Christmas holiday break at Semper Vita

Dear blog watchers!
Our usual daily news updates will take a break from Tuesday 23 December 2008, and they will resume again on Monday 26 January 2009.
During the Christmas break we will be publishing a new and interesting pro-life, marriage or family post each day.
Have a great Christmas and a happy new year!
The team at Family [...]

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New study suggests that IVF drugs may increase womb cancer risk

“A new study by Israeli researchers has found that drugs designed to help women conceive may increase the risk of cancer of womb.
Fertility drugs have been in use for more than 30 years and have been taken as part of IVF treatment to help them have children.
Women, who have trouble conceiving, are undergoing IVF, or [...]

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Vatican: Use of Morning After Pills “Fall Within the Sin of Abortion” – Will Catholic Hospitals Now Stop Using them for Rape Victims?

“In the December 12 document Dignitatis Personae, the Vatican has condemned the use of morning after pills as falling “within the sin of abortion,” and thus being “gravely immoral.”
LifeSiteNews.com has reported often in the last few years that many Catholic hospitals in North America offer the morning after pill to women who are or claim [...]

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Rick Warren Not Satisfied with Making Abortions ‘Rare’

“But to me it is kind of a charade in that people say ‘We believe abortions should be safe and rare,’” he added.
“Don’t tell me it should be rare. That’s like saying on the Holocaust, ‘Well, maybe we could save 20 percent of the Jewish people in Poland and Germany and get them out and [...]

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Our national pastimes – rugby, racing and sleeping around

“Rugby may be New Zealand’s national sport, but sleeping around looks like our unofficial favourite pastime.
According to a study of 14,000 people in 48 countries, New Zealanders are the second-most-promiscuous people in the world, just behind Finland.”
Full story here

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