Category: Dr. Jim Asher
Is Dr. Gosnell an aberration?
People look at Dr. Kermit Gosnell and wonder, how could he kill aborted babies born alive? Don’t wonder. He could well be just like a lot of doctors you know.
How the lives of the Japanese martyrs can inspire us today
Martyrdom so steadfastly accepted by such youths is especially awesome. And who would have blamed them for surrendering? Yet these boys seem to have all been very devoted to the faith, and their intrepidity demonstrates a Holy Spirit not about to abandon them in their hour of need.
Are homosexual families dysfunctional?
We used to talk more about dysfunctional families – those in which love was lacking due to a variety of circumstances. Dysfunction means not operating normally or properly. Most families actually were dysfunctional to a degree, yet fixable.
The next pope will uphold the teaching of ‘Humanae Vitae’
My nephew with a masters in theology from a Catholic university and I were trying our best to have a meaningful discussion while fishing. Which is harder than you might think when they’re biting.
40 years after ‘Roe’ and 53 years after the pill, we still don’t get it
Contraception has been readily available for some 53 years. In 1960, there were about 800 legal abortions a year; today there’s more than 1.2 million. The only rational conclusion is that contraception somehow fuels abortion.
Cooperation with abortion
In my patient’s opinion, she was well past child-rearing years. Yet she found herself pregnant. Previous talks about her consternation left me worried that she would seek to end her pregnancy.
Suffering may come
“[Jonah] cried, ‘Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least.” (Jonah 3:4-5) The most astounding part of the Book of Jonah has nothing to do with a fish. And it utterly proves [...]
The road to infanticide
A baby unable to consume food or water was born on April 15, 1982. The parents refused a procedure to correct the defect — because the child had Down’s syndrome. The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the parents’ decision and the baby died of dehydration and starvation six days later. This and several other cases prompted [...]
Government vs. our consciences
Americans have produced a nation unlike any other on the planet. We donate more time and money to charitable causes than any other people. We have fought wars with enormous casualties to end one kind of oppression or another since our founding. There are probably more people opposing abortion, contraception, illegitimacy and divorce in America [...]
The cause of the war on women
My last column allowed there was a war on women, but not being waged by the Catholic Church as alleged. No, the war was coming from the consequences of the birth control pill and the radical feminism which the pill made possible. These consequences are unprecedented numbers of abortions, infidelities, divorces, illegitimacy, promiscuity, sexually transmitted [...]
