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Russia Initiates a Culture of Life

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / January 6, 2025 /

…poured billions of dollars into promoting abortion, contraception, and sterilization, creating an anti-natalist worldview. And even in the face of potentially catastrophic birth declines, this “new” cultural and societal mindset…

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The Global Fertility Crisis

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / August 4, 2025 /

…1950s, fell steeply throughout the 1960s and early 1970s (when contraception and abortion became widely available), before rising in the 1980s and 90s. Beginning in 2008, however, the fertility rate…

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Does Welfare Reduce Abortion?

By HLI Staff / July 22, 2013 /
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…Abortion Rates Just as real-world evidence shows that access to contraception does not reduce the abortion rate despite seemingly commonsense logic to the contrary, welfare does not reduce the abortion…

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Humanae Vitae Explained

By Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro / July 25, 2013 /

In this 2001 presentation, Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula, executive director of HLI’s Rome office, explains that the Church has always taught that contraception is a sin. Some claims arose starting in…

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The War on Marriage and Family

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / October 29, 2016 /
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…of how the war on these institutions continues. With poisonous eloquence, political candidates and pundits defend same-sex unions, perverted sex education programs, sex and reproductive rights — contraception and abortion…

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A Better Solution to Third-World Poverty

By HLI Staff / March 17, 2017 /
poor indian woman with baby

…their children as the enemy to progress, as they are often portrayed here in the “developed” world. Hence, the push for contraception and abortion even before these countries have adequate…

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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

…their solution to humanity’s struggles is to provide greater access to contraception and abortion – especially with the goal of diminishing growing populations in the developing world. However, their agendas…

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What is the Abortion Situation in Africa?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / April 14, 2017 /

…98% of Kenyan women have access to contraception, many do not use it. So the Kenyan government, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund, has launched a saturation campaign…

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Why Should Celibate Priests Speak about Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / August 28, 2018 /
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…of propaganda designed to keep priests on the sideline of this fight. Unfortunately, too many priests welcome the opportunity to avoid speaking on the difficult topics of abortion and contraception.2…

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Understanding Gender Ideology

By Don DeMarco, PhD / October 29, 2018 /
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…respect to man and the modern development of society. The problem that constituted this “biological burden” had to be solved by means of contraception and abortion, and in time, lesbianism….

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