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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.

What is the best way to conquer a nation and subdue its people? The great Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote in his classic The Art of War, “All warfare is based primarily on the deception of an enemy. Fighting on a battlefield is the most primitive way of making war. There is no art higher…

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Is Contraception Sinful in Ignorance of Church Teaching?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 19, 2017 /
The Last Judgment ~ Dirck Barendsz

There is a very high level of confusion among Catholics regarding the abortifacient action of various forms of birth control.  Unfortunately, this uncertainty is actively promoted by the very profession that should be trying to clarify health issues to the public.   Misinformation Regarding Contraception The modern medical profession acknowledged for decades that the beginning…

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The Strange World of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 18, 2017 /

About 25 years ago, I bought a complete set of Margaret Sanger’s journal The Birth Control Review and ambitiously set out to read every one of its 5,631 pages. The strange experience left me just a little uncertain about what is real and what is not. Sanger’s world has that effect on a person, because…

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Who Was Marie Stopes?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 17, 2017 /
marie stopes in her laboratory

Marie Carmichael Stopes was the United Kingdom’s answer to America’s Margaret Sanger. Both women lived during the same era.  Both were vocal eugenicists and birth control pioneers in their respective nations during the 1920s and 1930s, and their writings show that their views on eugenics and racial purity were identical. Most importantly, Marie Stopes’ legacy…

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Profile: The United Nations Population Fund

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 16, 2017 /

The United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, is one of the three most influential population control groups in the world, standing alongside the Population Council and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. What makes UNFPA unique is that it has the full authority of the United Nations behind it and enjoys a guaranteed one billion dollars…

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What is the Abortion Situation in Europe?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 15, 2017 /

Many American pro-lifers wonder what the long-term impacts of abortion will be on the United States.  We have been making significant progress against the Culture of Death over the past decade, but if our progress is reversed and abortion strengthens its hold on our society, what will happen to our country?  With Obamacare’s funding of…

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What is the Abortion Situation in Africa?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 14, 2017 /

The most effective way to compel the people of a country to serve another nation is to colonize their minds instead of their land and force them to adopt their conqueror’s values.  This produces nations led by compliant and easily corruptible people who will allow the usurpers to pillage their country’s natural resources with impunity.…

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What is the Abortion Situation in the Caribbean?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 14, 2017 /
Carribean

Many have an idealistic view of the islands and the people of the Caribbean, envisioning fancy alcoholic drinks and spotless beaches featuring young men and women with exotic accents lazing around under palm trees. But step back a couple of hundred yards from those beaches and you will find the real people of the Caribbean:…

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What is the Abortion Situation in South America?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 13, 2017 /

South America has a strong Catholic heritage and is relatively friendly towards preborn children. Four small countries, representing only five percent of the population of the continent, have abortion on demand laws or many exceptions that mean the same thing in practice. These are Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana and Uruguay. Chile, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela…

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Is Church Teaching on Contraception Infallible?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 9, 2017 /

What Does “Infallible” Mean? There are two primary means by which the Church may declare a teaching infallible: The first and most definitive statement of infallibility is the Pope’s solemn declaration ex cathedra that a matter of faith or morals must be assented to in order for a Catholic to attain salvation. One example of…

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