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LifeNews has repeatedly profiled cases where doctors may too quickly began cutting up patients who are not really dead to begin harvesting their organs for donations.These kinds of cases have happened before, as supposedly “brain dead” patients have come back to life just before having their vital organs taken from them after prematurely being declared dead. Although there is nothing morally wrong with organ donations — in fact, it’s arguably a very pro-life action to take — these kinds of stories ought to remind organ donors (and any patient and their family) that doctors are too quickly declaring patients dead...

Abortionists are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to clinic oversight laws in South Carolina. The Center for Reproductive Rights is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that would end several regulations on abortion clinics in South Carolina. At stake is the health of women who seek to end a pregnancy. South Carolina has some of the most stringent regulations in the nation for the abortion industry. They include requiring clinics to admit women to a hospital, if needed, and making clinic records available to inspectors on demand. Denise Burke, a spokesman for Americans...

Last spring, the public got a firsthand look at spyware's pervasiveness when it was discovered that peer-to-peer file-swapping app Kazaa was bundling a program designed to form a giant distributed network -- composed of Kazaa users' computers -- that could transmit information back to Brilliant Digital Entertainment, the company that created it. In effect, this network would use people's computers to perform work for Brilliant Digital. The program had been distributed with Kazaa since the fall of 2001, according to a document that Brilliant filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in April. Even though Brilliant said it...