Watch: The 'Stop Planned Parenthood Project'; 'The Pill' Kills
This year, as the birth control pill turns 50, debate still abounds as to whether or not the drug is beneficial. While there's little doubt the pill has changed American culture, some have suggested that change may not be for the better. "I wonder whether birth control is just one step in a staircase of choices that leaves us with the illusion that humans are products to be consumed or discarded rather than gifts given, created, by God," Amy Julia Becker wrote in a recent Christianity Today blog.
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Anti-Abstinence Groups Launch Website
Advocates for Youth and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) have launched a website in an effort to promote open, casual sex in public schools.
The site boasts plans to "institutionalize" comprehensive sex education in public schools and even gives visitors a tool kit to get the dangerous anything-goes message into their own schools.
On a list of current "barriers" to sex-ed implementation, abstinence-only education is listed in many of the bullet points.
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Hillside Covered in Crosses for Abortion Awareness
Right to Life volunteers put up a display in Raleigh County to raise awareness about abortion.
A sobering display was presented in Raleigh County on Monday, May 10. Three thousand, seven hundred white crosses went up on a hill near Crossroads Mall. Each cross represents a pregnancy that was aborted in the United States. Volunteers from the Raleigh County Right to Life organization spent the day hammering them into the ground. Leaders with the group said that while it may be easy to ignore numbers on a paper, this kind of display is harder to brush aside.
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El Salvador bishops warn: CEDAW threatens the unborn
The bishops of El Salvador are urging the nation's president and legislators not to ratify the pro-abortion Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The treaty "not only threaten[s] the newly conceived fetus, but it could also bring serious consequences to the dignity of women," said Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador at a May 9 press conference.
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C-section Rates Tick Upward As Doctors Fear Being Sued
In the bucolic town of Patterson, just south of the Dutchess County line, lives a little boy of 6 who has trouble speaking and swallowing, and who will need years of instruction in the basic chores of living. This little boy, loved by his parents, was healthy and whole until the moment of his birth, when he spent several devastating minutes lodged in a frantic and asphyxiating tug between the womb and the world. In those few minutes, his brain and his life were forever changed. And so, five months ago, in a courtroom in Westchester County, a jury put a price-tag on that damage.
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Kagan nomination worries life and family advocates
The Family Research Council (FRC) reacted to Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court Monday, stating that although President Obama praised her "superb" qualifications, her "known record speaks otherwise." Other pro-life and pro-family organizations worried that she an activist approach to constitutional law.
Tony Perkins, president of FRC, said in a statement Monday that Kagan "has the least amount of experience of any nominee in the last three decades."
"Her judicial experience is zero," he added, "as is her real-world experience, having spent most of her career in academia or working as a Democratic Party insider.
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