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LIFE ISSUES

Society and artificial reproduction: Should the state assist with conception where it would not approve an adoption?
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/society_and_artificial_reproduction/

More Proof That Assisted Suicide Activists Will Seek to Force Doctors to Participate
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/02/more-proof-that-assisted-suicide.html

A botched abortion in mother’s own words
https://www.thefloridacatholic.org/mia/2009_mia/2009_miaarticles/20090205_mia_shanice.php

Sisters of Life step up pro-life efforts
https://www.catholicregister.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2784&Itemid=849

North Dakota Pro-life bill introduced this session by Rep. Dan Ruby, R-Minot, has been getting attention across the nation.
https://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/524634.html?nav=5010

Opinion: In vitro industry out of control
https://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3857&Itemid=9

AP IMPACT: Most fertility clinics break the rules
https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MED_OCTUPLETS_CLINICS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

China: “Women rebel over forced abortions: Anger at the regime’s extreme birth control regime is growing”
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5733835.ece

US POLITICS

FNC’s Hemmer: Media Ignoring Obama’s Plans to Control Census
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/02/17/fnc-s-hemmer-media-ignoring-obama-plans-control-census-effort

Katie Couric Paints Gov. Jindal, State of Louisiana As Foes of ‘Scientific Community’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/02/19/katie-couric-paints-gov-jindal-state-louisiana-foes-scientific-communi

Where Is the Responsibility? The president’s latest proposal about “fiscal responsibility”is audacity indeed.
https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3713/pub_detail.asp
    
Congresswoman Bachmann’s “Majority Tracker” Helps Constituents Keep Tabs on the U.S. House
https://www.cwalac.org/article_830.shtml

The Obama administration and the new Congress are rapidly giving Republicans the same “culture of corruption” issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.
https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j44ku9zUM9IEdkkoWbIYStDVE6SwD96EQEMG1

Time Magazine has hit a new low, even by its standards, with a recent article disingenuously claiming that the so-called “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA) is a “mythical” bill and, therefore, that the “Catholic crusade” against it is merely ignorant folly.
https://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-magazines-crusade-against-catholic.html

Time’s Amy Sullivan Misrepresents FOCA Battle, Obama’s Abortion Support
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/02/19/time-s-amy-sullivan-misrepresents-foca-battle-obamas-abortion-support

WND columnist Phyllis Schlafly writes that several of “Obama’s major nominees are mired in political embarrassment.
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89242

How Obama could defuse the culture war – It is possible to shape social change. Will the new president try?
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/how_obama_could_defuse_the_culture_war/

In Harris Hero Poll, Obama First, Jesus Second
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2009/02/20/harris-hero-poll-obama-first-jesus-second

Rush Limbaugh Publishes Letter to Obama: ‘Keep Airwaves Free’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/02/20/rush-limbaugh-publishes-letter-obama-keep-airwaves-free

Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/21/tea-party-usa-the-movement-grows/

New York Times Covers for KS Governor’s Pro-Abortion Record
https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/328589514.html

RELIGION

The View Repeats Media Myths About Catholic Church; Labels ‘Intolerance’ Biggest Sin
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/02/18/hosts-view-repeat-media-myths-about-catholic-church

Church expert: Wagner may take back his resignation at any time! Did Gerhard Wagner resign voluntarily?
https://cathcon.blogspot.com/2009/02/comeback-of-father-wagner.html

Throwing the book at sharia law; Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
https://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1261944

Were They at the Same Meeting? The Pope and the Speaker in Rome.
https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTQyMDRiMDc1ODQzZjY5MDU4YzBhYWQwZjA5OTZlMWQ=

Pope, Pelosi And Personhood
https://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/02/20/news/nation/doc499e9b85d7080879979158.txt

Sunday urged to be ‘day of fervent prayer’ for Pope Benedict – He has been unjustly attacked says Fr. Joaquín Alliende, International President of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) said on Friday.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15159

Internet pornography workshop helps seminarians become better ministers
https://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=6053&wf=rsscol

Throwing the book at sharia law – Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
https://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1261944

God Save America from Militant Atheists
https://townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/02/20/god_save_america_from_militant_atheists

MISCELLANEOUS

Maggie Gallagher – BRISTOL PALIN SPEAKS – What Bristol actually said went more like this:
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ucmg/20090219/cm_ucmg/bristolpalinspeaks

Harper shuffles PMO deck, has ‘grip on caucus’- Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be under attack, but he’s not going anywhere.
https://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2009/february/16/pmo_deck/&c=2

Rep. Waxman Wants to Apply Censorship Doctrine to Internet
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picket/2009/02/17/rep-henry-waxman-wants-apply-censorship-doctrine-internet

Facebook’s about-face: Change we can believe in?
https://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10166663-36.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

Ian Hunter: The erosion of marriage
https://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1286229

“If it feels so right, how can it be wrong?”The one unforgiveable sin today is to cause anyone to “feel bad” about what he or she is doing.
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5437&Itemid=48

Good Parenting Absent from Television
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000009445.cfm

Networks Ignore Condom Ad That Offends Christians
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-brown/2009/02/20/networks-ignore-condom-ad-offends-christians

Playboy Markets Directly to Children
https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000009443.cfm