IMPORTANT UPDATE AT END OF BLOG!
California’s Governor Jerry Brownhas until Wednesday of this week – the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary – to determine whether or not California will join the small group of states that allow physician assisted suicide by signing into law a bill that was passed during an extraordinary legislative process that has many crying foul.
A new report issued by a House oversight committee has revealed that Planned Parenthood, which dips into the public coffer for more than a half billion dollars a year, spends exorbitant amounts of money on executive salaries, travel, and lavish parties.
While some were disappointed that Pope Francis did not mention abortion by name in his address to Congress, Pope Francis told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, he said that standing up for human life was the primary reason for his visit to this country.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a pro-life bill today aimed at protecting infants born alive after an abortion and to imposing a moratorium on federal taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood while redirecting those funds to more than 13,000 health clinics across the country.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In response to the uproar over the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal, several states are now moving to ban the use of fetal tissue in research, which some scientists say will be a setback for medical progress while others say reliance on aborted baby parts is old science and better sources of stem cells are now available.
Pro-abortion groups have filed a new “nasty” lawsuit that not only seeks to shut down the #PPSellsBabyParts videos but to see Center for Medical Progress (CMP) founder David Daleiden in jail and financially ruined.
The tenth video in the explosive documentary web series by The Center for Medical Progress reveals several top level Planned Parenthood executives discussing the secretive practices surrounding aborted fetal parts harvesting and how happy they are to provide whatever body parts are being sought – from eyes to neural to gonads – and “everything we provide is fresh!”
Miss Tennessee Hannah Robison
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The lies about the services provided by Planned Parenthood are so deeply imbued in the nation’s consciousness that not even a contestant at the Miss America pageant was able to accurately answer a question about their federal funding.
Genesys Regional Health Center
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has sent a letter to a Catholic hospital in Michigan demanding that they perform a tubal ligation on a young woman with a benign brain tumor who is 34 weeks pregnant and whose doctors are recommending that she be sterilized to prevent any more pregnancies.
An international outcry has erupted after news broke of a Chinese woman who is considering having an abortion at eight months because she was told her husband could lose his job as a police officer if she goes through with the birth.
