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Republicans have an answer on IVF. It’s only raising more questions.

At the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have signed onto so-called personhood legislation. By Alice Miranda Ollstein, Megan Messerly, Politico, February 27, 2024 Republicans are lining up to pledge their support for in-vitro... read more

Alabama’s Court Decision Sparks Debate Over Ethics of IVF

To view a PDF of this document, click here. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell A few days ago, the Alabama Supreme Court surprised the country by doing something that is all too rare in today’s culture, i.e. it spoke the truth. In a... read more

Catholic ethicists decry lax ‘brain-death’ standards [Exclusive]

Catholic Culture/ Catholic World News, February 27, 2024 Current medical criteria for diagnosing “brain death” are woefully inadequate, and more than half of organ donors who have been declared “brain dead” are still alive. These are the conclusions of a group of 151 Catholic doctors,... read more

25 Years Later, Embryonic Stem Cell Research Has Been a Complete Failure

By Gene Tarne, LifeNews, November 1, 2023 Twenty-five years ago, scientists first isolated human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).[1] Shortly after this development, the use of these stem cells in medical research had become a major public policy controversy in the United States.... read more

GOOD NEWS AFTER A VERY BAD YEAR

By George Weigel, First Things, March 24, 2021 There is no need to belabor the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other downers that began in mid-March 2020. Among the failures that will bear serious scrutiny going forward are those of inept local governments. If Americans can... read more

Research on human embryos in an artificial womb? Why recent experiments have ethicists concerned

Catholic News Agency, March 25, 2021 After scientists successfully grew mouse embryos in an artificial uterus, ethicists are warning against any future extension of the experiments to human embryos. Scientists working at an Israeli research institution recently sustained mouse embryos in an... read more

Associated Press finally admits lockdowns don’t reduce COVID-19 infections, deaths

By Calvin Freiburger              March 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — With election season over and a Democrat president safely in the White House, the mainstream media appears to have gained an increased willingness to acknowledge... read more

Associated Press finally admits lockdowns don’t reduce COVID-19 infections, deaths

By Calvin Freiburger              March 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — With election season over and a Democrat president safely in the White House, the mainstream media appears to have gained an increased willingness to acknowledge... read more

The Cost of Crushing Human Community

BY MICHELE MCALOON, JANUARY 26, 2021 Isolation Human beings do not flourish in isolation. Politics, racial tensions, and a host of other social maladies have been the ostensible reason for riots and chaos in this past year. However, dismissing the deleterious effects of social distancing,... read more

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Doctor destroys ‘utterly unfounded public hysteria’ over COVID-19

'This is not Ebola. It’s not SARS. It’s politics playing medicine and that’s a very dangerous game...masks are utterly useless.' By LifeSiteNews.com UPDATE: November 20, 2020 4:55 p.m. Eastern: Immediately after posting this video to YouTube, YouTube deleted it and suspended... read more

Physicians: ‘Masks don’t control viruses, they control you,’ ‘pandemic is over’

‘The big deal is, they may be soft, and they may look okay, but this is George Orwell’s boot on a human face forever if we don’t get this off,’ one doctor said about mask mandates. WASHINGTON, D.C., October 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A rapidly growing group of doctors critical of the... read more