July 2023 

  Connecticut Attorney General William Tong’s decision to side with educational bureaucrats over the rights of parents and children is another disturbing attack on personal freedom and moral clarity.

   This month, Attorney General Tong joined 16 Democrat Attorney Generals in an amicus brief (friend of the court) in a Massachusetts court case about the rights of parents to be informed by a school system when their child expresses gender confusion, instead of intentionally hiding the information from the parents and beginning to affirm their child's new sexual identity. Tong wrote in opposition to parental rights.

   In an ironic way, Tong’s stance in Massachusetts on the rights of parents to be consulted and engaged in the mental health of their children at a critical time, sheds light on Connecticut, where similar guidance has been offered since 2017 by the Connecticut Department of Education. (Read the complete commentary)

FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill. A Questionable Decision in Terms of Women's Health. If You are Planning on Taking Opill, This is A Must Read. 

   The Biden administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill — a drug associated with mental and physical harms including higher rates of breast cancer, depression, and life-threatening ectopic pregnancies.

   On July 13th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the sale of Opill (norgestrel) without requiring a physical examination or prescription. 

  How the FDA Decision May Hurt Women

   The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine has issued a statement providing principles for evaluating some newer methods and technologies for disposition of the bodies of the deceased.  The USCCB’s Administrative Committee approved the issuance of the statement on March 15.

  The committee evaluates the two most prominent newer methods for disposition of bodily remains that are proposed as alternatives to burial and cremation -- alkaline hydrolysis and human composting -- and concludes that they fail to satisfy the Church’s requirements for proper respect for the bodies of the dead. After the alkaline hydrolysis process, there are about 100 gallons of liquid into which the greater part of the body has been dissolved and this liquid is treated as wastewater. At the end of the human composting process, the body has completely decomposed along with accompanying plant matter to yield a single mass of compost, with nothing distinguishably left of the body to be laid to rest in a sacred place.

  The committee’s full statement may be read here: https://www.usccb.org/resources/On Proper Disposition 2023-03-20.pdf.