Busting the Birth-Control Myth

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget plan would undo birth control law

NYC OKs bill mandating pregnancy-center disclosure

Ireland: Pharmacists obliged to sell Morning- After-Pill regardless of beliefs

NOW: “U.S. Catholic Bishops Major Force Behind War on Women Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill”

Pharma company seeks over-the-counter Plan B access for minors

Obama Admin Weakens Protections for Pro-Life Medical Workers

Sebelius gets earful re: conscience rules

Iowa House subcommittee approves abortion ban

U.S. taxpayer money to fund Rwanda campaign to sterilize 700,000 men

Pelosi vows huge fight against GOP over public funding for abortion

Obama Officials Consider Requiring Insurers to Offer Free Contraceptives

Monroe County, NY wants condoms in high schools

Philippine government backs down on “reproductive health” bill

Medicaid expands birth control access

Robert Verbruggen: Most abortions serve as nothing more than birth control

    Robert Verbruggen writing at National Review Online: “[T]he majority of abortions — far from all, but the majority — serve as nothing more than routine birth control: Most women who have abortions became pregnant by willingly engaging in high-risk sexual activity, and many resort to abortion more than once . . . pro-lifers and moderate pro-choicers . . . need to face the fact that while programs designed to talk women out of abortion are one useful tool in a pro-life strategy, they will not significantly lower the abortion rate by themselves. Those who are truly concerned about abortion should have two priorities: first, overturning Roe v. Wade so that states may ban abortion; and second, in the meantime, designing an anti-abortion program that will appeal to women who use the procedure as birth control.”


  • Posted: 01/21/2011
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  • Category: Sanctity of Life
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  • Source: www.nationalreview.com

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Philippines: Palace prepares “responsible parenthood” bill

ACLU tries to silence religious voices, ignores threats to women’s health

“Morning-after” pill blamed for upswing in abortions

    OneNewsNow: “The American pro-life community is looking to future challenges after a recent Guttmacher report on abortion . . . Jeanne Monahan of the Family Research Council tells OneNewsNow that RU-486, the abortion pill, played a role in the totals. ‘Interestingly, [chemical abortions are] more expensive than surgical abortions,’ she notes. ‘So I find that fascinating just in as much as they’re touted as being easier on women, which is absolutely not true.’”


  • Posted: 01/17/2011
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  • Category: Sanctity of Life
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  • Source: www.onenewsnow.com

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Parents fume over New York City Schools Chancellor’s “birth control” quip about overcrowding

ACLU: “Birth Control: Who Decides? The Bishops or You?”

FRC urges health advisory panel to protect conscience rights, oppose mandates for abortifacients in Obamacare

GOP’s own “Great Society” backfired

Report shows contraception failure, 54% used before abortion

NH high school bans safe-sex kits over contents

Australia: Women sue as contraceptive device misfires

UK: Fifth of women have used morning after pill in last year

The Economist: Comparing contraception usage and U.S. and Europe: Availability isn’t the issue

Jill Stanek: “Study: Contraception use up, abortions double; researchers can’t figure out why”

Planned Parenthood launches “social change initiative” to educate children about sex, homosexuality, and masturbation

Law Review: Is There a Right to Have Children? Substantive Due Process and Probation Conditions That Restrict Reproductive Rights

    Is There a Right to Have Children? Substantive Due Process and Probation Conditions That Restrict Reproductive Rights
    Joanna Nairn, 6 Stan. J. Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 1 (2010)

    “This Article focuses on women who have been sentenced, as part of their probation, either to use specific forms of birth control or simply to avoid procreating. It begins by exploring the prevalence of these conditions, hampered by the difficulty in gathering data about probation conditions that are not appealed to higher courts. Using a combination of appellate opinions and reported trial court decisions, it notes that appellate courts have begun to break with the unanimous rejection of such conditions that characterized the first few decades of their reported use. Moreover, it highlights a pattern of appellate decisions that focus not on the constitutionality of these conditions but rather on their reasonableness in the particular case–a trend that has created inconsistency across courts. It then goes on to survey the Court’s substantive due process jurisprudence, noting the specificity with which the Court has defined protected rights and describing the three methods by which it deems rights fundamental. This Article also argues that it is likely that strict scrutiny would apply to probation conditions that restrict reproductive rights. Finally, it makes the case for invalidating such conditions under a strict scrutiny framework, arguing that the right implicated is fundamental and that there are less restrictive alternatives available.”


  • Posted: 12/29/2010
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  • Category: Sanctity of Life

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Michael J. New: Teen birthrates and the media

WA: “Conscience protection” lawsuit may move forward

WA: Board of Pharmacy won’t change “Plan B” rule

Catholic Church’s role in care at Phoenix hospital hotly debated

Phoenix bishop threatens to suspend Catholic identity of unrepentant hospital over abortion and sterilizations

Evangelicals, “gays” and success in the culture wars

British pro-lifers condemn agency’s teen pregnancy report

Why are the media fixated on condoms?

    Janet E. Smith writing at Zenit: “The media are obsessed with the issue of the Catholic Church and condoms because they seem to believe that condoms are the solution to preventing the transmission of the HIV. Might it be time they began to think about other organizations, such as themselves, that might bear some responsibility? Who can deny that if people were living by the Church’s teaching on sexuality, if people were having only married heterosexual sex, there would be no problem with the HIV (and a host of other problems)?”


  • Posted: 12/13/2010
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  • Category: Sanctity of Life
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  • Source: www.zenit.org

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PA: “Sex-ed change troubles parents”

Irish Times wants minors to be given Pill without parental consent

MO pro-life bill protects pharmacists’ conscience rights

Ted Turner calls for global one-child policy like China’s

Why pay for more population control?

Abortion-causing “ella” drug goes on sale

ACOG again denies conscience rights of doctors on abortion

Ross Douthat: On Will Saletan’s abortion compromise

Thailand: Pills seized in abortion raid

The Pope and condoms: Who, exactly, is incapable of fidelity?

Leak of Pope’s comments on condoms set off firestorm

ACLU fights for male contraception buys

Obama administration flooding Peru with millions of condoms

Contraceptives are polluting women’s bodies and the environment, but who cares?

    Mercator Net: “[T]here are tell-tale signs that a particular type of pollutant, the endocrine disruptor, is wreaking havoc on our ecosystems. And as the world’s rivers are in a crisis of ominous proportions, we are witnessing the alarming effects wrought by estrogenic substances on aquatic life. Feminized male fish that lay eggs and/or have lost their reproductive abilities have been found near waste water effluent areas . . . why are environmental crusaders hounding plastic manufacturers and the canned foods industry while ignoring the most obvious culprit: pharmaceuticals in our water supply? Not just what is dumped by manufacturers or consumers, but more importantly, what is flushed down the toilet after human consumption.”


  • Posted: 11/16/2010
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  • Category: Sanctity of Life
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  • Source: www.mercatornet.com

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Welsh primary schools will not be forced to teach sex ed

Center for Reproductive Rights takes FDA to court over “morning-after pill”

Planned Parenthood: Abortion shouldn’t be stigmatized

In the Philippines, church and state row over family planning

NM school board committee affirms contraception distribution policy

WA pharmacy board moves ahead on rule change to permit facilitated referrals

Wash. Pharmacy Board to change rule on emergency contraception, other drugs

Philippines: “Head-on collision” between gov’t, Church seen on “reproductive health” bill

UN agency promotes sex ed from birth

George Soros thinks this could be the year the female condom takes off

WA: Board of Pharmacy decision on Plan B expected today

CA: Catholic high schools address tough issues in bioethics courses

Obama Admin threatens Catholic colleges on birth control, abortion

Wisconsin family planning program expands

Malta: Students “abused” with teaching on contraception

SC: Nonprofit sets up in school to provide sex ed, birth control

UK: “The five-day-after pill: New emergency contraceptive being sold online with no checks”

UK: NHS defends teenage contraceptive scheme

Anger over Isle of Wight contraception pill scheme

ObamaCare may include free contraception

UK: Concern as Durex sponsors school sex education survey