It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act.
It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom...

If Cafardi's is a counsel of despair and surrender in the face of unspeakable evil, Douglas Kmiec finally came around to adopting the pro-choice position while continuing to call himself pro-life.
If Cafardi's is a counsel of despair and surrender in the face of unspeakable evil, Douglas Kmiec finally came around to adopting the pro-choice position while continuing to call himself pro-life. Following the McCain-Obama debate in which abortion was addressed, Kmiec wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "Sometimes the...

The people speak: voters faced important and sometimes complex policy questions on statewide ballots.
Cruising under the radar of the most exciting presidential election in memory were 153 measures on statewide ballots around the country. Voters were asked to address taxes, social issues, health care, education, gambling and a wide array of other issues from the treatment of farm animals to physician-assisted suicide....

Preliminary examination of first year female university students: smoking practices and beliefs in a city with no-smoking legislation.
Young adults between the ages of 20 to 24 are reported to have the highest smoking rates of any other age group. A questionnaire was used to assess the smoking practices and beliefs of 323 female university students. All participants were first year students entering university in a city...

The APA releases new report: abortion no threat to mental health.
The American Psychological Association (APA) has just released a report indicating that there is no solid scientific evidence that abortion causes mental distress in women. (1) This is a timely refutation of the fiction, promoted by anti-choice activists for several decades, that having an abortion harms women's mental health....

The rogues' gallery.
One very important person missing from your abortion-supporting-Liberal-rogues gallery on the front cover of the October issue is former (briefly) Prime Minister John Turner. He was, of course, the Minister of Justice in 1969, taking over from Trudeau and bypassing the so-called therapeutic abortion legislation. Turner stated...

Physicians: act on your convictions.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission is truly evil. By threatening to prosecute physicians under the Ontario Human Rights Code for refusing to participate in abortion-on-demand, it has perpetrated one of the worst attacks on the right to conscience of physicians since Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissar for the occupied Netherlands,...

Irish pro-lifers get U.S. boost.
Dublin -- Irish law currently prohibits abortion unless the mother's life is in danger. Because of this, many women seeking elective abortions travel out of the country to undergo them in England. Three women who recently travelled to Britain for abortions have brought a case to the European Court...

'Letter to Catholic Voters' (C.I, Oct).
The bishops of Kansas are quoted in this editorial as follows: "When there is no choice of a candidate that avoids supporting intrinsically evil actions, especially elective abortion, Catholics should vote in such a way as to follow the least harm to innocent human life and dignity." My first...

Should pro-lifers show pictures of aborted babies?
St. Thomas Aquinas remained the model of fairness as he gave full voice to the strongest objections before stating his own arguments demonstrating the existence and nature of God, angels, man and all related things. It was fitting that he did so, because good and serious people often hold...