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Super Bowl champion and retired NFL center Matt Birk is helping women by bravely speaking the truth. Birk won the Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens last year and six-time Pro Bowl honoree. Birk is also a former Minnesota Viking and St. Paul, Minnesota, native so he is close to my heart. As a Super Bowl champion, Birk had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join his team at the White House. Birk declined the invitation because he disagrees with President Obama’s recent statements to Planned Parenthood: “I love you!” an audience member shouted out on April 26 as Obama prepared to...

Retired six-time Pro Bowl center and former Viking Matt Birk skipped the Baltimore Ravens' visit to the White House on Wednesday for political reasons. Specifically, the St. Paul native took issue with President Barack Obama's support of Planned Parenthood. Birk is a staunch Catholic father of six children who's against abortion and has taken a strong pro-life stance. Birk has also spoken out in the past in favor of traditional marriage prior to same-sex marriage becoming legal last year in Maryland. "I wasn't there," Birk said in an interview on KFAN-FM. "I would say that I have great respect for...

Birk to schedule surgery after Vikings turn down offer Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Vikings center Matt Birk plans to schedule surgery on his injured left hip, which could keep him out for three months, after the Vikings declined to guarantee his contract for 2006, the player's agent said Thursday. Birk had been cleared to play with painkilling injections but asked the Vikings to guarantee his nearly $4 million salary for 2006 in exchange for him taking a risk and playing with the pain. But the Vikings declined to do so, agent Joe Linta said. "They've turned down all our...