Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Heroic News: “State legislation blocking abortion insurance coverage grows” plus 9 more

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State legislation blocking abortion insurance coverage grows

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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:22 PM PST

A recent report indicates that numerous states are passing restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion under the health care reform law.

UK bishops decry advancement of 'gay marriage' bill

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:21 PM PST

After a bill allowing same-sex “marriage” passed in the U.K.'s House of Commons, local Catholic bishops have warned that the legislation will have profoundly negative effects on society.

What Compromise?

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:18 PM PST

Relativism made abortion legal, remains its safeguard

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:14 PM PST

While America is more clearly seeing the evil of abortion for what it is, America is still strongly relativist, and that trend is only growing. According to a Barna group study, 93 percent of teens do not believe in absolute truth. As long as they remain relativists, their support of abortion restrictions will only go so far.

Former pro-choice woman speaks out: My abortion was "physically traumatizing."

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:02 PM PST

The author of this article has requested to be identified as Abby. Here is her personal story.

Choosing Lfe Through Adoption

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:29 AM PST

Among the numerous numbers about adoption, there lies an interesting statistic. This one: 6 in 10 Americans will have a personal experience with adoption. Simply put, this means that they themselves, a family member, or a close family member was adopted, adopted a child, or placed a child for adoption

Obama's Department of Free Contraceptives

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 03:09 AM PST

Stung by the backlash to his HHS mandate, Obama hastily proposed a “revision” to it last February. The revision amounted to an accounting trick that would theoretically shift contraceptive and abortifacient costs from objecting religious employers to their hapless insurers.

Landmark “vegetative state” paper challenged

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 08:35 PM PST

US researchers have questioned the results of a landmark study in The Lancet from 2011 on awareness of “vegetative” patients. Read more...

What to Expect When No One's Expecting

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 07:25 PM PST

Despite doom and gloom predictions that never came to pass, overpopulation alarmists continue to make their case that society must restrict the procreation of human beings. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich’s book Population Bomb said that hundreds of millions of people would perish as a result of an overpopulated earth.

Same-Sex Issue Imperils Immigration Effort, Rubio Says

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 05:48 PM PST

Insistence on equal treatment for same-sex couples may scuttle bipartisan efforts to overhaul U.S. immigration law if it becomes a central issue in the debate, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican author of a Senate blueprint said.