Cardinal Rigali: You Can’t Claim to be “Reducing Abortions” but Publicly Funding them in D.C.

“…no lawmaker or Administration can support such a policy change and still claim to support ‘reducing abortions.’ The evidence is overwhelming, and universally recognized by groups on all sides of the abortion issue, that the availability of public funds for abortion greatly increases abortions.”
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Obama’s LGBT Pride remarks insulted mainstream America, pro-family leader says

President Barack Obama on Monday addressed an “LGBT Pride” reception at the White House, characterizing opponents of homosexual political issues as holding fast to “worn arguments and old attitudes.” One critical observer said the event aimed to placate the president’s donors but was “insulting” to mainstream Americans.
The president began his comments by saying “Welcome to [...]

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Some scientists cannot understand that our most treasured values are at stake in research on human embryos

Making embryos for research or to take their stem cells means human life is transmitted with the intention of killing it and for the purpose of using it as a product to benefit of the rest of us. Both that intention and that purpose constitute failures of respect for the transmission of human life. The [...]

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July edition of the Familia Podcast is available now!

July edition of the Familia Podcast available now!
In this month’s edition of the Familia Podcast we explore the questions; how do we best engage with friends and family who have had abortions and how long should a couple be engaged for before getting married? We also discuss Obama’s speech at Notre Dame University, as well [...]

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Chinese babies ’sold for adoption’

Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
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First Clinical Trials Completed of Adult Cardiac Stem Cell Repair

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles have announced the successful completion of the first human trials in growing new heart tissue from adult cardiac stem cells, which the researchers hope will be successful in repairing damage due to heart attacks.
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The head of the Korean affiliate of Planned Parenthood says Korea is suffering from a national crisis of super-low fertility

The head of the Korean affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation recently pleaded with his countrymen and women to have more children. Choi Seon-jeong, president of the Planned Population Federation of Korea, warned in the JoongAng Daily that his government must combat a “national crisis of super-low fertility”, or Korea will disappear.
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