The tragically misnamed "birth control" pill is used by some 14,000,000 million American women each year. The worldwide numbers reach over 60,000,000.
Wow.
That's an incredible amount of women using a
very powerful drug -- a drug whose negative effects we are learning more about every year. Indeed, besides the issue of the pill's very serious side effects (which many scientists have established to include a greater risk of cancer), there is the crucial question of just how the pill "controls" birth. For instance, despite its primary action as a contraceptive, does the pill also act against a conceived child when "breakthrough ovulation" occurs?
The question of whether the "birth control" pill causes abortions has a direct bearing on untold millions of Christians, many who stand adamantly opposed to surgical abortion but who use and even recommend the pill. For those who believe God is the Creator of each person and the giver and taker of human life, this is a question with the most profound moral implications imaginable.
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Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?Well, here's some good news. Randy Alcorn, the author of such popular novels as
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Lord Foulgrin's Letters and
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Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments; and
The Purity Principle) is now offering a new book form edition of
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Persecution of the Church: Lest We Forget
Amid your prayers in this Thanksgiving weekend, please be sure to remember those struggling to peacefully, orderly live out their religious faith in the midst of unjust interference, harassment and persecution.
I guess the disastrous "safe injection" program, that goofy government attempt to provide heroin and cocaine addicts with clean needles and nurse supervision, wasn't enough of an embarrassment to Vancouver politicians. Next up then? A plan to get the city ready for the Winter Olympics by setting up a bunch of legal, government regulated whorehouses to "service" the throngs of visitors.
Though not a single U.N. human rights treaty mentions abortion, treaty bodies have pressured 93 nations 122 times to legalize abortion in the last decade, says the executive vice president of a lobbying group.
Here's a few very interesting Thanksgiving items direct from the White House to your house.
Blame it on the proofreader?
Propelled by little more than his message and political skills, Republican presidential contender former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has vaulted into a statistical dead heat for first place in crucial, first-in-the-nation caucus state Iowa, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Dr. Tom Okarma, for one.
The tragically misnamed "birth control" pill is used by some 14,000,000 million American women each year. The worldwide numbers reach over 60,000,000.
How can a community be at peace—enjoy shalom—while babies are being put to death down the street?
The stem cell breakthrough hinted at the last couple of days and finally revealed today is another example of how God blesses a man's work (with all kinds of delightful effects on those around him) when it is done according to just and honorable principles. Below is an excerpt of the story as reported by the Associated Press and CBS.
"We all realized that sexual orientation has nothing to do with how well a person can minister a congregation," said Kathy Young, a church member.
Good grief. The selfish, snippy snipers of the left continue to take aim at that noblest of American institutions, the Boy Scouts.
How Will Romney's Mormonism Wear?
The Supreme Court's Biggest Blunders: Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade Revisited
