By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
With only a month left in office, the Bush administration has issued new rules designed to reinforce existing protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in medical practices that violate their religious or moral convictions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Obama transition team shocked a coalition of dozens of pro-abortion groups when it decided to publish the 55-page “wish list” they sent to the president-elect with the hopes he’ll try to achieve these goals over the next four years. Pro-life groups responded to the list by demanding "No abortion industry bailout!" while the abortion groups voiced their dismay over having their agenda revealed.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A chain of 11 abortuaries targeting mostly Hispanic women in southern California was forced to close after their owner pled guilty to performing abortions without a medical license.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While U.S. Bishops meeting in Baltimore were concentrating their efforts on how to oppose the anticipated pro-abortion policies of an Obama administration, two Catholic Democrats published an editorial in a Baltimore paper calling on the bishops to focus on issues other than abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The nation’s premier pro-life legal organization has launched a new project aimed at stopping passage of the most radical pro-abortion legislation in the nation’s history.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Catholic voters in the crucial battleground state of Missouri heard the Church’s stance on voting for pro-abortion candidates in unequivocal terms when a Kansas City bishop took to the airwaves to warn his flock.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In a shocking admission during a conversation with Princeton University Provost Christopher Eisgruber, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the Court went too far in the landmark 1973 case,
Roe v. Wade, a decision that legalized abortion and led to the death of nearly 50 million Americans.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new movie based on the true story of a woman who watched her son die after givingn birth to him in the bathroom of an abortion clinic is being released to an increasing number of audiences including the U.S. Congress.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Citizens concerned about abortion, gay rights, and the kind of judicial activism that has caused the moral condition of the country to deteriorate over the last few decades will be wise to consider the candidates’ positions on one of the most important decisions they will make during their presidency – the appointment of Supreme Courts justices.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Although rarely reported by the mainstream media, abortion-related violence is a common occurrence in America. In just the past week, a victim of infanticide was finally given a burial date, a woman who refused an abortion was beaten by her ex-boyfriend and two Georgia women were sentenced after forcing a girl to drink turpentine in order to induce an abortion.
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