100% Chance of Breast Cancer after abortion?

Here are comments about Janet Dawling’s study in 1994 of over of 2700 women about breast cancer. With the mainstream media’s interest on reproductive rights, it is understood why this would be suppressed.
“…Most ominous of all were the results for women who had had an abortion before age 18 and who also had a family [...]

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Choose Life

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta on abortion

On this tenth anniversary of Bl. Mother Teresa’s death, here are some excerpts of her speaking out against abortion:
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has [...]

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Moral Criteria for Biomedicine

From Donum Vitae:
Which moral criteria must be applied in order to clarify the problems posed today in the field of biomedicine? The answer to this question presupposes a proper idea of the nature of the human person in his bodily dimension.
For it is only in keeping with his true nature that the human person [...]

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Science—At the service of human persons

From Donum Vitae:
God created man in his own image and likeness: “male and female he created them” (Gen 1: 27 ), entrusting to them the task of “having dominion over the earth” (Gen 1:28). Basic scientific research and applied research constitute a significant expression of this dominion of man over creation. Science and technology [...]

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The Gift of Life

From Donum Vitae from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, February 22, 1987
The gift of life which God the Creator and Father has entrusted to man calls him to appreciate the inestimable value of what he has been given and to take responsibility for it: this fundamental principle must be placed at the [...]

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The incomparable worth of the human person

From Evangelium Vitae by Pope John Paul II:
Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life even [...]

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Life Issues in a Pluralistic Culture

Excerpted from an article by Dr. Janet Smith from Church and State in America:
There is a paradox or contradiction at the very heart of our approach to human life. We go to great lengths to preserve human life and to diminish human suffering, yet at the same time we increasingly treat human life in such [...]

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Bodies without Souls

An excerpt from a review of the book, Bodies Bazaar, by Lori Andrews and Dorothy Melkin from Catholic Educators Resource Center.
The book’s title, Body Bazaar, is a pun on the strangeness of how elements of the human body — DNA, umbilical cord blood, embryos, bone, tissue — have become products for a burgeoning [...]

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The Inviolable Right to Life

From the  Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici (On the Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World) issued by Pope John Paul II on December 30, 1988.  
In effect, the acknowledgment of the personal dignity of every human being demands the respect, the defense and the promotion of the rights of [...]

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