Pro Life Community Confronts Senator-Elect Brown’s Record on Life Issues

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

In spite of the fact that Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown is not pro-life on abortion, the nation’s pro-life leaders say his support of numerous limits on abortion and opposition to abortion funding in health care reform makes his election a victory for life.

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No More “Full Speed Ahead” on Health Care Reform

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Within 24 hours of the historic election in Massachusetts that robbed the Senate of its filibuster-proof super-majority, the White House and Congressional leaders are beginning to concede that their plans to “ram through” a health care reform package before the President’s first State of the Union address on Jan. 27 may have to be shelved.

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“Boston Tea Party” Imperils Health Care Reform

by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
 
The site of the original tea party was the scene of a stunning victory for conservative Americans whose “tea party” fervor fueled the election of Massachusetts GOP State Senator Scott Brown into the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Brown ran on a fiscally conservative platform and made repeated promises to “kill” the massively unpopular health care reform bill which many believe is now doomed.

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