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For years the March of Dimes (MOD) has been boycotted by pro-life groups for its involvement in the abortion industry. Unfortunately, many well-meaning pro-life citizens continue to support MOD, not knowing one of the group's methods of preventing what it calls "Birth Defects" is to promote abortion.MOD was one of the major forces behind the development and widespread use of amniocentesis in the second trimester of pregnancy. Amniocentesis is a test commonly used to determine if an unborn child has a congenital abnormality, knowledge of which can facilitate the decision to abort "defective" children. Pat Robertson of CBN and the...

Ever since President Bush first floated the idea of personal retirement accounts as part of Social Security reform, fiscal hawks have been going berserk: "This will only increase future government borrowing when the federal deficit is already sky high!," they say. Well, they're wrong. There is a way to have personal retirement accounts, or PRAs, and actually decrease the government debt. If PRAs of modest size are combined with something called the "progressive indexing" of benefits, the government borrowing needed to finance Social Security would be dramatically reduced. What is progressive indexing and how does it work? http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006627

(Talon News) -- The conservative Heritage Foundation released a memo on Thursday which highlights the "stunning" $720 billion cost of the Medicare prescription drug benefit over the period from 2006 through 2015. A consistent critic of the president's prescription drug plan, the Heritage Foundation, through the memo's author Robert Moffit, Ph.D., calls the drug entitlement "a costly mistake that needs to be repealed or drastically revamped." Moffit begins his analysis by first defending the Bush administration and blasting Members of Congress for expressing "shock" at the so-called "rise" in the estimate of the costs of the prescription drug benefit. "On...

<p>House conservatives sought unsuccessfully this week to convince the House to endorse cutting the cost of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit by requiring wealthy seniors to pay more of their own drug costs.</p> <p>The House on Tuesday defeated, on a 234-161 vote, a Republican motion that would have asked House and Senate negotiators to include "means-testing" as part of the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit Congress is trying to create.</p>

<p>House conservatives sought unsuccessfully this week to convince the House to endorse cutting the cost of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit by requiring wealthy seniors to pay more of their own drug costs.</p> <p>The House on Tuesday defeated, on a 234-161 vote, a Republican motion that would have asked House and Senate negotiators to include "means-testing" as part of the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit Congress is trying to create.</p>