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Source: National Right to Life News citing of statistics from Planned Parenthood’s “Annual Report” Despite the decline in national abortion rates, Planned Parenthood reported having done a record number of abortions in the 1998-99 fiscal year. Planned Parenthood centers did 167,928 abortions that year, and referred women elsewhere (such as individual for-profit abortion facilities) for an additional 36,780 abortions. Planned Parenthood is now responsible for doing 1 out of 7 abortions in the United States, and counseling and referring for thousands more. More than 17% of all women and girls having abortions in this country are Planned Parenthood clients or ...

IF Hillary Clinton makes it to the U.S. Senate next year, she may find her husband sitting by her side. Columnist Richard Turley reports in Hamptons magazine that Al Gore has asked L.A. lawyer Warren Christopher to compile a short list of prospective vice presidents. Said to head the list is California Sen. Diane Feinstein. If she runs with Gore and they are elected, Gov. Gray Davis will be urged to appoint Bill Clinton to fill Feinstein's Senate seat the day he leaves the White House.

FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS BOND derivatives expert Kenneth Phillips has worked out of an elaborate home office in New Hope, Pa. For seven of those years he was on the payroll of Lehman Brothers, which paid for his 25 phone lines, computers and fax machines. Although he spent most of his time in the home office, Phillips would sometimes meet colleagues in New York. So, for tax purposes, he meticulously tracked where he spent each of his workdays. When it came time to pay his nonresident New York taxes, Phillips reported a proportionate share of his total income as ...

When Jim Greenwood was running for Congress against Peter Kostmayer in 1992, he promised to help balance the federal budget and to vote pro-choice on abortion. The Republican also said that he would serve only six terms in Congress. Greenwood, R-8, has delivered on the first two promises he made to constituents in his district, which covers all of Bucks and, in Montgomery County, Horsham and part of Lower Moreland. As he looks toward 2004, Greenwood says 12 years in the House may not be enough. "The legitimate question is what would people in the district want me to ...

Non-Christians and even Christians can take opposite positions on abortion even when they think rationally, honestly, and with good will. The continuing controversy over abortion shows that it is a truly controversial issue. It is not simple and clear-cut, but complex. Just as the choices for action are often difficult for a woman contemplating abortion, the choices for thought are often difficult for open-minded philosophers. Everything I have said so far is a lie, in fact a dangerous lie. There is one and only one reason why people argue about the topic of this paper, whether human personhood begins at ...

In an unprecedented step against racism in cyberspace, federal housing authorities have filed civil discrimination charges against a Philadelphia man for threatening on his hate group's Web site to kill a human-rights activist. The alleged harassment, which included a threat to hang her "from the nearest tree or lamppost," eventually drove the Reading woman and her teenage daughter from Pennsylvania. Saying the greatest tribute that people can give the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is to continue his battle against racism, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo announced the charges late Sunday against Ryan Wilson of ...

WANT to give a big, fat finger to Big Brother today? Fax or e-mail this column to a friend. Be sure to include the following words: Unabomber. Anthrax. Fissionable plutonium. North Korea. Militia. Delta Force. Ruby Ridge. If the suspicions of Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), the American Civil Liberties Union and cyber-libertarian "hacktivists" are correct, your fax or e-mail containing those words will have been intercepted by a sophisticated official electronic monitoring system called "Echelon." Echelon is a supersecret global surveillance network, run by the U.S. National Security Agency, in conjunction with the governments of Britain, Canada, Australia and ...

Both political parties say education will top the list of priorities for next year's national elections. If so, here's the issue of the year: sex education. Long ago, when public schools first thought of removing the "l" from their titles, religious organizations complained about carnal instruction. The press and the educational establishment quickly tarred these critics as hicks unwise to ethics in the age of birth control and warned that untutored adolescents would learn on their own about the birds and bees. Little did anyone suspect that schools eventually would be the ones encouraging kids to rut with abandon ...

THE courts will have their say in the matter of Brooklyn Museum of Art vs. Giuliani - and the legal eagles predict the mayor will lose. Well, if our side can't put the Prospect Park Poo Peddlers down for the count, we might as well enjoy the spectacular fight while it lasts. Chris Ofili's pornographic, feces-smeared painting of the Virgin has occasioned such an exquisite display of intellectual mountebankery and self-righteous leftie mewling that it's hard not to be amused - once you move past disgust. In other cities, you have to pay cash money for comedy this robust. ...

Get a load of Steve Forbes' campaign! The essential data: He wants to serve as president in order to reintroduce life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the animating ideals of the good old USA. Life (for the underinformed) includes life for the unborn. Liberty means emerging free from the cocoon of laws, mostly federal, that impose on us whether we're in the mood to start a business or rent an apartment or build a house. The pursuit of happiness is the term the founding fathers got around to, interrupting the conventional terminology, which back then ran: life, ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge appears the perfect fit as a vice-presidential running mate for Texas Gov. George W. Bush, front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. But a highly private conversation might have smashed his chances. A Bush political adviser paid a recent visit to a prominent Roman Catholic archbishop. The adviser, who is not Catholic, asked the prelate, who is from neither Pennsylvania nor Texas, a political question: How would you react to Ridge, a Catholic with mildly pro-choice abortion views, as vice president? The reply was unequivocal: Because Ridge is a Catholic, it makes his pro-choice views worse--far ...

LAST November's election of Jesse (The Steroid-Enhanced Body) Ventura as governor of Minnesota, we were endlessly told by the news media, represented a citizenry that was fed up with the usual Donkey vs. Elephant politics. Not anymore, it doesn't. Ventura's election to his state's highest office only proves that morons not only vote, but that they can comprise the largest voting block in any public election. The folks of Minnesota, having voted on a wish, now have just what they deserve. They chose to be governed by a pop culturist, a pro wrestler, no less, and now they're stuck ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two plainclothes police officers were indicted Monday on federal charges of lying to authorities investigating the torture of a Haitian immigrant in a police station bathroom. Rolando Aleman, 28, and Francisco Rosario, 34, were decorated members of the roving Street Crime Unit who were booking a gun suspect at the precinct at the time of the assault on Abner Louima on Aug. 9, 1997. During questioning, they ``repeatedly lied and misled the federal government about what they saw in the stationhouse that morning,'' said prosecutor Alan Vingrad. The indictments came two weeks after a jury ...