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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report backing Planned Parenthood’s push for free birth control that sparked a controversy with its release this week, includes a strong hint that an abortion mandate would also have been favorably weighed by the organization, had federal law not stood in the way. The stated objective of the new IOM report, commissioned by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS), was to review “what preventive services are necessary for women’s health and well-being and should be considered in the development of comprehensive guidelines for preventive services for women” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the new national health care law. The Institute is a non-profit independent organization tasked with advising government leaders on medical issues. While surgical abortion coverage could not be mandated given federal law, IOM experts indicated they favored the procedure as a potential “essential prev

Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla began her first visit to the United States with a visit to the New York headquarters of Priests for Life on Monday, July 11, to enshrine a photo and relic of her mother, St. Gianna Molla, a patron saint of the pro-life movement. “God loved my mother very much,” Dr. Molla said while addressing the staff of the Catholic, pro-life ministry. But she added that “God chose her among many saint mothers. There must be many saint mothers in paradise.” St. Gianna Beretta Molla was a physician who grew up near Milan. When she and her husband, Pietro, were expecting their fourth child, St. Gianna learned she had a tumor in her uterus. She decided against a hysterectomy that would have saved her life but kill her unborn child. Gianna Emanuela was born April 21, 1962. Her mother died on April 28. “I would not be here with you if I had not been loved so much,” said Dr. Molla, who lives near Milan. Dr. Molla spoke of her mother’s upbringing in a very religious family

"Why does the Church say that contraception is immoral? perhaps the reason is something like this. Our hearts and bodies were made to be temples of the living God. God joins Himself to us not in some vague, 'spiritual' way, but in the very actions of our bodies by which we give flesh to our love. And so a married couple is never along in bed. God is in bed with them. And sometimes He creates a child from their love. If they have good reasons for not seeking a new child, then they should make love only at times when making love would not invite Him to create one ( the 'infertile period'). Abstaining from sex while fertile is just another way of showing love and responsibility in marriage. If instead, the couple tries to make the fertile period infertile so as to be able to make love then too without conceiving a child, they are trying to make sex without God. They are pushing God out of the bed. After all, if He were not going to create a child, and if they knew t

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.