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FDA Signs Controversial Contract With Fetal-Tissue Provider
WASHINGTON — Legislators, pro-life groups and ethicists have condemned a new government contract to obtain human tissue from aborted children for use in medical research and in the creation of “humanized mice.” The Food and Drug Administration signed a $15,900 contract to acquire human... Read more -
Canadian man says he asked for home care, was offered assisted suicide
London, Canada, Aug 8, 2018 / 12:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Canadian man suffering from an incurable disease claims that despite asking for home care, the medical team at an Ontario hospital would offer him only medically assisted suicide. Roger Foley, a 42-year-old from Ontario, has... Read more -
Three children euthanized in Belgium
Three minors have been euthanized in Belgium since euthanasia for children was legalised in 2014. According to the latest report from the government agency (PDF in French) which tracks euthanasia deaths, the children were 9, 11 and 17 years old. Two died in 2016 and 1 last year. Under the... Read more -
Humanae Vitae: The Reason My Wife and I Returned to the Church
When I recently read about the new assault within the Church on Pope Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on contraception, I was deeply disturbed. Humanae Vitae told the truth about contraception and all its negative impacts on people and society. It was precisely because we read Humanae... Read more -
From Termination to Extermination: The International Down Syndrome Genocide
Ever since 1928, Gerber Baby Foods has illustrated its products with a sketch of a beautiful child who was chosen after a nationwide contest. Beginning in 2012, Gerber supplemented its cherubic logo with an advertising campaign featuring an additional child, also chosen in an open... Read more -
Jahi McMath’s Life Mattered
Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week. Jahi McMath has passed away. I never had a chance to meet the young California teen, but her fight for life gripped me three years ago... Read more -
Eugenics and an Overlooked Rebuttal
In the introduction to the French edition of Darwin's Origin of Species, Clémence Royer claimed that Darwin's theory called for the elimination of "all the disgraces of nature" among humanity, and social Darwinism was born. In 1871 Darwin's cousin Francis Galton gave this belief a name,... Read more -
Vatican hospital issues new charter on rights of ‘incurable’ children
Vatican City, May 29, 2018 / 01:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A month after the death of UK toddler Alfie Evans, the Vatican's Bambino Gesu children's hospital issued a new charter on the “rights of the incurable child,” outlining basic rights for both parents and children. Among other things,... Read more -
The ‘Miracle Boy’ and Problems With the Brain-Death Diagnosis
Like Jacob Marley, 13-year-old Trenton McKinley was dead. There is no doubt whatever about that. Or so the doctors said. He had suffered seven skull fractures and traumatic brain injury in a freak vehicle accident last March. His mother reported on Facebook that during emergency surgery he... Read more -
Disability groups oppose using botanist’s death to advance assisted suicide agenda
Bern, Switzerland, May 10, 2018 / 05:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Botanist and ecologist David Goodall ended his life May 10 in Switzerland by assisted suicide, a procedure which he had long advocated legalizing in his home country of Australia. Goodall, 104, told journalists that he “looked... Read more
Bioethics
