Bioethike

Kirsten Powers in “Busting the Birth-control Myth“: Turns out, a 2009 study by the journal Contraception found, in a 10-year study of women in Spain, that as overall contraceptive use increased from around 49 percent to 80 percent, the elective abortion rate more than doubled. This doesn’t mean that access to contraception causes more abortion—though [...]

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From BioEdge: A social trend which has had a tremendous impact upon bioethics is the separation between sex and reproduction made possible by contraception. Why not separate reproduction from parenthood? This is the possibility explored by Daniela E. Cutas, of the University of Gothenburg, and Lisa Bortolotti, of the University of Birmingham, in a recent [...]

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In what should come as no surprise, the US resumed its trend of following Europe in a declining fertility rate. A portion of “Table 1″ is provided above. From the report: The 2008 preliminary estimate of the total fertility rate (TFR)) was 2085.5 births per 1,000 women–2% ower than the rate in 2007 (2,122.5) (Table [...]

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Here’s a paragraph from an article I recently wrote for The Hausvater Project. Titled “Medicating against Motherhood: As the Pill Turns 50, a New Generation Seeks to Rediscover Marital Chastity,” the article offers an explanation why the Lutheran Church eventually accepted contraception. Included within the article is the connection between Professor Alfred Rehwinkel’s book, Planned [...]

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In “Bitter Pill,” economist Timothy Reichert, according to the byline, “reveals how the contraception boom has shifted wealth and power away from women.” Here’s a snippet: With this essay, using the language and tools of modern social science, I will articulate the position that contraception is socially damaging. I will also demonstrate that contraception is [...]

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Called “The evolution of birth control.” Warning: some language is medically plain. HT: Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver, III.

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Well, not here, but here. This woman rebel, racist promoter of contraception and abortion, was a vile creature. Thanks to Dr. Gerard Nadal for his thoroughly thought-provoking blog and Jill Stanek for the tip.

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As part of my course work at Creighton University, here’s my contribution to last week’s discussion on the landmark Supreme Court case establishing a “right to privacy” and legalizing contraception nationwide. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 459 (1965) Hindsight is 20-20. The forty-plus years after Griswold have validated the concerns expressed by social and religious [...]

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Over the summer the US Food and Drug Administration approved Next Choice, a generic “emergency contraceptive/abortifacient,” reports EmpowHer. According to the Next Choice site, the product prevents a pregnancy the same way that a birth control pill does. It is believed that Next Choice prevents the egg from being (1) released from the ovary (ovulation), [...]

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