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Nevada: GOP’s Pro-Life Angle Builds Lead; Reid Crumbles in Polls

Posted on 08 October 2010

Despite a month of enduring relentless attack ads, pro-life GOP candidate Sharron Angle now leads in several polls over Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, the leader of the U.S. Senate, in what may be the nation’s most hotly contested Senate race.…

Rick Scott Seizes Lead over Pro-Abort Emily’s List Challenger in Florida Governor’s Race

Posted on 06 October 2010

Pro-life and Tea Party-backed candidate Rick Scott has now pulled ahead of his pro-abortion challenger Alex Sink in the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial contest.
A new Sunshine State News Poll now has Scott, a Republican, as “favored to win” on November’s…

D.C. Court Allows Embryonic Stem Cell Research to Continue During Appeals Process

Posted on 30 September 2010

The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia has ordered that a district judge’s order blocking the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research will be suspended while the appeals process works itself out.
The order from…

DISCLOSE Act Fails: Pro-Life Campaign Groups ‘Dodge A Cannonball by a Whisker’

Posted on 28 September 2010

Republicans managed to beat off a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate on a campaign disclosure bill that pro-life groups said would have effectively muzzled their ability to communicate with voters in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections.
“We dodged a…

Poll: 77 Percent of Evangelicals Believe Abortion is Morally Wrong

Posted on 24 September 2010

The National Association of Evangelicals has released a new poll showcasing Evangelicals’ overall commitment to traditional Christian morality and opposition to abortion.
The Gallup poll, commissioned by the NAE, found that 76 percent of Evangelicals believe sex between an unmarried…

Republicans Block Repeal of Military Gay, Abortion Bans

Posted on 22 September 2010

Republicans were successful in their efforts Tuesday to block debate on a defense authorization bill that would have repealed both the law prohibiting homosexuals from serving openly in the military and the law banning abortion on military bases.
Democrats failed…

Newspaper Livid over Losing CCHD Funding – for Referring Planned Parenthood

Posted on 21 September 2010

Street Roots, a Portland-based non-profit newspaper dedicated to serving the homeless and the poor, has expressed outrage that it is losing the support of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), because it referred people to Planned Parenthood in the…

Louisiana Abortion Clinic Shut Down for Ignoring “Most Basic” Medical Practices

Posted on 09 September 2010

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has invoked its authority under a new law to suspend the operations of an abortion facility after an investigation showed that it was endangering women’s lives by giving them substandard care.
According to…

Texas Court Upholds Ban on Gay ‘Marriage’

Posted on 04 September 2010

A Texas appeals court has struck down a trial court’s ruling Tuesday that the state’s ban on same-sex “marriage” violated the rights of a homosexual couple seeking a divorce. The court declared that “the natural ability to procreate” constituted the…

Virginia AG: State Can Force Abortion Clinics to Follow Same Standards as Hospitals

Posted on 25 August 2010

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may be about to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare” – simply by making abortion clinics offer women the same standard of care required by other outpatient surgical facilities.
Statistically speaking abortion is the number…