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| 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. |
| 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. |