My relatively new friend in the social network/blogging world, Monica Rafie, wrote on her Facebook page today: Today begins CHD (Congenital Heart Defect) Awareness week. What expectant parents should be “aware” of is that the 20 wk ultrasound is not just for your refrigerator photos, but a look at your baby’s heart (and other things). If something is discovered, please … Read More
7 Quick Takes
1. Commercialized Sex and Human Bondage – Ellyn Arevalo and Mark Regnerus write at the Public Discourse about how “[t]he American sex trade—strip clubs, prostitution, and the booming pornography business—feeds on and fuels modern-day slavery.” 2. Sex Gone Wrong – again at the Public Discourse, R.J. Snell writes about “the dualism of degrading desire.” 3. “Within my lifetime, single parenthood … Read More
Adult Stem Cell “Skin Gun”
From National Geographic (h/t Wesley Smith): Yet another example of ASCs providing ethical and successful results for patients.
God Chose the Weak to Shame the Strong
Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, … Read More
NJ Planned Parenthood Fires Pimp Helping Manager
The woman who was shown in the latest LiveAction undercover video offering advice to a sex trafficker on how to cover up sex abuse, statutory rape, minor prostitution, and human sex trafficking has been fired. From the story: Tonight, Central Jersey Planned Parenthood fired the manager, identified in the video as Amy Woodruff, and beefed up security around its clinics. … Read More
Planned Parenthood Gets Stung…Again
At this point, they’re really just stinging themselves. Is it just me, or does it really sound like this woman has given advice like this – how to lie and get around the law for minors getting abortions – once or twice before. What’s truly amazing, however, is her willingness to give the “pimp” business advice on what the 14/15 … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Understanding Celibacy
Fr. Kyle Schnippel has an article up at Catholic Exchange on Understanding Celibacy Through the Theology of the Body In the early parts of his papacy, Pope John Paul II delivered a series of Wednesday catechesis talks on spousal love. Built on his reflections of the first chapters of the Book of Genesis and refined during his trips as a … Read More