A Family Contemplates Thanksgiving
Judie Brown shares the joys of Thanksgiving as her family contemplates what’s truly important in life.
Nov 27, 2014•6 min
The American Life League Podcast
American Life League provides weekly commentary on the issues affecting the culture, the Catholic Church, and pro-life activism. Judie's immoderate and uncompromising dedication gives testimony to the truth that all human life is sacred.
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Give Thanks for Christian Heroes
As we approach Thanksgiving, we reflect upon the things and people in our lives who give meaning and who inspire. The people mentioned in today’s commentary work daily to save not only lives, but to save souls. And in the process they touch hearts and minds.
Nov 25, 2014•5 min
Salivating at the Gates of Hell
Sex educators are using kids as young as 11 to collaborate in demonstrations of birth control objects like the condom. I wonder where is our world headed?
Nov 21, 2014•5 min
Cardinal Burke Prey to Office Politics
Catholics all over were disappointed with the recent news about the reassignment of Cardinal Raymond Burke, and we can’t help but wonder what the future holds.
Nov 11, 2014•5 min
Post-Election Thoughts
This week we saw great strides in the elections and in the decisions people made to elect pro-life leaders. But we cannot stop there.
Nov 07, 2014•5 min
Death with Dignity According to Whom?
It's hard to talk about human dignity when the advocates for pro-assisted suicide groups frame murder as dignified.
Oct 28, 2014•5 min
The Great Sadness of the Brittany Maynard Story
Oregon’s Brittany Maynard has a very touching, yet tragic, tale to tell about her terminal brain cancer and her plans to take her own life—something she will do next month in her own bed as she is surrounded by her immediate family.
Oct 17, 2014•5 min
What is the Synod Saying?
Judie Brown explains what Pope Francis and the bishops have been discussing in the synod currently taking place at the Vatican.
Oct 14, 2014•4 min
The Doggie in the Window, the Baby in the Grave
What is difficult to understand is why hundreds of thousands of people have cried out about the life of one dog.
Oct 10, 2014•4 min
Morphing the Hideous into the Status Quo
We have spent too much time allowing others to dictate our morality while we simply sat back and watched events unfold.
Oct 07, 2014•28 min
Your Kids are Just Like Fido
In this ever-changing world in which contraception is pushed from many fronts, we find that we must now add the pediatrician’s office to the list.
Oct 03, 2014•4 min
Coaching Us on Respect for Life and Truth
One special family teaches us that all life is precious and that every child should be treasured and his life fought for.
Oct 01, 2014•5 min
The Hypocrisy of Zero Tolerance Policies
Our culture has become one of violence—violence toward women, toward children, and toward innocent preborn babies.
Sep 19, 2014•5 min
Death Peddlers Have No Shame
Those who kill preborn babies may have no shame, but we who fight to give voice to these innocent children certainly do.
Sep 16, 2014•5 min
Making a Choice: Defend the Family or Defend Evil
Families are precious; they are to be cherished and valued. Yet society tells us that it’s okay to divorce, to enter into same-sex unions, and to discard babies like trash.
Sep 12, 2014•4 min
Cardinal Dolan's Pink Shamrock
Instead of a good example, these men only become fodder for those who either choose not to do as the Church teaches or who are ignorant about the teachings.
Sep 09, 2014•4 min
Propaganda Film Humanizes Slaughtering Children
Abortion is a horrifying, tragic act that takes the life of a child who depended on his mother to care for him. Instead, his life is literally torn apart.
Sep 09, 2014•4 min
Hospital Privileges for Killers
We must watch where we focus our energies. We must always be the voice of the preborn. And we can never allow compromise.
Sep 09, 2014•4 min
America's Fear of Children
Our “me” society seems to be losing the vision of a healthy, happy family, and instead focusing on hedonistic pleasures geared at destroying the family. If we continue in this fashion, the loudest sound we will hear will be the weeping of souls.
Sep 02, 2014•5 min
The Family, the Devil, and You
American Life League understands the importance of the family in society and the toxicity surrounding it today. To this end, we have begun a new campaign called Defend the Family. Today’s commentary talks more about this and explains how you can take part.
Aug 26, 2014•10 min
Miscarriage: The Heartbreak and the Lie
Knowing that some Planned Parenthoods now refer to an abortion as a “voluntary miscarriage” is sickening and further compounds the heartbreak of losing a child.
Aug 22, 2014
Can Hospice Become a Death Chamber?
Doctors may not always look out for the best interests of their patients, so when it comes to end-of-life care, we must protect ourselves and our loved ones by being educated and by asking questions.
Aug 19, 2014•4 min
Another Georgetown Outrage
Why should an institute, let alone a Catholic institute, recommend introducing concepts and material regarding sexuality to very young children?
Aug 12, 2014•4 min
Mothers Against Children
n our selfish world, we see motherhood scoffed at, we see babies thought of with disdain and discarded. We see people show more concern for the well-being of animals than for human life.
Aug 08, 2014•4 min
Planned Parenthood and Tuskegee—No Difference
It used to be said that it takes a village to raise a child. And it was not only comforting, but the norm, for people other than parents to watch out for children, no matter who they were.
Aug 06, 2014•4 min
Horror, Exile, and Death
Atrocities against human beings occur every day worldwide. Often we hear an outcry when an offense is especially egregious. But what could be more egregious than the wanton slaughtering of innocent babies?
Aug 05, 2014•4 min
Birds of a Devil
This sounds like it came from Planned Parenthood, NARAL, or Obama’s desk, but it did not. It came from the New York-based The Satanic Temple.
Jul 31, 2014•3 min
I Am Not a Rug!
Animals, especially those that are threatened or endangered, deserve our care and protection. But we must not close our eyes to humanity—to life that grows within a woman’s womb.
Jul 30, 2014•4 min
God Is Not Welcome Here
We are telling God we have no use for Him any longer. We now see the destruction this causes—in lives, in families, in society. When will it end?
Jul 25, 2014•4 min
The Not-So-Great British Influence
The lack of respect for life exists not only in America, but in other countries as well. We see this in a recent assisted suicide proposal and in the widespread support for it in England.
Jul 22, 2014•4 min
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