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LIFE ISSUES

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

  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.
  https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/09/angel-of-death-and-her-supervisor.html

  Asian abortion practices common in U.S.
  https://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
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13981

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

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

  Pharmacists Right of Conscience By Leslie Smith
  https://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?
  https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/new_look_inquisitions_could_be_calling_doctors_in_for_a_little_chat/

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

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

HOMOSEXUALITY

  Google Comes Out of The Closet And Blasts California Marriage Amendment
  https://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.
  https://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’
  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=76833

  Marriage definition returns to Ariz. ballot – Same-sex union ban was defeated in 2006
  https://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2008/09/28/20080928marriage0928.html

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

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

  CBS Uses Matthew Shepard Murder to Push Hate Crimes Legislation
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2008/10/06/cbs-uses-matthew-shepard-murder-push-hate-crimes-legislation

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

  Urgent Prayer Needed for Virginia Mom – Update on the Lisa Miller Case:
  https://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
  https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/09/30/news/sc_times_trib.20080930.a.pg1.tt30bishop_s1.1980663_top.txt

  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.
  https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3557/pub_detail.asp

  CATHOLIC ANSWERS and KANSAS CATHOLIC BISHOPS Voter Guides Are Highly Recommended
  https://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.
  https://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=725620

  Sen. Biden Described As Similar to Most Catholics – Deal W. Hudson
  https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Sen.-Biden-Described-As-Similar-Most-Priests.html&Itemid=127

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
  https://www.canada.com/topics/news/features/decisioncanada/story.html?id=48f7f1b5-4d5e-49f2-99fe-791cf25cc9de

  Abortion comes to the Canadian election campaign
  https://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.
  https://www.catholicregister.org/content/view/2302/849/

  Don’t Play With Women’s Rights” Says a Non-Partisan Coalition of Advocates
  https://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/election-2008-dont-play-womens-rights/story.aspx?guid={6F0CAF45-2353-41E5-AE72-E5BB02442770}&dist=hppr

RELIGION

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

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

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

  Ridiculous – the new film Religulous
  https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4641&Itemid=48

“As a believing Hindu, I am ashamed…”
  https://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/207048?eng=y

  Orissa: Christian woman killed, 300 more homes burned
  https://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
  https://onenewsnow.com/Persecution/Default.aspx?id=269494

MISCELLANEOUS

  Theaters Defrauding Ticket Sales From ‘An American Carol’ Film?
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/07/theaters-defrauding-ticket-sales-american-carol-film

  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
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kevin-mooney/2008/10/07/human-cost-global-warming-hysteria-subject-new-documentary

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

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

  Notes from the Nanny State – On the tyranny of the baby seat.
  https://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 
  https://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/07/the-forbidden-skit-full-transcript-and-screenshots-of-snls-sorossandler-bailout-satire/

  Human Evolution Over? – Wesley Smith
  https://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
  https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151933/vista_rip.html

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

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