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
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
Brain Damaged Man
Incapacitated for Six Years Imrpoves After Electrode Help
‘Cardiac Death’ Allows One to Kill the Organ Donor (Dr. John Shea
MD)
Conference may Begin to Sway Vatican Opinion Against Brain Death: Eminent
Philosopher
Connecting the Dots on End
of Life Issues
The Dangers of Hospice
Declaration
on Organ Donation
Download as Word
Document New 07/10
Depriving Artificially Administered Food and Fluids Is "Inhumane" --
Bishop's Directive
Ending
Renal Dialysis: Ethical Issues in Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment
The
Federal Government is Undermining Hospice (Wesley J. Smith)
Hospice Bait & Switch
Hospice Checklist
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 is Worth
Living
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
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
National Association
to Stop Guardian Abuse
New
England Journal of Medicine: 'Brain Death' is not Death - Organ Donors are Alive
Non-Heart Beating
Organ Donation (NHBD)
NRLC
"Will to Live" Health Care Proxy
Organ
donation: The inconvenient truth
Organ Donors Beware!
Organ
Harvesting Before "Brain-Death" Increasingly Common, Doctors Warn
Organ Harvesting:
Defining Defenseless Human Beings as Natural Resources (Wesley Smith)
Partnership for Medical
Ethics Reform
Permanent
Vegetative State (PVS) Diagnosis Often Inaccurate, More Data Shows
Pope Rules
"PVS" Patients May Not be Denied Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Pope
Warns Organ Transplant Conference of Abuses of Death Criteria
"Portable
Medical Order" under any name is a dangerous document New 02/10
(POLST, MOST, MOLST, or other acronyms)
Protective
Medical Decisions Document
(Life-affirming Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care from
Int'l Task Force)
Questioning Brain Death: Ethical
dilemmas at the beginning of death (by Jose A. Bufill, M.D.)
Re-thinking
the business of organ procurement and transplantation (Julie Grimstad)
Recovery After
"Brain Death":
"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...
Removal
from the New Organ/Tissue Donor Registry (Illinois)
Research on
"brain dead" and "almost dead" patients declared "ethical"
Researchers See Normal
Brain Activity in Another "PVS" Patient
Study
Reveals Brain Activity in PVS Patient
Understanding
Brain Death (by Paul A. Byrne, M.D.)
Vatican
Newspaper: Brain Death and thus Organ Donation Must be Reconsidered
“Vegetative”
Patients may Retain Awareness: Study More... New 02/10
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)
Why
Catholics (and Everyone Else) Should Avoid Living Wills
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
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
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 Research
Euthanasia Resources
Futile care
“ethicists” push involuntary euthanasia
Hospice Care: Involuntary
Euthanasia Cases
International Anti-Euthanasia
Task Force
International
Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Killing
Babies, Compassionately: The Netherlands follows in Germany's footsteps
Life Tree
(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
Not Dead Yet
Pain and
Physician-Assisted Suicide – What is Going On?
Palliative Care
"Killing me softly"
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) New 05/10
Resources:
Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
Right to Die Movement is
Really About Euthanasia, Not Compassion
Still
in the World: A Pro-Life View of Death and Dying
Terri Schiavo Case: In Depth
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)
Fetal Development:
Be Not Afraid
(cases of fetal abnormalities)
Development Of the Child
Diary of an Unborn
Child
Down Syndrome Tests
Risky for All Babies, Study Shows
Embryology: Inconvenient Facts (William L.
Saunders, Jr.)
Facts
of Fetal Development
Groundbreaking
In-the-Womb Photos Now Improved and Republished
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)
Precious
Life (Testimony, Pictures, Information)
Prenatal Testing: Worthwhile or Wrong?
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 New 03/10
Truth
Booth
(view ultrasound images)
Ultrasound: 4D
from GE
Ultrasound:
4D pictures of unborn babies
Unborn Children May
Already Have Short-Term Memory Formed at 30 Weeks
Unborn
Person
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 New 05/10
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 your
Districts & Legislators (select "By
Address" and 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 New 04/10
Cloning
Information Website
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
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
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)
NaProTECHNOLOGY
(alternative to in vitro fertilization)
Pope
Paul VI Institute (founded by Dr. Thomas Hilgers)
Agents of Change
(compares NaProTechnology with IVF)
Assisted
Reproductive Technologies are Anti-Woman
(presents risks of in vitro
fertilization [IVF] for both mother and child)
Disturbing
trend: Designer children designed to be disabled (Joseph A. D'Agostino)
'Eggsploitation'
Documentary Reveals Secrets of Infertility Industry New 07/10
Facing infertility: A
journey of faith, hope and love (Mary-Louise Kurey)
Fertility Treatment is Hugely Successful but Largely Ignored by
Medicine (T. Baklinski)
French Study: Assisted
Reproductive Technology Doubles Risk of Deformity New 06/10
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
IVF
Children Suffer More Health Problems Than Naturally-Conceived Children
IVF-Conceived
Children Have Higher Risk of Cancer: Swedish Study New 07/10
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
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) New 03/10
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"
Risk of
Stillbirth 4 Times Higher After IVF
Study:
65% of Sub-Fertile Women Achieve Pregnancy with Natural Method New 07/10
Study:
Donor-Conceived Children More Likely to be Isolated, Delinquent New 06/10
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
U.K. Embryo Authority Warns
IVF Children Have 30% Higher Risk of Genetic Abnormality
Laws & Legal Issues:
See also: Government
& Voting
Action Needed
Alliance
Defense Fund
American
Center for Law & Justice
Americans
United for Life
Catholic
Conference of Illinois
Find your
Districts & Legislators (select "By
Address" and enter your 9-digit zip code)
Legislative Action
Center
Life Legal Defense Foundation
Personhood USA
(Human Life Amendment now pursued in
many states)
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
Childhood
Family Structure Linked to Rate of Female Homosexuality New 05/10
Children
Thrive When Parents Follow Religious Beliefs, Study Shows
Cohabitation
Ends in Separation 90% of the Time
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-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
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 New 04/10
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
New 05/10
Gay
Marriage and the End of Christian Civilization (Fr. Thomas Euteneur) New 08/10
Gay
"Marriage" a Bust in Spain
"Gays"
Don't Want "Marriage" After All
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
Illinois'
New Dangerous "Sexual Orientation" Law
The Innate-Immutable
Argument Finds No Basis in Science
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
Marriage
Amendment "Only Alternative" to Judicial Activism, Says Bush
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?
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
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
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
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
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)
Culture
Campaign
Defend
the Family
EXODUS International
Family Research Council
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
(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
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)
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)
Pope Paul VI Institute (founded by Dr. Thomas Hilgers)
Study Shows
Natural Family Planning Technique More “Effective” Than Contraception
Testimony on NFP Benefits
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
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
The
Myth of Overpopulation and the Folks Who Brought it to You
The
Population Controllers and Their War on People
UN:
Elderly to Outnumber Children for First Time in 2045 New 01/10
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' New 07/10
World Welcomes Baby
6,666,666,666 But Overpopulation Not a Reality (Colin Mason)
Post Abortion
Assistance:
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
New 06/10
(or call 866-482-LIFE)
Hope
After Abortion (Project Rachel)
(or call 888-456-HOPE)
In Our Midst Ministries
Legal Action for
Women
Operation
Outcry
Post
Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS) Support
Post-Abortion
Trauma & Healing (Elliot Institute)
Priests For Life
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)
Silent No More Awareness
Time
to Speak
(Love From Above Inc -- (866) Time 2 Speak)
Women Deserve Better
Pregnancy Help &
Support:
See also: Natural
Family Planning (NFP)
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
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)
Down Syndrome: Going to bat
video Stop Aborting blog
Chloe's message New 06/10
Early Induction of Labor (NCBC Statement)
FertilityCare
Centers of America
(based on Creighton Model
FertilityCare System and NaProTECHNOLOGY)
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
LIFECALL:
Resources for Pregnant Women
M.I.S.S. Foundation
(providing crisis support and long term aid to
families after the death of a child from any cause)
Mom Shares Story of
Her Baby's Short but Beautiful Life, After Fetal Abnormality Diagnosed
My
Choice Chicago (773-283-0825)
National Life Center
(800-848-LOVE)
One More
Soul (find NFP-only physicians)
Option Line
(pregnancy help) (800-395-HELP)
PASS Network of Life-Affirming Care
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)
Prenatal Testing Brings
Inherent Moral Dangers, Leads to Abortion (Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk)
Prenatal Testing of
Babies Doesn't Have to End in Abortion, Alternatives Available (M. Klatt)
Society for the Preservation of
Human Dignity (PHD)
South Haven
Pregnancy Center
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
Surgical
Advances for Unborn Patients
A tale of two
terminally ill children
TeenBreaks (for young people: teenage pregnancy, etc.)
Tribute Video to Short
Life of Handicapped Baby Inspires Tens of Thousands
TTTS Prenatal Treatment: Katie's
Story
When What
Seems Broken is Perfect: The Mother of a Disabled Child Tells her Story
"Why
I Love the Baby of the Man Who Raped Me"
Waterleaf Women's Center (630-701-6270)
The Women's Center (708-425-0707,
773-283-1400, and 800-400-4205)
WomanCare Services (Berwyn,
IL) (708-795-6000)
Woman's Choice
Services (630-261-9221)
Pro-Life
Commentary:
Additional Pro-Life Commentaries
Celebrate Life Magazine
The
Embryonic Jesus Story
"Evidence
Doesn't Matter" -- APA Spokesperson Says of Abortion Complications
Facing
Life Head-On New
06/10
(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
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)
Pro-choice vs. Pro-Life: a different
perspective
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:
Action Needed
American Life League
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
Contact the
Media
Culture Campaign
Family Research Council
Find your
Districts & Legislators
Heritage House (supplier of Pro-Life materials)
Human Life Alliance
Human Life International
Illiana Right
to Life Committee
Illinois Citizens for Life
Illinois Federation for Right
to Life
Life Advocacy Resource
Project
Life Chain (10/4/09): check Illinois locations
Life Chain Network
Life Decisions International
Life Dynamics Inc.
Life Education and
Resource Network (African-American
perspective)
Life is Worth Living
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
National
Black Pro-Life Union
National Life Chain
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
(provides Pro-Life bulletin quotes for each week of
the year)
Pro-Life
Day of Silent Solidarity
Respect
Life Office, Archdiocese of Chicago
Rockford Pro-Life
Initiative
Secretariat for
Pro-Life Activities (USCCB)
Small Victories
Ministries
Speak Out Illinois
State of Illinois Legislature
Students for Life of
America
Students for Life of
Illinois
University Faculty for Life
Upcoming Events
40 Days for
Life
(next one: Fall, 2010 -- Sept 22 to Oct 31)
Commentary on successes and experiences of 40 Days
for Life from around the nation
Check locations from Spring 2010
Champaign Downers Grove Granite City Rockford
(FYI: Illinois Fall 2009 included Chicago, Aurora, Downers
Grove, Glen Ellyn, Champaign, Granite City, and Peoria)
Pro-Life News:
Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institute
(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
One News Now
Operation Rescue
Pro-Life America
ProLifeBlogs
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
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
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)
New 03/10
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
Vaccine Awareness
Coalition (Illinois)
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
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
New 04/10
Childhood
Vaccine Ingredient Information
Childhood
Vaccines from aborted fetal cell lines and ethical alternatives
Childhood Vaccines
produced using aborted fetal tissue
Ethical
Vaccine providers: Pro-Life Physicians List
Exemptions
for Vaccines (Illinois)
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
HPV Vaccine -- Adverse Reports:
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
New 06/10
Sound Choice
Pharmaceutical Institute
New 04/10
SCPI Study on Aborted Fetal DNA
in Vaccines
Study
Confirms Autism Boom - Correlates with Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines
New 04/10 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
New 06/10
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)
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)
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
New
11/09
(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
You Will Know the
Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free
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