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China’s Disastrous One Child Policy Wants You to Think it Changed – It Didn’t

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / April 30, 2018 /

…mentality, including coercive population control. Anti-life and anti-family activists have long scolded the Church for being “anti-women” for rejecting contraception and the “right to choose” abortion. But they turn a…

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Should Serodiscordant Couples be Permitted to Use Condoms?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / May 10, 2017 /

…method of contraception become pregnant within one year.2 As previously shown, condoms fail one time in every sixteen uses. This is the rate for developed nations; surely the rate is…

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Shouldn’t We Have Rape Abortion Exceptions to Help Victims?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / August 7, 2024 /

…judgment of the physician, help establish prudential certitude that emergency contraception, if it were provided to the victim, would properly function as a contraceptive and not as an abortifacient. To…

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The Apparent “Pro-Life Until Birth” Hypocrisy

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / November 22, 2024 /
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…routinely done after an abortion. They are happy to have the woman come back from contraception and STI screening. However, the lack of post-abortion follow-up care treats abortion as if…

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Marriage – An Apostolic Endeavor

By Fr. Basil Cole, OP / July 9, 2018 /
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…that contraception and abortifacients are looked upon as promotors of women’s “health.” This euphemism has hidden underneath it the notion that children get in the way of intimacy, a career,…

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True Unity of a Human Person Defies All “Gender” Ideology

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / June 19, 2018 /
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…believe in the classical and Catholic definition of the human person. Those who believe in abortion, contraception, destructive embryo research, and the LGTB ideology fall into biologism. If the body…

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What is the Role of Conscience in Moral Decision-Making?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / October 15, 2021 /
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…Deformed Belief System The belief that the conscience is a moral authority in its own right has resulted in Catholics supporting and promoting many intrinsic evils, including contraception, sterilization, abortion,…

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Can Catholics Apply the Principle of Probabilism to Abortion Decisions?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / September 7, 2018 /
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…Church’s condemnation of abortion, sterilization and contraception. Therefore, the principle of probabilism does not apply in these cases. Regarding abortion, no prudent person could possibly conclude that Church law is…

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The Christian Sexual Revolution

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 17, 2018 /
How Marriage Improves Happiness

…perversion. The widespread propaganda in support of immorality – impurity, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, and divorce – signify an assault on family and life and the Christian understanding of the human…

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Life and Death – A Different Worldview

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / November 12, 2018 /
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…hope for and investment in the future – are a thing to be prevented through contraception, sexuality is reduced to the tawdry and transactional, suicide ever lurks on the peripheries,…

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