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What Are Abortifacients?

By HLI Staff / August 7, 2023 /
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An abortifacient “an agent (such as a drug) that induces abortion.” After an egg is fertilized, abortifacients kill the unborn child. However, manufactures often market these drugs under the name “contraception” to make them more appealing to consumers. Abortifacients are different from contraceptives in that they do not prevent an egg from being fertilized. Rather, they…

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Living an Authentic Catholic Life Means Teaching the Truth about Transgenderism

By Susan Ciancio / August 28, 2023 /
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“I think I was born in the wrong body” is a statement we are hearing more and more often today. Much of the time it’s uttered by youth. This greatly concerns those who care about the well-being of vulnerable children, especially as current estimates predict that about 300,000 kids between the ages of 13 and…

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Abortion Survivors: 5 People Who Survived Abortion Attempts

By William Lawyer and Marisa Cantu / August 31, 2023 /

It is easy to forget that every abortion is happening to a unique person. With tens of millions of abortions occurring every year, the deaths become a mere statistic. We never know the people who are lost, and to many of us, they are just numbers on a sheet. Sometimes, however, someone comes along who…

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Shouldn’t We Allow “Freedom of Choice” for Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / September 7, 2023 /
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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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The World Doesn’t Need Population Control; It Needs Families

By Susan Ciancio / September 14, 2023 /
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Day after day we hear the phrase “population control.” We hear laments that the planet is overcrowded and running out of resources. It seems that many people care more about the planet than the human beings who inhabit it. Among the solutions to this problem, they say, is the idea that we should limit the…

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Planned Parenthood: What Do They Do With The Bodies?

By William Lawyer / September 18, 2023 /

In 2015, investigators from The Center for Medical Progress approached Planned Parenthood to purchase fetal remains. Posing as buyers from a human biologics company, the CMP set up meetings over lunch and at Planned Parenthood facilities. The investigators secretly recorded their conversations with Planned Parenthood executives. The videos, released in a wave to the public…

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What Does the Bible Say about Transgender People?

By Adolfo J. Castañeda and Marisa Cantu / September 21, 2023 /
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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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What Are the Products That Use Aborted Fetuses?

By HLI Staff and William Lawyer / September 22, 2023 /

Do some products contain parts of aborted babies? The short answer is: “Yes.” However, today’s consumer products are not the soap and lampshades of “recycled” Nazi concentration camp victims that we see in museums. The new utilitarian use of “people as product” is a sophisticated enterprise that is not visible to the human eye. Perhaps…

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How Does Abortion Affect the United States?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / September 25, 2023 /

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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Why Is Premarital Sex a Sin?

By Adolfo J. Castañeda and Marisa Cantu / September 28, 2023 /
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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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