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In this morning's Assorted Links, we noted: The Toronto Star reports that a manger display on city property provided by Gethsemane Ministries and paid for by "the Catholic wing" of Campaign Life Coalition had to taken down signage that acknowledged CLC's support and that it was donated "in honour of Pro Life hero Fr. Ted Colleton." Doug Macdonald, a 35-year-old Torontonian, did not have a [...]
Live Action has caught Planned Parenthood workers lying again, this time about fetal development. Michelle Malkin writes about this in a post entitled, "Planned Parenthood predators, Part 99997." Jill Stanek looks at Ben Nelson and what he will do on Obamacare after the defeat of his pro-life amendment. The Daily Mail reports that a former deputy health minister in The Netherlands has [...]
Barbara Boxer pulls out the gender card in criticizing the "men" who oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Watch the video here. In the spirit of my favourite part of the pre-game show on Monday Night Football, c'mon man. Or is that, c'mon ma'am.
Politico has a story about the "inevitability" of same-sex marriage in America and that belief by some supporters of SSM that eventually it would be accepted and legal across the country is being questioned. In April, Nate Silver said that by 2016, most states will have legalized gay marriage and the last holdout (Mississippi) coming around by 2024. Those are very specific predictions [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is desperately trying to get a health care bill passed. He certainly thinks it is the right thing to do, but right for what reason. He probably does think that increasing government involvement will make health care cheaper and therefore more accessible. That is a laudable goal, but one which is probably not going to be achieved by any [...]
Pro-lifers should remember that this battle, from a pro-life point of view, is about much more than funding abortion. Health care professionals deserve to have their conscience rights protected. Abortion access must not be increased under the guise of preventive care or through federal subsidy. Rationing of care and bureaucratic decisions about quality of life are the more accurate descriptions of what Sarah [...]
Rep. Bart Stupak has a guest column in the New York Times: "What My Amendment Won’t Do." The Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment to the Senate health care bill was rejected by a vote of 54-45, effectively killing it. Operation Rescue has released a report, Project Daniel 5:25, that shows that more than two-thirds of all abortion clinics have closed since 1991. LifeSiteNews.com reports that a Dutch doctor wants to permit euthanasia [...]
The Korea Times reports on a restaurant in Thailand that is aggressively promoting population control measures: The Condom Santa Claus stands outside a restaurant called "Cabbages and Condoms" in Bangkok. According to the Metro Online News in the United Kingdom, it was founded by a non-profit organization dedicated for the campaign of birth control and condoms usage in preventing the spread of HIV [...]
About three dozen Republican senators are warning Democratic leaders in the Senate not to use an omnibus appropriations bill to lift existing restrictions on abortion funding. The National Right to Life Committee notes: The possible abortion-related provisions at issue would: -- lift a longstanding ban on funding of abortions by the city government of Washington, D.C., allowing funding of abortion on [...]
He wouldn't violate the sixth/fifth commandment "Thou shall not murder," let alone subsidize its violation, although some of His followers seem not to care. The Baptist Press reports: The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society all are members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a pro-abortion rights organization that took [...]
Senator Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) has been joined by Senators Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) and Robert Casey Jr. (D, Penn) in introducing an amendment to the Senate health care bill designed to prohibit direct taxpayer funding of abortion and restrict indirect subsidies to private insurance plans that cover abortion. CNSNews.com coverage of the amendment is here. LifeNews.com reports that seven other Republicans have attached their names [...]
The Los Angeles Times reports that the producers of the teen dramumentary (a blend of drama and documentary), South Dakota: A Woman's Right to Choose, is meant to provoke discussion. Some complain that the film leans too much to the pro-life side. Here's a trailer. The Washington Times reports, "Abortion re-emerges as top issue: Health care debate puts divisive topic at forefront," although [...]
Our December editorial: "Abortion is not health care." The editorial concludes: Abortion is not health care and it does not belong in the health care bill. If the legislation goes down because it expands abortion access and funding, it deserves to be defeated. Read the whole thing here.
Last week, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Earl Wilson overturned a December 2007 rulingby the province's human rights tribunal which found Stephen Boissoin, a youth pastor who questioned the gay agenda, had been guilty of promoting hate against homosexuals. Some people see this as something worth celebrating (see the Canadian Constitution Foundation, the Equipping Christians for the Public Square Center, lawyer Gerald Chipeur, [...]