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- Vending machine abortions on college campus
- Komen official quits in wake of Planned Parenthood scandal
- Prop 8 headed for Supreme Court
- Even NPR cries foul over birth control mandate
- 6 things every American should know about the HHS mandate
- Uganda's 'anti-gay' bill, condemned by US, reintroduced in parliament
- British schoolgirls injected with contraceptives at school, without parental consent
- Long-awaited Prop 8 ruling on gay 'marriage' due today
- WHO experts debate efficacy of injectable contraceptives, HIV risks
- Army silenced chaplains last Sunday
| Vending machine abortions on college campus
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:51 PM PST Students at one school needing 'emergency contraception' need not look further than a campus vending machine. Pennsylvania's Shippensburg University sells "Plan B," the contraceptive known as the morning–after pill, an abortion inducing drug, in a machine in the school's health center. |
| Komen official quits in wake of Planned Parenthood scandal
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:39 PM PST A high-ranking official in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity quit Tuesday, offering a defiant letter of resignation detailing the organization's decision about whether it should continue funding 'breast cancer screenings' at Planned Parenthood. |
| Prop 8 headed for Supreme Court Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:34 PM PST A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex 'marriage,' is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law. |
| Even NPR cries foul over birth control mandate
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST It is now a requirement of Obamacare that every Catholic institution larger than a single church? — and even including some single churches? — ?must pay for contraceptives, sterilization, and morning-after abortifacients for its employees. |
| 6 things every American should know about the HHS mandate
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers the following clarifications regarding the Health and Human Services regulations on mandatory coverage of contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. |
| Uganda's 'anti-gay' bill, condemned by US, reintroduced in parliament Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:37 AM PST A lawmaker in Uganda is reintroducing an 'anti-gay' bill that received wide condemnation, including from President Barack Obama, whose administration is bent on forcing Western 'values' on developing nations in exchange for humanitarian aid. |
| British schoolgirls injected with contraceptives at school, without parental consent
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:34 AM PST As many as nine secondary schools in Southampton are thought to have been involved. But it has caused a backlash from parents who weren't aware that their daughters had been fitted with the 4cm device, which sits under the skin. It is currently unknown exactly how many youngsters have taken part in the scheme. |
| Long-awaited Prop 8 ruling on gay 'marriage' due today Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:30 AM PST On Tuesday, a federal appeals court will release its ruling on whether Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, is legal. |
| WHO experts debate efficacy of injectable contraceptives, HIV risks
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST Health experts have failed to agree on the use of injectable contraceptives, which were linked to increased HIV infections in Kenya. |
| Army silenced chaplains last Sunday Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:43 PM PST In Catholic churches across the country, parishioners were read letters from the pulpit this weekend from bishops in their diocese about the mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services giving Catholics a year before they’ll be required to start violating their consciences on insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs. But not in the Army. |
