(Photo credit: Wikipedia) From CitizenLink: On Monday, a California Senate committee will vote on a bill seeking to allow midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to perform abortions — and life advocates say this weekend is the best window of opportunity to stifle the effort. SB 1338, sponsored by Sen. Christine Kehoe of San Diego, [...]

   (Governor Jan Brewer -Photo credit: Wikipedia) From LifeSiteNews.com: PHOENIX, April 13, 2012 – Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Thursday signed a new state law banning abortion after 20 weeks based both on the pain suffered by the unborn child and the health risks posed to the mother. HB 2036, called “The Mother’s Health and [...]

                                      (Image via Wikipedia) According to a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University, parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and it’s really no different than abortion. This teaching is found in an article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics entitled:  “After-birth abortion: Why [...]

TACOMA, WASHINGTON, February 22, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com): In a decision that could impact the unfolding debate over the HHS mandate, today a federal court in Washington state upheld the First Amendment rights of pharmacists to refuse to distribute potentially abortifacient contraception and abortion-inducing drugs, such as Plan B and Ella, if doing so would violate their [...]

                                    (Image via Wikipedia) This is a story that just will not go away because President Obama refuses to budge from his stated mandate and so-called compromise on contraceptives and abortives. Meanwhile, over thousands of religious leaders including pastors, evangelical leaders, and every Catholic Bishop in America oppose the mandate and recognize it for what [...]

           (Photo credit: jamesomalley) The reaction to Obama’s contraceptive ‘compromise’ has been quick, decisive, and quite negative among religious leaders. I posted my initial reactions yesterday and if nothing else I am even more critical of the Obama plan today. First of all here’s the US Catholic Bishops’ response to Obama’s new proposal. They are [...]

                                                     (Image via Wikipedia) This is a story that continues to escalate and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. Here’s a link to my first article on the confrontation between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church over a new requirement to provide for contraceptives and after-morning abortive pills in their health-care coverage [...]