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| 02/25/10 | Beverly Hills Disowns Beauty Queen for Speaking Against Same-Sex Marriage Less than a year after dethroned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean stirred up controversy with her remarks against gay marriage, a similar war of words is brewing in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills Mayor Nancy Krasne said Wednesday she is outraged over a Miss California USA contestant who is claiming to represent the city in the upcoming pageant and who spoke out against same-sex marriage in recent media interviews. |
| 02/25/10 | Nebraska Lawmakers to Discuss Fetal Pain Abortion Bill Emboldened by the Supreme Court's 2007 decision upholding a ban on what abortion rights opponents call partial-birth abortions, in which a fetus is partially removed from the woman's womb and then destroyed, the Nebraska legislators are seeking to ban all late-term abortions except when the mother's life is threatened. |
| 02/23/10 | Frozen Fetuses Found During Doctor's Office Raid Philadelphia and federal authorities who raided a doctor's office after allegations a woman died following an abortion made a shocking discovery: more than two dozen frozen fetuses. |
| 02/22/10 | More Senior Citizens Using Marijuana In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana. Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older. |
| 02/22/10 | Rep. Pence: Stop Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Planned Parenthood In a speech on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) earned a standing ovation when he said the United States has a moral obligation to the unborn, and that the time has come to stop funding Planned Parenthood with money from pro-life American taxpayers. |
| 02/18/10 | Lawmakers Move to Prohibit Imitation Marijuana in Missouri, Kansas An obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the effects of marijuana has caught the attention of Midwest law enforcement. Drug users are buying a product known as "K2" - a mix of herbs and spices that is sprayed with a synthetic compound similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. |
| 02/18/10 | Who's Who of Conservative Movement Unveils 'Mount Vernon Statement' The most influential conservative grassroots leaders nationwide signed the Mount Vernon statement recommitting their movement to constitutional conservatism. "This is something that all conservatives -- those that are concerned about national security, those that are concerned about economic opportunity, those that are concerned about religious liberty and personal responsibility -- there' something here for everyone because this is simply a restatement to this generation of those enduring founding principles," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. |
| 02/16/10 | Doctors back 'right to die' Consultation; But MDs oppose assisted suicide Euthanasia is already a reality in Quebec hospitals, the president of the federation of Quebec medical specialists, told a National Assembly committee yesterday. Doctors know when death is "imminent and inevitable," Gaétan Barrette explained. |
| 02/15/10 | North Carolina County Drops Abortions From Employees' Health Insurance Plan Wake County has dropped coverage for elective abortions from its employee health plan. Officials say a 29-year-old state Supreme Court ruling makes it illegal to use tax payer money to pay for the procedure and that an oversight of the rule allowed the practice to continue since the late 1990s. County Manager David Cooke ended the practice on Wednesday. |
| 02/15/10 | NARAL Seeks Pro-Choice License Plate With Proceeds Going to Planned Parenthood Clinics Abortion-rights advocates have been unable to halt the "Choose Life" license plate variations in nearly two-dozen states, so now they're working to balance the bumper debate. |
| 02/11/10 | International Planned Parenthood Pushes Sex Ed for 10–Year-Olds, Claims Religious-Based Abstinence Ed Ineffective A new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) says comprehensive sex education should be provided to children as young as 10 years old but abstinence-based sex education as promoted by religious groups, such as the Catholic Church and Islamic schools, is ineffective and should not be utilized. |
| 02/11/10 | Poll: Majority Backs Ditching ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Rule The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq, shipping out more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment from tanks to antennas along with a force the size of a small city. (AP File Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo) (CNSNews.com) – A majority of American voters support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military but support some restrictions, according to a poll by Quinnipiac University. |
| 02/08/10 | Democrats Pushing Back Against Carbon Regulations From the EPA Three House Democrats are now pushing legislation that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions—a decision the agency announced in December -- without express permission from the Congress. |
| 02/08/10 | 'Miracle' Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad puts hit on critics Touchdown! The long-awaited, much-hyped ad from Focus on the Family aired shortly after the Colts and Saints kicked off at Super Bowl. And their early hit could have the last laugh on critics. |
| 02/04/10 | Woman Wins IRS Fight for Right to Write Off Sex Change Operation A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people. Rhiannon O'Donnabhain, who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service in 2007 after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for about $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery, finding it was a cosmetic procedure and not medically necessary. |
| 02/04/10 | Doctors communicate with vegetative state patient Most vegetative state patients show no signs of brain activity British scientists said they could communicate with a patient who has not shown any sign of outward consciousness for five years. |
| 02/01/10 | New Morning-After Pill Works for Up to Five Days A new type of morning-after pill is more effective than the most widely used drug at preventing pregnancies in women who had unprotected sex and also works longer, for up to five days, a new study says. |
| 02/01/10 | States Turning to Constitutional Amendments to Ban Mandatory Health Insurance Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. |
| 01/28/10 | Pro-Life, Pro-Abortion Groups Clash on Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad, Lobby CBS The controversy over the coming Super Bowl ad from Focus on the Family about pro-life University of Florida football star Tim Tebow is generating as much, if not more, attention than it will when it runs before and during the championship game. |
| 01/28/10 | Obama calls for 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal President Obama said Wednesday night he will work with Congress and the military to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces. |
| 01/26/10 | Hate-Crimes Law Named No.1 Anti-Christian Act of 2009 The new federal hate crimes law has all the potential to be a major attack on religious liberty and freedom of speech, according to top religious liberty attorneys. The law was chosen the number one anti-Christian act of 2009 by the Christian Anti-Defamation League |
| 01/26/10 | Decade of Decline in U.S. Teen Pregnancies Ends Experts concerned about possible trend reversal After more than a decade of decline, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate increased 3 percent in 2006, which led to a 4 percent rise in teen births and a 1 percent increase in teen abortions, a new study shows. |
| 01/22/10 | Roe v. Wade anniversary marked by vigils, demonstrations Abortion rights supporters and opponents prepared to hit the streets of the nation's capital Friday to mark the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. |
| 01/22/10 | At Calif. gay marriage trial, marriage is not the only flash point Lawyers for two same-sex couples, over nine days of testimony, have examined general attitudes about modern marriage, homosexuality, and whether sexual orientation warrants special legal protection. They seek to overturn Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in California. Defenders of the ban are up next. |
| 01/19/10 | Democrats May Look to House to OK Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill if Brown Wins Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown is leading in polls and if they hold up on Tuesday in the Massachusetts special election, he would become the 41st vote against the pro-abortion health care bill in the Senate. That is confounding efforts by President Barack Obama and Democrats to get the bill passed. |
| 01/19/10 | Abortion Mandate in Senate Health Care Bill Energizes Pro-Life Activists Ahead of National Rally Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Friday marks the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion-on-demand nationwide, and a coalition of more than 70 pro-life organizations says this year’s commemorative “March for Life” on that day is more significant than any to date. |
| 01/15/10 | Hillary Clinton Promotes Fundraising Push for Pro-Abortion Reproductive Health Washington, DC (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- In Washington last week, United States (U.S.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States would engage in a massive funding push over the next five years to promote 'reproductive health care and family planning'as a 'basic right'around the word. |
| 01/15/10 | Martha Coakley: Devout Catholics 'Probably shouldn't work in the emergency room' How can a Massachusetts Senate candidate possibly offend 39 percent of voters in her state? If it's Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley, she would tell devout Catholics not to bother working in an emergency room (H/T Jim Hoft - Big Government). |
| 01/13/10 | Pro-Abortion Obama Pick Dawn Johnsen Gets 60th Vote From Arlen Specter In a flip-flop that could provide her the 60th and final vote she needs to overcome a pro-life filibuster, pro-abortion Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has changed his mind and decided to support Dawn Johnsen. She is the pro-abortion activist President Barack Obama nominated to a key Justice Department position. |
| 01/13/10 | Embryonic Stem Cell Research Has Lost the Battle, California Was Its Waterloo The battle over embryonic stem cell research is over. A few skirmishes will no doubt continue -- perhaps even for years -- and some ESCR advocates will refuse to acknowledge defeat. But they have decisively lost. |