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A U.S. Coast Guard officer and devout Catholic has filed suit to prevent being forced to receive a vaccination derived from the lung of an aborted child after a higher ranking officer disputed his understanding of Church theology. The Alliance Defense Fund filed a complaint last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Healy, charging the government with using its own arbitrary judgment of what constitutes Catholic theology while permitting religious exemptions to others, effectively discriminating against Healy's sincerely held religious beliefs. Healy's request for religious exemption cited a 2005...

SEATTLE - Scientists at the University of Washington are optimistic that they've made what they call meaningful progress toward learning how to repair damaged human livers with stem cells. If the experimental work continues successfully in the years to come, the technique could one day repair livers badly damaged by drug overdoses, hepatitis and alcoholism. The UW research was reported in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "I think it's a significant first step," Dr. Nelson Fausto, chairman of the university's Department of Pathology, told The Seattle Times. For the first time, a team...

Abortionists Admit Dismemberment Horror "Another doctor a day earlier had testified that a fetus sometimes does not immediately die after limbs are pulled off." That's the sole reference we could find to the major piece of blockbuster testimony in searching the wire services today for accounts of the partial-birth abortion trial going on in New York. Pro-abortion reporters and editors don't like to dwell on reality, doncha know. Here's some slightly less horrific testimony that the media will relate from U.S. District Court in Manhattan. "Does the fetus feel pain?" Judge Richard C. Casey on Wednesday asked another abortionist, Dr....