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Are Babies Prizes or Gifts?

by Margaret Somerville April 12, 2012

An Ottawa music station, Hot 89.9, recently launched a “Win a Baby” contest. The prize offered was up to three rounds of fertility treatment worth C$35,000. It’s reported that the station received around 400 applications “from a diverse range of…

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The Ever-Growing Fertility Business

by Jared Yee March 13, 2012

Julie Barth, was over the moon when her doctor told her she might be able to get pregnant via IVF. But the Illinois doctor didn’t stop there – he referred her to a “fertility finance” company which lent her (US)…

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IVF Is Unworthy Way to Conceive, says Pope Benedict

by Jared Yee March 9, 2012

In a widely reported address, Pope Benedict XVI has again declared that the only acceptable way for children to be conceived is through intercourse between a man and a woman. “Indeed, the union of a man and a woman, in…

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Dollars and Sense: The Economics of Gay Marriage

by MercatorNet January 12, 2012

Douglas Allen is a Canadian expert on the economics of social institutions. He has discussed same sex marriage from an economic point of view in articles in leading law journals. MercatorNet interviewed him about the consequences of legalising same sex…

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Swiss Neutrality Takes A Pro-Abortion Break

by Joannes Bucher December 27, 2011

In September 2011, I had the privilege of traveling to Zurich, Switzerland to participate in the March for Life. HLI-Switzerland joined with 11 other pro-life organizations to co-sponsor the March. It was a beautiful gathering of about 1,500 people that…

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Utilitarian Motherhood: Any Means to End Childlessness

by Melanie Baker November 16, 2011

Some days ago, CNN Health posted an article on certain factors to consider when freezing eggs for the purpose of achieving pregnancy at a later time. It featured a successful, unmarried breast surgeon whose demanding occupation makes it unlikely, in…

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Stockpiling Human Merchandise

by Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk October 17, 2011

A recent news report chronicled a Chinese woman named Huang Yijun. Sixty years ago, her unborn child died, but the pregnancy was never expelled from her body. Instead, her baby’s body slowly began to calcify inside her, becoming a crystallized,…

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