Thursday, March 1, 2012

Heroic News: “Today the Senate Voted “No” on Choice.” plus 11 more

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Today the Senate Voted “No” on Choice.

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Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:37 AM PST

The Senate today trampled individual freedom and rights of conscience. It also trivialized women’s health and the opinions of women. Many women, either as individuals or business owners, do not want to subsidize the cost of contraception.

Students turning to prostitution to pay debt

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Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:27 AM PST

Working part-time in the dining hall apparently isn't cutting it these days to help pay the bills. University students in the U.K. who don't want to graduate with thousands of dollars in student loans are taking their financial destinies into their own hands by turning to prostitution, according to a new study.

3 year old boy calls 911, saves grandma's life

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Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:22 AM PST

A three-year-old boy calls 911 after grandmother suffers a seizure.

Breaking: Senate kills Blunt amendment on religious freedom

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 10:46 AM PST

Democrats managed to wrangle enough votes to table the Blunt amendment that would have amended the HHS mandate to allow employers a religious-conscience exemption from the requirement to supply free contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization to their employees.

Deer rescues woman from attacker

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Posted: 01 Mar 2012 07:11 AM PST

While a man was attacking a woman – choking her with her purse straps and punching her in the forehead – a deer darted in the darkness, startling the attacker and scaring him away, police said Monday.

Wash. Senate nears vote to mandate abortion coverage

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:52 AM PST

While lawmakers in Washington clash over birth control, lawmakers in Washington state are close to passing a first-of-its-kind law that would require insurers to cover abortion services.

Scottish midwives lose abortion objection case

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Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:46 AM PST

Two Catholic midwives from Scotland have lost their legal battle to avoid taking part in abortion procedures on grounds of “conscientious objection.”

Sitting Senator poses with vulgar sign at anti-life rally

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:44 AM PST

Tuesday, Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre of Tulsa, disregarding the decorum due to her office, held up a sign at an anti-Personhood Amendment rally that read "If I wanted the government in my womb I'd f--- a senator." The senator posed smiling widely for photographs with the anti-personhood protesters whose sign she had borrowed.

Academics' defense of infanticide supported by pro-choice logic

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:42 AM PST

Abortion supporters can see their own principles and logic reflected in a new article advocating the killing of newborn children, published by the Journal of Medical Ethics in February 2012.

‘Yes, We Are Serious’: Ethicists Defend ‘After-Birth Abortion’

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:30 AM PST

Two ethicists have made an argument for allowing "after-birth abortions" -- the killing newborns who were not considered people by the authors' definition of personhood -- in a peer-reviewed academic article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Dr Death to make house calls

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Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:19 AM PST

Six specialised medical teams will criss-cross the Netherlands to carry out euthanasia on patients at home whose own doctors refused to do so.

URGENT ACTION: Contact your Senator before 11 am TODAY to Support the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act!

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:11 AM PST

This morning at 11 am Eastern the U.S. Senate will vote on the bill that would fix President Obama’s HHS attack on religious freedom.
Your Senators need to hear from you this morning