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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A new report released this week from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that the abortion rate fell by more than one-third between 1990 and 2005.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Spokespersons for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) are taking on the White House for its consistently misleading claims about abortion coverage in health care reform, and are expressing their disappointment that the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill that contains many problematic provisions.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A pro-life feminist group has filed suit in New York State’s Supreme Court to block the use of taxpayer funds to pay women recruited to “donate” their eggs for embryonic stem cell research.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a bizarre example of life under a government-run health care program, a British woman has settled a lawsuit with the hospice that mistakenly killed her husband after erroneously concluding that his stomach cancer had returned and applying official guidelines that required the removal of his feeding tube and cessation of care.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a stellar example of pastoral leadership, one of the nation’s youngest bishops, 49 year-old Marquette Bishop Alexander K. Sample, has banned 79 year-old Bishop Thomas Gumbleton from speaking in his diocese because of his positions in support of homosexuality, contraception and women’s ordination.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer The Vatican’s United Nations (UN) representative, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, is calling on the global body to stop promoting population control programs that were designed to counter a “population explosion” that never happened, and have led to serious demographic decline in many nations.

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Hello Everyone! I am in Birmingham, Alabama this week for the annual Global Catholic Radio Conference. Today we went to "Radio Mountain," the site of the shortwave radio network that provides Catholic programming to the world and to the US via 200+ AM/FM radio stations and also through Sirius Satellite (Station 160). As a program provider since its inception, I was once again awestruck by the opportunities available by means of electronic communications. Zeal filled my heart and desire filled my soul. I am hoping to offer you some pictures from our visit today and to keep you informed of the event in general. Off to the Shrine in Hanceville tomorrow for a retreat. Wing a prayer for me and for all of those attending and presenting. Blessings in Jesus and Mary, Johnnette

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Now that the Senate Finance Committee version of health care reform has passed, the real work of trying to craft a bill will begin.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A school district in Scranton, Pennsylvania has been sued by the parents of a middle school student who was ordered to remove a t-shirt bearing the message, “Abortion is not Healthcare” on the day of President Obama’s address to students.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says U.S. Catholic bishops are wrong in their belief that abortion funded is included in health care reform, once again making the misleading claim that an existing amendment prohibiting federal funding of abortion, known as the Hyde amendment, would prevent this from happening.

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