Below are critical citations from the A History of Eugenics 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
Below are critical citations from the Personhood: In Culture 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 Peter Singer discusses personhood Peter Singer, Unsanctifying Human Life
Often times we, and many pastors as well, will hear from pro-abortion advocates that our religious beliefs should not be infused into politics - especially not the issue of abortion. The claim has been made that God is silent on the issue of abortion and that the Bible does not uphold our strong conviction of life at conception. The truth is that God has much to say on the issue and that the topics of life, abortion, children, and the protection of life are recurring throughout the whole...
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.
Many people misunderstand the issues involved with stem cell research, often because the liberal media often grossly misreports the facts. Want the truth? Read on.
May 2020 – Article 2: We are social beings. We are not meant to be isolated. The COVID-19 virus has made that reality painfully clear. Numerous media reports highlight cases of widespread depression, increased substance abuse, and even domestic violence. But even before the pandemic, health professionals have long warned that lack of human companionship was detrimental to a person’s health. “People who continue to maintain close friendships and find other ways to interact socially live...
May 2020 – Article 1: “The abortion pill was not easy on my body. I spent days throwing up, bleeding heavily, and experiencing ‘labor like’ cramps, all possible side-effects of the medication. At one point I fainted in my bathroom from the pain,” wrote a woman in Glamor magazine. Under the headline “The Brutal Reality of Getting an Abortion During a Pandemic,” the woman—who claimed she “barely knew the person who got me pregnant”—said she wanted a surgical abortion, but chose to chemically...
April 2020 – Article 2: If used ethically, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs) can be an answer to prayer, but the procedures are not without risks. Premature delivery, low birth weight, and birth defects are not uncommon. Birth mothers can also face dangers, such as ovarian cancer and complications from egg-retrieval. Study Says Higher Death Rate in First Year But now, a new study of births in Sweden shows that babies conceived through IVF,...
April 2020 – Article 1: The traditional view has been that if you care for others you should sign up to be an organ donor—but only after you’re dead. That narrow-minded approach has never met the demand for organs, even though there are cases where doctors have ignored the “dead donor rule” and taken organs before the person actually died. The rule is intended to maintain a “firewall” between the team caring for the individual and organ harvesters whose primary interest is getting the...
February 2020 - Article 2: The increasing demand for harvested body parts often complicates—and often prevents—coroners from determining a cause of death. A recent, extensive article in the Los Angeles Times highlights a number of cases where questionable death investigations were thwarted because critical tissues and organs had been removed before a thorough investigation could be conducted. The cases included possible homicides, highway accidents, deaths after surgeries, drug...