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Terri the Rerun?: Father Fights for Life of Cognitively Disabled Daughter

Lawyer that represented Schindler family and Terri Schiavo said case is "eerily" similar to the Schiavo case

By John Jalsevac

WILMINGTON, DE, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The father of a twenty-three year old woman who suffered an anoxic brain injury after an August 28, 2006 accident, is fighting for her life, in a case that has strong parallels to the infamous Terri Schiavo case.

Lauren Richardson suffered the brain injury after a heroine overdose in 2006. Since then the young woman has been kept on basic life support, which, at present, is limited to a feeding tube. Pregnant at the time of the accident, Richardson subsequently gave birth to a healthy child, while on life support, in February 2007.

A poster on the delawareonline news blog (where Richardson's story was first made public), who claims to personally know all of the family members as well as Lauren, explained that Lauren's overdose happened after she had been clean for six months, after finding out that she was pregnant. Lauren, who had been the valedictorian of her class, allegedly unknowingly used heroine laced with an even more powerful drug, which lead to the overdose.

Another poster responded to others who denounced Lauren as irresponsible for having taken heroine while pregnant, and who said that she had brought her own condition upon herself, saying, "My son was Lauren's senior prom date at Glasgow. They last spoke in July 2006. She was excited about being pregnant and she was getting clean. It is just so sad that she had to backslide and that it is so devastating."

"Unless you understand addiction, do not be so quick to condemn."

While medical personnel have claimed that Richardson is in a Permanent Vegetative State, Richardson's father, Randy Richardson, says that his daughter, while severely handicapped, is both responsive and not terminally ill. He has said that with therapy his daughter could be re-taught to eat, and would have no need of the feeding tube.

A video released last week shows Lauren sitting up in a wheel-chair, looking around, and apparently responding to her father. (See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS1xOju1znk)

The young woman's mother, however, Edith Towers, who is divorced from her husband, has claimed that Lauren would not want to continue living in the condition that she is currently in. Several weeks ago a court awarded custody of Lauren to her mother, on the understanding that Towers would order the removal of her daughter's feeding tube.

"All the medical evidence supplied by the physicians…is in agreement: Lauren is not in a coma but is in a persistent vegetative state," wrote Delaware Court of Chancery Master Sam Glasscock III. "She is unable to communicate or experience consciousness. Her continued existence is dependent upon tube feeding and hydration.…No improvement in her condition can be expected."

The starvation and dehydration of the young woman, however, has been put on hold for at least three months, after her father appealed the court's decision. He has repeatedly expressed his willingness to take care of his daughter. "We just want to give her a chance," said Richardson, pointing out that his daughter was not being kept alive by extraordinary measures. "There is no life support except…a feeding tube," he said.

Last Friday Richardson appeared on the Hannity and Holmes show on Fox News, to explain the case. Richardson claimed that Lauren can indicate to nurses in her hospice when she is uncomfortable. He also informed the audiences that Lauren's drug relapse occurred after a heated exchange with her mother, in which her mother had urged her daughter to abort her unborn child. (See: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328085,00.html. Click on "Watch Segment" under "Video" to the left to see the video)

The judge in the case, however, ruled in favor of claims by Lauren's mother and one other relative, that Lauren had at times in the past made statements to the effect that she would not like to be kept alive on life support in the instance of a serious accident.

The lawyer that once represented the Schindler family in their attempt to fight the court-ordered starvation and dehydration of their daughter and sister, Terri Schiavo, has said that this case is "eerily" similar to the Schiavo case.

"My heart goes out to the family, to the mother and the father," said Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo's brother, in an interview with LifeSiteNews. "It's a horrible situation to be in."

Schindler said that he has been in communication with Richardson's father for some time now, and said that the father had hoped "it wouldn't get to this," referring to the heating-up court battle over his daughter's fate.  

"We didn't want to do this," Richardson has previously told news-media, about his decision to go public with his daughter's case. "It's not in my nature to speak to newspapers….But if I don't, who will? I love my daughter."

"She's committed no crime and doesn't deserve to have this death imposed on her."

"My reaction is this:" said Bobby Schindler about Lauren's case, "The young woman is cognitively disabled and we're going to dehydrate her to death. The judge ruled to dehydrate her to death based on hearsay evidence." 

"This young girl is getting food and water, she's not dying, and I believe that the father should be allowed to take care of her. It's really as simple as that we don't know for sure what her wishes are, so why not err on the side of caution, err on the side of life?  She's a woman with a disability, and she needs to be taken care of." 
 
Schindler said that his experiences with his sister taught him that the West is moving in the direction of judging people's worth based upon quality of life, and not intrinsic dignity. "I think our culture has shifted to a quality of life assessment, where we are making life-and-death decisions now on someone's quality of life.  We are discriminating against people with disabilities. We've lost our sense of compassion.  We've become desensitized to the value and dignity of all life, whether they have disability or not." 

"We're talking about basic care here," Schindler emphasized. "We're talking about food and water.  I don't think I can emphasize that enough. It's just food and water. So what can we do?  We can recognize these people as people in need of our love and compassion. We can do what we are supposed to do.  And that's care for them, not simply create ways to justify killing them." 

"What is going on with our culture today when we are looking at these people and seeing inconvenience.  These aren't easy issues.  But what other choice do we have?  I tell you, it's frightening the direction our country, not only is heading, but already has headed."

Visit the page put up by supporters of Randy Richardson's bid to save his daughter's life:
http://www.lifeforlauren.org/index.html.

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Commentary: Upcoming Spanish Elections Increasingly Resemble Referendum on Abortion, Gay Marriage

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

SPAIN, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the increasingly close race for the presidency and the parliament of Spain, abortion and "gay marriage" are becoming two of the most talked about issues, despite the fact that the country's two major parties differ only slightly with regard to them.

The worsening economic situation may be the main contributor to the tightness of the race, but social issues seem to be a close second.  Recent scandals regarding Spain's controversial abortion industry, as well as growing discontent with the Socialist Worker's Party's "gay marriage" system, have helped to create serious uncertainty about the outcome of this year's elections.

The Socialist Worker's Party, headed by President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is defending its legacy of easy abortion. This policy, however, exploded in his party's face late last year when undercover television reporters and pro-life activists exposed the routine criminality and gruesome inhumanity of Spain's abortion industry. Clinic personnel were subsequently arrested in Barcelona and Madrid.

In the wake of the scandals, which are still sending tremors through Spain's body politic, the socialists have dug in their heels and have resolved to create new legal protections for Spain's abortion clinics, and to implement "privacy" policies that are calculated to make it more difficult to prosecute clinic personnel for violating Spanish law. Although such changes would be largely cosmetic, representatives of the abortion industry have expressed approval and appreciation for the idea.

However, in the wake of horrifying images of late-term abortions shown on national television, as well as stories of fetal remains being ground up in food processors and disposed of in the sewer system, the government has apparently shelved the idea of relaxing existing regulations on abortion. That proposal has been pushed by forces within the Socialist Worker's Party since 2004, thus far without success.

Instead, socialist Vice President María Teresa Fernández de a Vega has announced that it is time to "improve" the country's abortion laws. "The government is not going to allow the rights of any woman who has, or who has to confront a decision so painful as that of interrupting her pregnancy, to be put in jeopardy," she said recently. 

Although the principal opposition to the socialists, the People's Party, claims to have no plans to add any new restrictions to abortion, they are positioning themselves closer to pro-lifers, promising to vigorously enforce all existing abortion laws. Those same laws were the basis of recent prosecutions of clinic personnel in Barcelona and Madrid, who were charged with fabricating diagnoses of medical or psychological "risk," which are required to do abortions after five months of gestation.

Another creation of the socialists, "gay marriage" is also becoming a political liability for their party in traditionally Catholic Spain.  A massive pro-family rally held by the nation's bishops recently in Madrid attracted one million people, and was seen as a blow to socialist political ambitions, although organizers denied it had a political purpose.

Feeling the pressure, the socialists have assured the public that they will do nothing further to alter the institution of marriage.

On the other side of the political divide, however, leaders of the People's Party have made it clear that they have little intention of actually abolishing "gay marriage", although again they have positioned themselves closer to pro-family forces by speculating on the possibility of removing the label of "marriage", while maintaining the legal privileges the law provides cohabiting homosexuals.

In addition, consistent denunciations of socialist policies on the part of the bishops have caused rising tensions between Catholic Church authorities and the government.  President Zapatero seems to be so concerned about the effect of the bishops' opposition to his policies that he has taken the unprecedented step of filing a complaint with the Vatican through his ambassador.

However, such chest-beating by anti-family forces is not likely to move Pope Benedict XVI, who himself made a televised appearance at the bishop's pro-family demonstration in Madrid.  Zapatero and his party seem to be "reaping the whirlwind" as a result of their attacks on the traditional family.

While the range of the debate remains narrow, its intensity cannot be denied.  Whatever the outcome, Spain's national elections in March of 2008 are likely to be won by candidates who stand on the majority side of an electorate increasingly polarized by issues of life and family.

Related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Spain's "Conservative" Party Offers Weak Resistance to Socialist Anti-Family Policies
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08013009.html

Spanish Socialists Attack Catholic Church in Wake of Pro-Family Demonstration
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08011101.html

Well Over One Million Spaniards Demonstrate for Marriage and Family
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08010303.html

Crowd Packs Barcelona Convention Center to Defend the Family
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08012901.html

Full Abortions Shown On Spanish Television - First In History
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07121401.htm

Spanish Pro-Life Activists Seek New Investigations of Abortionists Following Arrests
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07120710.html

Late Term Abortionist Arrested by Spain's Police
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/nov/07112913.html

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Majority of Spaniards: Don't Loosen Restrictions on Abortion

Poll reveals contradictory aspects of nation's thinking

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

SPAIN, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to a new opinion poll, a majority of Spaniards oppose the idea of further loosening restrictions on abortion, a possibility that socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has promised to raise in the next parliamentary session, following national elections in March.

According to the poll, performed by the DYM Institute for the Spanish publication ABC, 49 percent of those questioned would like to either maintain existing restrictions on abortion or increase restrictions, while 42 percent would like to loosen restrictions.

The Spanish public's strong negative response to loosening abortion restrictions extends even to the Socialist Worker's Party itself.  About 50% of the party faithful are in favor of the idea, while a total of 43 percent want to maintain restrictions or even increase them.

The public's strongly negative attitude towards the socialist pro-abortion agenda may stem in part from recent revelations of illegal late term abortions at clinics in Barcelona and Madrid, in which unborn children at later than five months gestation were being aborted based on fabricated evidence of a psychological "risk" associated with the pregnancy.

Thirteen abortion clinic workers, including Spain's "abortion mogul," Carlos Morín, are being prosecuted for these and other illegal activities.

However, regarding other aspects of the family values debate in Spain, the nation exhibits a strange mixture of views.

A very strong majority, 69%, support maintaining the Socialist Worker's Party's institution of "homosexual marriage".  Fifteen percent would like to modify it, and only 14% want to eliminate it, despite the fact that the country is nominally 94% Catholic. 

The poll also indicated, however, that the socialist government's ongoing conflict with the Catholic Church had helped the socialists' opposition, the People's Party. The results showed that Spaniards were more likely to criticize the socialists for their family policies and for their relationship with the Church. Strangely, however, they were more critical of the less-pro-abortion People's Party regarding the abortion issue.

The poll's data seems to suggest that the public continues to sympathize with the Socialist Worker's Party on the abortion issue, while rejecting the party's tendency to loosen abortion restrictions. Simultaneously, the public is dissatisfied with the socialists' family policies in general, perhaps reflecting the ongoing population crisis caused by small families and a shrinking population.

The intensity of the debate over abortion and family values, however, is playing an increasingly important role in the debate as the country approaches an already close election in March (see today's LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08020502.html).  Although the outcome remains uncertain, if the socialists lose it is likely that the result will be partially due to their controversial policies regarding human life and family.

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New Lenten 40 Days for Life Campaign Begins Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - 40 Days for Life begins its second nationwide pro-life campaign tomorrow, as volunteers in 59 cities across the country launch into an intensive 40 day program of prayer and fasting, community outreach, and constant vigil at locations where abortions are performed.

The event coincides with the beginning of the Christian season of Lent, and runs from February 6 through March 16. The participating cities are listed at: http://www.40daysforlife.com/location.html.

"When we conducted the first simultaneous, national 40 Days for Life campaign last fall, we were immediately approached by people who were so excited by this fresh new approach that they wanted to lead their own 40 Days for Life events in their own communities during 2008," said David Bereit, 40 Days for Life's national campaign director. "Almost every one of them pointed to the Lenten season as the ideal time to engage in prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. It's actually a perfect match."

Planned Parenthood in particular has been keenly aware of the vigils conducted outside its abortion facilities. During the fall 2007 40 Days for Life events, the organization's national office even circulated e-mail alerts to abortion advocates around the country, calling for their financial help to fight back against 40 Days for Life. "The 40 Days for Life effort had a marked impact on Planned Parenthood," said Bereit. "Reports from across the country made that quite clear."

In Indianapolis, a state-of-the-art Planned Parenthood abortion facility closed on at least two of their busiest abortion Saturdays, on account of the 40 Days for Life campaign. Sidewalk counselors believe the number of abortions decreased from an average of 20 a day to as few as five a day.

In College Station, Texas, local leaders noted numerous women asking for alternatives to Planned Parenthood because of the prayer presence. The number of new people getting involved in pro-life outreach greatly increased, and people were eager to continue praying at the clinic after 40 Days for Life was over.

In Illinois, a vigil participant said, "We pray every day during Planned Parenthood's office hours. Some pray 12-16 hours a day. We will not go away until they are gone. We are educating the community. We cannot stop now; we must keep Planned Parenthood on the defensive."

"We now know," said Bereit, "that faithful people across the country see the value of uniting together in one common purpose: ending the tragedy of abortion. We look forward to seeing how this new national outpouring will help lead more communities to turn away from abortion."

To see how you can get involved, visit:
http://www.40daysforlife.com/getinvolved.cfm 

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Super Bowl Champ: "Give God All the Glory"

By John Connolly

GLENDALE, Arizona, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Plaxico Burress, a wide receiver for the newly-crowned champion team, the New York Giants, told reporters on Sunday that God deserves the glory for his game-winning touchdown catch.

Burress, who only caught two passes during the whole of the Super Bowl, said he prayed hard when his number came up, with the game on the line and only 35 seconds left to go in the fourth quarter. The Giants had been waiting all game to get Burress into one-on-one coverage against Ellis Hobbs, the Patriots cornerback, and the desired match-up came at the ideal time.

"I gave him a slant fake, he bit it, Eli put it up and I came down with it," said Burress. "I just said, 'God, if you could just get me out of here tonight, based on what I've been through all year with my knee and ankle and the back and everything.' I'm just so grateful for the opportunity and I just told myself [if] I can come out here tonight and compete, I would give God all the glory."

Burress got into trouble with the media the week before the game for predicting that the Giants would win by a small margin and the Patriots would score no more than 17 points. Burress was criticized by Patriot's quarterback Tom Brady for not assuming New England would score more points. After New York's 17-14 upset, Burress was hailed as a hero.

"It was a big sigh of relief," he said, relating how he felt after making the touchdown catch. "I was just making sure my feet were in [the endzone] and everything."

Following the Giants' amazing victory, Tom Brady withdrew from his appearance at the Pro Bowl, football's all-star game. The Giants, however, are celebrating today with a ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan with thousands of fans.

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Shroud Dating May Have Been Inaccurate - BBC Interviews Radiocarbon Expert

 By Hilary White

NOVARA, Italy, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The techniques used in 1988 by three separate teams of scientists to date the Shroud of Turin to the middle ages, may have been inconclusive, a radiocarbon dating expert at Oxford University has told the BBC.

According to the Church official in charge of the Shroud, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, director of Oxford's Radiocarbon Accelerator, whose specialty is the use of radiocarbon dating in archaeological research, told the BBC that radiocarbon dating techniques have developed since 1988, and that the Shroud's long history of travel, exposure to the elements and handling could have skewed the results.

The BBC interview, that has yet to be broadcast, was discussed by Mgr. Giuseppe Ghiberti, president of the Diocesan Commission for the Shroud of Turin, at a conference in Novara Italy. Mgr. Ghiberti speculated that the Shroud's long history, including travels from Palestine to Europe, damage by fire in the 16th century, and much handling over the centuries could have influenced the outcome of the tests. 

In 1988, three groups of scientists made an attempt to use radiocarbon dating techniques to determine the age of the Shroud, concluding that the linen cloth could only date to the middle ages and not to the first century near east. According to the 1988 studies, the Shroud, venerated for centuries by Catholics as the burial cloth of Christ, could only have been a hoax or the product of some unknown natural process. The highly publicized study was published in 1988 in the scientific journal Nature.

That conclusion, however, has not halted the debate over the origin of the Shroud, although Church officials have declined to allow the fragile cloth to be so closely examined since then.  In 2005 a second analysis indicated that the cloth sample used by the 1988 teams had been taken from a part of the Shroud that was not part of the original cloth.

The interview with Dr. Ramsey will be broadcast by the BBC on Easter Saturday. 

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UK Researchers Clone Three-Parent Embryos Intended for Implantation

By Hilary White

LONDON, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Researchers at the University of Newcastle have created three-parent embryos in the lab as part of research into genetic diseases involving the mitochondria. The ten cloned embryos were constituted from genetic material collected from two women and one man, and the alteration - should the child be implanted in the womb and allowed to develop normally - could be carried through generations.

The embryos were created by removing the nucleus from an existing donated single-cell embryo, created by in vitro fertilisation and considered "at risk" for mitochondrial genetic disease, and inserting it into the donated ovum of a second woman. The resulting cloned embryo would be free of the mitochondrial abnormality since the mitochondria are inherited only from the female sex cells and not from the nucleus of the embryo.

An embryo created with this technique, the researchers speculate, could be implanted and the child would be free of the defective mitochondrial DNA. This technique qualifies as germline alteration since the resulting genetic change would be carried through to future generations if the embryo were allowed to survive to birth and reproduce later in life.

Lead researcher, Professor Douglas Turnbull, denied the procedure was a form of cloning and told the BBC that the breakthrough may allow children to be born free of mitochondrial disease within ten years. 

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) allowed the research to go ahead with a special license, but changes to the law are being considered that could make such special permission unnecessary.

Josephine Quintavalle of the think tank Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) said she was "absolutely terrified" at the HFEA's willingness to allow such experiments. "It is human beings that they are experimenting with," she added.

The experiment, presented last week to the Medical Research Council Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, is intended to halt the inheritance of mitochondrial genetic disorders being passed through generations. Mitochondria are "organelles" or cell particles that are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because they generate most of the cell's chemical energy. They are separated from the cell's nucleus and have their own independent genome, or genetic makeup.

Genetic diseases involving the mitochondria are those that affect the function of the mitochondrial DNA (mDNA). Mitochondrial disorders are rare, but many have devastating effects, including deafness, blindness, heart disease, diabetes, stroke-like episodes, seizures and mental retardation. One such disorder, Leigh's disease, affects the central nervous system, causing degradation of motor skills and eventually death. Most mitochondrial disorders are currently incurable.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the creation of the embryos was followed by an amendment tabled in the House of Lords by Lord Walton of Detchant to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would allow such research to continue without special permission from regulating authorities.

"We are hoping to do this in the next three years," said Professor Turnbull. "We don't then want to wait another three years for the law to change."

Quintavalle told the Telegraph that mitochondria were "written off as unimportant" in the recent debate in the House of Commons about animal human hybrid embryos in the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, yet "suddenly it matters so much you want to do a mitochondrial transplant."

In similar debates in the Canadian House of Commons, experts warned that clones could be created in exactly the manner achieved at Newcastle; but these warnings were dismissed by pro-embryo research MPs as alarmism. Liberal MP, Dr. Carolyn Bennett dismissed out of hand the concept that a cloned human being could be created with more than two progenitors using mitochondrial transfer, a possibility that was specifically pointed out by pro-life researchers.

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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

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Republicans: CNN projects McCain as winner in New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware and New Jersey and Oklahoma; Huckabee takes Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia; Romney takes Massachusetts and Utah
Democrats: CNN projects Clinton the winner in Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee; Obama wins Illinois, Alabama, Georgia, North Dakota; Kansas, Connecticut
http://www.cnn.com/

Huckabee wins W. Va. upset
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8338.html

Obama, McCain Post Wins in Illinois
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UKGML01&show_article=1

Dr. Dobson: 'I Cannot, and Will Not, Vote for McCain'

"I am deeply disappointed the Republican Party seems poised to select a nominee who did not support a Constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage, voted for embryonic stem-cell research to kill nascent human beings, opposed tax cuts that ended the marriage penalty, has little regard for freedom of speech, organized the Gang of 14 to preserve filibusters in judicial hearings, and has a legendary temper and often uses foul and obscene language."
 
"I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are. He has sounded at times more like a member of the other party. McCain actually considered leaving the GOP caucus in 2001, and approached John Kerry about being Kerry’s running mate in 2004. McCain also said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president. Given these and many other concerns, a spoonful of sugar does NOT make the medicine go down. I cannot, and will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience."

"But what a sad and melancholy decision this is for me and many other conservatives. Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions. If these are the nominees in November, I simply will not cast a ballot for president for the first time in my life. These decisions are my personal views and do not represent the organization with which I am affiliated. They do reflect my deeply held convictions about the institution of the family, about moral and spiritual beliefs, and about the welfare of our country."
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000006444.cfm

Republican Party Can't Afford More Liberal Leaders - By David Limbaugh
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/02/05/republican_party_can...

Buchanan: Don't Like McCain? Vote Hillary - forewarning that John McCain intends to be a war president; "colluded to sell out the most conservative of Bush’s judges, and in 1993, voted to confirm the pro-abortion liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/mccain/2008/02/05/70190.html

“Pro-Lifers Can Trust McCain” By Sen. Sam Brownback
http://ncregister.com/site/article/7967

Peggy Noonan - The Republican contest may well end on Tuesday, but I sense little relief and much unease
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

Virginia House OKs Pro-Life Legislation on Ultrasounds, Fetal Pain
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000006446.cfm

New Twists in Golubchuk Canadian Futile Care Case - literally the beginning of the creation of a duty to die - Wesley Smith
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/02/new-twists-in-golubchuk-canadian-futile...

Kansas Supreme Court Stays Order to Produce Abortion Records
http://christiannewswire.com/news/603125585.html

Four Month Premature Baby Doing Well - Wesley Smith
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/02/four-month-premature-baby-doing-well.ht...   

Will history reward Archbishop Raymond Burke for his trouble?
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3264/pub_detail.asp

San Jose State bans blood drive because homosexuals are not allowed to donate
http://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000006436.cfm

Signatures rejected from petition to reverse Oregon’s domestic partnership law
http://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000006443.cfm

Take Action: Support Abstinence Component of HIV/AIDS Programs
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000006450.cfm

San Jose State University has banned blood drives from campus because homosexuals are not allowed to donate
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000006449.cfm

Maryland Bill Would End Civil Marriage
http://alliancealert.org/adf.php/2008/02/05/maryland-bill-would-end-civil-marria...

Today hundreds of Catholic groups -- dioceses, archdioceses, and religious orders
help fund their work through investing in porn-related companies as long as the company's revenues from porn were not "significant."
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0208-strobhar

Federal adult obscenity prosecutions virtually nonexistent
http://alliancealert.org/adf.php/2008/02/05/federal-adult-obscenity-prosecutions...

Environmental politics are forcing a premature consensus about climate change that may eventually cool our confidence in science.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/global_warming_bad_times_for_science/

Global Warming: China Experiencing Coldest Winter in 100 Years, Will Media Notice?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/02/05/china-experiencing-coldest...

Canadian politicos mesmerized, captured by U.S. presidental election; MPs to go to Colorado, Minnesota this summer
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/febru...

PM Harper often enters Centre Block through a back entrance
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/febru...;

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