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NewsBytes for October 7, 2008

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LIFE ISSUES

Washington Medical Association Brochure Against I-1000 and Assisted Suicide
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/09/washington-medical-association-brochure...

Angel of Death and her Supervisor - Two nurses were indicted in April for causing the death of five patients at the McHenry County Nursing Home in 2006 in Woodstock Illinois.
http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/09/angel-of-death-and-her-supervisor.ht...

Asian abortion practices common in U.S.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=270748

Open letter asks King of Spain not to sign decree allowing aborted babies to be ground up
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13981

Guttmacher Study Shows: Contraceptives Don't Reduce Abortion Rate
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/09/guttmacher-study-shows-contraceptives.html

Killing for Organs: The MSM Begins to Notice
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/killing-for-organs-msm-begins-to-notice...

Pharmacists Right of Conscience By Leslie Smith
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15833/CWA/life/index.htm

New-look Inquisitions want to call doctors in for a little chat - In a world without objective truth, why should governments recognise a right to conscientious objection?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/new_look_inquisitions_could_be_calling_...

New federal rules would prevent ‘blacklisting’ of Catholic hospitals, healthcare leader says
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13944

A nation without women - India faces a bleak future because of a preference for sons over daughters
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/a_nation_without_women/

HOMOSEXUALITY

Google Comes Out of The Closet And Blasts California Marriage Amendment
http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14102&AlertID=896

If voters in California fail to adopt Proposition 8 this November, then homosexual marriage will be forced onto every state in the nation by liberal, activist judges.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15829/FIELD/freedom/index.htm

'Bride,' 'groom' can't marry in California - 'We thought we couldn't go any lower. We discovered actually we can'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=76833

Marriage definition returns to Ariz. ballot - Same-sex union ban was defeated in 2006
http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2008/09/28/20080928m...

Gavin Newsom is about to become even more famous
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/gavin-newsom-is.html

Same-sex marriage: lessons from Canada - Where gay rights triumph, new rights battles begin.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/same_sex_marriage_lessons_from_canada/

CBS Uses Matthew Shepard Murder to Push Hate Crimes Legislation
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2008/10/06/cbs-uses-matthew-shepard-mu...

Only One Mommy: The Story of Lisa and Isabella Miller
http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14102&AlertID=897

Urgent Prayer Needed for Virginia Mom - Update on the Lisa Miller Case:
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/15835/FIELD/family/index.htm

US ELECTION

“Jesus Christ ... does not ask us to take up his Cross only to have us leave it at the voting booth door,” Bishop Martino says
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/09/30/news/sc_times_trib.20080930....

CAMPAIGN 2008: Marriage, Civility, Persecution By George Weigel - Question for Senator Barack Obama: You have said that you would press for "hate crime" laws and a "fully inclusive" Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3557/pub_detail.asp

CATHOLIC ANSWERS and KANSAS CATHOLIC BISHOPS Voter Guides Are Highly Recommended
http://catholiccitizens.org/press/contentview.asp?c=47548

New York's Catholic bishops urge people to vote -- and place the "right to life" above other issues.
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=725620

Sen. Biden Described As Similar to Most Catholics - Deal W. Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Sen.-Biden...


CANADIAN ELECTION

Small-c conservatives say Canada's Prime Minister Harper has 'betrayed' their principles - Harper's betrayed the principles that he once stood for
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/features/decisioncanada/story.html?id=48f7f1b5...

Abortion comes to the Canadian election campaign
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2008/9/29/3906484.html

Prime Minister Stephen Harper harbours a secret agenda to recriminalize abortion. They know full well he has been the biggest disappointment on that front since the Supreme Court overturned Canada's abortion law in 1988.
http://www.catholicregister.org/content/view/2302/849/

Don't Play With Women's Rights" Says a Non-Partisan Coalition of Advocates
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/election-2008-dont-play-womens-rights/stor...


RELIGION

EUCHARIST DESECRATED ON YouTube
http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1493

Infertility patients caught in the legal, moral and scientific embryo debate
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-embryos6-2008oct06,0,4090965.story

Why do Hindus violently assault Christians?
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=16265

Ridiculous - the new film Religulous
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&...

"As a believing Hindu, I am ashamed..."
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/207048?eng=y

Orissa: Christian woman killed, 300 more homes burned
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13361&size=A

Iran's parliament has approved a law that would mandate the death penalty for anybody convicted of apostasy
http://onenewsnow.com/Persecution/Default.aspx?id=269494


MISCELLANEOUS

Theaters Defrauding Ticket Sales From 'An American Carol' Film?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/07/theaters-defrauding-t...

Human Cost of Global Warming Hysteria the Subject of New Documentary - Carbon is the new DDT - modern environmental movement has become a receptacle for those who once were sympathic toward communism
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kevin-mooney/2008/10/07/human-cost-global-warming-h...

Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/30/food.ethicalliving

A Home for Homeschoolers
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1191

Notes from the Nanny State - On the tyranny of the baby seat.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/616vsefb.asp

The forbidden skit: Full transcript and screenshots of SNL’s Soros/Sandler bailout satire By Michelle Malkin 
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/07/the-forbidden-skit-full-transcript-and-scre...

Human Evolution Over? - Wesley Smith
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/human-evolution-over.html

Vista is awful. Everyone knows it, including Microsoft. It's on its way to the Microsoft junkyard
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151933/vista_rip.html

Spain holds 121 over child porn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7645626.stm

iPhone: not your kids’ phone - At least, not until the touted ‘parental controls’ materialise.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/iphone_not_your_kids_phone/

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