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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading abortion advocacy group attacked presidential candidate John McCain after the third debate and complained about his comments on the health exception to the partial-birth abortion ban. During the debate McCain said a health exception would compromise the integrity of the ban.
As McCain and presidential candidate Barack Obama discussed the partial-birth abortion ban, Obama said he voted against the measure because it did not have a health exception.
"I am completely supportive of a ban ... as long as there's an exception for the mother's health," he said.
McCain responded: "He's health for the mother. You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That's the extreme pro-abortion position, quote 'health.'"
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When is the last time a bishop's statement on abortion resulted in several days of protest from pro-abortion Catholics? The joint statement issued last Friday by Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth and Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas has done just that. No doubt the forceful clarity of the bishops' message elicited the outcry.
The protests began on Sunday when the statement was read from the pulpit by Rev. Tony Ruiz, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in downtown Dallas. Some two-dozen parishioners walked out and went to the local media to lodge their complaints about "political endorsements."
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Organizers of the Fall 40 Days for Life campaign say it has been more effective than previous efforts and has already resulted in saving the lives of 268 babies at its halfway point. The campaign has also engendered the typical condemnations from national and local Planned Parenthood activists.
"I know 40 Days for Life is on the right track whenever Planned Parenthood cranks up its PR machine," Shawn Carney, national outreach director of 40 Days for Life, tells LifeNews.com.