Chicago Pro-Life Conference Tomorrow & Saturday

CHICAGO, September 21, 2006 – "Contrary to popular belief, contraception is
not the answer to reducing the number of abortions," said Joseph M.
Scheidler, National Director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League.
"And it is not the solution to teen pregnancy."

On September 22 and 23, the Pro-Life Action League will host a national
conference to highlight the fact that the contraception theory is a lie.
Speakers at the two-day conference, entitled "Contraception Is Not the
Answer," will focus on the impact that contraception has had on our culture
– its effects on women, on men, on marriage, and on the culture.

Presenters include Dr. Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin Professor of
Anthropology at Rutgers University, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, author of
Smart Sex: How to Find Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World, and demographer
Andrew Pollard, director of EMP Intelligence Service in Northampton,
England.

"Contraception Is Not the Answer" opens Friday, September 22 at 6:00 p.m. at
the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, IL, with a presentation on the failure
of "comprehensive" sex education programs, and an analysis of the Protestant
embrace of contraception in the twentieth century.

A press conference will be held Saturday, September 23 at 8:00 a.m. in
Ballroom One of the Crowne Plaza, prior to the presentations scheduled for
the day. Dr. Allan Carlson, president of the Howard Center, Dr. Janet Smith,
professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Damon
Clarke Owens, director of Joy-Filled Marriage, and Fr. Thomas Euteneuer,
president of Human Life International, will join Dr. Tiger, Dr. Morse and
Prof. Pollard to answer questions from the media.

"I believe this is exactly the right time to confront the common
misconceptions about the effects of contraception," said Scheidler. "This
conference will prove to be historic."

For further information see www.prolifeaction.org/cinta or call
773-777-2900. A brief preview of several of the conference presentations can
be accessed on the Pro-Life Action League website at
www.prolifeaction.org/cinta/teleseminars.htm.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Chicago Pro-Life Conference Tomorrow & Saturday”

  3. FYI, for those of you in the metro Detroit area, Dr. Janet Smith will be one of the speakers at this year’s Women’s Conference on October 21st…and she will be speaking on Humanae Vitae.

  4. I have heard Dr. Janet Smith’s talks online and she is awesome. She presents the argument against contraception so strongly and so clearly.
    And ya, what’s rule #30?

  5. I couldn’t follow either link.
    How mainstream will this be? It sounds great, but will it just be preaching to the choir or could this actually make anyone think “hey, I guess contraception isn’t such a good thing after all”?

  6. I couldn’t follow either link.
    Try this one for the conference homepage, and this one to access the teleseminars.
    How mainstream will this be? It sounds great, but will it just be preaching to the choir or could this actually make anyone think “hey, I guess contraception isn’t such a good thing after all”?
    Note the title of one of the speakers, Dr. Lionel Tiger. His position at Rutgers is that of the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology.
    He has no ideological axe to grind — in fact, during the teleseminar in which he was interviewed, he all but acknowledged that that he would style himself pro-choice — and I don’t what, if any, religion he professes, but his sociological and anthropological research has led him to plainly acknowledge that contraception leads to abortion.
    Also, the talk that Dr. Janet Smith will be giving is titled “Hormones ‘R’ Us”, which will focus primarily on the physical side effects women experience when they’re on hormonal birth control, which in turn have rather significant effects on their relationships with men, and vice versa.
    Thus, I’m sure the choir will feel uplifted, but there’ll be plenty for the rest of the congregation to chew on, too.

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