When Rush Limbaugh made his unfortunate comments about Georgetown Law’s new “it” girl, Sandra Fluke, he may or may not have accurately described the young woman’s behavior according to the standards of a bygone era. The accuracy of his description is not at issue, so much as that Limbaugh broke a cardinal rule and went [...]
Archive for the ‘Birth Control’ Category
Commencement Woes: Sebelius, Fluke, and the Fuzzy Math of Georgetown
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops on May 16, 2012 | 12 Comments »
The “Con” in the Contraceptive Mandate
Posted in Birth Control on March 4, 2012 | 5 Comments »
This is a must-see video on conscience rights. H/T Dr. Martha Shuping, a brilliant and passionate pro-life physician.
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki Responds
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops on March 4, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Yesterday I posted a blog in response to Cardinal Goerge’s letter regarding the HHS Mandate and the future of Catholic institutions. Today, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois responded. I offer his response as its own post and respectfully reply below. Here is Bishop Paprocki. Dr. Nadal is accurate in saying [...]
The HHS Mandate: Cardinal George and the Bishops Are Fighting the Last War
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops, tagged Bishops, Cardinal George, Cardinal O'Connor, HHS Mandate, Obama on March 3, 2012 | 32 Comments »
It is a well-known phenomenon that generals have a tendency to “Fight the Last War,” meaning that they tend to use the tactics that brought them victory in the last war they fought. The problem is that the enemy usually shows up with new weapons and new tactics. Either the generals adapt, or go down [...]
‘Decrease in Human Beings Will Cover Cost of Contraception Mandate,’ Claims Sebelius
Posted in Birth Control, Dignity, tagged Contraception, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius on March 2, 2012 | 19 Comments »
Yesterday at a Congressional hearing, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made two outrageous claims: From CNSNews.com During the subcommittee hearing, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) said that contraception provided by insurance companies to people employed by religious organizations under the future form of the rule Sebelius described would not be was not free. “Who pays for it? [...]
Of Soviets, Cardinals, Conscience Protections and Turkey-Cheese Sandwiches
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Bishops, tagged Bishops, HHS Mandate on February 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
In my youth, the differences between the Soviet Union and the United States were made abundantly clear to us. We had the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights, and they didn’t. Teens at drive-thru fast food restaurants were iconic of American freedom. The freedom to recreate our culture through music, food, mobility. Our fathers [...]
Breast Cancer Risk from Oral Contraceptive Use Prior to First Birth
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, tagged Birth Control, Oral Contraceptives, Polycarp Research Institute on February 16, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Click the image to enlarge. The graph tells the story, and comes from Chris Kahlenborn, MD. Dr. Kahlenborn is the founder of the Polycarp Research Institute, which has some excellent materials on the link between oral contraceptives and breast cancer, as well as abortion and breast cancer. Dr. Kahlenborn’s excellent book, Breast Cancer : Its [...]
World Health Organization Data on Birth Control Pill and Estrogen Replacement Carcinogenicity
Posted in Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Pro-Life Academy, tagged WHO Group 1 Carcinogens on February 15, 2012 | 10 Comments »
There has been confusion of late concerning the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) listing for their Group 1 Carcinogens, including several forms of oral contraceptives and estrogen replacement therapy. The confusion has arisen because the original link by WHO has been changed. After some sleuthing, here is a treasure trove [...]
Dancing With the Swine: The HHS Mandate and Obama’s Real Agenda
Posted in Birth Control, Bishops, tagged HHS Mandate on February 9, 2012 | 8 Comments »
It started with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fast-tracking Obamacare and urging lawmakers to read it after voting in the affirmative. In Brooklyn, that’s called a clue. Then Donald Berwick was recess appointed to head Medicaid and Medicare, and to function as Obamacare’s Rationing Czar. He was recess appointed because the Senate found rather distressing his [...]
Cardinal Burke Encourages Petition Drive Against HHS Mandate: Sign Here
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Bishops, tagged Cardinal Burke, HHS Mandate, Obama, St. Gianna Physician's Guild on February 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Saint Gianna Physician’s Guild has begun a petition drive calling for the Obama Administration to reverse course on the HHS mandate. This is a great organization, with more about them in a minute. Cardinal Raymond Burke has issued the following statement: I wholeheartedly express my solidarity with the Stop The Birth Control Mandate petition [...]
Komen Wants Out of the Planned Parenthood Leper Colony
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Uncategorized, tagged ABC Link, Breast Cancer, Defund, Oral Contraceptives, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The first paper I ever wrote in graduate school was a review of the literature on Leprosy. It is a disease transmitted by contact that we now know to be caused by a close first cousin of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and can be cured using the same antibiotics that we use against TB. [...]
Enslaved… At Last
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Birth Control, tagged Birth Control, Cardinal Dolan, Conscience Protections, Obama on January 26, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Word comes this week that Cardinal-elect Timothy Dolan received a telephone call from President Obama stating that the Catholic Church would not receive an exemption from the requirement to purchase contraception for its employees. Cardinal Dolan is less than enthused: “It’s not about contraception. It’s about the right of conscience.” “The government doesn’t have the [...]
Sebelius’ Sensible Decision
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Dignity, tagged Family Health International, FDA, NPR, Plan B, Sebelius on December 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The recent overruling of the FDA decision to sell Plan B over the counter (OTC) to children as young as eleven years of age has engendered no small amount of outrage by proponents of the FDA plan, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has come in for severe criticism from women’s health and advocacy groups. Setting [...]
Proabort Researchers Look at Abortion Stigma, Eye New Strategy
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, tagged Abortion, Abortion Stigma, Al Gore, Birth Control, Climate Change, Post-Abortion Healing on June 30, 2011 | 11 Comments »
From UPI today comes news that a team of researchers, including the Guttmacher Institute, are looking into the issue of abortion’s stigma. Here is a new front in the abortion war. In many ways, it is the vulgar inverse of post-abortion healing ministries such as Lumina and Rachel’s Vineyard. CINCINNATI, June 29 (UPI) – U.S. [...]
