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08/10/09 Sarah Palin Opposes Health Care Bill Over Abortion, Euthanasia Components
Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin released a statement on Friday saying she opposes the government-run health care bills pending in Congress. Palin, who recently ended her time as Alaska's governor, cited its pro-abortion and euthanasia components.
08/07/09 Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court, Expected to Back Abortion
Members of the Senate voted 68-31 today to approve appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the Supreme Court. There, she is expected to become one of the five members of the pro-abortion majority that supports Roe v. Wade and its unlimited abortions.
08/07/09 Mike Huckabee Calls Barack Obama Most Pro-Abortion President in History
In a new video he recorded to urge pro-life advocates to oppose the health care bill and its abortion funding provisions, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee calls President Barack Obama the most pro-abortion president in American history.
08/07/09 CBS News Covers Up Abortion Funding in Health Care in Misleading Factcheck
CBS News has become the latest mainstream media outlet to come under criticism from pro-life advocates for covering up the abortion funding tucked away in the government-run health care plan. The Associated Press had covered up the abortion funding but recently flip-flopped and admitted it exists.
08/06/09 Pro-Life Nurses Group Urges Congress: Keep Abortion Out of Health Care
A national organization for pro-life nurses is joining the chorus of voices urging members of Congress to keep abortion out of health care. The board of directors of the National Association of Pro-Life Nurses is unified in asking Congress to make sure abortion funding and insurance mandates are not included.
08/05/09 New Video Exposing Overpopulation Myths gains Traction, Hate From Opponents
As of Monday, the first episode in PRI's mini-cartoon series, entitled “Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth,” had garnered over 27,000 views. Of course, anything less than a million views is not a landslide by YouTube standards, but this healthy (and steadily growing) number represents real interest—interest that is being fed by dozens of blogs and web sites that have picked up the video for a variety of reasons.
08/05/09 LeRoy Carhart Wants to Open Late-Term Abortion Business in Wichita, Kansas
Nebraska-based abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart wants to pick up where late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller left off. Tiller was shot and killed weeks ago by a gunman unaffiliated with the pro-life movement and now Carhart says he wants to start a new abortion center to replace Tiller's.
08/05/09 China Sees Preference for Boys Waning as Sex-Selection Abortions Kill Girls
China's gender imbalance is worse than almost any other nation in the world and China has a surplus of 32 million more men than women.
08/04/09 Senate Begins Debate on Pro-Abortion Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor
Leading pro-life groups say Sotomayor is pro-abortion and cite her involvement in a group that asked the court to keep abortions legal.
08/04/09 Congressman: Would Rather Save My Soul Than Back Pro-Abortion Health Care
Congressman Anh Cao is the first member of the House of Representatives from Vietnam. Cao is a Catholic who strongly favors helping Americans struggling with health care, but he has a high calling that, he says, prevents him from supporting the pro-abortion government-run bill
08/03/09 Research Team Can Turn Stem Cell Genes in Skin Cells Without Using Viruses
A research team comprised of faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and investigators at CellThera, a private company, have discovered a novel way to turn on stem cell genes in human fibroblasts (skin cells) without the risks associated with inserting extra genes or using viruses.
08/03/09 Catholic Medical Association Rejects Healthcare Reform Bill
Catholic Medical Association Says Health Care Reform Bills Too Pro-Abortion.
08/03/09 Pro-Life Bob McDonnell Leads in Virginia Gubernatorial Race
In this year's race for Virginia governor, a new survey shows pro-life Republican Bob McDonnell has opened up a double-digit lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, who supports abortion.
07/29/09 Dealing with abortion in health care reform
Will health care reform force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years?
07/22/09 Groups Urge Attorney General to Move against Pornography
Pro-family groups want the Obama administration to step up the fight against pornography.
07/20/09 Fetuses found to have memories
The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.
07/08/09 Public ignored; full steam ahead for embryonic experiments
The National Institutes of Health has issued guidelines for research on human embryos. One pro-family spokesman accuses NIH of ignoring the public on the matter.
07/07/09 World's oldest Christian Bible digitized
The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. But starting Monday, it became available for perusal on the Web at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org so scholars and other readers can get a closer look at what the British Library calls a "unique treasure."
07/02/09 NEA to consider full support of homosexual 'marriage'
The NEA is currently holding its annual convention in San Diego, California. Educator and conservative activist Jeralee Smith called OneNewsNow from the convention to report that the executive council has approved language that will throw the full support of the NEA behind same-gender marriage, homosexual adoption, and other issues surrounding the homosexual agenda.
06/28/09 Same-sex 'marriage' loses support among Americans
A recent poll indicates that Americans are not as supportive of homosexual "marriage" as they once were.
06/08/09 Life and death
Euphemisms like "reproductive freedom," the "right to choose," and "death with dignity" justify the assault on our patient's lives and our rights of conscience. But in the midst of this inversion of right and wrong, pro-life doctor groups worldwide are banding together to form a Hippocratic Registry of Physicians.
06/05/09 Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Pro-Abortion Obama Judge David Hamilton
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted along party lines to approve President Barack Obama's first pro-abortion judicial nominee. With Democrats voting yes and Republicans no, the panel sent appeals court nominee David Hamilton to the full Senate for consideration.
06/05/09 Behind the Scenes: New Hampshire Same Sex Marriage Law
The current wave of pro-gay marriage legislation ... may be used to infringe on religious freedoms by requiring opponents to perform such marriages.
06/05/09 The Killing of George Tiller
No matter what you think about abortion, it is a sad day for the country when vigilantism takes a life.
06/05/09 Obama Comes Out of the Closet on Islam
During the presidential campaign it became forbidden to draw any attention to candidate Obama’s Muslim heritage. Obama himself attacked any suggestion he had Muslim roots. Now in a Wednesday interview on a French television station, the president observed that the U.S. “could be considered one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
06/04/09 The Incomparable One
Jesus was far from being an old man when his earthly life ended. He was probably well under 40, roughly the age of Mozart, who died at 35, as his genius was still approaching its unimaginable peak.
06/02/09 Traditional marriage still popular in Pennsylvania
A recent poll shows most Pennsylvanians support traditional marriage. The numbers show residents favoring one man and one woman as the definition of marriage, and the figures are very high among older Pennsylvanians.
06/01/09 "The Weekend Cleanup": The Gruesome Aftermath of Legalized Euthanasia in Belgium
"Be alert! Not many people know what is hanging over their heads."
05/20/09 Pope: The Family Is Essential For Building A Civilization Of Love
Yesterday in Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI affirmed the irreplaceable importance of true marriage and families in achieving a civilization of love.
05/20/09 Opponents of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Gather in VA for International Symposium
The symposium is scheduled for May 29 and 30, 2009. The location is the National Conference Center, Lansdowne, VA. Anyone with a professional or personal interest in the issue is encouraged to attend.