By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
For a mere $18,000, a Los Angeles fertility clinic run by an in vitro fertilization pioneer is offering the same technology used to detect inherited diseases in embryos to produce “designer babies” with specific traits such as hair and eye color. The first trait selection baby is expected to be born next year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In spite of a long and troubling track record on abortion, President Barack Obama has offered the post of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to Kansas’ Catholic Governor Kathleen Sebelius.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Obama administration has announced plans to rescind President Bush’s recently enacted job protections for health care workers who refuse to provide care they find objectionable for reasons of conscience. Even though the administration made the announcement quietly, a political fire storm has already erupted over the plans.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After a prominent statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was desecrated at Georgetown University (GU), students offended by the action embarked on a 24-hour prayer vigil beginning yesterday in reparation for the outrage and in support of the university’s Catholic identity.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Even though Congress voted unanimously in favor of an amendment banning the return of the Fairness Doctrine, the bill’s author says a stealth version of the controversial doctrine may already be in the works.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have found that teenagers who listen to popular music with degrading sexual lyrics are more likely to engage in sexual activity.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI has announced plans to canonize Blessed Jeanne Jugan, founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, on Oct. 11, 2009. She is among nine other new saints who will be canonized by the end of this year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Vatican officials are denouncing the plans of a controversial Italian doctor to artificially inseminate a woman with the sperm of her comatose husband who slipped into unconsciousness just as the couple was planning to conceive.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An Australian priest accused of gross liturgical abuses, presiding over invalid baptisms and allowing a Buddhist statue to be erected in the parish church, is refusing to leave the premises even after the Archbishop of Brisbane issued a decree removing him from the parish.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The House Majority is forcing debate today on the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R.1105). This massive spending bill is filled with pork, such as $7 million for the recovery of the Hawaiian sea turtle population, $545 million to overseas abortion providers and nearly one-half million for hybrid buses in Guam.
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