Health & Spirituality

The Reason My Son Is Alive

by Alex Hauber October 24, 2012

I am the proud father of a three year old son named Lane who was born with full Trisomy 18. Many within the medical community would say that boys with this condition – the same genetic condition that Rick Santorum’s…

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Righteous Mom Anger

by Pam Stenzel October 5, 2012

Here we go again: adults who are too busy to be bothered teaching and modeling respect and integrity to their students decide it is better to just offer them “the morning after pill” at school, without the consent of parents!…

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Emergency Contraception Won’t Decrease Teen Pregnancies

by Greg Pfundstein October 1, 2012

It is often said that law is a teacher. As a thought experiment, consider what the following legal realities are teaching. First, no state in the United States of America requires parental consent or notification before a minor receives prescription…

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Is Prostitution Harmful? Nope, says Journal of Medical Ethics

by Michael Cook September 6, 2012

Among the hot topics in bioethics, prostitution does not rank highly. A quick search of the ETHXWeb bioethics database at Georgetown University yielded ten times as many articles on surrogacy than on prostitution, even though it could be argued that…

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Why the Pill Is Very, Very Bad (and why even non-Catholics agree)

by Fr. C. John McCloskey III August 30, 2012

Author Mary Eberstadt’s timing could not be better for her new book on the painful paradoxes of the sexual revolution. Titled Adam and Eve after the Pill and published by Ignatius Press, it appears at an interesting juncture: during a…

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Suicide and Religion

by Harold G. Koenig, MD July 31, 2012

Suicide is not a popular topic that most people are anxious to read about. However, it is a serious problem, is commonly associated with depression, and often occurs when depression treatments fail. Since the last two columns dealt with depression…

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What Does Libertarian Medicine Look Like?

by Michael Cook July 31, 2012

What does thorough-going libertarian medicine look like? Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Jessica Flanigan, of the University of Richmond, Virginia, opens a window on the future. She says that it would abolish prescription drug laws because they “violate…

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Is Male Circumcision a Criminal Offense?

by J.C. von Krempach, J.D. June 28, 2012

After years of international campaigning against female genital mutilation (FGM), attention is now turning to the fact that the circumcision of boys, which is a religious precept both for Jews and Muslims, is also a form of “mutilation”. And obviously,…

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Should We Allow Jehovah’s Witnesses to Die?

by Michael Cook June 18, 2012

Two cases involving Jehovah Witnesses who refused blood transfusions are in the news: a 22-year-old with sickle cell anaemia who died in the UK and a 4-year-old girl in Australia who lived after a court-ordered transfusion.
In Britain, a 22-year-old…

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Does Forgiveness Make You Healthier?

by Harold G. Koenig, MD June 13, 2012

There is a story about two friends who were walking through the desert, when at some point they had an argument and one friend slapped the other friend in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without…

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