By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While the world celebrates the awarding of a Nobel prize to a British pioneer of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life called the award "completely out of line" and reminded the public about the dark side of this process.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Commission on Family and Life is accusing the U.S. of using foreign aid to pressure the government into providing a more aggressive birth control program.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have disclosed that two mifepristone (RU-486)-induced deaths occurred in the past two years, bringing the total number of reported death related to RU-486 to 12.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A stunning new report by
LifeNews.com reveals that the Obama Administration partnered with the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice in a training seminar co-sponsored by pro-abortion groups that focused on alleged pro-life "violence" - such as prayer vigils and leafleting - at abortion clinics.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An official of China's National Population and Family Planning Commission has issued a statement saying the government has decided to continue its one-child policy which prohibits most couples from having any more than one child.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The failure of New Jersey's state legislature to override the decision by Gov. Chris Christie to cut off Planned Parenthood from taxpayer funds has already begun to pay off with the shuttering of one of its clinics.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A St. Joseph County Circuit Court Judge ruled earlier this week that attorneys from the Thomas More Society may depose a former official recently fired by the University of Notre Dame - a key ruling for the defense in the case of the "ND88," the 88 pro-life demonstrators arrested at the University for protesting President Obama's receiving honors at the commencement ceremonies in 2009.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A major grassroots pro-life group has learned that a bill scheduled to be rushed through the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week could become a referral service for Planned Parenthood.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
At a time when none of the 17 women currently serving in the U.S. Senate considers herself to be pro-life, a rash of feisty new pro-life women may soon be reshaping both the makeup of Congress and the abortion debate this November.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Massachusetts abortionist was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 22 year-old woman who died from complications during an abortion.
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