By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
When the subject of abortion coverage in health care reform was raised at yesterday’s summit, President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stuck to their talking points and insisted that abortion is not covered in their plans.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said today that the 24 bodies of dead babies found in the freezer of a Philadelphia abortion clinic should be given a reverent burial as soon as possible, and that this should be a public event in which people can mourn the loss of these lives.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new bill proposed by Britain’s Labor government will force Catholic and other faith-based schools to promote homosexuality and abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new report issued by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs warns of a serious “capabilities gap” in American foreign policy due to an "uncompromising Western secularism" that feeds religious extremism, threatens traditional cultures and fails to encourage religious groups that promote peace and human rights.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New research has found that that women who conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) have a four-fold risk of stillbirth compared to women who conceive naturally.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Papal Nuncio of Haiti is pleading for help in resurrecting the crumbled remains of the major seminaries in Port-au-Prince.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
International outrage is growing over an Italian Facebook group that is calling for children with Down Syndrome to be gotten rid of by using them as targets at shooting ranges.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In keeping with mountains of evidence that children fare best when raised in households headed by a married man and woman, lawmakers in Arizona have introduced a bill that will give preference to married couples in adoption cases.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what is being called the largest sexual abuse case in the state’s history, a Delaware grand jury indicted a popular pediatrician yesterday on 103 counts of sexual abuse of children.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A pro-life lawmaker in Virginia is under fire for saying that medical research suggests abortions raise the risk of miscarriage and birth defects in subsequent pregnancies and that those findings echo the Bible's teaching that abortion is wrong.
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