Archive - Tom Strode
Jury declines to indict abortion doctor
A Kansas grand jury has decided not to file charges against the country’s best-known, late-term abortion doctor after a six-month investigation. more »
By Tom Strode - Jul 11, 2008
LIFE DIGEST: Bush administration again blocks funds for UNFPA
The Bush administration announced June 27 it has refused for the seventh consecutive year to forward federal money to a controversial United Nations family planning fund linked to the support of China’s coercive population control program. more »
By Tom Strode - Jul 10, 2008
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Modesty, Life, Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, Suicide
LIFE DIGEST: Human rights to go to apes in Spain
The Spanish parliament’s move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 30, 2008 - (1)
Topic: Family, Parenting, Life, Abortion, Cloning, Citizenship, Human Rights
Bush lifts North Korea sanctions; Land disappointed
President Bush announced June 26 he would lift some trade sanctions against North Korea and remove the communist regime from a list of state sponsors of terror, drawing expressions of disappointment from a Southern Baptist ethics leader and a Republican congresswoman. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 26, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Persecution, Issues,
Planned Parenthood ‘price breaks’ axed
The U.S. House of Representatives has eliminated language in a war supplemental spending bill that would have provided price breaks for Planned Parenthood, the country’s No. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 25, 2008
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Citizenship, Legislation
Court rules child rapist cannot be executed
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 a child rapist may not be executed if he did not kill his victim.
The vote was 5-4 in the case, with Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the high court’s four more liberal members in the majority. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 25, 2008
Topic: Family, Abuse, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Citizenship, Capital Punishment,
Land: Candidates should be free, not forced, to share faith
Candidates for the White House and other offices should be free to say how their religious beliefs impact them but should not be expected to explain the specifics of their faith, Southern Baptist church-state specialist Richard Land said at a forum on religion in the 2008 election. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 24, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, Church and State, , Religious Liberty
LIFE DIGEST: House drops provision to benefit Planned Parenthood
The U.S. House of Representatives has eliminated language in a war supplemental spending bill that would have provided price breaks for Planned Parenthood, the country’s No. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 24, 2008 - (2)
Religious commission criticizes Saudi textbooks
An Islamic academy in Northern Virginia plans to revise before the new school year textbooks that reportedly advocate violence against non-Muslims and some Muslims, a school spokesman has said. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 19, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, Religious Liberty, War
LIFE DIGEST: Georgia woman jailed for forging girl’s abortion notification
A Georgia woman has been sentenced to a year in jail after pressuring her son’s teen-age girlfriend to have an abortion, forging a letter of parental notification and paying for the procedure. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 17, 2008 - (1)
Topic: Life, Abortion, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics