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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist   A lawsuit filed by a Cincinnati lawyer this past summer claims that 50 women have died after they began taking a trendy new birth control pill known as Yasmin or Yaz.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A new poll has found that since the election of the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, public support for abortion has seen the largest drop in one year since pollsters began tracking the topic in 1995. With the exception of Roman Catholic voters, even the concept of “common ground” on the issue is losing public support.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a surprising 12-11 victory, the Senate Finance Committee voted to restore Title V abstinence-only funding to the tune of $50 million a year through 2014.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Blessed Jeanne Jugan, will be canonized in a ceremony at the Vatican on Oct. 11. This saint-to-be, who devoted her life to helping the elderly poor, is especially significant to the American faithful as we debate health care policies aimed at rationing care for seniors.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a statement to mark Respect Life Sunday, October 4, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia called attention to those who are most vulnerable in recent debates on health care reform – the unborn, the poor, the elderly and the immigrant – and called upon Catholics to “examine how well we, as a nation and individually, are living up to our obligation to protect the rights of those who, due to age, dependency, poverty or other circumstances, are at risk of their very lives."

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Researchers have found that being overweight at age 50 can cut a woman’s chance of being healthy in her golden years by almost 80 percent.

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The controversy surrounding the prosecution of 88 pro-life demonstrators who were arrested on the campus of Notre Dame (ND) last spring intensified when it was discovered that the judge assigned to the case is married to a prominent pro-abortion ND professor.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In answer to criticism about the Church’s handling of the sex abuse scandal, the Vatican’s UN Observer, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, said the scandal involves homosexuality much more than pedophilia and that similar abuse is going on in other denominations at a much higher rate than in the Catholic Church.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist British health officials have called a temporary halt to a national vaccination program after a 14 year-old collapsed and died a few hours after receiving the controversial cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer At long last, the White House finally contacted a prominent pro-life Democrat who has been trying to speak with the president about stripping abortion funding from health care reform.

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