My New Year's Resolution
It's the beginning of another new year. In typical fashion, we mark the start of each year with great plans, high hopes, and grand resolutions. Also in typical fashion, those plans, hopes, and resolutions tend to fade-if not fall away altogether-by the time spring flowers start to bloom! What pro-life resolutions have you made this year? How do you plan to keep them? We're already halfway through the first month and the annual March for Life is next week! Perhaps being part of, or even starting, a pro-life group would help you to keep those resolutions. There is always strength in numbers, and having an accountability partner never hurts! |
| HEADLINES |  |  ENews Park Forest The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should disregard a joint advisory committee's support of a controversial birth control pill because four members of the panel had ties to either the contraceptive maker or the maker of a generic version, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) said [last week] in a letter to the FDA. In POGO's letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, the watchdog group questioned why members with ties to Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals were allowed, in essence, to endorse the company's second-best-selling franchise without announcing their ties during the meeting. |
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 Life Site News After years of protests and prayer vigils, pro-life activists in Rockford, Illinois can finally breathe a sigh of relief - the notoriously bizarre Northern Illinois Women's Center (NIWC) has announced that it will close permanently. The statement comes on the heels of news that the facility was prepared to reopen its doors after it reached a settlement with state health officials earlier this month, after being shut down late last year for health violations. |
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 The State Column Christopher Lyles, 30 years old, underwent an experimental procedure, involving stem cells to treat his trachea cancer. A trachea connects the nose and mouth to the lungs, serving a crucial function for life. Lyles represents the first U.S. stem cell trachea transplant, using his own stem cells. | |
