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LIFE DIGEST: Planned Parenthood’s abortions increase by 15,000
Business is still booming for Planned Parenthood.
The country’s No. 1 abortion provider increased its count of the lethal procedures by more than 15,000 and again totaled $1 billion in revenue, according to its newly released annual report. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 13, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Church and State, Legislation, National
Deadline nears for comments on health conscience rules
A pro-life U.S. senator’s effort to safeguard the conscience rights of patients and health-care workers went down to a resounding defeat as the Obama administration moved closer to apparent repeal of a regulation providing such protections. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 9, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Legislation, National
LIFE DIGEST: Assisted suicide for healthy promoted
The Swiss assisted-suicide organization Dignitas plans to help a healthy woman die with her terminally ill husband, and a pro-life bioethics specialist says this development should have been expected. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 6, 2009 - (1)
Topic: Life, Abortion, Suicide, Citizenship, , National
Pro-lifers send red envelopes to Obama
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—On March 31, thousands of red envelopes flooded the U.S. Postal Service en route to the White House as part of a grassroots “Red Envelope Day” to represent lives lost to abortion. more »
By staff - Apr 2, 2009
Hillary Clinton receives award named for famed eugenicist
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received Planned Parenthood’s highest honor, it came in the name of a woman who promoted eliminating “the unfit” from the human race. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 1, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Disabled, End-of-Life Issues
Senate Dems. urge Obama to keep health conscience rules
WASHINGTON—Two Democratic senators have sent a letter to President Obama “strongly” urging him to keep intact Bush administration regulations that protect health-care workers from being forced to take part in medical procedures — such as abortions — to which they morally object. more »
By Michael Foust - Mar 31, 2009
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Life, Abortion
Public Input Sought on Anti-Conscience Proposal
For decades, the fundamental right to life for developing children in the womb has not been protected in this nation. This is well known. Less known is the fact that protections of conscience rights for those seeking to defend unborn human life are diminishing by the day. more »
By Doug Carlson - Mar 31, 2009 - (4)
Topic: Faith, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Religious Liberty
LIFE DIGEST: U.S. funds go to U.N. supporter of coercive abortion
It’s official. The Obama administration will grant federal funds to a United Nations agency that went seven consecutive years without receiving U.S. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 31, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, Infertility, Suicide, Citizenship, Legislation, National, Science, Bioethics, Issues,
Pro-lifers, at White House, discuss abortion
WASHINGTON—Pro-life advocates discussed with White House staffers Tuesday some approaches that have worked in reducing the number of abortions in the United States. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 26, 2009
Judge: FDA must revisit ‘morning-after’ pill
A federal judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to re-evaluate its age restriction on the non-prescription sale of Plan B, making it possible pre-teens may have access to a “morning-after” pill that has abortion-causing qualities. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 25, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control