Some US Evangelicals making Humanae Vitae look tame

The majority of the TV families are evangelical Christians. And, as I learned in the article, “More Not Always Merrier,” in the Lakeland, Fla., Ledger, most are associated with a controversial movement promoting large families called “QuiverFull,” based on the verse in Psalm 127 that compares children (or “sons”) to arrows: “Blessed is the man [...]

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Messing with Mother Nature through IVF

The single 69-year old Spanish woman who gave birth to twins at the age of 66 died last Saturday. Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, who thought she had every prospect of living to see her now two-year old boys Christian and Pau into adulthood because her own mother died at 101, claimed not to [...]

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LIFE MATTERS: Drinking the suicide cordial with Margaret Sparrow and the NZ media

Welcome to the Life Matters column, a NEW weekly opinion column that appears EXCLUSIVELY on Semper Vita every Friday morning

By Brendan Malone
Family Life International NZ
In November 1978, more than 900 people drank cyanide laced cordial, at the request of Jim Jones, leader of the Jonestown Peoples Temple cult, and in doing so they consigned themselves [...]

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