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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 29, 2008) The United Nations estimates that 200 million girls are currently “missing” from the planet as a result of sex-selection abortion, largely because of a preference for boys in many Asian cultures. While most of us have been unaware, the same practice of fetal sex testing has been becoming increasingly more acceptable in North America.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 29, 2008) According to the editors of a UCLA student magazine, the racist policies of Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, continue to exist in the organization today. After conducting a multi-state probe, the students found not a single clinic willing to turn away a donation earmarked for “reducing the number of blacks.”
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 28, 2008) Two nasty same-sex break-ups are playing out in the New York court system and are bringing much-needed public attention to the sky-high “divorce” rates among same-gendered couples.
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 28, 2008) A Senate Committee has unanimously approved legislation that may help reduce the number of abortions of babies with Down Syndrome and other conditions. The bill would require that parents who receive a poor pre-natal diagnosis be provided with up-to-date information about the condition of their baby and available support services.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 28, 2008) A rash of recent stump speeches by pro-abortion politicians on Catholic premises has promoted a coalition of 18 Catholic organizations to demand that these institutions “get their priorities straight.”
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 27, 2008) A combination of post-modernism, New Age spirituality and the glamorization of witchcraft in teen fiction has created the “perfect storm” for youth who are turning in ever increasing numbers to Wicca rather than the Christian faith of their upbringing.
By Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 26, 2008) A coalition led by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) has sent a 24-page booklet to all 16,000 public school superintendents in the United States advising them to affirm homosexual orientation and behavior.
by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 26, 2008) Evangelical Christians are now the largest religious tradition in the U.S., edging out mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics for the first time, according to a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 26, 2008) In the same month when a prestigious bioethics journal called for the killing of babies born with disabilities and the world’s richest man is quoted as having applauded his mother for killing herself, Pope Benedict XVI categorically condemned all forms of direct euthanasia.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Twenty years have passed since Pope John Paul II introduced the world to a whole new version of the feminine mystique. In the apostolic letter entitled Mulieris Dignitatem, (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women) issued on August 15, 1988, he made it quite clear that “man and woman are human beings to an equal degree”; distinct, and yet at the same time, “they complete and explain each other.”