Premature birth is associated with cerebral palsy for the child and breast cancer for the mother.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says he worries about "the potential for MAP to be given to women, especially sexually abused women and minors, without their consent or knowledge.
Today, we are embroiled in a national debate about how to handle sexual behavior related to teens and adolescents. In a surprising upheaval of logic, there are “sexperts” who cannot find any line in the sand at all to dictate a time when sex is absolutely, unequivocally and irrevocably inappropriate for young people.
Calling up terms such as "compassion," "choice" and "easy landing," pro-euthanasia and mercy-killing advocates have crafted out a rather brilliant advertising campaign that has influenced the general public in a successful and most dangerous way.
The case for embryonic experimentation is dubious both ethically and scientifically.
Then we learned that the day of her rescheduled abortion, Grace told her mom, "I'm not going"...and went to school instead. This 13-year-old 8th grader had more strength and courage than women twice her age!
The following appeared in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times May 19, 2006. It appears here with the permission of the author. Editor’s Note: While NOEL does not completely agree with the author’s first two sentences, this article makes a valid point that we felt deserves further consideration by those of us who support abstinence until marriage.
We need only look to the experience of the Netherlands to see the social forces unleashed by legalizing the euthanasia/assisted suicide.
We must be ready to gently and knowledgeably inform and educate our friends and neighbors about the types of research, about why we oppose embryonic stem cell research, and why that opposition does not mean we oppose every type of stem cell research that is being performed.
When we heard about the task force being formed to research the declining population in the Church, we laughed and when we realized that the Episcopal Church chose to uphold the sanctity of abortion, we cried.
