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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Leaders on Capitol Hill have decided to stop trying to negotiate with pro-life Democrats over abortion funding in health care reform with the hopes that they can garner enough votes to pass the bill without them.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was the scene of a panel hosted by the World Association of Girl Scouts where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a sexually graphic brochure entitled, “Healthy, Happy and Hot.”

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A decision by a Rome high school to install vending machines that dispense condoms has set off a firestorm in Italy. The Vatican says it will encourage youth to have sex and the mayor of Rome says it sends the wrong message.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Vatican officials fear that the investigation of sexual abuse claims in the Catholic Church in Germany could create a major crisis for the Pope who was archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Two daycare workers in Ohio have been charged with giving children a dietary supplement in candy in order to make them sleep.

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that the recall of popular food products containing salmonella-infected hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), which includes foods from Pringles to Herr’s Potato chips, is likely to expand.

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Hopes for quick passage of the Senate version of health care reform in the U.S. House may have been dealt a death blow by at least seven pro-life members who are now saying they won’t vote for the bill unless it is stripped of all abortion coverage.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Adding to its impressive list of 140,000 applications - or “apps” - Apple’s popular iPhone now has apps for the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross, with even more devotionals in the works.

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The Washington State Department of Health is reporting that 36 people used lethal prescriptions to kill themselves in the first year of the state’s new Death with Dignity Act.

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