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The Gospel of Life
February 15-21, 1998 Issue 
The contemporary scene, moreover, is becoming even more alarming by reason of the proposals, advanced here and there, to justify even infanticide, following the same arguments used to justify the right to abortion. In this way, we revert to a state of barbarism which one hoped had been left behind... READ MORE
What Kind of Ban for Human Cloning?
BY Greg Chesmore Two bills are before Congress, but only one will really stop the practice
February 15-21, 1998 Issue
With a Chicago physicist's threat to clone a human still fresh in their minds, Republicans and Democrats in Washington are scrambling to introduce legislation restricting or banning human cloning. According to pro-life sources though, only one of the two proposals pending in Congress would really... READ MORE
Chastity After the Sexual Revolution
BY Mike Mastromatteo Against the odds, abstinence-only sex education programs struggle to gain a stronger foothold in the culture
February 08-14, 1998 Issue
Chastity educators in the United States have noted a few trouble spots in an otherwise favorable response to morality-based sex education.
With the rise in the number of teenage pregnancies, abortion, and out-of-wedlock childbirth, many have looked with renewed interest on chastity and abstinence... READ MORE
The Gospel of Life
BY Pope John Paul II
February 08-14, 1998 Issue
To claim the right to abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: “Truly, truly, I say to you, every one... READ MORE
‘They Were Born Within My Heart’
BY Joseph Pronechen What made a suburban Connecticut couple adopt five Hungarian brothers and sisters?
February 08-14, 1998 Issue
Thanksgiving Day in 1996, Ron and Linda Kuzlik met their five children for the first time.
The attraction was instant and mutual.
“There was such an intense connection between us and the children,” Linda says. “It was as if they were always our children, but they were just away from home for a... READ MORE
A Shelter from the Streets
BY Clay Renick Since the late 1960s, Covenant House has been a haven for teens seeking refuge
February 08-14, 1998 Issue
After 25 years, Covenant House, a New York-based ministry for runaways, continues chipping away at the monolithic international problem of street children, but times have changed.
Young people still go there to the original shelter, but today “there are more throw-aways and lock-outs than... READ MORE
Early Church Teachings Against Abortion
FACTS of life
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
l “You shall not kill an unborn child or murder a newborn infant.”
—Didache
l “You shall love your neighbor more than your own life. You shall not slay the child by abortion.”
—Barnabas (c. 70-138), Epistles
l “For us [Christians], murder is once and for all forbidden; so even the child in the... READ MORE
Healing from the Pain of Abortion
BY Tracy Moran Project Rachel helps women find forgiveness and leave despair behind
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
When Aprill Clay aborted her baby, she immediately knew it was wrong. “I felt the life being torn away from me,” she says. “I felt it in my heart, my inner soul, the moment that it happened. As soon as I did it, I knew it was the worst mistake I had ever made.”
Barely 20 at the time, the Rahway,... READ MORE
Beyond the Smoke Screen Of ‘Choice’
BY John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe A quarter of a century after Roe v. Wade, many pro-lifers remain oblivious to their real adversary
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
In the 25 years since the Supreme Court ended legal protection for pre-born children, the slogan of the pro-abortion side has been “choice.” But if pro-lifers have learned anything in the years of struggle, it's that choice (autonomy, privacy, or women's rights) is not the real enemy. The real... READ MORE
The Bottom Line: Managed Care’s Unhealthy Preoccupation
BY Karen Walker The Moscati Institute wants patients--not business--to be medicine's top priority
January 11-17, 1998 Issue
Catholics from a wide variety of professional backgrounds are expressing serious concern with the “corporatization” of medical care that has occurred in the United States during the last 20 years. Many now believe that so-called managed health care not only jeopardizes patient medical treatment but... READ MORE
A Haunting Future Foretold
BY John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe When Roe v. Wade was handed down a quarter of a century ago, pro-lifers predicted our current struggle against euthanasia and partial-birth abortion
January 11-17, 1998 Issue
The habit of sin blinds the intellect, declared the Second Vatican Council in Gaudium et Spes. Nowhere is the truth of this insight more obvious than in social attitudes toward killing after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Pro-lifers predicted then that abortion would lead to euthanasia and... READ MORE
One Woman’s Convictions of Steel
BY Clay Renick
January 4-10, 1998 Issue
The prospect of time in jail hasn't distracted Joan Andrews Bell from her mission to save the unborn
Joan Andrews Bell is prepared to go to prison before she stops pro-life activities. But the mother of two said she would “rather die than compromise my faith and my love for the children.”
Bell has... READ MORE
Ecumenism Takes Root in the Trenches
BY John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe
January 4-10, 1998 Issue
The common goal of fighting abortion after the Supreme Court's tragic 1973 decisions on abortions produced an unexpected fruit—cooperation between people of different faiths
One of the greatest triumphs of the pro-life movement was unplanned—the fruit of an accidental union that pro-lifers embraced... READ MORE
A Bold Voice for Motherhood
BY William Murray Harvard-educated Mary Suarez Hamm, mother of eleven, tells the U.N. about 'authentic womanhood'
December 14-20, 1997 Issue
Mary Ann Glendon, Helen Alvaré, and Mary Suarez Hamm.
It's pretty likely you know the names of the first two, but haven't a clue as to the identity of the third.
Called on by the Vatican, Hamm, a 41-year-old mother of 11 children, testified at the United Nations in New York this fall to reiterate... READ MORE
Fetal Reduction: Good Medicine or Atrocity?
BY Nancy Guilfoy Valko A procedure for the age of multiple pregnancies gains acceptance and contributes to the mentality that 'inconvenient lives are disposable'
December 14-20, 1997 Issue
WHEN BOBBI MCCAUGHEY made history by giving birth to seven living babies, one of the first questions asked was “Why?”.
As the media quickly pointed out, most women facing multiple births of four or more babies opt for a procedure called “fetal reduction,” an abortion procedure that eliminates one... READ MORE
‘You Are Not Really Gay’
BY Karen Walker Dr. Joseph Nicolosi challenges the notion that homosexuality is genetic-and has the results to prove it
December 7-13, 1997 Issue
Joseph Nicolosi Ph.D. is the founder and clinical director of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic, which is devoted primarily to the treatment of homosexuals. He is also the executive director of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).
Nicolosi received... READ MORE
Inside the Mind of an Abortion Provider
BY Brian Caulfield A New York City conference offers a glance at the thinking-or lack thereof- of doctors and nurses formerly involved in the practice
November 30-December 6, 1997 Issue
NEW YORK—In a talk that bordered on begging sympathy for the devil, a former abortion nurse Joan Appleton told a gathering of New York City pro-life activists to “adopt” abortionists in an attempt to bring about their conversion through prayer, correspondence, and friendship.
The main reason... READ MORE
In Death, a Teenager Looks Beyond Her Own Suffering
BY Karen Walker As she lay dying after a tragic hiking accident, Angela Baird's ability to draw on her faith left a lasting impression on those around her
November 30-December 6, 1997 Issue
Nineteen-year-old Angela Baird died Nov. 6 after a tragic hiking accident, barely two months into her sophomore year at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.
On the surface, there might seem to be little extraordinary about her death other than that her family and friends will dearly miss... READ MORE
Canada’s Law of the Land: Unborn Children Are Non-Persons
BY Raymond DeSouza A recent Supreme Court ruling solidifies the country's ultra-permissive abortion-on-demand policy
November 23-29,1997 Issue
OTTAWA, Canada—The Canadian Supreme Court's most recent decision regarding the legal status of unborn children, handed down late last month, was disappointing to pro-life advocates. But it wasn't surprising—Canadian defenders of the right to life have come to expect disappointments from their... READ MORE
‘Science Without Conscience’
BY Karen Walker
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Donum Vitae, a Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith document, explores the morality of every currently possible procedure for human procreation. In this carefully crafted instruction the document bases an evaluation of in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and other technical,... READ MORE
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