Politics

By Grace Carr, The Stream - Pregnancy centers might soon be able to access federal funds currently given to pro-choice family planning organizations following a proposal to revise the regulations determining where Title X funds are allocated… The measure would withhold funds going to abortion providers, and strip the mandate that health facilities provide abortion counseling and referrals, according to a May HHS announcement… The proposal “prohibit[s] referral for abortion as a method of family planning,” according to the announcement.

By Ryan T. Anderson, The Daily Signal - Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos who were successfully nurtured to birth, and the worldwide scientific community roundly rejected this experiment as a violation of ethics.

By The Register Archives, EWTN News - This 1930 article from the Register carried a warning from Father William Bolger to a gathering of the National Council of Catholic Women in Minnesota. “Father Bolger's address was one of outstanding frankness, and the priest left his audience gasping” at his predictions. Four decades before Humanae Vitae, he hinted at the sexual revolution that would follow society’s embrace of contraception, and warned especially that “neither homosexuality nor any perversion” would be considered off-limits in such a culture.