Church vows to use courts and legislation to fight ‘un-American’ requirement for religious employers to provide contraception to workers with government-required health insurance. The Catholic Church reacted strongly Friday to a White House defense of new rules that will force many religious employers to provide contraception to their workers in government-mandated health insurance plans. “The White House information about [...]
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that the regulation finalized last month by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that requires all health insurance plans to cover sterilizations and contraceptives (including those that induce abortions) “violates our Constitution” because it forces Catholic institiutions to act against the teachings of the Catholic church. “I think this mandate violates our [...]
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc., riding a powerful wave of Internet indignation, raised $3 million in reaction to Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision, reversed today, to end grants to Planned Parenthood. The dispute between Planned Parenthood and the breast- cancer group Komen, two of the largest health advocacy groups for U.S. women, [...]
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The founder and chief executive for Susan G. Komen for the Cure on Thursday flatly rejected accusations that the organization caved to political pressure in cutting ties to Planned Parenthood, a move that has ignited a firestorm of controversy. In one of her first live comments since the Tuesday announcement, Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker told [...]
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Well, this is pretty embarrassing for the Occupy movement. In Providence Rhode Island last week, about two dozen members of the Occupy Movement shouted down a Catholic priest at a pro-life rally, and threw condoms on Catholic school girls for good measure. The Occupiers did this the day after the local Catholic Bishop, Thomas Tobin, [...]
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Drug maker Pfizer Inc. recalled about a million packs of birth-control pills that weren’t packaged correctly, which raised the risk of unplanned pregnancies among women who relied on the pills. Pulled from shelves were Lo/Ovral-28 pills and their Norgestrel generic versions, which doctors have been prescribing for years to tens of thousands of women. The [...]
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Most media coverage of last Thursday’s GOP debate has focused on the war of words fought by the two front runners, but the crucial exchange of the evening didn’t occur between Gingrich and Romney. The most telling moment of the debate was the latter’s response to Rick Santorum’s eloquent explanation of Obamacare’s importance to the [...]
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From rabbits to deer to even bobcats, invasive Burmese pythons appear to be eating through the Everglades’ supply of mammals, new research shows. Since the giant constrictors took hold in Florida in 2000, many previously common mammals have plummeted in number—and some, such as cottontail rabbits, may be totally gone from some areas. Scientists already [...]
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From Maine to Arizona to southern Louisiana, Catholic churches across the country echoed with scorn for a new federal rule requiring faith-based employers to include birth control and other reproductive services in their health care coverage. Dozens of priests took the rare step of reading letters from the pulpit urging parishioners to reach out to [...]
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Democrats already know one issue upon which they have potential GOP nominee, Mitt Romney at a severe disadvantage, as Paul Begala points out: RomneyCare versus ObamaCare. After 19 debates Mitt still doesn’t have a straight answer. Rick Santorum skillfully dissected Romney on the topic. If Romney is the GOP nominee, you can be sure Barack Obama [...]
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Last night’s GOP debate was a smashing success for Mitt Romney. For once, he had been properly coached on answers to rebut Newt Gingrich. He turned the tables on the former speaker, using the same confrontational tone that Gingrich had in past debates to great success. Given Romney’s rising poll numbers after Gingrich’s ineffectual debate [...]
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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched her own investigation into the mysterious illness causing facial tics and verbal outbursts among 15 teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y. Most of the teens have been diagnosed with conversion disorder — a psychological condition that causes physical symptoms like jerky tics, convulsions and even paralysis. But Brockovich suspects groundwater [...]
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School cafeteria workers will be serving up more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and keeping an eye on portion control as well, according to new rules set down by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The healthy upgrade to American school lunches — served to 32 million kids around the country — is the first [...]
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Despite the obvious conflict of interest, the Supreme Court has denied a request even to debate Justice Elena Kagan’s involvement in the Court’s review of Obamacare. Kagan, who is widely reported to have helped draft the legal strategy to get the legislation through the Court, now sits in that very Court ready to hear the [...]
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When critics of Obamacare warned of death panels, the government dismissed all such talk as scaremongering. There will never be such panels. You have the government’s word. Oh yeah? Tell it to this mother. I am going to try and tell you what happened to us on January 10, 2012, in the conference room in [...]
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