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USCCB: Keep abortion out of health care
I received this from the Arizona Catholic Conference earlier tonight. It’s a bulletin insert being circulated from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop URGENT: USCCB NATIONWIDE BULLETIN INSERT Stop Abortion Funding in Health Care Reform! Protect Conscience Ensure Affordable Health Coverage Allow Immigrants to Purchase Private Health Insurance As long-time advocates of health care reform, [...]
Silence today
If some of the people around your work or school seem unusually silent today, there’s good reason for it. Students at 80 schools in Arizona are joining more than 3,700 nationwide in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity today. They’re not speaking today as a visual reminder of the 50 million voices that have fallen silent [...]
Crossroads of the Heart
I remember watching some film in junior college about a woman who got pregnant, largely without her consent. My class had to watch and write a persuasive paper on the seemingly eternal abortion debate featured in the film. The film’s character didn’t want to carry the baby to term at first, but had a [...]
Cardinal George praises Obama’s conscience clause promise
WASHINGTON — Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, praised President Barack Obama’s promise to support conscience clauses. “Caring health professionals and institutions should know that their deeply held religious or moral convictions will be respected as they exercise their right to serve patients in need,” Cardinal Francis [...]
Pro-life pitfalls
Via Crunchy Con Rod Dreher comes this article by Michael Brendan Dougherty about the pro-life movement 36 years after Roe. Dougherty, as Dreher points out, is a pro-life practicing Catholic, but that doesn’t spare the pro-life movement from some harsh words. Whenever talking to someone intimately involved in the pro-life movement, you ofter hear them [...]