Abortion and abortion’s apologists have succeeded in twisting and distorting even a once-objective, just-the-facts, and statistically-oriented discipline as Public Health. In the not-so distant past, pregnancy was defined in medical textbooks as the result of fertilization of egg by sperm. Now it’s defined as implantation of the embryo in the uterus. Semantics? Hardly. This represents [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Culture of Death: Defining Infant Mortality
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
By Popular Demand
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Embryo, Pro-Life Academy on February 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Quite a few people have asked if we could use the book EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, for our Pro-Life Academy. Beginning March 16, we’ll discuss a chapter per week from this extraordinary book. Written in plain language, it gives an excellent biological description of development, as [...]
Pope John Paul the Great to Post-Abortive Women
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
REPOST AS WE DIG OUT FROM THE LATEST SNOW From the Encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) #99: “I would like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in [...]
Abortion/Oral Contraceptives/Breast Cancer/Truth
Posted in Breast Cancer, tagged Breast Cancer, Louise Brinton, Planned Parenthood on February 25, 2010 | 22 Comments »
THIS BLOG IS A GOOD FRIEND OF KAREN MALEC, PRESIDENT AND COFOUNDER OF THE COALITION ON ABORTION/BREAST CANCER. SHE DOES GREAT WORK WITH THE COALITION, AND DOES NOT OFTEN ASK DIRECTLY FOR SUPPORT. IF ANYONE WHO VISITS THE SITE IS AS IMPRESSED AS I HAVE BEEN AT THE REPOSITORY OF LIFE-SAVING INFORMATION THERE, THEN I [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Breast Cancer/Abortion/Oral Contraceptive Link (II)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Abortion, Breast Cancer, Oral Contraceptives, Delay Childbirth on February 25, 2010 | 13 Comments »
If you missed Part I last week, read it here. In the past lesson we saw that the hormones estrogen and progesterone are responsible for normal breast development in an adolescent girl’s menstrual cycles. Birth control pills have extremely high levels of these hormones which mimic the elevated levels of the hormones during pregnancy. In [...]
Pro-Life Academy. The Dignity of Women (I)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Dignity of Women, Mulieris Dignitatem, Pope John Paul II on February 25, 2010 | 14 Comments »
In the great struggle between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life, a propaganda war against the Church and her view of women has been waged with great success in many quarters. Several lies have become the food of feminists, a grotesque bread of life for their disciples to feed upon. Chief among [...]
Politically Correcting the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
Posted in Abortion, Breast Cancer, tagged Abortion Breast Cancer Link, Headline Bistro, political correctness on February 22, 2010 | 12 Comments »
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” So said Senator Hiram Johnson a century ago, and remains true today in the war declared on Christian Civilization. The pivotal battle in this war is the issue of abortion, as abortion strikes at the very sanctity of human life, of motherhood, fatherhood, family, and the very [...]
Open Letter to the U.S. Bishops On the Fate of Abortionists
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2010 | 18 Comments »
22 February 2010 Feast of Saint Peter’s Chair Excellencies, It seems that during this season of Lent, and especially on this Feast of Saint Peter’s Chair when we celebrate the institution of our first Pope and the one whom Jesus promised to make a “fisher of men”, that we contemplate a renewed strategy to net [...]
Lent: “Allow Christ to Find You”
Posted in Lent, tagged Pope John Paul II, Lost sheep, Seven Deadly Sins, God Shepherd on February 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In the movie Pope John Paul II, actor John Voight plays the part of the Pope. In one scene, John Paul’s first trip home to Poland, a crowd has gathered outside of the window of his residence. John Paul climbs onto the full window to address the crowd. In his brief comments (true story), he [...]
Lenten Reading
Posted in Lent on February 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings. A homily of Pseudo-Chrysostom Prayer is the light of the soul The highest good is prayer and conversation with God, because it means that we are in God’s company and in union with him. When light enters our bodily eyes our eyesight is sharpened; when a [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Breast Cancer/Abortion/Oral Contraceptive Link (I)
Posted in Breast Cancer, Pro-Life Academy, tagged Abortion, Breast Cancer, Oral Contraceptives on February 18, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Today we begin a new track. Breast Cancer will be dealt with on Thursdays, while our ongoing embryology lessons will continue on Tuesdays. There exists in the peer-reviewed scientific literature a significant body of literature dating to the 1950′s, which shows a clear and consistent link between abortion and [...]
Lenten Preparation: Isaiah, Matthew, and James (III)
Posted in Lent on February 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Third in a series. Today begins the season of Lent. It is a season of deeds, penetential in nature. Some of these deeds are acts of self-mortification to focus our minds on God and our relationship with him. But our deeds cannot end there, me and Jesus. He wants our faith to be lived in [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Biology: Embryogenesis (IV)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Embryogenesis on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Humans actually DO HATCH. More on that later. To date we have considered the events leading to and including fertilization of the human ovum (egg). Once fertilized, that egg is called a zygote. From here on out the biology becomes extremely complex at the molecular and organismal level. Necessarily, [...]
Lenten Preparation: Isaiah, Matthew, and James (II)
Posted in Lent on February 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Matthew 25 As I so often mention here and elsewhere, there is a great difference between being pro-life and merely anti-abortion. This presents a challenge to us all. We cannot possibly champion every good pro-life cause. It’s impossible. There is a phenomenon in the social sciences known as Compassion Fatigue. Loosely defined, it is the [...]
Lenten Preparation: Isaiah, Matthew, and James (I)
Posted in Lent, tagged Fasting, Isaiah 58, Lent on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ash Wednesday is upon us next week. Thoughts turn to acts of penance, often what we are going to “give up”. To what end? Will we be miserable creatures to live with? Will our fasting lead to harmony or discord, peaceful hearts or riven homes? To what end? Hopefully, we do penance to focus ourselves [...]
