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(AgapePress) - "[A]t the end of the day, the truth is that when you perform an abortion you are killing something," said Dr. David Molloy of the Australian Medical Association. For pro-lifers, that is a statement of the obvious. But what if you were confronted with the full horror of what that death represented -- and still didn't care? Is it possible that pro-abortionists could finally admit that abortion is murder, but then collectively shrug their shoulders? That seems to be the case after the release of a British documentary entitled My Fetus, which aired in Britain in April, and...

“But let me not be understood as admitting, even by implication, that the existing relations between the two races in the slaveholding States is an evil: — far otherwise; I hold it to be a good, as it has thus far proved itself to be to both, and will continue to prove so if not disturbed by the fell spirit of abolition.” –Senator John Calhoun (D-SC) in a speech on the floor of the Senate in February, 1837. With these words, Calhoun poured gasoline on a fire he meant to put out. He was concerned with anti-slavery petitions being presented...

July 18, 2004 LIVES When One Is Enough By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. Growing up with a single mother, I was always buying into the myth that I was going to be seduced in the back of a pickup truck and become pregnant when I was 16. I had friends...

One Woman, One Vote Single women could swing the presidential election - but, as get-out-the-vote activists are finding, a one-size-fits-all message won't work. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards July 14 , 2004 Candidates, voter education groups, and writers of trend pieces are all focused on single women voters -- and they should be. According to the 2000 census, women are more likely to vote than men, but 22 million women sat out election 2000. And within that group, single women were the most likely to not vote. How important is that to the Democrats? Well, single women voted overwhelmingly for...