Bush Enacts New Rules Protecting Conscience Rights

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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Pro Lifers Respond to Pro-Abortion Wish List: “No Abortion Industry Bailout!”

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. Read the rest…

Pro-Choice Catholic Leaders Protest Bishops’ Abortion Stance

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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Justice Ginsburg Admits Roe Went Too Far

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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Voters Must Weigh Candidates’ Choices for Supreme Court Justices

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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Abortion-Related Violence in the News

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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