Just a few months ago, a federal court ordered the FDA to lower the age requirement of the potent Plan B birth control pill from 18 to 17. Touted as “emergency contraception,” it is taken in one  or two-pill doses. Unlike the regular birth control pill, Plan B is available without a prescription.

Furthermore, Plan B is 10 times stronger than the average birth control pill. Do you want your 17-year-old daughter to taken this without your knowledge or permission? Hmmm…. Read our article on the WomanCare Services website.

All eyes were on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor this week during her confirmation hearings, and she showed just how pervasive are online videos. She criticized the way people interpreted her public comment, seen on YouTube, to law students that the court is where “policy is made.”

The tape tells the truth. The exposure of such slips now are no longer dependent on the mainstream media - they can be put up by just about anyone, and then easily viewed by all. Indeed, her 35-second gaff was viewed a quarter of a million times, and this was only one of many copies of the clip showed on YouTube.

The Government Accounting Office is using YouTube to communicate with Congress and the people. Businesses are using online video sharing sites such as YouTube, and even companies such as Xerox are not too stuffy to make a humorous video to get its message across - and the video got 100,000 views in two months. Video cameras are now advertised with the feature, “uploads to YouTube.”

A new two-minute video produced by our company, TreeFrogClick, for the Peoria Franciscan Sisters attracted 300 views in its first four days. It could be that the video went “viral.” No, that’s not a disease, but it means that people told others about it and linked to it in their messages to friends.

We are planning to roll out another similar video in the next few days, and we have more in the works. Give your company or non-profit a visual presence with an online video.

Sexual love is by nature both sharing and procreative. This is one of the helpful lessons learned in Pre-Cana programs throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago. For more information, read our article at the Couple to Couple League of Chicago.

Every time I see a poster asking for money to help cure breast cancer,  I get angry. Not because I don’t want to cure breast cancer, but because the medical establishment is missing the big fish — hormonal birth control.

When a doctor tells a woman in her 50’s or 60’s she has breast cancer, what is one of the first questions he asks? “Did you use the birth control pill?”

Whoops — hey, we all thought the birth control pill was as harmless as candy. Read about this latest study, on the website of the Chicago Couple to Couple League.

The big pitch by Planned Parenthood is that abortion causes no more trauma than a stroll on the beach. This is the dogma pushed on public school children, touted by the mainstream media and most medical hoo-hoos.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the saddle has been put on the wrong horse. Think about it: a baby is torn from its mother’s uterus in a procedure that goes against every mother’s instinct. With abortion, every woman knows for the rest of her life that her baby’s life was snuffed out by abortion. Strong emotions here, to say the least.

A top psychotherapist and researcher in Florida testified before a Wisconsin State Senate committee that abortions cause life-long and deep emotional trauma. The documentation is impressive. Read the full story at WomanCare Services. And get the word out.

High-dosage birth control pills.

Three years ago the FDA approved a birth control pill so powerful it could knock over a horse. Well, OK, it isn’t that strong. But you wonder what kind of thinking went into the kind of decision that puts millions of women at risk.

Plan B, also called the morning after pill, consists of two pills taken days after intercourse. Its hormone dosage is ten times higher than that of normal birth control pills using the same hormone, according to FDA research.

Whaddya think of this: Plan B does not require a prescription, while the birth control pill, taken every day, does. So if the daily birth control pill is strong enough to require a doctor’s appointment, how can a more powerful pill of a similar kind be bought over the counter? Go figure.

Read more about the goofy thinking of Plan B in this expose news article at WomanCare Services.

When it comes to treating infertility, look to where the money points.

A 12-page special advertising section of the Chicago Tribune published three days ago called “Fertility and Pregnancy” gives a glimpse of the mammoth infertility industry. There is a load of articles on the artificial means of procreation, but scant attention paid to a less expensive approach that is actually more effective.

That would come as no surprise to the three hundred-plus participants of the Dignitas Personae conference held in Chicago the same weekend. It was a gathering of fertility and respect life workers sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago. Dignitatis Personae, Latin for “On the Dignity of the Person,” is the name of the document released last Sept. 8 by the Vatican that treats bioethical questions related to in-vitro fertilization, or IVF.

“The medical profession has skipped over the root causes of infertility,” said Dr. Thomas Hilgers, pioneer of one of the nation’s leading methods of treating infertility naturally. Hilgers, who spoke at the conference, said that infertility treatment took a “sharp left turn” in 1978. Today, “IVF is promoted as the only way to get pregnant,” he said.

What may be surprising to the millions of women who cannot conceive and bring to term a child is that NaProTechnology is nearly three times more successful than IVF for assisting infertile couples, according to a group founded by Dr. Hilgers at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, NE called the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction.

Infertility at the institute is treated by determining the fertile time of a woman’s cycle, as well as by using surgical techniques such as laser treatment and ovarian wedge resections. Couples travel from all over the country to the university for treatment, or get help from the 215 fertility care clinics in the United States trained in NaProTechnology.

With artificial means, couples can spend up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for the various means to “produce” a child, which involve donor eggs and sperm, surrogate mothers, and hyperstimulation of a woman’s ovaries with dangerous levels of hormones, Hilgers said. And, I would add, don’t forget the many tiny human beings in zygote stage “left over” from these processes now awaiting an uncertain future in frozen orphanages around the country.

The costs are great in dollar terms as well, with a couple paying $5,000 to $40,000 for the successful harvesting of an egg. A gestational surrogate, or one who carries the baby until birth, can cost as much as $100,000. The costs go on and on, depending on the type of treatment. And yet less than one-half of one percent of all women with fertility problems are helped by IVF to have a child, said Dr. Hilgers.

With that kind of money flowing, it’s no wonder that the medical profession as a whole is led by the nose by the pharmaceutical industry. It’s time to direct the healing effort toward the woman and man’s own body, in a way that respects the dignity of the human person.

Contact the national headquarters for NaProTechnology in Omaha, NE. In Rockford, IL contact the Family Health Center at (815) 972-1000. In Phoenix, AZ, contact Life Choices Women’s Clinic.

The AIG scandal makes one wonder what kind of goofy thinking is coming out of Washington. A few years ago there were two banks. One was Continental, which lavished its executives with all kinds of expensive perks. Another was Wells Fargo, a scrappy, hard-working company whose executive would pick the stuffing out of a broken part of his chair during staff meetings.

Guess which company did well? Continental went bankrupt, while Wells Fargo prospered. As a matter of fact, Wells Fargo stock has showed healthy gains over the last five years, except for the recent market downturn.

Now, let’s apply the current thinking in Washington to this situation: “Say, look at those two banks. I feel sorry for Continental. It’s obvious that Wells Fargo doesn’t need any help. Let’s tell Continental what we think of their excesses and throw lots of money at them. That will make them get better.”

“Great idea.”

Reminds me of a Rogers and Hammerstein tune that my mother used to sing, “Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and they’ll make you ruler of the queen’s navy.”

I always had the understanding that the sweeping New Deal policies and work programs of the 1930’s helped the country get out of the Depression. After all, the schools and media have been rolling out this tune for decades. Aren’t they always right?

It hasn’t been until now when I have heard serious debate that maybe Franklin Roosevelt’s game plan might have hurt, more than helped us. Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has brought this up, saying that Roosevelt’s policies actually postponed the economic recovery for seven years. Whoops

I would never criticize Roosevelt so glibly if my mother were still alive, since she and her family had the greatest respect for this four-time president. But I think the issue deserves discussion. I’m not an economist, but if the government can help the nation by controlling some business, why not reap greater benefit and have it control all businesses? However, this plan didn’t work for Soviet Russia, which suffered from 80 years of a bad economy (Except that their military was well run - they were good at that).

When it comes to Obama’s economic stimulus plans, what kind of wisdom is there in spending large amounts of money for social programs when you just don’t have the funds, and can’t expect to repay the loans anytime soon? I would not be able to get such a loan for myself. The loans would outlast my life, and the banks would laugh at me.

But then the government lives forever, doesn’t it?