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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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?Eau Claire lesbian couple upbeat about new domestic partnership law?

Posted on July 27, 2009
Andrew Dowd reports in the Leader-Telegram: "'What the Legislature has done is a direct challenge to the will of the people and the marriage amendment,' said Jim Campbell, a lawyer at the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization that takes up religious liberty cases...

Matt Bowman: ?Should pro-lifers just care for women and stop trying to make abortion illegal??

Posted on July 27, 2009
". . . the pro-life movement leads America in putting women first, and that putting women first is precisely why pro-lifers seek to make abortion illegal."

Tracking the FDA?s Approval of Plan B: 10 Years of Endangering Women?s Health

Posted on July 27, 2009
Mailee Smith of Americans United for Life writes at the Culture of Life Foundation: "This year marks the tenth 'anniversary' of the Food and Drug Administration?s (FDA) approval of the 'emergency contraceptive,' Plan B. A decade later, Plan B is not only just as unsafe, but now the drug manufacturer is targeting our children...

Sen. Jeff Sessions: Nominee lacks deep convictions needed to resist judicial activism

Posted on July 27, 2009
Sen. Jeff Sessions writes in USA Today: "During three days of careful questioning, Judge Sotomayor renounced the pillars of activist thinking . . . Judge Sotomayor's attempt to rebrand her previously stated judicial approach was, as one editorial page opined, 'uncomfortably close to disingenuous...

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Spotlight on Fed Rule Shielding ?Conscience? Workers

Posted on July 27, 2009
"Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo's case against Mount Sinai Hospital comes as Republicans and Democrats battle over the Obama administration's efforts to overhaul federal 'conscience rules' that protect medical workers. . . "

Nurse ?Forced? to Help Abort: Faith Objector Sues Mt. Sinai

Posted on July 27, 2009
"The suit also seeks to force Mount Sinai to give up federal funding it receives, because it failed to uphold a federal rule protecting employees who have moral objections to controversial procedures."

Shrinking Tinker: Students are ?Persons? Under Our Constitution?Except When They Aren?t

Posted on July 27, 2009
American University Law Review: "If it becomes accepted that Tinker supplies the standard for review of school regulation of students' speech on Saturday in their own bedrooms, then that standard must necessarily stand for something more than 'reasonableness-minus...

?Implementing the Mental Health Indication to Help Ensure Access to Safe Abortion?

Posted on July 27, 2009
Medicine and Law: "In this paper, I propose the enactment of guidelines for implementing the mental health indication to improve access to safe abortion. Such guidelines should enable providers to consider a woman's social and economic circumstances in determining the risk of pregnancy to her mental health...

Inmate Access to Elective Abortion: Social Policy, Medicine and the Law

Posted on July 27, 2009
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine: "Abortion is a constitutional right that should not be revoked or limited upon entering prison."

Michigan: Christian wrestling coach sues school, Muslim principal

Posted on July 27, 2009
Nathan Black reports in the Christian Post: "Gerald Marszalek, who coached wrestling for 35 years, claims his contract with Fordson High School was terminated because of his association with a Christian volunteer coach, who the principal accused of converting a Muslim student to Christianity...

Our new medical judges?

Posted on July 27, 2009
"As part of his health-reform effort, [President Obama] is seeking to launch the Independent Medicare Advisory Council, or IMAC, a bland title for a body that could become as much an arbiter of medicine as the Fed is of the economy or the Supreme Court of the law...

Nurse ?Forced? to Help in a Late-Term Abortion

Posted on July 27, 2009
FOX News (NY Post): "A New York nurse claims she was forced to choose between her religious convictions and her job when Mount Sinai Hospital ordered her to assist in a late-term abortion against her will."

6th Circuit: Michigan law does not clearly recognize ?custodial rights to body parts? following autopsy

Posted on July 27, 2009
In Waeschle v. Dragovich, No. 08-2228 (6th Cir., July 22, 2009), a 6th Circuit panel held that "Michigan law as presently developed does not clearly recognize that . . . a custodial right to body parts ["originally retained as part of a lawful criminal investigation"] exists...

Ron Paul: The immorality of taxpayer-funded abortion

Posted on July 27, 2009
An excerpt from Ron Paul's weekly Texas Straight Talk column: "Forcing pro-life taxpayers to subsidize abortion is evil and tyrannical. I have introduced the Taxpayer?s Freedom of Conscience Act (HR 1233) which forbids the use of any taxpayer funds for abortion, both here and overseas...

?Don?t ask, don?t tell? to get Senate committee review

Posted on July 27, 2009
CNN: "A key U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing on the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians, according to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat."

Third Christian this Year Dies in Eritrean Military Prison

Posted on July 27, 2009
Christian Post: "Another Christian imprisoned for his faith in Eritrea has died from authorities denying him medical treatment, according to a Christian support organization."

?Maine high court rules adult same sex adoption is valid?

Posted on July 27, 2009
"Maine's highest court ruled last week that a woman's adoption of her same sex partner was legal, which makes the adopted woman potentially eligible to receive a share of a family fortune."

ACLU send Neb. schools rules on recruiting

Posted on July 27, 2009
AP: "The Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to Nebraska schools regarding military recruiting."

African-American Leaders to Speak Out Against Taxpayer Funded Abortions in the Pelosi/Obama Health Care Plan

Posted on July 27, 2009
Christian Newswire: "Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, will join with other African American leaders to demand that abortion and the funding of Planned Parenthood not be included in any health care legislatio

?Obama To Announce U.S. Signing Of International Treaty On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities?

Posted on July 27, 2009
ACLU: "At a celebration today of the 19th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), President Obama will announce that the U.S. will sign the most comprehensive international treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities...

House Opposes Amendment De-Funding Planned Parenthood Abortion Business

Posted on July 27, 2009
LifeNews: "The House of Representatives, today, voted 247-183 against an amendment that would stop sending taxpayer funding to the Planned Parenthood abortion business."

Americans Buying Sex ?Must be Sensitized to the Harm they Cause Women?: Cong. Chris Smith

Posted on July 27, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) chaired a joint briefing of the Congressional Caucus on Human Trafficking and the Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus last week which featured the unveiling of a new report on sex trafficking of minors in the United States...

?Pro-gay marriage group spent big in Vermont?

Posted on July 27, 2009
Boston Globe (AP): "Vermont Freedom to Marry says it spent more than $293,000 lobbying lawmakers and the public . . . "

Ky. Sen. Jim Bunning not running for re-election

Posted on July 27, 2009
AP: "Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky said Monday he will not run for a third term in 2010, citing a lack of campaign money and interference from Senate Republicans who were pushing for him to exit the race."

Protect Marriage Washington: Sec. of State gets 138,000 signatures supporting Referendum 71

Posted on July 27, 2009
ProtectMarriageWA: We had a very good day at the Capitol in Olympia with over 138,000 R-71 signatures turned in! The required number of signatures is 120,577.

Lasting marriage linked to better health

Posted on July 27, 2009
Reuters: ". . . In the new study, researchers found that middle-aged and older Americans who were currently married tended to give higher ratings to their health than their never-married counterparts. They also reported fewer depression symptoms and limits on their mobility ...

How will the health care bill approach end-of-life decisions?

Posted on July 27, 2009
The Tonko staffer seems to be implying that counseling for Medicare patients will have a more than "explanatory" effect--indeed, that it might go so far as to "solve the prolonging of life issue" by introducing policy priorities into end-of-life decision-making.

?Christian doctor reinstated to adoption panel over homosexuality row?

Posted on July 27, 2009
Caroline Gammell reports in the Telegraph: "Dr Matthews, a paediatrician, will continue to examine potential adoptive parents for Northamptonshire County Council to ensure that they are medically fit. But she will no longer have a say in whether the child should be adopted by the couple, regardless of their sexual orientation...

?Backers of Gay Marriage Rethink California Push?

Posted on July 27, 2009
NY Times: "Discouraged by stubborn poll numbers and pessimistic political consultants, major financial backers of same-sex marriage are cautioning gay rights groups to delay a campaign to overturn California?s ban on such unions until at least 2012."

Paediatrician Dismissed From Adoption Panel Over Christian Views Has Been Reinstated

Posted on July 27, 2009
Christian Legal Centre: "A Christian paediatrician, dismissed as a medical adviser because she could not professionally recommend the placement of children with same-sex couples, has been reinstated by Northamptonshire County Council following media and public support...

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