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Wisconsin Offers “Free” Birth Control — with Your Money

Posted on 09 October 2008

“Free birth control is only a phone call away,” assures a sunny female radio voice. “Total bill: zero. It’s not a mistake. It’s the Waiver!”

So asserts the web site of Wisconsin’s Family Planning Health Services (FPHS), a federally funded “reproductive…

Cyclebeads: The UNFPA Discovers Natural Family Planning, Sort Of

Posted on 30 September 2008

In  an apparent break with its pill-pushing past, the UNFPA has begun promoting a natural method of birth regulation. To avoid confusion with (or to avoid giving credit to?) Natural Family Planning, which is so closely identified with the Catholic Church,…

The APA Trades Science for Politics… Again

Posted on 03 September 2008

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…

Obama and McCain: Straight Facts on the Life Issues

Posted on 25 August 2008

This is a pivotal election for the pro-life movement.

In one corner stands Senator John McCain, a grizzled veteran who sports war wounds. His claim to the presidency comes from his decades of experience as a public servant and his straight-shooting…

The Culture of Life Foundation and the Rebuilding of our Society

Posted on 02 August 2008

With the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae so recently behind us, it is worth noting the strength and courage of the pro-life movement in the United States. Yes, the ubiquitous culture of death still surrounds us daily, but…

International Hypocrisy: Why the Beijing Boycott Coalition Exists

Posted on 23 July 2008

In 1974, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to hold the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow, the capital of what was then the Soviet Union. Sparked by opposition to the Soviet Union’s renegade foreign policy in Afghanistan, and…

UNFPA Targets the Grassroots and Misses

Posted on 16 July 2008

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has a long and painful history of coercive tactics. Since its inception in 1969, pro-lifers have decried its cultural insensitivity and unrelenting top-down logic that sees human beings as disposable commodities, and overpopulation as…

Students Against Margaret Sanger

Posted on 26 June 2008

Margaret Sanger is one of the pro-choice movement’s iconic figures. She is extolled as a pioneering feminist, health worker, and woman’s activist. Her quotes on these subject are treated as scripture. But she was also an outspoken supporter of eugenics,…

Minority Targeting: Planned Parenthood Goes After Native Americans

Posted on 14 June 2008

The American abortion lobby claims to be an equal-opportunity abortion provider, looking out for the needs and wants of all women. Not so. Big Abortion devotes an inordinate amount of attention to Blacks, Hispanics, and Alaska Natives who, in proportion…

US Bishops Urge Voters to Give Priority to Life

Posted on 30 May 2008

Late last year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops put out its strongest statement yet about the need for American voters to avoid voting for candidates who refuse to defend the sanctity of human life. This document urged Americans…

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