By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to bioethicists who are offering thousands of dollars in prize money to anyone who can prove the controversial Gardasil vaccine injures girls, a group of mothers whose daughters were injured by the vaccine are challenging the experts to "put your science where your wallet is."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During an appearance in Princeton, New Jersey last week, a 77 year-old Gloria Steinem told the audience “There is no organization in this country or the world that is more important than Planned Parenthood.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that despite the big promises of the Internet to allow unfettered free speech for all, Christian groups are among the few that are being censored online.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The ink has barely dried on a new civil unions law in Illinois and a same-sex couple is already suing two bed and breakfast establishments for refusing to rent space for their civil ceremony.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Video games have come a long way from those early days of "Pong" and "Pacman" and while some of today's sophisticated games can be good skill-builders for kids, others are dangerously violent.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Public schools in the District of Columbia are about to become the first in the nation to test students on their knowledge of human sexuality, contraception and drug use.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As the nation grows increasingly horrified by the blatant improprieties being shown on prime time television these days, the Supreme Court is about to hear arguments in what many are calling the most important case concerning broadcast indecency in 40 years.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
People have long been uncomfortable with the premise of TLC's Toddlers and Tiaras which features toddlers in womanly clothing who strut around the stage like adult pageant contestants, but a recent show featuring a three year-old dressed like a prostitute has sparked a national outcry.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A jury in Palm Beach County, Florida awarded a couple $4.5 million because they missed the chance to abort their son, who was born with no arms and one leg.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is attempting to force a school district in the Missouri Ozarks to remove filtering software from school computers that restrict student access to homosexual and transgendered Web sites.
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