Rag trade withdraws sexy baby clothes
It is almost beyond belief what some companies will try to get away with in the line of exploiting children. Australian clothing group Cotton On has withdrawn baby clothes with…
Are girls risking death now to avoid cervical cancer?
The vaccine promoted as a safeguard for girls against developing cervical cancer later in life has been linked with at least 20 deaths in the United States and hundreds…
Justifying one’s existence
Choosing to live out one’s natural life will soon be as unpopular as refusing an abortion. Have you noticed that the subject of euthanasia/ assisted suicide is picking up momentum…
Manipulating pain
The euthanasia lobby insists on confusing pain relief with euthanasia. There is a clear distinction. Yet again, euthanasia is making headlines in Canada since the Quebec College of Physicians was…
Abortion unbound
If passed as written, health care ‘reform’ in America would expand abortion more radically than anything since Roe. Abortion activists first introduced the misnamed ‘Freedom of Choice Act’ (FOCA) with…
Children engulfed by armed conflict
A distressing report from UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, says that more then one billion children live in countries or territories affected by armed conflict. Just think of it:…
Why are young men still living at home more violent?
We are used to the idea that young men are responsible for much of the violence in society, but who would have thought that living under the parental roof was…
Lessons from career woman’s no-baby shock
I have just caught up with a classic “confessions of a career woman” story by a British woman who has reached the age of 45 bitterly disappointed that she will…
The Good News guy faces tough questions now
President Obama has chosen an evangelical Christian as the new head of the National Institutes of Health. He is coming under fire from both sides of the culture wars. For…
Messing with Mother Nature
The human species is changing but we’re stuck on polar bears The single 69-year old Spanish woman who gave birth to twins at the age of 66 died last Saturday.…
A voice of conscience in the Kenyan media
Leading journalist Chaacha Mwita discusses the challenge of achieving citizen power in Kenya. "Daddy, you have dinner with us these days!" piped six-year old Monika, eldest daughter of Chaacha Mwita,…
US teen sex statistics show ‘disheartening’ trend
Birth rates among teenagers are on the rise again in the United States after large declines between 1991 and 2005, according to a report from the Centres for Disease Control…