A right to abortion doesn't outweigh the right to know the risks
Nobody disputes the fact that preterm birth (PTB) is a risk factor for a number of infant and childhood afflictions. The more extreme the prematurity, the worse the problems.
Nobody disputes the fact that preterm birth (PTB) is a risk factor for a number of infant and childhood afflictions. The more extreme the prematurity, the worse the problems.
"Mary Eberstadt is our premier analyst of American cultural foibles and follies, with a keen eye for oddities that illuminate just how strange the country's moral culture has become." - George Weigel
A Catholic physician once related to me a powerful story about one of his patients, who had just received a diagnosis of advanced, metastatic cancer and had a relatively short time left to live.
I have researched and written on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for over thirty years. Im going to assume that you have probably heard all the usual arguments for and against euthanasia, many of which are very important and prominent in this debate. But I want to focus on some aspects that might not yet have been presented.
Over the years I have had several friends confide in me that they have had an abortion, and the one question they have all asked was, "Will God forgive me?
It's news all over the world that the Holy Father in a new book by Peter Seewald has said that condoms may be used in certain circumstances. But that's not what he said. What did he say and what does it mean?
Some medical conditions can be made worse by becoming pregnant.
It is a secularist truism: Religion and religious voices and views have no valid role to play in the public square. Indeed, many secularists are openly hostile to any such participation. But are they correct?
In April 2005, I was diagnosed with cancer. It was just two weeks after the birth of my ninth baby, and days after my youngest brother's death in a car accident.
We must consider the damage to medicine if physicians are allowed to kill.