Good Friday by Ermes Dovico

Life and Bioethics


A group of Catholic intellectuals against PAL on abortion
DOCUMENT

A group of Catholic intellectuals against PAL on abortion

A group of Catholic intellectuals complain that the Pontifical Academy for Life uses ambiguous language in its criticism of the new Italian guidelines on day hospital abortion and altogether omits condemnation of abortion.
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For the Italian Church and the Vatican, Abortion Is a Bit Less Bad
CHURCH

For the Italian Church and the Vatican, Abortion Is a Bit Less Bad

The recent articles in Avvenire, the news service of the Italian bishops, and the interview given to Crux by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, are signs of a disturbing change in the Church in its attitude towards pro-abortion laws.


UN-aid for Covid is blackmail to advance abortion policies
LATIN AMERICA

UN-aid for Covid is blackmail to advance abortion policies

Ecuador is the first country that has officially bowed to UN blackmail. In exchange for financial aid to battle COVID-19, the United Nations is demanding that Ecuador liberalize its anti-abortion laws, promote gender ideology in schools as well as legalize cannabis and surrogate pregnancies. This shameful negotiation demands attention from the international community. Vatican diplomacy must take decisive action.


Paglia’s Revolution: How to Destroy Catholic Morality
CHURCH

Paglia’s Revolution: How to Destroy Catholic Morality

In an interview with the American website Crux, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, denies the existence of non-negotiable moral principles and accuses those who use the right to life as a voting criterion of political exploitation. The implicit reference is to the American elections, but Paglia’s affirmations are consistent with an approach, by now consolidated, that distorts the fundamental foundations of Catholic moral theology.


"What civilisation? Chemical abortion led me into a dreadful deception."
RU 486/THE INTERVIEW

"What civilisation? Chemical abortion led me into a dreadful deception."

"I was told ‘it'll be like menstruating, but only more abundant.’ Instead I found myself writhing in pain from cramps and fainting. My teeth were chattering. And after vomiting, I was totally dehydrated. When I expelled my baby I was sitting on the bidet and I flushed it down the toilet while the nurses asked me if I was finished. It was atrocious, I had nightmares for a year and then they found a fibroma tumour inside me." This dramatic story told to the Nuova Bussola Quotidiana by Natascia B., an Italian model and victim of the child-killing RU486 pill. She warns politicians who helped legalise this form of DIY abortion: "You will have an abortion at home because it is more comfortable. My doctor deceived me. With RU 486 there is nothing safe, civilised or painless.” Natascia says she did it because she had never had an abortion before.


Human guinea pigs: legitimate in theory, but not advisable for COVID
COVID

Human guinea pigs: legitimate in theory, but not advisable for COVID

Is it licit to allow yourself to get infected? In theory it is, but only under certain conditions concerning the moral purpose of the overall objective, the relationship between any negative (undesired) and positive effects (desired), the state of necessity, and so forth. If the chances of finding an effective vaccine in a short amount of time are very low, then such a risk is unacceptable. This is also because vaccine developers are tempted to burn through the proper stages of development. Meanwhile, there are already effective preventions measures and treatments


The Sanger case proves that abortion is racism
A LESSON FROM USA

The Sanger case proves that abortion is racism

As part of the Black Lives Matter campaign against racism, the name of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, has been removed from some of the association's clinics. The reason was her being a member of Eugenics Societies. Needless to say, for the sake of consistency, all Planned Parenthood clinics should be shut down.


The Dreams of Melinda Gates for Covid and women
BIRTH CONTROL

The Dreams of Melinda Gates for Covid and women

An essay by Melinda Gates in the international review Foreign Affairs reveals the humanist and elite ideology that is behind the philanthropy of the major Foundations. They claim to fight for women’s health, but lament the scarce availability of contraceptives. And what emerges in the end is that the true goal is control.


Covid Vaccine Without Testing? Too Risky
CORONAVIRUS

Covid Vaccine Without Testing? Too Risky

The European Medicines Agency’s request to be able to use the vaccine against the coronavirus as early as this autumn, without proper testing, is extremely dangerous: it runs the risk of worsening the effects of the coronavirus rather than preventing it and also of causing serious brain damage.


Pedophilia: "A satanic cult spread in the centers of power"
INTERVIEW/STEELE

Pedophilia: "A satanic cult spread in the centers of power"

«Thousands of children are kidnapped, abused, killed and sacrificed to the devil for reasons of power. The victims say it and all the evidence"; "We have collected testimonies that speak of the link between pedophilia and Satanism"; "The phenomenon is left uncontrolled by the police who are subjected to blackmail and because it is the drug of the elite"; "The battle between good and evil is waged with the innocent." Robert David Steele, chief consultant of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse, a former officer of the Marines, a former member of the CIA and candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, speaks to the Daily Compass.


Paedophilia is rampant in Europe, yet investigations are blocked
GUILTY SILENCE

Paedophilia is rampant in Europe, yet investigations are blocked

Over the last few months in Germany, Great Britain and Belgium, there have been hundreds of arrests for sexual abuse against thousands of children. But the mass media has kept silent or condensed everything in "news briefs". The fear of investigating these stories (unless it involves the Church) is nothing new. Evidence seems to go missing, while those who do a good job are abruptly replaced and then trials end up being stalled. Germany had to acknowledge corruption within its police force and institutions, yet when someone is sentenced, the penalty is minimal. Why? Perhaps many countries would be shaken to their core.


Forced to donate organs, even when still alive
LIFE

Forced to donate organs, even when still alive

Britain has changed its organ transplant law. Now adults who do not explicitly refuse to donate their organs may become donors regardless. Italy has the same guideline. With tacit consent, there is a very high risk of handing over to the state living persons whose health is so compromised that it is preferable they be killed to save the lives of other healthier persons who, from a quality of life perspective, are deemed more worthy.