About the Author
Marisa Cantu has a master's in political science and international affairs and a bachelor's in political science. She has also studied international studies and French. She has a strong background in nonprofit work, research, writing, and policy proposal and analysis.
HLI has helped save teenage girls in Uganda. The teenage pregnancy rate in Uganda is high. About a quarter of Ugandan girls aged 15-19 are pregnant, or are already mothers, according to a UNICEF survey. To combat this, a policy was proposed to the Ugandan government to distribute birth control to teenage girls. Yet this…
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Malawi high school students chased Malawi Planned Parenthood out of their school in September. Human Life International’s missionaries had been to the Natola high school before for chastity training and information on contraception and abortion. Since HLI’s trainings, there have been no pregnancies in the school – a fact that the Natola teacher attributes to…
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What exactly is “abortifacient” birth control, and is “the Pill” an abortifacient? Contraceptives are methods of birth control that place a physical barrier between sperm and egg, such as condoms and diaphragms. By contrast, abortifacients are hormonal-based methods of birth control that often cause early abortions. In 2019, an estimated 27% of women were using…
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Abortion in Texas is banned. But women find ways to travel out-of-state to get an abortion. Lubbock has become the fourth Texas county to ban abortion travel. After Dobbs vs. Jackson overturned Roe vs. Wade, Texas banned abortion completely in the state. Related: Planned Parenthood vs. Casey Summary: The Essential Facts However, Texans began traveling…
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Enoch Burke is experiencing the effects of compelled speech in a “democratic” society. A history and German teacher in Ireland and a Christian, he was suspended from his school after refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns. Since then, he received a court order to stay away from the school. But he failed to follow…
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Planned Parenthood vs. Casey was a landmark case for abortion laws. It was decided in 1992, almost two decades after Roe vs. Wade. Roe was the infamous case of 1973 that legalized abortion in the United States and ruled that women have a “right” to abortion under a clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Casey gave…
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We live in a hedonistic society. Hedonism is the idea that pleasure, and especially physical pleasure, is the primary goal of life, instead of love of God and love of neighbor. One of the most common ways in which pleasure is pursued is sexual pleasure. Having sex outside of marriage has become so common that…
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The first states legalized abortion in 1967. Since then, there have been about 63 million abortions performed in this country. One-sixth of our nation’s entire population has disappeared into the maws of the latter-day extermination camps that the corrupt media calls “reproductive care centers.” How does abortion affect society? We have killed a vast number…
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Before we address this delicate issue, we would like to express from the start that our intention is not denigrate any person, no matter what his or her sexual attitudes are. Our purpose is to shed the objective light of God’s Word on the topic of transgenderism, not to personally condemn anybody. Only God can…
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“Freedom of Choice!” Undoubtedly an ideal slogan. Freedom is the basis upon which our nation was founded and remains our fundamental guiding principle. Who but an ignorant bigot could possibly be against freedom, “choice,” and personal independence? When we hear “freedom of choice,” we imagine the stark opposite. We imagine a nation where one’s life…
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