Search Results: Development

Fetal Pain Is a Reason to End Abortion

By HLI Staff / October 6, 2021 /
This is a 6-month-old, who feels pain, moves, is formed...what gives anyone the right to abort this child?

…but this is a significant admission by doctors on both sides of the abortion debate, recognizing that even early in human development, the unborn can feel pain. And as the…

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How the Church Must Respond to the Overpopulation Myth

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 23, 2017 /
glass globe in hand

…origin – population maldistribution. This maldistribution has been facilitated by political and governmental corruption, misguided national and international policies, lack of authentic economic and social development, and armed conflicts –…

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The Conception Conundrum

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 20, 2017 /
pregnancy test

…of Embryology says, “The zygote, formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being.”1 And Langman’s Medical Embryology says, “Development begins…

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The Plague of “Contraceptive Imperialism”

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 20, 2017 /
Group of young African kids walking with buckets and jerrycans on their head as they prepare to bring clean water back to their village.

…systematic campaigns against birth, contrary not only to the cultural and religious identity of the countries themselves but also contrary to the nature of true development. It often happens that…

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Abortifacient Brief: Why Was Depo Provera Banned?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / January 29, 2024 /
poverty in africa

…of the uterus) so that its degree of receptivity to the blastocyst (very early developing human being) is significantly decreased. According to Contraceptive Technology, “Other contraceptive actions include the development

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Who are the Players?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / July 7, 2018 /
african children

…Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) push abortion in nearly two hundred countries. While these groups bask in the limelight, many other giant…

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Celebrate the International Day of the Unborn Child

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / March 25, 2020 /

…Himself to the hidden process of biological development through which every human being passes, thus sanctifying the life of every child and every life from the moment of conception. According…

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Why Do So Many “Pro-Choice” Groups Support Forced Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / August 7, 2020 /
choice

…all cars should be confiscated, that development and use of all forms of technology must be discouraged, and that a two-child family be a norm enforced worldwide by an armed…

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Teen Porn Addiction

By Susan Ciancio / April 9, 2021 /
teenage girl on her phone in a coffee shop

…increase in sexual preoccupancy, lower sexual satisfaction with partners, and an escalation in body surveillance. In other words, porn affects brain development. It affects personality development. It affects current and…

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The Teaching of the Prophetic Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Part VII)

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / July 23, 2021 /
huge packed crowd

…These issues are: The myth of “overpopulation” The changed role of women in society A supposedly “greater” appreciation of conjugal love Scientific and technological development   1) The Myth of…

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