[Update: Two new events posted below.] Debate|Contraception: Is it harmful to women? (Thomas Center, Boulder, Colorado) January 26th, 7pm Flyer Is the Pill Necessary [...]
Holy Smokes! If ya’ll are going to be near Northern Colorado in late January, save the friggin’ date, because this is going to be an interesting dialogue of wits. Janet Smith, the the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and consultor to the [...]
News/ Studies Current Medical Research (USCCB medical review, Fall 2011) See especially: Past Use of Oral Contraceptives Associated with Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis Most European Women Want to Be Informed of Post-Fertilization Effects of Contraceptive Methods Common Form of Hormonal Contraception Increases Cardiovascular Risk [...]
Introducing Christine Louise Cimo Hemphill, M.D.
She is an obstetrician/gynecologist who is completing her fellowship training in Medical & Surgical NaProTECHNOLOGY with Dr. Thomas Hilgers, co-creator of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. She’s currently being trained to surgically treat Endometriosis, Tubal Disease, Chronic Endometritis, Polycystic Ovaries, Pelvic Adhesions in ways [...]
Dr. Steve Hickner is an NFP-only OB/GYN in Lander, Wyoming, and he will be giving two last talks in his fall/winter lecture series through Central Wyoming College’s Lander Campus. If you’re in the area, you should definitely check them out. [...]
Edith Stein wrote a great deal about womanhood and femininity, which is why she’s a feminist icon for so many. The idea of femininity as inherent to the female person, she taught, and not just a learned social construction as is taught widely now.
I’m a comedy nerd, as well as a feminist nerd, so [...]
[Update: Two additions below.]
News Fordham Law Students’ Birth Control Clinic Fordham Students Hold Birth Control Clinic (Catholic Culture) Students Protest Anti-Birth Control Policy (Jezebel–elch, but a decent news treatment)
If you care about the dignity of the human person (and therefore feminine dignity), there are three things you should know about:
The John Paul II Institute for Marriage & Family (worldwide, but numbers 2 & 3 below are out of the Washington, DC location)
[I have used the term "contraceptive mentality," but I must say that Fr. Erlenbush's piece made me give pause to how I use my words. Words and phrases mean so much, and lead people closer to understanding or further away.]
by Fr Ryan Erlenbush
This coming Sunday [retro post--1st Sunday in [...]
(….I’ve got a bad case of not finding an NFP-friendly or good fertility specialist. That’s what Robert Palmer would sing if he loved NFP.)
One of the most common issues NFP users face is finding a doctor who “gets it”. In fact most women don’t even [...]
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