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Indiana ruling raises questions about religious freedom and abortion law|
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (399+ words) Protecting unborn babies in the womb is a violation of religious freedom, according to an Indiana judge with an axe to grind against pro-life policy and people of faith. Recently, Judge Christina R Klineman ruled that Indiana's pro-life law violates…...
Professor Jack Scarisbrick: historian of Henry VIII and pro-life pioneer
1+ week, 5+ day ago (149+ words) Professor Jack Scarisbrick: historian of Henry VIII and pro-life pioneer'The Catholic Herald Those two achievements " one academic, one civic " were not separate chapters but cohesive expressions of Professor Scarisbrick's temperament: historically serious, morally earnest and fundamentally unafraid of controversy. Within…...
Notre Dame appointment criticised by bishop over professor’s pro-abortion stance
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (187+ words) Notre Dame appointment criticised by bishop over professor's pro-abortion stance'The Catholic Herald The bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend has criticised the University of Notre Dame over its decision to appoint a professor who has publicly supported abortion rights to lead…...
Lib Dem leader abandons anti-abortion stance after Guardian questioning
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (298+ words) When asked about the subject by ITV last week, however, he said he supports the law as it stands, and refused to be drawn on his personal view of the practice, saying: "Again, what one believes in one's personal private…...
After Roe: an interview with the March for Life’s new president
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1770+ words) Jan C. Bentz: I would love to begin by asking how you became President of the March for Life. Was this something long in the making? Could you tell us a little about your background and how you came to be…...
Vance and Johnson to address March for Life
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (292+ words) U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson are expected to speak at this year's March for Life in Washington, D.C., marking a significant show of support from the highest levels of government for the country's largest annual pro-life gathering. Organisers…...
White House healthcare plan raises pro‑life questions
2+ mon, 4+ hour ago (319+ words) The Hyde Amendment, first enacted in the 1970s and routinely attached to federal appropriations bills, bars federal funds from being used for elective abortions. Its absence from the White House's one'page memo on health reform has triggered concern among bishops and…...
Lily Allen may have helped anti-abortion cause with appallingly crass podcast on contraception
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (261+ words) In a podcast series called Miss Me?, the singer, songwriter and actress Lily Allen has described a man paying for an abortion as "romantic, while also, in effect, comparing notes about abortion with the podcast presenter Miquita Oliver, with both…...
Is this the Killing Parliament?
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (406+ words) In the decades to come, when the history of our times is being written, one wonders how this government will come to be seen. It deserves to be known as the Killing Parliament or something similar. Amid such a mood,…...
Abortion, contraception and the breast cancer epidemic
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (692+ words) Just over 20 years ago an American scientist called Professor Joel Brind visited London in the hope that his findings of a causal link between abortion and breast cancer (ABC) would get a better hearing than in his native New York....