Former IVF doctor details the immoral nature of the embryo-destroying practice

 'I was literally involved in life and death for at least thousands of embryos,' OB/GYN Dr. Lauren Rubal told 1,500 pro-lifers at Live Action's Young Leaders Summit, explaining the grave immorality of IVF.

Dr. Lauren Rubal speaking at Live Action's 2025 Young Leaders Summit on March 22, 2025








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Pray for an end to IVF and the protection of human embryos: Join our prayer pledge Nahcy Flanders (Live Action) — Board-certified OB/GYN Dr. Lauren Rubal joined Live Action at its 2025 Young Leaders Summit on March 22, 2025, to discuss the timely and sensitive topic of in vitro fertilization (IVF) before an audience of 1,500. Rubal discussed the issues surrounding the declining fertility rate, including the societal expectation to delay having children. Delaying childbearing means women have a “lower pool” of eggs when they are “ready” to have children, making it more difficult to get pregnant. Combined with a 50% drop in sperm count in men from Western countries over the last 40 years, it is becoming more difficult for couples to get pregnant. Rubal explained that five years ago, she told patients that one in eight couples would experience infertility — but now that number is one in six, and it’s pushing more people toward IVF. “So what’s the issue, right?” she asked. “Isn’t IVF pro-life, as people argue, because it helps create more life?” She continued: "Is this the answer… to our population decline and in the face of impending doom? Absolutely not. Not scientifically, not medically, not morally, and not ethically." More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-ivf-doctor-details-the-immoral-nature-of-the-embryo-destroying-practice/

Meditation for Tuesday of Holy Week: “Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard”

1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?
2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as sheep for a sacrifice, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.

I have forsaken house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the land of her enemies.

8 My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.
9 Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? Is it as a bird died throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all the beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a desolate wilderness.
11 They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart.

Jeremiah 12, 1-4, 7-11

CROSSED THE RUBICON’: Colorado House Passes Bill Treating as Child Abuse Dissent

 Tyler O'Neil  | April 07, 2025

Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie, a Democrat, opens the 2025 legislative session in Denver on Jan. 8. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images)

Tyler O'Neil@Tyler2ONeil

Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government."

The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill Sunday that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming” after Democrats cited the Southern Poverty Law Center to justify excluding parental rights groups from discussion on the bill.

The bill, HB 1312, passed with 36 votes in favor, 20 against, and nine absent in a largely party-line vote. One Democrat, Bob Marshall, voted against the bill.

The Colorado House of Representatives has 43 Democrats and 22 Republicans

More: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/07/crossed-rubicon-colorado-house-passes-bill-treating-child-abuse-dissent-transgender-orthodoxy/

Why are We Still Giving Planned Parenthood $700 Million a Year?

 

At a time when America is facing unprecedented debt, with inflation hitting hardworking families and entitlement programs under stress, why are we giving a multi-billion-dollar organization millions each day? Few institutions in America embody moral and fiscal irresponsibility quite like Planned Parenthood.

This organization, which presents itself as a benevolent health care provider, is in reality the largest abortion business in the nation—one that taxpayers are forced to pay $2 million per day, or roughly $700 million per year. What’s worse, Planned Parenthood spends $70 million annually to defeat Republican and pro-life candidates, ensuring that the cycle of government funding and political favoritism continues uninterrupted. If we were to cut off taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, it would not only be a moral victory but also a significant step toward reducing our national debt and redirecting resources toward real health care initiatives.

In one year alone, Planned Parenthood is responsible for 392,715 abortions—an unfathomable and unacceptable loss of innocent lives. That is over 1,000 babies aborted per day, each of whom had the potential to live, love, and contribute to society. Planned Parenthood and its supporters try to sanitize these numbers, framing abortion as a “necessary” health care service, but the reality remains: this is industrialized destruction of human life, funded by our hard-earned tax dollars.

More: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/04/04/why-are-we-still-giving-planned-parenthood-700-million-a-year/

Rules for Thee: Maryland Scraps 'Child Victims Act' In Two DAYS After Government Sued for BILLIONS

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This writer is a Catholic, and the sexual abuse scandal was a terrible, almost unforgivable mark on the church. But the problem of abuse is not just a Catholic issue. In fact, public schools have a far more significant problem, as pointed out in 2006 by CBS News of all places:

Consider the statistics: In accordance with a requirement of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, in 2002 the Department of Education carried out a study of sexual abuse in the school system.

Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft looked into the problem, and the first thing that came to her mind when Education Week reported on the study were the daily headlines about the Catholic Church.

'[T]hink the Catholic Church has a problem?' she said. 'The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.'

In response to the abuse by the Catholic Church, Maryland legislators passed the 'Child Victims Act' with the goal of, well, bankrupting the Catholic Church. They succeeded, too. The Archdiocese of Baltimore filed bankruptcy shortly after the law was passed.

But the Leftist in Maryland government forgot to exempt themselves from the law:

More from Not the Bee:

Within days of the original law being cleared by the Maryland Supreme Court, thousands of sexual abuse cases were filed against the state of Maryland's juvenile justice system.

Will Smith, a Democrat, noted that lawmakers approved the 2023 Child Victims Act in response ‘to a long fight to have justice for victims of child sex abuse, where our prior framework barred some of those claims if you were above the age of 38.

‘But what we could never have anticipated was just the sheer volume of cases that ensued.'

They thought it was JUST the Catholic Church that was the problem. They had no clue that so many government employees might be hit with suits.

Smith estimates the settlements could be upwards of $4 billion, which is as much as the state's current yearly deficit.

And in that light, the legislature quickly wrote a new law and voted to limit their liability in the cases. (And I do mean quickly - it went from draft, to committee, to the floor in the state House and Senate, and to the governor's desk in two days -- TWO DAYS.)

More: https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/04/13/maryland-child-victims-act-n2411314

The Crisis of the Church: What to do about the Decrease in the Number of Priests, and the Free Fall in the Number of Seminarians? - Article by Abp. Héctor Agüer

( N.B. Lengthy but rich and dense with spiritual insight and pastoral truth. Worth reading especially for priests.)

In face of the decrease in the number of priests and the free fall in the number of seminarians.

Archbishop Héctor Agüer

Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina

Buenos Aires, April 2, 2025 

Courtyard of the Metropolitan Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Villa Devoto)

        On numerous occasions I have referred to a crucial issue for the Church: the formation of candidates for the priesthood. Today, I do it once again, without pretending, of course, to exhaust the subject, with this article. And I do so on the twentieth anniversary of the departure of St. John Paul II, who lived his seminary life “clandestinely” because of Nazism and Communism that ravaged his native Poland. And who, as Pope, together with the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -later his successor, Benedict XVI- did so much to repair, in part, the mess of the post-conciliar period.

        The decrease in the number of priests (406,996, worldwide, in 2023; 734 fewer than in 2022, according to official figures of the Holy See) is worrying; as is the free fall in the number of seminarians (according to the same Vatican statistics, there has been a steady decline since 2012; and it went from 108,481, in 2022, to 106,495, in 2023). On the other hand, the number of bishops increased from 5353 in 2022 to 5430 in 2023. In Rome's haste “to leave everything well tied up” for the times to come, friends of the same stripe continue to be appointed. The sterility typical of progressivism with regard to priestly vocations does not seem to apply to episcopal vocations. Especially if -despite the persistent criticisms of “careerism”- they come from known climbers.

        I entered the Major Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, during the sessions of the Second Vatican Council. While still a young priest, I was entrusted with the organization of the Diocesan Seminary of San Miguel, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, and I was its rector for a decade. I left there when St. John Paul II appointed me auxiliary bishop of the unforgettable Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, in Buenos Aires. As coadjutor and as Archbishop of La Plata I visited the “St. Joseph” Major Seminary on a weekly basis; on Saturdays I offered a conference and then celebrated Mass. In those interventions I explained, over the course of a year, the decree Presbyterorum ordinis, on the life and ministry of priests; I did it twice in that extensive period of twenty years of service in the archdiocese. I always spent my vacations in February with the seminarians at the “San Ramon” country house in Tandil, so I had time to speak at length with each one of them. On the other hand, during the year I was available at their request, whenever they wanted or needed to see me. As a professor at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Argentina, I was given the opportunity to deal with candidates to the priesthood, from different dioceses, who were studying there.

 I have studied extensively the above-mentioned conciliar document, as well as the decree Optatam totius, on priestly formation. I indicate this personal background because assiduous reflection and varied experience enable me, at this point in my life, to attempt a synthesis on priestly formation according to Vatican II. And also to propose, for the future, in the face of the present vocation crisis, ways to overcome it.

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More: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-crisis-of-church-what-to-do-about.html

To friends & faithful, near and far, a blessed Dominica in Palmis!

I love my Catholic Faith. Wishing all a beautiful Lord’s Day and auspicious beginning of Holy Week.