Now here’s a wonderful, feel-good story to start off your weekend with!: Terry Bowe is a lifesaver. In 2005, he donated his blood stem cells to a critically ill patient whose name he didn’t know and whose city and even country of residence remained a guarded secret. All he was told by officials with the National Marrow Donor Program was … Read More
Study: Memory Forms at 30 Weeks in the Womb
Behold the awesome wonder of unborn human life! (h/t Respect Life STL on Twitter): WEDNESDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) — Fetuses that are only 30 weeks old may already possess short-term memory, Dutch researchers report. “This is the next step into a better insight in the development of the fetal central nervous system,” said study co-author Dr. Jan G. Nijhuis, … Read More
Life: Imagine the Potential 3
Here’s the latest from CatholicVote.org: Said one commenter on YouTube: This is one giant leap for revealing mankind to mankind! Indeed – keep up the great work CV! See Imagine spots one and two.
TOB Tuesday: Human Beings as Objects of Use pt. II
In a previous TOB Tuesday post I pointed out the beginning of a three part series of columns over at Catholic Exchange in which Dale O’Leary attempts to answer the challenge posed to traditional sexual morality by the “Sexual Revolutionaries” of the last thirty years. In part one he reviewed the examination of the fundamentally anti-person Sexual Revolution made by … Read More
Cute Baby Blogging: Twins!
Last Saturday my good friend Meredith stopped by our pro-life booth downtown with her husband and their 10 mo. old twins Jack (top) and Irene. After years of infertility, Meredith was able to conceive these little ones with the help of NFP and NaProTECHNOLOGY
Friday Funny
Just watched the movie “Swing Vote” (available for instant viewing on Netflix) which included this funny “pro-life” ad from the Democrat candidate after he found out that “Bud” was pro-life: Speaking of pro-life Democrats: recently nineteen Democrats warned Democrat leadership that they would oppose any bill that did not specifically exclude abortion funding. And, in the Senate Health, Education, Labor … Read More
The Catholic Church is Not “Anti-Stem Cell Research!”
It frustrates me to no end when ESCR advocates and mainstream news outlets label the Catholic Church and other pro-life advocates as “anti stem cell research” when, in fact, we only opposes one morally objectionable type of such research, while praising and supporting its ethical counterpart. It’s insulting and that’s why they do it, but just so there’s no confusion, … Read More
Killing Babies to Make Sperm to Make….Babies?
The irony of this is tragic: Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first. The researchers believe the work could eventually help men with fertility problems to father a child… They began with stem cell lines derived from human embryos donated following IVF treatment. The stem cells had … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Caritas in Veritate on Sex and Marriage
I thought for today’s TOB Tuesday post it would be appropriate to point out what the pope has to say about sex and marriage in his most recent encyclical. In paragraph 15, Pope Benedict comments on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae: The Encyclical Humanae Vitae emphasizes both the unitive and the procreative meaning of sexuality, thereby locating at the … Read More
Charity in Truth on Openness to Life
Pope Benedict’s long awaited new encyclical is finally out! I’m with Thomas Peters on this one: Pope Benedict’s third encyclical is a mammoth work which will take some time to digest. The encyclical examines integral human development and the social doctrine of the Church which covers a wide range of issues. Since I haven’t had/taken the time to read the … Read More