Lawmaker Apologizes for Abortion Comments

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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Census Reports More Childless Women and Out-of-Wedlock Births

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

A new report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 28 percent of children born in the year preceding the 2006 survey were born to women who had never been married. In addition, more women are remaining childless into their 40’s, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before.

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