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Culture Of Life

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Pain Relief Promotion Act: Gail Quinn, Letter to the Senate

"Male and Female He Created Them"

"Medically Necessary" or "Health" Abortions: Abortion on Demand by Another Name

"RU-486" - It's Worse Than You Think

"To Heal the Brokenhearted...To Comfort Those Who Mourn"

"Women's Resource Center" First Choice

¡Viva Mexico City!

10 Legal Reasons to Reject Roe

101 Reasons to Abandon the Death Penalty

4 out of 5 Adults Surveyed Would Limit Abortion

9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act 2004

A Call to Effective Action: When Being Right is Not Enough

A Court that Has Begun to See

A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death

A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death PDF

A Good Friday Appeal to End the Death Penalty

A Matter of the Heart: On the 30th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade

A Matter of the Heart: On the 30th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade SPN

A Snuff Opinion

A Special Word to Women Who Have Had an Abortion

Abortion Aftermath: "An Antiabortion Shibboleth?"

Abortion and Breast Cancer: The Link That Won't Go Away

Abortion and Catholic Social Teaching

Abortion and the Supreme Court: Advancing the Culture of Death

Abortion Clinics want a Monopoly on Women

Abortion in the Affordable Care Act: Responses to Administration Claims

Abortion Methods

Abortion: Test Your Grip On Reality

Abortion: The First Human Rights Abuse

Abortions in Military Hospitals

Additional Dangers to Women under Lax Standards Set by FDA

Address by Cardinal Mahoney to National Press Club on the Death Penalty 2000-05-25

Advocate to end use of the death penalty

After the Abortion

After the Abortion

After the Abortion- Sister

Agenda-Driven Science

Amnesty International Sells Out

An Encounter with the Suffering Christ

An Ultra Sound Idea

An Unusual Medical Consensus: Partial-Birth Abortion is Never Necessary

Another Tragic Effect of Roe v. Wade

Archbishop Broglio to Senate

Assisted Reproductive Technologies are Anti-Woman

Assisted Suicide: What is at Stake?

Bishops Approve Items on Marriage, Reproductive Technologies, Medically Assisted Nutrition And Hydration

Bishops Congratulate New Mexico on Death Penalty's Repeal 2009-03-15

Bishops' Official Criticizes 9th Circuit Approval of Assisted Suicide in Oregon

Bishops' Statement on Capital Punishment, 1980

Bizarre Reactions to Jubilee Post-Abortion Outreach

Blessed is the Fruit of Your Womb

Born-Alive Infants Protection Act

Calling the Next Witness

Cardinal DiNardo Letter in Support of HR3

Cardinal DiNardo Letter in Support of HR358

Cardinal DiNardo Letter on Defunding Planned Parenthood

Cardinal DiNardo Letter to Senate- Military Hospitals

Cardinal Dolan Letter to Senate in Support of Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Cardinal Dolan Letter to Senate in Support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Cardinal Dolan: Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act

Cardinal Dolan: Statement on the 43rd Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Cardinal O’Malley Ltr to Congress: Support Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act

Cardinal O'Malley Ltr to Congress: Abortion Insurance Disclosure Act

Cardinal O'Malley: Government Report Confirms Bishops’ Concern on Abortion Coverage

Cardinal O'Malley: Letter Supporting S.1881 to Defund Planned Parenthood August 3, 2015

Cardinal O'Malley: Letter to Senate Supporting Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act June 16 2015

Caring for Grandma Helen

Casey Concur and Dissent

Catholic Bishops Launch Major Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty

Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty Info Sheet

Catholic Mobilizing Network

Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty

Catholic teaching on the use of the death penalty: A sample group discussion

Cdl Dolan's Ltr to House: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Cdl-Dolan-Ltr-to-House-No-Taxpayer-Funding-for-Abortion-Jan-23-2017

Chairman Statement on the Planned Executions in Arkansas, 04-13-2017

Chairman Statement on the Planned Executions in Arkansas, April 13, 2017

Childless by Choice or Chance

Choose Life: Toward a Culture of Life in the New Millenium

Comments on Partial Birth Abortion by US Appeals Court

Comments on Partial-Birth Abortion by U.S. Appeals Court

Comments on Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court Justices

Concern Regarding the January 2008 Draft of Bill

Congress Can Stop the Harm to Women

Congress Delivers Born-Alive Infants Protection Act

Congressman Steve Chabot's (R-OH) New Legislation

Counting Down to Partial-Birth Abortion

Criminal Justice/Death Penalty Archive

Culture of Life - Penalty of Death Study Guide

Current Abortion Statistics

Dark Times, Sleeping Giants, Women in Peril: Favorite Tales from Abortion Mythology

Dear Congress: Protect Laws that Protect Life

Death Penalty / Capital Punishment

Death Penalty Backgrounder 2011

Death Penalty Information Center Facts

Distressing Sounds From CAW

Divine Mercy In My Soul

Divine Mercy in My Soul

Do Not Affirm Roe v. Wade in the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Do You Know the Way to Moral High Ground?

Don't Destroy the AIDS Program

Drug and Alcohol Abuse after Abortion - Life Insight March 2000

Ecumenical Statement by Delaware Churches on the Death Penalty 1992

Ecumenical Statement by Georgia Churches on the Death Penalty 1980

Ecumenical Statement by Oklahoma Churches on the Death Penalty 1990

Ecumenical Statement by Rhode Island Churches on the Death Penalty 1976

Ecumenical-Statement by Texas Catholic Conferences on Death Penanlty 1998-02-24

End the Roe Litmus Test

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Assisted Suicide: Testimony to Congress of Cardinal Law 1997

Euthanasia Statement

Evangelium Vitae

Evangelium Vitae: The Value and Inviolability of Human Life, No. 99

Excerpts from Human Life in Our Day

Fact Sheet The Mexico City Policy

Fact Sheet: Roe V. Wade Questions and Answers

Faithful for Life: A Moral Reflection

Fatalism can be Fatal

FDA Puts Women's Interests Over Profits

FDA Sees Risks of RU-486

First, Do No Harm

FOCA Ad Spanish

For What We Have Done and for What We Have Failed To Do

Forget Politics: Discuss Issues

Free for Me, But Not for Thee?

Freedom of Choice Act

Freedom of Choice Act Factsheet

Freedom of Choice Act Legal Analysis

Gonzales v. Carhart: Cause for Renewed Hope

Guidelines for Legislation on Life-Sustaining Treatment

Healing an Abortion-Wounded Nation

Healing Happens

Hearing on "Partial-Birth Abortion: The Truth"

Hearing on HR3 No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act

How Many Deaths Will It Take for the FDA to Suspend Sales of RU-486?

Hoyer-Greenwood Proposal: Won't Stop Late-Term Abortions

HR 7 No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Testimony 1 9 2014

Human Dignity in the 'Vegetative' State

Illinois Bishops Laud State's Death Penalty Repeal 2011-03-10

In God's Image: Building a Culture of Life

In Newsday Op-Ed, Bishops' Official Says Terri Schiavo Deserves Nourishment and Care, March 24, 2005

In the Interest of the Child

International Abortion Issues

It’s Time to End the Roe v. Wade Litmus Test

Justice For All Act 2004

Kim Life Issue Forum

Letter from Cardinal Bevilacqua to the House of Representatives- Military Hospitals

Letter from Cardinal Bevilacqua to the Senate- Military Hospitals

Letter to Congress in Support of the Child Custody Protection Act

Letter to Congress in Support of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act

Letter to Congress on H.R. 4292, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act July

Letter to Congress on H.R. 4292, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act September

Letter to Congress Urging Support of HR5939

Letter to Gov. Richardson from Bishop Murphy Urging Repeal of New Mexico's Death Penalty 2009-03-16

Letter to House Appropriations Committee on Abortion Funding in the District of Columbia

Letter to House of Representatives HR 36 Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act 2015

Letter to House of Representatives HR 36 Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act May 11, 2015

Letter to House on AIDS

Letter to Parishioners from Cardinal Hickey on the Death Penalty 1997-09-14

Letter to President Clinton from Bishop Fiorenza Calling for a Moratorium on the Death Penalty 2000-07-10

Letter to President Clinton from Bishop Fiorenza Urging Suspension of Executions 2000-02-09

Letter to President-Elect Obama Regarding Executive Orders

Letter to Sentate on AIDS

Letter to the Senate in Support of the Child Custody Protection Act (S. 661)

Letter to the Senate on HR-2354

Letter to the Senate on the Pain Relief Promotion Act

Life insights-Healing Happens

Light and Shadows: Our Nation 25 Years After Roe v. Wade

Living the Gospel fo Life SPN

Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

Lost in a Labyrinth of Deception

Love, Naturally

Lying About "Safe" Abortions

Making Pregnancy a Crime

Mary and Women's History Month

Men Behaving Really Badly

Mental Health Risks and Abortion

Mexico City Fact Sheet

Mexico City Policy Opponents' False Charges

Mexico City Reconsidered

Moral Principles Concerning Infants with Anencephaly

More Deaths and Hospital Stays from RU-486

Morning After Pill

Mother Nature's Power Drink

Moving Toward a Culture of Life

National Association of State Catholic Conference Directors

New, Improved Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

News Release: Bishops' Official Applauds Justice Department Appeal of Oregon Assisted Suicide Case

News Release: Bishops' Official Thanks Congress and President for Giving Terri Schiavo a Chance to Live

News Release: Cardinal Keeler Mourns Tragic Death of Terri Schiavo March 31, 2005

News Release: Cardinal Keeler Says Terri Schiavo Deserves Basic Care

Obispos Católicos Lanzan Gran Campaña Católica Para Poner Fin Al Uso De La Pena De Muerte

OMalley HR 1797

On Abortion and the African American Family 2008

On Constitutional Amendment Protecting Unborn Human Life

On Constitutional Amendment Protecting Unborn Human Life 1976

On Executive Orders Regarding Abortion

On Human Cloning

On Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act

On Retaining Pro-Life Laws

On the "Pro-Choice" Position on Abortion

On the “Pregnant Women Support Act”

On the Backs of Women

On the Importance and Priority of Defending Innocent Human Life

On the Re-Introduction of the "Pregnant Women Support Act"

Oppose Efforts to Modify Mexico City Policy

Parental Rights

Parish Resolution by Our Mother of God Church in Kentucky to Abolish Death Penalty 1999-05-24

Parish Resolution on Death Penalty MacCleny Florida 1999-06-01

Partial Birth Abortion

Partial Birth Abortion: A Bridge Too Far

Partial Birth Abortion: The Writing on the Wall

Partial-Birth Abortion

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Judged Unconstitutional

Partial-Birth Abortion in a Moral Framework

Partial-Birth Abortion to Be Banned

Pastoral Message of the Administrative Committee

Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet

Planned Parenthood: Setting the Record Straight

Pope Benedict XVI & USCCB on Life Issues

Pope's Speech is About Human Dignity

Post Abortion Healing is Possible

Post-Abortion Healing

Postcard Announcement

Postcard Update

Practical Steps to a Healthier Marriage

Pregnant Women Support Act

Press Release on Preservation of Ban on Abortions in Military Hospitals Overseas

Prevention or Promotion?

Problems with the State/Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill

Pro-Choice Pundit Takes a Second Look

Profiting from Death at Any Cost

Project Rachel: In the Heart of the Church

Project Rachel: In the Heart of the Church SPN

Pro-Life America

Pro-Life Constitutional Amendment

Q&A on Nutrition and Hydration for Patients in a "Vegetative State"

Questions & Answers

Reactions of Legal Scholars

Reactions of the Appeals Court Justices

Reality Check: The Extreme Campaign Against the Hyde Amendment

Reasons to Support H.R. 4965

Reclaiming Fatherhood - Life Insight 2007

Reducing Abortions by Promoting Abortion?

Reject S. 367 and H.R. 755

Related Supreme Court Decisions

Remove "Sense of Senate" Provision from S. 3

Resolution on Abortion

Respect for Unborn Human Life: The Church's Constant Teaching

Risks to U.S. Women under Relaxed Controls

Roe Reality Check

Roe v. Wade and Infanticide

Roe V. Wade Court Decision

Roe v. Wade, Compassion & the Risen Christ

Roe v. Wade: No Test for a Judge

Roe: How Little We Know

Roe’s False Freedom

Romper vs. Simmons 2005

RU-486- Mifepristone/Misoprostol Abortion

RU-486: "No Magic Pill"

RU-486: Coming to America?

Scientific Community's Responses to the Question: When Does Life Begin?

Seeing People as God sees Them

Selected Quotes from Church Documents

Senator Boxers Nepal Story

Sex and the Single Person

Sex: What Do Women (and Men) Really Want?

Signing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

Signs for Hope in 2006: The Courts

Signs of Hope in 2006: The Courts, Reason #5

Statement Addendum by Oklahoma Catholic Bishops on the Death Penalty 1983

Statement by Archbishop Chaput on the Death Penalty 1997-06-06

Statement by Archbishop of Atlanta on the Death Penalty 1992

Statement by Bishop Brunett on the Death Penalty 1995

Statement by Bishop Fiorenza on the Execution of Timothy McVeigh

Statement by Bishop Furey on the Death Penalty 1977

Statement by Bishop Green on the Death Penalty 1973-12-15

Statement by Bishop Harris on the Death Penalty 1977

Statement by Bishop Sullivan on the Death Penalty 1992-07

Statement by Bishop Sullivan on the Death Penalty 1992-12

Statement by Bishops of Florida on Death Penalty 1972-11

Statement by Bishops of Texas on the Death Penalty 1992-01

Statement by Cardinal Baum on the Death Penalty 1976-12-27

Statement by Cardinal McCarrick Commending Govenor Ryan's Clemency to Death Row Inmates 2003-01-16

Statement by Cardinals Mahony and Keeler on the Execution of Timothy McVeigh 2001-05-02

Statement by Montana Catholic Conference on Death Penalty 1981-11

Statement by Oregon Catholic Bishops on the Death Penalty 1984-10

Statement by the Catholic Bishops of Ohio on the Death Penalty 1996-06-28

Statement by USCCB A Good Friday Appeal to End the Death Penalty 1999-04-02

Statement of the Committee for Pro-Life Affairs

Statement on the Death Penalty

Statement on the Death Penalty by Bishop Gracida 1976-06

Statement on the Death Penalty by Iowa Catholic Bishops' 1998-02-04

Statement on Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act

Statement: To End The Death Penalty 1999-12-03

Statements by the Holy Father and the Vatican

Statements from the Vatican on the Death Penalty

Statistics and Complications Who Were Someone's Daughter

Staying the Course in the Fight Against AIDS

Stenberg Concur

Stenberg Dissent

Stenberg Opinion

Stenberg Syllabus

Stop the Bloodshed and Pass Holly's Law

Streamlined Procedure Acts of 2005

Suicide and Assisted Suicide The Role of Depression

Suicide and Assisted Suicide: The Role of Depression

Summary of Roe v. Wade and Other Key Abortion Cases

Support for the Hyde/Smith Motion

Support for the Kemp-Kasten Amendment

Support H.R. 4965, Oppose H.R. 2702

Support H.R. 760, Oppose Hoyer-Greenwood Bill

Support S. 3, Oppose Durbin Amendment

Support the Partial Birth Abortion Act, H.R. 3660

Support the Partial Birth Abortion Act, S. 1692

Support the Substitute Amendment to S 2731

Supreme Court and Juvenile Death Penalty

Supreme Court Did Not Resolve Abortion Controversy: It Created It

Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument on Partial-Birth Abortion

Supreme Court Out of Touch with the Mainstream on Abortion

Supreme Court's Response to the Question: When Does Life Begin?

Taking a Second Look at Roe v. Wade

Ten Legal Reasons to Reject Roe

Terri Schiavo and the Echoes of Abortion

Testimony by Bishop Kinney Before Judicial Committee 1995-12-07

Testimony of Archbishop Joseph Bernardin

testimony of Archbishop Joseph Bernardin 1976

Testimony of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros

Testimony of Cardinal John Cody

Testimony of Cardinal John Krol

Testimony of Cardinal Terence Cooke

Testimony of Cardinal Terence Cooke 1976

Testimony of Cardinal Timothy Manning

Testimony on Pain Relief Promotion Act of 2000

Thanks for UNFPA Decision

The Beginning of the End of Partial-Birth Abortion

The Big Lie About Partial-Birth Abortion

The Church's Anti-Death Penalty Position

The Church's Love Letter to the World

The Courage of One, With Support From Many

The Door Opens to Infanticide

The Good News: More Than Black or White

The Importance of the Mexico City Policy

The Knights of Columbus Ultrasound Initiative: Changing Hearts and Saving Lives

The Last Abortion Clinic?

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The Mexico City Policy: Protecting the Most Fundamental Right

The New York Times Won't See Their Pain

The New York Times Won't See Their Pain by Susan Wills

The Playbook on Partial-Birth Abortion

The Power of Postcards and Prayers

The Price of Life

The Promise of Christmas

The Resolution to the Resolution

The Supreme Court and Partial-Birth Abortion: Questions and Answers

The Supreme Court Takes a Second Look at Partial-Birth Abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court's 1997 Decisions on Assisted Suicide

The Unhappy Birthday of RU-486 Approval

Time to Stand Up for Life

Touched by the Truth

Touched by the Truth 2

Treatment of Infants Born with Handicapping Conditions, Bryce 1982

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Assisted Suicide

Unto the Least of These My Brethren: U.S. Population Control Policy

Urge Amnesty International to Rescind its New Abortion Policy

Urgently Needed Legislation on the Pain Relief Promotion Act

Urging Senate Support of the Pain Relief Promotion Act

Using "States' Rights" to Do Wrong

Very Bad News for the U.N. Population Fund

Victim Advocates Against the Death Penalty

Víctimas abogan contra la pena de muerte

Voices from the Womb

Vote for the Smith/Oberstar/Hyde Amendment

Webster Concur and Dissent

Webster Opinion

Webster Syllabus

What Reduces Abortions?

What you can do to end the death penalty

When Does Life Begin... and End with EPC's

Where Have All the Children Gone?

Why Fight FOCA Now?

Women and Abortion

Women and the Culture of Life

Women Deserve Better Than Abortion

Women Worlds Apart

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