By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an op-ed appearing in the Washington Post, Frances Kissling, a well-known abortion rights activist and former head of the now defunct Catholics for a Free Choice, said that if the pro-choice movement in America wants to survive, it has to stop pretending it's 1970 by denying that a fetus is a human being and that abortion is more than just a "medical matter" between a woman and her doctor.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a case in which a Christian student is challenging her dismissal from a counseling program because she refused to compromise her beliefs about homosexuality, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief saying that compelling someone to act against their beliefs doesn't violate their freedoms of religion or speech because people should be expected to put aside their beliefs in their professional lives.
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The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has ordered the distributors of PowerBalance wrist bands to publish a retraction of their ads which make bogus claims that the bands have a therapeutic effect upon the body such as to improve strength, balance, flexibility, because there is no scientific evidence to support these claims.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The New York obstetrician and abortionist who converted to Catholicism and the pro-life cause after watching a sonogram of an abortion, died in his home yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An East London school teacher was left with a slashed face and a fractured skull when four Muslim men attacked him for teaching a world religions course to Muslim girls.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to the dispute between union workers and state lawmakers in Wisconsin, the state's Catholic bishops are calling on officials to carefully evaluate the situation and to remember their "moral obligation" to protect workers' rights.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Thousands of people around the world are praying for a one year-old Canadian boy on life support who is caught between a hospital that wants to withdraw treatment and parents who want to bring him home to die.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a new poll asking voters to weigh-in on the showdown between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the state's public employee union, nearly half are siding with the governor.
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For the second year, the UK-based "1023 Campaign" sponsored a worldwide homeopathic overdose campaign in which demonstrators consumed mega doses of homeopathic drugs to demonstrate to the public that the products cause no harm because there's nothing in them.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Obama administration has decided to rescind most of the regulations put in place by President George W. Bush to protect health care workers who refuse to provide services they find objectionable on personal and religious grounds.
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