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FDA announces plan to sell Plan B contraception over the counter, lowers age limit to 15
April 30, 2013 By
Details from the AP: The government is moving the morning-after pill over the counter but only those 15 and older can buy it – an attempt to find middle ground just days before a court-imposed deadline to lift all age restrictions on the emergency contraceptive. Today, Plan B One-Step is sold behind pharmacy counters, and [...]
Picture of the week: Pope blessing a mother and her unborn child
April 22, 2013 By
Over at NCR, Tom Fox notes: I think this is the first time I have ever seen a pope touching a woman or have seen a woman’s hand on a papal hand. The times are changing! Well, “touching a woman” beyond a handshake, that is. I have to say: the image here is strikingly warm [...]
Gosnell backlash: how a free press becomes less free
April 18, 2013 By
If the press isn’t responsible, the government will start trying to tell it what to do. And you will encounter things like this: Some 72 members of Congress have signed on to a letter demanding that the mainstream media provide coverage of the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell. Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Steve [...]
Is media bias tainting the Gosnell story?
April 13, 2013 By
Veteran journo Paul Moses ponders that question over at Commonweal’s blog: There is a lively debate over whether major national news organizations have ignored or downplayed the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor who is charged with murder in the deaths of seven babies allegedly born alive and one mother…With the sensational charges made by both sides, the intense [...]
Planned Parenthood lobbyist who favors infanticide served on board of Catholic Charities
April 8, 2013 By
Creative Minority Report got the scoop: Alisa Lapolt Snow, the Planned Parenthood lobbyist, who shocked the nation with her defense of live birth abortions in front of a Florida House committee, served on the board of Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida. Here’s what her bio on her website said: Alisa is a graduate of the University of [...]
Judge rules morning after pill must be available to minors without prescription
April 5, 2013 By
In effect: a court has ruled that anyone should be able to get it, at any age, anywhere, Details: A federal judge in Brooklyn has ordered the FDA to make the morning-after birth control pill available over the counter to people of any age without a prescription, overturning a decision by Health and Human Services [...]
Attorneys General urge HHS exemption for businesses
April 4, 2013 By
Hot on the heels of this item, about a deacon who won his case against the HHS mandate, comes this story from the Christian Post: A coalition of 13 attorneys general issued a collaborative letter to the Obama administration, urging it to provide exemptions to privately owned businesses under its Department of Health and Human [...]
Historic: First U.S. teen with Down syndrome reaches Mt. Everest base camp
April 3, 2013 By
Awesome: A courageous young man from Oregon made history with the first recorded account of an American teenager with Down syndrome to reach a base camp of Mt. Everest. After nearly two weeks of walking, 15-year old Eli Reimer reached 17,600 feet. Eli’s father, Justin, joined his son for the ascent in an effort to raise funds [...]
Biden attends Cardinal Dolan’s Palm Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s
March 25, 2013 By
And before anyone asks: yes, he evidently did receive communion. Details: Vice President Joe Biden attended mass and received communion on Sunday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York where the mass was celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. At a time when the administration is being sued by Dolan and the Catholic Bishop’s Conference over the Obama [...]
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