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I’m Personally Opposed to Abortion…

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 8, 2017 /

…an abortion yourself. If you want to call yourself “pro-life,” you have to act like it. + Endnotes [1] Magnus Hirschfield, M.D. “My Views on Birth Control.”  Birth Control Review,…

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

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / October 31, 2018 /

…The Third Prophecy Part VI: The Fourth Prophecy Part VII: Modernity’s Challenges to Humanae Vitae Part VIII: The Church’s Right to Teach on Birth Control Part IX: The Church’s Teaching…

How the Gates Foundation Harms, Not Helps, Human Development

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / June 24, 2019 /

…that the Gates Foundation has previously spent on promoting contraception. Melinda defends her foundation’s emphasis on contraception by claiming that there are hundreds of millions of women with an “unmet…

Are Unsafe Abortions Stopped by Legalizing Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / October 4, 2024 /

…an abortion.”1 More recently, columnist Ellen Goodman breathlessly proclaimed, “After all, those of us who remember when birth control was illegal and when 10,000 American women a year died from…

The Early History of the Eugenics Movement

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 30, 2020 /

…― Margaret Sanger. Her journal The Birth Control Review, along with her many books, features hundreds of examples of racist and eugenicist thinking, culminating in her 1932 “Plan for Peace.”…

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

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / September 10, 2021 /

…The Third Prophecy Part VI: The Fourth Prophecy Part VII: Modernity’s Challenges to Humanae Vitae Part VIII: The Church’s Right to Teach on Birth Control Part IX: The Church’s Teaching…

What Does the Catholic Church Teach about Sterilization?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / May 9, 2017 /

Some people refer to sexual sterilization as “Catholic birth control.” This erroneous term, along with the misguided assertions of a number of well-known dissenters, has led to significant confusion regarding…

Planned Parenthood Abortion Statistics

By Brian Clowes, PhD / July 2, 2021 /

…also distributed 584,003 “emergency contraception” kits that year, and there is no way to tell how many early preborn lives were ended in this manner. According to its own 2019…

Marriage and True Love versus “Contraceptive Love”

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / March 10, 2025 /

…“self-expression” or “self-fulfillment” there logically is no need to be married. Contraception is what makes this plausible. Fr. Boquet on an NFP training mission In rejecting contraception, the Church makes…

A Post-Roe America: What’s Next?

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 16, 2022 /

…contraception there will be a reduction in the number of abortions; however, now that contraceptive use has been widespread in the U.S. for more than fifty-seven years (remember birth control…