Planned Parenthood has been committing surgical abortions on Columbus Avenue in Waco, Texas, at least one day per week by a "circuit rider" abortionist since 1994. As of November 9, however, the current abortionist, who resides in Austin, has failed to arrive for five weeks in a row. Apparently the abortion business in Waco is not sufficiently profitable for him to spend four hours driving to kill preborn babies.
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| HEADLINES |  | | Democrats Urge Obama to Protect Contraceptive Coverage in Health Plans NY Times A dispute has erupted between President Obama and Democrats in Congress over a proposal to broaden the exemption from new rules that require health insurance plans to cover contraceptives for women free of charge. The prospect of such a change has infuriated many Democrats in Congress, who fought hard to secure coverage of birth control under the new health care law. Senators voiced their objections on Thursday in a telephone conference call with Pete Rouse, counselor to the president. House members registered their objections on Friday in a call with Valerie Jarrett, another member of the president's inner circle. House members have sent a letter to Mr. Obama urging him not to widen the exemption. | Cardinal Burke: Attacks on unborn are rooted in 'contraceptive mentality'
Life Site News Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of America's highest ranking Catholic prelates, urged pro-life advocates last month to confront an "erroneous view of human sexuality" that robs the sexual act of its life-giving purpose. "The so-called 'contraceptive mentality' is essentially anti-life," the cardinal insisted. "Many forms of so-called contraception are, in fact, abortifacient, that is, they destroy, at its beginning, a life which has already been conceived." | Washington State lawyer suggests expanding euthanasia/assisted suicide to those not terminally ill
Life Site News With a court battle over Canada's laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide proceeding just north of the border, a lawyer in Washington State has proposed that his state expand their Death with Dignity Act. Currently Washington's law allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication upon request to a competent, terminally ill patient, but Olympia attorney Brian Faller wants it to include people who are not terminally ill, and those not mentally or physically able to request life-ending medication. | |
