Pro-Life

November 20, 2017

LifeSiteNews: Swiss Planned Parenthood President Invited to Speak at Vatican

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSiteNews - Dr. Yvonne Gilli, a gynecologist and Green Party politician who leads the governing board of the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s “Sexual Health Switzerland”.. was scheduled to contribute to two panel discussions at the conference, one on “Setting the stage: Three perspectives on end-of-life questions,” and another on the topic, “Is there a need to change policy?” Gilli was attending as a board member of the Swiss Medical Association.

November 18, 2017

America’s Baby Bust

By Jonathan V. Last, Catholic Education Resource Center - For more than three decades, Chinese women have been subjected to their country's brutal one-child policy. Those who try to have more children have been subjected to fines and forced abortions. Their houses have been razed and their husbands fired from their jobs. As a result, Chinese women have a fertility rate of 1.54. Here in America, white, college-educated women — a good proxy for the middle class — have a fertility rate of 1.6.

November 18, 2017

Eugenics Alive and Well in America: Sterilization Case Buck v. Bell Still Matters

By Eric Metaxas, CNSNews - As John Stonestreet often says, “ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims.” One such victim was Carrie Buck. She was the “Buck” in Buck v. Bell, the notorious 1927 Supreme Court decision that upheld Virginia’s statute permitting compulsory sterilization for those deemed to be “feebleminded” and “unfit.”

November 17, 2017

Euthanasia Is Always Wrong, Pope Francis Tells Doctors

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic Herald - “From an ethical standpoint,” the Pope said, withholding or withdrawing excessive treatment “is completely different from euthanasia, which is always wrong, in that the intent of euthanasia is to end life and cause death.”