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| 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. |
| 01/12/10 | The Marriage Penalty in Health Care Hidden in Obama's health care bill is a huge marriage penalty. Both the Senate and House bills would set up yet another federal program to provide financial incentives to subsidize marriage avoidance and illegitimate offspring. |
| 01/07/10 | Pro-Life Leaders Promise Fight to Stop Abortion Funding in Health Care Not Over Desperate times call for desperate measures, so they say. The abortion industry is right in the middle of these desperate times after their leader, President Obama, abandoned them in the midst of the health care debate. |
| 01/07/10 | Conference Committee Bypass Set, Pro-Abortion Senate Bill Basis for Coming Vote Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama have made it official: they will bypass a public, formal conference committee and negotiate behind closed doors on a final version of the pro-abortion health care bill. |
| 01/04/10 | Iowa fights for public vote Iowa residents are letting lawmakers know how they feel about the legalization of homosexual marriage by the state Supreme Court, and the issue is expected to be a major battleground in 2010. |
| 01/04/10 | Vermont tragedy may bring change in law A grieving Vermont mother is fighting for passage of a bill which would declare that unborn babies are human beings. |
| 12/22/09 | Senate OKs Manager's Amendment to Health Care Bill Funding Abortions Tuesday morning, the Senate approved the Harry Reid manager's amendment to the government-run health care bill. Reid's amendment includes the so-called "compromise" language he agreed on with embattled Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska that keeps abortion funding in the bill. |
| 12/22/09 | Kathleen Sebelius Admits, Covers Up Abortion Funding in Health Care Measure HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is getting attention for an interview yesterday in which she essentially admits that the American public would be forced to pay for abortions under the Senate health are bill and then relies on accounting gimmicks to suggests that's not the case. |
| 12/22/09 | Mistrust Among Senators Thickens as Bill Hurtles Toward Christmas Eve Vote WASHINGTON, D.C., December 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The atmosphere of urgency that Democrats have propped up around the health care overhaul is growing ever sourer as embattled senators stare down a Christmas Eve deadline - a timetable that is increasingly attracting outraged criticism, and widening a rift of hostile mistrust between the two halves of the Senate floor that some are calling unprecedented in recent memory. |
| 12/22/09 | An unwelcome intruder The California Public Utilities Commission is requiring all utilities to install new "smart meter" boxes on homes and businesses in the state. The new meters will give public utilities greater control and monitoring ability over private household and business energy use. |
| 12/17/09 | Infamous Catholic Nun Cites Virgin Mary as Support for Pro-Abortion Views Sr. Quinn is well known as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues. She co-founded the feminist organization Chicago Catholic Women and is a coordinator in the radical National Coalition of American Nuns, which opposes the Catholic Church's position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood. |
| 12/17/09 | Fake Catholic Groups Working Overtime for Healthcare Bill It's sad to report, but report we must: The same fake Catholic groups that helped President Barack Obama get elected have rallied to the cause of the health-care bill, abortion funding and all. As reported by LifeNews.com, Catholics United (CU) and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) are warning Catholics not to get too hung up on things like federal funding of abortion. |
| 12/04/09 | Senate Passes Amendment that Could Mandate Abortion Coverage in Insurance Plans The Senate on Thursday approved the Mikulski amendment by a vote of 61-39. All Republicans except Senators Vitter, Snowe and Collins voted against the amendment, and all Independents and Democrats except Senators Nelson (NE) and Feingold voted for it. |
| 11/11/09 | Boston CBS Affiliate Won't Run Pro-Life Group's Ads on Abortion, Health Care The Boston, Massachusetts CBS affiliate, radio station WBZ, has refused to sell time to a state pro-life group seeking to run ads asking that abortion funding be kept out of the health care bills in Congress. When asked to put in writing their reasons for declining the ads, the station declined. |
| 11/11/09 | Planned Parenthood Fails to Silence Former Abortion Center Director in Court Courts to Planned Parenthood: Former Abortion Center Director free to talk about experiences working there |
| 10/31/09 | Patrick Kennedy Says Bishops Not Pro-Life for Opposing Health Care bill Congressman Patrick Kennedy has a message for the nation's Catholic bishops: You're not pro-life. That's the Rhode Island lawmaker's reaction to a promise from the bishops to vigorously oppose the health care bills in Congress unless amendments are added to remove abortion funding. |
| 10/31/09 | Sociologist: Faith benefits marriage and family life A University of Virginia sociologist says married couples who worship together are 35 percent less likely to divorce, and tend to be better parents as well. |
| 10/27/09 | Tussle mounts over Muslim-backed resolution The United Nations will soon introduce a "defamation of religions" resolution that many believe will undermine religious liberty and personal safety of Christians and other faith groups. |
| 10/23/09 | Abortion divides House Dems in health care debate House Democrats are at an impasse over whether their remake of the nation's health care system would effectively allow federal funding of abortion. |
| 10/21/09 | Obama is sure about something For a man who is so uncertain on so many things, of the need to advance homosexual rights he seems passionately convinced. |
| 10/15/09 | Election 2010: Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic Primary: Specter 46%, Sestak 42% |
| 10/09/09 | REGISTER HERE for PPN's Pastors’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC Oct 23 Please join us for an important Pastors’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC as we host this exclusive event for you: “A Culture in Crisis” |
| 10/05/09 | Cardinal Rigali: "Contraception and Abortion" Have Created a "Cultural Hostility to Children" In a statement to mark Respect Life Sunday, October 4, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said: "Since the advent of widespread contraception and abortion, a cultural hostility to children has grown." |
| 10/05/09 | Texas swimmer attests to adult stem-cell success This case is another clear example that adult stem cells work in more than 70 diseases and medical conditions, while embryonic stem-cell research has produced no results. |
| 09/24/09 | Pro-Life Pastors to Participate in Second Pulpit Freedom Sunday to Challenge IRS A group of pro-life pastors will participate in another Sunday where they talk frankly about politicians and political candidates and issues like abortion. The second Pulpit Freedom Sunday on September 27 is meant to challenge what are considered onerous IRS restrictions on what pastors and priests can say. |
| 09/24/09 | A first: Census Bureau to ask about sexual preferences The Census Bureau prepares to make an official count of same-sex marriages, unions and partnerships for the first time in the 2010 head count, following pressure from gay-rights groups. |
| 09/20/09 | David Axelrod Says He Hopes U.S. Catholic Bishops Will Realize Obama’s Claim That the Health Care Bill Doesn’t Fund Abortion is ‘Accurate’ Sen. Barbara Mikulski(D-Md.) adopted an amendment which requires insurance companies to include services for pregnant women and women in childbearing years. When asked if she would add language to her amendment to specifically exclude abortion coverage, Mikulski answered: “No. I would not be willing to do that at this time.” |
| 09/09/09 | Defending Marriage in Troubled Times Marriage redefinition is not only wrong-headed, it is also being tackled in the wrong sequence. Unless the president's advisors are telling him that he cannot do without the financial contributions of the gay community, fighting the DOMA battle makes no sense. |
| 09/01/09 | Union politicking at the pulpit Check out the AFL-CIO’s latest initiative to preach Obamacare at houses of faith across the country. |