Below are critical citations from the Pharmacological Enhancement section of the Pillars of Personhood educational handbook. If you have additional questions about content within this section, please contact us at PersonhoodSeminar@grtl.org Americans' Use of Antidepressants on the Rise Surge in Antidepressant Use Cognition Enhancing Drugs Ritalin and Adderall Usage for Enhancement Neutocognitive Enhancements: What Can We Do and What Should We Do?
Below are critical citations from the Threats to Personhood section of the Pillars of Personhood educational handbook. If you have additional questions about content within this section, please contact us at PersonhoodSeminar@grtl.org Ray Kurzweil, Singularity Is Near, page 11 Michael Sleasman, Thinking Through Technology Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century, Nigel Cameron Glow in the Dark Human at Cornell "...a test tube [child] is not considered a person"
Many staff, volunteers, and friends of GRTL are teaching pastors. With the help of pro-life pastors around the country, we will provide notes, presentations, outlines, and full sermons here for others to use at their churches.
The local church and its pastors are two vital assets that are often overlooked but are critically important to the pro-life cause. If our churches and church leadership are unwilling or not equipped to take a stand in the fight for life, we will not win the culture.
March 2020 - Article 1: March madness is more than about basketball. It also marks the beginning of the annual March of Dimes (MOD) fund raising campaign—deceptively claiming “every baby deserves the best possible start.” What’s wrong with that statement? While MOD does many beneficial things, claiming it works to protect every baby is misleading. The organization has innocent blood on its hands. MOD has a history of supporting Planned Parenthood—the nation’s largest abortion provider—as...
December 2019 – Article 2: There’s always a price for ignoring history, and it’s always too high. As anti-Christian forces become bolder and more aggressive, it’s critical to remember the words of Nazi-era pastor Martin Niemoller who lamented the failure of German Christians to stand against the forces of evil. “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.” “Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a...
December 2019 – Article 1: In the 1939 “The Wizard of Oz” classic, Scarecrow wanted a brain and Tinman wanted a heart. The real world is no less needy. Even though 30,000 transplants are performed annually in the U.S., 20 people die every day while waiting for an organ. Additionally, there are currently an estimated 113,000 people on waiting lists. Today scientists in the United States and around the world are feverishly working to meet the demand by developing 3D-printed organs,...
June 2019 – Article 2 It sounds so compassionate. So caring. A loved one has been declared brain dead and you’re urged to allow doctors to take their organs and save the life of others. It’s the right thing to do they say. What they don’t tell you is that the term “brain death” was devised for a less than noble purpose. In a recent media interview, Doyen Nguyen, a lay Dominican and professor at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, said the idea of brain...
April 2019 – Article 3: As Girl Scout cookies season comes to a close, parents should be aware that the organization does not exactly have family-friendly values at its heart. Though the organization's ties to abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood have been known for years, the Girl Scouts of America have yet to be so forthright about their closeted support for abortion. Until now. According to LifeNews, the group MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, which has been monitoring the organization for...
April 2019 – Article 1: Promoting and protecting the sanctity of human life should not be involved in issues like climate change, but it is. There are those in the extreme faction of the debate who place all of the blame for the earth’s changing weather conditions squarely on humanity, while completely ignoring the possibility that some of it could also be the Such a focus places a higher value on the planet result of naturally occurring weather patterns than on people; it flies in the...