Getting the Words Right (To and From Rome)  (Washington, DC and Rome) On her recent visit to Rome, Judie Brown, cofounder and president of American Life League, met with Vatican officials to discuss the changing pro-life landscape in America. Central to the discussions was the intentional manipulation of words and definitions that allows abortion advocates to distort official Church statements and confuse Catholics. [ Read the full article here. ]
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| HEADLINES |  | | Abortion drugs among ObamaCare's free contraceptives One News Now The Obama administration says health insurance plans under the government-organized system must cover birth control as "preventive care" for women, with no co-pays, beginning in 2013. The rules issued Monday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius include a provision that would allow religious institutions to opt out of offering birth-control coverage. But critics say the conscience exemption will not cover faith-based groups engaged in activities other than worship. Paul Rondeau of the American Life League says it is no surprise that the administration would impose this requirement. "This recommendation by an organization -- which, in fact, is already on record as supporting abortion and considering it 'women's healthcare' -- this was a foregone conclusion back when ObamaCare assigned it to the Institute of Medicine to make recommendations at a later date," he states. | | Birth control pills and AIDS: Increasing women's risk Life Site News
Thirty years after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported the first US case of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the disease continues to stretch its shroud of death across the world. This, despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in the development of vaccines, spent on anti-retroviral therapies, and strewn about in condom distribution and sexual education schemes. But there is a strange and disturbing trend now evident in the new cases of HIV/AIDS being reported, and it concerns women of reproductive age. | | US Bishops Conference: HHS must think Catholics are fools Life Site News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sharply criticized a new HHS "preventive services" mandate requiring private health plans to cover sterilization and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including drugs which can abort a child before and after implantation in the womb, with no co-pay. "Although this new rule gives the agency the discretion to authorize a 'religious' exemption, it is so narrow as to exclude most Catholic social service agencies and healthcare providers," said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston and chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities. | |
