abortion

The Last Pro-Life Nation in Asia Falls

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet December 19, 2012

The following is a statement from Father Shenan J. Boquet, President of Human Life International, on the final passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill in both houses of Congress Monday in the Philippines. The bill is expected to be…

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Emergency Contraception…Or Abstinence?

by Carolyn Moynihan December 17, 2012

Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics called on all US pediatricians to counsel all their adolescent patients about post-coital contraception and make advance prescriptions for it available to girls under 17. The move came as no surprise. The AAP Committee…

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Call to Prayer: Judgment Day in the Philippines

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet December 12, 2012

After fourteen years of debate, political leaders in the Philippines may be on the verge of passing the controversial, anti-life “Reproductive Health Bill” (RH Bill). A week of aggressive moves by Philippine President Benigno Aquino and pro-RH Bill congressmen has…

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Population Imperialists in the Philippines

by Francisco S. Tatad December 5, 2012

In an unprecedented move to influence Philippine laws on human life, the family and marriage, the British government, together with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted a “family planning summit” in…

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Unanimous: “Morning After Pill” Prescriptions for Teens In Advance

by Jared Yee December 3, 2012

On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called on pediatricians in the US to provide advice to all adolescent patients about emergency contraception, and to prescribe it to girls under 17 in advance. US policy bans sales of the…

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Faith Under Fire : Hobby Lobby and Tyndale Make a Stand

by Gail Finke November 30, 2012

Editor’s Note: Catholic Exchange proudly introduces its newest series, Faith Under Fire. The aim of this series will be to track and highlight instances where the Church and the State collide–instances that we at Catholic Exchange believe are on the…

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European Union: Life Begins At Conception

by J.C. von Krempach, J.D. November 29, 2012

The German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH = the supreme judicial instance in Germany in all matters pertaining to civil law) has today issued the final decision in the case Brüstle vs. Greenpeace.
Mr. Brüstle is a German researcher who has…

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Stripping the Constitution

by Justin Dyer November 27, 2012

New Deal-era Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins once recounted a conversation she had with Franklin Roosevelt about how feasible it was to create a government-administered system of social insurance for the elderly. “Well, do you think it can be done?”…

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Update on Ireland: What Are the Facts?

by J.C. von Krempach, J.D. November 27, 2012

For the international abortion lobby, the whole story was just too convenient to be true: at the very moment when the Irish government is discussing controversial plans to liberalize abortion, a pregnant woman dies in an Irish hospital because she…

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Ireland’s Abortion Furore

by Michael Kirke November 26, 2012

Ireland contra mundum – or more accurately, mundus contra Hiberniam – seems to be the burden of shrill, not to say lurid headlines circling the globe since Wednesday of last week, when the story broke about the tragic death of…

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