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Archive for December 15th, 2008

Victoria Lambert talks about her abortion experience:
Quite simply, this decision, and its consequences, has tortured me for the past nine years. I have been unable to talk about it easily, unless with a drink in hand, let alone write about the experience. I have felt so out of step with the rest of the world, [...]

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“Yesterday, December 10th, two Members of the European Parliament, Anna Záborská and Carlo Casini held a press conference in the European Parliament to announce that 5.4 million families had sent a petition to the UN, calling for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to be interpreted as protecting the unborn child and the family.”
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“A pilot plan to make the contraceptive Pill available in UK drug stores, with only a chat with the pharmacist as a prerequisite, will be tested in areas of London with the highest teenage pregnancy rates to see if the effort will reduce the skyrocketing incidence of unintended pregnancies in girls in their mid-teens.
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“First and foremost, educational campaigns are needed, aimed especially at the young, to promote a sexual ethic that fully corresponds to the dignity of the person.”  The Pope thereby excluded what are known as “comprehensive sex education” programs as a strategy to deal with AIDS, instead supporting programs promoting abstinence until marriage and fidelity in [...]

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