be Catholic and support abortion. Slattery, spiritual leader of Tulsa’s 56,094 Catholics, called Pelosi’s statements confusing and scandalous.”Beginning in the first century and in every epoch since, the church has taught the sanctity of […]

 I was very intrigued by a few news reports that crossed my “e-mail desk” this week. I guess that’s how you have to view e-mail these days - few write you a real letter anymore, and everyone who does send e-mail wants a response immediately. Well, in my case, they have to wait because this […]

The Philippine Court of Appeals recently rejected claims made by a radical pro-abortion group based in New York. The court dismissed an effort seeking to overturn an executive order promoting natural family planning.  The petition was filed earlier this year by a group of Manila residents who relied heavily on legal advice and material from […]

An upstart homosexual rights group in California has begun to target not only individuals, but also companies to which they are connected, if they have contributed money to committees that support Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to ban same-sex “marriage” in California.The Wall Street Journal reports that Californians Against Hate, a new homosexual-rights group, intends […]

Republican John McCain has picked first-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his surprise choice for a running mate, in a move hailed by conservative leaders as “absolutely brilliant” and “electrifying” conservative voters, especially women.Gov. Sarah Palin, known for her traditional and unabashedly pro-life and pro-family views, is the mother of five children, including her youngest […]

Time is running out for American Life League supporter JoAn Karkos. The Maine woman has until 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29 to return the sexually explicit children’s book It’s Perfectly Normal to a public library in Lewiston.
If she does not, the 64-year-old grandmother may face jail time.
“I’m not giving the book back,” Karkos said. “Every […]

In an interview with Bob Krebs, the Communications Director for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, to which Senator Joseph Biden belongs, Krebs confirmed that Biden’s Bishop will not permit the Senator even if elected Vice President of the United States of America to speak at Catholic schools.When asked for the Bishop’s take on Senator Biden […]

 American Apparel has outraged [Toronto] passersby who object to the public display of images akin to those typically found in porn magazines with their latest billboard campaign, which pushes the limits of sexual advertising.The Globe and Mail reports that one billboard for the clothing company on display in Yonge-Dundas Square, featuring the bare, arched back and […]

The Coquille Indian tribe of Oregon has admitted same-sex unions to the legal status of marriage.The legislation, affecting the small group of about 200-300 Indians, changed Coquille law to include homosexual unions, after a lesbian couple expressed desire that tribal officials sanction their union as a “marriage.”
According to tribal experts, the Coquille tribe is the […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) launched an initiative recently to boost a program for menstrual regulation in Bangladesh. WHO states that the objectives of this program are to “ensure the quality of [menstrual regulation] and to share the knowledge of safe motherhood.”    ”Menstrual regulation,” also known as “menstrual extraction” (ME) is billed as a family planning […]

I have been on vacation for a few weeks and have tried to write blogs when computer access is available. I am now back and was struck immediately by an e-mail I received from a long-time supporter of ours who is a cradle Catholic like me. He wrote the following:Why have the Catholic bishops not […]

A recent report from the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union (EU) has called for binding EU regulations that would equalize the legal status of married heterosexual couples with that of same-sex and opposite-sex couples across Europe.  It also recommends policies aimed at “promoting visibility of homosexuality and other gender identities” and criminalizing […]

The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) today proposed regulations that would increase awareness of federally funded health care providers’ right of conscience, including their right to refuse involvement in abortion or sterilization procedures on moral grounds. Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical Association (CMA), praised the proposed regulations as […]

Despite defiant and scantily clad opposition, Nigerian, Filipino and Mexican Catholic Church officials are taking steps to quell the growing trend of immodesty that is becoming prevalent among Catholics.
   
After Mexican priest, Rev. Sergio Roman, said in an online publication, “When we show our body without prudence, without modesty, we are prostituting ourselves,” a group of […]

Indiana county officials upheld legislation that imposes greater health restrictions on doctors performing abortions after receiving criticism about how the legislation was passed earlier this month. The Vanderburgh County Commission passed the “patient safety ordinance” on August 5th.  The ordinance requires that only doctors with local hospital admitting privileges may perform an abortion, and that doctors […]

In 2005, 43% of teens aged 15 to 19 reported that they had had sexual intercourse at least once, down from 47% in 1996/1997.  The findings were released today by Statistics Canada, relying on data from the 1996/1997 National Population Health Survey and the 2003 and 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey.The decline was due to […]

The percentage of childless women who have reached the end of their child-bearing years in the United States has doubled from 10% to 20% in the last 30 years, reported the US Census Bureau on Monday.The survey also found that, “Women 40 to 44 years old will end their childbearing years with an average of […]

A group calling itself the “brain trust” met in secret recently to plot how to take advantage of conflict situations to advance the abortion and radical feminist agenda. A new group called the Global Justice Center (GJC) hosted the New York meeting on June 9 of this year. The Friday Fax was given the chance […]

The leader of Britain’s Tory opposition party has stated that he supports eugenic abortion for disabled infants up to the time of birth. In the build-up to party conference season in the autumn, David Cameron was asked if he would be willing to change the law, amended in 1990, that allows disabled children to be […]

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a prominent US-based public interest group litigating and lobbying for pro-abortion policies world-wide, has released its annual report for 2007. The reported CRR budget confirms that large US foundations continue their heavy financial support for radical social policies not only in the US, but all over the world.
The report […]

A rabbi at a religious conference said Wednesday night that a woman “who decides to have a baby out of wedlock by means of a sperm donation is unbelievably cruel,” reports the Israeli news service Ynetnews.com.Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz, a prominent figure in the Religious Zionism movement, expressed anger at what he considered an act of […]

When sixteen year-old Elizabeth Cameron found she was pregnant after being brutally gang raped, “practically everyone” in her life said she had every moral and legal right to kill her daughter by abortion. But Elizabeth defied the world’s wisdom and says, now that her daughter Phoebe is a toddler, that she could not imagine life […]

The Catholic bishops’ conference of New Zealand has offered voters guidance on the expected election, saying that social and economic policies must be “in the service of human dignity and a humane society, in which every person matters.”Abortion, embryo research and the family top the list of issues on which the bishops urge voters to […]

Hundreds of thousands of Evangelical youths are expected to descend on the United States Capitol tomorrow to fast and ask God’s forgiveness for the sins of their nation.Those participating in TheCall, led by its creator Lou Engle, are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, DC and form an enormous prayer team, asking […]

This is a special and urgent call to arms to you and the people of life around the world: We must take action NOW to aid the pro-life resistance movement in Ecuador … and all of Latin America! Click here to send your much-needed support!
On September 28 the people of Ecuador will vote on whether […]

A recently published Norwegian study of prenatal detection of trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) reveals that 84% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in the country are aborted. The study also concludes with the observation that “based solely on maternal age and second-trimester ultrasound imaging, the prenatal detection rate of trisomy 21 cases was poor and […]

Brazilian public schools have begun programs to instruct students at the elementary/junior high school students in homosexuality-affirming “sexual diversity” and other related topics.In the State of Sao Paulo, the Secretary of Education has announced that, beginning in 2009, students will be taught “the importance of respecting the sexual choice of every individual, destroying the taboos […]

 I have been researching the purported genetic near-identity between humans and chimps - asserted as the “scientific” basis for the Great Ape Project - and found (unsurprisingly) that the entire advocacy line that “humans and chimps share 98% of our genes” is plain false. This gets a little complicated, so stick with me.First, the 98% […]

The credibility of a new report on the mental health effects of abortion from the American Psychological Association is tarnished by the fact that the lead author, Dr. Brenda Major, has violated the APA’s own data sharing rules by consistently refusing to allow her own data on abortion and mental health effects to be reanalyzed […]

Lolita Hanks, R.N. is one of the most delightful people I have ever met. She is dedicated to the principles that affirm human beings as persons; these are the same principles that make supporters of the culture of death shudder. Lolita is, at her core, a living example of what it means to take your confidence in […]

A recent study by the University of Liverpool found that the contraceptive pill may adversely affect a woman’s natural ability to choose a genetically favorable mate. The ability to choose a genetically favorable mate is ascribed in part to pheromones, chemicals that can cause behavioral changes in the opposite sex. These chemicals also contain the genes involved […]

American Life League vice president, Jim Sedlak, dispelled confusion Monday in a radio debate with Rev. Ronald J. Cioffi, the priest whose statements regarding Catholics’ duty to vote pro-life have caused confusion and controversy among the Catholic faithful.
In a July 30 article entitled “US Bishops: Vote Your Conscience,” the Times of Trenton quoted Fr. Ronald […]

There are so many commentaries for and against abortion these days that we can frequently be lulled into thinking they are all blather and thus can be ignored. But in the case of most writings in the journal Contraception, it would be a huge error to think this way.
I refer to an editorial entitled “You say […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken a vacation from the US energy crisis to address a real crisis of her own: salvaging the abysmal sales of her flopped book “Know Your Power.” Pelosi, a Catholic who remains publicly antagonistic to her Church on faith and morals, has selected Dominican University of California as a prime […]

After decades of division over issues surrounding fertility and the moral issues inherent to procreation, many protestants are now turning away from the contraceptive culture and towards Natural Family Planning (NFP), a completely natural method, that allows couples to “space” children without the use of artificial contraceptives. NFP, which is based upon a thorough knowledge […]

Abortion rights advocates are using the XVII International AIDS Conference taking place this week in Mexico City to advance a pro-abortion agenda and to criticize the Catholic Church for not blessing the distribution of condoms. Known as “AIDS 2008,” the biennial conference is sponsored by the International AIDS Society and bears the supporting imprimatur of […]

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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently released its annual report for 2007, touting principally the organization’s work in the field of “sexual and reproductive health.” The radical nature of the document is revealed in the number of times certain issues are mentioned. In a 36 page document “reproductive health” or “reproductive rights”, which […]

First, let me clarify what “CINO” means. It is the acronym for “Catholic in name only,” a phrase used to describe a public figure who supports an evil while claiming to be a Catholic in good standing. This is a form of political corruption that is particularly popular today. The sad thing is that it […]

Canada’s most enthusiastic abortion advocate has endorsed the “alternate” bill a group of pro-abortion MPs has offered to replace the government’s Unborn Victims of Crime Bill, C-484.C-484, which would make it a separate crime to injure or kill a foetus during an attack on the mother, passed second reading in the House of Commons in March. […]

Barack Obama has once again reaffirmed his support for homosexual adoptions and his intentions to repeal federal regulations protecting the traditional family built on marriage.The Illinois Senator sent a letter outlining his position to Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director of the Family Equality Council, after the homosexual lobby group demanded his response to Republican presidential contender […]

States’ parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) convened at United Nations headquarters in New York this week to elect new members to the 23-member CEDAW Committee. Nineteen nominees vied for eleven vacancies. In a secret ballot, private citizens from Cuba, India, France, Finland, China, Brazil, Romania, Jamaica, Kenya, […]

Prospects for Planned Parenthood’s answering 107 criminal charges in court dimmed as pro-life Kansas prosecutor Phill Kline conceded defeat Tuesday night to his opponent Steve Howe in the hard fought Republican primary.Seeking election as District Attorney of Johnson County, Kline failed to overcome moderate Republican Steve Howe in the primary. Howe won the primary with 33,260 […]

During her July 28 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reaffirmed her support for natural family planning over artificial methods such as condoms and pills, and declared her endorsement of the Catholic Church’s position on reproductive health issues.In her eighth State of the Nation Address, the President denounced the campaign aimed at promoting the […]