Articles for Month: December 2013

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Nebraska Enacts First-Ever Abortion Ban Based on Fetal Pain

Nebraska Enacts First-Ever Abortion Ban Based on Fetal Pain by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith Updated: 7:16pm EST, 04/13/10 OMAHA, Nebraska, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law today another landmark bill banning abortion after 20 weeks gestation, on the basis that an unborn child feels pain at that age. Just hours before, the Nebraska legislature had passed the legislation, the first of its kind in the United States. Pro-life advocates believe it could pose a direct and historic challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that deprived the states the […]
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What the Pope Should Know about Nancy Pelosi

What the Pope Should Know about Nancy Pelosi by LifeSiteNews.com By Deal W. Hudson February 16, 2009 (InsideCatholic.com) – This week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will meet with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican. With the debilitating illness of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Pelosi has become the de facto leader of dissident Catholic members of Congress. It’s only appropriate that Pelosi should take Kennedy’s place. When she became Speaker in January 2006, she chose Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., as the celebrant of the Mass held in her honor. The late Father Drinan, a longtime professor of law […]
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Life on GLAAD’s Blacklist

Readers will have to forgive me for sounding angry, but the recent news involving GLAAD has enraged me. Mark Steyn's most recent piece in National Review sums up some of the worst aspects of the epic saga known as GLAAD v. Duck Dynasty.
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Children’s Hospital Oakland’s PR disaster in handling Jahi McMath ‘brain death’ case

Children’s Hospital Oakland has a very good reputation where I live in the Bay Area. But its public communication around the tragedy of Jahi McMath’s ”brain death” has been astoundingly insensitive, bordering on arrogant. The hospital’s statements quoted in today’s San Francisco Chronicle continues the maladroit insensitivity. The hospital states it will remove the ventilator the moment that can be done legally. From the story: Children’s Hospital Oakland officials confirmed Sunday they will turn off the machines sustaining Jahi McMath’s body as soon as a legal injunction expires at 5 p.m. Monday unless otherwise ordered by a court. “Barring any other court-order legal action by the family, the ventilator will […]
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