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| Action Items on Proposed HHS Rule Redefining Contraception as Abortion |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 3:54 pm |
| control be equated with abortion?" Go vote. US News has a similar poll, asking, "Should doctors have the right to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions based on personal objections?" Go vote.Off you go teaspoons |
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| Johnny doesn't know |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 3:03 pm |
| Just a few things John McCain doesn't know:* John McCain doesn't know if contraception helps prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.* John McCain doesn't know that Iraq doesn't share a border with Pakistan.* John McCain doesn't know why insurance companies don't cover birth control when they cover Viagra. He doesn't even know how he voted on the issue.* |
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| A can't miss community post: What Makes for a Good Abortion? |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 12:46 pm |
| Tags: Community Posts, Reproductive Rights |
| blogger Nell (also of Abortion Clinic Days - a blog of abortion providers telling their stories) asks readers, "What makes for a good abortion?" We often share your stories with our own patients. Hearing that someone else has walked that path with strength and grace--and that they're not afraid to tell their story--our patients |
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| Are Christians Wrong to be “Single-Issue” Voters? |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 11:56 am |
| that is going on for abortion and same-sex marriage. . But here’s the core of the matter. To be robustly and consistently anti-abortion is at the very same time to cast your vote for environmental sensitivity, against racism, and for economic justice. These are not independent, isolated packages. It’s hard to see how anyone |
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| Empey/ Cameron statement should be welcomed, although it does raise difficulties. |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 11:23 am |
| Tags: Northern Ireland, Politics, United Kingdom, Unionism, David Cameron, Conservatives, Sir Reg Empey, Annoyances |
| Amendment, Ireland Parties, Abortion, Wish MsKeywords: northern, northern ireland, ireland, parties, uk, amendment, ireland parties, abortion, unionist, wish ms, unite indeed, unionist attitude, surely uk, ms abbot, bleat loudestCategories: Northern Ireland, Politics, United Kingdom, unionism, |
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| SNP victory in Glasgow East - the Christians won it |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 2:51 am |
| to maintain the present abortion limit, produce animal-human hybrids, and permit the production of fatherless' children. The only appeal was ever to the 'science', as if this were the only source of reason. The triumph of utilitarianism has relegated religious considerations to the peripheries of sanity, and the only rational context in |
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| Action Roundup |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 1:26 am |
| Tags: Activism, Causes |
| control isn’t itself abortion Ask the House to ban cluster bombs Tell Congress to give food aid |
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| Ex-doctor enters plea in abortion fatality |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 12:00 am |
| BARNSTABLE - A former Cape Cod doctor indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter after a woman he performed an abortion on died has pleaded not guilty. |
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| I Want Another View |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 5:37 pm |
| e-mail about my View-and-abortion piece: You wrote, 'The View yesterday was painful to watch.' I ask, 'When is it not?' Fair enough.But when a popular women's daytime show starts to tackle the reality of abortion and then, well, aborts it, it deserves mention. Whoop Goldberg, the moderator, acted as if a little too much honest emotion |
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| Sherri Shepherd Apologizes for Abortion Controversy |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 5:25 pm |
| Tags: Television, Videos |
| it off. On the subject of abortions, Sherri said explained that she’d had abortions and suffered much shame and gilt and did not know how to forgive herself. Her intentions for the remark was to encourage women have had the same experience to not be ashamed or feel guilty. “[The reporter] didn’t print the entire quote. So all |
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| The Politics of Life |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 2:52 pm |
| Tags: At Tmv, Columnists, Christian Conservatives, Newsweek Blogitics, Political Christianity, John Mccain, Evangelicals, Abortion, 2008 Elections, Religion, Society, Barack Obama, Politics |
| a reduction of the number of abortions in other countries or the promise of an end of the war in Iraq? Will either McCain or Obama appoint justices to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade? No. What is the criterion this year for voting for the pro-life (anti-abortion) candidate? It may come down to which candidate will allow federal |
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| How to make a flower bloom in the desert? |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:57 pm |
| Tags: Church, Society, Culture |
| we clearly don’t with abortion and euthanasia spreading globally. Benedict again raises the importance of the family (as he did several times on his apostolic visit to the US), and we certainly get that, right? But same sex marriage laws are being passed and pushed all over the place, dramatically restructuring what civilization has known |
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| Aborted Discussion |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:45 pm |
| conversation about how abortion is more than sacred choice -- it's a grueling procedure that does more than end a pregnancy (and therefore, life). It hurts women and men and has emotional and physical repercussions that hardly anyone talks about out in the open. Michaelene Fredenburg does, though. And you should take a look at |
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| Sherri Shepherd Apologizes to Barbara Walters |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:07 pm |
| Tags: Celebrities, Television, Abortion, Barbara Walters, Christianity, Sherri Shepherd, The View |
| Yesterday fellow Idol Chatter blogger Esther posted about Sherri Shepherd's comments in a magazine interview about her painful past-- including having abortions. But, of course, what's making the rounds on the web today is not the part of the interview... |
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| The Bush Regime's Global War on Abortion |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 10:44 am |
| to even touch the word "abortion". That meant an organisation couldn't counsel a woman on abortion as an option, even if it received money from an entirely separate funding source to do so. Given that the 1973 Helms Amendment already banned US funds from paying for overseas abortions, Reagan's policy gagged healthcare providers and gave them |
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