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From page 6 of "Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics" (booklet) Intrinsically evil actions are those that fundamentally conflict with the moral law and can never be performedunder any circumstances.It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse or promote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants to advance the common good will support any actioncontrary to the non-negotiable principles involved in these issues. 1. Abortion The Church teaches that, regarding the law permitting abortions, it is "never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or to vote...

Isn't it interesting that as the United States of America approaches the 50th anniversary of this nation's most popular recreational drug, the birth control pill, special interest media is ginning up the presses — or in this case, the web sites — with all sorts of ideas for the next 50 years. A sampling of what America's birth control worshippers are saying may give one pause to rethink. For example, on May 3, the Los Angeles Biomedical Research institute (LA BioMed) announced "that it has received $1.5 million in grant funding to study a contraceptive for men that uses a...

Judging by the laudatory articles on the birth control pill popping up all over the Web in recent days, one might conclude that the pill was in fact the greatest invention since sliced multigrain bread. One such article, written by professor and author Elaine Tyler May, appears in The Washington Post. May writes: Today, we celebrate both motherhood and the pill. It is Mother's Day, and it is the 50th anniversary of the day the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the pill — though the dream of an oral contraceptive is much older. The birth control...

No one expects George W. Bush to protect a woman's right to choose -- he's been explicitly anti-choice since 1994. One might think, however, he could at least commit to supporting the kind of sexual health information and contraceptive access that reduces the need for abortion. The administration and anti-choice hard-liners in Congress actively are attacking family planning and medically accurate sexual health education, which are proven ways to reduce the number of abortions and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.This is but a part of a coordinated assault on women's rights, which began the day Bush took...