By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Controversy is raging over the role a Seattle high school played in helping a 15 year-old student obtain an abortion during school hours, telling her that the procedure would be free if she concealed it from her parents.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
With only a handful of people on hand and no press allowed, President Barack Obama signed an executive order yesterday that supposedly promises not to use taxpayer funds for abortion under the new health care law. The secrecy of the signing ceremony sparked a rash of criticism that the White House was unable to defend.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The man Pope John Paul II referred to as the “Apostle of Life,” Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, 89, beloved founder of Human Life International, died March 20 after 40 years of pro-life activism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of the trendy commercials encouraging women to keep a supply of emergency contraception on hand, a new study has found that ready availability of the pills does nothing to reduce pregnancy rates.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An abortion survivor intent on reaching out to women who are hurting after their abortion has posted 2,000 posters throughout the nation’s “abortion capital” - New York City – in order to lead them to a “safe place” for healing.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Washington State Department of Health is reporting that 36 people used lethal prescriptions to kill themselves in the first year of the state’s new Death with Dignity Act.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A day after Spain’s Parliament narrowly approved a law easing long-standing restrictions on abortion, the head of the Spanish bishops’ conference said they would take no action against Catholic King Juan Carlos for signing the bill, as he is required to do by law.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what should be considered an all-time low in disrespect for human life, a Florida woman used Twitter to share her experience of having an abortion after taking the abortion pill known as RU-486.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said today that the 24 bodies of dead babies found in the freezer of a Philadelphia abortion clinic should be given a reverent burial as soon as possible, and that this should be a public event in which people can mourn the loss of these lives.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A pro-life lawmaker in Virginia is under fire for saying that medical research suggests abortions raise the risk of miscarriage and birth defects in subsequent pregnancies and that those findings echo the Bible's teaching that abortion is wrong.
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