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Domestic Terrorism Ignored After Bomb Thrown at Pro-Life Prayer Vigil

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

In spite of the extensive coverage given whenever an act of violence is perpetrated against an abortion clinic, when an unknown assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at an elderly woman who was part of a 40 Days for Life protest last week in Kalispell, Montana, not even the local police paid much attention.

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NJ Court Rules Mother Must Adopt Child Conceived Through IVF

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a decision that could have a far-reaching impact on couples who choose in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy to start a family, a New Jersey court has ruled that a woman cannot be named the mother of a child she did not give birth to, and with whom she has no genetic links.

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Planned Parenthood Fights Child Sexual Abuse Reporting Law

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Only weeks after a pro-life organization caught the nation's largest abortion provider in the act of aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of minors, Planned Parenthood is now lobbying against an Illinois law that would broaden the duty to report such abuse.

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British TV Star Tells Women: "Don't Have an Abortion for Any Man"

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

A former winner of the British version of the Big Brother reality show told an interviewer this week that she cried for hours after her boyfriend pressured her into having an abortion, and warned other women to "not have an abortion for any man."

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Plan B Linked to Greater Risk of Heart Disease

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Jeanne Monahan, Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, says there have been a number of media outlets reporting on a link between the morning after pill and an increase in the number of young girls who are developing heart disease.

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Baby Joseph Transferred to Catholic Hospital in St. Louis

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Under cover of darkness, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, arrived in Ontario, Canada, Sunday night to rescue Baby Joseph Maraachli from the London Health Sciences Centre and see him safely transferred to a Catholic hospital in St. Louis.

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China May Relax One-Child Policy Within Five Years

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Authorities in Beijing are considering a relaxation of the country's controversial one-child-only policy, not because they've seen the light, but because officials are beginning to realize that the population has become dangerously imbalanced.

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Baby Joseph Update: Hospital Refuses to Release Records - Case Now Headed to High Court

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The plight of Baby Joseph Maraachli, whose family wants to bring the terminally ill child home to die, remains in limbo as the family's new lawyer plans to appeal the case to Canada's highest court, and the hospital is refusing to release medical records to doctors in Michigan who are willing to help.

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