The move is part of HLI's Humanae Vitae Initiative celebrating 40 years since Pope Paul VI released the landmark papal encyclical on birth control.

In the first installment of the newsletter, sent March 6, Father Euteneuer said, "HLI was founded thirty-five years ago--even before Roe v. Wade--primarily to defend the sanctity of marriage from the degradation of birth control. HLI's Founder, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, studied contraception carefully and saw the abortion plague coming as an inevitable wave of death that follows in the train of the promiscuity generated by birth control. He predicted with deadly accuracy that the fruit of birth control would be legalized abortion."

Father Euteneuer has placed the project under the direction of John Mallon, HLI's PR Director and long- time champion of Humanae Vitae. In 1994, then-editor of the Sooner Catholic, the archdiocesan newspaper of Oklahoma City, Mallon put out an issue of the paper on the 26th anniversary featuring the document on the front page and a special pull-out supplement within. At the direction of Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran the issue was sent to all American bishops. In 1998 Mallon was responsible for producing a special supplement for Inside the Vatican magazine for the 30th anniversary of the document.

Mallon will write many of the installments and invite world-renowned experts to contribute. Mallon said, "The widespread rejection of this encyclical is perhaps the most tragic error in the Church's history, an error to which many still cling to this day. We hope to demonstrate how this error launched the culture of death, opening the gate to abortion and myriad other social ills. We also hope to show how, like all of Christ's teachings, Humanae Vitae is a message of hope, which, once applied in an admittedly hostile culture, can heal our society. But it must be preached in a positive and hopeful way."

The website and newsletter may be accessed at

http://humanaevitaepriests.org.

Founded in 1981, Human Life International is the world's largest pro-life, pro-family organization that is dedicated to defending life, faith and the family, with branches and affiliates around the world. Christian Newswire

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES

June 14, 2007

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Bill Funds 20 New Elementary School Health Clinics Offering Condoms and Birth Control for Students
Would also provide abortion referrals without parental notification or consent
By Peter J. Smith

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Condoms and contraception for elementary students are among the services of 20 new school proposed health clinics in a bill under consideration by Illinois’ House of Representatives.

SB 715 passed 32-22 by the state Senate faces a second reading in the House, which if approved would go to the governor for signing.

While the state’s Administrative Code specifically allows the current 48 school-based clinics in Illinois to offer "family planning" by "prescribing, dispensing, or referring for birth control," the Illinois Family Institute reports SB 715 intends to introduce the programs to elementary school students, who would also receive condoms and birth control along with band aids, ice, and routine medicinal care.