Sanctity of Life

National Catholic Register: "The question remains as to whether the injunction applies to research using the lines approved by President Bush in a 2001 order. [Matt] Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund, one of three pro-life legal organizations that acted for the plaintiffs, told the Register, 'The Bush regulation from 2001 doesn’t exist anymore because it was rescinded by the Obama administration, and it is not resurrected by the preliminary injunction because the order in this case only prohibits funding ESC research under the Obama guidelines from 2009.'"

ChristianNewsWire: "Yesterday, Thomas More Society attorneys filed a lawsuit to compel disclosure of public records that indicate why a doctor in Michigan was not punished for tossing aborted fetuses and patient records in the trash. Robert Fleming, local counsel for the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Monica Migliorino Miller, Ph.D. and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society (CPLS) in Ingram County Circuit Court."

Colleen Carroll Campbell writes at STLToday.com: "After months of unsuccessfully fighting against Senate Bill 793, a new Missouri law that requires clinics to offer ultrasounds and information about fetal development to women seeking abortions, Planned Parenthood officials and their ilk are trying a new tack. They are trading their charge that optional ultrasounds constitute a threat to women's rights — a nonsensical complaint that never got much traction — for the claim that the law rests on religious and philosophical opinions rather than facts."

LifeNews: "Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell appears to agree with the opinion Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued late Friday providing legal guidance for the state Board of Health. Cuccinelli said more limits can be placed on abortion businesses in Virginia when it comes to healthy and safety standards."

Juneau Empire: "The biggest abortion provider in Alaska, Planned Parenthood, has created a website to help teens meet the requirements of the ballot measure approved in Tuesday's election."

"Alliance Defense Fund attorneys secured a consent order Friday from a district court that requires the city of Stayton to allow a man to display pro-life signs on a public street corner."

The Christian Post: "The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is pushing back against fellow African-American Christians who have accused her of hijacking the civil rights movement for her own political agenda – namely to protect the unborn . . . According to the Guttmacher Institute, black women are more likely to have an abortion, at rates three to five times the rate of white women. The high abortion rate, however, has been linked to poverty and women of color tend to come from lower-income households."

Avik Roy writing at National Review's The Agenda: "The NHS, for American conservatives, is the paradigm of how state control of the health care system plays out. Palin’s logic is irrefutable: once the government is spending the money, the government has an obligation to the taxpayer to use those dollars as efficiently. What does that entail? From the government’s point of view, that involves not wasting money on end-of-life care . . . What conservatives are objecting to is the involvement of the state in end-of-life counseling. It comes down to this: if the government is funding health care, and simultaneously funding end-of-life counseling, the government has a conflict of interest . . . It is, at bottom, the same reason we insist on a free, independent press (and free speech in general): when the government controls the media, it has a conflict of interest; i.e., an incentive to promote journalism that is favorable to the government."

LifeNews: "Focus on the Family recently donated to a local pregnancy center the 500th ultrasound machine designed to help women contemplating abortion see an image of their unborn baby. The program is credited with saving as many as 81,000 children from abortions across the United States."

LifeNews: "The funding cuts will come even though the Obama administration was forced to reveal the results of a new study on Monday showing the effectiveness of abstinence education programs and the support parents have for them."

LifeNews: "New Jersey Democrats in the state legislature have set a September 20 vote to attempt to override a veto Governor Chris Christie issued on a bill restoring the family planning funds Christie cut from the state budget. Christ said the money shouldn't go to the Planned Parenthood abortion business."

ADF attorney Steve Aden is quoted in the video linked at YouTube below.  | Related ADF Media Information Page | http://www.youtube.com/v/PbHYvw3Ry0w?fs=1&hl=en_US

LifeNews: "Only 33% of U.S. voters believe that taxpayer money should be spent on embryonic stem cell research, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifty-seven percent of Americans say funding for the research, which has never helped any patients and requires the destruction of human life to facilitate, should be left to the private sector." | Rasmussen

Ryan T. Anderson writing at The Public Discourse: "Bad ethics, bad science, bad politics, and bad law. Normally it takes only three strikes to be out. But not even this fourth will mark the death knell for this deadly science: while the ruling temporarily halts the federal funding of embryo-destructive stem-cell research, it does nothing to prevent the destruction of human embryos in privately funded research. There is no law forbidding embryo killing, and there never has been. And despite what some excitable commentators have said, there has never been a ban on embryonic stem-cell research. Yet this injunction is a step toward restoring taxpayer-supported scientific research to its morally upright place."

Richard Land writing in The Christian Post: "I am delighted the court’s Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth made the decision to uphold the rule of law as passed by the Congress of the United States, the people’s elected representatives. In the case, two scientists, several other individuals, Nightlight Christian Adoptions and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations with the support of the Alliance Defense Fund sought to prevent the Obama administration’s Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research from taking effect."

The Republican (Masslive.com) editorial: "We hope that the judge’s ruling blocking federal funds for experiments created with embryos left over from fertility treatments will be overturned . . . The ruling drew praise, however, from the Alliance Defense Fund, a group of Christian attorneys who helped with the lawsuit filed by two researchers against the expanded rules . . . We believe Obama is on the right side of the issue, and polls show that Americans are behind him."

Citizen Link: "Over the past several election cycles, unions and their members contributed millions to fight against core American values – especially on issues of life, religious freedom and marriage. For example, California’s teachers unions joined forces with gay activists in 2008 to try to defeat Proposition 8 – a ballot initiative intended to preserve marriage as being between one man and one woman. Despite having contributed more than $1.25 million, Prop 8 was soundly approved by the voters. Unfortunately, the embracing of the anti-family agenda is not new – just more pronounced. The People’s World, an online Marxist publication, reported this week . . . "

Catholic Culture: "The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is facing a critical test of support among the US bishops this week, CWN has learned . . . The CCHD was established by the US bishops in 1970 to attack the root causes of poverty in America . . . Last year . . . criticism reached a crescendo, as lay Catholic groups exposed CCHD funding for organizations that promote causes inimical to Catholic teaching, such as legal abortion and same-sex marriage. While the CCHD leadership said that such grants accounted for only a small percentage of the organization’s funding for self-help groups, several American bishops announced that they were withdrawing their dioceses from the nationwide campaign to support the CCHD."

ABC News: "In his days as a student at the University of Utah, Chase Kimball was known as number 007, donating his sperm at $20 a pop to help infertile couples . . . He estimates that over a seven-year period during the 1970s and 1980s, he likely sired 'hundreds of children' . . . Most children are never told they are the product of sperm donation, according to Kimball, 'so the vast majority of my children don't even know I exist.'"

LifeNews: "Just days after Alaska voters approved a new law allowing parents to be notified when their teenage daughter is considering an abortion, the Planned Parenthood abortion business is preparing to push teens into using provisions, meant for abused kids, to keep all parents in the dark."