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Killer Thaw
By Judie Brown While I am not a fan of horror movies, there is one scenario that might be acceptable in a scary movie but that is tragic in real life. This deadly practice happens every day as embryonic children are frozen and subsequently tossed aside by their own parents. The process begins with in vitro fertilization, a procedure that is as unethical and inhumane as contraception. But the end...
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Defend Life against the World
By Judie Brown Saint Athanasius of Alexandria was known for his strong defense of the teaching of the Catholic Church, which led him at one point to say, “If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”Today we could benefit from that same conviction,...
Blurring Right and Wrong
By Judie Brown Aristotle once wrote, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Indeed, those words reflect the commonsense attitude of someone who has learned the difference between good and evil and who proceeds to...
The Death of Principle
By Judie Brown The world is turning upside down. One by one, people are dying like flies because they either want to die or because they want their babies to die. The Hippocratic principle of “first do no harm” is now a relic. In Peru, a psychologist who contracted a...
The Blessing of Special Children
By Judie Brown My brother Mark was born 70 years ago with a condition that, at the time, was called “blue baby” syndrome. In addition, he had Down syndrome, another condition which, at the time, was not always treated in the proper way. My brother died at the age of...
Good, Evil, and In-Betweeny!
By Judie Brown Please, no emails! I know that “in-betweeny” is not a word, but it was fun to write and now explain why I made the word up! You see, in its most ridiculous state, the evil in our midst is designed by mindless people to suggest to the rest of us that...
The Right to Life
By Judie Brown There appear to be an increasing number of people who cannot sort out the difference between respecting the right to life and respecting what is known as personal autonomy. When our Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, they could not...