Last week I got an email from a friend after she saw the ultrasound of her first child (pictured here). I think what she had to say is important and she kindly allowed me to share it with you all. Dear Friends, Yesterday was my birthday. I spent it at the doctor’s office with my husband, my mom and my … Read More
Eggsploitation, Surrogacy and the Business of Making Babies
Celebrities and wealthy columnists paint a smiling, rosy picture normalizing, even championing, egg “donation” and surrogacy, meanwhile the fertility industry has a dirty little secret: Eggsploitation is a documentary from the Center for Bioethics and Culture. Regarding surrogacy, the BioPolitical Times blogger Marcy Darnovsky, commenting on last week’s NYT “Twiblings” cover story by Melanie Thernstrom and relating it to a … Read More
TOB Tues: Faithfulness Forever
The words, “I take you as my wife/as my husband,” bear within themselves precisely that perennial and ever unique and unrepeatable “language of the body,” and they place it at the same time in the context of the communion of persons. “I promise to be faithful to you always, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, and … Read More
Seeking a Girl, Couple Has Unborn Twin Boys Killed
Good grief! Last week ROSS DOUTHAT wrote a widely circulated column in the NY Times about the “unborn paradox.” How unborn life is so easily discarded on one hand and so desperately wanted on the other. Here we have a perfect example of this paradox in one couple. An Australian couple had the twin boys they were carrying killed because…well, … Read More
Westboro Baptist Church to Picket 9 yr. Old’s Funeral
As if losing the life of this beautiful little girl wasn’t hard enough on her family and the Tucson community as a whole, it seems the hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket the funeral of Nine year-old Christina Taylor Green, one of the six victims of Saturday’s shooting in AZ. But the people of Tucson won’t stand for … Read More
Pope Visits Sick Children in Rome
Last week Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the Epiphany by taking time to visit the pediatric ward of Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinico Hospital (h/t Creative Minority Report): Here is what the pope said to the children with disabilities he met with when he visited the U.S. a few years ago: God has blessed you with life, and with differing talents and gifts. … Read More
Unplanned
I know there’s a big football game on tonight, but who’s planning on tuning in to this webcast: http://unplannedwebcast.com/? Read the first chapter of Abby Johnson’s Planned Parenthood exposé Unplanned, to be released tomorrow.
Spiritual Adoption
We all know that a visible, prayerful presence outside abortion facilities can help change the mind of abortion minded women and save lives. But even if you don’t have time to stand outside your local abortion facility or don’t have a nearby abortion facility to pray in front of, you can still help save a life (h/t to my friend … Read More
A Lesson from an Old, Blind Monk
One of the last Netflix movies I rented was “Into Great Silence” about the daily lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps. It’s incredible to know that such a peaceful, quiet place exists in our busy, noisy world! At the end of the movie an old, blind monk shares what he knows about God … Read More
Twiblings
Word of the day: Twibling, n. one of two genetically related offspring carried simultaneously by two different women. In this very long article in the NYTimes, Melanie Thernstrom writes about how she, after undergoing FIVE unsuccessful rounds of IVF finally got the children she wanted when she found two different strangers to – at the same time – carry to … Read More