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Philippine prelate: Population control not the solution to poverty – Catholic Culture
In his New Year’s message, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said that anti-corruption initiatives, rather than population control measures, are the key to the poverty that afflicts the nation.
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8765

Planned Parenthood Launches ‘Social Change Initiative’ – CNS
Purpose is to Teach Parents How to Educate Children About Sex, Including Masturbation, Homosexuality. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is signaling its intention to dominate the national sex education agenda.

Specifically, Planned Parenthood’s Web site announced the group is preparing to launch a nationwide “social change initiative” to end the “stigma and shame about sex” in American culture. Now Planned Parenthood is preparing to launch the program nationwide, with funding from donors and private groups, including The Ford Foundation

WaPo Reporter Buys Liberal Line That Abortions Are ‘Virtually Impossible’ in Rural Iowa – Newsbusters
No one owns a car? The story centered on a new pro-life cause, protesting the provision of RU-486 abortion cocktails over the Internet. Liberals can get upset about selling booze on the Internet, or the spreading of Obama slurs on the Internet, but the marketing of death pills online is a precious human right. The Post published this silly sentence:

Supporters say the program provides a vital service to women in the state’s rural reaches, where abortions can be virtually impossible to obtain.

National Laces for Life Photo Challenge Ties Together Pro-life Communities

Crusading Mom Eileen Smith Named Operation Rescue’s 2010 Person of the Year
Mrs. Smith was thrust into the pro-life movement when her daughter, Laura Hope Smith, died during an abortion in Hyannis, Massachusetts, by Rapin Osathanondh on September 13, 2007. She immediately began reaching out for assistance from pro-life organizations, including Operation Rescue, as she began her relentless pursuit for justice on behalf of her daughter.

ADF attorneys, pro-life groups: Parental involvement more needed for abortions than for body piercings

MTV’s Abortion Special Forgot One Little Thing
– National Catholic Register

Home Abortions Increasingly Common
Today the majority of medical abortions are carried out at home, reports the regional daily Karjalainen. Only a quarter of abortions are performed surgically in hospital.

Birthrates decline across the nation – Minnesota Public Radio
A recent CDC report shows the teen birth rate is now the lowest it has been in 70 years, with the overall birth rate for adults in their 20s and 30s down as well.

Richer girls ‘more likely to have an abortion’ if they fall pregnant under age
– Daily Mail
In some of the wealthiest parts of the country four out of five under-age pregnancies end in an abortion, but in poorer areas under-age girls are twice as likely to keep their child.

Kosovo Prime Minister deposited profits from Serb organ trafficking in Islamic charities

Ave Maria Jackson Lab Scandal: Donors and Sales Pitches