A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the state of Washington cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives if it violates their religious beliefs and accused the state of being more concerned with suppressing religious liberty than promoting access to the drugs.
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While commenting on the problems in Catholic parishes caused by Girl Scout programs that are associated with Planned Parenthood, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend revealed that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is in the process of investigating these problems.
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A Harvard administrator, writing on
Time Magazine's Ideas blog, posits that American bishops who disagree with the Obama Administration's HHS mandate should "do the MLK/Mandela thing" and go to prison.
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"If I ever see this girl, I will kill her. That's a promise." This is just one example of the vile death threats being leveled against a 14 year-old girl who testified in defense of traditional marriage last month before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.
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Women are crying foul over a new law that is about to pass in the Baltimore City Council that will allow cross-dressing men to use the same public bathrooms as women.
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A shocking new report has found that more than half of all births to American women under the age of 30 are born out of wedlock with some of the sharpest increases being found among white and Hispanic women.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Funny how reproductive issues are always described as a private matter between a woman and her doctor until it comes time to pay the bill - then it's always a very public matter.
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New reports are showing that the number of children seeking help for gender identity problems has been rising steadily.
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The
National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) issued a powerful statement today listing its objections to the imposition of the HHS mandate on religious employers, saying the president actually made no "accommodation" at all to the mandate last Friday, nor is there any truth to oft-repeated claims that "a number of states" already have such mandates in place.
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Two Catholic governors oversaw the passage of same-sex marriage laws by legislative fiat in their states this week, and another is on the verge of seeing a similar bill pass, but the way the three responded could not have been more dissimilar.
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