The Calgary Herald reports that new Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith told a audience of Alberta business people that her party will focus on economic issues — “those issues that the majority of Albertans care about” — rather than “the divisive issues that tear us apart,” such as abortion and gay rights, which “are not ones that are going to be on our election platform.”
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker looks at Red China’s one-child policy and the silence of some feminists over the country’s use of coercive abortion.
Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn profiles Rep. Bart Stupak — “The man who madePelosi cry ‘uncle’.”
KBTX reports that a District Judge J.D. Langley denied a Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas injunction request against former PP worker Abby Johnson after she quit working at their Bryan, Texas facility. Planned Parenthood was seeking an injunction preventing the release of confidential facility information including medical records, but Judge Langley did not find evidence that Johnson breached her employment confidentiality agreement.
Pro-life Blogs reports that Curtis Boyd, a Texas abortionists who committed illegal abortions prior to the 1973 Roe decision, is opening an abortion facility in Dallas. Earlier this month Boyd admitted that he does abortions, he is killing.
Some conservatives are apparently upset with pro-lifers who got the Stupak-Pitts amendment passed and therefore made the government takeover of health care more likely. John McCormack responds at On the Square.
At TNR.com, Alan Wolfe and William Galston debate whether the health care debate demonstrates whether the Catholic Church is still influential in American public life.
The Associated Press reports that the Mormon church has backed a Salt Lake City law banning housing and employment discrimination against homosexuals.
