Bioethike

First there was the Pill, then Plan B (the “morning-after” pill). Now, meet Ella. Approved by the FDA today, this drug prevents pregnancies up to five days after intercourse. Which also means, in lay terms, that it also acts as an abortifacient. I wonder what’s next. So far, we have drugs that contracept/abort one day [...]

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The Los Angeles Times reporting: U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled July 8 that the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against states like Massachusetts that have legalized gay “marriage.” States are permitted to define marriage as they wish, according to Tauro’s reasoning. He also ruled that DOMA violates the Equal Protection Clause, part [...]

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Obama clearly honors a “two-father family” as a “nurturing family.” I thought that, generally speaking, women were the more nurturing sex. Why not a three- or four-father family? This is really getting confusing!

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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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Click here to access the the Tim Tebow Foundation Web site.

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In the Let’s Start Encouraging Young Folks to Marry and Procreate Sooner department, we have this from The London Telegraph: The new research by the Univeristy of St Andrews and Edinburgh University is the first to colate the actual decline of the “ovarian reserve” – the potential number of eggs women are born with – [...]

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From Baptist Press: When ACP information is examined against research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, it is evident that demographic changes in our country have been the major shaping force of our membership numbers, not outdated methodologies nor a generation gap in the leadership of our churches and institutions. . . The data show [...]

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From the Family Research Council’s Mapping America Project: Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are more socially developed than those who do not. According to the National Survey of Children’s Health, children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents score higher on the social development scale (50.8) [...]

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A must-read from National Review Online: With Father’s Day almost upon us, expect a host of media stories on men and family life. Some will do a good job of capturing the changes and continuities associated with fatherhood in contemporary America. But other reporters and writers will generalize from their own unrepresentative networks of friends [...]

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Below is a picture of my nephew, Zach, at his graduation last month from a private school in Georgia. To his left is Elizabeth, my late sister’s (Zach’s mom) best friend’s daughter. God bless them both!

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