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Pro-Life

March 13, 2025

Colleges Dispense ‘Morning-After’ Pills in Vending Machines, by Kathy Schiffer

By Kathy Schiffer, National Catholic Register - The University of Connecticut has just installed a “Plan B” vending machine in the basement of the Student Union “in an effort to expand access to contraception.” Plan B is a recent development, a form of emergency contraception that is used within 72 hours after having unprotected sex. The University’s Student Health and Wellness Division explains Plan B contraception’s use and effectiveness on its website, claiming, in part, that Plan B is safe and effective, and that it reduces the risk of pregnancy by 89%.
March 13, 2025

Trump NIH Director Nominee Calls for Ethical Alternatives to Aborted Fetal Tissue Research, by Kate Quiñones

By Kate Quiñones, CNA - President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in his confirmation hearing last week that he was “absolutely committed” to finding alternatives to vaccines developed using aborted fetal cell lines... When asked whether he would prohibit the use of aborted fetal tissue in NIH-funded research, Stanford University medical school professor and health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said he would follow the lead of President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the issue. ...
March 11, 2025

Can Unity On the Issue of ‘Brain Death’ Be Achieved Among Catholics? by Joseph M. Eble, MD

By Joseph M. Eble, MD,  Catholic World Report - On February 27-28, 2025, a Symposium on “brain death” was held at The Catholic University of America titled “ Integrity in the Concept and Determination of Brain Death: Recent Challenges in Medicine, Law, and Ethics .”... Questions addressed at the Symposium included: How/Can we ensure, with moral certitude, that patients determined to be dead by neurologic criteria are dead according to the standards of a sound Christian anthropology and the law? [emphasis added]
March 7, 2025

Trump Nominee Jay Bhattacharya Says NIH Will Not Use Aborted Babies in Research, by Matt Lamb

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews - The National Institutes of Health will not use abortion fetal tissue in research, according to President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency... Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made the comments on Wednesday during his hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in response to a question from Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri... “In public health, we need to make sure the products of science are ethically acceptable to everybody,” Bhattacharya said during the hearing.

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