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Holy See: UN AIDS prevention programs must stop condoning dangerous sex habits

“[AIDS] Prevention programmes ...should focus not on trying to convince the world that risky and dangerous behaviour forms part of an acceptable lifestyle," the Holy See's representative told the UN this week.

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• Jun 17, 2011Jun 19, 2021

First FDA, now Health Canada: contraceptive pills may significantly increase blood clot risk

Health Canada will be reviewing the safety of the contraceptive pills Yaz and Yasmin over concerns users may have a two to three times greater risk of developing blood clots.

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• Jun 10, 2011Jun 19, 2021

Contraceptive pill may not make you fat, but could cause stroke, breast cancer

“It’s like you took this molotov cocktail of a group one carcinogen and threw it into that young girl’s breast,” said one leading breast cancer researcher last December.

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• Jun 9, 2011Jun 19, 2021

Pro-abortion ‘Catholic’ theologian calls Archbishop Dolan ‘rabid’

In 2006, Maguire sent all 270 U.S. Catholic Bishops two pamphlets claiming that abortion, same-sex "marriage" and contraception are acceptable under Catholicism.

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• Jun 6, 2011Jun 19, 2021

Responsible sexual practice only realistic solution to AIDS: Vatican conference

“We cannot solve the problem (of AIDS) by distributing condoms,” said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Observer of Holy See to the United Nations.

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• Jun 2, 2011Jun 19, 2021

FDA announces review of birth control pills over serious blood clot risks

The drug regulator will study the dangerous side effects of new drugs like Yaz and Yasmine by Bayer, which have caused multiple deaths and sparked around 7,000 lawsuits.

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LifeSite

• Jun 1, 2011Jun 19, 2021

Paris Vigil for Life seen as hopeful sign by beleaguered pro-life movement

The historic 13th century cathedral of Paris, Notre-Dame de Paris, filled up completely last Thursday evening from 8:30 onward in answer to the call of Cardinal André Vingt-Trois to a Vigil for Life.

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• May 31, 2011Jun 19, 2021

Catholic charitable works cannot preclude evangelisation: top Vatican Justice and Peace official

Caritas Internationalis continues to feel the heat from the Vatican for what many have identified as its shift away from its roots in authentic Catholic moral and social teaching, and towards a leftist political advocacy model.

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• May 27, 2011Jun 19, 2021

NRTL on Guttmacher Report: ‘When tax dollars pay for abortion, you get more abortion’

The National Right to Life Committee disputed claims earlier this week that restrictions on abortion "disproportionately affect" poor women.

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LifeSite

• May 27, 2011Jun 19, 2021

Pope : Vatican must ensure Caritas charity groups are “completely in accord” with Magisterium

The Pope stressed that the Holy See is responsible to ensure Catholic charity groups' activities are "transparent" and "completely in accord with the Apostolic See."

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• May 27, 2011Jun 19, 2021

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Contraception

Holy See: UN AIDS prevention programs must stop condoning dangerous sex habits

First FDA, now Health Canada: contraceptive pills may significantly increase blood clot risk

Contraceptive pill may not make you fat, but could cause stroke, breast cancer

Pro-abortion ‘Catholic’ theologian calls Archbishop Dolan ‘rabid’

Responsible sexual practice only realistic solution to AIDS: Vatican conference

FDA announces review of birth control pills over serious blood clot risks

Paris Vigil for Life seen as hopeful sign by beleaguered pro-life movement

Catholic charitable works cannot preclude evangelisation: top Vatican Justice and Peace official

NRTL on Guttmacher Report: ‘When tax dollars pay for abortion, you get more abortion’