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Campaign Launched to Promote Animal "Personhood"

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The Institute for Emerging Ethics and Technologies (IEET) has launched a new program that has as its goal the granting of rights to "non-human persons" such as dolphins, apes and other "higher mammals" who they believe are deserving of human rights.

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Administration Official Wants US Cable Companies to Carry Al-Jazeera

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

In an op-ed published in the Boston Globe yesterday, a woman appointed by President Barack Obama as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is calling on American cable and satellite providers to offer access to the notoriously anti-America and anti-Israel Al Jazeera English.

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Obama Budget Cuts Abstinence Ed Spending

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The new FY2012 budget unveiled by the White House yesterday includes much steeper decreases in funding to abstinence education than to "Safe Sex" programs, confirming that the Administration's priorities remain with the promotion of contraception-based programs.

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Rejected Christian Ad Mistakenly Airs During Super Bowl

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

A commercial by a Christian group that invites Super Bowl viewers to look up John 3:16 was mistakenly aired just before the fourth quarter of last night's game, even though Fox Sports had rejected the ad, saying it contained too much "religious doctrine."

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