A Dallas-area hospice owner is under investigation by the FBI after nurses revealed that they were ordered to hasten the deaths of hospice patients with drugs such as morphine in order to maximize profits, a practice that is far more prevalent in the industry than most people know.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
We’ve all heard the sad statistics – that women who have had abortions are six times more likely to commit suicide – but the recent case of a 21 year-old British woman who hung herself after an abortion reveals the true tragedy behind the numbers.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In spite of its long record of debilitating side effects for women and deadly consequences for the unborn, the FDA has relaxed guidelines for the use of the abortion drug, RU486, allowing it to be used further into pregnancy and with fewer doctor visits.
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A new report has found that the population is aging at so rapid a rate that by the year 2050, 17 percent of the world’s population will be age 65 and over, a scenario that will put unprecedented strain upon the world’s economy.
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Arguments in one of the most pivotal cases of religious liberty in our lifetime will take place this morning when the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving 37 religious petitioners who are fighting Affordable Care Act’s controversial “birth control mandate.”
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Senator David Vitter (R-LA)
A University of California professor shocked participants during a Congressional hearing last week with her crass disregard for human life when she advocated for allowing babies born alive after an abortion to be left to die, insisting upon this even while an adult survivor of abortion sat nearby.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Anyone wondering how Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, will vote on social issues was given a big hint yesterday when Planned President CEO Cecile Richards gave the nominee a rave review.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington DC has joined the chorus of people expressing their outrage at Georgetown University for allowing the president of Planned Parenthood to speak on campus next month.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In what sounds like something out of a ghoulish new horror movie, officials at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are proposing that women whose unborn infants develop fatal defects in the early months of pregnancy be permitted to carry the baby to term so that it’s organs can be harvested after birth.
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Thousands of women are expressing their outrage after the FDA announced this week that it will not remove a birth control device known as Essure from the market, in spite of more than 10,000 complaints of serious injury from women, but will merely add a sterner warning to the label.
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A Dallas-area hospice owner is under investigation by the FBI after nurses revealed that they were ordered to hasten the deaths of hospice patients with drugs such as morphine in order to maximize profits, a practice that is far more prevalent in the industry than most people know.
