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This letter is in regard to Senate Bill 389, the Comprehensive Abortion Reform Act, or CARA, passed by both the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate. This bill was vetoed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on April 21. It would have given women the choice to see the ultrasound of their unborn baby, medical resources for pregnancies threatened with fetal defects, and legal remedies for abortion fraud and damage. It would have reduced forced abortions and predators using clinics to hide statutory rape. It would have enhanced parental rights, state reporting of, and protection for, sexually abused minors and prosecution of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California processing plant because a video of animal abuse obtained by the Humane Society was splashed all over the news. The video showed workers cruelly using a forklift to move "downer" cattle (cattle that can't stand or walk) to be butchered. There are strict laws about moving non-ambulatory animals, so the former employees are facing five felony counts and three misdemeanors. Federal law prohibits using downer cattle for human consumption, but meat from this plant went to school cafeterias all over the country....