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Architect of Betrayal?: WH Exposes Obama as Provocateur of Catholic Dissention

Posted on 19 March 2010

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association’s public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation.

Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and…

Nuns Backstab Bishops on Health Care, Demand Bill’s Passage

Posted on 18 March 2010

The health care reform controversy appears to have brought serious disagreements within the U.S. Catholic Church out into the open. Just days after the Catholic Health Association endorsed the Senate health-care bill, the Catholic Leadership Conference of Women Religious has…

Archbishop Rips ‘Naive or Disingenuous’ CHA for Support for Pro-Abort Health Bill

Posted on 18 March 2010

Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann blasted Sister Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association for coming out in support of the Senate health-care reform bill, which would allowi federal dollars to subsidize abortion-covering health-care plans. The bishop urged his flock…

Planned Parenthood 1952: Abortion ‘Kills the Life of a Baby,’ Danger to Mother

Posted on 17 March 2010

It is an inconvenient fact.

According to a pamphlet unearthed by the pro-life group Live Action, back in 1952, Planned Parenthood - today the largest abortion provider in the United States - told women that having an abortion was a danger to…

Massive “Abortion Changes You” Campaign Greets New York Subway Riders

Posted on 13 March 2010

Every day for the next four weeks passengers on New York City’s subway system will be encountering a message that is hard to escape: “abortion changes you.”

Spread throughout the subway trains and stations of the “Big Apple” are 2,000…

Abp Chaput Weighs in on Catholic School’s Battle with Lesbian “Couple”

Posted on 11 March 2010

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, Colo. has stepped in to support a Boulder Catholic grade school who told a lesbian couple told they would no longer be able to enroll their children.

The parish school of Sacred Heart Church in…

Tom Cruise’s Religion in the Spotlight Over Forced Abortion Allegations

Posted on 11 March 2010

The Church of Scientology, popularly known as the church to which Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise belongs, is facing increased scrutiny in Australia and elsewhere over allegations that the organization has abused members and even coerced women psychologically into having abortions.…

Kansas Bill Mandates Hefty Damages to Crush Child Porn

Posted on 10 March 2010

Kansas lawmakers are considering an innovative way to fight child pornography that has begun catching on in several state legislatures.

A new bill introduced in the state Senate Judiciary Committee last month would unleash lawyers on the producers, promoters, and consumers…

Washington’s Assisted Suicide Stats Revealed

Posted on 09 March 2010

Washington State’s health department has now released their first annual report for the Death with Dignity Act, the voter-approved law that legalized assisted suicide in 2008 and went into effect on March 5, 2009.

The State Department of Health reports…

Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules State Abortion Law Unconstitutional

Posted on 06 March 2010

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has declared that an Oklahoma law regulating abortion practice and requiring ultrasounds for women seeking abortion violated the state constitution’s single-subject rule, saying it contained multiple subjects for legislation.

The high court struck down SB 1878, upholding…

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