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Freedom of Conscience for Pro-Life Taxpayers

Now that Barack Obama has decided to push for a hyper-partisan healthcare bill, the issue of taxpayer-funded abortions is front-and-center. The current proposals would lead to this taxpayer mandate, and could even drive conscientiously objecting doctors out of medicine. Continue reading

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The Taxing of the Screw

So it’s come to this. They want to tax sex. You read that right. Sex. They want to tax sex. With a delicious irony that speaks only to the utter financial desperation bequeathed by modern American liberalism, there is a move rising in Nevada, the state that has given America Senator Harry Reid, to tax sex. Continue reading

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Is Dr. Tiller’s Killer a Terrorist?

Mostly, it appears, the Tiller/terrorist question is emotional energy-drink for both sides of the abortion debate. Continue reading

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More Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time

A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.” This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995. Continue reading

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Notre Dame Disgrace

I doubt very much whether the University of Notre Dame would ever give an honorary degree to a slave owner or a propagandist for slavery. Until recently, I used to doubt that Notre Dame would ever give an honorary degree and its highest platform — its commencement address — to someone who was one of the nation’s strongest proponents of abortion. In the eleven weeks since he became president, Barack Obama has opened up every avenue to abortion presented to him. Continue reading

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Failing the Stem-Cell Test

The embryo debate is among the first real tests of our commitment to the equal protection of every human life in the age of biotechnology, and Obama has failed it. Continue reading

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