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Pro-choice activists concerned over women’s rights to safe reproductive health pulled into Copley Square Wednesday as part of a national bus tour calling for a lift of bans that deny abortion coverage for low-income women. Since kicking off the 10,000-mile Be Bold Road Trip in Los Angeles, C.A. on Aug. 9 the tour has hit up Portland, O.R., Minneapolis, M.N, and Chicago, I.L., before parking Boston.

An article entitled After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live? was recently published in the London-based Journal of Medical Ethics, advocating that if abortion is allowed, then society also has the right to kill a newborn child. This outrageous deduction by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva takes abortion to its logical conclusion. The abstract states: “By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue...

Uprising: Scott Brown got his demand to be sworn in early as the 41st Republican senator, and elected officials everywhere — Democrat and Republican — will soon find out how much has changed. It was insult added to injury. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., not only gets the late Teddy Kennedy's seat, held by Democrats since the Anchisaurus ruled Brown's hometown of Wrentham during the early Jurassic period. But because they don't want to move another senator's digs, Democrats are giving him the luxurious Kennedy suite of offices in the Russell Building, the nicest of the three Senate office blocks across...

Abortion After Obama by Joseph Bottum Copyright (c) 2009 First Things (January 2009). It happens every four years—maybe every two years: Anytime there’s an election in this country, the pundits and political experts take to their soapboxes and proclaim the death of pro-life politics. The unwashed yokels in Utah, Alabama, South Dakota, Oklahoma: They’re an embarrassment, you see, and the sooner we stop paying attention to them, the sooner the nation’s politics will regain its equilibrium. The fact that we heard exactly this after the elections in 1986 and 1990 and 1992 and 1996 and 2006 suggests it’s more a...

A potential big battle has begun, one of special interest to all Christians and guaranteed to generate a lot of attention from all Americans. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a stern warning to President-elect Obama and his incoming administration, highlighting grave concerns over what will happen to unwanted, unborn human life. The statement was delivered at the end of the annual assembly that represents all American bishops-i.e., the full American Catholic Church. It was issued by Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, president of the USCCB. The subject is the once unthinkable Freedom of Choice Act, which...

In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Senator Obama and 13 Senate Co-Sponsors introduced Senate Bill 1173. This bill proposes that virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion be nullified. The key binding provisions of the bill would invalidate all of the major types of pro-life laws that have been upheld by the Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade became law in 1973 including the ban on partial-birth abortions and bans on government funding of abortion. Obama, himself, says that abortions should be legally available in accordance with Roe v. Wade. But, but,...

Republican John McCain, an abortion rights opponent with a conservative Senate record on the issue, seems content with the public's perception that he's more moderate on the subject. Democrat Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights, is only too happy to remind voters where McCain stands, but he tries to make his case without attracting too much attention. Both presidential candidates are gingerly trying to strike the right chord on abortion as they reach out to a critical voting group _ independents and moderates, primarily women in swing-voting suburban regions of crucial states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio. The candidates'...

A fired-up Sen. Barack Obama: "We may think this is Mohammed the terrorist, it might be Mohammed the cab driver. You may think it’s Barack the bomb thrower, but it might be Barack the guy running for president"

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Obama campaign threw their vehemently pro-abortion stance into relief by investing in radio ads attacking pro-life Sen. McCain for threatening to take away women's "right to choose."The ads feature the voice of a "nurse-practitioner with Planned Parenthood" warning her listeners that McCain will seek to have Roe v. Wade overturned and ban abortion.  "I know abortion is one of most difficult decisions a woman will ever make," says the woman's voice.  "Let me tell you - if Roe v Wade is overturned, the lives and health of women will be put at...

Twice this week I checked out the abortion mills on Roosevelt Avenue. On the whole, the community seems to be repelled by their terrible activity.

This is the report back from the panel discussion at the New York Ethical Culture Society in NYC on the topic "What's bad about abortion?"

FW: We’re certified Dear friends, I usually don't do this, but the message below is just too important not to pass on to you right away... I just received the email below from my friend Sarah Stoesz, the President of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota Action Fund. She's in a fight in South Dakota that we all have a huge stake in and she needs your help. http://www.standupsd.com/petition Anti-choice extremists have targeted South Dakota in their latest attempt to outlaw abortion. As Sarah describes in her report below, they are funneling millions of dollars and bus loads...

Urgent Action Needed on HB 868 to keep teens safe! STOP HB 868 and keep teens safe! Dear xxxxx xxxxxx, Members of the Courts of Justice Committee will soon be considering HB 868 - a bill that requires parental notification, parental consent, and a mandatory delay for Emergency Contraception (EC) for teens. Rather than reducing teen pregnancy in Virginia, this bill could actually discourage teens from seeking EC to prevent unintended pregnancies. Additional facts about HB 868 Of course we all want teens to be safe. However, the real outcome of this law is delayed medical care. Nobody should support...

Boy, is this gutsy, huh. Conservatism is a paranoid, fearful personal philosophy and embracing it is a sign of emotional weakness. By its very definition, conservatism is opposed to progress. Conservatives believe we ought to "conserve" existing institutions and social norms, speaking from a positions which is always on the verge of being "led astray," and reflecting with an imperfect memory on the topics of fictional "Greatest Generations" and "Golden Ages." Nothing that sets itself against progress can claim to be on the side of good. Accordingly, conservatives, however nice they might otherwise be, for turning their energies against a...

Stand Up for Planned Parenthood Dear xxxxx xxxxxxx, Planned Parenthood opponents are attempting to force the new Planned Parenthood medical and education center in Charlottesville to close. They have filed a legal appeal to revoke Planned Parenthood’s Certificate of Occupancy. They intend to organize hundreds of anti-choice advocates to attend a hearing of the Zoning Appeals Board at 1:00pm on Tuesday, November 9. ACTION: We need you and every pro-choice supporter you know to attend the hearing in Charlottesville on November 9 at1:00pm at the Albemarle County Office Building on 401 McIntire Road. We cannot let our opponents bully the...

Erie has first abortion clinic in 20 years Friday, September 05, 2003Associated Press ERIE, Pa. -- An abortion clinic has been approved for Erie County, where the procedure has not been available for more than 20 years. "We are committed and dedicated to making freedom of choice a reality for the women of Erie," said Linda Locke, chief operating officer of American Women's Services. "For too long, the women of Erie have been forced to drive out of the county to have abortion services provided to them." Dr. Steven Brigham had been seeking to open the clinic in downtown...