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Sign of Things to Come in the US? Budget Woes Force Rationing of "Women's Reproductive Health" Services in the UK

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

While U.S. lawmakers argue over funding of "women's reproductive health" services, cutting these services may one day be inevitable in a government-run health care system such as the UK's, where recent budget constraints are forcing them to ration these - and many other services - in an effort to control costs.

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Catholic Students Used as Props to Support Controversial UN Treaty

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

A controversy has erupted over the use of Catholic school students as props during a hearing conducted by state legislators in Providence, Rhode Island on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty that is not backed by the Vatican.

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Cohabiting Catholic Couples are in "Great Spiritual Danger" Warns Santa Fe Archbishop

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The Most Rev. Michael Sheehan Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has issued a pastoral letter in which he addressing the problem of Catholics who cohabit, saying they are living in a state of mortal sin and should not receive the sacraments until they make their union acceptable to Jesus Christ.

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Family Planning Official Stabs Man to Death in China

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

In a tragic example of why members of Congress should keep the pro-life amendments in the budget proposals being debated on the Hill, a family planning raid on a man's home in Linyi City, Shandong Province in China resulted in a government official stabbing a man to death for defending his family.

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