Friday, August 2, 2013

Heroic News: “'The Pill gave me blood clots'” plus 4 more

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Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:56 PM PDT
A young journalism student has written a candid account revealing that she eventually gave up using birth after after she developed life-threatening blood clots in her legs and lungs after just four months' use of the birth control pill.
Posted: 02 Aug 2013 07:57 AM PDT
Recently both President Obama and members of the Supreme Court gave support to the argument that the very idea that marriage is only between a man and a woman—central to the Judeo-Christian belief about marriage, as well as every culture on this planet up until recently—manifests hatred and bigotry toward people with same-sex attractions.
Posted: 02 Aug 2013 07:55 AM PDT
"When I was a teenager and well into my 20s, Kurt Vonnegut was my favorite writer. I still appreciate his work, although now when I revisit it, I find things that bother me."
Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:25 AM PDT
Support has grown over the past month for a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Posted: 02 Aug 2013 01:02 AM PDT
Months after the inspector general's report in May that revealed the IRS had specifically targeted tea-party groups applying for tax-exempt status as charitable organizations, the IRS continued to stall pro-life groups' applications for tax-exempt status.