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Amniocentesis is a test used for prenatal diagnosis of inherited diseases, Rh incompatibility, neural tube defects, and lung maturity. Normally…
AmniocentesisReproductionFetusFather Frank Pavone, a key proponent of the Roman Catholic Church's pro-life movement, has devoted his life's work to ending abortion, euthanasia,…
PeoplereligionReproductionBiographyCatholicismThis scrapbook is part of the Harvard University Library's collection on "Working Women, 1800-1930," which is itself part of the Open Collections…
LiteratureOrganizationsethicsReproductionmedicineThe "Humanae Vitae," meaning "Of Human Life" and subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth," was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July…
LiteratureReproductive RightsreligionReproductionCatholicismPope John Paul II's views on abortion and embryology have been very influential to the Roman Catholic Church. He strictly forbade abortion and other…
religionReproductionCatholicismPopesAbortionPope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, has been crucial to the clarification of Roman Catholic views on embryos and…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopes"Effraenatam," the brain-child of Pope Sixtus V, was released as a papal bull in the year 1588. Papal bulls are formal declarations issued by the…
LiteratureSixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590religionReproductionCatholicismMother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun known for her charitable work and attention to the poor, was born 26 August 1910. The youngest child of Albanian…
religionReproductionCatholicismContraceptionAbortionAs various societies around the world began legalizing abortive procedures or liberalizing government stances on abortion, the Roman Catholic Church'…
LiteraturereligionReproductionCatholicismAbortionPope Innocent XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi, made considerable contributions to the Roman Catholic approach to embryology by condemning several…
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