By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than half of all Americans polled in a new national survey disagree with the idea that the government has an obligation to provide abortion services under a public health care plan. A substantial number also said they would be less likely to support a plan that includes abortion coverage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A UK woman whose 21 week old infant was allowed to die due to medical rationing guidelines, said doctors refused to treat her son because he was born two days too early.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Children from around the world are being invited to participate in the annual Worldwide Children’s Eucharistic Holy Hour on Friday, Oct. 2.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
On the morning after the president’s address to a joint session of Congress last night, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) says he is once again misleading the American public about whether or not he supports abortion funding in the health care plan.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In yet another example of global warming hysteria, UK journalist Richard Pindar reports on research by the London School of Economics (LSE) which finds that contraception is five times cheaper than green technologies for preventing climate change. Pindar recommends that people either stop breeding or governments should put contraceptives in public water supplies.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Amidst the controversy over Obama’s “green jobs czar”, Van Jones, who was forced to resign this past weekend, a bill designed to shut down the dangerous practice of appointing “czars” by executive privilege has been introduced in the House.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In an article appearing in the
National Catholic Reporter, Fr. Richard P. McBrien of the University of Notre Dame said that in earlier times when Catholics were less educated in the faith, Eucharistic adoration had its place. But continuing this practice today is “is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A leading researcher who co-authored a study of American and Russian women found that 64 percent of American women who had abortions said they felt pressured to abort by others.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
For the first time, the United Nations is joining in the call for a new world currency which will replace the current system of currencies and capital rules which bind the world’s economy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Even though negative reaction to President Obama’s speech to school students today is being largely dismissed by liberal media and politicians, a similar speech by President George H. W. Bush in 1991 prompted an extensive investigation on the Hill and media reports accusing him of producing “paid political advertising.”
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