By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
On just her first day on the Hill, the hearings to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have been interrupted several times by outbursts from pro-life protestors. One of these protestors, Norma McCorvey, the woman known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade, was arrested after shouting “You’re wrong, Sotomayor!”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new poll has found that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of at least some restrictions on abortion, with significant majorities supporting conscience exemptions for health care workers and believing that religious leaders should play a key role in the abortion debate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Over the course of the past weekend, 11 Christians lost their lives while enduring violent persecution in Somalia and Iraq.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President Barack Obama has nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin, a rural Alabama doctor and a Catholic who received the Pro Ecclessia et Pontifice medal from Pope Benedict XVI in 2006, as the nation’s next Surgeon General.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new study conducted among young people in Britain finds that most view the Bible as “old fashioned” and “irrelevant” and meant only for church-goers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
When President Barack Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome last Friday, he hand-delivered a personal letter to the Pope written by the ailing Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A study by Planned Parenthood has found that one in four children aborted in America are now killed by the “abortion pill” (RU-486) rather than by a surgical procedure.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The first meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama took place today at 4:00 p.m. in Rome, during which time the pope gave the president an "unannounced gift" - a copy of an encyclical on bioethics and the right to life.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In a bizarre example of the increasing callousness toward life, a popular men’s advice column is advising men on how to persuade their wives or girlfriends to have abortions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During a recent interview with
The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she always believed Medicaid should cover abortions and admitted that she expected Roe v. Wade to facilitate such coverage in order to control the population of groups “that we don’t want to have too many of.”
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