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LIFE DIGEST: Alabama justices point to Roe’s weakness
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled unanimously a mother may pursue a wrongful death claim on behalf of her unborn child from conception.
In a concurring opinion, four justices criticized the U.S. more »
By Tom Strode - Feb 21, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, , National,
Baptist ethicist on mandate: We’d rather go to jail, pay fines
The Obama administration’s mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives that can cause abortions harms not only Baptists and other religious adherents but all Americans, two Southern Baptist ethicists told a congressional panel Feb. more »
By Tom Strode - Feb 17, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Citizenship, Healthcare, National,
Revised contraceptive mandate is no compromise
Three weeks to the day after the Department of Health and Human Services mandated that all employers, with the exception of most churches, must provide contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization free of charge under their health insurance plans, the administration announced a so-called compromise in an attempt to extinguish a firestorm it created among the faith community and beyond. more »
By Doug Carlson - Feb 15, 2012
Topic: Life, Birth Control,
LIFE DIGEST: Abortion-causing drug sold in vending machine
One American university is selling from a vending machine a contraceptive drug that can cause an abortion.
Shippensburg University, a state school located in south central Pennsylvania, stocks a vending machine in its health center with Plan B One-step, known as the “morning-after” pill or “emergency contraception.” While the method works to restrict ovulation or prevent fertilization, it also has a back-up mechanism that can operate after fertilization. more »
By Tom Strode - Feb 15, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, , National,
Land: Obama mandate is a Baptist issue
The issue at the center of the swelling controversy over the Obama administration’s refusal to protect the conscience rights of employers in its “contraceptive mandate” is “about as basic as it gets,” especially for Baptists, says Richard Land. more »
By Tom Strode - Feb 10, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Citizenship, , Healthcare, National, Religious Liberty,
Saudis pressed to release Ethiopian Christians
WASHINGTON (BP) — America’s congressionally approved watchdog for global religious liberty has called on Saudi Arabia to release 35 Ethiopian Christians arrested during a prayer meeting and imprisoned for nearly two months. more »
By staff - Feb 9, 2012
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Issues, ,
House panel considers bill to ban gender- and race-based abortions
As the faith community remains rightly incensed about the Obama administration’s recent mandate that employers must offer free sterilization and contraceptives—including abortifacients—under their health insurance plans, a lesser known but likewise important life-related matter took center stage this week in a congressional committee: gender- and race-based abortions. more »
By Doug Carlson - Feb 8, 2012
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Controversy sticks with Komen, Planned Parent.
The fallout from Planned Parenthood’s triumph in its public relations war with Susan G. Komen for the Cure continues, even as a new report to Congress suggests 20 percent of the abortion provider’s affiliates could be guilty of waste and fraud involving government funds. more »
By Tom Strode - Feb 8, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, National,
On the Obama administration’s abortion rule
President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services has issued a requirement that all insurance plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, cover free-of-charge certain so-called “contraceptives” that are actually much more than that. more »
By Richard Land and Barrett Duke - Feb 7, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Citizenship, Church and State, Religious Liberty,
LIFE DIGEST: Austin’s new sign law still wrong, centers say
The Austin, Texas, City Council repealed an ordinance that pregnancy help centers had challenged in court as a violation of their freedom of speech and religion, but it approved another one the pro-life organizations protested. more »
By Tom Strode - Feb 7, 2012
Topic: Life, Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, Citizenship, National, Religious Liberty,