William Lile · · This disease is killing 55% of the African American babies in the womb in New York City. I will be speaking along with Dr. Alveda King in NYC in March for “Bringing America Back to Life” as we protect the Pre-born. https://www.personhoodeducationny.com
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Every other human group seems to have a history dedicated to it, it seems that it’s about time for the unborn to have history written about them as well. Introduction to Article
In this timeline, I focused on events. So it doesn’t give the whole picture: not the trends, or statistics, or general practices. I simply wanted to give people an idea of what a history of the unborn could look like; what type of events, ideas and discoveries contributed to the situation of the unborn today. One might think that the history of the unborn would focus solely on abortion. I have found that to be untrue. There is a lot to write about the unborn, and a lot left to be studied and written.
The History of the Unborn Child
If you like my Timeline, please share it. I also encourage you to blog about pro-life history. In the 1980’s it was often said: If abortion is murder, act like it! Well, we can’t stop abortion right now. I would simply like to rephrase that and say: If the unborn are human, act like it! Write their history! I promise you right now there is a historiographical effort to denigrate the unborn and their rights. If we can’t have the unborn respected through politics or popular culture, we can do it through history.
Dear friends,
This week’s main article is a news report from The Christian Post about a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control showing that virginity is helpful to teens. I am quoted extensively. (My personal favorite: “No one has ever died from not having sex.”) In other words, the CDC’s data is completely consistent with Ancient Christian Teachings. Jesus and His Church knew what they were talking about. What a surprise! Full Article
Before Christmas, I promised I would give you our plan for promoting the Ancient Teachings of Christianity about marriage, in their fullness. We want you to be part of our Christ-like social movement to end the injustice and heartbreak of the Sexual Revolution and family breakdown. Our strategy is to give voice to the millions of people who have been harmed by NOT following these Teachings. Jesus knew what he was talking about when he told us not to remarry after divorce. Millions of children of divorce and reluctantly divorced people can testify to this.
Virgin Teens Much Healthier Than Their Sexually Active Peers
Our plan has two steps: CDC Report
1. Offer people help for healing from family breakdown.
2. Encourage people to reach out to others, to offer them hope and healing in turn.
Everything we do in 2017 will be directed toward implementing this program.
You can be part of this movement. We want to put your gifts to work, sharing this good news. Let’s start simply: Full Article at Christianpost.com
1. Share this article with your friends.
2. Take the Quiz, “Are you a Survivor of the Sexual Revolution?” If you find you are a Survivor, you will want to read all of Step 1 from “The Seven Steps to Sexual Peace.” You can purchase “The Seven Steps to Sexual Peace” handbook now at a 50% discount.
Many crazy things are happening in our world. But as Jesus said, “be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (Jn. 16:33). We can control what we do ourselves. No one can stop us from doing good. No one can force us to do wrong.
Get involved. Stay involved. If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
Your friend,
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Fighting to save young dad from CRUEL DEATH!
During yesterday’s hearing, one of Joe’s siblings testified that Joe can recognize his children and communicates through blinking. Joe’s father testified that even though his son was disabled, Joe would want to spend as much time as possible with his children. We secured the testimony of a phenomenal Catholic physician and ethicist who affirmed the value of Joe’s life and addressed the ethical problems inherent in forcing death through dehydration. He also discussed Joe’s physical condition, noting that Joe can breathe on his own and does not require extraordinary life-sustaining intervention. He does, however, need food and water to survive—as we all do!
After what’s described here as an emotional debate, the Massachusetts Medical Society voted last month to survey its 25,000 members about attitudes toward “medical aid in dying.” The society has long opposed assisted suicide — e.g., in 2012, it joined the Catholic Church and disability groups in lobbying against a state “death with dignity” ballot initiative. This report notes that California Medical Association dropped its opposition in 2015 (before legalization), as did the Colorado Medical Society this year — a move a spokesperson for the advocacy group Compassion & Choices says played a major role in the passage of the state’s ballot initiative in November. Lead Article at Boston Globe
Doctors confused by right to die
+ Six states legally allow assisted suicide — Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, California, and Colorado — and Washington, D.C. may soon follow (background). Legalization efforts also exist elsewhere: Lawmakers are considering a bill in New Jersey (background), many expect a bill in Maryland (background) and an activist hopes to get it on the 2018 ballot in South Dakota (background). (Washington Post, NorthJersey.com, Catholic Review, Argus Leader)
+ In Massachusetts, the survey also comes at a time when one of the society’s own members, now terminally ill, is suing for a constitutional right (background). (Boston Globe)
I don’t mean sticking a pizza in the oven or putting together that table from Ikea. I mean really making something—a craft, a work of art, a piece of furniture, or anything that demands your energy and creative capacity.
When visiting the public museum recently, my family and I made our way to the upper floor that featured artifacts from what would be considered primitive cultures. People in these parts of the world do not have the benefit of Western technology, and much of their lives are spent simply trying to survive—hunting, fishing, and cultivating crops. No doubt it is an exhausting life, with little time for entertainment or leisure, two things we consider indispensable in our modern lives.
But something struck me about the artifacts I saw: They were all complex and in many ways, beautiful. A spoon used to stir soup was intricately carved with patterns and designs. A blanket was intricately woven. Pottery was decorated with ingenious designs and markings. These artifacts no doubt took a great deal of time, effort, and creativity to make, and yet they were made by people who had far less leisure time than we do in the comfortable first world. Despite the back-breaking labor they endured to simply put food on the table, these people still found time to create, and to do so with great skill and ingenuity. Full Article
We live in a consumeristic society. We would much rather get on Amazon and order what we need, no matter how trivial, than make something ourselves. Then, once we’ve used it up or something newer is available, we throw away our former purchases and buy more. We have so much abundance that things mean hardly anything to us at all. It is a paradox—the more we have, the less we care about what we have. We don’t love the things themselves as much as we love the process of getting new things. As a society, we love to get and consume and throw away and get more. And if the process of getting and spending ever came to an end, we’d hardly know what to do with ourselves.
So what does consumerism have to do with porn? Pornography is consumerism applied to people. Get, use, dispose, repeat. Porn is the commodification of the human person. It makes people cheap and disposable, to be used up and thrown away. It makes us soulless consumers of humanity, of living souls that have been degraded and reduced for our pleasure. And why do we reduce people to products? Why do we so easily reduce a person of infinite worth to a thing to be used and thrown away? Because it’s easier.
Just a few evenings from now, children badly costumed as shepherds and angels and wise men will appear in nativity pageants the world over. Even the worst of these performances will underscore the hope and humbleness of that first Christmas, when a Jewish woman with child brought forth her son in a stable because there was no room for her at the inn. Full Article
More than two millennia later, the Bronx has improved on ancient Bethlehem. Here at Fulton Avenue and 167th Street, in one of New York’s toughest neighborhoods, a pregnant woman with nowhere else to turn will always find what she needs most: an open door and a caring heart.
Welcome to Good Counsel, a network of six homes plus a 24/7 hotline. They are the life’s work of Chris Bell, a lean and gentle 59-year-old husband and father whose story could never be made for the big screen today because only Jimmy Stewart in his prime could do him justice.
Why should women be able to endure the side effects of the pill and men shouldn’t have to deal with it?
Men have never had to bear the emotional or physical discomfort and possibly trauma of pregnancy, abortion, or birth control methods like hormonal pills or IUDs, so that creates an understanding gap in their ability to process just what it all entails; the kind of gap that would make it possible for a drug trial to be halted simply because of side effects that women have been dealing with for decades; the kind of gap that persists because, as a society, men are coddled and still not expected to carry their fair share of the burden where responsibility for family planning and reproduction are concerned. Full Article
The Pill Kills
I, for one, can no longer deal with all of these emotional guys trying to pressure me into birth control options I’m not comfortable with. Men need options that will put them in charge of their own procreation. That time will only come when they stand up and demand it, and when they are finally as committed to getting male birth control as they are committed to trying to tell women what to do with their bodies.
“It does not violate equal protection to acknowledge basic biological truths.” The court said the laws served the important governmental objectives of tracing public health trends and helping individuals identify personal health issues and genetic conditions Full Article
The court on Thursday ruled against three lesbian married couples who used anonymous sperm donors to conceive, report the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Huffington Post, Arkansas News and Arkansas Online. How Appealing links to additional coverage and the decision.
Court acknowledge basic biological truths
The couples had alleged the birth certificate laws violate their rights to equal protection and due process under Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court decision finding a right to gay marriage. Under Arkansas law, when a wife in a heterosexual marriage gives birth, the husband is automatically given assumed paternity, and can be named on the birth certificate regardless of whether he is the biological father. Lesbian mothers must obtain a court order for their female spouse to be added to a birth certificate. The plaintiffs sought the automatic right to have both spouses’ names on the birth certificate.
The Arkansas Supreme Court majority rejected the argument. “Obergefell did not address Arkansas’ statutory framework regarding birth certificates, either expressly or impliedly,” the court said.
“In the situation involving the female spouse of a biological mother, the female spouse does not have the same biological nexus to the child that the biological mother or the biological father has,” the court said. “It does not violate equal protection to acknowledge basic biological truths.”
