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October 22, 2024

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Refuting the techno-myth and reclaiming childhood
Screens are so pervasive in society that we tend to think of them as inevitable. They have become extensions of our bodies. We might think that technology in itself is neutral and is only good or bad depending on how one uses it.

Gender Doctors Must Be Stopped
"When this nightmare is over, I would like to see every single gender doctor who has ever written a puberty-blocking or cross-sex-hormones prescription, or has performed 'gender-affirming' surgery, reprimanded for the senseless mutilation of our children, whether the victims are minors or young adults."

'Dilexit nos': Pope to publish encyclical on Sacred Heart of Jesus
The world today is scarred by war, social and economic imbalances, rampant consumerism, and technologies that threaten to undermine human nature. With this document, Pope Francis will call for a change of perspective, urging humanity to rediscover what is most essential: the heart.

Rwanda: Torture, Ill-Treatment in Detention
Landmark Trial of Prison Officials Begins to Crack the Wall of Impunity

No Right More Important Than The Right To Life'
"There is no right more foundational than the right to life,"Hawley said at Family Research Council's fourth annual Pray Vote Stand Summit this past weekend. He stressed that this right is not a "luxury,"but is "absolutely foundational to everything we believe in as conservatives."

Evangelium Vitae and the culture of death today
The systematic willingness to choose and intend the death of powerless victims that constitutes the culture of death makes the pro-life question unique among the full spectrum of ethical issues.

Did Tim Walz allow abortion for any reason up to birth? Here's what the law he signed says
Since Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris picked him as her running mate, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has faced challenges from Republicans, pro-life advocates, and the media to defend his extreme positions on abortion.

Four Women's Volleyball Teams Forfeit - Won't Play Team with a Man
Four collegiate women?s volleyball teams have chosen to forfeit their matches, rather than play a team with a man who claims he is a woman.

Fact Check: Some babies are executed after they're born.
Is it true that babies are being aborted after they're born?

Giving the Girl Child her voice to increase awareness of her needs, dignity and potential
11 October is the International Day of the Girl Child. In 2024, the theme for the celebration is 'Girls Vision for the Future.' Every child is a gift from God that deserves to be loved, appreciated and respected.

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Editorial

I leaned down and kissed my son

Dear Friends for Life: Many individuals in today's society understand the pain felt by mothers after they have aborted their babies. But what about Post-Abortion Syndrome which affects men? As the body count of unborn babies continues to increase, research shows that more and more fathers are desperately crying out in pain as a result of these abortions. While browsing google on this topic, I ran across the following article: "My 'Friend' Assumed I'd Be Pro Abortion for Cleft Babies Like Mine & He's Dead Wrong". This, in turn, resulted in writing on abortion and unborn babies with cleft lip. "I leaned down and kissed my son." Continue reading at Fr. Jerry's Blog...

Ethical Perspectives

New! Consciousness and Sedation at the End of Life

Jose Lim
Consciousness is not simply a phenomenon that can be arbitrarily dispensed with or suppressed at whim: it is a critical element of the human experience, particularly in the last chapter of one's earthly existence, during which one comes face to face with the mystery of suffering and the meaning of life.

New! Disabled voices are missing from the UK's 'assisted dying' debate

Ann Farmer
As a disabled person, I find the campaign for assisted dying in the UK extremely worrying. No disability group in our country supports the move, which is perhaps why such voices are so seldom heard.

New! Has cancel culture been replaced by something even more sinister?

Kurt Mahlburg
Shellenberger argues that the techniques originally developed by US intelligence to foment regime change abroad have since been adapted for domestic use to suppress dissent within America, specifically on topics such as Covid-19 and the 2020 US election. Those tactics include media manipulation, civil unrest, engineered social movements (ie, cancel culture), and the framing of dissent as extremism and a threat to democrac

New! To Die Well, We Must Live Well - And for Others

Marianna Orlandi
Living for others is hard for everyone, in any stage of life. And in a culture that exalts the autonomous self, it is hard to remember that sacrifice is the only path to flourishing.

New! Ask Chris Tollefsen: An Ethics Advice Column

Christopher O. Tollefsen
For one thinking clearly about the issue, the incrementalist approach is not only permissible, but obligatory, a matter of justice to those unborn human beings who can, but otherwise will not, be saved.

Bangladesh: Unbridled state power and a collapsed justice framework behind enforced disappearances

Asia Human Rights
Bangladesh continues to disregard the calls of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and the Human Rights Committee to end enforced disappearances.

How kids can stop fat-shaming in its tracks

Israel "Izzy" Kalman
Do you have an overweight child who's being bullied? Have you followed the universally offered advice to inform the school, only to find that the problem has continued and even escalated? If so, you are not alone. You may have come to believe the problem is intractable, but the solution may be simpler than you've imagined.

Why Are Men in Crisis?

John Stonestreet
Young men aren't forming social bonds with real, live people, even the kinds of bonds that have historically captured their attention.

Israeli sperm donor wants his stuff back

Michael Cook
A fascinating case is unfolding in Israel pitting a anonymous sperm donor against a woman who demands his sperm. The arguments are worthy of a novel - or at least an afternoon soap opera.

Searching for meaning in disaster

Michael Cook
Is there a meaning to Haiti? 200,000 dead; 1.5 million homeless; the chaos of looting and raping, hunger, thirst, disease. The randomness of the deaths -- children, an archbishop, a head of United Nations operations, slum dwellers, police. The Haitians were already living in one of the poorest, worst governed nations in the world. Now they have to struggle with the worst humanitarian disaster ever faced by the UN. Why?

Japanese stem cell researcher denied appeal

Michael Cook
The Icarus-like rise of Japanese stem cell research Haruko Obokata has ended with a gigantic splash. Ms Obokata was found guilty of scientific misconduct by Japan's RIKEN Institute after an article and a letter published in Nature were found to be supported by manipulated data.

A breathless moment in the history of reproductive rights

Michael Cook
The population control lobby is far from dead. There still are highly influential academics who fervently believe that increasing aid for population control (aka reproductive rights, women's health, safe and legal abortion) is absolutely necessary. Without it, the world will turn into an over-heated, war-torn slum heaped with festering mountains of garbage. This is the message that comes through loud and clear in a special issue of an influential British journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, called The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow's World.

Freezing your eggs isn't taking

Tamara El-Rahi
Author Aidan Madigan-Curtis talks about her experience with egg freezing, and it's not like she paints a glamorous picture - 11 days of self-injecting hormones, egg extraction surgery, mood swings, bodily changes and a huge hit to your wallet. But she does glam it up with her claims of "taking control."

In a post-capitalist utopia, the family has been abolished

Steven Tucker
Is pregnancy really just an extreme sport with a high death rate?

A Down syndrome Christmas carol

Kurt Kondrich
My favorite story this time of year is "A Christmas Carol." I was reflecting on how the message from this Charles Dickens classic connects to children with Down syndrome over the last 50 years.