By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A prominent right-to-die group in the Netherlands wants to set up a suicide clinic to be used by all those people who wish to die but do not meet government requirements for assisted suicide.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new documentary produced by the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBCN) reveals the shocking secrets of the infertility industry and how they lure vulnerable young women into the so-called "safe" business of egg donation.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As the debate leading up to the almost certain nomination of U.S. Solictor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court gets underway, conservative lawmakers have announced that if they had the numbers, they would demand an investigation into Kagan's role in doctoring a medical group's statement that influenced the outcome of the 1997 partial birth abortion debate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A rare moment in the history of the mainstream media occurred recently when a popular pro-life television show based in Cincinnati, Ohio won a regional Emmy award for a show chronicling the compelling case of a woman born with a rare disease who overcame enormous odds to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has announced that his dicastery is planning to publish a new document on the after-effects of abortion which is expected to be completed next year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
If passed, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” recently introduced by pro-life Congressmen in the U.S. House, will institute a permanent, government-wide statutory ban on all taxpayer-funded abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world’s first human clinical trial of a therapy involving embryonic stem cells, a move that has been condemned by the Vatican as "unacceptable."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The governor of the state of New Jersey has decided that in order to restore "fiscal sanity" to his state budget, there will be no more taxpayer money given to "family planning" clincs.
New Jersey's Star Ledger is reporting that Catholic Governor Chris Christie has fulfilled yet another campaign promise to restore the state's government to "fiscal sanity" by vetoing a bill that would have allotted $7.5 million in state funds to "family planning" clinics, most of which are run by Planned Parenthood.
"State spending has been reset to levels the taxpayers can afford,” said Christie in a stern message to the legislature. “Supplemental spending that would return to the unchecked spending and out of control budget shortfalls of the past will not make it past the Governor's desk."
Michele Jaker, executive director of The Women's Health Matters Campaign, a collaboration between the Family Planning Association of New Jersey and the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey, described herself as being "disappointed, angry and frustrated" by the Governor's veto.
"How else can I describe my feelings about the Governor's veto of funding for women's health? What part doesn't he get - that thousands of women and men in NJ rely on family planning funding to get the health care they need? That funding family planning actually saves the state money? It's baffling."
Meanwhile, pro-life groups are applauding the move.
“The taxpayers of New Jersey are under no obligation to fund the radical and failed social agenda of Planned Parenthood,’’ said Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life. “We commend Governor Christie for his steadfast opposition to restoring these funds.”
Reports indicate that the Democrat-controlled Legislature may seek to mount a veto-override.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An abortionist whose state medical license was surrendered in 1992, and whose clinics have been frequently cited for the use of unlicensed medical personnel, is defying orders by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PDH) to close the four clinics he operates in the state.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 43 year-old British man who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a motorcycle accident last year was only inches from death when he managed to communicate to doctors that he very much wanted to live.
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