As the relative quiescence of the blog in recent weeks will attest, there has been a great deal going on that has kept me from posting, and I am truly sorry for the interruption of our ongoing discussion of EMBRYO. To Chapter 3, Dualism. We need a little primer with some of the language that [...]
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Pro-Life Academy: Embryo (Chapter 3)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on April 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy: Embryo (Chapter 2)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on March 23, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Note: As we progress though this book, I shall close the comments on the previous week’s post once the current post goes up. By all means continue any ongoing conversations. This will streamline our conversations by restricting them to one thread. So, Last week’s comments are closed. We’re open for business on this week’s post. [...]
Pro-Life Academy: The Dignity of Motherhood
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Motherhood, Mulieris Dignitatem, Pope John Paul II on March 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
APOSTOLIC LETTER MULIERIS DIGNITATEM OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II ON THE DIGNITY AND VOCATION OF WOMEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MARIAN YEAR “This mutual gift of the person in marriage opens to the gift of a new life, a new human being, who is also a person in the likeness of his [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Embryogenesis
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Embryo on March 9, 2010 | 5 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, (NEXT TUESDAY!!) we’ll discuss a chapter per week from this extraordinary book. Written in plain language, it gives an excellent biological description of [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Embryogenesis
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on March 2, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Two weeks from today we are going to turn our focus on the embryo toward the book EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. Check it out at Amazon. Order soon! In the interim, I direct your attention to the Endowment for Human [...]
Pro-Life Academy. The Dignity of Women (II)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem on March 2, 2010 | 7 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. This is [...]
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 [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Breast Cancer/Abortion/Oral Contraceptive Link (II)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Abortion, Breast Cancer, Delay Childbirth, Oral Contraceptives 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Biology. Embryogenesis (III)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Two videos for class today, both contain great information, but are a little out of the norm. The first is a movie from 1947. It may be dated somewhat culturally, but the animated explanations are first rate. Some of the information on fetal development is dated, as it’s a [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Biology: Embryogenesis
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
NOTICE: Several people have requested that we use the book Embryo: A Defense of Human Life by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen for our Pro-Life Academy. Beginning with the first week of March, we’ll tackle the book at the rate of one chapter per week. I’ll have some bioethicists available for discussions on the [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Biology: Embryogenesis (II)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Ovulation, Fertilization on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Warning: This material contains graphic descriptions of the biological events involved in human reproduction. Those under parental supervision should first get permission. Those who may be easily upset by such frank discussion or the content itself are advised to forgo this lesson. Okay, that was the disclaimer. If you’re [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Biology: Embryogenesis (I)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Embryogenesis on January 28, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy Every Tuesday and Thursday. Double-dip today on the lessons. Check out lesson V on Cells immediately below this post. After that lesson on meiosis and genetic variability, we move into fertilization and the formation of the early embryo, called embryogenesis. Here’s a great overview of where we are headed over the next few [...]
