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Dear Friends For Life,
Janet E. Smith shares the following insight on a natural law/common sense argument against contraception. She states that many people think that Catholic Church's opposition to contraception is some weird religious discipline. But the fact is that the Church's teaching on contraception over the centuries has been defended primarily as a natural law teaching. That means that the truth of the teaching on contraception (that it is incompatible with the goods of sexuality) can be defended on the basis of facts we all can know about what makes for human happiness. I wrote this essay some time ago and so some of the data is out of date (for instance, now 42% of all babies are born out of wedlock, not 22%) but the argument still holds. This is a good primer for natural law principles and for a common sense argument against contraception. Dr. Smith asks us to think about each one of these as a concrete moral fact: when we see the heartbreak and social dysfunction associated with out-of-wedlock births, don't our immediate and natural moral perceptions and judgments says "something is wrong here"; when we learn that a woman has had an abortion, no matter what our view of the morality of abortion, don't we say "something has gone wrong here?"; when we hear of a divorce and all the surrounding heartbreak and dysfunctionality, don't we think, "something has gone wrong here?" When we see young people dying of AIDS, don't we think, "something has gone wrong here?" Here is the full article: Natural Law and Sexual Ethics PDF God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(The Difference is LIFE) "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein
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Lifeissues.net Newsletter #574
May 6, 2012
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2. Child access for father in lesbian family case
3. A Struggle To Define 'Death' For Organ Donors
4. Women's Suicides After Abortion Show What Planned Parenthood Denies
5. Almost 900 New Zealand Women Hospitalized for Botched Abortions
6. Bengladeshi organ trafficking revealed
7. Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
8. Nearly 40000 Bihar children missing, says former IPS official
9. Report estimates that pornography accounts for 30% of global internet traffic
10. European Development Aid and Funding Abortions
11. Chinese Women Suffer Mental Health Risks From Abortion Despite Abortion Culture
12. 'Heart-rending': Young Slovakian sculptor captures post-abortion pain, mercy and forgiveness
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(Life): "Interview with an Unborn Child" - The perspective portrayed in the video isn't one you'll hear from Planned Parenthood or the rest of the abortion industry, especially while they're occupied with cashing in on a violent and deadly business. Yet, it's the child's voice - his perspective - that's a necessary part of the conversation on abortion.
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ITEM #1: Couples' Infertility Raises Autism Risk in Offsprings
Couples who experience problems when conceiving a baby are about 3 times more likely to have an autistic baby, according to a recent study carried out by researchers at the University of California. The team involved in the study explained that offsprings of couples who do not succeed in conceiving in the first place suffer from health problems which may influence the unborn infant.
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ITEM #2: Child access for father in lesbian family case
[Note: How IVF/ART have destroyed the legal concept of "family". -- DNI]
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ITEM #3: A Struggle To Define 'Death' For Organ Donors
A new method of obtaining organs for transplantation is raising a host of ethical questions, including whether the donors are technically "dead."
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ITEM #4: Women's Suicides After Abortion Show What Planned Parenthood Denies
Planned Parenthood's denials to the contrary, many women suffer extreme guilt and mental anguish as a result of having an abortion. Killing one's child is simply not as easy the abortionists would have you believe. And we're seeing this truth play out most illustratively in China, where the country's "One Child Policy" has created such angst that, according to the Obama Administration, it is partly responsible for the fact that 500 Chinese women took their own lives each day in 2009.
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ITEM #5: Almost 900 New Zealand Women Hospitalized for Botched Abortions
A total of 877 women were admitted to hospital in New Zealand between 2009 and 2011 for the treatment of complications following abortions. The total number of bed-days totalled 1047. These important statistics reveal that abortions not only kill an unborn child but can result in damage to a woman's health.
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ITEM #6: Bengladeshi organ trafficking revealed
A Michigan State University anthropologist from Bangladesh has published the first in-depth study describing the often horrific experiences of poor people who were victims of organ trafficking. Monir Moniruzzaman interviewed 33 kidney sellers in Bangladesh and found they typically didn't get the money they were promised and were plagued with serious health problems that prevented them from working, shame and depression.
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ITEM #7 Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries before people were conceived in a petri dish, Swiss alchemist Paracelsus claimed flawless little beings could be grown in pumpkins filled with urine and horse dung, but there is no record he produced a crop.
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ITEM #8: Nearly 40000 Bihar children missing, says former IPS official
Nearly 400,00 children in Bihar are missing and there whereabouts are not known, former director general of police Amod Kanth has claimed. He said that the magnitude of human trafficking in the eastern state is "alarming" as there was "rampant violation" of the Child Labour Act.
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ITEM #9: Report estimates that pornography accounts for 30% of global internet traffic
The biggest porn site on the web, Xvideos, clocks in with 4.4 billion page views and 350 million unique visits each month. Yes you read that correctly, 4.4 billion page views each month.
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ITEM #10: European Development Aid and Funding Abortions
The report The Funding of Abortion through EU Development Aid reveals Marie Stopes International received over $30 million from the European Union. The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, a high level global partnership that includes the UNFPA and provides abortion kits to developing countries, was given close to $32 million over a 30-month period ending in June 2011.
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ITEM #11: Chinese Women Suffer Mental Health Risks From Abortion Despite Abortion Culture
A new study from China shows that women who have experienced induced abortion have omnipresent mental health problems during a subsequent pregnancy. It also confirms that adverse mental health effects of induced abortion are far more severe than those of miscarriage and they persist longer.
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ITEM #12: 'Heart-rending': Young Slovakian sculptor captures post-abortion pain, mercy and forgiveness
As an art student, Martin Hudacek of Slovakia was moved to create a sculpture to draw attention to the devastation abortion can bring to the woman, and to the fact that through the love and mercy of God, reconciliation and healing are possible.
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