My Colleague at HeadlineBistro and bother Knight of Columbus, Marc Nadeau, writes about the growing pro-life movement among our family in Canada. This is truly exciting stuff. Read on… Last Thursday, a crowd of more than 10,000 – the majority of which were young people – gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to express their [...]
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The Culture of Life Gains Momentum in Canada
Posted in Right to Life, tagged Canadian Pro-Life, Knights of Columbus, Ottowa on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Rigor Mortis and the Mainstream Media
Posted in Abortion, Right to Life, tagged march for life, Media deceit, Media corruption on January 31, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Dead bodies corrupt because it’s in their nature to do so. When life, the animating principle ceases to be, corruption follows. This holds true for corporate bodies as well, the MSM being a great example. Truth and dispassionate objectivity are the animating principles of journalism. Reporting the news honestly and objectively, leaving the reader/viewer to [...]
If You Weren’t There…
Posted in Right to Life, tagged Baylor March for Life, March for Life 2010 video on January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If You weren’t able to be at the March in DC this year, this outstanding video by a contingent from Baylor University shows the sweeping grandeur, the fidelity, the overwhelming number of youth that characterized the March for Life 2010. Be sure to watch the video beyond the brief credits. God Bless you all for [...]
Stamping Out Mother Teresa?
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, Right to Life, tagged Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa on January 28, 2010 | 28 Comments »
This story from Fox News. Seems that a planned postage stamp honoring 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mother Teresa has some atheists in a hissy fit. An excerpt from the Fox News article: An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it [...]
Marching For Life
Posted in Abortion, Right to Life, tagged march for life, Pro-Life on January 22, 2010 | 17 Comments »
This will be my third March in as many years. I will be one of scores hundreds of thousands who have descended on the Nation’s Capital. Why? Why do so very many come? What’s in it for them? The women here repudiate their “right” to kill their unborn children. The teenagers who literally have overrun [...]
Post-Abortion Agony
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, Divine Mercy, Love, Lumina, Mercy, Post-abortion syndrome, Sisters of Life on January 16, 2010 | 22 Comments »
This morning I attended a three-hour prayer service and Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. The day was jointly sponsored by Lumina and the Sisters of Life. Archbishop Dolan began the day by admonishing those in attendance to respond with love to those who have not yet come to the truth. He [...]
Sanger’s Legacy: The Impact of Abortion/Contraception on the African American Community
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Disease, tagged Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, African American, Alveda King on January 12, 2010 | 22 Comments »
If there is one African American woman in the United States who has drunk from the bitter cups of abortion and racism, whose life has been forever changed by both, it is Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King knows what it is like to be lied to by a [...]
Abortion Apologetics: It’s More Than Cells and Tissue
Posted in Abortion, Development, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, Embryo, Fetus, Human Development, Right to Life on January 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Building on the quotes from medical and biological texts posted below yesterday, there is a need to answer some common mischaracterizations of exactly what a human embryo and fetus is, and what it is not. Some fundamental biology will clear up the confusion. A commenter on the post No Handicapped Allowed has this to say, [...]
More From the Scientific Community on the Identity and Status of the Human Embryo
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Development, Dignity, Personhood, Quotes, Right to Life, tagged Embryo, Princeton Pro-Life on January 7, 2010 | 68 Comments »
Compliments of Princeton Pro-Life “Development of the embryo begins at Stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oocyte and together they form a zygote.” [England, Marjorie A. Life Before Birth. 2nd ed. England: Mosby-Wolfe, 1996, p.31] “Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as [...]
No Handicapped Allowed
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, Eugenics, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, alpha-fetoprotein, autism, Handicapped on January 6, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Pregnancy was a rude awakening for me. No matter how many guys told me that life changes forever with a positive EPT, there’s just no teacher like life herself. The cravings were the best. I’ll never forget going out into a snowstorm because Regina was dying for Haagen-Dazs chocolate ice cream. (I think it was [...]
The Identity and Status of the Human Embryo
Posted in Development, Dignity, Personhood, Quotes, Right to Life, tagged Developmental Biology, Embryo on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Chris, a commenter in the embryonic stem cell post passes along these great quotes from medical texts. Many thanks Chris! “Zygote. This cell, formed by the union of an ovum and a sperm (Gr. zyg tos, yoked together), represents the beginning of a human being. The common expression ‘fertilized ovum’ refers to the zygote.” – [...]
Sanger Targets the Lower Classes
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Condoms, Dignity, Eugenics, Family, Margaret Sanger, Motherhood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Margaret Sanger, Negro Project, Planned Parenthood on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Above is a photocopy of Margaret Sanger’s Magazine, The Birth Control Review. Note the stated purpose of birth control below the date; Birth Control: To create a race of thoroughbreds. Sanger’s disciples would later deny attribution of that statement to her, but there it is. In previous posts we have seen repeatedly, and in context, [...]
Genetics: The Nature v. Nurture Argument
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Birth Control, DNA, Dignity, Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Personhood, Right to Life, tagged Eugenics, Genetics, Nature Nurture, Sanger on January 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
In light of our ongoing treatment of Sanger and the Eugenics Movement, it’s fair to ask if the eugenists have any merit to their argument. No, they don’t. From a Christian anthropological perspective, the least among us is made in the image and likeness of God. Jesus tells us in Matthew 25 that He will [...]
Pope John Paul the Great to Post-Abortive Women
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, Dignity, Family, Motherhood, Quotes, Right to Life, tagged Abortion, Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 many cases it was a painful and even shattering [...]
Margaret Sanger’s Malthusian Roots
Posted in Birth Control, Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Thomas Malthus on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The most of Thomas Malthus that many of us ever hear is in connection with Charles Darwin’s formulation of his Evolutionary Theory. Malthus believed that populations double over time, while food and materials increase only arithmetically. This in turn creates shortages in food and goods, leading to famine and war, so the thinking went. Darwin [...]
