Illinois Right to Life Committee
Pro-Life Issues

Information is currently available under the following categories detailed below:

"The truth is the truth even if no one believes it, and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it..."   Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

 

Abortion “absolutely never medically necessary”: maternal care expert symposium   New 09/12

Abortion and the rejection of relationship  (James Egan)   New 12/12

Abortion Drastically Increases Risk of Pre-Term and Low-Weight Births

Abortion Facility Countdown    Update   (pray and witness that more will close soon)

Abortion Facts

Abortion Facts Reference Sheet

Abortion has a Negative Impact for Men and their Relationships  (David Reardon)

Abortion Hurts Women Psychologically

Abortion Increases Risk of Women’s Mental Health Problems 81%

Abortion Information

Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth  (Thomas Glessner, J.D. & Audrey Stout, R.N.)

Abortion Law (review of U.S. Supreme Court cases)

Abortion Linked to Higher Rates of Child Abuse, Study Finds

Abortion Linked to Higher Rates of Domestic Violence, per Study

Abortion linked to significantly increased chance of preterm birth: Canadian study   New 02/13

Abortion May Increase Risk of Autoimmune Disease

Abortion never required to save mother’s life, Irish government told in hearings   New 01/13

Abortion Not About Women’s Rights: Men Often “Make” the Decision  (Fr. Frank Pavone)   New 03/13

Abortion Pictures & Issues

Abortion Pill RU486 Reversal   Study   New 01/13

Abortion Poses Higher Risk of Death than Giving Birth: Research
   New 02/13

Abortion Promises Unfulfilled  (Michael J. New)   New 01/13

Abortion Proponents Finally Admit They Don’t Care About Unborn Children  (Matt Barber)   New 01/13

Abortion Raises Risk of Miscarriage of Subsequent Pregnancy 60%

Abortion Reporting: Tears in the Fabric   Full Report   New 02/13

Abortion: Statistics, Methods, History, Risks, Etc.

Abortion to 'save' mother's life almost never necessary  (Colleen Malloy, MD)

Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (Ronald Reagan)

Abortion’s Forgotten Victim: The Aborted Baby’s Father  (Raimundo Rojas)   New 01/13

Abortions - The Truth - The Killing of Unborn Children

AbortionWiki (source for information on abortion)

Activists Misleading About Number of Illegal Abortion Deaths: Study   New 12/12

After Abortion (Elliot Institute)

The American Holocaust Memorial

And Then There Were None  (ministry for abortion workers)

Are There Rare Cases When an Abortion Is Justified?   New 08/12

The Association of Pro-Life Physicians

Black Women Have Higher Premature Birth Rates From Having More Abortions

Book Shows Why Abortion for Young Rape Victim Is Likely to Harm, Not Help

Brazilian Anencephalic Baby Shatters Pro-Abortion Myths

British Psychiatrist Group Warns Abortions Can Cause Mental Health Problems

Canadian Study Finds Strong Link Between Abortion and Premature Birth

The Case Against Abortion   New 08/12

Cemetery of Choice (mothers who died)   New 02/13

Center Against Forced Abortions  (includes parent letter regarding a daughter's rights and fax to abortionist)

Chile study challenges the ‘safe abortion’ myth    More...

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

Control Over Their Bodies is Not Why Women Say They Get Abortions  (Laura Nicholson)   New 04/13

Conversion: Three months ago I was pro-choice  (Danica Keeton)   New 10/12

Conversion: Why I lost faith in the pro-choice movement  (Jennifer Fulwiler)   New 11/12

The Cost of Abortion   New 08/12

The Cover-Up of Abortion's Real Risks - Part I  (Kyle-Anne Shiver)

The Cover-Up of Abortion's Real Risks - Part II  (Kyle-Anne Shiver)

Death Roe Survivors
(for young people: anyone born in the USA after January 22, 1973)

Diary of an Abortion Victim

Doctor: Why I Quit Doing Abortions at Planned Parenthood   New 02/13

Doctors slam ‘abortion safer than childbirth’ study

Doctors: Studies Confirm Abortion Increases Pre-Term Birth Risk   New 12/12

Does Abortion Really Reduce Crime? Another Look at Freakonomics  (Brian Clowes, Ph.D.)   New 10/12

Does abortion reduce welfare costs?  (Brian Clowes)   New 11/12

End Roe  (details and analysis regarding court decisions on abortion)

Even Abortion Backers Admit Roe vs. Wade Was a Terrible Decision  (Paul Stark)   New 12/12

‘Everything they said turned out wrong’: mother of 8 recounts pressure to abort disabled daughter

"Evidence Doesn't Matter" -- APA Spokesperson Says of Abortion Complications

Ex Abortion Clinic Employees: Women Are Pushed Into Abortions  (Amy Sobie)

Face the Truth: Answering Common Objections

FDA Misleads Women on New Abortion Drug Ella  (Wendy Wright & Kristan Hawkins)

Forced Abortion in America

Freedom Ministries   Other Conceived in Rape Stories

From One Mom to Another: Keep Your Baby - A Personal, True Story

Getting It Wrong: How The New York Times Misinterprets Abortion Statistics and Arrives at Incorrect Conclusions

Gianna Jessen: I Was an Abortion Victim at Seven and a Half Months

The Grantham Collection: Abortion Videos, Photos, Instruments   New 02/13

GravityTeen   (for young people: teenage pregnancy)

Groundbreaking program saves babies when moms reconsider mid-abortion    More...

Guttmacher Institute Inflates Illegal Abortion Deaths: Study   New 12/12

Guttmacher Institute Inflates Number of Illegal Abortions

How WHO Skewed Maternal Mortality Data to Advance Abortion  (Elizabeth Walsh)

Hunnell: Abortion Does Not Improve Women’s Reproductive Health  (Denise Hunnell, M.D.)   New 06/12

Illinois Abortion Statistics    More Illinois Vital Statistics

Images of Abortion

The Impact of Abortion After Prenatal Testing

Impact of abortion on Men Frequently Ignored, UCLA Psychologist Says

Innocent blood: How lying marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America

International Medical Conference Exposes Serious Consequences of Abortion

Ireland: 60-Year Review Shows No Suicides Related to Pregnancy   (abortion cannot be justified to prevent suicide)  New 03/13

Is Abortion Ever Justified?   New 08/12

Is Abortion Murder? (Mary Anne Hackett)  New 04/13

‘I wish he’d never been born’: The misguided view of abortion as ‘mercy-killing’  (Christina Martin)

Jailing women who have abortions?  (Fr. Frank Pavone)

Jill Stanek

Late-Term Abortions are Never Necessary: Former Abortionist

Later Abortions Linked to Psychological Problems: Study

Leading UK Doctors Say Women Should Be Warned of “Clear Link” Between Abortion, Depression

Letter from an Aborted Child (Dan Gura)

Life Training Institute   New 01/13

Link between Abortion & Breast Cancer is Real

Logic Fails: Kill the Baby in Abortion to Save Her From “Abuse”  (Christina Martin)   New 03/13

The Marketing of Abortion  (Life Issues Institute "Facing Life Head On" video)

Massive German Study Confirms Abortion Significantly Increases Premature Birth Risk

Maternal Deaths Drop After Nicaragua Abortion Ban in Place  (Rev. Thomas Euteneuer) (disproving the claim that more women die from illegal abortions when abortion is banned)

Maternal Deaths Dropped 70% After Abortion Banned in Chile  (Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.)   New 06/12

Maternal Mortality Declines Worldwide Without Legalizing Abortion in More Nations  More...

Medical Journal Confirms Abortion Associated With Increased Premature Birth

Melissa Ohden: Abortion Attempt Survivor  More...

Moral Outcry: Bound4Life Blog

More Research Links Abortion with Preterm Births in Subsequent Pregnancies

More Than 400 Women Have Died From Legal Abortions Since 1973   New 11/12

Multiple abortions increase risk of maternal death: new study   New 09/12

The myth of the coathanger  (Vox Day)

National Abortion Statistics      NRLC Summary Report

National Academies of Science: Abortion Linked to Premature Birth Problems

Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from 'Hard-Wiring' in Women's Brains

Number of Abortions - Abortion Counters

"101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl's Guide to Informed Choices" (e-book PDF format)

127 Studies Show Abortion Raises Pre-Term Birth Risk   New 06/12

180 Movie Changes Opinions From Pro-Abortion to Pro-Life

Opposition To Abortion Is A Christian Issue   New 02/13

Option Line  (pregnancy help) (800-712-HELP)

Parental Consent Laws Cut Teen Abortions by 18.7 Percent  (William Saunders and Mailee Smith)   New 02/13

Parents, Tell Your Kids About Abortion; The Baby is Broken  (Abby Johnson)

Partial-Birth Abortion

Partial Birth Abortion Ban: In Depth

"Person" Redefined Three Times in Modern History

Physicians for Life

Presenting the Abortion Issue to Children

Preventing forced teen abortions: The Justice Foundation’s Center Against Forced Abortions

Pro-AbortionViolence

Pro-Abortionists Harshly Criticize Roe

Pro-Life Nations Beat Pro-Abortion Ones on Maternal Mortality, Report Shows

Project Daniel 5:25 -- USA abortion providers    Update

Rape and Incest Issue:

Abortion Advocates are Hypocrites When It Comes to Rape Criticism  (Jill Stanek)   New 08/12

Abortion for Victims of Rape and Incest? NO: They Deserve Better.  (PDF)

Conceived in Rape Personal Stories   New 10/12

The disgusting idea of parental rights for rapists  (Stephanie Gray)   New 08/12

The 'Hard Cases' of Abortion: A Pro-Life Response  (PDF)   New 10/12

Mourdock’s Right: God Knows and Loves Babies Conceived in Rape  (Eric Scheidler)   New 10/12

Pregnant by Rape Personal Stories   New 10/12

Pregnant Rape Victims: Quit Assuming We Want an Abortion    More...   New 09/12

Rape Does Not Justify Abortion

The Rape Exception  (Kristan Hawkins)   New 09/12

The Rape Exception: Conceived in Rape   New 04/13

The Rape Exception: Homeless and Alone   New 04/13

Rape, Incest and Abortion: Searching Beyond the Myths
[over 75% chose to carry their pregnancy to term, and 78% who aborted said abortion was the wrong solution]

Rape, Incest and Life of the Mother Exceptions?

Rape Victim's Book Recounts Added Horror of Abortion After Sexual Abuse

Raped and Homeless: She Chose Life for Her Baby, Not Abortion   New 04/13

Raped women who had their babies defy pro-choice stereotypes  (Sarah Terzo)   New 03/13

Raped, impregnated 13-year-old keeps baby   New 02/13

The Right to Life and the Irrelevance of Rape  (Michael Stokes Paulsen)   New 09/12

‘We are not cannon fodder’: Woman conceived in rape calls out pro-lifers over rape exceptions   New 01/13

Why Abortion Does Not Solve Child Rape  (Colin Mason and Steven Mosher)

Woman conceived in rape, "I did not deserve the death penalty" for father’s crime: video   New 12/12

Woman Impregnated by Rape at Age 12 Encourages Others to Choose Life

Women who cried wolf - the illegitimate rape claim behind Roe v Wade  (Rebecca Kiessling)   New 08/12

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Reclaiming Abortion Records   New 02/13

Reducing Abortions Would Significantly Cut Premature Birth Rate

Remembering Roe  (after 40 years)   New 09/12

Report Finds Women Who Refuse Abortions Often Face Violent Attacks, Death

Researcher: Abortions Double Risk of Premature Birth in Subsequent Pregnancies

Respected Physician: International Abortion-Maternal Death Data Wrong

Response to Mom who Thinks Aborting her Baby Made her a Better Mother  (Jennifer Schmidt)

Roe v. Wade (abortion on demand)

RU-486 (Mifepristone) (chemical abortion)

RU 486 Abortion Drug Killing Women in Developing Nations   New 09/12

RU-486 abortions can be reversed midway: study   New 01/13

RU-486 Mifeprestone: a pill that kills  (Denise J. Hunnell, MD)   New 07/12

RU-486 "No Magic Pill"

RU-486: The deadly legacy of a dozen years of chemical abortion  (Randall K. O’Bannon)   New 11/12

RU-486: The Human Pesticide That Kills Mother, Too

RU-486 Abortion Drug Kills 14 Women, Injures 2,200: July 2011 FDA Report

RU-486 Abortion Pill not 'Safe' - Study Suggests Pill as Dangerous As Surgical Abortion

Safe Abortions are Science Fiction  (Frank Joseph, MD)

Safe and Legal  (reveals evidence that abortion is NOT safe)   New 01/13

San Jose Articles: Abortion and the Unborn Child in International Law   Text of Articles

Scriptures on Abortion

Second Look Project

Secret Births

Show What Abortion Is

Siblings of People Dying in Abortions Suffer Depression  (Philip G. Ney, MD)

Sidewalk Counseling Tips: How to Help the Abortion-Minded Woman  (Jennie Stone)   New 06/12

‘The single biggest mistake of my entire life’: a letter from a post-abortive woman

Six Reasons Why Men Can Speak on Abortion  (Marc Barnes)   New 01/13

Slavery compared to abortion

Spanish Medical Expert: Damage to Women Caused by Abortion is Scientifically Proven

Spanish Study finds depression suffered by 80% of women who abort

Speaking to Children about Abortion

Stop Aborting Down Syndrome Individuals Now

Stop Forced Abortions Alliance

Students Turning Around a Nation of Death (S.T.A.N.D.)
(for young people: Pro-Life resources)

Studies Show Abortion More Risky Than Childbirth  (Evangeline Jones)

Studies Show Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk

Study: Abortion Can Lead to Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke   New 03/13

Study: Abortions Cause Future Relationship Problems, More Domestic Violence

Study: Black Teen Abortion Rates More Than Twice the National Average   New 03/13

Study: ‘catastrophic outcomes’ when ectopic pregnancies misdiagnosed, ‘treated’ with abortion

Study Claiming Abortion Safer Than Birth Used Faulty Data  (Amy Sobie)

Study Confirms Abortion Not Needed to Halt Maternal Mortality

Study Confirms Abortion Triples Breast Cancer Risk Among Sri Lanka Women

Study 'Debunking' Teen Abortion/Depression Link Flawed: Expert

Study Denying Abortion-Mental Health Link Contains Flaws  (Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D.)

Study finds RU-486 much more dangerous than surgical abortion

Study finds shame leads to abortion, discovers winning strategy to save babies   New 02/13

Study from Norway Substantiates Link Between Abortion and Depression

Study: Mental Health Problems Up 30% For Women Having Abortions

Study: One Abortion Increases a Woman’s Death Risk 45%   New 09/12

Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy

Study: Pro-life parental involvement laws reduce teen-suicide rates

Study: Rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Increased 61% After Abortion

Study: Repeat Abortions Greatly Raise Breast Cancer Risk

Study Shows 85 Percent of Women Say Abortions Cause Mental Health Issues

Study Shows Abortion Linked to High Breast Cancer Risk   New 11/12

Study Shows Abortion-Mental Health Issues Link

Study Shows Direct Link Between Abortion and Mental Health Problems

Study Shows One Abortion Ups Premature Birth Risk for Women by 36 Percent

Study Shows Link Between Abortion and Physical, Sexual Abuse by Women's Partners

Study Undercuts Claims Abortion Reduces Maternal Mortality Numbers

Study: Top Reason for Abortion is No Supportive Partner, Father  (Dr. Wanda Franz)

Study: Women More Likely to Die After Abortion, Not Childbirth   New 09/12

Study: Women More Likely to Face Depression After Abortion

Study: 20 Percent of Women Using Abortion Drug Face Medical Complications

TeenBreaks   (for young people: teenage pregnancy, etc.)

Ten Legal Reasons to Reject Roe

Ten Pro-Life Responses to Pro-Abortion Politicians  (Father Frank Pavone)   New 10/12

Testimonies on Life After Abortion   New 11/12

Thirty Studies in Five Years Show Abortion Hurts Women’s Mental Health  (Priscilla Coleman)

Too Many Aborted    more...    That's Abortion

The Top Ten Myths About Abortion   New 10/12

Trauma Symptoms After Abortion Are Common, Study Shows

Twin Who Survived Abortion Shares Her Amazing Story

Two women are behind legalized abortion in America: now both of them want it reversed   New 01/13

UCLA Psychiatrist: Profession Must Acknowledge Abortion Hurts Women   The Interview

UN: Maternal Mortality Declines by One-Third Despite No Abortion Legalization

UN Data Shows Pro-Abortion Laws Lead to More Maternal Deaths for Women

UN Report Admits Data Faulty on Claims of Women Dying in Illegal Abortions

UN Study Shows 28% of Countries Worldwide Permit Abortion on Demand

United Nations Paper Shows How "Safe" Abortions Lead to Women Dying

Using Abortion to “Treat” Genetic Disease is Totally Backward  (Rebecca Taylor)   New 09/12

A Voice From The Womb--If Only We Could Hear It (Dan Gura)

‘We wouldn’t have it any other way,’ say 19-year-old conjoined twins: mother refused abortion

Why Think Abortion Good for Anyone?

Why ‘viability’ is a meaningless standard for human rights  (Calvin Freiburger)

Women Deserve Better

Women Getting Abortions Seven Times More Likely to Be Abused   New 09/12

Women Having Abortions Up Premature Birth Risk 34% Next Time

Women Who Have Abortions Four Times More Likely to Abuse Drugs, Alcohol

 

Abstinence & Chastity: See also:  Sex Education

Abstinence Clearinghouse

Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence

Abstinence Education Effective in Reducing Teen Sex, Comprehensive Sex Ed Not

Abstinence Education Lowers Teen Use of Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco

Abstinence Education Making a Difference Against AIDS in Africa

Abstinence education reduces teen sex rates, study shows

Abstinence Program Making Huge Impact in Africa: 61% Reduction in Teen Pregnancy

Abstinence Programs Credited With Reducing Teen Birth Rates

Abstinence Researcher Says New Study Bashing Virginity Pledges is Faulty

Abstinence Resources from IRLC
(called "Abstinence Starter Kit")

Abstinence & Marriage Education Partnership

AIDS Specialist and Former Condom Advocate Speaks on Switch to Abstinence

Aim for Success  (teaches the importance of self-discipline, self-control and self-respect)

The Case for Maintaining Abstinence Education Funding

CDC Figures Show Teen Abortions Lower in States Accepting Abstinence Funds

CDC Finds Most Teens are Virgins, Contrary to Planned Parenthood: ALL

CDC Report (2010) Shows Teen Pregnancy Rates have Dropped

CDC Report (2011): Most Teens Not Having Sex, Abstinence Ed Works

CDC Reports Show Increase in Abstinence Among Teens

CHASTITY: A Pastoral Letter

Chastity, Abstinence & Dating

Chastity.com   (Jason Evert)

Chastity Programs Shatter Sex-Ed Myths

Cleveland Abstinence Program’s Positive Results Surprise Researchers

Congressional Report: Abstinence Education is Best Sex-Ed Approach   New 07/12

The Current National Picture On Teen Pregnancy
(this 1999 analysis shows condoms fail, but abstinence education works)

Drop in US Teen Sexual Activity Rates Linked to Abstinence Programs

Effectiveness of Abstinence Education Programs in Reducing Sexual Activity Among Youth

Evidence on the Effectiveness of Abstinence Education: An Update

Exposure to sexual content in movies predicts sexual behavior in adolescence: study   New 07/12

Facts about Abstinence Education

Hard data: Intact families, abstinence programs benefit every area of teens' lives   New 01/13

Huge drop in Zimbabwe HIV rate fuelled by rise in abstinence, fidelity: UNAIDS-funded study

Illinois Abstinence Coalition

India AIDS Strategy Rejects Failed UN Approach in Favor of Abstinence & Fidelity

Love Matters

Majority of Young Adults Support Abstinence Education

Mathematica Study (published in April 2007) criticized as flawed:
CWA Says Study Debunking Abstinence is Flawed
Opponents are Wrong: Abstinence Education Has Not Failed

More Teens Remaining Chaste, New Study Reveals

Most U.S. teens want to be virgins when they marry

National Abstinence Education Association

Pam Stenzel video: Sex STILL has a Price Tag   Pam Stenzel DVDs

Parents Strongly Back Abstinence Education for Teens

Physicians for Life

Pope Says Condoms Not Solution to AIDS    Affirmed Once    Affirmed Twice

Project Reality  (merging with Abstinence & Marriage Education Partnership effective 11/30/08)

Pure Love Club

Research on Abstinence Education  (Heritage Foundation)

Research & Reports  (Medical Institute for Sexual Health)

South African bishop backs Pope against condoms in AIDS crisis   New 07/12

Study Finds Abstinence Education Effective, Comprehensive Sex-Ed Flops    The Study

Study Finds Abstinence Pays Off in the Long Run

Study Finds Teens Who Watch Sex-Laden TV More Likely to Become/Cause Pregnancy

Study Shows Abstinence Education Effective

Study Shows Abstinence Education Reduces Teenage Sexual Behavior

Study Shows Teen Sex Rates Declining, Teen Birth Rate Decline Slows  (recent evidence of the effectiveness of abstinence-only programs)

Study: 83% Of Parents Say Its Important For Their Child To Save Sex Till Marriage

Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low in 2009, Abstinence Credited

Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievement

Theology of the Body   (reflections of Pope John Paul II)

Theology of the Body   (articles and analysis)

True Love Waits

United Nations Study Shows Abstinence Education Lowering HIV/AIDS Rate

U.S. Government Health Department Study Confirms Abstinence Education Effective

The War on Abstinence  (Ryan T. Anderson)

Waxman Report (on abstinence education) is Riddled with Errors and Inaccuracies

Workshops for relationship building and healing     Media

Worth The Wait Revolution (Sexual Purity)

Yale study: Only one-third of adolescent pregnancies 'unwanted'   New 10/12

Adoption-Share  (facilitates adoption process)

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
(research on adoption perception and policy)

Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign
(produced by Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program)

I Like Adoption  (video)   New 02/13

Illinois Choose Life (support adoption)

Lifetime Adoption Center    Adoption Book (PDF)

National Council For Adoption
(adoption information and awareness)

National Embryo Donation Center
(donation and adoption of embryos)

Nightlight Christian Adoptions
(including Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program)

Nine People You Should Know About Who Were Adopted  (Kristi Burton Brown)   New 02/13

Sunny Ridge Family Center
(adoption agency and adoption resources in Illlinois and Indiana)

FYI: For Catholics, section 19 of "Dignitas Personae" rejects embryo adoption and notes that "the thousands of abandoned embryos represent a situation of injustice which in fact cannot be resolved."

 

Breast Cancer Risks:

Abortion and Breast Cancer Link Exists: New Study Uses "Fuzzy Math"

Abortion and Breast Cancer: The Link that Won't Go Away  (Angela Lanfranchi)

Abortion breast cancer link covered-up by the National Cancer Institute

Abortion breast cancer link: a personal testimony

The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link:   New 04/13
    Part 1 -- Those Stubborn Facts Again
    Part 2 -- The Cover Up
    Part 3 -- The Dagger Under the Table
    Part 4 -- The Biology

Abortion-Breast Cancer Study Found Having Baby Reduces Cancer Risk

Abortion Breast Cancer Study Ignored Latency Issues, Results Disputed

Abortion-Breast Cancer: 53 of 66 Studies in 54 Years Show Link

Abortion Has Caused 300,000 Breast Cancer Deaths Since Roe

Abortion Nearly Triples Breast Cancer Risk, New Study Finds

Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk 193% Study Finds, Giving Birth Lowers It

Breast Cancer Rates Reach Nearly 275,000 Cases

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute

Breast-Feed or Else

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

Flawed Study Underestimated Breast Cancer Risk of Abortion (Medical Journal)

Harvard Study on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Seriously Flawed

Henderson Study Denying Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Criticized for Data, Method Flaws

Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer

Link between Abortion & Breast Cancer is Real

Mammogram Questions Reveal Source of Breast Cancer Risks: Estrogen  (Kathy Ostrowski)

National Cancer Institute Researcher Admits Abortion-Breast Cancer Link True

Polycarp Research Institute

PowerPoint Helps Explain Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

Research: Women in China See 17% Higher Breast Cancer Risk From Abortion

Researchers Explain Why Having Baby Reduces Breast Cancer Chances

Scientists, Govt Ignore Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Leading Surgeon Says

Studies Show Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk

Study: Abortion, Hormonal Contraceptives Influence Breast Cancer Risk

Study Finds 66 Percent Increased Breast Cancer Risk After Abortion

Study Shows Abortion is 'Best Predictor of Breast Cancer'

 

Contraception (birth control):

See also:  Natural Family Planning (NFP)

FACT:  greater access to birth control leads to more abortions, not less

Alternatives to contraception

American College of Pediatricians Warns Against Pre-Prescribing Emergency Contraceptives to Adolescents   New 12/12

Bioethics Watch: Adventures in Pill Land  (Nancy Valko)

Birth Control  (types & health issues)

Birth (Mind) Control

Birth control pill alters women’s emotional memory: new research

Birth Control Pill Linked to Hardening of the Arteries

Birth control use by women with common vein condition raises deadly blood clot risk

Breast Cancer and Oral Contraception

British teen suffers 7 heart attacks, hundreds of blood clots after one month on the Pill   New 11/12

Condom Effectiveness

Condom Expose    No solution to AIDS

Condoms & STDs

Connection between Contraception and Abortion

Contracepting America: the real war on women  (Fr. Michael Giesler)   New 06/12

Contracepting the Environment

Contracepting the world’s youth  (Fr. Shenan Boquet)   New 09/12

Contraception and Abortion

Contraception and Women’s Wellbeing   (Helen Alvare):
Planned Parenthood and the Government v. Religious Liberty and Women’s Wellbeing
NFP, Disillusionment, and the Poor
Physical Health, Happiness, and Religion

Contraception Increases Rates of Divorce, Suicide, and Sexual Dysfunction  (Dominic Pedulla, M.D.)   New 03/13

Contraception Is Not the Answer

Contraception isn’t healthcare, it isn’t even helpful: I would know  (Jacqueline Harvey)

Contraception Not Responsible for Dropping Teen Births  (Michael New, Ph.D.)

Contraception: The Bitter Pill (George Sim Johnston)

The Contraception Misconception

Contraception underlying cause of breakdown of family, sexual morality, says expert

Contraception: Why Not?  (Janet Smith)

Contraceptive pill linked to increased prostate cancer

Contraceptive Poison

The costs of contraception  (Carson Holloway)

Doomed to Fail: The “Back Up Your Birth Control” Campaign  (John Jansen)

Emergency Contraception,  "Morning-After" Pill

‘Emergency Contraception’ and the Dangers to Adolescents

‘Emergency contraception’ increases STD rates, does not reduce abortions: study finds   New 12/12

Emergency Contraception Won’t Decrease Teen Pregnancies  (Greg Pfundstein)   New 09/12

Evangelical Documentary Exposes Abortifacient Qualities of the Pill, Promotes NFP

Evangelicals re-thinking “contraceptive mentality”

Exposing Planned Parenthood

Fatal Flaw of the Pro-Life Movement

FDA announces safety concern with Yaz contraceptive on World Contraception Day

French study: 20 deaths per year attributed to contraceptive pill use   New 03/13

Guttmacher: 54% of Women Who Aborted in 2008 Were Using Contraception

Guttmacher Institute Claims Contraception Lowers Abortions, Data Shows Otherwise

A Hard Pill to Swallow

The Harms Of Contraception

Homily on Contraception and NFP

Hormonal Birth Control Pill Reduces Women’s Sexual Function: Study

Hormonal Contraceptives Mutating Fish in St. Lawrence River

Hormonal Contraceptives Pollute Drinking Water - Environmentalists Turn a Blind Eye

Hormone disorder and the birth control pill tied to blood clots   New 12/12

How The Pill Kills  (Dr. Angela Lanfranchi video)   New 06/12

How the White House’s 98% Contraception Figure for Catholics is Wrong  (Tom Hoopes)

HPV Condom Study Shows The Failure of Condom Education

Humanae Vitae

I thought I was pro-life but God told me I had the ‘spirit of abortion’

Invoke the Conscience Act against contraceptives/abortifacients in your health insurance

Kalley Yanta video on her experience with contraceptives (in response to Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood)

Link between Contraception & Abortion

Loyola University Researchers: Contraceptives Nearly Double Chance of Stroke

Married Love and the Gift of Life

Mass Failure of the Contraceptive Implanon  (John Jansen)

Medical Expert Says that Contraceptive Pill is Causing Global Rise in Male Infertility

Medical Journalist Says Reliance on Condoms Spreads HIV/AIDS

Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular - and the Lawsuits are Piling Up  (Steven W. Mosher)   New 11/12

Morning After Pill Harmful, Doesn't Lessen Abortions  (Wendy Wright)

Morning-after pill spreading out of control in Spanish schools
(even without over-the-counter sales!)

Morning After Pill Doesn't Reduce Abortion, Pregnancy Rates (study reports)

Morning After Pill Use Doesn't Cut Abortion, Pregnancy Rates (2nd study reports)

New Booklet Outlines Frightening Facts about Contraception

The New Contraceptive World Order  (Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse)

New York City Has Extremely High Abortion Rate Despite Free Birth Control

Noted Endocrinologist Explains How the Birth Control Pill Causes Abortion

Now You Tell Us  (Jennifer Roback Morse)  (contraceptive advocates admit pill unreliable)

Oral Contraceptive Use Linked with Breast Cancer - Mayo Clinic Journal  (Karen Malec)

Oral Contraceptives Decrease Bone Density

Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch: 1,000 Claimants and Counting

The Pill after 50 Years: That Dirty Little Secret  (Dr. Chris Kahlenborn)

The Pill and Breast Cancer Risk: Is Anyone Listening?  (Timothy P. Collins, M.D.)

The Pill's Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS

The Pill Kills

The Pill Kills  (Dr. Angela Lanfranchi)

Planned Parenthood can't be serious

Poll: Women Uninformed About Medical Dangers of Birth Control Pill

Prolonged contraceptive use could increase chances of miscarriage: study   New 01/13

A Protestant Analyzes Contraception 

A Protestant Analyzes Contraception, Part 2

QuiverFull.com  (accepting fertility and the blessings of children)

Report by AGI on Unplanned Pregnancies Draws Pro-Life Objections    More objections to AGI report

A Rubber Ideology: Taking on condomism   (Jennifer Roback Morse)

Scientists: harmful hormones from birth control pill can’t be filtered out in sewage treatment   New 09/12

Sex: What Do Women (And Men) Really Want?

Statment from American Society of Reproductive Medicine Confirms the Pill Causes Abortion

STOPP annual survey of Planned Parenthood facilities in the United States

Studies Find Contraception Makes Women Obese and Newborns Too Thin

Studies: Birth Control, Contraception Don’t Cut Abortions  (Keith Riler)

Study: Abortions Double in Spain Despite Increased Contrapcetion    More...    Commentary

Study: Birth Control Not Stopping Unplanned Pregnancies, Abortions

Study: birth control shot linked to memory loss

Study Confirms Estrogen in Water from the Pill Devastating to Fish Populations

Study: Contraceptive pills deplete women’s bodies of essential vitamins, antioxidants

Study: contraceptive pills put teen girls at increased risk of high blood pressure   New 07/12

Study: Depo Provera Use Increases Breast Cancer Risk   New 06/12

Study Finds Morning After Pill Can Work as an Abortion Drug

Study: Higher contraception rates associated with higher abortion rates in Russia   New 12/12

Study: Low-Dose Birth Control Pills Decrease Bone Density in Young Women

Study: Morning-after pill causes rise in teenage STDs

Study Shows Contraceptive Pill Increases Risk of Heart Disease, Stroke

Study Shows Double Cervical Cancer Risk for Oral Contraceptive Users

Study Shows More Contraception, Birth Control Don't Reduce Abortions

Study: Women Who Use Birth Control Pill More Likely to Develop Bowel Disease

Surgeon: birth control pill a ‘molotov cocktail’ for breast cancer

Sweden Abortions Increase Despite Much Higher Sales of Morning After Pill

Swiss Women Abandoning the Pill Due to Adverse Health Effects

A tale of two sex hormones  (Anthony Esolen)

Truth about Contraceptives Surfaces in Study  (Ann Scheidler)

UK Woman Dies of Blood Clots after Ten Years on the Pill

UN statistics invent a vast 'unmet need' for contraception   New 03/13

"The Use Of Contraceptives, Of Course, Is Always Morally Evil"

What the Pill is doing to our water supply  (Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.)

What Women Want (Hint: Not Reproductive Health Care)  (Steven Mosher & Colin Mason)

World Health Organization Classifies Contraceptives as Highly Carcinogenic

70 Percent of Women Seeking Abortions Used Contraception: Australia Study

 

 

End of Life Issues (including Organ Donation):

See also:  Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide

Advance Directive:  IRLC Patient Self-Protection Document
(Life-affirming Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care from IRLC)
Download:    PDF format     Word document    Organ Donation Declaration
This document needs some changes for use in the following states (e.g. may need to be notarized, etc.):
AK, AL, CA, CT, DE, FL, HI, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NV, OH, OK, OR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VT, WV and WI

Alternate Life-Affirming Advance Directives:
Loving Will (from American Life League)  (Life-affirming Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care)
NRLC "Will to Live" Health Care Proxy  (Life-affirming Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care)
Protective Medical Decisions Document  (Life-affirming Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care from Patients Rights Council)
Protective Power of Attorney for Health Care  (Life-affirming Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care from Pro-Life Wisconsin)

Assessing "Brain Death":                                Recovery After "Brain Death"            
Are “Brain Dead” Patients Really Dead?
"Brain Death" as Criteria for Organ Donation is a "Deception": Bereaved Mother
"Brain Death" is Not Death!   See why below    (raises serious concerns about vital organ donation)
"Brain Death" Test Causes Brain Necrosis and Kills Patients: Neurologist to Rome Conference
Can a man die twice? - The problem with 'brain death'  (Phil Lawler)
   New 12/12
Conference may Begin to Sway Vatican Opinion Against Brain Death: Eminent Philosopher
New England Journal of Medicine: 'Brain Death' is not Death - Organ Donors are Alive
No ‘moral certainty’ that brain death is really death:  Catholic ethics professor Brugger
Questioning Brain Death: Ethical dilemmas at the beginning of death  (by Jose A. Bufill, M.D.)
Teen who awoke from coma before having organs harvested stirs 'brain death' debate    New 10/12
Understanding Brain Death  (by Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)
Vatican Newspaper: Brain Death and thus Organ Donation Must be Reconsidered
Vital Organ Donation: What you don't know can kill you!  (by Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)

Authentic Compassion: Pain Treatment at the End of Life  (Denise Hunnell, M.D)

Belbury Review     [see also Life Tree]
(stay informed on palliative care, POLST, care transitions, etc)

Boy Who Doctor Claimed Was in PVS State Makes Miraculous Recovery    New 10/12

Brain Damaged Man Incapacitated for Six Years Imrpoves After Electrode Help

Connecting the Dots on End of Life Issues
(topics: dangers of living wills, futile care, brain death, morphine)

The Dangers of Hospice

Declaration on Organ Donation      Download as Word Document

Depriving Artificially Administered Food and Fluids Is "Inhumane" -- Bishop's Directive

End of Life Issues: In Depth

Ending Renal Dialysis: Ethical Issues in Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment

The Federal Government is Undermining Hospice  (Wesley J. Smith)

‘Gift of time’ made the difference between life and death for brain-injured mother in coma

Hospice Bait & Switch

Hospice Checklist

Hospice, Hospitals &, Nursing Homes Have License To Kill  (Daniel Zanoza)

Hospice as a Murder Weapon    New 01/13

Hospice Patients Alliance
(preserving the original mission of hospice)

Hospice Patients Threatened: The Need for End-of-Life Activism

Human Dignity in the ‘Vegetative’ State

Life Guardian Foundation  (Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)

Life-Sustaining Treatments and "Vegetative" State  (Pope John Paul II)

The “Living Will”: Death Without Dignity

Living Wills: They sound good, but ...

Man in Supposed 23-Year-Long Coma Speaks, Says He Was Always Conscious

Minnesota Bishops' Statement on Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)    New 01/13

The Myth and Manipulation of “Brain Death”  (Gerard Nadal, Ph.D.)

National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse

Nobody owns his life: an integral defense of life  (Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula)

Organ Donation and Transplantation Issues:                                                                                                   
Beware: Killing for Organs, Taking Organs From Living People  (Wesley J. Smith)    New 04/13
“Bioethics” Journal Pushes Organ Donations on Living Patients  (Wesley J. Smith)
   New 06/12
The Card to Protect You from “Presumed Consent” Organ Harvesting
‘Cardiac Death’ Allows One to Kill the Organ Donor  (Dr. John Shea MD)
Catholic teaching on death and organ transplantation  (Paul A. Byrne, M.D)
   New 03/13
Critical organ donation warnings and guidance in new pamphlet: “Do not do an Apnea test!”
Declaration on Organ Donation      Download as Word Document
Do you really want to be an organ donor?  (Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)    New 03/13
Don't give your heart away -- know the facts about vital organ transplantation  (Randy Engel)

The Erosion of Ethics in Organ Transplantation  (Denise Hunnell, MD)
    New 11/12
Ethics of organ transplants and trusting doctors
Melbourne Doctor: Most Donors Still Alive when Organs are Removed
The morality of organ donation
More Hospitals Push For Organ Transplants 5 Minutes or Less After Heart Stops
Non-Heart Beating Organ Donation (NHBD)   (also called Donation after Cardiac Death or DCD)
Organ donation: The inconvenient truth
Organ donation warning: Do not do an Apnea test!
Organ Donors Beware!
Organ Harvesting Before "Brain-Death" Increasingly Common, Doctors Warn
Organ Harvesting: Defining Defenseless Human Beings as Natural Resources  (Wesley Smith)
Organ Transplants, 'Brain Death,' and Church Teaching  (Philip F. Lawler)
Organs for Transplantation Must Come from the Living  (Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)    New 12/12
Pope Warns Organ Transplant Conference of Abuses of Death Criteria
Removal from the New Organ/Tissue Donor Registry (Illinois)
Shock: Requiring death before organ donation is unnecessary, say experts
Shock #2: Simply abandon ‘norm against killing’ to solve organ transplant problem: leading US bioethicists
Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs
Taboo Transgressions in Transplantation Medicine  (Anna Bergmann, Ph.D.)
Truth About Organ Donation    New 01/13
Vatican Radio tackles organ harvesting in light of questionable ‘brain death’ criterion

Partnership for Medical Ethics Reform

Paul A. Byrne, M.D. columns (on brain death, organ donation, etc)

Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) Diagnosis Often Inaccurate, More Data Shows

Pope Rules "PVS" Patients May Not be Denied Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Portable brainwave reading machine set to tackle inaccurate ‘vegetative state’ diagnoses

"Portable Medical Order" under any name is a dangerous document
(POLST, MOST, MOLST, or other acronyms)

Pro-life Healthcare Alliance

Recovery After "Brain Death":                                                                                                   
19-Year-Old Recovers as Doctors Start to Harvest Her Organs    New 11/12
Boy recovering; first declared PVS, organ donation pushed
   New 10/12
Dad rescues ‘brain dead’ son from doctors wishing to harvest his organs - boy recovers completely
Florida Family being pressured to pull plug on 2-year-old mistakenly declared brain dead
21-Year-Old Man Wakes From Coma Before Doctors Take his Organs
‘Brain dead’ Quebec woman wakes up after family refuses organ donation
Husband Celebrates Miracle as 'Brain Dead' Wife Wakes Up in Hospital    More...
"Brain Dead" Man Saved from Organ Harvesting:  "Brain Death is Never Really Death"

Doctors Who Almost Dissected Living Patient Show "Brain Death" is Not Reliable
Woman Diagnosed as "Brain Dead" Walks and Talks after Awakening
Woman's Waking After Brain Death Raises Many Questions About Organ Donation
Comatose Patient Glad Parents Didn't Listen to Doctors' Euthanasia Suggestion   More...

Repackaging Death as Life-The Third Path to Imposed Death - Part 1  (Elizabeth Wickham)
Repackaging Death as Life-The Third Path to Imposed Death - Part 2  (Elizabeth Wickham)
Repackaging Death as Life-The Third Path to Imposed Death - Part 3  (Elizabeth Wickham)

Research on "brain dead" and "almost dead" patients declared "ethical"

Researchers See Normal Brain Activity in Another "PVS" Patient

Selective Killing Fields: POLST in Action  (Julie Grimstad)

So-Called “Vegetative” Patient Communicates With Doctors   New 11/12

Study: Patients in “Vegetative State” Often Misdiagnosed

Study Reveals Brain Activity in PVS Patient

Today’s ‘palliative care’ disrespects the natural law  (Elizabeth D. Wickham, PhD)   New 10/12

True Palliative Care Involves a Respect for Human Life  (Adam J. MacLeod)

“Vegetative” Patients may Retain Awareness: Study   More...

Vegetative State May Be Caused by Brain Cooling, Study Finds

Ventilator Relieves Lung Cancer Pain in Final Hours
(livings wills refuse ventilators without flexibility for a finding like this one)

WARNING: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Can Kill You!  (Elizabeth Wickham, PhD)    New 08/12

Why Catholics (and Everyone Else) Should Avoid Living Wills

Why Did We Ever Start Calling Patients “Vegetables?”  (Diane Irving)

Wisconsin bishops warn against POLST end of care document    Full Text    More...    New 07/12

Yet Another Sleeping Pill Awakening (using Ambien)

 

Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide:

See also:  End of Life Issues

Advance "Mis-Directives": Euthanasia in Catholic Hospitals in the United States

Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide Pushes Against Suicide Prevention Efforts  (Wesley J. Smith)    New 09/12

Assisted Suicide’s Dangeorus Illusion of Control  (Will Johnston)    New 12/12

Belgian Doctors Boast of Harvesting Organs After Euthanasia  (Wesley J. Smith)

Danger Zone: Even though Haleigh Poutre is conscious, she’s not necessarily safe
(Consciousness is no guarantee against euthanasia per AMA)

Declaration on Euthanasia
(Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, May 1980)

Death by Ethics Committee

Death on Demand: The assisted-suicide movement sheds its fig leaf

Disability is not a death sentence  (James M. Thunder)   New 01/13

Doctors Kept Asking To "Let" My Father Die: Wall Street Journalist

Euthanasia: Imposed Death
(from Human Life Alliance)

Euthanasia Opponent Says Assisted Suicide Laws Can't be Adequately Controlled

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Euthanasia Research

Euthanasia Resources

Futile care “ethicists” push involuntary euthanasia

Hospice Care: Involuntary Euthanasia Cases

Involuntary Euthanasia Rampant in Belgium, 10-Year Review Says   New 12/12

Killing Babies, Compassionately: The Netherlands follows in Germany's footsteps

A Legal Analysis: The Oregon & Washington Physician-Assisted Suicide Laws

Liberal Euthanasia Activists Redfining Sedation Into Killing  (Wesley J. Smith)   New 03/13

Life Tree         [see also Belbury Review]
(check Timeline to learn about the "right to die" movement's leadership )

March of Dimes Primer: The A-Z of Eugenic Killing (Randy Engel)

National Catholic Bioethics Center

90 Percent of People Asking Doctor for Assisted Suicide Change their Mind    New 10/12

Not Dead Yet

Pain and Physician-Assisted Suicide – What is Going On?

Palliative Care "Killing me softly"

Patients Rights Council
(formerly International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force)

Physicians for Compassionate Care

Physician-assisted Suicide: The Wrong Approach of End of Life Care

Proper Palliative Sedation Not Same as Assisted Suicide's Terminal Sedation  (Wesley Smith)

Resources: Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

Right to Die Movement is Really About Euthanasia, Not Compassion

Slippery slope: ‘loneliness,’ ‘fatigue’ now criteria for euthanasia in Netherlands

Still in the World: A Pro-Life View of Death and Dying

Terri Schiavo Case: In Depth

Twisted Concepts in Pain Relief  (Judie Brown)

US Palliative Care Academy Drops Opposition to Assisted Suicide

"We Never Say No": The Right-to-Die Movement Abandons Pretense (Wesley J. Smith)

Wesley J. Smith Articles  (he reports on bioethics)

What People Mean When They Say They Want to Die

1984 CNN 3-Part Report on Oklahoma Infanticide of Spina Bifida Babies   New 01/13

 

Fetal Development:

Be Not Afraid (cases of fetal abnormalities)

The Beautiful and Efficient Anatomy of Pregnancy  (Alexander Tsiaras)   New 01/13

Cord blood--who owns it?  (Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)   New 03/13

Development Of the Child

Diary of an Unborn Child

Doctors on Fetal Pain   New 03/13

Down Syndrome Tests Risky for All Babies, Study Shows

Embryology: Inconvenient Facts   (William L. Saunders, Jr.)

Facts of Fetal Development

Fascinating Discovery Shows Unborn Baby’s Cells Go to Mom’s Brain   New 12/12

Groundbreaking In-the-Womb Photos Now Improved and Republished

High-res 4D ultrasound captures babies yawning in the womb   New 11/12

Identical Twins Start Showing Differences in the Womb   New 07/12

In-Vitro Fertilization

Just the Facts

Leading Physician Convinced Babies Feel Pain at 20 Weeks of Pregnancy

A Matter of Belief or a Matter of Fact?

The Michael Fund (International Foundation for Genetic Research)
(the Pro-Life Alternative to the March of Dimes)

Photo of Baby Reaching Out From Womb During C-Section Goes Viral    New 01/13

Precious Life  (Testimony, Pictures, Information)

Prenatal Development: the case against abortion

Prenatal Testing: Worthwhile or Wrong?

Research Shows Unborn Babies Can Learn in the Womb

Researchers Map Fetal Brain Signals For First Time Ever    New 02/13

Science for Unborn Human Life

Scientists Say Newborn Babies Cry in Native Language Learned in the Womb

Sound Wave Images
(view ultrasound footage)

Study Finds Unborn Babies Respond to Mother's Mood

‘The tiniest babies’: survival of babies born weighing less than 400g on the increase

Truth Booth
(view ultrasound images)

Ultrasound: 4D from GE

Ultrasound: 4D pictures of unborn babies

Unborn Babies Learn Amazing Things in the Womb  (Rebecca Taylor)    More...

Unborn Children May Already Have Short-Term Memory Formed at 30 Weeks

Unborn Person

Unborn twins interact with each other as early as 14 weeks

Using Either Conception or Fertilization, Human Life Has a Clear Beginning  (J. C. Willke, MD)

Video Showing Development of Unborn Distributed by Priests for Life

Yale Study Says Babies Have Built-In Developing Sense of Morality

Your Developing Baby: video of motion in the womb

 

Government & Voting:

See also:  Laws & Legal Issues

Candidate Information

Catholics in Political Life
(US Bishops: June 2004)

Find new Legislative Districts for 2012 Election

Find your Districts & Legislators   (enter your 9-digit zip code)

Faithful Citizenship - A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility
(US Bishops: Oct 2003)

How to tell a duck from a fox
(Archbishop Charles Chaput)

I Vote Values

Participation of Catholics in Political Life
(Vatican: Nov 2002)

Politics Nationwide

Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics

Voter Infonet: Cook County Elections

 

Human Cloning & Engineering:

See also:  Stem Cell Research

Britain’s “3 Parent” Cloning Experiments Condemned

Cloning Information Website

Coming Fight Over Human Cloning to Dwarf Stem Cell Debate  (Wesley J. Smith)   New 01/13

Elliot Institute
(Responding to the Threat of Unregulated Human Engineering)

Fetal Tissue, Human Embryo and Cloning Research
(Who supports it?)

Hands Off Our Ovaries
(the case against egg extraction from women)

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry

Human Cloning Issues

Human Cloning

Human Cloning vs. Human Dignity

National Catholic Bioethics Center

Resources: Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

Shifting Definition of Cloning

Stem Cell Research: In-Depth

Summary of Reasons to Ban Human Cloning

Three-parent embryos for mitochondrial disease - unsafe, unethical, unneeded  (Peter Saunders)    New 09/12

Use of Abortion Victim's Body Parts For Research Has Become Major Industry

Wesley Smith Articles

Why Embryonic Stem Cell Research? It's About Human Engineering, Not Ending Disease

Why Human Cloning Needs to be Banned

 

IVF Concerns & Alternatives:

FACT:  in vitro fertilization (IVF) always kills human embryos
("The embryos are then assessed for viability, with only about 20% usually considered strong enough to implant successfully in a woman."  LifeSiteNews)

Creighton Model FertilityCare System
(offers alternatives to in vitro fertilization)

Elizabeth Ministry International  (infertility issues)

NaProTECHNOLOGY (alternative to in vitro fertilization)

Pope Paul VI Institute  (founded by Dr. Thomas Hilgers)

St. Anne Center for Reproductive Health   (Dr. Anthony Caruso)
(a site for information on Catholic health care)

Agents of Change  (compares NaProTechnology with IVF)

All assisted reproductive technologies have higher risk of birth defects: study

The 'ART' Baby and God: Why IVF Is Wrong  (Judie Brown)    New 09/12

Assisted Reproductive Technologies are Anti-Woman
(presents risks of in vitro fertilization [IVF] for both mother and child)

Buying and selling children: Sperm donor children speak out

Change of heart: Eminient Chicago IVF doctor quits practice of creating babies in Petri dishes   More...

Children Are Not an Entitlement  (Ann Scheidler)

Children of anonymous sperm donors met with hostility, ridicule, say activists    New 06/12

Disturbing trend: Designer children designed to be disabled  (Joseph A. D'Agostino)

'Eggsploitation' Documentary Reveals Secrets of Infertility Industry

Facing infertility: A journey of faith, hope and love  (Mary-Louise Kurey)

Fertility Treatment is Hugely Successful but Largely Ignored by Medicine  (T.  Baklinski)

Former top IVF doc: I was ‘absolutely horrified’ when I realized what I was doing

French Study: Assisted Reproductive Technology Doubles Risk of Deformity

High Doses of Hormones in IVF Hurting Women and Children  (Rebecca Taylor)    New 07/12

If Embryos are Human, then Fertility Clinics are Death Camps: Pro-abortion Columnist

In-Vitro Fertilization

In vitro fertilization kills far more embryos than survive until birth

In Vitro Fertilization Reports

In Vitro Fertilization Risks

In Vitro Fertilization Treatment leads to Death of UK Woman

Industry journal admits IVF-related technologies not tested, unsafe    New 08/12

IVF babies up to 10 times more likely to suffer rare genetic disorders: geneticist

IVF's Barren Wasteland  (Judie Brown)

IVF Children Suffer More Health Problems Than Naturally-Conceived Children

IVF-Conceived Children Have Higher Risk of Cancer: Swedish Study

IVF Conceived Children Have Nearly Twice as Many Health Problems   More details

IVF Increases Risk of Deformity, Finnish Study finds

IVF's Insidious Medical Defects

IVF turns pregnancy into a shopping expedition ... with deadly results  (Denise Hunnell, MD)

Major CDC Study Finds Two to Four Times More Birth Defects from In Vitro Fertilization

Morally acceptable options for infertile couples

The Need for Informed Consent: The Risks of IVF are Becoming Clearer  (Mailee Smith)

One In Fifteen Embryos Make The Cut With New Grading Scale For IVF

Pope Condemns In Vitro Fertilization: "Barrier protecting human dignity has been broken"

Pope rejects ‘arrogant’ IVF: Marital love the only ‘worthy’ way to conceive

The Problem with Half-Truths and IVF  (Judie Brown)

The Quandary: Savior Siblings v. Human Dignity  (Judie Brown)

Rejecting In Vitro Fertilization for All the Right Reasons  (Judie Brown)    New 07/12

Risk of Stillbirth 4 Times Higher After IVF

Scientists Admit IVF Has High Rate of Abnormalities

Study: 65% of Sub-Fertile Women Achieve Pregnancy with Natural Method

Study Confirms Overwhelming Death Rate of IVF Human Embryos

Study: Donor-Conceived Children More Likely to be Isolated, Delinquent

Study Links IVF to Down Syndrome, Other Genetic Conditions  (Gerard Nadal)

Study Shows Higher Rate of Birth Defects in Babies Conceived Through IVF

Study: Women Who Donate Eggs For Fertility Research Face Loss of Life and Limb

Twin killings: the foreseeable, but tragic consequences of IVF  (Chuck Colson)

UCLA researchers link IVF to increased birth defect risk    New 10/12

U.K. Embryo Authority Warns IVF Children Have 30% Higher Risk of Genetic Abnormality

Why Sperm Donation is Bad for Dads and Kids  (John M. Smoot)    Next Steps   New 02/13

 

Laws & Legal Issues:

See also:  Government & Voting

Action Needed

Alliance Defending Freedom
(formerly Alliance Defense Fund)

American Center for Law & Justice

Americans United for Life

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

Catholic Conference of Illinois

Find new Legislative Districts for 2012 Election

Find your Districts & Legislators   (enter your 9-digit zip code)

The Legal Status of the Unborn Child Under State Law  (Paul Benjamin Linton)   New 01/13

Legislative Action Center

Liberty Counsel

Life Legal Defense Foundation

The Paradox of Persons Forty Years After Roe  (Gerard V. Bradley)   New 01/13

Personhood USA
(Human Life Amendment now pursued in many states)

Save the 1  (remove rape exceptions from the law)

State Abortion Laws Summary

State of Illinois Legislature

State of Illinois Supreme Court

State Rankings on Pro-Life Laws from Americans United for Life   IL Near Bottom at 38th

Study: Pro-Life Legislation Cut Abortions on Teen Girls by 50 Percent

Summary of Fetal Homicide Laws

Thomas More Law Center  (Michigan)

Thomas More Society  (Illinois)

United States House of Representatives

United States Senate

United States Supreme Court

The White House

 

Marriage & Family:

Broken Family Structure Leads to Educational Difficulties for Children

CFN interview with Randy Engel on "Homosexuality and the New World Order"
(Note 2 at the end provides a link to another source on New World Order anti-life plans)

Childhood Family Structure Linked to Rate of Female Homosexuality

Children Thrive When Parents Follow Religious Beliefs, Study Shows

Club Unicorn: I am a gay, devout Mormon, happily married to a woman, with three children    New 06/12

Cohabitation Ends in Separation 90% of the Time

Cohabitation is bad for men, worse for women, and horrible for children

The cohabitation revolution: kids pay the price

Cohabiting couples far more likely to suffer from partner abuse, statistics show

Confessions of a recovering lesbian (Dawn Wilde)   More...

Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition
to Unions Between Homosexual Persons
  (Vatican: June 2003)

Cultural Landmines Parents Should Avoid

Defending Marriage

Demand For Same-Sex Marriage Was Based on a Lie

Despite Greater Social Acceptance, Divorce Still Seriously Damages a Child's Prospects in Life, Study Finds

Divorce, Single Parenting and Kids' Well-Being:
Studies Show Importance of Stable Family Structure

Environmental factors may influence sexual orientation

Escalating Church and State Clashes Over Gay Marriage Inevitable, Say U.S. Experts

Even “Good” Divorce Hard on Kids, Study Confirms

Evidence that Homosexual Behavior is Part of Psychiatric Disorder Ignored by APA

Ex-Gay: Change is Possible! (Debora Barr)    New 11/12

Ex-Lesbian Charlene Cothran Tells AFTAH Banquet that ‘Born Gay’ Claim Is ‘Vicious Lie’
Complete text of Charlene Cothran's speech: "It's Time to Tell America"

Ex-Lesbian Yvette Schneider Testifies to ‘Complete’ and Permanent Change

Facts, not flattery, about same-sex attraction

Federal Marriage Amendment fails in U.S. House

Federal Marriage Amendment Defeated in U.S. Senate

Federal Report Confirms 'Nuclear Family' Best for Children's Health

Few Homosexuals Interested in Tying the Knot

Florida Gay 'Marriage' Activists Abandon Challenges to Defense of Marriage Act

Fordham Study Provides ‘Empirical Evidence’ for Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

Former Gay Youth Leader Re-Emerges to Tell His Dramatic Conversion Story

Former Homosexual Says the Issue is Not Protecting Marriage; It's Homosexuality

From Lesbian Atheist to Stay-at-Home Mother of Six: Quebec Journalist Tells Her Story

Gay Marriage and the End of Christian Civilization  (Fr. Thomas Euteneur)

Gay "Marriage" a Bust in Spain

"Gays" Don't Want "Marriage" After All

‘Gold standard’ study’s striking findings: children of heterosexual parents happier, healthier   Update    New 06/12

Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children's View  (Robert Oscar Lopez)    New 08/12

Homosexual 'Marriage', Like Divorce and Common Law, Is False Freedom Says Pope

Homosexuality and Hope

Homosexuality and Psychiatry - Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven
That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal

"Homosexuality Is Not Hardwired," Concludes Head of The Human Genome Project

How many states have banned gay ‘marriage’?  (Peter Sprigg)

‘If America is to survive, we must stop the assault on marriage and the family’: Santorum    New 08/12

Illinois Legislature Warned of the Irreparable Harm the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage Would Cause    New 01/13

The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science

Intact families the leading factor reducing future illegitimacy, welfare use: Study   New 02/13

Is Marriage Important?

Is There a "Gay Gene"?

It's the Behavior, Stupid! and Other Observations of a So-Called 'Homophobe'

Love Isn’t Enough: 5 Reasons Why Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Children

Major religious leaders release statement supporting true marriage

Marriage Amendment "Only Alternative" to Judicial Activism, Says Bush

Marriage is safest place for pregnant women: study    New 12/12

More Than 50 Distinguished Scholars Issue Landmark Principles on the Importance
of Marriage and the Public Good

NARTH Report Shows Gay Activist Influence on Mental Health Organizations

Noted U.S. Psychologists Condemn Gay Activist Influence on APA

Nurse Questions Why Homosexuality Not Considered Disorder on Basis of Medical Consequences?

Obama Inaugural Speech: The Audacity of a Bad Analogy (Laurie Higgins)    New 01/13

Preschool Damages Children’s Social Skills and Emotional Development

Prominent U.S. Gay Activist Now Publicly Speaking Out Against Homosexuality

Psychiatrist Says Homosexuality is a Disorder that Can be Cured

Publisher/Founder of Black Lesbian Magazine Leaves Gay Lifestyle to “Give Heart and Soul to God”

Research Finds Homosexuality More Dangerous Than Smoking

Right to Treatment to Leave Homosexual Lifestyle Recognized
by American Counseling Association

The sanction of Eros: when Christians divorce (Chuck Colson)

Seven Additional States Vote to Constitutionally Protect Traditional Marriage; Arizona Rejects

Still Sexually Attracted to Men but Happily Married to a Woman

Study Claiming Biological Basis for Homosexuality “Absolute Rubbish”: NARTH Psychiatrist

Study: Cohabitation Linked to Exponential Increase in Relationship Failure Risk

Study Confirms Cohabitation Leads To Higher Chance Of Divorce and Lower Relationship Quality

Study Finds Children At Risk from Cohabitation

Study Finds Children Who Live with Biological Parents and go to Church Fare Best Developmentally

Study Finds Christian Counseling Effectively Assists Leaving Homosexual Life-Style

Study Finds Harmful Effects on Children When Parents Live Common-Law

Study Finds New Evidence that Childhood Family Factors Influence Sexual Orientation

Study Finds Same-Sex Abuse Rampant in Illinois Foster Care System

Study Shows Family Instability Has Bad Effect on Children’s Behavior

Successful Female Author Says Working Mothers Short-Change Children

Theology of the Body  (reflections of Pope John Paul II)

Top Vatican Cardinal: Gay Marriage is "A Crime Which represents the Destruction of the World"

Two Mommies Is One Too Many (James C. Dobson Ph.D.)
Left's Criticism of Dr. Dobson's Article Unfounded

Two Reasons Same-Sex Marriage Is Gaining Ground (Marcel LeJeune)

UNICEF: Daycare is "A high-stakes gamble with today's children and tomorrow's world"

U.S. Bishops' Conference Promotes Federal Marriage Amendment

USCCB Reaffirms Support for Federal Marriage Amendment

Voters in 11 States Ban Homosexual "Marriage" Despite Massive Media Bias

What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts

When you say 'Gay marriage is inevitable,' do you mean rich people want it? (Jennifer Roback Morse)   New 05/13

Why homosexual ‘marriage’ signals the end of heterosexual rights (Greg Quinlan)   New 11/12

15,000 African Americans March to Support Traditional Marriage in Georgia

2,400 lawmakers warn of Kinsey influence

"Christians need to understand that their cowardly retreat from expressing the view that homosexual conduct is wrong carries with it devastating consequences for individual lives, public education, parental rights, speech rights, and religious rights--let alone truth."  (from a concerned parent)

Americans for Truth

Concerned Women for America

Courage International
(Fr. John Harvey)

Defend the Family

Family Research Council

First Stone Ministries

Focus on the Family

Guide for Natural Parenting

Illinois Family Institute

Institute for Marriage and Public Policy

Life Site News

National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)

National Organization for Marriage

ParentalRights.org      see movie
  (primary objectives are to obtain passage of the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
and to defeat any attempts for U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child)

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX)

Protect Marriage

Protect Marriage Illinois

Redeemed Lives Ministries

Renew America

Rescuing Homosexuals

Restored Hope Network

Ruth Institute   (defending marriage)

Stephen Bennent Ministries

Straight Talk Radio

The Howard Center: for Family, Religion, and Society

Theology of the Body   (articles and analysis)

TrueMarriage.net

TruthatSchool.org

 

Natural Family Planning (NFP):

See also:  Contraception

Billings Method

Couple To Couple League

Couple To Couple League - Chicago

Creighton Model FertilityCare System

FertilityCare Centers of America
(based on Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTECHNOLOGY)

Fertility Software: the New Face of Natural Family Planning

Marquette Model of Natural Family Planning

Married Love and the Gift of Life

NaProTECHNOLOGY (including alternatives to In Vitro Fertilization)

Natural Family Planning: A Question-Answer Book

One More Soul   (find NFP-only physicians)

1Flesh  (Revolt Against Contraception in Marriage)

Pope Paul VI Institute  (founded by Dr. Thomas Hilgers)

St. Gianna’s Physicians Guild  (find NFP-only physicians)

Study Shows Natural Family Planning Technique More “Effective” Than Contraception

Testimony on NFP Benefits

What’s so ‘natural’ about Natural Family Planning?  (Denise Hunnell)

Women’s health care – A new era
(discusses NaProTechnology)

 

Population Control:

Over-Population is a Myth

Population Research Institute

UN Population Division

6.5 Billion and Rising -- For a Time

Aging Global Population is "Profound" and "Irreversible": UN Report

Aging of World Population, Not Population Growth, is Cause for Alarm: PRI Researcher

Canada in Population Crisis: Seniors to Outnumber Children in a Decade

The coming population bust  (Jeff Jacoby)   A world without children

Demographics as the Grim Reaper: The death knell of low birth rates  (Steven Mosher)   New 08/12

Documentary Demographic Bomb Follows Demographic Winter Population Expose'

Documentary Explores Global Demographic Crisis

Family Planning Graduation (is needed)

HLI Commentaries on Population Control

Japan Facing Population Crisis with Baby Shortage

Malthus, Ehrlich, Gore And Other Population Control Mystics  (Don Feder)

The Myth of Overpopulation and the Folks Who Brought it to You

Opening the Gates wide to population control abuse  (Brian Clowes)    New 10/12

Overpopulation is a Myth: Plenty of Food and Space Exists  (Mia Harren)

The Population Controllers and Their War on People

Seven Billion: Concerns About Overpopulation are Unfounded  (Christopher White)

UN: Elderly to Outnumber Children for First Time in 2045

United Nations’ UNFPA Wrong to Call for Population Control  (Steve Mosher)

United States Faces Demographic Bomb, Coming Underpopulation Problems  (Arland Nichols)   New 11/12

USAID Population Control Activity Advances Despite Plummeting Birthrates

World's Elite Make Population Control #1 Priority   (John-Henry Westen)

The World's Underpopulation  (David E. Smith)

World Population Rpt: 'Aging Populations; Fewer Workers; Decline of Developed Countries'

World Welcomes Baby 6,666,666,666 But Overpopulation Not a Reality  (Colin Mason)

 

Post Abortion Assistance:      Videos

Abortion Changes You

Abortion Hurts Women Psychologically

Abortion Recovery International

After Abortion (Elliot Institute)

Be Not Afraid (support in cases of fetal abnormalities)

Fatherhood Forever Foundation
(or call 866-482-LIFE)

Group Helps People With Depression Whose Siblings Were Killed by Abortion   New 03/13

Headline Bistro (healing after abortion)

Hope After Abortion (Project Rachel)
(or call 888-456-HOPE)

In Our Midst Ministries

Jesus Set Me Free From the Pain of My Abortions  (Leslie Hairfield)   New 12/12

Legal Action for Women

Men and Abortion Network

Operation Outcry

Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS) Support

Post-Abortion Trauma & Healing (Elliot Institute)

Post-abortive actress finds healing on set of reality television show   New 12/12

Post-abortive actress finds healing while filming October Baby

Priests For Life

Project Rachel (Chicago)
(or call 312-337-1963 or 888-456-HOPE)

Project Rachel (National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing)
(or call 800-5WE-CARE)

Rachels Vineyard  (post-abortion ministry)
(or call 877-HOPE4ME)

Ramah International  (post-abortion healing)

Reclaiming Abortion Records   New 02/13

Regret after Abortion:                                                                                                     
How Much Does an Abortion Cost? My Whole Life  (Darlene Wood-Harvey)
My Broken Heart Now Restored After My Devastating Abortion  (Kaleena Barnett)   New 01/13
One mother’s journey to forgiveness in Christ after abortion. A Rachel’s Vineyard story  (Brice Griffin)   New 01/13
An open letter to post-abortive women  (Kristen Walker Hatten)
   New 03/13
An Open Letter to Post-Abortive Women  (Matt Barber)
   New 12/12
Regretting My Abortion: I Wish I Didn’t Have the Right to Choose  (Susan VanSyckle)
Reproductive Justice? Not for Men Hurt By Abortion  (Catherine T. Coyle, RN, PhD)
   New 02/13
Sharing the Pain of My Abortion Brings Back Haunting Memories  (Kelly Clinger)
   New 01/13

Silent No More Awareness

The suffering brothers and sisters of aborted children  (Kristi Burton Brown)   New 02/13

Surrender the Secret - Christian Reality Show Addresses Post-Abortion Healing   All Episodes   New 01/13

Testimonies on Life After Abortion   New 11/12

Time to Speak
(Love From Above Inc -- (866) Time 2 Speak)

23 years after the abortion that nearly cost me my life, I sought healing  (Jewels Green)

Videos of women who regret their abortions:                       New 10/12                      
Silent No More Awareness: Testimonies
(click "view video testimony" and then search to get a list of selections)
Margie's Testimony Jan 2011
Nicole's Testimony Jan 2012
Casey's Testimony
Cindy's Testimony Jan 2010
Dawn's Testimony Sept 2008
Patricia's Testimony Jan 2009
"I regret my abortion"

Women Deserve Better

 

Pregnancy Help & Support:

See also:  Natural Family Planning (NFP)    Pregnancy Complications

Abortion is never the best choice for a woman

Abortion Alternatives (800-400-4205)

Aid For Women (312-621-1100)

American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG)
Find an AAPLOG physician

Be Not Afraid  (support in cases of fetal abnormalities)

Birthright (773-233-0305 or 800-550-4900)

Care Net (800-395-HELP)

Care Net of DuPage  (630-455-0300)

Caris Pregnancy Counseling and Resources   (773-338-8311 or 888-AM-I-PREG)

Catholic Charities Maternity Services (800-CARE-002)

Choices for Life
(helping women and children conceived in rape)

FertilityCare Centers of America
(based on Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTECHNOLOGY)

Isaiah's Promise: Support for Parents Continuing Their Pregnancy After a Poor or Fatal Diagnosis

LIFECALL: Resources for Pregnant Women

Living Alternatives     Locations

M.I.S.S. Foundation
(providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause)

My Choice Chicago (773-283-0825)

National Campus Resource Directory for Pregnant and Parenting Students

National Life Center (800-848-LOVE)

Nurturing Your Baby Before Birth   New 12/12

One More Soul (find NFP-only physicians)

Option Line  (pregnancy help) (800-712-HELP)

PASS Network of Life-Affirming Care  (708-614-9777)

Pope Paul VI Institute  (founded by Dr. Thomas Hilgers)
(home of Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTECHNOLOGY)

Pregnancy Centers

Pregnancy Insurance
(helping women navigate pregnancy and maternity insurance options, including access to discounted care even if already pregnant)

Pregnancy Support Resources:
American Pregnancy Association  (information source)
My Pregnancy Place  (Pregnancy Journal)
Medicaid  (Medicaid service for pregnant women – step by step help for getting Medicaid)

WIC - (helps women in each state find and access WIC) 

Prenatal Partners for Life
(for parents who face a negative in utero diagnosis)

Preventing forced teen abortions: The Justice Foundation’s Center Against Forced Abortions

Society for the Preservation of Human Dignity (PHD)   (847-359-4919)

South Haven Pregnancy Center   (773-221-2580)

Southside Pregnancy Center   (708-346-9070)

Support Organization for Trisomy  (Trisomy 18, 13 and related disorders)    New 03/13

TeenBreaks   (for young people: teenage pregnancy, etc.)

TLC Pregnancy Services   (847-622-1235)

Tri-County Pregnancy and Parenting Services   (815-455-0965 or 847-231-4651)

Waterleaf Women's Center  (630-701-6270)

Woman's Choice Services  (630-261-9221)

Women's Care Center of LaGrange  (708-352-5000)

The Women's Center   (708-425-0707, 773-283-1400, and 800-400-4205)

Pregnancy Complications -- Articles and Studies:                                                                         

Advised to abort over Down’s risk, born without the placenta attached: my miracle daughter  (Janene Baadsgaard)   New 01/13

Baby Girl With Rare Heart Defect Saved by Surgery   New 11/12

Boy is world's first to survive being born with heart outside his body

Boy Lives for Three Years with Anencephaly   New 11/12

Catholic journalist dies after delaying cancer treatments for unborn baby   New 07/12

Choosing Hope and Grace: How two babies who shared one heart momentarily brought heaven to earth   New 06/12

‘Choosing Joy’: Baby Abby was only given a ‘slim chance’ of survival, but abortion wasn’t an option

Choosing Life and Beating the Odds: Accepting Down Syndrome  (Cassy Fiano)

Christian Parents Refused to Abort Baby with a Rare Disorder   New 10/12

Devastating choice: to abort or not to abort our unborn child with a lethal condition

Disabled Baby Will Walk, Talk After Parents Rejected Abortion   New 01/13

Doctor Told Me Four Times to Abort One of My Triplets  (Laura Casey)   New 06/12

Doctors Repair Hole in Unborn Baby’s Back at 23 Weeks of Pregnancy   New 03/13

Doctors Save Unborn Baby’s Life by Operating on Her Lung   New 04/13

Down Syndrome:   Going to bat video   Stop Aborting blog   Chloe's message   99% are happy

Early Induction of Labor (NCBC Statement)

Emotional goodbye for young Italian mother who died for unborn child   New 06/12

From One Mom to Another: Keep Your Baby - A Personal, True Story

Having Your Baby When Others Say No!

Healthy Baby Born Despite Adverse Diagnosis

Healthy Baby Narrowly Escapes Late-Abortion At Tiller’s Clinic

How my unplanned, out-of-wedlock pregnancy turned into ‘Happily Ever After’ (Jeanne Condon)

‘I did the right thing by not aborting’: video of mom with disabled baby goes viral

In utero surgery saves 20-week unborn baby with cyst the size of an orange   New 03/13

Irish parents grateful for ‘precious moments’ with baby who lived just 17 minutes after birth   New 11/12

Lancet Study: Abortion does not improve prognosis for pregnant cancer patients   New 09/12

Miracle Baby With Trisomy 18 Defies Odds After Parents Reject Abortion    New 04/13

Miracle Joey: The boy who refused to die

Miscarriage is the loss of a ‘real’ child and requires compassion  (Fr. Frank Pavone)

Mom beat breast cancer after delaying treatment to give birth   New 08/12

Mom gives birth to healthy baby after breast cancer treatment   New 10/12

Mom Shares Story of Her Baby's Short but Beautiful Life, After Fetal Abnormality Diagnosed

Mother With Cancer Sacrifices Her Life for Her Unborn Baby

On The Dignity of the Disabled and the Call to Save Them From Abortion  (Msgr. Charles Pope)   New 01/13

Open to life, even with a 25 percent chance of cystic fibrosis   New 07/12

Parents of preemie triplets find meaning in the unthinkable   New 01/13

Parents Reject Doctor’s Advice to Abort Baby With Birth Defects   New 02/13

Peter's Story   (Mary Kellett)   New 03/13

Prenatal Testing Brings Inherent Moral Dangers, Leads to Abortion  (Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk)

Prenatal Testing Leading to Abortions of Disabled Babies is Eugenics  (Mark Leach)   New 09/12

Prenatal Testing of Babies Doesn't Have to End in Abortion, Alternatives Available  (M. Klatt)

Pro-Life Video Report: Baby Saved by Prenatal Heart Surgery   New 02/13

Quadruplets Turn One After Mother Rejected Abortion Advice   New 03/13

Statement on early induction of labor (National Catholic Bioethics Center)

Study Finds Abortion Not Needed When Pregnant Women Face Cancer Treatment
Real life case:  Courageous Mother Delays Chemotherapy Treatment for Cancer, Saves Lives of Twins

Study Finds Common Infertility Treatments Are Unlikely To Improve Fertility

Study: Genetic Testing Not Good at Predicting Diseases

Study says pregnancy is safe, even beneficial, for women recovering from breast cancer

Surgical Advances for Unborn Patients

A tale of two terminally ill children

There is No Justification for Aborting Babies With Down Syndrome  (Cassy Fiano)   New 02/13

Tribute Video to Short Life of Handicapped Baby Inspires Tens of Thousands

Trisomy Angel: The boy with a ‘divine purpose’ who taught his family the meaning of love   New 03/13

TTTS Prenatal Treatment: Katie's Story

‘Walking through fire’: A mother’s desperate fight against breast cancer, and for her unborn baby   New 06/12

‘We wouldn’t have it any other way,’ say 19-year-old conjoined twins: mother refused abortion

When What Seems Broken is Perfect: The Mother of a Disabled Child Tells her Story

Woman With Cancerous Tumor Ignores Abortion Advice, Has Healthy Baby

Woman with ectopic pregnancy risks life and defies the odds - gives birth to healthy baby

World’s First Surgery Removes Tumor From Unborn Baby’s Lips    More...   New 06/12

Why carry a dying child?  (Fr. Frank Pavone)

"Why I Love the Baby of the Man Who Raped Me"

 

Pro-Life Commentary:

Additional Pro-Life Commentaries

Abby Johnson Blog

Bound4LIFE Blog

Celebrate Life Magazine

Charlotte Lozier Institute
(Pro-Life alternative to Guttmacher Institute for statistics)

Dennis Byrne's Commentary

The Embryonic Jesus Story

"Evidence Doesn't Matter" -- APA Spokesperson Says of Abortion Complications

Facing Life Head-On
(video series from Life Issues Institute)

Generations for Life

Humanity of the Unborn

Illinois Review
(check categories of : abortion, HPV vaccination, stem cell research, etc.)

Innocent blood: How lying marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America

Jill Stanek's Blog

Jill Stanek's Columns

Judie Brown's Blog: Straight Talk on Life

Live Action Blog

Mark Crutcher's Blog

My Life With Trig, Our Down Syndrome Child (excerpt from her book)  (Sarah Palin)

On the Trail to Rodham and Gomorrah  (Mark Crutcher)

Paul A. Byrne, M.D. on Life Issues

Pro-choice vs. Pro-Life: a different perspective

Renew America

RFFM.ORG
(includes frequent commentary on Pro-Life topics)

Testimony of a Sidewalk Counselor

Wesley J. Smith Blog and Wesley J. Smith Articles  (he reports on bioethics)

Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse

 

Pro-Life Involvement:

Abolish Abortion (connecting the Pro-Life community)

Aborted Fetal Products (companies to boycott)

Action Needed

American Life League

And Then There Were None  (ministry for abortion workers)    New 06/12

Catholic Medical Assocation

Center for Bio-Ethical Reform

Child Predators (evidence & steps to end the abuse)

Citizens for a Pro-Life Society

Concerned Women for America

Family Research Council

Find your Districts & Legislators   (enter your 9-digit zip code)

Heritage House (supplier of Pro-Life materials)

How One Conversation Turned Me Into a Pro-Life Advocate  (Kristen Walker)

Human Life Alliance

Human Life International

Illiana Right to Life Committee

Illinois Citizens for Life

Illinois Federation for Right to Life

International Day of the Unborn Child

Joliet Diocese Respect Life Office

The Justice Foundation

Life Advocacy Resource Project

Life Chain (10/2/11):   check Illinois locations

Life Chain Network (National)

Life Decisions International

Life Dynamics Inc.

Life Education and Resource Network (African-American perspective)

Life United
(partners include: the Duggar family, LIFE International, L.E.A.R.N. Inc, Living Waters, Liberty Counsel,
National Center for Life and Liberty, Family Research Council, and The Justice Foundation)

Live Action (A new-media movment for life)

March for Life (Washington, D.C.)
Trips from Illinois may include: Illiana Right to Life, Chicago Archdiocese,
Joliet Diocese, Rockford Diocese, St. John Cantius, Peoria, Alton, Champaign

Missionaries To The Preborn

Five Myths About Pro-Life People and How to Refute Them  (Kristen Walker)

Three more myths about pro-lifers, and how to refute them  (Kristen Walker)

National Association of Pro Life Nurses

National Black ProLife Coalition

National Black Pro-Life Union

National Life Chain

NorthWest Families for Life

Not Dead Yet

Operation Outcry

Orthodox Christians for Life of Chicago

Personhood USA
(Human Life Amendment now pursued in many states)

Priests For Life

Pro-Life Action League

Pro-Life Corner    (reports on vigils at Rockford IL abortion facility)
(provides Pro-Life bulletin quotes for each week of the year)

Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity

Pro-life Healthcare Alliance

Pro-Life Pro-Family Coalition

Protecting Black Life

Respect Life Office, Archdiocese of Chicago

Rockford Diocese Respect Life Office

Rockford Pro-Life Initiative

Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities (USCCB)

Small Victories Ministries

Speak Out Illinois

Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally

State of Illinois Legislature

Students for Life of America

Students for Life of Illinois

Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust

University Faculty for Life

Upcoming Events

Women's Rights Without Frontiers  (stop gendercide & forced abortion)

40 Days for Life  (next one:  Fall, 2013 -- Sept 25 through Nov 3)
Commentary on successes and experiences of 40 Days for Life from around the nation
Check national locations from Lent 2013
Lent, 2013 Illinois locations included:  Aurora, Champaign, Glen Ellyn, Springfield
Fall 2012 Illinois locations included: Champaign, Chicago, Downers Grove, Granite City, Ottawa, Peoria
Lent, 2012 Illinois locations included:  Champaign, Chicago-Old Town, Downers Grove, Rockford, Springfield

 

Pro-Life News:

Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)   (monitors the U.N.)

Catholic News Agency

Catholic Online

Christian Communication Network

Christian News Wire

Family Research Council Blog

Illinois Family Institute

Illinois Federation for Right to Life

IRLC Pro-Life Blog

IRLC Pro-Life Newsline

LifeIssues.Net

LifeNews.com

Life Site News

Live Action News

One News Now

Operation Rescue

Pro-Life America

ProLifeBlogs

Search for news: Web www.IllinoisRightToLife.org

townhall.com

Westley J. Smith Blog

ZENIT -- The World Seen From Rome

 

Sex Education:

See also:  Abstinence & Chastity

FACT:  "comprehensive" sex education leads to more abortions, not less

DEFINITION:  "Comprehensive" sex education -- everything you ever wanted to know about sex and were
afraid to ask, as well as everything you didn't want to know about sex but were forced to find out.
(Fran Eaton)

SOLUTION:  just for health class, homeschool your children (from IFI)

Canadian Teens Say Parents, Not Sex-Ed, is Best for Info on Healthy Sexuality

The Case for Maintaining Abstinence Education Funding

College Women at Risk for Psychiatric Illness from Casual Sex    Commentary

Comprehensive Sex Education Gets Failing Grade

“Comprehensive” Sex Education is Ineffective, Abstinence Works, Major Study Shows

Comprehensive Sex Ed: Part I  (Laurie Higgins)

Comprehensive Sex Ed: Part II  (Laurie Higgins)

Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence: A Study of Competing Curricula
(claims that "comprehensive sex education" places an emphasis on abstinence are false)

Emerging Answers Begs the Question of Objectivity on Abstinence Education

Exposing Planned Parenthood

Heritage Foundation Research

Hooking Kids on Sex   (ALL video)   New 05/13

HPV Condom Study Shows the Failure of Condom Education

Minority Report: Study Supporting Comprehensive Sex Ed over Abstinence Flawed

A Psychoanalytic Look at Today's Sex Education
(this analysis was written in 1985 and appears to be prophetic about the ongoing problems created by many sex educators)

Reduction Program in Britain Resulted in More than Twice as Many Teen Pregnancies

"Responsible sex education" is irresponsible

Sex Education
(more sex education & easier teen access to birth control produces more abortions)

Sexualized Images of Women in the Media are Harmful to
Girls' Self-Image and Healthy Development (American Psychological Association)

Study Finds Early Sex Linked to Teen Delinquency Which Can Last into Adulthood

Study: 98% of parents want to be primary sex educators

UK Study Finds Sex Ed and Morning After Pills Encourage Promiscuity

What Do Parents Want Taught in Sex Education Programs?

When Sex Becomes a False God  (Jennifer Hartline)

The Whole Truth about Comprehensive Sex Education

 

Stem Cell Research:

See also:  Human Cloning & Engineering

Center for Bioethics & Culture Network

Do No Harm
(Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics)

Definition of the Embryo: Time to Be Clear, Very Clear

Embryonic Stem Cell Motives

Fetal Attraction: What the Stem Cell Scientists Really Want

National Catholic Bioethics Center

National Cord Blood Program

Researchers: We Can Make Embryonic Stem Cells Without Destroying Life
Pro-Life Advocates Say New Embryonic Stem Cell Research Method Ethical

Resources: Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity

Stem Cell Research Facts

Stem Cell Research: In-Depth

Stem Cell Research Summary

 

Vaccines:

National Vaccine Information Center

Vaccines -- Children of God for Life

Is Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Linked to Autism?

The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'
(vaccines suspect as factors for autism, childhood asthma, and juvenile diabetes)

Articles in Prominent Medical Journal Doubt Worth and Benefit of HPV Vaccines

Bioethical company studying possible aborted fetal cell vaccine/autism link

Biotech Firm To Provide Ethical Alternatives to Aborted Fetal Vaccines

Catholic Medical Association Wants Vaccines Not Using Cells From Abortions

Change Points Suggest Relationship Between Residual Human DNA Vaccine Contaminants and Autism

Childhood Vaccines containing Fetal DNA  (on right side after scroll down)

Childhood Vaccines from aborted fetal cell lines and ethical alternatives

Childhood Vaccine Chart -- printable format (pdf)
(reveals vaccines containing aborted fetal DNA)

Childhood Vaccines produced using aborted fetal tissue

Ethical Vaccine providers:  Pro-Life Physicians List

Exemptions from Vaccines:                                                                                  
Vaccination Requirements / Exemptions: Current Laws for Illinois
Exemptions for Vaccines (specific Illinois requirements)
Immunization Exemption Information (Illinois)
Illinois Religious exemption letter.doc
Legal School Vaccination and Immunization Exemption (Illinois)

Exemptions for Vaccines (religious)

FDA Knew It:  Cervical Cancer Not Caused by HPV Virus

Feds admit vaccine 'aggravated' autism

Gardasil and HPV Infection -- Get the Facts

Gardasil guards against almost nothing

Gardasil is Not a Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer

Gardasil victims speak out in videos released by famed doc

Gardasil HPV Vaccine -- Adverse Reports:                                                                                            
Teenage Girl Becomes Infertile after Gardasil Vaccination    New 10/12
Gardasil Causes 400 Percent More Deaths than Other Common Vaccine
FDA Records Indicate 28 Deaths in 2008 Related to HPV Vaccine
Gardasil Vaccination Results in Three Outbreaks of Genital Warts in Fiji School Children
HPV Vaccine Causes 21 Deaths and Counting - CDC Study Launched
Death toll linked to Gardasil vaccine rises    HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month
US Death Toll from HPV Vaccine Jumps to 11 with 3779 Adverse Reactions Reported

HPV Vaccine—Another Deception of the Culture of Death  (Fr. Thomas Euteneuer)

HPV Vaccine—The Chemical Condom  (Fr. Thomas Euteneuer)

HPV Vaccine—Hate To Say “I Told You So”  (Fr. Thomas Euteneuer)

[NOTE: This HPV vaccine is produced by Merck and called Gardasil.]

Pediatricians Oppose Mandatory HPV Vaccine

Pro-Life Physician Database

Rally for American Personal Rights

Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute    (Theresa A. Deisher, Ph.D.)
SCPI Study on Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines

State Law & Vaccine Requirements

Study Confirms Autism Boom - Correlates with Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines     06/10 Update

Summary of IRLC review of the HPV vaccine called Gardasil

Top researcher: 'Untested' vaccine could harm -- Says HPV 'experiment' on girls might even increase cancer rate

Top Ten Reasons to Demand Conscientious Exemption for Mandatory Vaccinations

Vatican Condemns Vaccines Made with Tissue Obtained by Abortion

Vatican Official Clarifies Stand On Vaccines From Fetal Tissue

 

Value of Life:

Catholics in Political Life
(US Bishops: June 2004)

Catholic Church Position on Abortion     St. Thomas Aquinas

Conscience and Catholic Politicians (Part 1)

Conscience and Catholic Politicians (Part 2)

Declaration on Euthanasia    Appying this teaching
(Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, May 1980)

Declaration on Procured Abortion

Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love)
(Benedict XVI, January 2006)

Dignitas Personae
(Doctrinal Congregation Instruction on Some Bioethical Questions, Dec 2008)

Donum Vitae (Gift of Life)
(Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Feb 1987)

Evangelium Vitae (Gospel of Life)
(John Paul II, March 1995)

Faithful Citizenship - A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility
(US Bishops: Oct 2003)

Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility
from the Catholic Bishops of the United States
full statement (November 14, 2007)
[summary statement: The Challenge of Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship]

The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized
(approved by Pope Benedict XVI on 1/19/07)      Interview to Clarify Misunderstandings

Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life)
(Paul VI, July 1968)

Life-Giving Love in an Age of Technology
(use of reproductive technologies -- US Bishops: Nov 2009)

Life-Sustaining Treatments and "Vegetative" State  (Pope John Paul II)

Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics
(US Bishops: Nov 1998)

Married Love and the Gift of Life
(US Bishops: Nov 2006)

Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women)
(John Paul II, August 1988)

Participation of Catholics in Political Life
(Vatican: Nov 2002)

Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities
(US Bishops: Nov 2001)

Pope's Warnings on Life, Family and Culture in 2008 -- Compiled

Responses to Certain Questions of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
   Commentary   (Vatican: Aug 2007)

Scriptures on Abortion

Teachings of the Magisterium on Abortion

Theology of the Body   (reflections of Pope John Paul II)

Vatican Official Reconfirms Morning After Pill Cannot be Used Even in Cases of Rape

Why my support for abortion was based on love … and lies  (Jennifer Fulwiler)   New 01/13

You Will Know the Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free

 

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