No doubt you’ve heard the horrifying news about Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the PA abortionist who has been charged with 8 counts of murder in the deaths of a woman – following a botched abortion at his office – along with the deaths of seven other babies who were born alive following illegal late-term abortions and then killed by severing their … Read More
Catechism: Gestational Carriers “Gravely Immoral”
On my post this week about Nicole Kidman’s new baby via “gestational carrier” a reader reminded me that Kidman is Catholic. She and husband Keith Urban are married in the Church, their first daughter is baptized Catholic and according to this Catholic News Service article she once told the Philippine Daily Enquirer, “Catholicism guides me. I certainly have a strong … Read More
Pro-Life is Whole-Life
At the Public Discourse this week, Helen Alvaré, Greg Pfundstein, Matthew Schmitz and Ryan T. Anderson gave an excellent rebuttal to the pro-choice claim that right-to-lifers don’t really care about life after birth. Check it out. Being pro-life means loving all life, without exception – born and unborn, young and old, rich and poor, in sickness and in health…and even … Read More
Made in India
It seems like I’ve been talking a lot about surrogacy lately. But I’m not the only one. This is becoming a major issue world-wide, especially since it’s been popularized by celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Elton John and now Nicole Kidman. Made in India is a documentary about the booming surrogacy industry in India where many couples (who don’t have … Read More
TOB Tuesday: A Person’s Rightful Due
“[T]o be just always means giving to others what is rightly due to them. A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.” -John Paul II, Love and Responsibility p. 42 See: Human Beings as Objects of Use: Part I, Part II, Part III TOB Tuesdays
Nicole Kidman Thanks “Gestational Carrier”
Two weeks ago I did a post highlighting Melanie Thernstrom’s ode to surrogacy in which she repeatedly referred to the women who gave birth to her children as “gestational carriers.” That was a first for me and at the time I said: Sounds like something from a horror cloning movie. Well…maybe that kinda fits after all. Yesterday I noticed a … Read More
MLK and Human Rights, the Battle Continues
Today we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who died fighting (peacefully) for the rights of those who were treated as less than human because of the color of their skin. Today, the battle for the freedom and the rights of all human beings is far from over and the threats to the dignity of the human person are only … Read More
Black Dignity
Impressive: Jill Stanek says this ad ran on BET (Black Entertainment Television) and BET Centric over a span of two weeks: Despite comprising only 12% of the general population, African Americans account for 37% of all abortions. According to the Guttmacher Institute: This much is true: In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times … Read More
Mother Wants to Freeze Own Eggs for Her Infertile Daughter to Use
Oh, my. The UK Daily Mail reports that a woman wants to freeze her own eggs so that her daughter Mackenzie, who is two years old and was born with Turner Syndrome and doesn’t have ovaries, can can use them one day to have babies by IVF. The Daily Mail rightly points out: If this happened, the ethical implications would … Read More
MTV to Show Some “Skins”
And you thought Gossip Girl was bad. Next week MTV plans to influence entertain our young people with a US rip-off of the UK teen drama “Skins” which features “strong language, drug use and sexual scenes throughout.” On its website MTV is even boasting about how “NSFW” (not safe for work) the show is, with all the “sex- and drug-oriented … Read More