By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is asking members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to amend their health care reform bill (H.R. 3200) to retain longstanding government policies on abortion and conscience rights.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As a direct result of a decision handed down yesterday by a U.S. Appeals Court, Illinois parents will be entitled, for the first time since Roe v. Wade was decided, to notification before their minor daughters are taken for abortions.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Nineteen pro-life Democrats in the U.S. House signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing their opposition to any health care reform that includes abortion funding.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Even though he never made any public comment about the case, newly released tapes by the Nixon Presidential Library reveal that President Richard M. Nixon was worried about the impact of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision on morals and family life.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new prayer campaign has been launched by a Catholic organization to enable the faithful to spiritually “adopt” a Catholic politician who supports abortion to pray for their conversion.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During a recent interview, Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, said the recent Notre Dame scandal of inviting pro-abortion President Barack Obama to speak at its 2009 commencement has served to sensitize people to the shame of abortion and to realize how dangerous it is for Catholic institutions to pursue prestige in the secular world at the expense of fidelity to Christ.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In the search for an indication of where she might stand on the abortion and homosexual marriage issue, Sonia Sotomayor, the woman named as a possible replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, is being described as a “cultural” Catholic who rarely attends Mass and does not belong to a parish.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A popular children’s author who suggested that people honor their mother this Mother’s Day by contributing to Planned Parenthood has caused such a deluge of outraged e-mails and phone calls that Planned Parenthood has issued a call for “help!”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An alumna of the University of Notre Dame, who received no help in 1999 when she experienced an unplanned pregnancy just months before graduating, says the Obama invitation encourages Catholics to reduce the abortion issue to nothing more than “dining-room talk.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
According to new national poll numbers, support for abortion among the general public has dropped to its lowest levels ever, putting the radically pro-abortion Obama administration at odds with mainstream America on this issue.
