Jul 27, 2010 | Charlie Butts
Georgians give thumbs-up to personhood
Georgia's lawmakers will soon hear a plea to send a constitutional amendment to voters to define personhood. Last week Georgia's voters throughout the state weighed in on the amendment that would protect life from its biological beginning through natural death. Dan Becker of Georgia Right to Life tells OneNewsNow the results from a question on 46 local party ballots are remarkable.
Jul 27, 2010 | Nick Dean
Washington State to Allow Pharmacies A Choice in Stocking ‘Morning-After Pill’
Pharmacists in the State of Washington may soon be free to choose the medications they want to provide in their pharmacies – and those they don’t – after a lawsuit prompted the state’s pharmacy board to reevaluate the current regulations. Pharmacists in Washington currently are required to stock the “morning-after pill,” which is marketed as Plan B, regardless of any moral or ethical concerns they may have.
Jul 22, 2010 | Rep. Chris Smith
Obama Administration Wrong to Influence Vote on Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution
Two weeks from today, millions of Kenyans will go to the polls either to affirm or reject a sweeping new constitution in a nationwide plebiscite. In the run up to this referendum—just like any other election— the United States and other democracies have a profoundly important, but narrow role to play. And that is to ensure to the greatest extent possible that the plebiscite—referendum—is free, fair and peaceful.
Jul 22, 2010 | Bill Bumpas and Jody Brown
Legislating immorality in schools
An author and mother of five is alarmed at the recent news of school districts in Massachusetts and Montana that in her opinion are encouraging the sexuality of young children. From condoms for young children in Provincetown to sex education for kindergartners in Helena, Katie Reid -- author of When the Bough Breaks -- believes the intent of such actions is to provide children a means to engage in sexual relations with fewer possible side effects. But as Reid points out, there are more consequences to sex than just pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Jul 22, 2010 | Charlie Butts
Another abortion clinic caught on camera
Live Action, a youth-led, pro-life organization, has released its third undercover video involving alleged medical misinformation, this time from staff at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood facility. The group sent an undercover pro-lifer armed with a hidden camera to pose as a 10-weeks pregnant potential candidate for an abortion.
Jul 20, 2010 | Penny Starr
Pence: States Using Federal Funds for Abortions Through Health Care Law ‘Must Not Stand’
At his weekly pen and pad briefing on Monday at the Capital, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Republican Conference, said that last week’s revelation by the National Right to Life’s legal counsel that the new health care law will allow some states to use federal funds for abortion is unacceptable. “It must not stand,” Pence said when asked by CNSNews.com what Republicans are doing in response to the news.
Jul 20, 2010 | Adam Cassandra
Supreme Court Police Told School Teacher It’s ‘Definitely Contrary to the Law’ to Pray on Supreme Court Steps, Says Alliance Defense Fund
The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) wants assurances that an Arizona Christian school teacher will not be arrested if she prays on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building. According to attorneys from ADF, Supreme Court police forced teacher Maureen Rigo from the building steps and told her the act of bowing her head and praying on the Supreme Court steps was unlawful.
Jul 16, 2010 | Charlie Butts
Court decides foster worker didn't sway child
Authorities have restored the license of a foster mother who was accused of brainwashing a Muslim girl in her care to convert to Christianity. The unidentified woman has provided care for about 80 foster children in the past decade, but the Gateshead City Council canceled her license in 2008 when she failed to prevent the 16-year-old from getting baptized. Mike Judge, spokesman for the Christian Institute U.K., tells the BBC the council ordered the girl to stay away from church for six months and rethink her decision for Christ. He has a problem with that.
Jul 16, 2010 | Bill Bumpas
Sex-ed program sparks grizzly effect
A proposed sex-education curriculum in Montana is drawing outrage because it would teach young children about subjects like same-sex intercourse. Under the proposal for the Helena school district, kindergartners would learn the proper names of sexual body parts, first-graders would be taught that sexual relations could happen between two men or two women, and fifth-graders would learn the various ways people can have intercourse.
Jul 13, 2010 | Charlie Butts
Louisiana tightens up abortion laws
Louisiana has taken further steps on the way to becoming one of the most pro-life states in the country. Governor Bobby Jindal (R) signed three pro-life measures into laws last week. Gene Mills, executive director for the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), tells OneNewsNow that one of the measures deals with abortion funding in federal healthcare reform, banning coverage for elective abortions in the insurance purchasing pools.