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Off the Hook?
BY Mike Mastromatteo
March 22-28, 1998 Issue 
Canadian pro-lifers fear a judge's dismissal of murder charges against a doctor who hastened a patient's death may lead to a push for changes in the country's Criminal Code
Canada's euthanasia debate intensified late last month with a judge's decision to throw out first-degree murder charges... READ MORE
The Gospel Of Life
March 15-21, 1998 Issue
“… Contraception and abortion are often closely connected, as fruits of the same tree. It is true that in many cases contraception and even abortion are practiced under the pressure of real-life difficulties, which nonetheless can never exonerate from striving to observe God's law fully. Still, in... READ MORE
Managing the Pain of Miscarriage
BY Greg Chesmore
March 15-21, 1998 Issue
After decades of suffering alone, couples are finding support as they grieve the loss of an expected child
“Everyone kept telling me not to worry. I'd have another baby. But they didn't understand. I didn't want another baby, I wanted that baby.”
Cries like this are nothing new to those who... READ MORE
Will the ‘Right’ to Die Become a ‘Duty’?
BY Hazel Whitman
March 15-21, 1998 Issue
Oregon's assisted suicide law works its way into the fabric of society
PORTLAND, Ore.—It was sold as a law rooted in openness and compassion. At least that's how backers described the proposal to give Oregon the groundbreaking distinction of leading the way in legalizing doctor assisted suicide.... READ MORE
Treating Preborn Children Like Property
BY Mike Mastromatteo
February 15-21, 1998 Issue
Canadian pro-life groups are renewing calls for Parliament to pass legislation protecting the unborn child as the country marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court's striking down of the former abortion law.
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled Jan. 28, 1988, that the former abortion law... READ MORE
Pro-Life Profile Looking After the Least of Her Brothers
BY William Murray Ruthanne Donahue, foster mother and caretaker of souls, opens her Indiana home to all in need
February 15-21, 1998 Issue
Ruthanne Donahue of Osceola, Ind., lives detachment and poverty better than many religious, according to one priest.
“She takes the ones that no one wants,” said Father Eldon Miller, pastor of Queen of Peace Church in Mishawaka, Ind., where Donohue is a parishioner.
Donahue is the biological mother... READ MORE
Embryo Transfer: ‘Surrogate Motherhood’
February 15-21, 1998 Issue
The standard embryo transfer procedure involves impregnating a volunteer (or paid) woman by artificial insemination with sperm from an infertile wife's husband. Five day's after conception, the embryo is flushed out (“lavaged”) and transferred to the infertile woman's uterus. The embryo may also... READ MORE
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
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